Ancestry DNA 2024 UPDATE!

[ShieldWolf]

They should change course. I want to know if I have genes from my French Huguenot ancestors who were targeted for death by the Catholic Church. My forebear was warned that they planned to murder him. He and his family split that day if I remember correctly, and they lived in the colony of New York. My grandpa's grandma had their surname as a middle name. That solved a mystery since it had an Italian ring to it, but it turned out to be French. Their descendants were minsters of some note. Sadly or not, we're linked to the Baldwin actors through that line.

I have Huguenot ancestors as well. They settled New Rochelle, New York. Just remember that Catholics were targeted by Protestants in the same manor in other places. It was nasty from both sides.

[Purple Panther]

I have Huguenot ancestors as well. They settled New Rochelle, New York. Just remember that Catholics were targeted by Protestants in the same manor in other places. It was nasty from both sides.

Mine settled in New Rochelle too. Yeah, "Christian" churches behaved like warring factions of the Shia and the Sunni back then, so Islam never had a monopoly on internecine warfare. It all comes down to religion much of the time. If the English were papists while the Irish were prods, Cromwell would have raised an army of micks to crush the limeys.

[Kiel]

One thing Ive learned about Ancestry and their updates: everything changes, but Scotland always stays.
Actually it got way better in my case

[Geba]

23&Me actually breaks out specific regions in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, and possibly elsewhere where your DNA occurs. They're ahead of everyone else in this respect. Certain parts of the world are under tested, but should eventually catch-up and then that level of breakdown will be possible in those regions as well.

23&me is terrible for regions of Eastern Europe. The regions they show to me has nothing to do with my known genealogy which is quite extense.

[ShieldWolf]

Mine settled in New Rochelle too. Yeah, "Christian" churches behaved like warring factions of the Shia and the Sunni back then, so Islam never had a monopoly on internecine warfare. It all comes down to religion much of the time. If the English were papists while the Irish were prods, Cromwell would have raised an army of micks to crush the limeys.

Except Cromwell, being a Limey, would have been Catholic in this scenario.

[Purple Panther]

Except Cromwell, being a Limey, would have been Catholic in this scenario.

Ah, some Englishmen were Catholic or royalist while some Irishmen (not referring to Scots-Irish Presbyterians) were Protestant or parliamentarian, and O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, was a primary example, but he converted back to Catholicism at some point. Cromwell was a taff, by the way, so there's your obscure ethnic slur of the day.

[Gergő Marosvári]

One thing Ive learned about Ancestry and their updates: everything changes, but Scotland always stays.
Actually it got way better in my case

The results look perfect for you! I thought you would get a subregion from Germany/Austria, but this subregion update on Ancestry was quite weird for a lot of people. Hopefully one day, we will be lucky and we will get an accurate subregion/s.

[Brandon]

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Updated Subregions:


As you can see, the Highlands and Ulster remain. The others have vacated.

[RyoHazuki]

Has anyone else lost a subregion? my Northern Isles subregion has disappeared, so much for the strong connection.

I lost all of mine too

[RyoHazuki]

My Ancestry DNA update is attached below. Overall, it's a closer match to my genealogical research. The 1% Baltics component is new, but not out of the question. The 1% Spain component is also new and harder to reconcile to my family tree.

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If you have French Huguenots in your family tree its probably from that, Hugenots mostly came from the South and Southern French are closest to Iberians.