My AncestryDNA Results

**calxpal** · 11-05-2024, 05:53 AM

Did the free trial to get access but will cancel very shortly. Confirmed a few ancestors I shared with matches too lol.

Parental inheritance is better I think. Minor changes in chromosome painting.

**calxpal** · 10-01-2025, 04:52 AM

I am really hoping AncestryDNA pulls something really good this year after my 23andme results were kind of butchered imo ):.

**nittionia** · 10-01-2025, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by calxpal

I am really hoping AncestryDNA pulls something really good this year after my 23andme results were kind of butchered imo ):.

Yeah I was a little surprised about what 23andMe did. Only 8 more days until Ancestry updates

**calxpal** · 10-03-2025, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by nittionia

Yeah I was a little surprised about what 23andMe did. Only 8 more days until Ancestry updates

Yeah I'm counting down! =)

**Gohenk** · 10-03-2025, 03:16 AM

it is interesting that, for a Canadian, you have both low English and French despite having a very mixed Euro heritage.
Are you not colonial, mostly?
Anyways, great results.
I dont know much about immigrations to Canada or USA, btw.

**calxpal** · 10-03-2025, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by Gohenk

it is interesting that, for a Canadian, you have both low English and French despite having a very mixed Euro heritage.
Are you not colonial, mostly?
Anyways, great results.
I dont know much about immigrations to Canada or USA, btw.

Yes although I think the French is a bit underestimated and the Scotland is definitely too high, although still in the range of being reasonable I suppose.

I have little colonial ancestry other than being 1/4 French Canadian. I have great grandparents from Europe and also some who came to Canada 200 or so years ago as well as far back French Canadian ancestry.

Tbh I'm not the biggest expert on it myself.

I do like thewe results better now though especially after the 23andme update which IMO is AI done and very watered down for me compared to v6.0, the features like parental inheritance and the timeline are utter garbage now and seem completely random.

I don't really feel like sharing any full DNA results though because no one ever really responds on here anymore or people are rude about it, but yeah if you want I can PM you my AncestryDNA update coming up.

Also sorry for the typos it's hard to edit on my phone.

**calxpal** · 10-12-2025, 02:09 AM

Also I got my AncestryDNA update and it was quite disappointing IMO. The accuracy for me took quite a dip overall, although they did identify some correct subregions as well, but some seemed random. But no new communities again );. At least they give me a proper Irish ancestry allotment though despite me being skeptical of the subregions. The new results also give me huge English bloat and lower French especially compared to before, like the new 23andme me though which I find frustrating.

I checked the hacked results as well. The lower 2 hack percentages (Manchuria-Mongolia & Indigenous Americas-North) remained exactly the same but all European subregions %'s changed. I did notice some overall discrepancies though between the hack % total and the amount of the category assigned, even by 1-2% probably because of the rounding they use.

I also do not like the new report interface, and they said they would show exact decimals which would have been useful but the exact decimals are not visible ):.

The most accurate part of my report was the assignment of 26% West Ukraine which definitely makes sense. And they did identify Quebec/Acadia ancestry in the %'s which I have both of.

Also I do not like how they grouped/named certain European subregions, and I think 23andme did better with assigning Eastern Euro/Balkan ancestry. Since Ancestry gave me 6% Northeast Poland and 2% Eastern Czechia which both feel random to me especially the Northeast Poland which I have no evidence of a connection with.

I also got a 1% Sweden which seems a bit random, the 1% Basque I had before was more accurate because I have distant Basque ancestors in my tree but not a big deal.

I would honestly say it was only slightly better than 23andme's update for me. I will comment on the chromo painting and estimated inheritance soon too.

I do think seeing the new subregions is interesting but some assignments are quite off, I guess I kind of expect that though.

Also I wanted to say some here might be disappointed that I am no longer sharing full DNA results here as images, I decided it's better for me to only share them privately with people I trust just because I've had too many people here be rude to me or try to make me feel stupid about them or not believe me about my genealogy, or they bring up political shit for no reason or make a off-color comment. I'm also tired of going to the trouble of posting all these results images only for almost no one to view them sorry.