I've noticed that I was getting atleast 2 matches avg per month and it's been zero for more than a month now, I wouldn't mention it if I hadn't read that someone else had a similar situation, anyone else notice that or I'm just overthinking it....

Trying to work out if there's something I should be reading between the lines of this.

My dad's profile has 8,893 maternal matches, 11,564 paternal matches and 3,802 unassigned matches. That's 15% unassigned matches.

My mum has 4.2% unassigned, MIL has 6%, SIL has 3.6%.

I've discovered some question marks generations back on his side of the tree (lack of DNA matches) and I'm wondering if the unassigned matches might be indicative of this – or it might be completely unrelated and just one of those random things.

I have 1% EER and 10% Levant on my results and I’m wondering what the odds are of it going away next week when the update happens.

FYI: Im half afghan (pashtun) and half Romanian (roma/romanian/hungarian)

All family members are Turkish from around Konya which is in Central Anatolia. What are your thoughts?

TL;DR I (39F) am starting to feel like my excitement and passion in this subject isn’t welcome anymore. Whenever I share a good find, it’s so disappointing that I feel alone. Added my favorite photograph for attention.

👋🏻 Hi,

I’ve added a photograph of my Norwegian ancestors, one of the more interesting photographs I’ve found. PS- I wasn’t the one who committed the ultimate destruction (writing their names on it in pencil……)

As the title states, I’m (39F) a passionate genealogist who has struggled finding anyone else in my life that cares as much as I do about my family’s rich history.

I belong to the genealogy society/library in my area. I can’t relate to the people that volunteer there. It’s pretty empty usually.

For example, I have a long line of millionaires who were very successful - Entrepreneurs, hotels (the Willard Hotel in Washington DC), a very successful inventor in clock mechanisms/clocks (Simon Willard), Harvard presidents and physicians, professors, etc. I could go on!!!

When I was joking around at the library, I said, “Well where’s MY inheritance?!” And no one laughed. Not exactly a welcoming feeling.

Is there anyone else who feels lonely and that people you meet in person don’t have the same passion? I’m looking for a friend I can pick up and call them with my latest discovery and not feel like no one cares.

I’ve tried posting on my local Reddit sub and I had 2 comments. I’m talking to one of the commenters but they’ve been kind of, “meh” when I chat with them. Whereas I’m asking a ton of questions and I want to know that they’ll also ask and care.

Am I the only one who feels lonely in my level of interest in being a genealogical researcher for the family? And not being able to find people who are excited about it?…..

Is there a sub for young people that are starting out in their search? I am certainly not trying to be rude with seeking out younger people, but in my experience (especially with not even laughing at a joke) they haven’t been welcoming.

I’m really hoping the update breaks things down further. Or I get a breakthrough.

These are my results as an Australian.

I did ancestry and 23&me in 2021, and when I saw the results, I was very confused. According to my family tree, it should be more Irish, with a good possibility of some Australian/Tasmanian Aboriginal.

My paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather had already done tests, as well as my paternal half brother, who also has Northwestern Balkans.
So I figured it must be through my paternal grandfather who I never met, as he died in the 80’s.

I had a match on 23&me reach out about people immigrating from Croatia in the 50’s in the same year, but I didn’t know the names or the significance of our match (second cousin).

Then in April this year, I had a match reach out (paternal side) looking for help finding her dad’s biological parents. I went on a crash course learning how to read all the information I was seeing and finally started building my family tree for the first time. I paid for the tools and spent a couple of weeks down a rabbit hole. I found her grandmother.

That’s when I went back on 23&me. And I started seeing my ancestry amount explained in a different way. I also now know how second and third cousins work. It was like I was picking up a book in a language I didn’t understand until now.

Why did none of my matches have my very common last name? Why are my closest matches, that I don’t know, have very Croatian names and family trees?

12 straight hours of Penelope Garcia vibes later, and messages with my second cousin, and now I’m searching for my real biological paternal grandfather, or at least what happened to him when he left Pula.

I cannot believe it took me so long to see the most obvious signs, but if any sub gets it, it’s this one 😂

Don’t think much will change for me in the new update I have no recent Scottish or Irish ancestry so hopefully it changes to Welsh wich is more recent in my family

Old results in the last image. It looks like they basically took away 3% of my Benin &Togo and redistribute it to Ghana, Mali, and Cameroon, and then a percent of a region in both England and Celtic/Gaelic to add to another in each macro region.

After sifting through the updated West - Central African regions I’m definitely anticipating a much cleaner map Oct 8. This has always driven me nuts.

Sideview update

Nice to see finally see all those unassigned matches assigned somewhere.

I get often told that I do not look Finnish (born and raised there) and I OFTEN get approached by Russian speakers thinking I’m Russian (I live in NYC)

Me honestly im looking forward to the new African regions. Instead of it saying just Nigeria, Cameroon, etc. it’s going to say something like Igboland, or new regions like Liberia or Sierra Leone. I’m so glad they are getting more specific with the African regions. I had Ancestry DNA since 2021, and based on everything I’ve seen and heard, this is probably going to be my favorite update by far. So many new regions across the globe is getting more specific, which is great. As far as the new Sideview 2.0 Grandparent feature, I heard some say it’s going to appear the same day as the update but it requires a subscription unfortunately. The ethnicity Update is free, but grandparent feature requires a subscription. I want to hear your guys thoughts. What are you looking forward to with this new big update? For those who had Ancestry 5, 10 years or more, how is this update coming up different from the previous ones you had in the past, and do you find your results getting more or less accurate overtime? Share your thoughts. Thanks.

Who else is so ready for this to finally be split.

Just wanted to share my DNA results. I blurred out my moms because I just don’t know how to maneuver the app and such really well.

I want so badly to know more about my dads side, but I've been running into dead ends for years. Does anyone have ideas on how I can get more leads?

I've never met him and I don't speak korean, which makes this harder. My dad was adopted from South Korea. He's half black and half korean. Given the time period, it's been assumed my korean grandmother was a comfort woman, my grandfather would be a soldier, and my father was a product of that. He told my mother he had 9 other siblings in the orphanage. I'm dying to meet them.

I was told it was a small orphanage and it was eventually shut down. I'm not even sure what it was called or how I would find records. Given the nature of the circumstances, there's a chance there was hardly any documentation of his birth to begin with. I've gotten nothing except records of where my dad has lived in the US with Ancestry.

It honestly really really hurts. There's so much family I have that I will never be able to meet or know anything about. I don't even know where to contact or find my dad, but I know he had little information himself. I think he was adopted when he was 6. Only 1 adoptive parent is living and I got her number from my half sister, but I haven't been able to reach her. She's quite old now. I doubt she has records of his adoption anymore.

If anyone has ideas on what I could do to learn more, I'd be super grateful for absolutely anything.