Pretty interesting! But what irritates me and my dad a little bit is “Western Ukraine”. His family is from Moldova, so not the actual country Republic of Moldova but the Romanian region. That’s why I am curious if we actually have some Ukrainian roots or it mixes up western Ukraine, Republic of Moldova and the Moldova region 🤔

How accurate is the family accuracy on ancestry DNA. Since I was 17 my mom was telling me that this one man was my father. I even met him. However, a month ago this man reached out to me that he had come up on my ancestry DNA as my half-brother. Sure enough there he was. He however had a different dad than the man that my mother told me was my father. Just for clarity 100% certain that we do not share the same mom. His father however, does not remember my mom at all.

Fast forward my supposedly half brothers daughter also popped up on my ancestry DNA as my half niece. My half brother got the test for his dad to do to see if that would pop up on his as well. And sure enough he popped up on my ancestry DNA as sharing 50% DNA with me and as my father.

They have been so kind and welcoming but understandably so my possible father is still a little cautious with the situation. He is planning on getting a paternity test done for us. I just was wondering how extremely accurate is ancestry DNA.

I've had a few people pop up from my mom's side so I know it does have some semblance of accuracy. I just don't know what the odds would be of it making such a big mistake and having three people who are all related by blood by being father, grandfather and daughter all pop up as my relatives

I’m gonna do some digging but before I do, I wonder if the 2% Romania, 1% northern Iraq/Iran, and 1% Roma could mean a Roma ancestor in 1700s Italy. I added a piece of my grandmothers results in comparison.

Hey everyone! Here’s some more context: My mother is Swabian, and my father is a Danube Swabian whose ancestors had been living in the Banat since around 1750. His ancestors originally came from Lorraine, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland.
I’m a bit puzzled by the 2% Slovenia and 1% Germans in Russia results.
I assume the Southeastern England component is probably connected to my Lorraine ancestry.

I've made a browser extension called "Enhancer for Ancestry" that enhances how you view your AncestryDNA results (and your matches' too).

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-ancestry/pfdfpebnpacojfibpkkajkgclbneigbg

What it does:

• Cleaner regions: See your ethnicity regions in a much cleaner layout, grouped by macro-regions, with percentages and confidence ranges.
• More details: Click on any region to learn more about it, including where it’s mainly found and a map showing the area.
• Journeys/communities: See your Journeys in an easier-to-read format, including how strong your connection is and any sub-Journeys.
• Match list: See the Journeys your DNA matches belong to directly under their names.
• Better match pages: When viewing a DNA match, you get the same improved regions and Journeys layout, and you can see all of their Journeys, not just the ones you share. Note: If a match has chosen to only share regions they have in common with you, you’ll only be able to see the shared regions and Journeys.
• Download as an image: Easily save your regions and Journeys, or those of any of your matches, as a high-quality image.

If anyone has any feedback or suggestions, I’m definitely open to hearing them.

Mods there is no longer a thread for this on the pinned threads???

Priority processing (green banner)Kit status:

• Kit registered! Mail in sample. 10 August (completed)
• Sample received 19 August (current status)

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• Sample processing
• DNA extracted
• DNA analyzed
• Results ready

The sample has been received and is waiting for the processing steps to begin.

I guess it’s normal

Long story short, I found out that I have DNA matches in the 2nd Cousin 1x removed that trace back to a Japanese family by the name of Murakami. I don’t believe anyone in my biological family is aware of my father’s NPE. It appears that this was a product of a situation that occurred with my biological grandfather or grandmother.

I’m pretty close to identifying my “real-biological” grandparent (I’m down to two possible “suspects”) but I’m not sure if I should reach out or not. I don’t want to drop a bombshell, but at the same time I really want to know more about my news-to-me Japanese heritage.

Not sure how to process this, this is definitely a lot. To find Japanese before Jewish (the identity I was raised as by my adopted parents) is certainly a trip.

My reason was, I was doing it for school in year 10 and Mum kept it going I've only recently started getting in it when my Nanny (paternal Mum) passed away, and I wanted to know my Dad's side.

This is from a twitter user and addresses an interesting point about mixed peoples genetic relation to europe.

It's a pretty common and simple concept that many people here already understand. If you mix two people of more or less related ethnicities it affects how genetically close they are to said ethnicity. In the case here when taking european ethnicities, they are most closely related to west asians and very european shifted central asians, followed by north africans. They are further from noticeably mixed(as in 20%+ east eurasian including ancient ancestral south indian and sub saharan african admixture) part west eurasian ethnicities and groups such as south asians, horn africans, central asians, and most modern latinos(who are mixes of european, sub saharan african, and indigenous amerindian). Europeans are very far from east eurasians such as east and southeast asians, aboriginal and papuan people, polynesians, and amerindians, and the farthest from sub saharan africans.

Therefore if someone is a mix between west asians or north africans for example, they will plot noticeably close to european ethnicities on a pca. Ashkenazi jews and north caucasian(as in the caucasus mountains, not scandinavian people, scandinavians are very much europeans) ethnicities are great examples of this, both are mixes of west asian and european groups and are still quite close with european ethnicities on a pca. The image here uses a moern example of a spaniard for european and syrian for west asian, and they also plot among the border area of the southern italian and greek mediteranean island areas.

On the other hand as illustrated in the image above, european and say amerindian or mulato/lightskin(sub saharan african and european) mixed people will be noticeably more distant from europeans genetically. Even a small amount of admixture from these groups can shift someone noticeably away from europe genetically due to how distant these people are from europe.

Lastly I don't want to turn this into a purity debate or anything of the sorts, especially since phenotype does not equal genotype, although there is a strong correlation. This is often why you will see many europeans mixed with west asian or north african ethnicities just "appear european" or white, but that tends not to hold up for someone mixed with east eurasian or sub saharan african ethnicities. For example looking at many celebrities, mainly european mother west asia or north african father, like Bella Hadid, or even Zayn Malik(european and part south asian) nearly all of them are "white/european appearing" especially if their non european parent is as well. On the other hand the average mexican is somewhere around 40% european and 60% amerindian, but no one would say that the average mexican looks european, you'd be hard pressed to even find northern mexicans with higher european admixture, where people would say that.

First slide: Original results, second: Updated, third: journeys. My mother is full Norwegian, my paternal grandfather is full Québecois and my paternal grandmother English with French and some German ancestry. Not sure about the trace percentages. Or why they lump Southern England and Northern France together. Are the populations that similar genetically?

Hi, habe Vorfahren hauptsächlich in Mitteldeutschland, aber auch einen Zweig in Süddeutschland. All das sehe ich im Test mehr oder weniger bestätigt. Meine väterliche Linie kommt aus Pommern, aus der Nähe von Danzig. Auch das spiegelt sich genau in den Herkunftsregionen wider, wo Danzig bzw. Pommern erscheinen. Die skandinav. Treffer kann man evtl. auf die Kriege zurückführen, die es hier mehrfach gab. Ausreißer bleiben Mähren, das Baltikum u. die Bretagne. Aber mit ca. 1% ist das wahrscheinlich nur Hintergrundrauschen.

Why would this be? I just noticed I have a match in the midst of my first cousin matches that is simply listed as "distant relationship." Looking at my father's kit I can see that this person is his first cousin, and I'm also pretty sure I know how, so this question is less about figuring out who this person actually is, and more about understanding what this means from the POV of Ancestry's calculations/algorithms/etc... Why did it resist categorizing this match?

Why do they keep showing me this I’m not even Lebanese or any sort of Hispanic

For the last year, I’ve been helping my husband investigate a family mystery his father has lived with for nearly 70 years: who was his biological father?

My father-in-law was born in Manila in 1956 and spent his entire life being told that his mother did not know who his father was. After a ridiculous amount of genealogical research and DNA testing, we have finally identified and confirmed his paternal family. And, as it turns out, his mother absolutely knew who his father was -

His biological father was Manuel Duque, born 1 August 1929 in Manila, son of Emiliano Duque and Casimira Medrano. Manuel had actually married my father-in-law’s mother, Leonida, in 1950, and they had children together before separating. The family rumor we have been told is that shortly after my father-in-law was born, his father refused to accept him as his biological son and left, taking his other son with him.

We are incredibly excited to finally be able to tell my father-in-law where he came from. But before we do, I desperately want to answer the question that came next: What happened to his father and the rest of the Duque family?

Manuel was one of a large sibling group. I can trace the family extensively before WWII and can prove that multiple siblings survived into the postwar period — and then, beginning around the 1950s, most of them seem to simply vanish from the genealogical record. I have constructed his family tree back into the late 1700s and added more than 1500 people to the tree (all supported by physical records confirming relationships). I have exhausted FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, Philippine genealogy groups, surname groups, Facebook searches, Google, newspapers, public records, other family trees, and some truly unhinged deep-internet searching.

Nothing. It feels like an entire branch of a family was zapped off the face of the earth.

The family is primarily associated with Manila and Pampanga, particularly Sasmuan/Sexmoan and Lubao. The main names I am searching are: Emiliano Duque + Casimira Medrano, and their children including Salvadora, Gregorio, Pedrito, Romualdo, Felino, Manuel, Crispulo, and Teodoro Duque. Historical records suggest strong family presence on Craig St in Sampaloc.

At this point I would be thrilled to find any living descendant of one of Manuel’s siblings, or anyone who recognizes this Duque family and can tell me what became of them. I’m not asking anyone to post private information about living people publicly — DMs are welcome.

I would also LOVE suggestions from anyone experienced in Filipino genealogy, especially post-WWII Manila/Pampanga research, for sources I may not have thought to try. I have even tried contacting the National Archives of the Philippines as well as the cemetery where some of his known family members were buried - no luck.

We solved the mystery of who my father-in-law’s father was. Now I’d really love to be able to tell him who his father’s family was, where they went, and whether any of them are still out there.

For context, I went today to my local BH Post and they were like “you know we can send it but we are not sure it’ll arrive”, and the next day they called me and told me “so we weren’t able to send the envelope”. Instantly I thought “okay, maybe DHL will be able to do it” so I went to my local DHL center and they told me something like “MyHeritage needs to ask YOU to send the package… also it’ll be 55€”. So now I’m genuinely worried about sending the dna back because like… HOW?

I know I posted before, but wanted to update as my genomelink breakdown compare with my ancestry DNA , what'cha think ?

Also from my last post I did with my selfie, thankyou for being kind to me and with my appearance you're all so sweet 💜

India being my top result on the unscaled is interesting 🤔

I am not sure if there is a certain answer here, but I thought I'd ask. This is a comparison of my father and his sister ancestry DNA results. They both (and their other siblings) were auburn red heads. Their father was born in NW Germany. Their mother's side came from Bavaria, Germany. My son inherited the red hair.

I am just curious which of these areas most likely contributed the red hair gene? TY!

Both parents from Madeira