Just received by Ancestry DNA results...

[nestagj]

Our story is about a Spanish lady 😄

[Annie65115]

I wonder if some people are surprised by their results because they're not looking all that far back? Yes, you can have traced 95% of your ancestors to Scotland, or the Home Counties, but how far back have you been able to trace?

Just because 95% of the family lived in (eg) the midlands two hundred years ago doesn't mean that ethnically you should assume that you're 95% British. The more distant ancestors could have come a long way to reach the Home Counties --- Saxons from Germany, eastern europeans from the Silk route, Africans brought back from the caribbean --- who knows?

I haven't organised the test for myself yet but hope to do so in the not too distant future. On my tree I've got one branch in Dublin in the 1700s and a gtgtgrandmother born in Scotland in the 1800s. But the Dublin branch may well have gone there from Scotland (presbyterians), and the scottish grannie was only born there because her family moved from the midlands for work.

Further back, 1000 years, who knows? I strongly suspect that the Liverpool side of the family originally came from somewhere in eastern europe/asia (due to our carrying a gene for an illness which is common in that area). The Leicestershire bunch almost certainly had at least some Dutch ancestry before records began (from surname studies). And my siblings are so fair that I swear they would burn in the moonlight (I've got the eastern med tanning gene though!) -- so maybe some scandinavian somewhere? I might be miles out in these guesses but if the only reason to organise the test is to prove what you already know, what's the point? Elucidating the hitherto unknown is what makes it fun!

[sirsimon]

I have always pondered getting a dna test, but I do not know if they are good value for money because they are expensive

[Craclyn]

Worth a try sirsimon.
Among other things it helps to confirm some of the paper trail research you have done. Three of my new matches this week have given me an increased degree of confidence that I have made the correct decisions on a couple of sets of 4th great grandparents and a set of third great grandparents. No longer feel the need to keep revisiting those lines to see if I might have lost the plot somewhere along the way.

[sirsimon]

thanks

maybe one day, I would like to know what percentage of what I am.

Through my father I am welsh and irish, through my mother I am english. I was born in Wales

[Craclyn]

The real value of it is in using matches to identify common ancestors rather than in the % mixture. Results for that are pretty variable depending on which company you test with or which calculator you run your results through. One company gives my Scandinavian element as 25% and another gives it as 2%, so not much can be concluded from that. Maybe in the future that type of analysis will be more reliable.

[Kat100]

I was searching online about two weeks ago and stumbled into RootsCHAT and to this thread. Someone mentioned uploading their DNA to Propsapia Genetics and I decided to do the same. I ordered the Super GPA Test, but I'm a little confused since I didn't receive a timeline to support these results. The remix is quite a bit different from my Ancestry Ethnicity Results, see below:

My AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate:

 Europe 100%

    Europe West 36%
    Great Britain 27%
    Ireland 27%
    Scandinavia 5%
    Iberian Peninsula 3%
    Italy/Greece 1%
   
Prosapia GPS Results
Highland Scottish

Prosapia Remix Results -
 Frisians (Netherlands)70%
Kuwait (Kuwait)16%
Alsatian (France) 12%
Koryak (Russia) 4%

I also uploaded to FTDNA and GEDmatch.

Paternal/Maternal direct line: Wall, McQueen, Lanier, Moore, Johnston, Jackson, Wilson, Hooks, Blackman, McKittrick, Cooper, McGregory, Shirey, Williams, Humphries, Herndon, Edison, Jasper, Mullican, Millican, Taylor, Larkin, Douglas, Stuart, Diggs, Waller, Malone, Eaves, Cooke/Cook, Norred, Crenshaw, Estes, Holyfield, Pye, Anderson, Hill, Brantley, Carlisle, Boles, Ramsey, Grant, Formby, Thompson, Baer, Mulloy, Reeves, Akin, Ogletree, Duncan, Parrott, Mewborne, Willson/Wilson, Smith, Nichols, James, O'Hara, Ward, Dalryimple, Caldwell, Douglas, Gordon, Bayes, Belchier, McGhie, Griffin, Presley, Baylis, McCarty, Kelly, Pomfrett, Tomlinson, Lucas,  Alman, Clarke,  Bassano, Collett, Washington, Pope, Jordon, Rawlings, Sampson, Bennett, Twigden, Dickens, Fox, Thomas, Ferrar, Miles, Randle, Hicks.

[davidft]

Prosapia GPS Results
Highland Scottish

Prosapia Remix Results -
 Frisians (Netherlands)70%
Kuwait (Kuwait)16%
Alsatian (France) 12%
Koryak (Russia) 4%

I also uploaded to FTDNA and GEDmatch.

It would be interesting to see how closely your Prosapia results match to your ftDNA results when you get them as Prosapia use ftDNA for at least some of their tests.

As to the GPS results I don't know what they are meant to be claiming here as this is an analysis of all your autosomal lines so how can they say it is one geographical location?

[confused73]

Kat how did you receive your records, did they send you an email to say they were back and how long did you have to wait please?.