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Offline chinka

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Re: "My Origins" - ancestors likely all from the British Isles - what is "typical"?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 30 June 16 03:50 BST (UK) »
   
Hi

   I tested with Ancestry.I am Australian
all of my ancestors did come from the British Isles.Some from predominately celtic regions.But my great grandfather was the last to migrate & this was 150 yrs ago from Ireland.Iam showing % of Irish.Thanks Chinka
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Re: "My Origins" - ancestors likely all from the British Isles - what is "typical"?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 30 June 16 07:15 BST (UK) »
From Ancestry's FAQs page

4. What does it mean when my ethnicity results identify 'Trace Regions'?
Most people may have a percentage identified with 'Trace Regions' in their genetic ethnicity results. Trace Regions are regions where the estimated range includes zero and does not go above 15%, or where the predicted percentage is less than 4.5%. Since there is only a small amount of evidence that you have genetic ethnicity from these regions, it is possible that you may not have genetic ethnicity from them at all. This is not uncommon, and as more genetic signatures are discovered with a higher confidence level, we may be able to update these Trace Regions over time.
http://dna.ancestry.co.uk/legal/faq#about-2

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Re: "My Origins" - ancestors likely all from the British Isles - what is "typical"?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 30 June 16 07:49 BST (UK) »
Thanks Sallyorks.

"My Origins" is from FamilyTreeDNA and the definitions used are different from Ancestry.

Just received a test back for a sibling and it's very similar (surprisingly perhaps?) other than a bit less Asia Minor and a bit more Southern Europe.

I've marked the topic as Completed because devoncruwys' reply answered the original question.

Chinka - I'm not familiar with the definitions/categories at Ancestry unfortunately.