How far back would 3% Norwegian be?

[Jo6100]

MyHeritage have a major update to their ethnicity estimates scheduled for this year.

I think they're currently  working their  way through  them now, as I  am currently getting  this  below message with my child's  DNA  :

"The ethnicity results for this kit are currently being generated. Please check back here tomorrow to see the updated results."

 My own isn't  showing  the message, and my ethnicity hasn't changed .Perhaps they're  working their way through them in batches . Anyway, it  looks as if my child's  is currently in the process of   being updated.
 
I wonder what they'll  have me as when they update it .  My ethnicity on Myheritage is absolutely comical .  According to them  I am almost 50% Scandinavian, 47% to be exact  and  15% Iberian, and  my child has 0  of these ethnicities  , go figure lol. How could I possibly not pass any  at all ( not even 1%) of that  whopping amount in me onto my child lol.

Ancestry's ethnicity  is pretty  much near to correct with both mine and my child's,  they give  a break down  for me, of half Irish and Scottish  , my mum and all her ancestors  are from  Ireland, with many of them who came to Ireland from  Scotland a few hundred years back.
And the other half  me  from my Welsh  father is  majority  Welsh with a little English 7% and 2% Denmark - don't  know where the Denmark is coming in, and probably wont ever know as too far back to trace,  that's if  it is even correct)

I can't  wait  to see what MyHeritage has in store for me with their updated version, I wonder if I'll  lose  all my  lovely Scandinavian and Iberian, or perhaps they'll   go the whole hog  and make me 100%   Scandinavian and Iberian lol ( as I am currently sitting on 62 % Scandinavian and Iberian combined with them . I do not have any ancestors from those regions at all , well not in the past few hundreds of years for 100% sure  ,and  100% DNA proven ) .

None of my full  1st cousins ( I have maternal and a paternal 1st cousin on my heritage ) ,or any other  of my cousin's  have this lovely Scandinavian and Iberian in their  ethnicities , goodness what they  have done  to mine lol . I think Myheritage's computer was  drunk as a skunk when it came to interpreting my ethnicity  
 I can't wait for their update, hopefully it will  amuse me some more .
Kind regards
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just checked mine and it seems to be pretty much the same as they had before ( it was showing the “ being updated “ message) including a ridiculously large 24.9% Scandinavian. This was an upload of Ancestry dna done when it was free. Ancestry gives me 5% Swedish/ Danish and Norwegian which I can accept from my East Anglian ancestry .

[phil57]

Worth reading some of the previous posts on here.

Communities are nothing to do with ethnicity regions determined through laboratory examination of your DNA. They are derived in a similar way to Thrulines by Ancestry trawling through your tree and those of your DNA matches, looking for common areas of residence shown in the trees of autosomally related ancestors.

Ethnicity is derived from laboratory examination of your DNA. However it is important to recognise that the percentages shown are ESTIMATES and subject to constant reassessment and verification.

A particular percentage cannot be used to determine how many generations back a particular ethnicity is linked. That's not how it works. It is completely different to autosomal relative matching and less precise.

Ancestry say that ethnicity estimates are indicative of ethnicity derived between 500 to several thousand years ago, so generally well beyond the reach of autosomal matching and documentary research into ancestral lineage.

The "headline" ethnicity percentages shown are an overall estimate representing a range of probability for each region. If you drill down into each regional estimate in your results you will find that the actual range may vary widely from the headline percentage shown. For a 3% headline estimate and similar low figures for instance, it isn't at all unusual for the actual estimated range to include a probability of 0% - in other words the possibility that there may actually be no relationship to that region at all.

[TheCurly]

Unlikely you are going to find a specific ancestor for it, unless you are lucky to make it enough to make some sort of nobility claim, where you are from in the UK might have an impact on the scandinavian you get, my dads side is from North East and due to this in alot of DNA tests with high percentages of Scandinavian