Ancestry DNA new feature SideView splits ethnicity by parent + ethnicity update

[Zaphod99]

Inheriting an ethnicity neither parent has.

If your parents have both taken AncestryDNA tests, it’s possible for a region to appear in your ethnicity estimate that doesn’t appear in theirs.

https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Ethnicity-Inheritance?language=en_US

Zaph

[melba_schmelba]

Inheriting an ethnicity neither parent has.

If your parents have both taken AncestryDNA tests, it’s possible for a region to appear in your ethnicity estimate that doesn’t appear in theirs.

https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Ethnicity-Inheritance?language=en_US

Zaph

To continue

"You can’t actually inherit an ethnicity that neither of your parents has–so how can this happen?

The percentages in ethnicity estimates are the most likely results, but different percentages are also possible. That’s why we include ranges. When a range includes 0%, it’s possible that the DNA assigned to that region may actually be from somewhere else.

People in neighboring regions can have DNA that’s so similar, it’s hard to tell apart. Your DNA from one of these regions may have been labeled one way, while your parent’s DNA was attributed differently.

If you have a region they don’t, check for regions they do have that neighbor yours. For example, if you have 10% France with a range of 0-20% and neither parent has France, your France may actually be Germanic Europe. "

It is interesting they make a link between France and Germanic Europe, as I am pretty sure my mother's French ancestry from both her parents shows up as Germanic Europe, and it is in the right proportion from one side which has a bit more than the other.

[ikas]

If I have followed the science behind this new feature correctly Ancestry could now display Parent 1 or Parent 2 against each of my matches. Is that correct?

[melba_schmelba]

If I have followed the science behind this new feature correctly Ancestry could now display Parent 1 or Parent 2 against each of my matches. Is that correct?

I think you can only see your matches' parental split if they share their DNA results with you ikas or just their DNA ethnicity results via the app

https://support.ancestry.co.uk/s/article/Sharing-AncestryDNA-Results

[ikas]

Yes, melba_schmelba. That is the current situation but what I am wondering is could Ancestry now if they wanted display Parent 1 or Parent 2 against each of my matches? I think from their explanation of SideView that they could do that but I'm not certain hence the post.

[CorleyMiller]

I hadn’t really taken much notice of my ethnicity breakdown as it was largely as I expected at least until, like a lot of people, I suddenly had a large chunk of Scottish ethnicity appear last time. However, having looked at my analysis using this new Ancestry feature I’m rather intrigued… and not a little baffled…

My maternal grandfather was from the west coast of Ireland and although I’ve never found any non-Irish ancestors in his line, I accept that it’s possible that there may be some Scots way back.

My maternal grandmother’s line is concentrated in the central English Midlands and virtually every ancestor I’ve discovered going back to the early 1700’s came from Staffordshire.

In this new analysis my mother’s contribution to my DNA is shown as:
25% Ireland
21% Scotland
4% Sweden
 
No English at all, so what’s happened to my Staffordshire ancestry? Could they really all have originated in Scotland? Seems a little far-fetched. Perhaps I should focus my efforts on finding more of my grandmother’s ancestors in the hope of a Scottish link but there will have to be quite a few of them to totally exclude my English ethnicity!

[LizzieL]

This is me,

But how to tell which is parent 1 and which is parent 2?

Father's side:
his paternal: Berks / Oxon
his maternal: half: Sussex/ Surrey, half: mainly Jersey with a little Scottish, Lanark

Mother's side
her paternal: Hants, New Forest / Dorset, coastal
her maternal: Yorkshire, WR and S of York

I'm tending towards parent 1 being my mother, due to the Sweden / Denmark component, which people from Yorkshire might have. But my only known Scottish Ancestry is on my father's side, and parent 2 is showing no Scottish.

[Gadget]

I was lucky with my parents 

Mother was Welsh with a Scots Granny, who had a little bit of Irish so parent 2.
Father was nearly all Welsh with a tiny bit of borders Shropshire that doesn't get picked up in the split so parent 1.

[LizzieL]

Even more difficult to decide which parent is which with OH

Father's family North West Essex
Mother's family Norfolk / Suffolk border

Either group could have Scandinavian influence
As far as we know no Scottish or Irish ancestry, although there is the surname Alexander in maternal line, but we only have them in Suffolk