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

[Gadget]

Sinann - Mine was a little more varied than that!!

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=861190.msg7303748#msg7303748

It does vary with siblings  - Have you got a sibling that might show something.  I used my niece's test to get some idea of my late sister's split.

PS - I did know her father's tree though!

[Gadget]

Peter Calver in his latest Lost Cousins newsletter seems to have answered my question in post 20 above. In his review of SideView he states "From today they are beginning the roll out of a new feature called SideViewTM, which will eventually enable them to sort most DNA matches into maternal and paternal side. The immediate benefit is much more limited: ethnicity estimates will be split into maternal and paternal components."

If he is correct then we can expect to see Parent 1 and Parent 2 against some of our matches sometime in the future.

Is that why they introduced the ability to indicate which side and degree of relationship for each match  - maybe as a way of testing their experiments?

[Sinann]

Sinann - Mine was a little more varied than that!!

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=861190.msg7303748#msg7303748

It does vary with siblings  - Have you got a sibling that might show something.  I used my niece's test to get some idea of my late sister's split.

PS - I did know her father's tree though!

It's not mine, it's my sisters, it just gave me a giggle. Not much use if you were trying to figure out who your parent's or grandparents were.
Mine has a little Scotland on one, which I think is my father and a little Welsh on the other but how the Welsh fits I've no idea.

[ikas]

Is that why they introduced the ability to indicate which side and degree of relationship for each match  - maybe as a way of testing their experiments?

Interesting thought, Gadget. I did think it rather strange at the time they introduced it.

[Guy Etchells]

Possibly, I assume it is similar to a similar thing DNApainter is doing where you can paint DNA matches from numerous people such as sisters or cousins who have a common ancestor. Basically the matching segments can then be shown to originate from the paternal line or maternal line.
Cheers
Guy

[TonyV]

I am trying to identify my genetic father and I already knew enough to be able to tell which side Parent 1 and 2 are from my DNA results as well as my paper research beforehand. But I fail to see how this new feature will help me in my search until or unless it eventually gets applied to each match. Even then it will only narrow down the matches I should be concentrating on. Also given that the vast majority of low cM matches share no other matches with me it seems that lots of them are bound to be categorised as "Unknown Parent" or something similar.

[alemap1947]

Sideview totally ridiculous. I've lost my Irish dna despite having large amount prior. My son has Scottish now on both sides despite none showing up in mine. My Welsh has gone down despite having 2 grandfathers who were100% Welsh and 1 grandmother likewise and other mix of Irish and Welsh.

[Guy Etchells]

Sideview totally ridiculous. I've lost my Irish dna despite having large amount prior. My son has Scottish now on both sides despite none showing up in mine. My Welsh has gone down despite having 2 grandfathers who were100% Welsh and 1 grandmother likewise and other mix of Irish and Welsh.

Sorry I don't understand you still have all the DNA you originally had, you have not lost anything.
If by DNA you are referring to ethnicity that is very fluid anyway as it all depends on the samples the various DNA testing companies use to determine what is Scottish, Welsh or double dutch. It has very little to do with race, nationality or even allegiance.
Don't take the ethnicity seriously

For instance MyHeritage claims my ethnicity is
English  : 66.4%
Scandinavian 33.6%
Ancestry claims
England & Northwest Europe : 76%
Sweden & Denmark : 8%
Ireland : 8%
Scotland 5%
Norway 3%

Their claims for my wife-

MyHeritage claims her ethnicity is
English : 80.3

But they add the disclaimer that :
Britain - specifically the eastern region of the British Isles - has been populated continuously for at least the past 15,000 years, with recent ethnic stock (from before the 11th century) including pre-Celts, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Norse, and Normans. More recently - that is, since the Middle Ages - other ethnicities migrated to Britain, whether by invitation (European Jews in 1070, by William the Conqueror, though they were expelled about 200 years later), by virtue of the African slave trade (dating back to the 1730s CE), or trade (including the oldest Chinese community in Europe, dating back to the 19th century). After World War II, that diverse immigration increased by leaps and bounds, so that the melting pot of English ethnicity has seen increased diversity from the Caribbean, South Asia, and Africa. That said, the dominant “original” British ethnic group is dominated by the English, of course, and includes the Celtic heirs, as some of Welsh, Scottish, and Irish descent respectively have settled in modern-day England.
In other words she could have DNA from possibly anywhere in the world.
Ancestry claims
England & Northwest Europe : 81%
Scotland 9%
Sweden & Denmark : 4%
Wales 4%
Ireland : 2%

Cheers
Guy

[Biggles50]

According to Ancestry of the 50% from my Parent 1 :-

England and NW Europe ZERO
Ireland 21%
Southern Italy 17%
Norway 3%
Scotland 4%
Greece 3%
Wales 1%
Others 1%

Which means my Dad did not have the background he thought he had or he was not my Dad.