Ancestry DNA

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I noticed that the ethnicity estimates have been altered, not sure when, and I appear to have acquired 3% of Welsh, where from I can't imagine. And I know we don't have to take it too seriously!

 However, they have also divided the DNA between parents, which has left me really baffled. The bit of Scottish has come from one parent, my father, which I understand, but the similar amount of Irish and the little bit of Welsh are from the other parent, and that makes no sense to me at all. There is a known bit of Irish in father's ancestry, and a missing line through illegitimacy, but mother is solidly Kent on one side and Essex/Suffolk on the other.

   Any ideas on this please?

[Gadget]

You might get some answers here, T of H

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=861190.0


Gadget

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Thank Gadget, I had missed that thread. I still don't understand mine though!

[Gadget]

There's this paper on Ancestry - I've not read it all.


https://support.ancestry.co.uk/s/article/SideView-Technology

[Ashtone]

I noticed that the ethnicity estimates have been altered, not sure when, and I appear to have acquired 3% of Welsh, where from I can't imagine.

Same thing has happened to me!  Very odd indeed.  And my mother's results have drastically decreased to only 4% English, which baffles me because my grandmother was solidly English (no Wales at all).
Some of the other SideView percentages don't make any sense either, for both my parents. 
It's almost as if SideView has sloppily split the parental estimates, and now my parents' percentages blur into the other. I'm confused...

[Gadget]

Just a thought - have you got any ancestors in the English/Welsh borders or SW Scotland?

[Ashtone]

Just a thought - have you got any ancestors in the English/Welsh borders or SW Scotland?

Nope. My maternal Scottish ancestor is from Edinburgh. Also, SideView has given me about 12% Irish.
I never had any Irish before in my AncestryDNA results. So that's a mystery, too. I have no paternal Irish ancestry either, as far as I'm aware.

[Gadget]

To be really, really honest, I don't pay much attention to what they say about my ethnicity, only that their estimates are getting more and more close to my tree 

[Ashtone]

My SideView estimates seem to be for another person. That's how drastically different they are when compared to my thorough research. My friend is having similar issues to me. Nothing makes any sense.