Irish DNA - No Ethnicity Region

[Rosinish]

For a region to show you would need to have other related people research their family, submit their DNA and know the region that they came from.  There are likely a lot of people who know their ancestors were Irish but have not been able to establish exactly where they came from.

I believe this is likely correct...

All the Irish ancestors I have details on, I've added their names, dates & places of birth but as it happens, I have Irish on both sides & they all came from (so far) what is now classed as Northern Ireland i.e. Ulster - Tyrone, Londonderry & Antrim.

I have found a few matches but I can't find how we connect as they're so distant.

My Irish ethnicity is 22% which isn't a lot i.e. I believe my input of their birth places along with my matches & their input of birth places probably does account for being able to specify regions.

Annie

[melba_schmelba]

Ah that's interesting hear and not just me then, its a shame I would be really interested to know the ethnicity region for my Irish roots, I have no-one on my tree I can tie there.

The way it works seems fairly inexplicable. My father has very similar DNA matches to Irish relatives as his sister, but he has two regions, but his sister has none. So my advice would be find other relatives on this Irish side and get them tested, preferably ones that don't have any other Irish ancestry other than that they share with you.

[melba_schmelba]

..... however even with the recent update I still have no ethnicity region breakdown.

For a region to show you would need to have other related people research their family, submit their DNA and know the region that they came from.  There are likely a lot of people who know their ancestors were Irish but have not been able to establish exactly where they came from.

Debra 

Debra, thank you very much for the explanation; I had no idea how it worked!

It is possible both Ancestry and 23andme paid for Irish DNA Atlas data, but I have no proof of it other that when shortly after it was released, they suddenly were able to accurately provide regional breakdown.

https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/research-and-innovation/research/resources-and-facilities/biobank/irish-dna-atlas

[ggrocott]

I have suddenly acquired a 10% Irish DNA but no region and 'lost' my 21% Scottish, which is rather sad and slightly bewildering!