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Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« on: Saturday 30 September 23 20:24 BST (UK) »
Been looking foward to an update and disappointed yet again. Im 7% german from my father on my profile but on his profile he has none. When ate they going to sort out linked accounts.  Now im more german that both my parents combibed and nothing adds up.  I know its estimates but they have mine and my parents dna !

Frustrating

Hancock - Dursley/ Merthyr
Pritchard - Merthyr/ Salop
Evans - Merthyr
Jones - Merthyr, Carmarthern
Griffiths - Merthyr, Pembrokeshire - kilgerran
Axhorn - Tiverton / Merthyr
Egan - Merthyr/ Bradford
Jowett - Bradford
Calvert -Bradford
Benjamin - Merthyr
Morgan - Merthyr
Smith - Merthyr / High Littleton - Somerset
Cross - Dursley
Berry - Dursley
Woodward - Dursley

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 30 September 23 20:29 BST (UK) »
Ethnicity estimates should be treated with a huge pinch of salt!
Probably a whole bag of salt?!

A complete waste of time.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 01 October 23 07:49 BST (UK) »
Yes agreed. If anything it gets less reliable with each update.  I also think matches are not coming through. They have got too big.
Hancock - Dursley/ Merthyr
Pritchard - Merthyr/ Salop
Evans - Merthyr
Jones - Merthyr, Carmarthern
Griffiths - Merthyr, Pembrokeshire - kilgerran
Axhorn - Tiverton / Merthyr
Egan - Merthyr/ Bradford
Jowett - Bradford
Calvert -Bradford
Benjamin - Merthyr
Morgan - Merthyr
Smith - Merthyr / High Littleton - Somerset
Cross - Dursley
Berry - Dursley
Woodward - Dursley

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 01 October 23 11:30 BST (UK) »
Hey, I’m twice the Viking that I was.

Now all I need to know where it comes from.

Rollo is going a tad to far back in time for me to have much of his DNA.

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 01 October 23 14:01 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Sunday 01 October 23 11:30 BST (UK)
Hey, I’m twice the Viking that I was.


I lost my bit of Viking DNA in the latest update  :'(. Now I know where it went, lol. ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 03 October 23 11:17 BST (UK) »
What others might like to do is what we have been doing for a few years.

I take a Screenshot of the Ethnicity results as soon as Ancestry says there is going to be an update.

Then I take another Screenshot just after the update.

All are filed as JPGs on my PC and backed up.

Comparing my Ethnicity from 5 years ago to what it shows now, one would presume it is the results for two different people.

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 03 October 23 20:16 BST (UK) »
Mine hasn’t changed at all this time. I should have Scottish which disappeared a couple of years ago - the rest of it does actually pretty much match my expectations. However, my daughter has just done her DNA - a bit more Scottish (12%) than we expected- including 5% inherited from parent 2 -me! How??!

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 04 October 23 09:18 BST (UK) »
I recall they started sideview with ethnicity and then some weeks later rolled it out to matches. I'm hoping this is them testing their chromosome browser prior to rolling it out to matches. Wishful thinking?

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Re: Ethnicity Updates on Ancestry
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 04 October 23 18:48 BST (UK) »
Quote from: glamwales on Saturday 30 September 23 20:24 BST (UK)
Been looking foward to an update and disappointed yet again. Im 7% german from my father on my profile but on his profile he has none. When ate they going to sort out linked accounts.  Now im more german that both my parents combibed and nothing adds up.  I know its estimates but they have mine and my parents dna !

Frustrating
On 23andme you can phase child-parent's kits by linking the kits, which produces more accurate ethnicity %s. I assume Ancestry does not have this feature?
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