Ancestry's latest Ethnicity update to Ancestral Regions

[Petros]

This latest change looks even more pointless than before
All my (small) Scandinavian percentages (9%) have disappeared and I now have
England & Northwestern Europe 74% to 45%
Germanic Europe 8% to 32%
Scotland 3% to 16%
and the Netherlands 0 to 7%

while the Channel Islands and Northern Isles are shown as subsidiary regions

[Gadget]

Just had a quick look!

It seems that I'm now 2% Icelandic

 

[bearkat]

When I first got my results 10 years ago I was 66% Irish but now I'm only 18% !

[Biggles50]

Mine now reflects more closely to the origins of my distant predecessors.

The same for two other DNA kits that I manage.

My Wife’s though is still a bit off actuals.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

They've always been pretty pointless and the big changes this time around just make it more obvious. I've dropped from 65% Irish to 48% in three updates whilst my sister has gone from 26 to 16 in the two since her results went live. I suppose we could travel the world billing ourselves as removed siblings proven by our stupidly different ethnicity results.

[Nova67]

2% Icelandic is trending Gadget  .

I thought I had lost some of the sub-regions but they are still there just not appearing on the main result page.

[aghadowey]

Well, my results are still well off.

I have 13% Germanic, 2% Irish, 25% Scottish, 54% English, 3% Swedish, 3% Spanish
Have lost my little bit of Italian (only Italian in the family is the Venetian Contessa who wanted to adopt my father- hardly a blood relationship)

Actually ethnicity is-
paternal grandfather- Ulster/Scots with just a drop of French
paternal grandmother- English, French, Scottish, Dutch with a few drops of Morrocan & Norwegian
maternal grandfather- 1/2 German, 1/2 English
maternal grandmother- German

Oh well, have to wait to see what changes there are next time 

[4b2]

2% Icelandic is trending Gadget  .

I thought I had lost some of the sub-regions but they are still there just not appearing on the main result page.

You mean they have moved them to "Journeys"? It seems a bit of an odd name for ethnic sub-regions.

[rsel]

I seem to have lost my Scottish and gained Germanic instead :-)

I love reading the info on why the name was change from 'Ethnicity estimate' to 'Ancestral Regions', apparently to many people didn't think the science behind them was very good and where focusing to much on the word estimate...lol