Ancestry Update 2025

[David Nicoll]

Here's hoping for something usefeul.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/c/ancestry-blog/dna/2025-ancestral-origins-coming-soon?msockid=31524bb25c21600c1bcf440e5dda61f4

[Biggles50]

My Ethnicity has changed beyond all expectations, from way off to pretty accurate.

Given that it is Ancestry it would not surprise me if Klingon was not introduced.

I have certainly worked with many people who are from a different planet.

[Zaphod99]

I enthusiastically read mine. Then I realised I haven't been updated since July 2024.

Zaph

[TonyV]

Thanks for the heads up David. They've not changed mine yet but their press release confused me. Since my Ancestry DNA test in 2021, Ancestry have consistently pegged me as broadly half Irish, more specifically from Connacht and much more specifically from County Mayo. Their press release however states that previously Ireland was an undivided genealogical area and that the new release will drill down to much tighter areas and Connacht is exemplified. So logically, all my previous stuff was nonsense or the press release is.

[TonyV]

A quick add. The new stuff is not coming until October so no-one will have it yet.

[4b2]

This map looks good. I have studied the overlap of medieval kingdoms, dialect regions, DNA clustering, and the lexical footprint of surnames. This is withing what one would expect, with the use of zones in which groups bleed into the other.



The basis of the dialects in England date from around 600 or so, and correspond strongly with kingdoms.

You can see Ancestry's map has a zone overlapping with the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Mercia, and three coming out of the old Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia (Devon & Cornwall). I'm not sure what is delineating their Northern areas.

This genetic clustring shows Scotland in a bit more resolution:



A dialect map:

[4b2]

DUPE

[David Nicoll]

Hi,

   I think this probably better reflects the complexity of dialect in the UK.

   https://starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects/

[Wexflyer]

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As has alredy been mentioned, this 2024 verus 2025 comparison is untrue. Ancestry have had fine-grained resolution within Ireland for many years - similar to that shown in the 2025 map, and actually even with more detailed sub-regions!