Ancestry Ethnicity Update

[chris_49]

I too am struggling to understand how my Norwegian  and Danish DNA has vanished but now some Dutch has arrived! I think the former equates with my apparent Hebrides/North West Highland ancestry (has to be from my maternal grandmother's unknown father) but the latter I thought came from the Danelaw. But the Anglo-Saxon invaders apparently included some Frisians so that could be it.

I'm puzzled as how I went from 40% Celtic (mostly Welsh) at first dwn to 30% and now up to 50%!

[aghadowey]

I too am struggling to understand how my Norwegian  and Danish DNA has vanished but now some Dutch has arrived! I think the former equates with my apparent Hebrides/North West Highland ancestry (has to be from my maternal grandmother's unknown father) but the latter I thought came from the Danelaw. But the Anglo-Saxon invaders apparently included some Frisians so that could be it.

I'm puzzled as how I went from 40% Celtic (mostly Welsh) at first dwn to 30% and now up to 50%!

I'll swap my apparent Danish ancestry (closest I actually have is my aunt's husband who was Danish) for your Dutch ethnicity since my Dutch ancestry (my grandmother's grandmother was Dutch) seems to have gotten lost somewhere 

[chris_49]

I too am struggling to understand how my Norwegian  and Danish DNA has vanished but now some Dutch has arrived! I think the former equates with my apparent Hebrides/North West Highland ancestry (has to be from my maternal grandmother's unknown father) but the latter I thought came from the Danelaw. But the Anglo-Saxon invaders apparently included some Frisians so that could be it.

I'm puzzled as how I went from 40% Celtic (mostly Welsh) at first dwn to 30% and now up to 50%!

I'll swap my apparent Danish ancestry (closest I actually have is my aunt's husband who was Danish) for your Dutch ethnicity since my Dutch ancestry (my grandmother's grandmother was Dutch) seems to have gotten lost somewhere 

Well the Danish could come from the Danelaw ( a huge swathe of eastern England) or from the Jutes who settled Kent. Even the Angles were from whaqt is now Schlewsig-Holstein. But all these Germanic tribes were related - even the Normans to some extent, so maybe your Dutch ancestor's DNA mas been assigned as something else.

I too have a great-great grandmother  unaccounted for in my DNA - she was Cornish. I wonder if she has been interpreted as South Welsh since I don't have a known ancestor from there. But asll these strands are supposed to have intermingled over the centuries. I expect Ancestry's next attempt will give us different interpretastions again.

[aghadowey]

Currently I'm shown with 3% Danish and 2% Southern Germanic Europe (the area my ancestor actually came from). My mother was 3/4 German so there seems to be an awful lot of German ancestry unaccounted for. Seems to be way too much England ancestry from different regions ...

[rosie99]

I can't understand why they are trying to specify English Counties, one I manage is showing Somerset and Devon - family goes way back in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire 

[glamwales]

I'm lucky in that I'm tested and both my Parents - We have some larger common trends but then I ask myself how I can have DNA from Denmark, my mum has Norwegian and my dad has some French  which i fail to have.

[Romilly]

My Ethnicities have now gone from 8 to 11!

Mainly this seems to be because new Irish Regions have been added, but also I have gained some Arcadian, (French Canadian) DNA. I have no idea where this originates from…

Romilly.