Ancestry Ethnicity Update

[Biggles50]

All ours are now updated.

I now have 12 ancestral regions but add up the sections and they still equate to the 4 regions where I know that they lived.

The new regions can show the migration to and from the original 4 known regions.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

Christa has been all over one of the US youtubers' channels but I tend to avoid the 'pat yourself on the back' uploads.   

[Petros]

I've gone from 45% English 32% Germanic 16% Scots to 85% English (67% Southern English) 5% German, 2% Scots.

The current version reflects my family tree for the first time although my  14% West Midlands is apparently all from my paternal line whereas it is my maternal line that has some West Midlands ancestry!

[PrawnCocktail]

Well, my new one looks rubbish!

A total of 20% of it has been allocated to areas where I have no-one on the paper trail - East Midlands, Donegal, Central Scotland, and South Wales.

Added to which, I've only had two matches in the last week!

[Nova67]

I have  generations of Northumbrian ancestry and I got 2% for North East England, my mother 4%, my two aunts got 15% and 33%.

And I call myself a Novocastrian.

I was pleased to retain my 2% Icelandic.

[AntonyMMM]

My little bit of Europe is moving around and diminishing - started off at 6% Russia/Finland, and has moved through Scandinavia, 2% Sweden/Denmark,  to now only be 1% German. Must be the effects of Brexit !

I had 20% Scotland in the last version ( confirmed with lots of known history and records) but that has now entirely disappeared and gone to 0%. I have gained 31% NE England, where I have no known ancestors whatsoever, but I suspect that is now actually coming from my lowland/border Scots connections.

Generally though, allowing for the above, for me it is pretty close to what the records say.

[ikas]

Being able to compare my ethnicity with some of my matches where we have both identified MRCA is very revealing. As expected substantial contradictions encountered. For me, it just highlights again that ethnicity reports are only for fun.

[Josephine]

I went from 10% France to 0%. Yet I have a gazillion DNA matches that take me right back to France (and is backed up via paper trail as well).

I'm not impressed. But I never put much stock in it anyway. Isn't it all derived from locations listed in people's trees, anyway?

[Josephine]

This is laughably bad. My aunt (my mother's sister), whose mother was 100% Scottish, has gone down to 2% Scottish/Irish.