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Old 13-04-22, 19:56
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Default Ancestry now splits your ethnicity between parents

A new feature just added to Ancestry DNA: "ethnicity inheritance". You don't need your parents to have tested for this, but it will say Parent 1 and Parent 2, not tell you which is which. They have also updated the ethnicity estimates.
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Old 13-04-22, 20:28
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Mine looks pretty inaccurate unless an unexpected male fathered one of my female ancestors.

My paternal grandmother was 100% Scottish as far as we can tell.

My mother has no proven Scottish ancestors from a very detailed tree.

Ancestry tells me that I have 21% Scottish ancestry from parent 1 and 16% from parent 2.

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Mine seems pretty useless (large amounts of non-existent Scottish ancestry on both sides).
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I was quite impressed with mine.
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Old 13-04-22, 22:49
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I already had far too much Scottish in my own results; I assumed it was because my father is about 3/8ths Irish, but they've also added quite a lot to what is presumably my mother's side (no Irish), and she has no Scottish ancestors at all.

I've traced most lines on both trees a very long way back (apart from the Irish ones), and they're almost all confirmed by numerous DNA matches.

There's also a ridiculous amount of Scandinavian ancestry on both sides. No doubt there are Viking ancestors way back, but I wouldn't have thought that would give more than a tiny result, if anything.
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Old 14-04-22, 00:07
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At least my Jewish friend is 100% Jewish on both sides. Not that it does her any good: as everyone as the same DNA, it's impossible to discover relationships.
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Wow. My paternal grandfather married my maternal grandmother. Didn’t see that coming.
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Old 14-04-22, 07:51
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Mine looks pretty inaccurate unless an unexpected male fathered one of my female ancestors.

My paternal grandmother was 100% Scottish as far as we can tell.

My mother has no proven Scottish ancestors from a very detailed tree.

Ancestry tells me that I have 21% Scottish ancestry from parent 1 and 16% from parent 2.
That's what I have found, it doesn't make sense because as far as I have gone back my mother has not a bit of Scottish in her and it would come as a great surprise to her if she were alive.

I am assuming Parent 1 is father and Parent 2 is mother the bits I find unusual and unexpected are highlighted in red. I suppose it isn't very accurate at all.

Parent 1 - Father

Scotland - 27%
England & Northwestern Europe - 0%
Ireland - 21%
Norway - 0%
Wales - 2%

Parent 2 - Mother

Scotland - 17%
England & Northwestern Europe - 22%
Ireland - 0%
Norway - 11%
Wales - 0%

Me

Scotland - 44%
England & Northwestern Europe - 22%
Ireland - 21%
Norway - 11%
Wales - 2%
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Old 14-04-22, 08:39
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Do not assume parent 1 is your father and 2 is your mother.

Dad's and mine are easy to determine which parent is which due to the Indian DNA but OH
not so easy and his suspected Hugenot's are not showing up. We need more French people to test.
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Old 14-04-22, 09:18
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Before the update my son surprisingly didn't have any English dna - the update now says he has 12% which still seems pretty low to me.

I got OH to do a dna to find out where in Ireland his 4 x ggf came from but so far the only people matching the dna who give a location - one in Cork and one in Belfast so no closer.
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