Question of the Week: What are your DNA ethnicity estimates?

Question

If you have taken a DNA test, what does the testing company report for your ethnicity? Is it what you expected?

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Answer 1

Ancestry
38% England and NW Europe
29% Sweden and Denmark
18% Scotland
10% Ireland
05% Germanic Europe

MyHeritage
65.9% English
28% Scandinavian
6.1% Italian

Answer 2

49% England & Northwest Europe , 31% Scotland 11% Germanic Europe 4% Ireland 3% Wales 1% Ivory Coast & Ghana 1% Nigeria (1% Native American

Answer 3

The latest Ancestry ethnicity update is:

81% England and Northwestern Europe

5% Sweden and Denmark

5% Norway

3% Germanic Europe

3% Scotland

3% Ireland

Communities:

Eastern South East England

Central Southern England

Answer 4

Ancestry (I NEVER use Ancestry to mark ethnicity):

• 47% Scotland
• 34% England & Northwestern Europe
• 10% Wales
•   6% Sweden & Denmark
•   3% Norway

Family Tree:

• 59% England, Wales, Scotland
• 36% Ireland
• <2% Scandinavian
• <2% Sardinia
• <1% Malta
• <2% Finland

My Heritage - 1st test via another test site:

• 48.1% Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• 43.9% English
•   2.0% Greek & South Italian
•   4.4% Balkan

My Heritage - 2nd test via My Heritage:

• 47% Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• 44.9% English
•   4.2% Greek & South Italian
•   3.9% Balkan
•   1.6% West Asian

23andMe:

• 97.1% Northwestern Europe
• 97.0% British & Irish
•   0.7% Spanish & Portugese
•   0.8% Northern West Asian
  • Iranian, Caucasian & Mesopotanian
•   0.2% Arab, Egyptian & Levantine
•   0.7% Congolese & Southern East African
  • Angolan & Congolese
•   0.1% Broadly East Asian

23andMe and My Heritage actually comes much closer to what Dr. McDonald noted in my DNA several years ago, He said I had 6% Caucasian, a presence in the Germany/Poland region (I don't remember the %) and a very real 0.7% African. I also don't remember the exact % for England/Ireland.

One other note: Gedmatch notes I show 3.5% Jewish ancestry. My Jewish ancestry is distant.

My paternal grandmother's mtDNA lineage is Ashkenazi Jewish with the likely Sephardic connections. My dad's YDNA shows ancestry from Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine, Netherland, Germany, Sweden, England, US. He may have one or two Jewish people in his male line. I have no idea how to understand one or two Jewish individuals.

My maternal grandmother's mtDNA shows connections from Germany, US and Scotland. My maternal grandfather's YDNA shows connections to the Eastern Europe, Balkans, West Asian, England.

I've come to accept that I'll likely not ever be able to trace and connect many of these ancestral people due to brick walls and NPEs, adoptions. 

Answer 5

European 99.8%-British /Irish 38.%- French/German 36.4%broadly western Eu -10% and so on

Answer 6

From Ancestry

    Scotland  40%
    England & Northwestern Europe  26%
    Ireland  16%
    Norway   11%
    Germanic Europe   4%
    Sweden & Denmark  3%
 

Your DNA connects you to 4 communities.

Communities form when we identify AncestryDNA members whose ancestors probably came from the same place or cultural group.

Southern Backcountry to Oklahoma & Texas Settlers 1700—1975
Connected to your regions: England & Northwestern Europe; Scotland

Greenville & Laurens Counties, South Carolina Settlers

Tennessee Settlers 1700—1975
Connected to your regions: England & Northwestern Europe; Scotland
Southwest Nashville to Lewis & Humphreys County Settlers

Alabama Settlers
1775—1975
Connected to your regions: England & Northwestern Europe; Scotland

Central Southeast & Northern Alabama Settlers
Colbert, Lawrence & Morgan County Settlers

Southern Midwestern Settlers
1700—1975
Connected to your regions: England & Northwestern Europe; Scotland

Nothing unexpected there except that it keeps shifting over the years from mostly English to Scottish as their data has gotten more precise.  The communities are spot on.

Answer 7

 My Ancestry Origins-

• 34% Scotland
• 28% England and Northwestern Europe
• 22% Norway
• 12% Ireland
• 4% Sweden and Denmark

Mother-

• 27% Scotland
• 11% England and Northwestern Europe
• 0% Norway
• 12% Ireland
• 0% Sweden and Denmark

Father-

• 7% Scotland
• 17% England and Northwestern Europe
• 22% Norway
• 0% Ireland
• 4% Sweden and Denmark

I'm basically a Scottish Trash Can LOL!

Answer 8

I've done lots of DNA tests but only Ancestry DNA seems to regularly update results.

70 % England and Northwest Europe

11 % Scotland

9 % Wales

8 % Sweden & Denmark

2 % France

Answer 9

Done through "Ancestry . com.     I mostly descend through the

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England &Scotland.    

Results completed through Ancestry.com.

Answer 10

97.1% Ashkenazi Jewish
2.9% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
Tested with My Heritage DNA

Ashkenazi Jewish is not a surprise. I am 3rd generation British, with all 4 of my grandparents born here. However, I understand that all 8 great-grandparents were immigrants, from the regions indicated by the regions indicated by the Ashkenazi Jewish groups.

So, no idea where the 2.9% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh comes from.

Answer 11

53% England & Scotland - My Scottish numbers have risen further than I ever thought they would as some of those I thought were Irish were Scotch

30% Ireland with the main O'Neill & Fitzgerald

11% Norway

3% Sweden & Norway

3% Wales

DNA done thru Ancestry

Answer 12

It is bizarre to see this question after having another company use the same DNA sample analyzed several years ago by Ancestry to create an estimate for free during the recent promotional period on My Heritage. That said between those 2, GEDmatch, Genomelink, Ftdna, they are ALL vastly different but especially the most recent:

* GenomeLink: NW Europe 60%, Other European 27%, EastEurope 11%, Asian 3%

* My Heritage: Scandinavian 43.4%, Greek&South Italian 25.5%, Irish/Scottish/Wales 24.9%, Balkan 4.4%, Finnish 1.8%

* Ancestry: England&NW Europe 29%, Ireland 21%, Sweden &Den 17%, Eastern Europe &Russia 17%, Scotland 13%, Wales 3%

* CRIGenetics: (100% European for recent analysis)- German 37.8%, Italy 18%, Southern, Central Slavic 13.9 %,  British Isle 11.9%, France 10.5%, Spain 5.4%, Scandinavian 2.5%

* I'll stop there bc there are more  but it's interesting to note ALL results except the last one- were derived from the same data derived from a single sample sent to Ancestry several years ago. That has evolved w/technology and users info but the rest were extrapolated from that same compressed data file sent to the other sites for free basic analysis or for studies etc at some point. If anyone needs or wants the links or code I can verify and send.

 Cheers! Becky Elizabeth

Answer 13

• England and Northwestern Europe - 38%
• Ireland -37%
• Scotland 20%
• Eastern Europe & Russia 3%
• Baltics 2%

Total Matches = 39,988 ( wow that's a lot! )

Answer 14

My DNA was through Ancestry and I have also uploaded my results to MyHeritage.

My Ancestry Ethnicity Estimates

Eastern Europe & Russia    42%

Scotland                              16%

England & Northwestern

Europe                                12%

Ireland                                 10%

Sweden & Denmark              6%

Wales                                     6%

Baltics                                     4%

The Balkans                            3%

Basque                                    1%

Answer 15

DNA test using Ancestry.

Percentages (as of Feb 2024), are:

Germanic Europe 31%

England and Northwestern Europe 27%

Scotland 24%

Portugal 6% ***

Wales 5%

Ireland 4%

Norway 3%

*** am looking for DNA connections from this country.

Answer 16

Per Ancestry:

England/Northwestern Europe - 55%
Scotland - 26%
Ireland - 12%
Norway - 5%
Wales - 2%

Per FTDNA:

England, Wales, Scotland - 100%

Per MyHeritage:

Ireland, Scotland, Wales - 47.9%
Scandinavia - 29.2%
Sardinia - 13.3%
Baltic - 4.2%
West Asian - 5.4%

In my genealogy research, I can definitely attest to the Scottish and English along with some German.