Yayyy my 23andme results just came in today! (18 day wait since it arrived at the lab)

1. I have a Portuguese grandfather
   
2. I don’t have any known ancestors from Barbados
   
3. My trace amounts persist at 90% confidence so I’m not sure if it’s noise or not
   
4. My maternal haplogroup is L2a1c2

AncestryDNA results will be in the comments!

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Posting my 23andme and AncestryDNA results for comparison. Ancestry took the right step in renaming their West African regions to center the people who live there, not the modern borders.

- My mom's Igbo and Yorubaland on AncestryDNA (3rd pic) might be high because of the endogamy that went on in the South (we're from TN, MS, and AL)

- Have found 12 cousins with 90-100% Igboland ancestry. Whether they're all Igbo is up in the air because scoring high %s of Igboland ≠ Igbo person because Ancestry also has Esan, Ibibio, Idoma, and Igala groups in the reference panel.

- 23andMe assigned Urhobo and Itsekiri a year ago, I have found 1 Urhobo distant cousin on Ancestry now but they scored 100% Igboland. Either way, there has to be some distant Urhobo / Edo connection

- I have found 2 Akan distant cousins as well and a lot of Senegalese or Hausa/Fulani ones too

- It’s cool that the Jola people (the ones who are credited with the origins of the banjo) kind of have their own region in Ancestry (Southern Senegal).

- The continents stayed the same but my European went back up 2% so Ancestry has me at 68/32.

Just curious if anyone else has had this experience. Now I'm wondering if my dad DNA composition is super similar to me and my mom-isn’t that kind of weird or is it pretty common ? Let me know what you guys think!"

My boyfriend's results are really interesting. I'm a little disappointed that he didn't get any genetic groups. Does anyone know why? Y-dna:R-L260 Mtdna:H11a2.

I didn’t expect it to be so one sided or this narrow maybe it would’ve looked different if i took this test at 2024 since there would be even lower data or matches to me. Tried out the relatives feature and the highest match was like 1% to me.

Since I don't have easy access to 23andme here in Brazil, I did it through Genera instead. Considering that my family is a perfect example of Italian settlers from Serra Gaúcha, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, I was surprised by the high percentage of ancestry from the Balkans and the Middle East. Is there any explanation for this?

The rest matches my family tree, considering that a small part of the family is French and other significant parts are from Tyrol and Austria.

I’m from himalayan region so this may just be more towards denisovans unfortunately or this is without denisovans can anyone tell me if 23andme reports denisovans with neanderthal or it only lists as neanderthal.

I know a lot of these ethnicities were in or near the pale of settlement. I see over 33% of hungarians have 3% or more Ashkenazi dna.

I wonder if like 70% of these people get it.

I gifted a test to my partner, for his birthday. I pushed him to do it and he was completely in favor. He hasn’t seen the results yet but I have and it shows a likely half sibling in the results. If true, this would be a massive deal. The test says they’re a 20% match, so it is entirely possible it’s a cousin maybe, but the family tree line doesn’t connect it to others. Would that matter or is that just how 23and me lays it out? Also, we come from a culture where this would be a massive deal— I was wondering if there are people who would have rather not known?

I was looking at my results for both websites and noticed that both leaned slightly more towards Peruvian native than Bolivian. My family is from the Andean side of Bolivia particularly Cochabamba. I wondered why I would receive Southern Andean as my gift Category on 23andme or score more Altiplano on Ancestry. I researched into it and found that the Andean Valley of Cochabamba had some of its indigenous people removed by the Inca for rebellions and transferred else where in the empire. Then the valley was filled with people from other parts of their empire brought there to work. This resulted in Quechua being the dominant language there.

That would explain why my Native genes map out the way they do. I’m descended in part from the people brought to populate the valley. I know most people don’t have ancestry from here, but I wanted to share what I found because it shows a interesting correlation between what my results reflect and real history.

I do think 23andme did better though overall. Ancestry overestimate my native by 1-2%.

The first image shows the current update, the second is from 2021. I believe the current version reflects my Turkish background more accurately but I'm still surprised by how much my results have changed in 5 years

American with Puerto Rican ancestry, have some Spaniards ancestors on both sides of family who came to the island late 1800's.

I have some recorded ancestry on the British/Irish/german side from the 1700s in NJ and Illinois but the computer didn’t detect it at all. All I got in terms of specific genetic groups were these two in southern Italy. Ancestry did link me with a New York border settlers group but that’s it on their end too.

I’m not sure how accurate 23andMe is at the regional level, but my dad is fully Oromo, so I expected to see Oromo ancestry reflected in my results.
Have any fellow Ethiopians experienced something similar?
Also, my maternal haplogroup is M1a1.

Some people speculated that is was on every ones results due to Origin of Life in Africa.

What are your thoughts?