Got a new match with "This match is connected to the test DNA connected tree" indicated and a little tree icon. But, this match has a private tree, and I do not recognize any shared matches.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what, if anything, to do with this? Thanks.

My maternal grandparent is “full” Filipino, interesting how my largest share of dna comes from him. Anyone else with a similar mix? Filipino, Mexican, and white.

Older screenshots are on my profile. One from 141 days ago and 1 from 4 years ago😀I can say I’m really surprised how much was added

Left are the new results and right are the ones from last year.

For Context I’m full Kikuyu on both sides of the family but it shows up as 100% Nilotic. I cross-referenced with my matches who are kikuyu as well and they show the same error.

for those who are from pueblos originarios and know exactly where their family’s are from.

Smaller regions disappeared (I had Persian gulf islands which was most interesting in previous results, along with Albania and Macedonia) all of which seem to now be allocated to Italy. Along with some other percentage adjustments nothing really changed!

How do I convince my mom that she’s actually Ukrainian and NOT Russian based on her DNA test? 🧬🇺🇦

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​My mom grew up believing she was completely Russian, but her DNA test came back with 35% confirmed Ukrainian and 65% Eastern Slavic / 'Russian'.

​But here’s the thing—her parents were born in Kazakhstan and Yakutia (Siberia) in the late 1930s. Those exact regions were major forced exile and Gulag destinations for deported Ukrainian families under Stalin.

​Because Soviet documents registered displaced people as 'Russian,' and DNA tests often lump East Slavic DNA together, the algorithm defaulted most of her results to Russian—even though her actual ancestry and family history are Ukrainian!

​How do I gently explain the history of Soviet deportations and DNA test algorithms to her so she sees that her true roots are Ukrainian? Any advice from people who’ve had this exact conversation with their parents?

I’ll try to keep this brief, as I tend to ramble. I knew that my mother had a child years before she had me and that she gave that child up for adoption. I know it was extremely difficult for her to do so and its a pain that never truly left her, and I also knew that by signing up for any DNA testing site(s)/kit(s) there was a possibility I would find a half-sibling. I did my ancestryDNA kit over 10 years ago and, to my disappointment, never had any hits. It’s always been in the back of my mind that I have a half-sibling out there, wondering if I ever have ran into them without even knowing, etc.

Last week I received an email from ancestry, as I do whenever I receive a match with some distant 3rd/4th cousin, and basically spit my drink out when it casually stated I had a new match and that it was a half-sibling. I couldn’t believe it, as I had pretty much given up hope that our paths would ever cross.

I sat on it for a few days and finally decided to send just a quick message saying hey, I see we have this connection and would love to chat if you’re open to it. I know that everyone will tell (me) to not go into it with any expectations, and I think I naively thought that I wasn’t. But now I’m unexpectedly embarrassed that I may have been overeager and sent the message because I can see that it was read and now this person hasn’t been active since. I also completely can understand a scenario where they did not know that they were adopted/have any idea that I existed and this could be a lot to process. I’m just worried that I was too pushy even by just reaching out and maybe it wasn’t my place. My hope is that some day I will hear from them, even with baby steps. I know they do not owe anything to myself or my family.

As a side note, I had a half sister (from my dads side) that I grew up knowing and she passed away about 12 years ago, and that was a really terrible time in my life, so maybe I have some unprocessed grief that even comes with the word “sibling”, because other than that, it’s just me.

I guess there’s no end point to me putting this out other than to just get it off my chest. I just didn’t expect it to stir up the emotion(s) that it has, some that maybe I can’t even put a finger on yet.

I sent my DNA sample on 10 days ago from Canada. The destination says Ireland. How long does it take until I get result?

Proud to be a "diverse-ish" white American! My family has simultaneously been here for thousands and hundreds of years, and also just a few decades-- all equally American. My mom's family is from Canada, originally. (Yay, Canada! 🇨🇦) Lucky enough to trace my family back hundreds of years on both sides. My super "Old Stock" family members' journeys aren’t shown because they mostly immigrated to MA and CT in the 1600s, but I do have a general affinity for New England. Also, I was a white person who never thought that they were partly NA.

Always cool to see others' results. Thanks for checking out mine.

I was born and raised in Hampshire. My known genealogy is majority English, from basically all over England. 3/32 Irish, from Tipperary, Cork, Mayo, and Antrim. 1/16 Cornish (Mevagissey is the last village they lived in before moving to London. This is also my purely paternal line). Either 1/64 or 1/128 Romanichal (it’s difficult to tell, since they mixed a lot with local English people). And 1/512 French Huguenot.
No known Scottish or Welsh. 23andMe give me only English and Irish, under their “British & Irish” group.

Pre-update, I had 2% in northern Spain, something like 5% Volga German, and 1% South Indian (🤷‍♂️). The new results are centered entirely in Western and central Europe, which is both less surprising and less interesting.

Switzerland has the largest claim to my genome at 38%, at least until the next update comes. I can actually trace my line back to a Swiss immigrant who was a veteran of the US war of independence.

It's ironic that I qualify for Hungarian citizenship thanks to the fact that my Danube Swabian GGF was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, but the lab didn't detect even a single nucleotide from the area! Oh well, it's civil status that matters, not ethnicity. Those Swabians must have not married outside their community very often.

I apologize if this is not the right thread for this query but I have not been able to find this man.

I have him named in two records Arthur Ernest Smith:

1901 he is a Lance Sergeant in Stirling, Scotland

He is listed deceased in a record for his son's baptism in 1921 in Montreal, Quebec. He's English presumably by birth, his wife Jessie Dunk was born in present day Pakistan. His daughter Violet in Stirlingshire about a year or two after the 1901 census and his son John born in South Africa in 1910/11.
https://www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/1101/records/1198288?tid=28503516&pid=13436700132&queryId=b16142a5-c9ae-49af-b8ac-6c04422a4104&_phsrc=Nqq3810&_phstart=successSource

https://www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/1091/records/342598648

I’ve seen some people on here who seem pretty upset about ancestry using ai and I don’t really get the outrage. Like how else do you expect this sort of product to work? Estimating this kinda thing isn’t easy, like you can’t have people doing graph clustering by hand in the back, it’s a machine learning method, you have to use the ai lol

There’s also genetic similarity matching, which as far as I can tell is just a supervised classification model, and I saw that they’re using a transformer neural network to smooth estimates? I really don’t get how this works very deeply, but I think it’s finding new ways to use adjacent genetic information to improve guessing. It’s just more math.

But it’s not like they’re just throwing your dna at chatgpt and going with whatever it says, they’ve developed probably some of the most advanced statistical models ever used for this sort of problem. That’s it, that’s the ai.

I think people are also speculating about ancestry using ai to generate user facing stuff like site content and design, which ofc has nothing to do with your ancestry estimates and also is just speculation.

Idk it’s not like these models are without flaw, every update changes my estimates quite a bit, some updates are gonna be more accurate than others, even within an update some people’s estimates will be super close to reality and some will be way off. It seems like they did a lot of work to test how well this model works, and they found statistical evidence that on balance it’s better than the previous model, which is why they used it.

But to me it’s kinda fun to watch it all change every October. It’s an interesting process, like no one can know for sure what ethnicity they really are, all we can do is let people who’re smart enough to build these tools use our dna to make guesses about us. That’s literally what I paid for and exactly what i’m getting so idk what there is to be mad about

My 1% Arabian Peninsula changed to 1% Northern Iraq after the last update

Hi everyone!

I've launched the Ancestry Journey Explorer, which lets you explore statistical data for different Ancestral Journeys.

For those who would like to contribute data. You can now use the MatchFetch (2.2.9) browser extension to do so. I've added a new "Share" feature that collects statistical data from the matches across the profiles on your account that you've fetched data for.

To be included, matches must share all their data (not just in-common data), and belong to only one Ancestral Journey. I've also set a minimum requirement of 20 matches belonging to the same Ancestral Journey.

The data sent to the database consists only of aggregated statistics calculated across your matches, as shown below. No personally identifiable information is included or sent.

Thank you to everyone who contributes and helps improve the Explorer! I'm also open to any feedback or suggestions you may have for both the browser extension and the journey explorer.

 "matches": 18917,
      "journeys": [
        {
          "id": "LA2023_9",
          "displayName": "Dominican Republic",
          "matches": 16950,
          "regions": [
            {
              "macroRegion": "Iberian Peninsula",
              "mean": 55.99,
              "min": 8,
              "max": 92,
              "n": 16950,
              "sum": 949114,
              "regions": [
                {
                  "region": "Canary Islands",
                  "mean": 23.73,
                  "min": 1,
                  "max": 51,
                  "n": 16947,
                  "sum": 402160
                },
                {
                  "region": "Spain",
                  "mean": 13.16,
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                  "max": 49,
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My maternal grandmother was from Argentina, and as far as we know, her father was from the Basque Country (this is pretty solidly reflected in my, my mum’s and my brother’s results) and her mother was the daughter of Italian immigrants to Argentina. However, for all three of us, Italy doesn’t really show up. My mum has maybe 2 or 3 % of Italian. I have none, my brother has none. If we go based of family history and compare to the Basque, my mum’s should be roughly equal in Basque & Italian (about 25% each, and she is for Basque/Spanish) but instead of Italian, she is about 20% French. Same for me and my brother’s, we have a reflective % of French, but no Italian. This is curious for me and I am wondering if anyone has a similar experience. Is the Italian being read as French? Is there some kind of family secret here? The surname was Pasquale which I know is similar to the French Pascal, but it seems a bit strange that there is so much French when there is no knowledge in the family of French ancestry. Any thoughts?

Seems Cajuns got a huge amount of Quebec in the latest update.

flags of my ancestors birthplaces (had to repost because my code was displaying the flag of Washington for Washington County, Missouri and that’s definitely not right)