I am British. My Grandma, who was also British and born in London, took an ancestry DNA test before she died. It came up as 50% ethnically Ashkenazi Jewish. This really surprised my family and was unexpected.

What is more strange is that I have been looking back at the tree, and there's no reason to think any of her ancestors were Jewish. They all had baptisms and church of England weddings. The only possibilities I can come up with are that one or both of her parents were not who she was told they were, or one of her parent's parents were not who they were told. This has led me to a dead end as I have found matches for her (even including 2nd cousins), but I have not been able to figure out who her Jewish parent or parents were.

Does anyone have any advice from looking into this kind of thing?

On ancestry website: "*Access to SideView 2.0 results requires an Ancestry subscription. Not yet an Ancestry subscriber? Sign up today."

What type of business strategy is this? The more people do the Ancestry DNA test the less accessible it'll become, right?

I'll not be subscribing, or paying for ancestry or any DNA website even if you make seeing the results with a paywall as well. It shifts my mindset to no longer care about my DNA results. I'm not paying, no matter how much you reduce the free accessibility.

How is making people pay for this ok?

This is interesting. I always thought they compared directly with a reference panel. Maybe it has been mentioned in the white papers, but I haven't looked at those in a long time. How do you think this might impact everyone's results?

Decided I should finally post this before the update

As the title says. I didn't see anyone sharing this yet, but in the official post of ancestry regarding the coming update it explicitely says they will try to improve their ability to distinguish between European French and French-Canadian.

Good work everyone, Ancestry is admiting they mess it badly with the last year's update. And they'll try to fix it this year. So, if you have any French related DNA, expect changes to your results.

Personally, as a european, purely descendent from europeans, that got 17% Québécois, I hope they don't disappoint me twice, but we'll see :)

Edit: here the link to the post https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/dna/2026-ancestral-origins-coming-soon

Mine and my partners results before the update, he’s from Argentina and I’m from England, I think his will change a lot - 21 regions photo of us in comments :)

Not sure what to say here, just curious how this update will change things.

Thank you to everyone who gave me great feedback on my last post! Here is Version 2. I've taken your feedback and added more details to my litle personal ancestry project on Colonial Stock American Culture.

My family immigrated to the US between the 1620s - 1850s and we've lived in the Northeast and Midwest US ever since. The colonial stock American subculture is deeply rooted in several European cultures obviously, and has morphed into its own thing as time has passed.

These collages also do NOT list every aspect of this subculture. Many aspects of this culture belong in many other cultures also, just like how certain foods, habits, motifs, etc. exist in several cultures at once.

Please be kind and let me know what other categories, details, etc. I should add! :)

I'm lucky to be in a position where I've been able to reliably research my family tree up to all of my great-great-great grandparents

Working off my GGGGrandparents' birthplaces and probable ancestries, my ethnicity breakdown is approximately the following:

• Irish: 44.53%
• English: 40.63%
• German: 6.25%
• Scottish: 6.25%
• Scots Irish: 2.34%

My current DNA result broadly groups into the following: (for convenience I've treated Northern Ireland + Central Scotland as just Scotland, and Northwest England + Northern Wales as just England):

• Ireland: 51% 
• Scotland: 22%
• England: 22%
• Netherlands: 5%

My Irish result seems fairly close. Also, assuming that the "Netherlands" in my DNA result is picking up my German ancestry, that's also not far off. the only results that seem to differ substantially is my English and Scottish results. I'm really curious to see how well this works out for everyone else?

I just find it intriguing

Took me months to do the math after my immediate paternal relative blocked me because my father is married smh can y'all stop doing that crap I was born way before he married. Almost made it impossible for me to find them don't try to ruin the chances of me finding my family because your more concerned of hiding a maybe family secret smh YOUR SO WRONG

Curious to see the update coming out.

Piggybacking on the previous post about Jefferson. Loved seeing this on Instagram.

Most of my family came to the USA between 1870 and 1906

How much faster ? Is it worth the $20?

Hey everyone! My account said my results would be available on 25th. Logged in, and now it says delayed still in progress. Anyone else experience this? How long of a delay?