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Reporting back.

Interesting results. OH is still in bed so I can't report on his but my results coincide with my research quite well. Apart from the fact Ancestry have included Wales and Scotland in "Ireland" when you look at the map. I'm assuming they meant Celtic.

Europe 99%
Africa North 1%

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Europe West 35%

Scandinavia 30%

Ireland 22% (they meant Celt)

Iberian Peninsula 9%


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Trace

Great Britain 3%

Europe East < 1%

My paternal grandmother had a name known to be "Viking" and they lived on the east coast where there is a lot of Scandinavian ancestry. My maternal line is Welsh, hence Celtic.

The AncestryDNA test is an" Autosoma"l test which means it covers both male and female lines.

They have recently changed some of the "markers" they use which they claim helps narrow down the range of errors.

As Annx says you can upload your Raw Data to the free Gedmatch site where there are several "tools" to help find more matches

The option to upload the NEW version of AncestryDNA to the FamilytreeDNA site is no longer available since the changes.

I did mine last year !

Wherever you have the analysis done you can put the raw DNA information on a free site called GEDmatch and meet up with relatives who have had their analysis done elsewhere.

I did it about 18 months ago and the results were interesting. It also kind of confirmed some of my origins as I'd traced my dad's maternal line to Yorkshire in the 1300s where I read that family of the same name fought on the borders against the Scots and were known as the 'Irish Vikings'. In later generations, some had bought land and lived in Ireland too before some returned to England. My direct line then became Quakers in Bedfordshire and then settled in America, with later generations then returning to England again. I didn't have all the documentary evidence to support this and my parents never mentioned Irish ancestry in the family or Quakers or all this movement so I was dubious I was on the right track at all..

Imagine my surprise when my DNA test matched Irish DNA the most, (my mid point on the range given was 48%) followed by Scandinavian DNA (my midpoint being 18%! ) This fitted rather well with the Irish vikings I'd found and obviously is where my blue eyes come from!

You are given a list on their site of others who have taken their test and who have some matching DNA and may well be related and they suggest how close the connection is eg 2nd cousin, 4-6th cousin. I haven't done much work on this yet, but have identified 2 rellies, 1 from my father's side and one from my mother's side and who lives in Australia. She doesn't have a tree on line, but we were still able to work out how we were related by telling each other the surnames in our families. That has led to a useful exchange of info since.

What you have to realise is that they can't be accurate going very far back due to the randomness of inheritance with more and more ancestors being involved. Therefore they give you a range of percentages for each geographical area your DNA has matches with. You could be anywhere within the range they give but they give you the middle percentage as an average. Eg You could be in a range of British DNA between say 20-40% so they show you as the average, 30%.

I just sent off mine and my husband's. I'll let you know.

I keep seeing the posting on FB for Ancestry D.N A..

It says that it now includes female as well as male lines

Has anyone taken up their offer and what do you think?