r/AncestryDNA

Hi all,

first of all so relieved to have my results, fellow 29ers know how painstaking it has been. Now whilst I was waiting I had been looking, at other people’s results on Reddit during the update, particularly people from south asian decent as that’s what I hail from, and I’ve seen how fragmented and just plain wrong the results have been.

my family has been in sindh for generations, as ethnic Sindhis, with the new reference population, I was excited as before it would’ve only been termed indo-gangetic plain. I have one grandfather that is baloch, I know there is no reference population for this, could it be the hazara, Pashtun, Kashmir and persian percentages I have, are the representation of his dna. For further clarification , I know he is fully baloch, as we have family that still goes back to his village in Iran.

just trying to make sense of these results

Tribe: Canbeg

Welp.. I wonder why a Kurd from my tribe would score such high central Anatolian result (spoiler alert: my tribe got exiled here n there to central Anatolia so I assume AncestryDNA clustered up alot of Kurdish and Turkish references into this reference panel.)

I’m really dissapointed they couldn’t add Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Kurdish regions as we got many Kurdish references in modern age DNA database.

Not like it matters for me as I experiment with my DNA file so I already know what the best results are for me but imagine someone who doesn’t want to do analyzing their DNA file through different calculators, or someone who doesn’t have a clue how to interpret these results and think they might be Turkish instead…

It’s really confusing for Kurds and also for Turks and other groups who get hidden in these broad regions. So ancestryDNA could you actually add proper regions for these multi ethnic countries and not just add 1-2 and just leave (FYI; They added pontic Greek regional group, Assyrian, AND EVEN EASTERN ANATOLIAN ARMENIANS?!? So it deffo isn’t because “it’s similar dna component makes it harddd” if they could add all this…)

I think they’re just scared to add specific Kurdish region(s) due to a certain group(s) of people.. Like it’s so obvious cuz cmon.. NORTHERN IRAQ? And it shows the KRG region. Really dissapointed in this company that they catered to those people due to being scared of receiving hate.

Y-DNA:J-CTS5368
mtDNA: J1b

Congratulations to everyone for their new results!

Haven’t been on Ancestry in about a year and hopped on earlier to see if there’s been any updates to my DNA origins for fun, and saw this under my older sister’s match. How reliable is this result? There’s always been some… doubts with my sisters and me, and we’ve always joked about one of us having a different dad but seeing this especially for my oldest sister is well. I’m not really sure how to process it.

The update is way better for me, those massive swings were needed. We know of some Armenian heritage so Western Turkey makes sense (though it's higher than it should be). Belgium is the only odd one out.

Old vs New

Finally got my updated results back! It’s crazy seeing how my old 84% Mali score got refined into a massive 89% Sierra Leone breakout with a specific Mali-Mandé connection. Included my old results at the end for comparison. Drop your thoughts!

Before a mini-update several weeks ago, it said she could also be my grand-aunt as well. Not sure why it changed later on.

How does this even make sense? I already have a living grandmother on that side of the family. My father looks very much like her. Plus this lady is a centenarian and my living grandmother is in her 70s.

New results vs Old ones.
Sad they’ve opted to combine em all into to Burundi/Rwanda category was hoping for a better break down of the former Nilo/Cushitic groups

Exactly a 50/50 split between parents, so I guess I don’t need to pay for that breakdown.

Curious if results will change, the percentages are so small I am not sure how accurate it really is.

I’m Americo Liberian and Mandingo. My biggest gripe is them erasing the southeast Asian component that’s been steady through the years, hope it’s restored next update. Glad to see more detail than the previous vague “Mali” category but I think 23andMe is still the most accurate.

Questions were apparently about their paid memberships. I answered saying that I used to be a member, my age and the size of my family tree (100+) and was then given a message saying I am not their target group for this campaign.

My dad was born and raised on O’ahu. His father was Puerto Rican born and raised on O’ahu to parents from Puerto Rico. His mother was Azorean born and raised in Hilo, Big Island with roots going back a bit further in Hawai’i between 1883-1885.