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Offline stevemiller

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You wot ???!!! updated Ancestry ethnicity estimate
« on: Friday 25 May 18 13:41 BST (UK) »
I’ve noticed my ethnicity estimate at Ancestry has just changed.

Before I was:
GB (Southern England)   35%         
Europe West           25%             
Ireland/Scotland/Wales    15%            
Scandinavia             12%
Iberia               10%

Now I’m:
England and Wales (Southern England)   90%
Ireland and Scotland                         7%
Norway                            3%

A bit drastic, I think, even for a bit of fun.

At least in the real world the matching does work and some mysteries are being solved….

West Berks- Appleton Bailey Barlow Bartholomew Carter/Cook Childs Corderoy Coxhead Froud Fryzer Griffin Harrison Head Noke Richmond Salter Sawyer Shrimpton Sidwell Stratton Stroud Wernham Wheatland
South Bucks- Miller Mitchell Horton
Cornwall- Aunger Baker Grigg Luxton
Hants- Hine/Hind
South Oxon- Applebee Barlow Clark Edginton Elliott Fryzer Simmonds Toby
Suffolk- Chilvers Darby Philpot Russell Stone
Surrey- Edwards Knight Lanaway
Sussex- English Exeter Jeffery Knight Mugridge
Wilts Bishop

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Re: You wot ???!!! updated Ancestry ethnicity estimate
« Reply #1 on: Friday 25 May 18 14:19 BST (UK) »
 ;D

I notice that Ancestry did a recalculation this month!

I've decided after only a month of getting DNA results that these estimates are to be regarded with a pinch of sea salt. 

From my family research, I am predominantly Welsh/English/Scottish with a touch of Irish. These are the results of three sites estimates:

Ancestry
Ireland/Scotland/Wales
64%
Europe West
15%
Scandinavia
14%
Great Britain - (Wales & the West Midlands
Northern England & the Midlands)
5%
Europe South
<1%
Finland/Northwest Russia
<1%

My Heritage
English
50.1%
Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
27.5%
Scandinavian
22.4%


FTDNA
British Isles
77%
West and Central Europe
19%
East Europe
< 2%
Southeast Europe
< 2%
Scandinavia
< 1%
South America
< 1%
Census &  BMD information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and GROS - www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

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Re: You wot ???!!! updated Ancestry ethnicity estimate
« Reply #2 on: Friday 25 May 18 15:51 BST (UK) »
Ours have been updated too.

I've lost my Melanesian and my OH is now 2% European Jewish.

They are to be taken with a pinch of salt and will change as more people test their DNA.

Interesting though.
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
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Re: You wot ???!!! updated Ancestry ethnicity estimate
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 26 May 18 06:05 BST (UK) »
.... and this morning my estimates are back to the original !
West Berks- Appleton Bailey Barlow Bartholomew Carter/Cook Childs Corderoy Coxhead Froud Fryzer Griffin Harrison Head Noke Richmond Salter Sawyer Shrimpton Sidwell Stratton Stroud Wernham Wheatland
South Bucks- Miller Mitchell Horton
Cornwall- Aunger Baker Grigg Luxton
Hants- Hine/Hind
South Oxon- Applebee Barlow Clark Edginton Elliott Fryzer Simmonds Toby
Suffolk- Chilvers Darby Philpot Russell Stone
Surrey- Edwards Knight Lanaway
Sussex- English Exeter Jeffery Knight Mugridge
Wilts Bishop


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Re: You wot ???!!! updated Ancestry ethnicity estimate
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 26 May 18 07:27 BST (UK) »
Nothing too surprising in my ethnicity, 71% Southern England.  Fair enough ancestors came from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.

Sons is a different story.

Great Britain58% (Southern England)
 Europe East 27%
 Europe West 5%
  Low Confidence Regions
 Finland/Northwest Russia 4%
 European Jewish 2%
 Iberian Peninsula 1%
 Scandinavia 1%

His father was born in Scotland, grandmother at least 3 generations from Scotland on all sides.  Grandfather was from Poland.
James -Victoria, Australia originally from Keynsham, Somerset.
Janes - Keynsham and Bristol area.
Heale/Hale - Keynsham, Somerset
Vincent - Illogan/Redruth, Cornwall.  Moved to Sculcoates, Yorkshire; Grass Valley, California; Timaru, New Zealand and Victoria, Australia.
Williams somewhere in Wales - he kept moving
Ellis - Anglesey

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