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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: Janethepain on Tuesday 26 September 23 16:30 BST (UK)
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It seems like 3 weeks ago , at least, that there was talk, and Ancestry notifications of Ancestry DNA upgrade coming soon, which most seem to have assumed was regarding an upgrade to ethnicity estimates ( I think, I am currently very busy caring for my 97 year old Dad, and my only genealogy work done in the last 6 months has been checking my matches, and skimming this site/ facebook groups in case I have missed something important!). I didnt see any messages on my ancestry account on the odd times I went on. Have I missed something? I do now have a paid ancestry account, though not using it much at the moment! My Ancestry/ethnicity estimates are still July 2022. The only change I have seen recently, is that new matches are coming through with maternal/paternal, and I assume occasionally both or possibly some still undetermined, but I got the impression that this happened before the notification. Can anyone update me?
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I think you seem up to date, Jane. They were pushing traits for a while. I've only had a handful of decent matches recently - mostly 15 and below!
Sorry about your Dad.
Take care.
Gadget.
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On the DNA Story page there is the following message:
Ethnicity Update - Coming Soon
Our Sept. 2023 update will add 4 new regions and big improvements in 2 regions. Check back soon for your update!
William
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Thanks Gadget, & William, thanks - will have a look at the DNA story page! Life has it's moments, and this is one for me! ;) But, hey, it is not too bad.
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On the upside, the DNA Story page still calls it a September update,so within the next 4 days then. I live in hope!
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Does this mean I am going to become part Portuguese?
It is just about the only country in Europe that I have not been Ethnically linked too in the six years since we took the test.
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Maybe I'll be a Viking again !
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Yes, I lost my Irish connection too, much to my surprise with Kellys and Bryants way back in my tree.
Last time I gained a considerable amount of Welsh which I was most surprised by having discovered, what I thought were my Welsh roots, were in fact from Somerset area to at least 1500s
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I hope I keep my 2% Norwegian when the latest update arrives. Channelling my inner Viking here 😉
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I have now received the update and for me not a great deal has changed. Being red green colour blind the thing I struggle with is the colours!
William
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Very disappointed, no change in my ethnicity estimate, or my cousin on my mum's side's estimate either. Dad's 97% Irish/3% Scottish has become 94%/6%!
Of course I'm not really disappointed, I am assuming that they have got the distinguishing of differences between Irish and Scottish as accurate as it is going to be for a while, which is why my 79% Irish/21% Scottish has not changed. My cousin's maternal side sort of matches mine, with her estimate reflecting 46% Irish and 4% Scottish, obviously a lot less Scottish than I am (proportionally), that's sibling differences for you! Her Father is completely different being from the very southeasterly corner of Poland, just over the border from Lviv/Lvov in Ukraine, from him she is 45% Eastern Europe & Russia, with 5% Baltic. That hasn't changed either!
Out of interest, and this is not new with this current update, my cousins communities are amazingly accurate for where her Dad grew up, picking out the 2 county towns, between which he was born in a tiny village. I have been impressed by this, especially as you might not imagine that many in Poland would be being tested or becoming part of the necessary reference groups there, either!
On one hand you would imagine that such a part of 'back of beyond' rural eastern Poland might have had a comparatively stable population, with few moving about and away to complicate matters, if it wasn't for the fact that my uncle and all of the young men living there were ordered to run for their lives when the Nazi's approached their world in late 1939. And of course, there are the 'unpleasant' things that happened during and after the war, when the Soviet block took control. So much for a potentially stable population!
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Mine has not changed much, and I wasn't expecting many significant changes really. I imagine maybe the update is perhaps focusing on previously underserved areas of the globe?
Previous result
England & Northwestern Europe = 60%
Scotland = 26%
Ireland = 9%
Sweden & Denmark = 5%
Updated result
England & Northwestern Europe = 56%
Scotland = 24%
Ireland = 10%
Sweden & Denmark = 6%
Wales = 4%
So I've basically picked up a bit of Wales. I think my results are pretty standard for someone who is from the North of England.
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Mine has been updated as well.
I am now Twice the Viking I was before.
Less British.
More Italian
More Greek.
Probably all change again next year.
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More Irish and less Scottish!
Other areas the same -Wales, Norway and Sweden/Denmark.
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Small changes. Still 74% English but Swedish/Danish 9% German 8% with Scots down from 8% to 3%. Irish 4% and Welsh 2% unchanged
My wife's has switched 3% from Swedish/Danish to English; now 89% English, 9% Swedish/Danish and 2% Scots
All our traceable Ancestry is from Southern England
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Mine has no change at all, but it definitely says it's now the Sept 2023 update
OH has gone from
England & Northwestern Europe 71%
Sweden & Denmark 24%
Ireland 3%
Wales 2%
to
England & Northwestern Europe 68%
Sweden & Denmark 14%
Norway 8%
Germanic Europe 3%
Ireland 3%
Wales 2%
Scotland 2%
He's lost 3% on England and NW Europe - has that become Germanic Europe? And lost a whopping 10% on Sweden and Denmark, which seems to be the new Norway and Scotland added together
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I'm new here, but I do have a fair amount of information on my family, on both sides.
I undertook the DNA test some years ago and have mixed success tracing relatives through that route. My roots on my Father's side are Northern Irish and Scottish, while on my Mother's side are almost exclusively Irish (although there is a hint of Welsh in there somewhere that I have yet to trace).
To be honest, the principal purpose of this post is to start the process of writing three posts so that I can contact at least two people on this platform to whom I am distantly related!
So if 'Janethepain' and Edinburgh86 are reading this, we're distant cousins... Your GGGGrandparents Daniel Lamont and Catherine Darroch are my GGGrandparents!
I'll be following various threads here on Rootschat and contribute as best I can.