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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Update
« on: Wednesday 27 September 23 21:49 BST (UK) »
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!
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!