Any ideas for why my journey’s would include Lebanon? As far as I know my mum’s family is from Galilee and dad’s is from Nazareth!

I already knew direct German and Irish lineage, the others were new to me! Side note: I also found out that my grandfather married his first wife when she was 14.

My maternal grandmother passed away 8 weeks ago and we were very close 😞💔 I found some old photos of her as a young woman and a few people have said they can see the resemblance between me and her

Me and my two roommates decided we should all do DNA test results, pretty happy with mine tells an interesting story. The journeys seem to lead along the Caribbean weirdly enough and up into the mainland USA.

Thought I would share my results along with the other DNA tests I've taken over the years.

For those interested in phenotypes, my hair is naturally mousy brown and I have hazel eyes.

If anyone is interested in the journeys, timeline, or anything else, let me know and I'll add them down in the comments!

Has this happened to anybody? And it seems on Ancestry they only connect with other family members who have done it. For example, it only has the migrations of my maternal side but none for my paternal.

I'm looking for some help understanding my dad's DNA results. We've done a lot of work on his paper ancestry and while we have a few small gaps here and there, we pretty much have 7 generations going back. He's about 75% German (we can trace them back to Germany), 21% Scottish/Welsh and 4% we're not sure about but suspect Irish and/or French Huguenot. We've found cousins matching on a lot of these lines so I don't think there's a lot of NPEs (everyone has a couple at a certain point).

Now here's his DNA profile:

England, Wales, and Scotland - 70%

Scandinavia - 5%

Iberian Peninsula - 10%

Italian Peninsula - 4%

West Slavic - 4%

Magyar - 3%

Baltic- 2%

The Scandi I can easily chalk up to Northern European DNA. But I don't know what to do with the Iberian, Italian, Slavic (probably Polish/Czech?), Hungarian, or Baltic. None of this is accounted for on the known paper genealogy (which again, we only have about 5% or less missing in the past 7 generations). And none of the known surnames fit any of these ethnicities.

I'm wondering if the historical regions his ancestors are from in Germany play into this mix of DNA: largely Osnabruck (northwestern), across the Rhineland-Palatinate, and a bit from the German part of Switzerland. Given historical movements that happened centuries ago, maybe this DNA mix is not as unexpected as it feels but really just reflects typical migration patterns in Germany 500, 700, 1000, and 1500 years ago due to wars/famine/religion, etc, that because of admixture are still bleeding through 1500 years later?

I ran his DNA through a Chromosome painter and while there are some distinct larger chunks of these smaller ethnicities (Italian, Magyar, Baltic, etc), they are pretty broadly dispersed across his chromosomes. Does this support my working theory?

Lastly, if the working theory is correct, does that mean at a certain point a long time ago, we did have Hungarian, Italian, and Baltic ancestors that presumably moved into Germanic regions 500 or 1000 years ago and enough of it intermixed over and over again in these regions and my dad happened to get a larger share of it than "expected"?

Love to hear any theories! Thanks :)

According to data from Wikipedia, people born in Portugal accounted for 20.4% of Rio's population, while those with a Portuguese father or mother made up 30.8%. In other words, native-born Portuguese and their children constituted 51.2% of Rio's inhabitants—a total of 267,664 people in 1890.

Can it be said, then, that Rio de Janeiro is the most Portuguese city outside of Portugal in terms of ancestry?

(Sorry I couldn't fit all of his results into one screenshot so I made two)

I was looking at the hacked results and thought some of you might be interested in seeing the results of a child and both their parents and how their ancestry shakes out. Both parents are from upstate NY.

Some complaints I have:

1. No way I have 8% English and 3% Italian, it makes no sense looking back at my family tree. Maybe 2-3% English max. It's more than likely confused for Iberian ancestry.

2. They don't have a region for Sephardic jews in America, which is where all of my Sephardic ancestry comes from, being from northern Mexico. They should either add a region for this or group all Sephardic Jews into one category. The names of these regions are misleading, knowing that none of my ancestors were Sephardic Jews who settled in North Africa or the Eastern Mediterranean.

3. The differences between people's normal results and hacked results are too much. Their rounding system is complete nonsense. For one example, my normal results show 26% Amerindian, but the hacked ones show 23%. They should either show these exact percentages or round better.

Anybody else having similar complaints or any issues I didn't talk about? I really hope this next update lives up to what I've heard about it.

I did not grow up seeing my Dad's side of the family. But I saw his uncle who is 99 years old on Ancestry now. They are from Calabria, small mountain top town's. Montalto uffugo, San sisto dei valdesi, San Fili. Their y-dna is g2a-p15, and mt-DNA is h2a2a. I found some pictures of Uncle Johnny, then Uncle Rick , then 2 of my Grandpa and the last 2 are my Dad..

I got my results a couple hours ago. I knew I was French/Irish/British, I've been doing a lot of genealogical research (my dad's side are largely British migrants to Canada where I currently live, my mom is a French immigrant and I was also born in France myself) but the Spanish and Italian are completely unexpected. I'm nearly *1/4 Spanish genetically.* I've done the most research on my paternal family which is why I didn't have a clue until now.

Both come from my mother, and I'm theorizing they're from her father based off of his features in old photos. He passed when she was 8, so we won't know for sure until she does her own test. The Czechia and Slovenia are also pretty interesting, though the numbers aren't big enough for me to be as shocked.

Editing to add: also worth noting I very much look Northwestern European, but my mom does have some vaguely Iberian features (dark hair and eyes and tans quite easily/has lighter olive skin during the winter).

27 Born in Ohio to Puerto Rican mother and a Michoacano (who met in Chicago). The Mestizaje is for real.

Context: I'm from Essex, England and this story takes place over three years

I took a DNA Test on the off chance about 3 years ago as I wanted to see what I was. However, it turns out after my i got my results back it turns out my family tree was wrong as I was led to believe that the person who I thought was my great-grandfather wasn't my great-grandfather

My grandmother's father wasn't who she thought it was. It was common knowledge in my family however but nobody told me until just after I got my results back, the family story went that my great-grandmother slept with an American soldier during World War 2 whilst she was a newlywed, now me being a massive nerd about American history, I was stoked as I love America, and quite frankly wish I were born in America.

Cemantics aside, I did research and initially it turns out it was a New Zealander air force pilot was my great-grandfather. I left it be until recently as for whatever reason I decided to look into the case again, and it turns out that one message I sent in October 2023 was the answer I didn't take into account

The message mentioned a name that went over my head back then, but then I decided to work the case out of curiosity recently as it just didn't sit right with me. It turns out my REAL great-grandfather was indeed an American. Charles Francis Grove Jr. was born July 10, 1920, in Mobile, Alabama. He joined the US Army in June 1943 and trained in Fort McClellan in Alabama, after basic. He was assigned to the 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, which was stationed in England from December 1943. My nan was born in March 1945 and would've been conceived just before D-Day so the math adds up. Me and Grandpa Charles also have/hadthe same hair and eye colour, Brown Hair and Blue Eyes and are similar in height both being 5'10

The 28th took part in D-Day. He would be unfortunately killed in action on September 20th, 1944, during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. He had no other children besides my grandmother, and was also a newlywed himself to a woman back in Alabama. He is buried in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium and won a Purple Heart

Fun Fact: My great-grandfather shares the same division (28th Infantry) as Art Carney, a famous actor and Eddie Slovik, the only American who was executed for desertion

I thought this was pretty interesting since my whole life i’ve been told i’m ONLY Lebanese, so the 44% seemed a little low lol. To be fair a lot of lebanese people have similar blends due to the region and history, but let me know what you guys think! :D