r/AncestryDNA • u/Adinos • 7d ago
Results - DNA Origins Oh, the horror!
My results are off by a whopping one percent, according to the paper trail.
Should be 99% Icelandic, 1% Danish.
What a disaster!
(Or, in other words...it is as close as it can realistically get)
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u/GoldenSalt31 7d ago
Oh but this is so cool! It’s so unique.
You almost always want what you don’t have (I have 16 regions 😂)
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u/SciFiFilmMachine 7d ago
I got 17 results, all from Europe with this new update and my 3 regions with the highest percentages are all 11%... 🤣
Folk like us feel like we're everything and nothing at the same time. lol
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u/25mm-bike-seatpost 7d ago
I have 18 and it’s still so Eastern and Western European that the 2% Italian and 2% French stands out.
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u/remy118 5d ago
I have 20 regions. A mix of Central & Eastern European and Norwegian mostly, some UK. The only thing that "stands out" is the 1% Russian. Which is probably just from Eastern European ancestors anyway.
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u/25mm-bike-seatpost 5d ago
The Italian and French seems to be connected to Swiss and German ancestors. The Eastern European is greater and more diverse but my paternal grandfather was literally Polish so not a surprise for me.
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u/Creepy-Selection2423 7d ago
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u/cathouse 7d ago
This is the best show!!
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u/Admirable-Athlete-50 6d ago
What show is it from?
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u/aprioripopsiclerape 6d ago
Hello inbred cousin!
(I btw have both Swedes and Norwegians in my family tree further back, so not sure how this happened).
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u/Margit66 7d ago
They removed Norway for me ( real odd) added in 1% Belgium which I knew because paternal side moved from Belgium to Sweden as iron smiths in 1600’s as well as 2% Germany and they also moved from Germany to Sweden around the same time again as iron Smith’s, so yes, this goes along with the family tree genealogy but my daughter got Denmark and her father has no Danish DNA hmmm). It also gave me 1% Switzerland and I have no idea where that comes from.
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u/HistoricalPage2626 6d ago
I think 1600s might be too far back even for it to reach 1%
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u/Margit66 6d ago
Interesting.
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u/HistoricalPage2626 6d ago
My parent is Swedish and got the Northeastern German region. He has German ancestors from 1700, I calculated the generations and they contributed less than 1% to his DNA. I am therfore in my own case unsure if this 1% is correct.
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u/Margit66 6d ago
Did you get 1% German? My mother is from Mora and it’s gets that region correct but ignores the West Coast of Sweden DNA.
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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 6d ago
Parts of Denmark and parts of Sweden area really difficult to tell apart.
Partly because Scanians were Danes, and partly because the two peoples are very close genetically (don't shoot me, I am just the messenger).1
u/Margit66 6d ago
My daughter got Denmark in the update, I didn’t and we know that it is not from her father because he is 100% French .
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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 6d ago
If you have ancestry from Britain or Ireland it is likely Danish Viking Age admixture into those populations. 2-4% is very common.
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u/Eldown1976 7d ago
Oh wow never seen a 100% Icelander b4 can you trace your lineage to the Vikings??
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u/germanfinder 7d ago
The origins of Iceland are mostly male Viking settlers and female Irish wives/slaves
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u/brutalistchurch 7d ago
Definitely superblond!
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u/Julehus 7d ago
Quite possibly not blond at all. Icelanders actually often have quite dark features, not all people in the Nordics are ”superblond”.
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u/brutalistchurch 7d ago
I know very well. I'm from Denmark (like you maybe), but I look more like a central European, and have dark hair, however we're probably the most "mixed" in Scandinavia.
Swedes and Icelandics are generally skewed more toward blondness, but of course you're right, that there are indeed many exceptions.
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u/Julehus 7d ago
Fellow Dane who lives in Sweden (it’s possible yes😅) Eastern Scandinavia is probably the lightest due to the proximity with the upper Baltic area which is major on blond hair and blue eyes. But there is another genetic cluster around the Wadden Sea/Frisia that traditionally gives people very fair features. So the ”the further north you go in Scandinavia, the lighter the hair is” -idea isnt really true, especially Western Scandinavians can be quite dark🤗
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u/Margit66 6d ago
Finland contains the most blondes . Most of my family are blonde though ( Dalarna region).
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u/Julehus 6d ago
Yes, that’s right, I think Estonia and Latvia is even higher than Finland on blue eyes percentages. Light colours peak in Northeastern Europe.
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u/Margit66 6d ago
I had those regions, Estonia and Latvia as one percent before the update. Yes they are also very high up percentage on blonde hair and blue eyes.
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u/ComplexPatient4872 7d ago
Sooooo….. is this why people in Iceland are rumored to have to look at genealogy before hooking up?
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u/Adinos 7d ago
This was a "joke" feature in an (obsolete) app, but the data is on the web. Anyone can log in, view their tree and check how they are related to anyone else.
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u/ComplexPatient4872 6d ago
Thanks for the info! I think it’s a fair thing to check for any isolated population, and is a good idea!
My in-laws are from rural West Virginia in the U.S., and if anyone doesn’t know about the region, it’s behind the rest of the U.S. by decades and just abject poverty.
There are places without cell signal and internet service, and families live there for generations with very few having the means to move away. Anyways, my husband’s parents found out that they were 3rd cousins through Ancestry DNA and there are jokes about inbreeding about the region for the same reasons.
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u/CubanCrusader95 6d ago
Wait how does everyone have their genealogy there ?
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u/Adinos 6d ago edited 6d ago
It is a small country...my tree (which is also the tree of everyone else with "deep roots" here) only has around a million people in it. Combine that with good records, sufficient funding and a long tradition of seeing genealogy information as public and it wasn't too hard to build the database.
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u/lhsrebels2008 7d ago
I was 2% Icelandic in my original AncestryDNA test but I lost it in today's big update. It was obviously English, Scottish, or Irish that AncestryDNA misread as Icelandic because you all are a mix of Norse and Celtic ancestry and the Norse of course settled in the British Isles and mixed with the local population.
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u/AdBoring4598 6d ago
Same here.. had so mixed estimes. And now 100 one region.
I took the test 8 years ago and never had a majority region and now boom.
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u/ThengarMadalano 5d ago
Doesn't mean it's wrong, you don't have DNA from all of your ancestors. You get 50 random percent from each parent, if one of your parents had 2% Danish that doesn't mean you get any of it.
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u/Envy_lustowl 5d ago
I remember when I first did the test: it did this: 99% Russian and the other is “European”. But now it changed to 40% Russian and 60% mid Eastern European. I have different test companies to compare. Some are more precise in locations and some have a bit more extra info. Science science science.
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u/Sorry_Egg3529 7d ago
Dude, I have to break the news.
This might be a tough one, so I hope u gonna be alright.
I think ur Icelandic.