It’s also ethical to update the test results when the accuracy is improved, but in doing so, for my family, it’s made us far less geo-genetically diverse. It’s the right thing to review how the tests are carried out and seek improvements to scientific accuracy. Obviously, refining techniques in the galloping field of science is ultimately a wonderful thing. This meant that for 5 of us, the DNA ‘Ethnicity’ of us all was about to get far “less interesting”. This gave me 6 sets of DNA results, but between the 5th and the 6th set, Ancestry updated it’s result data. My Father’s AncestryDNA Ethnicity result. Over the next year, I also coaxed my father in 2016, my mother’s sister, my father’s sister in 2017 whilst she was visiting from the USA, and eventually cornered my sister and via team pressure from my parents, she did the dribble for our sakes in May 2018. My AncestryDNA ‘Ethnicity Estimate’ results and map in 2015. When the results came back about 6 weeks later, we were pleased, and I took great delight in mocking my mother – a Daily Mail reader – that she was part Eastern European, and therefore every time she bought a copy of that rag, she was in fact hurting herself! We were both amused by the idea of being DNA tested, and finding out whether we might be Scandinavian. I remember unceremoniously dribbling into my little tube thing back in 2015, and encouraging my mother to do the same. Regardless of the changes to your DNA reporting and ethnicity estimates, and the accuracy of the information you see, remember this: Those family history fans among us who scrutinise less and accept more willingly with a gleeful click, may ultimate find this feature to be a parasite. She never left the fenland of Cambridgeshire, and the censuses, baptisms, marriage, banns, and burial records also on Ancestry, alongside my tree, has all the evidence to prove it wrong. Ancestry StoryScout feature inspired by a parallel universe. Here, my 2x Great Grandmother Elizabeth Howlett, a Suffolk (UK) born daughter of a labourer, who married and lived with her Cambridgeshire (UK) farmer husband, widowed mother, and her many children, is given a fictional story of how she passed through Castle Garden as an immigrant in the USA. It’s always good to get an update on data and accuracy, although Ancestry’s new StoryScout feature very clearly needs some refinement. My testers 2020 updated Ancestry DNA results.Īncestry have taken to YouTube to announce this update to their DNA data.īarry Starr announces the AncestryDNA 2020 update. Some of the regions have been broken down to a more granular level, which allows us to see Scotland and Ireland separately, and Wales extracted from England and Northwestern Europe. The change has altered the results significantly, but this is a positive thing. With Ancestry’s new announcement in September 2020 that the results are changing ‘soon’, it’s possible to click through and see the changes now. The five original sets of DNA estimates from before the 2018 update, alongside my sister’s later set of results. It’s only right that as more data comes in, the interpretation of that data gets more accurate. Meanwhile, my paternal aunt’s Irish DNA vanished in favour of Swedish DNA (my father – her brother) also gained Swedish origins.īack in 2016-ish, the results looked fairly mixed, but the categorisation of the regions were very broad. The Norwegian DNA origins reappeared, and my father’s 4% had shifted into double figures. My 2019 AncestryDNA results for my testers have become much more diverse again. My other family testers’ results did too, and it appears that the data surrounding Scandinavia was either increased in volume or had been refined. In August 2019, their next update caused my results to diversify. Most of those remained in Cambridgeshire and the wider East Anglia (something that Ancestry has highlighted in their results for a while). AncestryDNA ‘ethnicity’ split after the September 2018 update.ĭespite this ‘boring’ outcome, it actually made it match the documented research much better given that in the research I’ve done – which for some branches covers ~400 years, not one of my ancestors has been born or married outside of England, let alone the UK. I lost all of my more interesting overseas location regions, and became 100% boring. Ancestry have updated their DNA results a few times now, and this has changed my ‘ethnicity estimate’ somewhat each time.īack in 2018, the change resulted in what looked like a really boring set of results for myself and my five testers.
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