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Have you done the DNA test through Ancestry?

If so, how shocked were you by the results?
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Faust76 · 46-50, M
I did 23andMe as well, here's my regions of ancestry:
This is gonna be so useful for my genealogy research y'all, now I know exactly where to look for ancestors! Granted it's lot more useful for that to the average person, most of my matches have just one or two countries, lol. Of course 23andMe has percentages and sub-regions as well, but sparing you those.
AncestryDNA uses different sub-division & definition for the ethnicities they recognize. This is from my OLD report, which is actually really good match to my 23andMe results.
All of the DNA testing companies have had a tendency of dropping the "low confidence" results off their reports, likely in part due to white supremacists claiming they're adding those to push an anti-white agenda. 23andMe, AncestryDNA, FTDNA and MyHeritage all used to show the Native American for me for example, but today only MyHeritage does. Because it's 1% I don't fret, it's basically whether you even show 1% or not, but for the sake of curiosity I wish they had the option. My NEW report from AncestryDNA, the one with low confidence regions dropped, is unfortunately bunch of bull that can't physically match known ancestry. Most people are saying the new report is better, so I don't know what's up with that (Though I can understand it if they've accidentally used me as part of the reference population) and have contacted customer support to no avail.
Whee, now I don't have to write a public review :p
Jeephikelove · 46-50, F
Oh wow, you’ve really done your research. I’m thinking of doing one with 23andMe as well now to see the comparison. @Faust76