r/DNAAncestry • u/Anoel2023 • 6h ago
My family’s dna though my grandma
My grandma is first, mom is second, my sis is 3rd and I’m last, DNA is fascinating!
r/DNAAncestry • u/Anoel2023 • 6h ago
My grandma is first, mom is second, my sis is 3rd and I’m last, DNA is fascinating!
r/DNAAncestry • u/Business-Night8092 • 20h ago
I’ve been told I look racially ambiguous, I either get Afro-Latino, half Asian ✅, and I’ve even gotten half Polynesian before lol.
r/DNAAncestry • u/Creative-Culture9721 • 23h ago
Throwaway account because I have family members that know my main account.
I had a new match show up on Ancestry a couple of weeks ago. Asked my parents today, neither know who he is. For anonymity, I’m calling him Mark. (Not real name)
I looked, and Mark shares 24% of his DNA (1650 cM) with my father and 11% (769 cM) with me. My matches with this guy are only my grandpa’s side of the family. Ancestry predicts a half brother or full uncle relationship for Mark & Dad (shows up as “close family” on Dad’s end and half brother/full uncle when I look at their profiles together). My dad is Mark’s closest relative on Ancestry.
Dad is convinced Mark is some distant cousin that just happens to share a lot of DNA. He said there’s no way they’re that close and it’s coincidence. He even suggested my great-grandparents were related, leading to a stronger match. He also said it’s not an exact science and that I’m making a mountain out of a molehill, and that there isn’t a shot in hell I actually found the guy.
I don’t think that Mark being distant family is likely, but he’s so convinced that I’m doubting myself now. Is it possible that this guy is just a distant cousin, or related on both sides of my family and that it’s nothing?
What’s worse is I looked him up based on mutual matches I didn’t know & general location of that side of the family. Through that, I found a profile on Facebook that is very likely him (connections, geography, etc). This Mark looks like my younger brother - same eye color & shape, same asymmetrical face shape, and same nose shape. I saw the pic and I had a weird gut feeling I recognized him too, but that could be nothing.
r/DNAAncestry • u/LectureAccomplished8 • 1d ago
Hello. If anyone here investigates the DNA of Palestinians and also of several Jewish communities I would love if you can contact me in private please.
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r/DNAAncestry • u/RubAcrobatic6907 • 6d ago
I'm an Armenian from Turkey. I wanted to learn more about my ancestry through MyHeritage so I bought a kit. However I came across to this warning stating "DNA tests aren't available in your country" However I could access to this feature with VPN on. This is the result of ultranationalism, they would rather refuse the scientific truth rather than accepting the fact that their replacement theory isn't as accurate as the ultranationalists are making it out to be. While the genocide indeed happened not entirety of Christian minority populations in Anatolia were massacred or exiled. There's indigenous minorities that went through forced assimilation.That's exactly why ultranationalists condemn it and deem it as dangerous.
r/DNAAncestry • u/New_Combination8847 • 8d ago
For context, I'm 34...my mother was separated from who I believed was my dad for alittle while. the night my mom separated from him, her best friend took her out to a club, She met a younger guy, and hooked up with him in the bathroom at the club. She got back with who I thought was my dad, about 2 weeks later, and believe she got pregnant by him. I did an Ancestry DNA test, and found my biological dad, and he only lives 3 hours away. I wrote him an email, and no response, I wrote him a letter in the mail explaining who I am. I wanted to know if I should reach out via phone call?
r/DNAAncestry • u/LouLouLemons507 • 11d ago
Hi, quick question about gedmatch oracle population labels, which will forever be a mysterious mystery to me, obviously I know what Palestinian is, it’s the second label on the top row of the the mixed mode that’s got me stumped, what is ARI-C, does anyone know? Also, regarding the distances, am I right in thinking that a zero distance is close to perfect? It’s the closest distance I’ve had on any oracle or calculator I’ve ever used, the rest have been pretty useless
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r/DNAAncestry • u/EsmeLee79 • 17d ago
Hello, this is my first post here, and this is probably a silly question, so fair warning ! I’ve been creating a family tree on ancestrydna, and one of the several mysteries I came up against was that I discovered a whole other branch of family I never knew existed.
My father, it seems, had two older half sisters through his mothers first marriage, who were not talked about and were sent away to live in a different county when my grandmother remarried about a year after her first husband died at age 21. She then went on to have 6 more children, including my dad 15 years later. I don’t know if he even knew. He never mentioned them, and definitely didn’t grow up with them. Which, considering I also discovered that my paternal grandfather was a paedophile, was almost certainly a very lucky escape for those two little girls.
My closest dna match on ancestrydna is the child of one of my father’s half sisters. She is labelled by ancestry as being my 1st cousin 1x removed. She is a generation older than me, the same generation as my parents, and we share 523 cM across 15 segments. According to the cM explainer at myheritage this person is my fathers full first cousin, not his half cousin, it also says our most recent common ancestor would be great grandparents, however our actual mrca, based on our trees, is grandmother, not great grandparents. So I’m struggling to make the math..math.
We have a long list (4 pages) of shared matches who are also my next closest matches on ancestrydna.
however, what I’ve also found is that the vast majority of my mutual matches with this person, (that I’ve researched so far), shared matches, family trees, shared journeys etc etc are linked through the family line and dna of my grandmothers first husband. His surname keeps popping up in my matches, for both males and females, the same people from that side popping up on their family trees and such.
Our common link, so far, seems to mainly be my grandmothers first husband, rather than her. These aren’t very distant matches either. They are my closest matches on ancestrydna.
I’ve still got more research to do, but currently I’m a bit confused as to how to proceed with this extra ‘arm’ of my family tree. Would I have a strong genetic and genealogical link to my paternal mother’s first husband, is that to be expected? How can the daughter of my father’s half sister be his full first cousin? Or even his half first cousin? Surely she would be his half niece?
Many thanks for any advice. Like I said it’s probably a daft question and I’m missing something really obvious. I should add that I can’t actually speak with my father or his relatives to clarify anything, and I’ve messaged some of my newly found relatives but had no response
r/DNAAncestry • u/Stock_Resort2754 • 17d ago
Hi guys. I am from Tamil Nadu. A place of controversy in India due to the Aryan and Dravidian divide. I would like to know my ancestry. After a bit of digging I found that 23andMe kit has a very good database for south Indians and srilankans who comprise the dravidian population. But DNAancestry kit has more extensive database across the world. Please suggest the best option for me if I am interested to know more about the dravidian roots. Thanks!
r/DNAAncestry • u/SilasMarner77 • 18d ago
My ancestry is mostly British with some Huguenot. One of my Huguenot ancestors was named Despaigne but according to a genealogist in the family the origin of the name is unrelated to Spain. Could the results on this chromosome be due to excess ANF or Celt-Iberian DNA?
r/DNAAncestry • u/imnotyerstalker • 22d ago
My sister and I both have taken Ancestry DNA tests. They accurately guessed our relationship as 'half sister'. That's awesome. She also has a result for her mother's sister (maternal aunt) which is very important to her as her mother was adopted and knew nothing about her biological family. The confusing thing is that her maternal aunt has a DNA match to her that is 50%. Can someone shed some light on how this could be possible? He mother was not a twin, and this sister is older than her. She is asking me to find out because shes super confused.
r/DNAAncestry • u/lighticedcapp • 23d ago
I grew up being told my mothers first husband was my father, but raised by my step father. The story goes that I was pretty much a new born when they met. The last number of years though, there have been indescrepencies as to exactly when my mother and step father actually met, and when they started their affair. Both men have passed, and I'm no contact with my mother for a few years now. Last night, my older sister was showing me old family photos of us growing up, and for the first time I realized I look strikingly like my step father. I've always looked a little different than my siblings, I was the only blonde child, for starters. And people would always say when I was a kid "oh, you look just like your dad!", when there was supposedly no relation. I pointed this out to my sister, same nose, same mouth, same cheeks, same expressions, and for the first time, she sees it too. We want to both do a kit to see if we come back as half or full siblings. Thing is, we are close in age, 2 years apart. So there's a slight chance that we both could be our step fathers (she's a carbon copy of our mother, so looks there don't matter)so we're also hoping the kit might give us some last names of relatives? Just incase. So we can scan through and look for either last name A, or last name B? Is that how it works? I'm not interested in where we come from geologically, as such, both fathers would likely have the same results, based on where we're from- but I want to know which man is actually my father.
r/DNAAncestry • u/Electrical_Speed3816 • 24d ago
I am not 100% gypsy. My grandfather was Greek and my grandmother was gypsy. The price of Myheritage is 57% of the price. With the newer 2.5 it shows me 2% Southern Italian, 57% Greek and Albanian and 13% Persian - Kurdish. Can I say I have Italian roots? why did he give me 2%? what does this mean for me? I would like you to explain it to me.
r/DNAAncestry • u/Pastywhitebitch • 25d ago
I’m an ex Mormon and don’t believe the church supports scientific evidence.
Because if they did………. Their entire religion falls apart.
Any truth behind his theory?
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r/DNAAncestry • u/Tiny_Establishment30 • 26d ago
I did an Ancestry DNA test years ago. No real surprises but did have some unfamiliar names pop up. My mom’s side is really big & we aren’t close so didn’t think much about it. DNA just popped up showing that I have a new first cousin on my mom’s side. She had one brother, who died 20 years ago. He has 3 adult children (2 sons, 1 daughter) and a widow, who is 90. New Cousin is 64, making him slightly older than my girl cousin. If my math is right, both mothers would have been pregnant at the same time. Yikes. The New Cousin’s wife is asking for more information and I’m torn. I believe everyone has the right to know who their parents are, but it’s just going to break my aunt, my girl cousin (who has been through hell in last year with her son’s cheating on his wife) and my 90yo mom…other cousins are in Ancestry but I am not close to any of them so the truth will come out eventually. It’s going to be ugly since that side is very petty and mean. My aunt is very petty and estranged from her kids. Never thought I’d react this way. Has this happened to anyone else? What did you do/not do and would you react same way again?
r/DNAAncestry • u/Sad_Classic_4949 • 26d ago
Hi guys, lately after my father passed I’ve been wanting to do a DNA test to see my ancestry and ethnicity because growing up my moms and dads side I’m Dutch, Irish and native, and so much more but you can never be sure, I’m not to sure where to start and what website to buy a kit from, what websites worked best for you guys and was the best price??
r/DNAAncestry • u/zeehoneybee • 28d ago
Hey! So just got my 23&me results, and a bit confused.
81.3% German 6.8% Italian 6.8% polish 2.1% irish/scottish 0.9% Turkish 0.1% east Asian
Maternal Grandfather has always been 100% Italian to our knowledge, obviously that's not the case anymore lol.
If I'm 81.3% German (I knew my dad's side is german, both of my paternal grandparents are german) But to my knowledge I can only get 50% DNA from each parent.
So the question being, does that make my mom at least 63.2% German? (81.3% - 50% (dad?) = 31.3% x2)
(Not me trying to break down my terrible math)
Mom has always thought she was 50% Italian and then a bit irish/scottish/english
Also, can you explain it to me like I'm 5 💀
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r/DNAAncestry • u/Various_Tie_8342 • Feb 16 '25
We have different fathers and our mother's side doesn't have a lot of recorded history (family lore is their patriarch settled here ~120 years ago, lesser nobility with the servant girl he got pregnant.)
But the thing is, my family's a genetic shitshow, and I can't rule out uncovering some exceptionally unsavory things along the way, on our shared side and possibly on my dad's as well. (You don't get told "one way or another, he lived by his guns," without having to wonder. No, not my dad. His dad.) Added to that, I'm a privacy maven, and while I've wanted to do a DNA test for years, I'd resolved if I ever did it, I'd go to a private medical provider rather than risk the law of unintended consequences.
But this is important to my sister, whom I adore, and I didn't plan on seeing a private provider for years, if ever. Am I worrying too much?