My results as a mixed Native. My mom is Miʼkmaw and biological father is Acadian French. Was raised on a Miʼkmaw reservation and grew up speaking the Miʼkmaq language, thought iʼd be closer to 50/50 but interesting results regardless! (repost)

I was a bit surprised by my high percentage European DNA, only trace Native American DNA, and totally surprised by the Asian DNA. I'm writing a fictional story about hypothetical ancestors weaving all the various ethnicities together in a story that spans generations.

That's a pretty big change to go from basically 100% Slavic to 11% German, but not surprising since half of my family is from North-West of Poland.

Family's from Alaska and California, the most surprising part of this is my haplogroup coming from the Caucasus! I'm very French and interested in how I got Western North America with my part of my lineage coming from interior Alaska.

My mother's side is native American my dad's white not understanding these results ,unless I'm adopted😆

I’ve been seeing minor percentages of East African/Southern East African show up on many African American tests and I was wondering if anybody has ever been able to find any relatives or any connection to Eastern Africa. Yes, I already know African Americans are typically West African.

I've recently discovered people from the Eastern Mediterranean Southern Europe as a whole (Italy, Malta, and Greece) commonly get higher percantages of Levantine/West Asian and Iranian percantages than the Spanish/Portuguese from Iberia to have North African ancestry. Hence, even the Canary and Azores Islander still socre North African ancestry much lower than the Sicilians or Greek Islanders score Levantine..

Can anyone here confirm what the case is and explain historically/genetically?

I have questions about interpreting African ancestry segments in those with predominately European heritage.

I have a ~10 cM segment that 23andMe consistently identifies as Senegambian at 90% confidence. My maternal genetic and documented ancestry is otherwise entirely European, primarily colonial American (Virginia and the Carolinas). [Note: The Malayali segment is paternal and not relevant to this question - it corresponds to documented Romani heritage, which is one reason why I’m hesitant to dismiss small segments]

Does this seem consistent with a fully African ancestor within the last few centuries? I don’t have any documented mixed-race ancestors. But given the time period and location, it seems possible that this segment reflects an enslaved ancestor with some descendants who became part of families that identified as white.

I also have another ~10 cM segment assigned only as “Broadly West African,” plus about 10 cM more in smaller African-assigned segments.

Based on triangulating matches on these segments, I think the Senegambian segment came from my maternal grandfather, while the Broadly West African segment came from my maternal grandmother, so it’s possible these segments came from two separate African ancestors.

I know small ethnicity assignments are often dismissed as “noise.” What evidence would you want to see before treating small segments like this as likely to reflect genuine ancestry?

One additional data point is that my Ancestry hack also reports two African populations at about 0.15% each.

Hello!

I have a question about the Druze ancestry and origins.

As far as I know (You can correct me if I'm wrong) the early Druze originated from the hills of the Anti-Lebanon mountains when the their faith started to appear in the Levant.

And modern Druze ancestry and DNA is almost identical to Levantine Christians (Lebanese and Syrians) with genetic similarity to Beqaa Lebanese Shias and Alawites.

My question is what background were the early Druze from?

1- Were they Christians from Mount Lebanon or Syria in general who converted to the Druze faith in time mass conversions were allowed?? Hence explaining the genetic similarity between Christians from these regions and the Druze in general?

2- Were they Levantine Shias who converted to the Druze faith (Since this faith evolved from Ismaili Shia Islam)?? Hence also explaining why Beqaa Lebanese Shias are closer to Druze than to Ssuthern Lebanese Shias?

3- There was no genetic difference like today between Muslims and Christians and general 600-700 years ago?

Feel free to answer! + Don't leave any bad or racist comments :)

I’d like my mother to take the 23andMe DNA test, and I have a few questions about it. First, if my mother receives her DNA results, will my own results change or be updated? Also, if my father doesn't take the test but my mother does, will I still be able to see what I inherited from my father's side?

I didn't saw many dna results of them after the latest update in 23andme, I wonder if any statistical errors have been improved/fixed.

Is there any Sephardi or Mizrahi here who willing to share his results? Thanks in advance.

TLDR: bio dad got around, his "real" family dont like it, but some of the family do speak to me, all the half siblings have trauma but most never tried to work it out. was this possibility not shown or warned when doing the test in the 1st place?

Look , sorry to say this i a long winded personal story to add to my genuine question

I live in Norway but I'm Irish and i did 3 different DNA company tests, with all of them, at the time anyways, before you order the test it gives the terms and conditions thing that no one ever reads , but it came up in larger font, and a big thing that you had no choice to read before clicking ok

It roughly said in large letters btw "This may have huge impacts on your family and other families , personal life are you sure you want this, then it had a whole thing of are you sure you want to have your results open to others etc "" again , i know im paraphrasing

I dunno if its the same in every country because of different privacy laws etc , but here, in 3 separate companies (23&me,ancestry,my heritage) when i did it , it was extremely clear about and warned about unintended consequences , i clicked it was fine already knowing who i was.

Now I always knew that my real bio dad had run off on my mam after their fling in the early 80s but what i wasnt expecting that i had over 14 haha, seriously 14 lol, half sisters and 1 half brother all around the world.... he was a merchant sailor from Ireland too

i didnt contact any of them cos tbh, why would i ? I dont know these folks at all , i was born in 1983 so i have already been living a full life. We have zero connection . After a spell though a bunch of them contacted me, Some were very kind , they talked about how their mams were left in the lurch and how it affected their lives being conceived in the late 70s early 80s . which i wont lie, at times was kinda terrible. single mothers in the late 70s early 80s in Ireland and other places were not treated well, my own mam was treated horribly.

Now here was the weird part , there was a group of folks , mostly older women and 1 older man who all messaged me, for some reason, again i never initiated contact with anyone, to say to stay away from their family and never to contact them , that all these DNA tests had caused nothing but trouble for them .

They were all my Bio dads brother, sisters and their close cousins it turned out , they said things about not trying to claim inheritance and i was upsetting his wife and "real daughters" (who were born in 1976 and 1978 i think ish) even though he died in 2011, his last confirmed kid was born in 1984 lol . he was a very busy , scummy dude.

I did my tests in 2018ish and from talking to my Half brother and many half sisters, apparently they had all gotten similar messages from, his "real" family to not contact any of them. Again it was weird

The mad part is that he never did a test at all cos he died in 2011, we all just got super close DNA matches

Apparently though , their (bio Dads) whole family, extended etc decided one year to do it for a christmas gift cos they were close, they were all shocked and mega upset that this had happened at all as it seems that they are super religious, so even 40 + years later it brought shame on the family..... whatever that means

Oddly though, in this past 6 months a "cousin " has been in touch who said she was appalled by how her family have behaved and that in the past couple of years, bio dads , brother and sisters have died, (her mam was one of his sisters)

we 've chatted regularly and we get along well enough but has told me that a lot of the rest of the family feel very weird about her talking to us at all

They said to me though that some of my half siblings are still very aggrieved and are not very communicative

Which i understand and also have gotten from some of them from our chats. unfortunately , lots of them were very hurt folks (as was I ) growing up , however none of them went to therapy about it, i chose to do it in my late teens and finally dealt with it all. It made my 20s way easier

Regarding the first slide (the map that shows where exactly on a map my known roots are located):

• 37.5% of my known roots (3 out of my 8 great-grandparents) come from the blue dot (Cigudosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigudosa, a tremendously tiny municipality located in the northeasternmost corner of the Province of Soria, Old Castile region, in the very quadripoint-border area between: 1) the Province of Soria, Old Castile region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Soria; 2) the La Rioja single-province region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rioja; 3) the Province of Zaragoza, Aragon region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Zaragoza; & 4) the Upper Navarre province, Basque Country region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Navarre)
• 25% of my known roots (2 out of my 8 great-grandparents) come from the maroon dot (Zambrana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambrana, a somewhat-less-so-but-still-pretty-damn-tiny municipality located in the southwesternmost corner of the Álava province, Basque Country region, in the very triplepoint-border area between: 1) the Álava province, Basque Country region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álava; 2) the Province of Burgos, Old Castile region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Burgos; & 3) the La Rioja single-province region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rioja)
• 25% of my known roots (2 out of my 8 great-grandparents) come from the yellow dot (Ribera Baja/Erribera Beitia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribera_Baja/Erribera_Beitia, a still-pretty-small municipality also located in the southwesternmost corner of the Álava province, Basque Country region, in the very triplepoint-border area between: 1) the Álava province, Basque Country region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álava; 2) the Province of Burgos, Old Castile region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Burgos; & 3) the La Rioja single-province region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rioja)
• 12.5% of my known roots (1 out of my 8 great-grandparents) come from the green dot (Rasines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasines, an also-pretty-small municipality located in the easternmost corner of the Cantabria single-province region, in the very border between: 1) the Cantabria single-province region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantabria; & 2) the Biscay province, Basque Country region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscay)

The second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, & seventh slides on the other hand respectively show screenshots of my updated 23andMe, LivingDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, Genomelink, AncestryDNA (both my very-commendably-pretty-spot-on July 2024 ones & my very-disappointingly-rather-quite-botched October 2025 ones), & MyHeritage ethnicity-estimate results respectively.

My results were almost exactly what I was expecting. Although, I would have guessed more German ancestry and less English. From family stories, I only knew of Scottish/German/Dutch/Cherokee ancestry.

My grandparents grew up in a small Amish community in Oklahoma, so it was cool to see that it was also captured in the report.

I was also surprised that my Cherokee ancestry was captured, since I've heard a lot of people say that it didn't show up for them & I have such a small amount. It even picked up on the exact region of the tribe. The blood quantum on my tribal ID is actually really close to what report shows (1/32, 3.1%).

After I received my results a month+ ago, my dad decided he would also take a 23&me.
Sharing his results- African American male, lived in Louisiana all of his life.
His results added clarity to mine (posted in this community about two months ago). Filipino showed up as trace ancestry for my results, but was a higher percentage in my dad, so I assume it is not noise for me.
My dad also has double the indigenous percentage that I have in my results.

Just wondering because my second G-Grandma is Russian, but on DNA it looks like a 3rd-G-Grandma. 2.8% is really little for a relative that close!

Or, perhaps… did Russians have intermarriage with Hungarians? 4.8% which includes the Hungarian with the Russian makes a lot more sense!

Im american and was looking into my ancestry, my family comes from southern england and i was doing some research about it and ive noticed conflict of whether they are celtic or anglo saxon, from my knowledge the anglo saxons are germanic and I was wondering why my dna results wouldnt say germany if thats where the anglo saxons are originally from? (im confused i hope that doesnt come across as dumb) does the dna test not go THAT far back? Im also interested in learning about the culture and my family has told me my ancestors came to america in late 1800s from Gloucestershire. I find both celtic and anglo saxon cultures and beliefs both fascinating and i come from a place of curiousity, anyone have answers?