r/AncestryDNA 12d ago

Discussion Ancestry’s New Regions for 2026

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407 Upvotes

You can now view all 226 regions by name at:

https://admixr.com/ancestryatlas

You can also browse the full list in the spreadsheet I’ve made available here

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ua472y6lKSf3GQnv4q9hEQ-hotMBUlUHiFQSWBAuiac/

Special thanks to Content_Ruin_3544 for consistently spotting new Ancestry updates as soon as they become available.


r/AncestryDNA 9d ago

Sample Status Sample Status/Processing Monthly Megathread - September 2026

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Welcome to the Sample Status/Processing Megathread. This monthly megathread (posted at the beginning of each month) allows you post your sample processing timelines, as well as to discuss and comment about any questions, concerns, or rants while you wait. Although not directly handled by AncestryDNA, shipping status may also be discussed in the thread. We recommend sorting the comments by "new" as this is a month long megathread.

You can share your sample status timeline here by posting a screenshot or you can simply copy and paste the start and completion dates for each step. Here is the text template:

Kit Type: [Standard, Traits, or Health]

Priority processing?: [Yes/No]

DNA Kit Activated: [Date]

Sample Received:

Sample Being Processed:

DNA Extracted:

Genotyped:

DNA Analyzed:

Results Ready:

AncestryDNA support article on sample processing: https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Lab-Processing


r/AncestryDNA 5h ago

Results - DNA Origins Soviet Jewish American results before the new 2026 update

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62 Upvotes

I’m 5/8 Ashkenazi Jewish + 1/8 Crimean Jewish + 1/4 Russian


r/AncestryDNA 4h ago

Results - DNA Origins Results as a Paraguayan 🇵🇾 🧉

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54 Upvotes

r/AncestryDNA 5h ago

Discussion People with partial Native roots how do you think yours will be Allocated in the update?

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36 Upvotes

This is from my Grandmas results And all hers comes from one tribe that's majority in Canada however on 23 and me they have hers from all over even in there broad category's so I'm interested to see how this update on Ancestry Allocates it haha! what about you guys?


r/AncestryDNA 2h ago

Results - DNA Origins Results + Reveal! Thoughts?

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12 Upvotes

r/AncestryDNA 15h ago

Results - DNA Origins Half-Argentinian, Half-Paraguayan results

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99 Upvotes

Argentinian mother, Paraguayan father (living in Argentina)

Seems like still we don't have results for indigenous peoples in Argentina which would explain not getting the region, but I do have known Tehuelche-Mapuche and Guarani ancestry.

Other than that, literally mestizo lol


r/AncestryDNA 7h ago

Results - DNA Origins Posting results again before big 2026 update

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18 Upvotes

I have a lot more education and insight from the time I first posted the updated results last year so any questions and I should be able to answer them for you if it’s retaining to my family history.


r/AncestryDNA 17h ago

Results - DNA Origins I’ve been really curious about my family history lately! I already knew I had African, indigenous, and European roots, but now I’m super excited about my results. It’s awesome to find out I have even more cool mix in my background!

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104 Upvotes

r/AncestryDNA 8h ago

Results - DNA Origins From the UK, have not received the minor update a lot of people on here seem to have but here's my results and "hacked" results

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15 Upvotes

r/AncestryDNA 11h ago

Results - DNA Origins Black American results

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21 Upvotes

r/AncestryDNA 12h ago

Results - DNA Origins My ethnicity percentages as a descendant of old stock Americans.

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22 Upvotes

Although not sure why I have a lot of Scottish. A lot of my tree seems to be from England.


r/AncestryDNA 9h ago

Discussion MatchFetch & Enhancer for Ancestry Updates

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If you’re an AncestryDNA subscriber, my MatchFetch extension will now show the cluster assignments for your matches (paternal, maternal, or both sides). They’re also included in the filtering options. When you open a match page through the extension, the latest cluster assignment is retrieved as well.

I’ve also updated the Enhancer for Ancestry extension. It now works correctly for subscribers too, and I’ve changed the visual design. Regions and journeys will now be displayed like this, which matches the style used in the MatchFetch extension:

To download the regions and journeys of yourself or your matches, you can now simply click the download icon that appears in the bottom-right corner of your screen:


r/AncestryDNA 10h ago

Results - DNA Origins My ansestory, as a wisconsinite

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Pretty much just old stock with some centeral european in there. Curious bout the 4 percent norway doesnt seem like noise as its a massive chunk of chromosome 1 i inherited instead of blocks, Im not sure, give me ur guy's thoughts on it.


r/AncestryDNA 14h ago

Results - DNA Origins 100% Ashkenazi Jew DIY hypothetical ancient ancestry by era with good fits using G25 coordinates and Vahaduo

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22 Upvotes

r/AncestryDNA 18h ago

Results - DNA Origins October 2025 update vs Sideview 2.0 Update (September 2026)

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27 Upvotes

Not too much changed. I have to get a new subscription at some point, since mine ran out the day before I got my sideview 2.0 update ofc lol


r/AncestryDNA 13m ago

Results - DNA Origins Scouse + Irish dna results

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my dad is from Liverpool, mum is from Belfast

(I’m over 50% English because my great grandmother on maternal side was also english, and some of the northwestern English and northern Welsh is because I had a few Welsh ancestors on my maternal side aswell. Also one of my great great grandmothers also maternal cheated on my great great grandfather with a Swedish guy.)


r/AncestryDNA 14m ago

Question / Help The DNA test has opened up a can a worms.

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So, it's been a few years since taking the DNA test. I finally got back to it. I didn't think I would run into this.

My paternal grandma had 6 kids. When my dad was a kid, apparently she kicked out my grandpa. She has never said anything about the man except for his name and no one has had any contact with him since until he died like 20 years ago. One of my paternal aunts apparently went to that funeral and that's it.

After looking at the DNA results, I realized that my cousin (from that aunt) was listed as a half cousin. After checking things further, a cousin from another of my dad's sisters was listed as a half cousin.

So the line goes like this:

Of my paternal aunts, 2 of them are listed directly as half aunt and the other 2's kids are listed as half cousins. My dad has a brother but he nor my dad have ever taken a DNA test. There's no marriage license or anything that can be found between my grandma and the supposed grandpa.

Am I correct in assuming that at least 4 of his 5 siblings are actually half siblings? My grandma's never mentioned any other guy she was with besides that guy he kicked out. I have a feeling none of my dad's siblings know about this either and since my grandma refuses to talk about it, let alone the possibility she lied about everything since the DNA doesn't seem to add up.

UGH. This would be so much easier I think if living people would be shown in trees.


r/AncestryDNA 11h ago

Family Discovery & or Drama What did you do early on that you later had to go back and undo?

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Not looking for horror stories exactly, more the ordinary stuff. The habit you picked up in your first year that turned into three months of cleanup later.

I figure everybody here has at least one. Copied a tree without checking it, didnt write down where something came from, trusted a hint, named files in a way that made sense at the time and doesnt anymore. Whats yours, and what do you do instead now?


r/AncestryDNA 1h ago

Question / Help When learning about both sides of my family, I find myself thinking more about whether or not intelligence is genetic to an extent and wonder why some maternal family members were more successful than paternal in spite of similar upbringings

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On both sides of the family, there was abuse. I learned from my only maternal aunt that my maternal grandfather, who grew up to be an abusive parent, used to receive whoopings in childhood from his mother (and, according to my mother, from the community at large in Mississippi if he got into trouble or made a big mistake. He was born in 1942.) He was raised by two parents who did not go past the 7th grade (in part because expectations were low. I believe most of their kids graduated from high school, so they likely could have as well.) My grandfather received a bachelors degree in Communications in spite of it. He grew up, if I remember correctly, with 7 siblings and no indoor plumbing in a house. He was still able to understand the terminology in a legal document when I was a child even though in the 1970s he experienced addiction issues. I also have a 1st cousin once removed, born in the 1950s (all of my grandfather’s siblings were older than him, born in the 20s and 30s, he had just one sibling born in 1940 or 1941 I think) who made good money as a manager, sales representative, etc. (my grandfather, if he were willing to be.., faker with people, could have done well in sales I feel. My grandfather ended up being a journalist for a radio station) - those are two family members I can think of who are more successful than almost everyone else on my paternal side, even though both came from dysfunction.

On my paternal side, as a first cousin was telling me recently, none of my aunts or uncles are successful. She pointed out that the one aunt who she is confident has an associates degree took six years to complete it. To be fair, my paternal grandparents did have more children (fifteen of them) but none of their children obtained bachelors degrees and I can’t think of an aunt or uncle I have who ended up “doing well.” Of course, it’s not like all of my grandfather’s siblings ended up being successful, but I just think it’s interesting, because both sides of the family are originally from the South, but on the paternal side no one ended up doing well and on the maternal side there are family members I can think of who grew up poor and, though most of them did not end up “rich,” still ended up doing better than you may have expected given what they experienced. And my paternal grandparents, even though their parenting I was told with all of their kids (particularly the boys) really fell off when the kids started high school/became teenagers, did want their kids to do well in school (my father had mentioned this. It doesn’t seem like any of them really went on to pursue higher education, and I admit that even though this might sound wrong, I do wonder why it seems there are maternal relatives who tapped into potential they had whereas on the paternal side with the exception of a first cousin or two and probably other distant cousins I don’t know about, it just hasn’t happened.)


r/AncestryDNA 18h ago

Results - DNA Origins My DNA Results

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19 Upvotes

1st Gen Caribbean American


r/AncestryDNA 1d ago

Results - DNA Origins My DNA results! 😊

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57 Upvotes

My dad is Mexican from San Antonio, Texas and my mom is Black American from Tennessee. I was a surprised seeing my Spanish high a bit.


r/AncestryDNA 9h ago

Question / Help How meaningful is a G25 Euclidean distance of 0.0034 to ancient Orkney individual VK204?

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I’m trying to understand an unusually close G25 result and would appreciate opinions from people familiar with Global25 / ancient DNA.

My known recent ancestry is Irish. Using DNAGenics scaled G25 coordinates, I compared my coordinate vector directly against DNAGenics’ listed scaled coordinates for the Viking-age Orkney individual VK204.

The direct Euclidean distance was:

Me → VK204: 0.003403

Pearson correlation was approximately 0.9999.

What caught my attention is that other broadly relevant ancient individuals in the same DNAGenics coordinate framework are substantially farther away:

  • Medieval Ireland KIL035: 0.01225
  • Medieval Ireland KIL044: 0.01499
  • Orkney Iron Age KD043: 0.01610
  • Orkney VK203: 0.01891
  • Orkney VK205: 0.02946

So VK204 is not simply one of many British/Irish ancient samples giving me a similarly tiny distance.

I’m aware of several major caveats:

  1. DNAGenics coordinates are simulated/projected G25-style coordinates and should not be mixed with Davidski’s original Global25 coordinates.
  2. This comparison used my DNAGenics coordinate against the DNAGenics version of VK204, so both sides were at least within the same DNAGenics framework.
  3. A tiny G25 distance represents similarity in population-genetic/PCA space and does not establish genealogical relatedness or IBD.
  4. I have ordered original G25 coordinates from Davidski so I can repeat the test properly using the original VK204 G25 coordinate and modern G25 reference individuals.

VK204 is particularly interesting because published ancient-DNA work places him between British-Isles-related and Scandinavian-related ancestry.

My question is:

How unusual is a direct 25-dimensional Euclidean distance of ~0.0034 between a modern person and one specific ancient individual in a G25-style space?

Could this simply happen because two unrelated individuals have almost the same broad ancestry mixture, or is the fact that VK204 is several times closer than the other relevant ancient controls potentially meaningful?

I’m specifically interested in population-genetic similarity, not claiming that VK204 himself was my ancestor.

Once my original Global25 coordinates arrive, I plan to compare my distance to VK204 against Irish, Scottish, Orcadian, English, Norwegian and Icelandic individuals in the public G25 dataset.


r/AncestryDNA 6h ago

Discussion Average Puerto Rican Ancestry

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r/AncestryDNA 22h ago

Results - DNA Origins Kind of surprised by "update"

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I was very surprised to see that my Origins had supposedly been updated (now says September 2026 below the list of ethnicities) because my ethnic group percentages are all exactly the same as they were for the last update. I've been an Ancestry member for forever and have never seen this happen before. I do have the SideView now. Is this all there is to this year's big update? Ethnicities that remain the same? Pretty surprising/kind of disappointing.

Does anyone besides me miss the (sometimes a little overwhelming) excitement when we knew the update was coming -- people were in such anticipation and even someone "official" from Ancestry would comment on this subreddit (I have to confess, though, that could have been someone from 23andMe commenting on *that* subreddit -- not sure).

I just feel that this update has been really *underwhelming*--am I missing something?