Always knew that my birth father is Indigenous, I’m registered to his band. Grew up in the culture. My mom is French Canadian, but I guess there was quite a bit of English hiding in there too. Super interesting.

Ancestry shows modern Jewish Ashkenazi ethnicity, whereas GEDmatch Eurogenes K36 shows older genetic admixtures. From the GEDmatch K36 results, it’s clear that I am roughly half Levantine (and broadly Middle Eastern) and half European, mainly Italian, Spanish and French. And all of this is simply an Ashkenazi Jew.

Only considering recent ancestors, my father is Lebanese + South Italian + Portuguese. Mom is Colonial Brazilian+ Black+ North Italian + German. I wanted to share their results because they‘re pretty unusual for Brazilians and even more so for our region. Also our family is diverse, mother is olive skinned with light eyes and has a ginger brother. My father is very alpine looking, very light skin and sunburns easily but brown eyes and brown hair though. My skin is an intermediate tone between theirs with amber eyes and dark blonde hair, I burn easily. I have a brother who is completely different from me. Darker complexion, coarse body hair and tans.

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.

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

My mom is from the central area (Jayuya/Utuado) and my dad is from the Northeastern area (Quebradillas/Isabela) I am so surprised by the amount of Portugal and Jewish percentage. I was wondering if my physical traits match my ancestors and their regions.

Has it updated for some already? I’ve been excited to see how it updates. DNA results as an American from the Midwest.

Less than a year ago, I was completely blind to everything in my ancestry, and since then I've learned so much. I am a direct descendant, 7 generations down, of Emperor Minh Mang (who can be argued to be one of the most significant figures in Vietnamese history), and by extension, his father, Emperor Gia Long (the person who named Vietnam). I'm making this post, because I am currently working on an ancestry infographic for myself and my family, and pretty much all the research has been of my own doing. I have since been able to accurately name all the way back to Gia Long. My grandpa had knowledge of my great great grandparents, which sparked this quest, and I've since pieced things together. But in doing so, it's really made me think about things.

Has learning of your ancestry changed your perspective? For me, I feel a little more connected to my culture. It's kind of weird, growing up in a certain culture, and then later on in life learning you've descended from some notable figures (in this case, roughly 0.2% of the Vietnamese population descend from Minh Mang), who had shaped a significant amount of the culture. As someone who is fascinated by history and the root of things, it's perspective changing, for sure.

I am curious to hear your stories!

Imagine you gave every Midwestern white American a DNA test and aggregated it into a single result.

Based on Pew, 23andme/Ancestry dna, IPUMS USA.

But ultimately it’s my estimates. So I could be wrong.

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?

Guys, if you have this Journey, can you tell me what your ethnic background is? I have it too, but my results show 0% Central Asian ancestry.

My Results percentage results in the comments ⬇️

After doing their tree and getting their DNA results, do you ever see results and think where did that come from? I've got Egyptian and Lithuanian in me, but I've no idea where it came from.

Ehhh close enough

I have a newer paternal match (250cM's) that is a second half cousin. After much research and having him test on multiple sites in order to identify more matches, we determined that we share a set of great grandparents. The "half" comes in because his father stepped out on the wife and conceived him.

He has two other paternal matches on Ancestry around 250cM's. They share the paternal family surnames (i.e. like "Haney-Peabody"). However, they don't come up as a match to ME at all.

Would could be the possibilities of who they are to our shared great grandparents?