{"id":7097,"date":"2018-06-13T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2018-06-13T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:21:00","slug":"those-precise-ethnicities-at-ancestrydna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7097","title":{"rendered":"Those “Precise” Ethnicities at AncestryDNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em> recently revised their ethnicity estimates. Keep in mind that these estimates are\u00a0estimates<\/em>. The estimates displayed on the main DNA results page at\u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em> are actually specific values within a range of values. Keep in mind that the ranges of values are still estimates.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>estimate of my ancestry from Great Britain ranges from a low of 24% to a high of 91%.<\/p>\n

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My Western European ancestry is estimated to be 15%, but the range of possibilities is from 0% to 40%.<\/p>\n

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My Scandinavian estimate is 12%, but\u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>indicates a range of between 0 and 27%.<\/p>\n

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These estimates are just that: estimates.<\/p>\n

They are based upon several things, including how\u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>describes the geographic regions. For example, Great Britian includes part of the European continent.<\/p>\n

Personally these results are entertainment. Mine indicate that my background is virtually 100% European. That’s consistent with what I know of my immigrants. I’m not really concerned about the country breakdowns.<\/p>\n

If it had said I was 25% Russian or 33% African, that would have been a different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AncestryDNA recently revised their ethnicity estimates. Keep in mind that these estimates are\u00a0estimates. The estimates displayed on the main DNA results page at\u00a0AncestryDNA are actually specific values within a range of values. Keep in mind that the ranges of values are still estimates. The\u00a0AncestryDNA\u00a0estimate of my ancestry from Great Britain ranges from a low of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}