{"id":7535,"date":"2018-09-12T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2018-09-12T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:30:17","slug":"my-revised-ancestrydna-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7535","title":{"rendered":"My Revised AncestryDNA Estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7536\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mjn-ancestrydnaethnicities-sept2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mjn-ancestrydnaethnicities-sept2018.jpg 852w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mjn-ancestrydnaethnicities-sept2018-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mjn-ancestrydnaethnicities-sept2018-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>updated my &#8220;Ethnicity Estimate&#8221; today.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I&#8217;m taking this with a huge shaker of salt only to be used on buttered popcorn while watching entertainment. Keeping in mind that these estimates are based on ethnicity reports from submitted tests (and I think a few known migration details from history) and are &#8220;further back&#8221; that I&#8217;ll ever trace most of my tree, it really is a quick diversion. In my case:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On paper I&#8217;m 1\/8 Irish (1860-era immigrants). Maybe that&#8217;s not showing up because at least half of my Irish were Protestants from the North and could have easily actually been from Scotland.<\/li>\n<li>On paper I&#8217;m 1\/2 Ostfriesen (1850-1880 era immigrants).\u00a0 That area of Germany (near the Dutch border with modern-day Germany) is part of \u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;England, Wales &amp; Northwestern&#8221; region and probably accounts for my 56% from that region. That might even account for the little bit of Scandinavian (maybe).<\/li>\n<li>On paper I&#8217;m 1\/8 German (from Thuringia and other unknown German areas&#8211;immigrating in the mid-19th century).<\/li>\n<li>The remaining 1\/4? That portion consists of pre-Revolutionary War immigrants to the US. Probably a scattering from the areas in my estimate&#8211;which I already figured to begin with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only &#8220;surprise&#8221; in my estimate at\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em> is the &#8220;England, Wales &amp; Northwestern Europe&#8221; portion. But it&#8217;s all relatively consistent with what I expected and I&#8217;ve got more recent people to work on and worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I had said I was twenty-five percent Native American&#8211;that would have been a different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AncestryDNA\u00a0updated my &#8220;Ethnicity Estimate&#8221; today. As usual, I&#8217;m taking this with a huge shaker of salt only to be used on buttered popcorn while watching entertainment. Keeping in mind that these estimates are based on ethnicity reports from submitted tests (and I think a few known migration details from history) and are &#8220;further back&#8221; that [&hellip;]<\/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-7535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535","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=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}