I haven’t had good luck with the MyHeritage ethnicity estimates, to be completely honest. Have you heard of The Declaration of Arbroath? I learned that I am predominately Italian, which I knew of since my mom was born in Sicily. Family records, and other records state he was born December 25,1851 or 1852. I excitedly shared with Siya.We quickly opened up our kits, read the straight forward instructions, spit into a plastic tube, sealed everything up, shipped our saliva to the 23andMe lab and waited.Three weeks later, we received an email that read: Your results are ready.Siya and I both logged into our accounts and started reading the many reports that were presented to us including: ancestry, carrier status, genetic health risk, traits, wellness and DNA relatives.The first report Siya and I both clicked on was our ancestry. I’ve just had test results from MyHeritage which threw up a totally unexpected 20% Iberian. María Cerezo, Alessandro Achilli, Anna Olivieri, Ugo A. Perego, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Francesca Brisighelli, Hovirag Lancioni, Scott R. Woodward, Manuel López-Soto, Ángel Carracedo, Cristian Capelli, Antonio Torroni, and Antonio Salas. "No matter what they say, even if it's a case where, oh, I'm not this culture, I'm that — I won't find it a disappointment because it's actually an advance in technology. They’re a great source of information but unfortunately I haven’t been able to find that Iberian link. Here's whyPeople prefer a good story, no matter what their DNA says "As the science progresses, we're going to get more precise results, which means some of those what we called before low-confidence regions go away," he said in an interview from San Francisco.When Colin Duggan, originally from Antigonish, N.S., took his test two years ago, it showed he was mostly Scottish and Irish, but noted five per cent from the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Portugal and Spain.That blip disappeared from his results following an update from Ancestry Sept. 12.
mtDNA (M) H. Of the Madeirans I've seen, their SSA ranged from 4.9% to 0.5%, with most around 2-3%. Keep reading to find out where people who have Iberian DNA can be found.“I don’t have any Spanish or Portuguese ancestors,” you say. That said, it is theoretically possible to trace your family back that far, especially if you are lucky and very patient.If you are Latino/Hispanic or Italian/French, you might be able to track down those ancestors who left their Iberian DNA to you. Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. My ancestry.com results show that 6% Iberian Peninsula. I’m sure these ancestors married people from the area as 12% Irish ancestry came up in my results along with the 30% Scandinavian. I enjoyed it. I just know he was Iberian. In reality, even though people didn’t have cars and airplanes, they still found means and methods to travel, People who are native to the Iberian Peninsula DNA region are generally very admixed as well, showing only about 51% Iberian DNA, on average. Luso-American results:) Post your results here if you have Portuguese ancestry. You’ll find so much more there when you do, like the month of an ancestor’s birth, their occupation, year of arrival, and whether or not they were naturalized US citizens.After you’ve exhausted the census records, you will find that you have built yourself a nice little tree, and you should try to collect information on everyone in your tree, including marriage, birth, and death records from those individuals. Your AncestryDNA results include information about your geographic origins across 1000+ regions and identifies potential relatives through DNA matching to others who have taken the AncestryDNA test. Told his father could most likely be Daniel O’Shaughnessy and his mother, Mary McGrath but their son John was born in 1845, a large difference. It’s common to wonder whether a relatively high amount, like over 20%, means that you have an Iberian grandparent, or whether a 6% Iberian Peninsula result means that there was a single Iberian ancestor 5-7 generations ago. Spain, France, and Italy had colonies in Africa (in Senegal, specifically France), and I am sure that there was a certain amount of admixture, so that’s something to look into if you have relatively recent African immigrant ancestors (past 150 years or so). What a surprise for us! People who previously saw Iberian in their DNA results might find that it has been replaced with Basque, France, Portugal, or Spain. !I don’t know much, but I suspect it has to go back at least 4 generations…mainly because I’ve researched as far as I can. Your results are a great starting point for more family history research, and it can also be a way to dig even deeper into the research you've already done. View Profile View Forum Posts Banned Posts 4,342 Sex ♂ Location USA Nationality American Y-DNA (P) R1a1a. I followed four of my grandparents branches on my tree to German roots in Bavaria and the rest in Canada and France. It’s not really a small percentage.I know my moms background is Ukrainian/Romanian and Norwegian.I don’t know my father but I know he was German. It was written in 1320 Scotland. The Following User Says Thank You to MnM For This Useful Post: Targum (04-04-2017) 04-01-2017, 10:45 PM #2. fished. The test was MyHeritageDNA. His Results:Can’t wait to see what my mom can find out.
I heard several stories from my mom about me who knows. My daughter came up about 25%Iberian the other half Lithuanian which would be right since she’s my daughter. I agree, it’s very fun to explore!Thanks for your nice response.
I came up 41 almost 42 % Iberian,and 8% Scottish/Welsh/Celt,and the other half I already knew was Lithuanian and this showed Baltic/Eastern Europe/Russia.