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Ancestry Dna Results
Have any of you had this done and do you take the results as 100% accurate? I gifted this to my daughter and now we have the results we are both very surprised and concerned if they are wrong. She has a living grandmother (and absolutely no chance that she's not her grandmother if you get my gist) who is out and out Italian American yet my daughter's result had various European genes but zero Italian. Can this be right?
I'm not expecting to get many answers in this category tucked away in History in the back of beyond :-)
I'm not expecting to get many answers in this category tucked away in History in the back of beyond :-)
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I'm not sure Pasta, I think her father was an Italian immigrant - with a real mafia type surname that featured in the Godather movies! Don't know about the mother side and it could easily be an earlier generation that came over to US.
My daughter's uncle on the US side (son of said gran) came up as a direct match on her results so we are going to ask him what Italian was in his.
My daughter's uncle on the US side (son of said gran) came up as a direct match on her results so we are going to ask him what Italian was in his.
Ancestry bases it's findings from other samples that it has received. When I had the test, the results were collated from 3000 reference samples. The database has recently been updated and my results are now collated from 16,000 reference samples. Hence, the results have changed. What I would like to know is how long ago the DNA is sampled from. I guess that DNA threads die out over time and only those from the last few hundred years show in the test with any significance.
these tests aren't reliable. no. Sometimes they'll be accurate, sometimes not. The more tests the company in question carry out, the more data they'll have to work from, so the more chance they have of getting it right. But I had one done that assured me I had one great-grandparent from Scandinavia and another one from somewhere round Greece. Both are nonsense.
You may find they update their reading in a couple of years as they get more accurate data.
You may find they update their reading in a couple of years as they get more accurate data.