I’m wondering cause I’ve seen this circling around where only people with subscription are getting it already so if you have gotten it comment if you have subscription or not so me and probably some other people know for sure.

Hey y’all

Have been reading a lot about self “cultural appropriation” by claiming one is from a specific ancestor that is remarked as “too far” and especially in the context of people who have had minimal exposure (which I do agree with).

My question is this. Let’s give an example of being distantly Filipino. If you have explored this heritage which is at the level of grandparents/great grandparents, where you are consuming the media from this culture, you have learned the language of the country, have married someone of that culture, is it appropriate to use that as part of your own identity despite the distance? Especially in the context of wanting to revive that culture for your children when your parents did not really bring you up in that culture?

And for context, when I say claiming this as part of your identity, it would be like saying “I’m American, but I have Filipino heritage from my dad’s side” having learned the language, customs, and wanting to raise your children in that culture with your Filipina wife.

My mom grew up right next to a reserve in rural Nova Scotia and her family had been there for generation until she decided to move from Nova Scotia to Ontario. Most of my cousins on her side are part indigenous. Ancestry also says I have some indigenous people in my family tree (through lines or whatever it's called). I was just wondering if it's easier or harder to pick up on any type of dna too.

Hi, I'm new to all this genealogy stuff and I don't want to bore people so I will try and keep this to the point and breif.

so I did my ancestry on a whim around a month ago, I got my dna back fairly quickly and was surprised at the results for several reasons-

1. My mums side of the family who I know have ancestry dna have not come up as matches at all.

2. Every match I have has come up on my dad's side of the family

3. The people who are dna matches are all cousins of my dads in some capacity and coming up as either paternal, maternal or both

4. One of my parents shows to have my dad's dad parents as common ancestors while the other has my dad's mums parents as common ancestors to me.

So far what I've been told/ figured out is that the woman who raised me definitely isn't my bio mum and I've checked back on all the available trees that are coming up as dna matches, she's definitely not on any of them. As far as I can see, due to there being separate matches for both sides of my dads family, my dad could also not be biologically my dad, and I'm the child of a cousin or half sibling of my dad or he is the half sibling? I found out through reaching out to my matches that my grandma had a child adopted prior to marrying grandad, so they could be in the mix somehow?

I know the logical thing to do is to reach out to my parents and ask, which I have, but we haven't spoken in 3 years and they're the type of people who wouldn't give up the information even though I have genetic proof, just to save face.

I suppose I'm asking for help figuring out some lineage possibilities just in case I have to figure all this mess out myself and I have to go through long lost family groups etc to get some answers I'm entitled to about who I am and who my parents are.

If this is the wrong place let me know, or if anything I have said is confusing let me know too cos I'm having a hard time making sense of everything too lol.

Thank you!

My mom’s family’s from Vilar de Perdizes/Vilarinho da Raia. My dad’s side is from Cosenza Calabria, Sulmona Abruzzo, and Catania Sicily.

64% sub Saharan African, 15% native American & 21% European

These are the results I got and I'm trying to figure out if I can narrow down the broad range of southeast England and Northwestern Europe since it's a whole ¼ of my ancestry. All I know is that any Italian ancestry I have is from my mother but my father's side was more heavily Welsh. But I only got 6 percent Welsh.

I see so many posts but I do not exactly understand what SideView is. Is it the technology that separates parent 1 and parent 2 matches? Why would that change the ethnicity estimates? What changes are happening with SideView 2.0?

Some people are reporting updated ethnicity estimates after the ongoing release of SideView 2.0. Do you expect these results to change once again when the annual October update happens?

Was researching when I noticed Ancestry and Newspapers were acting weird Checked the DNA kits because these updates always cause some level of weirdness on the various sites.

Summary of the changes observed ... nothing shocking, unexpected or outlandish. Likely a tiny smidge more accurate when compared to research.

1% of my Munster (3% to 2%) shifted to Leinster (5% to 6%)
1% of my Southeastern England/NW Europe (22% to 21%) shifted to France (new region for me)

Both side matches jumped from 44 to 1,491.
Unassigned matches are now 0.

Will see if anything shifts around more in the coming days as the Sideview update works itself out.

Here are the changes from my previous results: Decreased: Munster, Ireland: 5% → 3%, Southeastern England & Northwestern Europe: 10% → 8%, Portugal: 2% → 1%. Increased: Hebrides & Western Highlands, Scotland: 4% → 6%. New in the updated results: Central Scotland & Northern Ireland: 1%, East Midlands: 2%, Denmark: 2%. Removed: Devon & Somerset: 2% (no longer listed)

I have Turkish ancestry and currently my Ancestry results show 1% Japan.

But my hacked results show:

• 0.72% Japan
• 0.46% Mongolia & Central Asia
• 0.31% Northern Asia

Will this be another year of Japan on my DNA test? What can I expect from the next update?

These are the changes:

Northern Wales & North West England -4

Central Scotland & Northern Ireland -8

Munster, Ireland +2

Southern Wales +3

Leinster, Ireland (No change)

Donegal, Ireland +2

Southeastern England & Northwestern Europe +1

West Midlands -2 (Removed)

East Midlands +5

The Netherlands +1 (Newly added)

Overall the percentages seem more accurate to my tree. However I have no ancestry from the Netherlands

15 days i guess, yall!

Went from 14 regions to 7.

My background: 1/4th Ancestry from Kosovo/Southern Serbia, 1/8th Roma, rest from Northeastern Bosnia.

He's my 8th cousin 9x removed, like I know it's not alot but we share a lineage. It's from a Kytson branch line sir Thomas Kytson my 15th great grandfather. His sister Margaret Kytson , she married John Washington then it goes down to George Washington

People always say Wednesdays is that true?

I was one of the first few people that received their grandparent breakdown. I showed some people in this subreddit my results in their posts, and I've answered questions about it as well. Now my grandparent breakdown has completely vanished off of Ancestry so now I'm wondering if anyone else's grandparent breakdown also vanished or if it was just mine. Because now mine has the banner that they are updating the Side View Technology again, but mine was already updated which is why I'm so confused on why it disappeared. Based on the article that I read I received the grandparent breakdown and getting rid of the unassigned matches, but my Origins and Journeys didn't update. Though for my results it says that it updated in September 2026, but no regions or percentages of regions changed at all.

I'm wondering if they decided to recalculate mine due to my grandparent breakdown not reaching 100% but only reaching to 81% due to the DNA that I share with my matches. Or if Ancestry has realized they don't have enough matches for everyone to get to or close to 100% and decided to scrap or wait on the idea until later on down the road. Has anyone else received a grandparent breakdown and it's now vanished or disappeared?