Hmm. I was 99% Europe, of which 88% was southwest England, and I had smidgens of Ireland and Scandinavia in there. Now I am 100% England, Wales and Northwestern Europe - and the England part is Devon and Cornwall! Fancy that! I'm from Devon! *deep sarcasm* I suppose it's marginally better than being told my great-grandmother (born Cornwall, married Cornwall, died Cornwall) was from Africa, which is what they originally said... Ros Haywood ------ Original Message ------ From: "Mike Rendle" <northdevonrendle@outlook.com> To: "devon@rootsweb.com" <devon@rootsweb.com> Sent: 16/12/2018 23:19:45 Subject: [DEV] Re: DNA ~~~ >The following is from Ancestry’s FAQ which explains why ethnicity estimates have changed. > >Best regards > >Mike Rendle >How could my estimate change over time? > >Your ethnicity estimate is based on the data we have and the methods we use to compare your results to that data. Because we're always collecting more data and our methods are constantly improving, your estimate may change over time. > >What might change? > >Your percentages for a region could change. Some new regions could appear. Some old regions, especially low-percentage regions, could disappear. Or you might not see much change at all. > >You could see new regions. > >When AncestryDNA launched in 2012, we compared your DNA against 22 possible regions. We now have more than 380. > >You could see old regions turn into new ones. > >For example, instead of one Iberian Peninsula region, we now have separate regions for Spain, Portugal, and Basque. And our Asia East region has been replaced by China, Korea and Northern Asia, Japan, Southeast Asia—Dai (Tai), Southeast Asia—Vietnam, and Philippines. > >You could see new percentages—higher or lower. > >Not only have new data and new methods enabled AncestryDNA to identify new regions, they have also improved our ability to determine how likely it is you belong to a region. These improvements mean that your percentages for a region could go up or down. > >You could see regions drop off your estimate. > >Because what AncestryDNA knows about the relationships between regions and DNA has improved, some regions may disappear from your estimate. This may be particularly true of regions that included 0% in the possible range on your earlier estimate. > >Sent from my iPad > >On 16 Dec 2018, at 23:05, Mike Gould <mike.gould@ndirect.co.uk<mailto:mike.gould@ndirect.co.uk>> wrote: > >Hi Joy & All, > > "We have updated your DNA results, do you want to see the updated >version? > >Yes, you're not the only one to get completely different results after this >message. I know someone who had the same experience. All I can assume is >that Ancestry got things completely wrong first time around. Whether they >have now got it "right", or even "more righter than before", who knows ? >They should repeat the advertisements that showed people smiling when they >received their first ethnicity results, except this time they should show >them rolling on the floor laughing when they get the updated ethnicity >results ;-) > >Best wishes > >Mike Gould > >_______________________________________________ >------------------------------------------ >The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >_______________________________________________ >Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref >Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com >Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 >Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog >RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

This is what I was told in 2011: “In this test, your STR (Short Tandem Repeat loci in DNA) profile was compared with DNA profiles generated from 5,000 individuals from a number of geographic regions within Europe representing different populations. Using a formula developed to ascertain the population your profile most closely matches, a list was generated that shows range of population fits from most likely to least likely”. It is not DNA matching. Every time the population changes the results change and the very act of submitting a sample changes the population. Not very scientific. Ethnicity tests really only lists the places where you can walk into a pub and there is a small chance that you and one of the other customers have a small chance of having the same strand of DNA. A few weeks ago I saw the Who Do You Think You Are with Jonny Peacock who comes from a small island off the cost of Donegal. Along with a few on the mainline his DNA goes straight back to the first inhabitants of Ireland. No invaders, migrants etc. reached this far. It's all a statistical sleight of hand Cheers Paul -----Original Message----- From: Ros Haywood [mailto:ros.haywood@gmail.com] Sent: 17 December 2018 11:15 To: devon@rootsweb.com Subject: [DEV] Re: DNA ~~~ Hmm. I was 99% Europe, of which 88% was southwest England, and I had smidgens of Ireland and Scandinavia in there. Now I am 100% England, Wales and Northwestern Europe - and the England part is Devon and Cornwall! Fancy that! I'm from Devon! *deep sarcasm* I suppose it's marginally better than being told my great-grandmother (born Cornwall, married Cornwall, died Cornwall) was from Africa, which is what they originally said... Ros Haywood ------ Original Message ------ From: "Mike Rendle" <northdevonrendle@outlook.com> To: "devon@rootsweb.com" <devon@rootsweb.com> Sent: 16/12/2018 23:19:45 Subject: [DEV] Re: DNA ~~~ >The following is from Ancestry’s FAQ which explains why ethnicity estimates have changed. > >Best regards > >Mike Rendle >How could my estimate change over time? > >Your ethnicity estimate is based on the data we have and the methods we use to compare your results to that data. Because we're always collecting more data and our methods are constantly improving, your estimate may change over time. > >What might change? > >Your percentages for a region could change. Some new regions could appear. Some old regions, especially low-percentage regions, could disappear. Or you might not see much change at all. > >You could see new regions. > >When AncestryDNA launched in 2012, we compared your DNA against 22 possible regions. We now have more than 380. > >You could see old regions turn into new ones. > >For example, instead of one Iberian Peninsula region, we now have separate regions for Spain, Portugal, and Basque. And our Asia East region has been replaced by China, Korea and Northern Asia, Japan, Southeast Asia—Dai (Tai), Southeast Asia—Vietnam, and Philippines. > >You could see new percentages—higher or lower. > >Not only have new data and new methods enabled AncestryDNA to identify new regions, they have also improved our ability to determine how likely it is you belong to a region. These improvements mean that your percentages for a region could go up or down. > >You could see regions drop off your estimate. > >Because what AncestryDNA knows about the relationships between regions and DNA has improved, some regions may disappear from your estimate. This may be particularly true of regions that included 0% in the possible range on your earlier estimate. > >Sent from my iPad > >On 16 Dec 2018, at 23:05, Mike Gould <mike.gould@ndirect.co.uk<mailto:mike.gould@ndirect.co.uk>> wrote: > >Hi Joy & All, > > "We have updated your DNA results, do you want to see the updated >version? > >Yes, you're not the only one to get completely different results after this >message. I know someone who had the same experience. All I can assume is >that Ancestry got things completely wrong first time around. Whether they >have now got it "right", or even "more righter than before", who knows ? >They should repeat the advertisements that showed people smiling when they >received their first ethnicity results, except this time they should show >them rolling on the floor laughing when they get the updated ethnicity >results ;-) > >Best wishes > >Mike Gould > >_______________________________________________ >------------------------------------------ >The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >_______________________________________________ >Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref >Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com >Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 >Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog >RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community