Ancestry DNA Now Shows County-Level UK Ethnicity Results
An announcement today explains that Ancestry DNA has added UK county-level ethnicity results to their DNA story. If you’ve tested at Ancestry DNA, just go to your “DNA Story” and you might see some of these new communities!
New Communities on My Mom’s Side
On my mom’s side, my uncle has a new region called “Scottish Lowlands, Northern England & Northern Ireland.” I have yet to trace any of my mom’s ancestors to England or Ireland, but from other members of this community, it looks like it’s on my mom’s mom’s side.
New Communities on My Dad’s Side
My dad’s side also got a new community: Yorkshire & East Midlands, England. My 3rd great grandfather, James EASTWOOD, was born in Yorkshire! He immigrated in about 1850, and his wife and two children arrived in New York on 5 August 1851.
You can read more about how I discovered the Eastwood’s origin in England in my post, My First Jump Across the Pond. Before their immigration to America, the family had been living in Lancashire. And, James Eastwood: No Stranger to Death tells more of this family’s story.
What About Your Family?
Do you have any new communities from the UK with this new feature? And, if so, do you know which of your ancestor’s belonged to that community? I’d love to hear about it! The announcement said there are now 73 UK communities on Ancestry DNA!
I don’t see any communities, anywhere.
Hi. Not everyone will have communities. But, to see them try this: go to your DNA home page and click on “Discover Your DNA Story.” If you have any communities, they show up on the map as orange areas surrounded by white dotted lines. On the list on the right hand side, they have a similar symbol – an orange circle surrounded by a broken orange circle. I only had one before, and now I have two with the addition of the UK community.
Yes, I got a new estimate from Norfolk, which is exactly where my 2nd great grandfather was born and left for America from there. It was right on.
Nice!
I am reported as 95% UK, 3% German, 2% Norway. My brother is reported as 100% UK. Much of my maternal family is from Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. Those were represented in the ethnicity by subdivisions for East of England, and further subdivided as Essex and East Anglia. Others ancestors are from Scotland and Devon. Those were not represented, except as generic UK. Most of my paternal family emigrated from northern Germany and that region is included in both the UK region and the northern Germany region. One great grandfather’s origins are mixed and unknown. For my German surnames, I found that the Geogen web site does a good job of localizing most, despite dispursing influences from 175 years and 2 world wars.
Interesting! I’m not familiar with the Geogen website and will have to check it out.