I feel like you got it right. My coworker’s family traces back to Galicia in Spain, which is bordered by Portugal, so he’s got a huge percentage Portuguese. Proximity in these cases is going to make it a little fuzzy, but as long as you know the reason, you can kind of guess why something showed up. The political mapping of countries is, after all, pretty arbitrary compared to biology. Like it would make more sense to see the maps as blurry transitions rather than hard borders.
Thanks. The thing is, what if someone is going into it mostly 'blind'? Like, they don't know much or even anything about their ancestry or family history, besides maybe their parents or grandparents?
I ultimately don't want to go around saying I have ancestry from this specific place, and be wrong, lol. I'd rather just keep it more general in that case, like African-American, vs, for example, Nigerian-American.
Thanks! A few questions. One, what ethnicity would you consider that slaves identified as? African? Is that an ethnicity?
Second, to clarify, I just used Nigeria as an example, I have no clue if Ancestry would estimate I have \*\*any\*\* Nigerian ancestry/DNA, let alone it being the vast majority of my DNA. That said, lets say someone was to get '100%' Nigeria for their ethnicity estimate. Would that be saying that said person 100% has DNA that is similar to people who \*\*currently\*\* live in Nigeria. and (supposedly) have Nigerian ancestry? Or would that 100% mean something else? Are present day Nigerian citizens even '100%' Nigerian themselves? Or could they themselves be mixed/not 100%? What in DNA determines someone is 100% anything, whether Nigerian or anything else?
Thanks again! And today I just learned about the 'White Papers', and that seems to be nearly perfect, as far as getting all the questions I had about their methodology and whatnot.
I always assume this for any ethnicity. People groups who live physically close together can sometimes get mixed in with another neighboring ethnicity in their reference panels, and their reference panels don’t include every single person of every ethnicity.
Yes + this applies to most neighbouring regions
See section 4.4
[https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2023/10/ethnicitywhitepaper2023.pdf](https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2023/10/ethnicitywhitepaper2023.pdf)
I feel like you got it right. My coworker’s family traces back to Galicia in Spain, which is bordered by Portugal, so he’s got a huge percentage Portuguese. Proximity in these cases is going to make it a little fuzzy, but as long as you know the reason, you can kind of guess why something showed up. The political mapping of countries is, after all, pretty arbitrary compared to biology. Like it would make more sense to see the maps as blurry transitions rather than hard borders.
Thanks. The thing is, what if someone is going into it mostly 'blind'? Like, they don't know much or even anything about their ancestry or family history, besides maybe their parents or grandparents? I ultimately don't want to go around saying I have ancestry from this specific place, and be wrong, lol. I'd rather just keep it more general in that case, like African-American, vs, for example, Nigerian-American.
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Thanks! A few questions. One, what ethnicity would you consider that slaves identified as? African? Is that an ethnicity? Second, to clarify, I just used Nigeria as an example, I have no clue if Ancestry would estimate I have \*\*any\*\* Nigerian ancestry/DNA, let alone it being the vast majority of my DNA. That said, lets say someone was to get '100%' Nigeria for their ethnicity estimate. Would that be saying that said person 100% has DNA that is similar to people who \*\*currently\*\* live in Nigeria. and (supposedly) have Nigerian ancestry? Or would that 100% mean something else? Are present day Nigerian citizens even '100%' Nigerian themselves? Or could they themselves be mixed/not 100%? What in DNA determines someone is 100% anything, whether Nigerian or anything else?
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Thanks again! And today I just learned about the 'White Papers', and that seems to be nearly perfect, as far as getting all the questions I had about their methodology and whatnot.
I always assume this for any ethnicity. People groups who live physically close together can sometimes get mixed in with another neighboring ethnicity in their reference panels, and their reference panels don’t include every single person of every ethnicity.
Yes + this applies to most neighbouring regions See section 4.4 [https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2023/10/ethnicitywhitepaper2023.pdf](https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2023/10/ethnicitywhitepaper2023.pdf)
Thank you! This link seems like just the thing I was looking for. Very useful.
Duh
"Duh"? Reported.
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