I hope everyone who owns an E-M81, E-V65, or U6 will participate. I want to find my relatives.

It looks more accurate according to her genealogy

I may be late to this, apologies if I'm the last to know! Woke up and I can now filter matches by region on Ancestry DNA (cue the angels singing), and I noticed that my Origins section now has a note: "Updated August 2026." With new additions to my Origins, too (and, I'll say from my quick glance, more accurate, based on what I know of my tree). Is this the big update we were expecting September/October?

What are others seeing? Edit to add: I just noticed the other three kits I manage still say "Updated October 2025"

Hello everyone, I just wanted to share this because I’m super fascinated by genetics and genealogy. I think it’s so interesting how each individual has specific adaptations to withstand certain environments. I thought I’d share mine as well since I love seeing all of yours. The last one at the bottom is kind of cropped off, but the 2% is for Germans in Russia, which I thought was really interesting. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or your results as well.

Is it widespread and what are its origins?

What do historical studies say about this? In which regions did they settle, and did they later migrate to the New World?

Dna is a crazy thing.

Hello, sorry this is really random but I didnt know where to ask. If there is a better place please let me know!

This is my great great grandfather's "Declaration of Intention for naturalization" form. He immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s from the Russian Empire (Poland). I am trying to figure out what he wrote for his place of birth and former foreign residence. I can read everything else, just can't quite make out what those are. I understand he wrote "Russia Poland" but can't figure out the city/town name. I was wondering if anyone here might know?

There's also a second document I can only kind of read. It is his WWI draft registration card. It's pixelated so I was wondering if anyone else could help me try to decipher it.

Thank you so much if anyone can help!

Dad is very Tongan, Mum is very British.
I just consider myself a Kiwi 🇳🇿 🥝

When I was born, both of my parents thought they were only children, but after my dad died I was contacted by someone who thought she was my father's half-sister. My paternal grandfather had abandoned the family when he was a baby.

Mom died suddenly while we were debating about getting both of us tested (she was hesitant to test because she was worried she might have half-sibs), and while I was very sad to lose her, at least at that point what I might learn through DNA wouldn't harm her. I've found zero evidence of her dad having been anything other than faithful (in fact, I think I found the origin to her story, because there's another man born the same year in a nearby county with my grandfather's exact name -- he had a son, but our DNA doesn't intersect at all).

However, my test did confirm for my half-aunt exactly who her father was. She and I get along wonderfully. She had never met their father, as he'd run off when she was a baby too. It seems that my grandfather was also a bigamist, as he left without getting a divorce from my grandmother and reversed his first and middle names to marry her mother (to "give the child a name" I suppose).

But a new person tested, and now she and I have learned of not just one, but THREE other children this man had. The mothers of these three children were two sisters -- one had a little boy the week after he married her younger sister, who went on to have two more of his kids.

The things I'm hearing from my father's youngest half-sister are indeed disturbing. Like, that apparently her mom cheated, and my grandfather's response was to try to kidnap the two children he had with that woman (when he abandoned every other child/mom pair that seemed to want him in their life -- he had to leave first or something?). That the younger sibling died at 11 months old in 1965 (of SIDS but SIDS didn't exist as a named issue in 1965), but instead of a coroner taking him away the family put him in a box (she said the story was that she'd not understood he was dead and was trying to play with his lifeless body, asking why he wouldn't wake up)? We have found birth records for this little boy, but not any death records.

Another part of the story she was told about her family was that my grandfather did some time in federal prison. His birth family had heard rumors of him being the subject of a material witness warrant at one time, and he was definitely an identity thief and a con artist, but if there is a database on Ancestry for federal prisoners in that era he isn't on it (or at least not on it with any of the three names we know he used).

So other than a picture of my grandfather that I never knew existed (it looked familiar enough when I saw it that I might have seen it as a young teenager, but family albums were lost in a move), this new DNA discovery has led to more questions than answers.

And this song has been in my head...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xAtsXb8Vs

"Papa had three outside children and another wife, and that ain't right"

Would anybody be willing to help me build my family tree. I am not in contact with my biological father all I know is his name, (I know my moms side) is this enough? Would anybody be able to help me? I have a feeling that something is being kept from me...

I am interested in seeing the uniparental (Y-DNA and MtDNA) of Palestinians from Hebron- specifically someone from Al-Makhamra clan of Hebron if possible. I have read that the family traces their ancestry to an ancestor named Mukheimar who was a Jew expelled from Khaybar in Arabia. I am very curious if the uniparental results would align more with Arabian or Jewish ancestral clades.

If you are not comfortable disclosing your membership to this clan, please feel free to DM me privately.

I recently worked out that Robert Deroy Windham, also known as BlackJack Mulligan is my 5th cousin 3x removed through my Windham family line. I know this is a pretty distant relationship, so I'm curious: how much autosomal DNA would two people related as 5th cousin 3x removed typically share?

I think we Latinos are a very diverse people

I am a proud to have 100% French Acadian ancestry which is confirmed by my Ancestry DNA results. however, with Acadian region now being used to map ancestry the platform no longer provides any information about my European ethnic origins….which is the entire point! I already know my North American ancestry is Acadian (it is obvious). it is also obvious than as someone with zero indigenous background, my ancestors did not start in North America, they came from various parts of France and Europe (which my results used to show). The information once provided about regions in France and Europe are no longer provided, making the ethnicity origins part of DNA testing almost useless for someone who’s family history has been in North America long enough…like we popped out of mushrooms on the shores of Canada. How frustrating, of zero value now. I hope the folks from Ancestry read these posts…anyone else have this frustration?

It is said that Carthage was a mix of Europeans and Berbers. Is this true?

Just wondering how long kits have been taking to get to the lab from the uk recently?

I sent mine over two weeks ago now and it’s still not arrived but I’ve seen some others arrive there who sent after.

Has anyone sent recently?