Recently, Ancestry again updated their DNA Ethnicity Estimates, so I have again been studying my new, updated results. I have commented before that with every ethnicity estimate, my results seem to move further from my family tree as I know it. For the second time in a row the numbers moved a little back towards what my existing tree leads me to expect.
The table below shows my ethnicity estimates over the years since I first tested. It is worth noting that in 2018 and 2019 the Irish ethnicity represented Ireland and Scotland combined. According to my researched Family Tree, my father's family is 100% English back to the early 1700s and further and is primarily from the Essex/Suffolk area. My father's parents married in England before they came out to Australia. My mother's family is at mostly English with some Irish (a Great-Grandmother), German (Great-Great-Grandfather) and Scottish (Great-Great-Grandmother) mixed in. Most of her lines arrived in Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, and the various nationalities intermarried out here. This is not reflected in my ethnicity estimate.
I would love to know where the Ivory Coast/Ghana and Yorubaland heritage comes from - both are from my mother's side of the family and I have a suspicion I may eventually find slavery in my ancestry.
As I say just about every time I post about Ethnicity Estimates, we need to remember that these numbers are estimates only and can still be quite inaccurate.
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