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I recently received an AncestryDNA test that was wildly inaccurate, what do I have to stand on?
I recently received an AncestryDNA test that stated that I was 100% descended from an area of the U.K. through and through Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
My father, is French, with Spanish and Italian roots and no British roots whatsoever and my mother is from Leeds, but has incredibly strong Germanic roots which make her more Germanic that English which have been found through historical records and has had a 23andme test which confirms at least 70% Germanic. I am the spitting image of my father (Mediterranean, olive skin, black hair, brown eyes.... I do not look British whatsoever) I understand that these tests can vary greatly but to be told 100% English, in particular specifically Yorkshire through and through, is insane as it’s quite obvious that I am not.... 90% English I would’ve had to convince myself to believe.... but to be 100% my parents tests would be very similar.
None of my 22,000 matches, match any surnames in my family, neither do any of their family trees match anyone from my family tree of 500ish people.
AncestryDNA have tried to tell me that through thousands of years, both halves of my family are originally from Yorkshire, but this could not possibly be true and both my mother’s and her brother’s tests are similar to each other and wildly dispute my test.
I’m not adopted, I could not look more like my father.
I honestly don’t believe that these can be my results.
What ground do I have to stand on here?
2 Answers
- BillybeanLv 79 months ago
"None" is the answer to your actual question. These things are cheap nonsense anyway, designed to get money off of gullible fools like yourself.
If push came to shove, their simple response would be "That's what the tests show, irrespective of what the client may otherwise like to believe."
- StephenWeinsteinLv 79 months ago
It doesn't have to be 1000s of years. And it's almost absurd for you to say that anyone was French with no British roots whatsoever. Here's why:
About 1000 years ago, various waves of immigrants (Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans, etc.) force out the original population of what is today England (or just killed them) and many ended up in what is now France. Other than recent immigrants, it's unlikely that any of the French don't have English roots. (Although, since the Normans were from what is now France, it's similarly unlikely that any of the English don't have French roots.)