Only seven months this time and another update of my DNA results, which now look like -
English is 14% (was 60%, 54% and 15%); Irish 7% (was 18% two years ago, then reduced to 2% and now back up again) and finally I have Norwegian of 2% (there was previous mention of Scandinavian/Swedish ethnicity of 8% but this disappeared until now).
Finally, Ancestry now make mention of "Ethnicity Inheritance". They explain this by saying that "Your maternal relatives share some DNA segments—as do your paternal relatives. By piecing together the DNA your matches share with you and each other, SideView™ technology groups your DNA by the parent it came from.
Once that’s done, we test the ethnicities of the DNA in both groups. This shows us which regions you inherited from each parent.
The size of our DNA database is what makes this work. With a network of over 20 million people, Ancestry can provide these results without testing your parents".
A chart is provided, which shows this result -
This all goes to show that DNA technology is always improving, even though the results evident sometimes vary quite significantly. I await the next update.
