A year ago I blogged about the paucity of identifiable German DNA in the current round of ethnicity estimates: Where Did All The German-Americans Come From? In that post I described the ethnicity reports of my wife who descends from 5 great-grandparents who have roots in what is today Northern Germany and Northwest Poland. The other 3 were from Ireland, Scotland and England.
This past weekend I was struck with the similarity of the ethnicity estimates Debbie Kennett self reported and those predicted for my wife. The only problem is that all of Debbie's known ancestral lines appear to have been in the British Isles for at least the last few centuries and most of them have been in England.
As I read Debbie's post, Comparing admixture results from AncestryDNA, 23andMe and Family Tree DNA, I speculated as to whether it would be obvious, to those shown the test reports for Debbie and those for my wife Denise, which woman had ancestry almost completely from the Isles and which had ancestry predominately from Germany/Prussia. I'll let you be the judge.
| Ethnicity Estimates | Debbie | Denise | ||
| AncestryDNA | ||||
| Europe | 100% | 100% | ||
| Europe West | 47% | 15% | ||
| Great Britain | 21% | 33% | ||
| Ireland | 20% | 32% | ||
| Iberian Peninsula | 8% | |||
| Europe East | 12% | |||
| Scandanavia | 8% | |||
| Trace | 4% | |||
| myOrigins (FTDNA) | ||||
| European | 100.00% | 98.00% | ||
| British Isles | 57.00% | 78.00% | ||
| Western & Central Europe | 22.00% | |||
| Southern Europe | 12.00% | |||
| Scandanavia | 5.00% | 3.00% | ||
| Finland & Northern Siberia | 3.00% | 6.00% | ||
| Eastern Europe | 1.00% | 11.00% | ||
| Asia Minor | 2.00% | |||
| 23andMe | ||||
| European | 100.00% | 99.80% | ||
| British & Irish | 56.10% | 42.60% | ||
| French & German | 13.40% | 5.90% | ||
| Scandanavian | 4.20% | 8.80% | ||
| Northern European | 24.00% | 36.80% | ||
| Eastern European | 3.20% | |||
| Iberian | 0.40% | |||
| Southern European | 0.20% | 0.30% | ||
| European | 1.90% | 2.20% | ||
| Yakut | 0.10% | |||
| North African | 0.10% | |||
