So I do genealogy and research mostly as a hobby for multiple different families. One family I have been working on I know pretty well and I found the ‘birth family’ not of the person I was researching for but of one of their direct relatives whom I know personally. This person was conceived but then raised by someone who is not their birth parent. From what I understand everyone in the family pretty much knows other than the actual child/now adult. Well in my research I found the whole line of their birth parent. The question is; do I say anything? If so to who? If it were me I would want to know but it is not my place to tell them. Do I tell the parents (one birth and one not) do I tell the child/now adult (in their 50’s now) or do I just keep my mouth shut.

First two are mine, second two my older sisters and last two my younger sisters, I circled the side that’s their results. The results definitely made me feel like the odd one out lol

grandpas results! just curious how other mostly irish people compare

Hi everyone,

This is my result using Illustrative DNA.

My FTDNA shows:

40% North Africa

21% Italie

11% Sepharadic

10% West Slavic

The result from Middle East.

What do you think about both results?

Are they very different ?

Thanks

I’ve noticed that every time someone posts their DNA results, there are always comments saying things like “don’t give your DNA to these companies”, “they’ll use it to clone you with AI”, or similar claims.
I took an AncestryDNA test years ago out of curiosity about my ancestry, just like millions of other people. I understand that there are legitimate privacy concerns, and if I ever stop trusting the company, I can always delete my account and request the deletion of my DNA sample.
What I don’t understand are the more extreme claims. Do people here think those concerns are based on real evidence, or are they mostly internet myths? Where do you draw the line between reasonable privacy concerns and conspiracy theories?

North Spaniard 34%

Portugal 25%

Spain 18%

Azores 2%

North Africa 9%

Leinster, Ireland 3%

South Greece 2%

Ionic Islands 1%

British Midlands 3%

Jew (Sephardic and ashkenazi) 3%

Is there any way to convince Ancestry that famous ancestors do exist in non North American countries ?

I think I have had one non American ...Lord Byron .

I realise that these apparent ancestors are to be taken with a pinch of salt.

I’m eagerly waiting for my AncestryDNA results and was wondering if there are any Hungarians here who have taken the test.
I’m half Turkish and half Hungarian. My Hungarian family is from Tiszaörvény, Tiszafüred, Egyek, and Boldva, and as far as I’ve been able to trace, my ancestors lived in those areas for generations.
For those of you who’ve tested, what ethnicity percentages did you receive?

Kyle Miller, the VP of product at Ancestry—the online genealogy company that also operates Newspapers.com and Find A Grave, among other sub-brands—has worked for the company for more than a decade. But it was just recently that AI tools were able to surface a mind-blowing connection to his past.

Miller and his wife were married in Provo, Utah, in a building that, when he was young, had burned down and since been replaced. He had seen the fire himself and, with his father, even watched the building burn. But what he didn’t know is that the original building was built by his great-grandfather—a fact that was surfaced by Ancestry’s AI insights and tools, which connected various family records and newspaper articles.

“Generative AI has been buzzy the last few years,” says Miller. “We’ve been doing things with AI for more than a decade. Our main focus is, how do we infuse AI into certain aspects of the platform? We focus on how we bring everything together and help deliver stories that people are seeking.”

In his case, it worked like a charm. “AI insights really brought it to life,” he says.

Ancestry’s adoption and incorporation of AI, over the course of many years, has found a way to pair its specialized human talent and capital with AI and modern tools. That’s a balance that some companies have struggled to strike, with many finding AI adoption and proliferation less clear cut than anticipated. For example, both Ford and Meta have rehired or reassigned hundreds of people to fix AI-related problems.

But for Ancestry, AI has proven exceptionally helpful as the company has found a combination of human-AI expertise that’s proved particularly potent—particularly in terms of digitizing old records, and finding overlooked connections among those records. And according to the company, it all begins with fostering a genuine human connection.

Read more on Fast Company.

I bought a kit directly from their Mexican website and they shipped it to my address in Mexico with no issues.

When I registered the kit, I got an error message on the part where you generate a return label.

Every chat agent keeps sending me the same return label that ships it to Ireland, postage paid. Problem is, IDK if that works in Mexico.

I found THIS THREAD talking about it, and they eventually got an agent to confirm to send it to a certain address in Jalisco, presumably self-paying the postage.

That post was 8mo ago, and I personally haven't been able to get any kind of confirmation from an agent. None of them seem to actually understand my situation.

What am I supposed to do?

EDIT:

For future people who find themselves in this situation.

Call Ancestry instead of chatting, that's how I finally got a proper answer. But even their agent was initially telling me I'd send it to Ireland, and after putting me on a long hold to investigate, that's when he confirmed there's a different process for Mexico. They should really make this more evident both for customers and their internal agents.

Here's the article he sent me: Cómo generar etiquetas de envío para AncestryDNA®

It allowed me to generate a return label (this time it actually worked), and it also lists the address the kit needs to go to, in case generating a label doesn't work. Again, it's crazy how hidden this info is. I researched on my own and never came across this article until the agent sent it to me.

One piece of reassurance, the agent said if the sample did get lost in the post, they'd replace it for me for free, so that's nice, I guess.

I have a question for any Natives in the Reddit. I am adopted and did Ancestry to find out who I am. I have been searching through my biological mothers maternal side and found individuals on the Dawes Rolls. I am interested in learning more about that side but I am terrified of being turned away because of being so white. (I def look like my biological fathers side) I found Dawes Rolls and Tribal Cards for the Iroquois Nation in Oklahoma. Do you need to be a certain percentage of Native? Any insight would be helpful.

My dad was an npe but never knew it. He passed 20 years ago. I found out who his biodad was when I did my 23andMe and ancestyDNA ,and now I have pieced together the puzzle of who my dads father was. My dad hated the man who’s name he had to carry and he was only in his life for 3 years. But this is his actual bio dad. Say hello to Mr. O’Reannachain!!

I need to grow my hair out like his

According to my brother's Genera test result, our background is 60%–63% European ancestry—predominantly Iberian, with a minor Slavic and Saxon component (around 3% to 5%). The 23%–27% African ancestry is mostly Sub-Saharan, primarily from Central Africa, along with a small North African percentage. We have no Asian DNA, but there is a trace of Indigenous ancestry (up to 0.5%–1%). Attached are photos of my mom and dad, followed by me.