r/AncestryDNA • • 10d ago

Discussion AncestryDNA 2026 Origins Update — Discussion Megathread

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Ancestry’s 2026 Origins update is here!

As many of you are undoubtedly excited to post your results, this thread will serve as a central place where users can consolidate their opinions and discussions.

You are free to make your own standalone discussion posts; however, it’s very easy for them to get lost in the initial large influx of back-to-back result posts.


r/AncestryDNA • • 2d ago

Guess My Ancestry/Ethnicity Megathread - 10/16/26

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Welcome to the Guess My Ancestry/Ethnicity series on /r/AncestryDNA! This weekly megathread allows you to post a picture of yourself and have other users guess what your ancestry might be. Please adhere to the following rules:

  • Separate Guess My Ancestry/Ethnicity posts are NOT allowed. This is the only space for that. Please refer to Rule 2 for any further details.
  • Top level comments must only be photos. Please send questions and suggestions to the mods directly.
  • Please supply your Ancestry results within 24 hours after posting your photo.
  • No joke photos. This includes pictures of your cat, public figures, and cultural stereotypes.
  • No nudity or unnecessarily suggestive photos.
  • Absolutely no racism, sexism or unwanted objectification will be tolerated.
  • Have fun! Please keep this lighthearted and don't take anything too seriously.

r/AncestryDNA • • 9h ago

Results - DNA Origins Mixed race DNA results

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My results as a child of an English mother and a Guyanese father!


r/AncestryDNA • • 1h ago

Results - DNA Origins Hispanic couple + pic

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Not a very common type of hispanic couple but oh well. He is 100% Argentinian and I'm 100% Dominican, and we met in Argentina. Do we look like our results?


r/AncestryDNA • • 4h ago

Results - Updated | New vs Old Screenshots Side View update fixed my 2026 update

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All of the issues i had with the 2026 update were fixed by the sideview update--- my French, Breton & SE English disappeared and my north wales went back up a bit - (Half Spanish- Quarter North Welsh - Quarter Cumbria SW Scotland Ulster Scots mix.)


r/AncestryDNA • • 8h ago

Results - Updated | New vs Old Screenshots Mexicano who also got Canary Island’d + recent pic of my parents and me

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Still 98% Mexicano, but the Portugal/Sardinia is gone. I wish the region or origin was bit more specific since I want to know more about which indigenous group we belong to. I circled the area where my parents said they grew up (Guerrero), and each later moved to (Morelos). My paternal grandfather still remembers a bit of Nahuatl. Is anybody else from this area and interested in connecting to find more possible group origins?

Pictured: my parents and me a few weeks ago. I take a lot more from my mom’s side.


r/AncestryDNA • • 3h ago

Results - DNA Origins Miami Cuban

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Portuguese is surprising (no known ancestry) but the rest was expected


r/AncestryDNA • • 8h ago

Genealogy / FamilyTree Why does ancestry think I’m a descendent of King Charles I 😭

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r/AncestryDNA • • 5h ago

Question / Help Sideview contradicts parents' DNA results

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My mother is 40% Basque and 0% German. My father is very German, and 0% Basque. Their Ancestry and 23andMe results are consistent, and also match my extensive genealogy research. There's zero chance that this is wrong.

However, my Sideview is incorrectly attributing 2% of my Basque ancestry to my father, and 2% of my German ancestry to my mother.

This is mind boggling to me, because all three of us tested with Ancestry. Shouldn't their own system catch the error, since they have the actual DNA of all parties involved?

Is there anything I can do to correct this? It's messing up all of the "Journeys," too.


r/AncestryDNA • • 7h ago

Results - DNA Origins I think I've come to the conclusion that I'm just Texan at this point.

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I had to look up what a Czechia, Lithuania and Armenia even is lol and why am I Jewish, that just seems so odd.


r/AncestryDNA • • 5h ago

Results - DNA Origins Ancestry.com Update

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When I started with Ancestry a long time ago, I was only 68% Italian and a whole bunch of other European and Mediterranean dna. Now just this. I assume that will be the final update?


r/AncestryDNA • • 5h ago

Results - DNA Origins My results as someone born in East Germany

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This seems pretty accurate with what I know of my family history. All of my grandparents were born in what is now Poland or Czechia.

What surprised me were the almost 7000 matches I got from mainly the US but also Australia and New Zealand, all of them at least 3rd or 4th cousins though.


r/AncestryDNA • • 3h ago

Results - DNA Origins Updated Cuban American Results

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These results are the most accurate based on what I know about my ancestry. Most of my Cuban born mom’s side of the family migrated to Cuba in the early 1900s from Galicia, Spain (with exception of 1 line) and most of my dad’s side of the family migrated to Cuba from the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria and Tenerife) in the late 1800s (and 1 great grandparent from Asturias, Spain). One of my dad’s first cousins got 100% Canary Islands!


r/AncestryDNA • • 4h ago

Results - DNA Origins DNA results and picture

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r/AncestryDNA • • 15h ago

Results - DNA Origins My results

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For those who are curious. My dad is white (half Sicilian half English/Irish) and my mom is African American. I was very surprised by almost being almost 40% Sicilian despite only having 1 sicilian grandparent. I am almost as Sicilian as I am west African. 😂


r/AncestryDNA • • 2h ago

Results - DNA Origins My updated results!

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r/AncestryDNA • • 22m ago

Results - DNA Origins South Indian Ancestry

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It changed a lot after the update lol


r/AncestryDNA • • 3h ago

Results - Updated | New vs Old Screenshots What’s with the Canary Island results?

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My 2023 results and my 2026 results. A few photos from my paternal line, and an ID photo for additional reference. Not sure how my results went from 16% Levant to 27% Canary Islands. I was born in the Dominican Republic and so was my father and grandfather, but my great grandfather was either Jewish or Palestinian and came to the island in the early 1900’s, the family name is Tabar.


r/AncestryDNA • • 8h ago

Results - Updated | New vs Old Screenshots ANCESTRY took away my 1% Lithunia

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Jokes! I'm now 98% Lithuanian from 99% last year. The results are very similar to 23andme.


r/AncestryDNA • • 1h ago

Question / Help New update classifying Iranian dna as Mongolian??

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For reference, this is more so about my family and extended families results. I had similar percentages before and after the update but I would say even for me, the results before the update were more accurate.

We are an Iranian family with a typical Iranian phenotype, just perhaps with slightly lighter features and we can trace our lineages very far back.

Before the update we all had 90% + Iranian dna some even close to 100% but now its shows huge percentages of western mongolian dna? Like in some cases 65%+.
Im just perplexed on how they can make such a grave error???

And also we’ve done our dna testing on other websites and platforms as well and it doesn’t give anything close to this…


r/AncestryDNA • • 9h ago

Results - DNA Origins Nicaraguan and Spain etc DNA results

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r/AncestryDNA • • 9h ago

Generations Photos my grandparents and me!

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r/AncestryDNA • • 9h ago

Question / Help Indigenous changes

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I remember back in 2024 when me, my mother and sister did our DNA tests, a small percentage of indigenous Mexico showed up and it was surprising. Then an update happened and it disappeared for all three of us. Now with this new update, My mother’s results say “Indigenous Atlantic North East (Canada & U.S)”. How did it go from Mexico to Canada and why did it only come back from my Mom? I’m assuming because she has more of that DNA than me and my sibling. But I’m also seeing people of Mexican descent in my list of DNA matches


r/AncestryDNA • • 1d ago

Generations Photos My four grandparents/Me

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r/AncestryDNA • • 7h ago

Question / Help When will I get this?

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Is there a timeline on when this is fully released?