Comments on: You’ve Received Your AncestryDNA Results. Now What?

By: Audrey Babbitt

Audrey Babbitt — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:09:44 +0000

I still do not understand the DNA reports and need help to understand their meaning.

How do I get this help?

By: Rosanna Ward

Rosanna Ward — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:41:38 +0000

My DNA test came back that I am 99% Scandinavian which seems crazy to me (I did take the Beta test cheek swab) But am to understand correctly that if my sister or brother took the same test they may come back with different ethnicities? I just don’t understand.

By: Karen Peterson

Karen Peterson — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:22:33 +0000

I have a tree on Ancestry. There is a potential cousin who also has a tree on Ancestry, but that person took the 23andme DNA test. I would like to see if we are a match. If I take the Ancestry DNA test, is there any way that I can compare the Ancestry DNA with this potential cousin or would it be better to take the 23andme test. There is a possible adoption in my tree and I want to prove/disprove it.

By: Cindi

Cindi — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:59:56 +0000

I’m confused because my DNA came back as mainly Central European and Middle Eastern and I keep getting matched to people who are British Isles. I have zero percent British Isles and one of my matches was 100% British Isles.

I’m satisfied with my actual DNA Results, but the matches don’t seem to be very acurate.

By: Cynthia Moe

Cynthia Moe — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:26:41 +0000

I have two ancestors that were from Road Island. You have them on my DNA map in Washington State. Is there any way that it can be changed? I would like to have them on the map correctly.

By: Edith Soto

Edith Soto — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:48:57 +0000

I am still working on the information on my tree and I have done the DNA test. The results have been received. However, I would like to know what happens if I do a correction on my tree what will happen to the results. I believe that one of the ancestors that start a part of the tree may not be correct.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:05:47 +0000

Is my DNA test paternal and maternal? It seems to only cover my Grandmothers side.

By: Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:20:46 +0000

Hi–love the amazing potential of all this, and was lucky enough to be one of the beta testers. I do have some questions still.

First-the pins in my map show nearly 70 places (just in the United States alone) that are birthplaces of my matches. Most are birthplaces of several people in my tree. It is so difficult to try to plow through the map looking for matches. Is there a place that lists our matches so we can find them more easily?

Second, a family tree of a cousin of mine had two DIFFERENT people listed as parents of our mutual great grandfather. The DNA match for her showed HER choice as matches, plus several more generations back. My tree also showed matches of a completely different couple I thought were his parents, plus even more matches for their ancestors!

How is this possible? How can two completely different couples be matches for the same man? Very confused.

Also, please ask the web site designers to come up with a simpler method to look at the “cousin matches” It would be nice to have a notation that tells you if there is a common ancestor found, or if the tree is private or if that person doesn’t even have a tree. The current web site is awfully cumbersome to navigate.

But thanks for the presentation! Hope there will be others.

By: Trevor Thacker

Trevor Thacker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:51:54 +0000

Louretta, With the new AncestryDNA test, your sample is collected via a saliva sample. This article provides more information: http://ancstry.me/SeUDdD

By: TC

TC — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:41:49 +0000

For those that took the test last fall, we did mouth swabbing. Those that get it now are given the saliva collection method. A dna customer service rep stated (when I called to ask about it) that they found those whom did the atDNA testing via cheek swabbing may not be completely accurate, and why they changed the collection process to the saliva based one.

My sons testing was this way as is the other tests we received. My son does show up at a 99% match as a parent/child and his results show some similar names as my own, but I suspect my results are more of a mtDNA testing, perhaps by accident, but using his results, helps to narrow down which matches whom show low confidence to even correspond with.

He also has several other close matches I do not know, so either they did not show up in mine (say from my fathers side) or they come from his own fathers side. Its been interesting!