My DNA Surprises

A few surprises lurking in my Ancestry DNA results. I wasn't expecting that! One thing it found, my dad is definitely my dad. though I didn't doubt that. My mother's ancestry might be a lot more varied than I though considering what I got from her side.

Double checked with tests on GEDMatch and DNAland to get back up results. It seems to be fairly consistent - there is Native American and I am a lot more continental EU than I am British. I am also pretty Irish (the biggest proportion of my DNA) and a bit Spanish/Portuguese, Scandinavian and Italian as well as a bit from Melanesia and the Caucasus. I am going to have to do some exploring and investigating to discover how. The proportions they are in suggest mid to late late 1700s or early 1800s. There were a few sailors in my family at that point so I need to find out where they went.

Going by my mum's contribution (I used phasing on GEDMatch) I am pretty much everything from everywhere.

The family history part was going well but I discovered royal connections and am now pretty sure I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

DNA is a very peculiar thing. I uploaded somewhere that told me I should have green eyes and be 166cm tall. Which is just as well since I I have greenish eyes and tell people I am 167cm tall (but only when I stretch).

AncestryDNA Ranges
Asia Central 0 - 1%
Asia South 0 - less than 1%
Ireland 23 – 51%
Great Britain 0 – 60%
Europe West 0 – 57%
Iberian Peninsula 0 – 6%
Scandinavia 0 – 7%
Europe East 0 – 2%
European Jewish 0- 2%
Italy/Greece 0 -1%
Finland/Russia 0 - 1%
Native American 0 - 1%
Melanesia 0 - less than 1%
Polynesia 0 - less than 1%
Caucasus 0 - 4%

GEDMatch HarappaWorld, that compares the DNA with many world populations, says this, which is about half northern Europe (that would include Ireland, Britain and a few other bits) but half almost everything else. If you don't accept it that's fine, but it's what I keep getting:
1 NE-Euro 47.44
2 Mediterranean 31.56
3 Baloch 11.1
4 Caucasian 7.17
5 American 1.19
6 SW-Asian 0.66
7 NE-Asian 0.37
8 Papuan 0.36
9 SE-Asian 0.09
10 San 0.07

Eurogenes K13 test , specifically aimed at people who are of a mostly European background again thinks I am about half very northern Europe (Irish, British, Scandinavian etc), and then everywhere else in the other half. Their Oracle seems to think I am likely about 90 - 98 per cent Eurasian with either Mexican, Colombian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian, Karitiana, Surui, Pima or Maya as the rest.

1 North_Atlantic 49.76
2 Baltic 21.36
3 West_Med 13.24
4 West_Asian 6.18
5 East_Med 3.98
6 Amerindian 1.75
7 South_Asian 1.23
8 Oceanian 0.61
9 Red_Sea 0.58
10 East_Asian 0.53
11 Northeast_African 0.42
12 Sub-Saharan 0.36

FTDNA Results
British Isles 52%
West and Central Europe 45%
East Middle East less than 2%
Northeast Asia less than 1%
South Central Africa less than 1%
North and Central America - less than 1%
South America - less than 1%

WeGene
33.66%French
29.84%Spanish
25.39%Finnish/Russian
9.77%English
0.02%Other European
0.85%Native American
0.43% Bengali
0.01% other South Asian
0.01% Chinese
0.02% other

E11 Test
Africa: 1.17%
Europe: 76.7%
India: 13.7%
Malay: 0.001%
Dai: 0.001%
Yi: 0.008%
East China: 0.001%
Japan: 0.433%
North China Oroqen: 0.909%
Yakut: 0.623%
Americas: 6.5%

It seems to be a matter of interpretation since some sites say there is African and/or Middle East, some say there is none, some say there is Asian, some say none. Pretty much all of them say Native American is in there and all of them say European but they don't seem to agree which bit of Europe.