Ancestry DNA Questions

babyonboardmakes3

It's been a long time since I've posted to this forum. I see lots of new babies and member names since I was last on. Congrats to you all!

I've been recently working on my family tree on Ancestry decided to utilize their paid DNA service to help with demographics of our background. I paid for the DNA test for myself, daughter, mom and dad. I was really in shock at my daughter results especially since my daughter's donor is Norwegian/English. Her DNA had less 1% of Scandinavian that covers Norway and surrounding regions. But the bulk of her DNA would suggest that the donor was no way possible Norwegian. I thought perhaps there was a mistake so I uploaded the raw data to GEDMatch which breaks it down even further and I suppose it's really shocking especially if we take half our DNA from our each of our parents.

Have any of you ever completed a genealogy of your child's background? If so, did it match the donor description?

old mama

I've watched many you tube videos of people who did the dna tests. Many were so sure of their backrounds but shocked with the results. I would love to do this on myself and my adopted children. My youngest adopted son in particular has some interesting physical features. My guess would be that the donor thought he knew what he was. Sometimes when I buy the long profile and see what hair, eye, skin colors the donors, his parents and grandparents have I question what they have reported.

babyonboardmakes3

I too purchased the long profile to have something to share with my child. It stated he was blond hair and blue eyes. But based on my DNA results I have doubts. My first donor was Korean and we sold his vials back after a few unsuccessful attempts. We then got pregnant on the first try with the new donor.

Here's our Ancestry Results which seems to match what my child looks like. As you could see everything that would suggest Norwegian is very minimal numbers. I will upload the GEDmatch results which shows some Asian regions.

ANCESTRY RESULTS:
African 29% of traces only
6% Cameroon Congo
5% Ivory Coast / Ghana
4% African SE Bantu
4% Mali
4% Benin Togo
2% Nigeria
2% Senegal
1% Africa South Central Hunter Gatherers
1% Africa North

Native American 41%

Europe 28%
14% Iberian Peninsula
7% Greece / Italy
4% Great Britain
< 1% European Jewish
< 1% Ireland
< 1% Scandinavia

Asia 2%
1 % Caucasus
< 1% Middle East

FutureSMBC

Wao! Really? So the donor was supposed to be English/Norweigan with blonde hair and blue eyes and it doesn't match your daughter's dna?
I know people of any race can end up blonde/blue eyed but I too would be doubtful about the region with those results.
I'm puertorrican, brown eyes, and unruly black hair and my DNA is 14% African, 17% native american, 62% Europe (35% Iberian Peninsula, 9% Italy/Greece, 8% Great Britain).
I was shocked not to have more African as half of my family is dark skinned.
DNA is sooo fascinating!!
Your daughter is gorgeous!!

babyonboardmakes3

Thank you.

When my daughter was born we always thought she had a higher resemblance to the Asian regions.




Here's my own DNA results just for a comparison to my daughter. I identify as African American. I'm clearly mixed based on my DNA.


AFRICAN 50%
Nigeria 14%
Ghana 9%
Congo 8%
Mali 8%
Togo 5%
Africa South Central Hunter Gathers 2%
Senegal 2%
Africa North 2%

NATIVE AMERICAN 23%

ASIA 2%

EUROPE 24%
Iberian Peninsula 19%
Great Britain 4%
Italy Greece <1%

WEST ASIA <1%

RedHeather

Wow, looks like the donor had some significant Native American heritage that he didn't know about! I used 23andMe for myself, and there weren't any major surprises on the ancestry side (though I was able to confirm the identity of my maternal grandfather through a DNA relative), but I apparently don't have the hair and eye color that my DNA indicates. I'm heterozygous for the red hair gene, and it predicted I would have light hair, but I actually have dark reddish-brown hair. It also predicted I would have light eyes (and GEDmatch predicted green eyes). I had green eyes as a baby/toddler, but they turned brown.

hoping4number2

Very interesting! My oldest's paternal DNA is supposably "black" (african and french creole is the only info I have) but I've considered doing a dna test as he has very few features that resemble African American. (His picture is in my signature).

ljimpey86

This is interesting. I'd be interested to test my little one, once I am back working and have the extra funds. How much does that type of test cost?

RedHeather

The one for 23andMe is $199, but it requires spitting into the container, so not really possible to do on a baby.

EMG_REL

This is fascinating to me, and I will definitely be doing it for myself and my boys at some point in the future.

babyonboardmakes3

We used ancestry.com for our DNA test. We paid $109.95 per test broken down as $99.95 per test plus $9.95 shipping.

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You'll pay $89 each test.

UPDATE:
I wanted to add the AncestryDNA also requires you to spit about two teaspoons of spit into a tube. Test is not ideal for babies. Child must be old enough to spit in tube.

sara291

Yes and I find it exteremly interesting. So I have two children with the same donor. Donor's mom is Swedish/German, donors dad is full Italian. Both my kids have olive skin but Emelia is much darker! It's interesting that most my sons matches are Swedish and I even know the town they came from) and my daughter who is darker matches with most of the donors father's side. It's mostly what he said but I can see how they migrated towards Italy and why she is slightly darker. They are full siblings though with slightly different results. I've learned a lot about the paternal mother's side.

sara291

Also you can transfer to FTDNA for only $39 after Ancestry. Gedmatch is free.

But my son as far as the donors side takes more after the paternal mom's mom's side and my daughter takes after the donors father's side more.