My Living DNA Has Been Updated!

Yesterday I received an email from Living DNA announcing that a free update was available for my 2017 ancestry results.* So I followed the link, requested my update and was told that it was in process and would be complete in less than 48 hours. The confirming email arrived early this morning.

And here it is:**

[Living DNA Recent Ancestry]

According to their data, my recent DNA heritage is 100% European--5.7% from my 2X great grandmother Delilah Grove (1845-1925) and the remaining 94.3% Great Britain and Ireland from everyone else.

[Living DNA Recent Ancestry]

Of the more exotic traces claimed by my previous results only Orkney remains (with the addition of the Shetland Islands). My alleged connections to the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia, and the Kurds and Pashtuns have disappeared.



*See my previous results here.
**Sadly the company has chosen to show everything in a low contrast format so you may find it hard to read.. And I've emailed them about that.


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My Living DNA Test Results Came Back Too!

My daughter and I were willing to take yet another DNA test because this one offers a closer look at localized genetic ancestry in Great Britain and Ireland.

And as I expected, my heritage is solidly from the United Kingdom. 

I was a bit surprised to see that my only Irish connection (for the past 10 generations at least) are from the northernmost part of Northern Ireland.

The rest of my European ancestry tracks generally with my results from other DNA tests, although they tend to assign me a greater share of Iberian Peninsula than Scandinavian (and more than this with both).

But the map of the British Isles is fascinating, especially compared with what Christine found out from her test. 

I never imagined any part of my DNA would show connections to the Kurds, Pashtuns or the Orkneys! Live and learn...

I agree with Christine's rating: "Two thumbs up!"


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My Living DNA Test Results are Back!

Click on the plus symbol for my detail.

My Living DNA test was ordered October 29, 2017, and my test results came back two days ago (originally it was estimated to be ready by February 2018, probably a smart to move on their part to underestimate the done date).  Mom had seen her results first and couldn't access the results, but the tech she contacted advised her to clear her cache data.  I cleared my cache data "for all time" and didn't have any problems seeing my results (this took a few minutes to clear).

The autosomal DNA results for me (95.5% European and 4.5% Asian (South)) are fairly consistent with my other results from other companies, which include AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, and GEDmatch calculators.  The ability to refine the British origins of my DNA was the special appeal for this test, and as I expected I am hugely British Isles:

It estimates me at 69.5% Great Britain and Ireland, which is reasonable.

More of the results--obviously they have a lot of categories!

My non-British European and South Asian results.  My father often gets Moldavia in his results--not sure what this is telling me, although obviously it might indicate a Moldavian ancestors in the past few hundred years.

Every one of the categories can be clicked on and it leads to more information about the area.  For instance, they estimate I have more Yorkshire than any other particular English ancestry, although I have some from most areas:

The beginning of the North Yorkshire description, which is fairly lengthy.  After the text it gives some related ethnicities of contributing regions.

I really like this list of hyperlinked citations for the North Yorkshire article.

There is a lot going on with these results.  I think if I spend some time reviewing the results and articles for each region I think I'll learn a lot about my British Isles ancestry.

Two thumbs up!



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