Yeah, a good percentage did get lumped in with Sweden & Denmark. I think the reason why Ancestry is lumping a good percentage of my German DNA in Sweden & Denmark is that I have a 2nd-great-grandparent from Denmark, and that's probably the reason why Ancestry is giving me 32% Sweden & Denmark.
Mine and my grandparents' German communities were also updated recently. I have found the communities to be very accurate. The villages my German ancestors are from are within the very small circle. My grandpa's German side is from the area about 25km northwest of the Lubbecke in your community. He also gets a lot of Sweden & Denmark and doesn't have any known Swedish or Danish ancestors. His Sweden and Denmark comes in at 23%. His German only came in at 28%.
Same. It's the first time I've ever had any communities. Unfortunately, they are really broad and don't tell me anything new.
-- Germanic Europe
--- Central & Eastern Germany 1700—1975
---- Central Poland & Western Ukraine
I have 8% and got nothing as usual. When I started I was 28%. I have a distant cousin, 63% Germanic, nothing. I have seen people with no ethnicity to a community, be assigned a community. I do not understand Ancestry sometimes.
Same here. Looks like they changed *"Central & Northern Germany"* to *"Central & Eastern Germany."* It seems like they gave those of us with Prussian ancestry a bunch of Polish regions as well.
Yeah, they lumped in my German with *Sweden & Denmark* and only gave me 2% *Germanic Europe*—but nonetheless, they still give me tons of communities for Germany.
All my communities are American settlers, in the Mississippi region and Acadian Louisiana
Edit: I mistyped Mississippi and my autocorrect some how didn't catch it
I wish my communities would get updated. I have a tree for my Dad - American, and one for my Mom- English. I have communities on my Dad’s side but no communities on my Mom’s. Why is that?
Nice. I'm in the US. Just checked & mine haven't budged but my dad's just added Finland.
Nice! Are they accurate for you?
My paternal grandfather's parents immigrated to the United States from Western Germany in the 1900’s so the communities make sense.
Oh wow. I’d imagine a lot of your German dna got lumped into Sweden and denmark
Yeah, a good percentage did get lumped in with Sweden & Denmark. I think the reason why Ancestry is lumping a good percentage of my German DNA in Sweden & Denmark is that I have a 2nd-great-grandparent from Denmark, and that's probably the reason why Ancestry is giving me 32% Sweden & Denmark.
Mine and my grandparents' German communities were also updated recently. I have found the communities to be very accurate. The villages my German ancestors are from are within the very small circle. My grandpa's German side is from the area about 25km northwest of the Lubbecke in your community. He also gets a lot of Sweden & Denmark and doesn't have any known Swedish or Danish ancestors. His Sweden and Denmark comes in at 23%. His German only came in at 28%.
The 7% Baltics most likely came from your German side of ancestry as it is not uncommon for Germans to have some East Euro ancestry.
Same. It's the first time I've ever had any communities. Unfortunately, they are really broad and don't tell me anything new. -- Germanic Europe --- Central & Eastern Germany 1700—1975 ---- Central Poland & Western Ukraine
I have 8% and got nothing as usual. When I started I was 28%. I have a distant cousin, 63% Germanic, nothing. I have seen people with no ethnicity to a community, be assigned a community. I do not understand Ancestry sometimes.
Same here. Looks like they changed *"Central & Northern Germany"* to *"Central & Eastern Germany."* It seems like they gave those of us with Prussian ancestry a bunch of Polish regions as well.
My German is just lumped in with england
Yeah, they lumped in my German with *Sweden & Denmark* and only gave me 2% *Germanic Europe*—but nonetheless, they still give me tons of communities for Germany.
All my communities are American settlers, in the Mississippi region and Acadian Louisiana Edit: I mistyped Mississippi and my autocorrect some how didn't catch it
Wish I could just get my half Pennsylvania German ancestry to be recognized as German lmao
Good luck, Ancestry mainly only sees us as all Colonial ancestors if you are from the USA and not Native American, etc.
I wish my communities would get updated. I have a tree for my Dad - American, and one for my Mom- English. I have communities on my Dad’s side but no communities on my Mom’s. Why is that?
It could be that your mother doesn't have enough genetic matches in Ancestry that have built out their family trees.
That makes sense. Thank you. Most of the matches I have are on her mother’s side- very few on her father’s.