Mapping History
This past week Ancestry has, quite controversially (at least in my Italian Genealogy Group) "updated" our DNA story. I have previously done a blog entry about mine, but to compare here the old analysis: Great Britain: 69% Southern Europe: 10% Scandinavia: 7% Western England: 3% Caucasus: 1% Ireland >1% Russia >1% And the new analysis: England, Wales, Northern Europe: 77% Ireland/Scotland: 11% Sweden: 9% Germanic Europe 3% Now, at first glance this actually does seem to fit my own research better. But there's something really important missing, and that's my Northern Italian DNA. Before, it was in there, you just had to expand on the tabs a bit, but that 10% Southern Europe is my Northern Italian. Now, it's gone. Many in the group have said their previous Italian DNA matches have been replaced with French. Now luckily I didn't have that happen, but just disappearing altogether isn't much of a consolation prize. If you're inte...