(11-17-2021, 10:28 AM)spf link Wrote:Was this testing DNA in general, mtdna (mothers side), or Y (fathers side)? Some sites offer really specific testing (FamilyTreeDna) was one.
Just making the distinction between 'ethnicity' and 'relationship'....
In terms of relationship the test has indicated matches on both my mother's and father's side. (aunts, uncles, cousins)
In that respect with around a dozen known relatives having used the same test it is quite accurate.
The ethnicity factor is a little harder to split because my parents had similar ancestral breakdowns....mostly Irish/English.
It is definitely indicative of my mother's side...The European Jewish shows up in relations on her side and a 'Victorian settlers' component comes from the fact that her parents were from farming families in the Seymour/Avenel/Nagambie area before moving to the Riverina in NSW in the early 1900s.
I can't identify a distinctive ethnicity that I can attribute to my father's side alone.