Monday, August 7, 2017

Ancestry Composition across three testing companies

Back in 2012 I posted my Ancestry Composition results from 23andMe. I thought I'd revisit this by comparing my results from 23andMe, Ancestry, and FamilyTreeDNA.

23andMe

European   99.8%
Northwestern European93.2%
British & Irish47.1%
French & German20.6%
Scandinavian6.0%
Broadly Northwestern European19.5%
Southern European4.4%
Iberian1.4%
Broadly Southern European2.9%
Broadly European2.2%

Ancestry

ethnicity pie chart
Thousands of years ago

Ethnicity Estimate








Asia
1%
 Low Confidence Region






Europe
99%





Europe West (FR, DE)
47%




Ireland
27%





Great Britain
2%





Iberian Peninsula
8%

 Low Confidence Region





Scandinavia
3%




Europe East
1%





Italy/Greece
1%

FamilyTreeDNA - Karen

European97%


Trace Results 
South Central Asia< 2% 
< 2%

East Europe


FamilyTreeDNA - Karen's full brother Ray

 European95%


  Middle Eastern4%
  Asia Minor4%
 Trace Results 
What I gather here is that we're not particularly good at distinguishing between British Isles and Western Europe.

Monday, June 5, 2017

Pedigrees as art

With another Mizoue family reunion around the corner, I've been thinking about family trees as art. Our family also attended an orientation session with the nifty $30,000 laser cutter available to Boulder Public Library patrons at their BLDG 61 makerspace. Here's a word cloud of my ancestral surnames: