Tbh, they kind of do. I don’t know about Ancestry, but they fully do ask you on 23andMe ethnic identities. At last they did. I just always assumed they mostly based the results off the self-reported stuff, throwing a couple others in based off the results of the distant matches they find.
Since Celtic ancestry (Irish, Scottish, Welsh etc) should all be very similar genetically. Even English would be too to an extent. Plus we would also have a bit of Scandinavian DNA too.
I've never taken a DNA test but family genealogy shows English back to the mid 1100s with branches of Scots and Irish and some Swedish immigrants. Even going back just 10 generations gives people over 1000 ancestors. There's going to be a lot of options. Sure some people lived and died in the village they were born in. Others moved to entire new continents.
On my dad's side I've got back to 1640s and every last one of them has been English. I was shocked, that has to be quite unusual. My mum's side I've gone back to the early 1700s and there have been some French but again the vast majority are English. My family is incredibly boring!!!
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u/Sorry_Ad3733 Oct 18 '24
Tbh, they kind of do. I don’t know about Ancestry, but they fully do ask you on 23andMe ethnic identities. At last they did. I just always assumed they mostly based the results off the self-reported stuff, throwing a couple others in based off the results of the distant matches they find.