Can anyone explain this please?
 

After sitting on my DNA test since last July, I finally 'bit the bullet' and sent it off last month, receiving the results last week. I have been following the various threads on here & am finding the same as everyone else, no trees, too small trees, no response etc.

I must admit the whole thing left me rather underwhelmed although I have been able to confirm several lines of research including a couple around 1800 hundred where I only had circumstantial evidence but had made an educated assumption which has now proved to be correct.

I have hundreds of questions but now to the point. One of my predicted 4th cousins with whom I share 40cm across 3 (still don't really understand what that means), has no tree but an unusual married name so I have traced her back & with some confidence can say that she is the g-gd of my g-gm's brother which in fact makes us 3rd cousins. So far so good.

When I check our ethnicity:
Me Her
73% England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 2%Great Britain
11% Germanic Europe 82%Europe West
8% Ireland and Scotland 9%Ireland/Scotland/Wales
6% Norway 1%Scandinavia
2% Sweden

How can that be?

It is because her ancestors are different from you from ggm's brother forwards and would have had other DNA coming in.

Ancestry asks us to update our ethnicity on a regular basis.
They derive their results from ours.
I am very, very British, with just 3% French. But when I click on the French ethnicity information, they have none. This must mean that Ancestry is collecting data from very, very few contributors who are French, which probably means that I have no French blood at all.
If you look at both sets of results in ten years time, they may be hugely refined.

Phoenix

I have it in my mind that France does not allow dna testing. I am quite prepared to be proved wrong though!

OC

I get the feeling the Norfolk doesn't allow DNA testing, either, OC ;)

I think it means that she hasn't updated her results since they changed it, Glen.

Sorry my mistake I assumed Oakum Picker was talking about the % difference rather than the labels.

They don't allow home DNA kits but the citizens get around it by ordering from abroad mostly UK and the USA. 78% of their citizens want the ban lifted on home DNA kits.

Thanks everyone. That makes sense Kate as she hasn't logged in since May 2017 and having only just done mine I've never seen another estimate.

Thanks Mggie, nice to know I haven't gone completely gaga yet!

OC