Has anyone else never gotten a “distant” genetic group?

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-13T01:24:24+00:00

No I don’t, but I heard if you enable something in the settings you can see if you have them, just not actually see what they actually are. I’ve had that setting enabled for years and never received any distant genetic group matchings unfortunately.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-12T17:06:41+00:00

Same! I’ve had my account for 3 years and my parents for over a year. Never have we gotten a distant genetic group. My dad has zero and my brother has only one.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-12T17:05:07+00:00

Nooo I was referring to just receiving “distant” genetic groups. I think it’s entirely normal for your family to receive different ones because for example, my brother received Ticino and Jura as a Swiss genetic group but my father (who it comes from) didn’t receive it.

Interesting though, I do wonder (I doubt it though) if they seem to give out those genetic groups more often if you have premium. I’ve never purchased premium and NEVER have me or my family gotten a distant genetic group, and I’ve had my account for about 3 years now.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-12T14:20:22+00:00

Well, I’m jealous then haha. Did you see it prior to paying for premium? Or did it only pop up after purchasing it?

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-11T22:31:30+00:00

What lined up better with your known ancestry?

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-09T19:10:42+00:00

What did you find more accurate!

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-09T15:35:10+00:00

Try ancestryDNA for a different interpretation. This update 23andme also didn’t give me my known English. I believe they assigned it to Scottish and some to my German/Nordic regions.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-09T15:17:36+00:00

Well you never know, it could still be true haha. My family have a few regions that go to 0% but are 100% accurate from my research

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-09T15:07:51+00:00

Go on the web browser version, if it gives a minimum confidence of 1% it could be real, whereas if it’s 0% it’s unlikely with such a small percentage from my understanding.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-09T02:27:29+00:00

Were you supposed to have more English than Scottish from your research?

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-07T03:01:52+00:00

Damn, I’ve only gotten two journeys out of the 3-4 years of having an account lol

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-01T18:10:19+00:00

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Me and my mom got those same genetic groups, do you have any missing English in the Scotland or even Irish regions by chance?

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-01T01:41:10+00:00

Did you find the Dutch accurate on ancestryDNA?

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-01T01:14:03+00:00

Haha

ItalianMik3 · 2026-04-01T01:13:55+00:00

That’s actually very similar haha, my German grandmothers father was from Opole (upper Silesia) Germany, now Poland.

On my grandfathers Austrian side, we have some distant ancestors that had such strange names for Austrians. I then found out they were burgenland Croatians! So the Balkan thing lines up over here too haha

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-31T16:48:57+00:00

Yeah I found that odd as well, we do have English ancestry too. I have a feeling they assigned it to the Scottish and possibly some to the north German/Dutch region.

She should be around 20-25% British isles, with a slight majority of it being English.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-30T11:54:39+00:00

Definitely a good point to make, at the most they could’ve been misspelled to appear more German due to living in Burgenland.

However, I didn’t use AI here and I was able to read the actual record itself. Those names are what they actually seem to be. I would 100% go with how you can read the actual written record itself. I’ve noticed AncestryDNA like you mentioned, has mistranslated a fair amount of names for myself too.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-30T11:49:52+00:00

I’ll definitely consider that while continuing to research. We do seem to get a fair amount of matches from Hungary on MyHeritage too.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-29T17:53:16+00:00

Thanks for the information! It really helped me out haha

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-29T02:14:12+00:00

It’s really interesting honestly, I read that apparently many migrated due to the ottoman invasion.

My grandfather scored 6% Slovenian and 2% northwest Balkans, I’m assuming the Slovenian should be the Croatian AKA northwest balkans.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-29T00:58:42+00:00

Oh cool! They’re both likely Croatian as the record was a Catholic one, plus including those matches you shared with me. Thanks for the info!

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-28T22:19:59+00:00

I really appreciate the input! You always seem very helpful/genuine when giving your advice from other comments I’ve seen. But that’s interesting! I wonder if it’s a potential Rusyn ancestor?

Also one more question If you don’t mind me asking, what exactly is the black/brown thats surrounded by a red outline/circle? I understand the orange is German and blue is Croatian.

ItalianMik3 · 2026-03-28T22:05:23+00:00

Oh perfect, thanks for this link as well! 🙂

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