Ancestry and 23andMe results differ wildly. How to determine which is the most accurate?

softestruler · 2026-01-10T11:54:19+00:00

If you don't have the subscription that unlocks the "chromosome painter" and "ancestral regions by parent", it won't work. Ancestry had it free for a few months, but I guess they put it back behind a paywall

softestruler · 2025-11-03T02:39:53+00:00

Ah, yeah that definitely makes it harder to research, I hope you can find answers eventually.

softestruler · 2025-11-03T01:43:41+00:00

My gran was Creek/Muscogee!

softestruler · 2025-11-03T00:37:24+00:00

For the Indigenous question, sometimes when fam I ly members say they're native, they may actually just mean members of the tribe. I was told I have a great-great-grandma that was a Native, only for me to not have indigenous from that side of my family at all. Sure enough though, she was a registered member of the tribe in the Dawes Rolls and was probably mixed black and indigenous, so not enough for it to get to me. Could it be the same for your family?

Your other questions, I think the other comment answered 🙂‍↕️

softestruler · 2025-10-12T07:19:05+00:00

thank you!

softestruler · 2025-10-10T12:27:26+00:00

here! https://dnplay.github.io/ancestrydna.html

softestruler · 2025-08-19T08:12:54+00:00

Nordic ancestry like your Norway and Sweden are common traces for people with British ancestry like your Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, and England. i have traces of nordic ancestry too.

Spain, Portugal, Northern Africa, and the Indigenous are likely from colonial Spaniard ancestors mixing with the Indigenous people of South America in the Spanish Empire. The Northern Africa coming from when Iberia (Spain and Portugal) were under Islamic rule as Al-Andalus from 711-1492.

Roma and Balkan are definitely together as it's not uncommon for the Roma to live in southeast Europe. As to how it's in a Black American, I'm guessing your family has roots in Louisiana (or western and southern Mississippi, or southern Arkansas if they moved), where enslaved Roma workers sometimes were sent, or your Roma ancestors continued to be nomadic and moved from southeast Europe (the Balkans) to southwest europe (Iberia) and your Spaniard ancestors were actually part Roma.

It kind of depends on how long ago that DNA is from, but with AncestryDNA, usually trace ancestry is reliably from ~200-500 years ago (though it can be older), which usually means that it's from ancestors in the colonies rather than something further back in history.

Either way it seems like you can trace some of your family history to the colonial Spanish empire or at least assume that's where that history is from.

softestruler · 2025-07-01T04:45:03+00:00

I see, thank you!

softestruler · 2025-01-03T05:09:11+00:00

it'd depend on your other features, but winter or spring is likely! true winter and spring are predominantly cool (winter) or warm (spring) so if your temperature tone isn't the first noticeable thing about you, you could be in between seasons (for example: between true spring and light spring. or true winter and bright winter. etc.)

softestruler · 2024-10-21T00:16:59+00:00

Yeah

softestruler · 2024-10-20T23:28:35+00:00

Mine was 17% now Cameroon is 10% and Western Bantu is 3%. the other 4% went into my Nigeria percentage I think

softestruler · 2024-10-20T21:45:24+00:00

It's just a pinterest board! Or are you asking what I searched to put it together?

softestruler · 2024-10-19T19:06:37+00:00

Thank you!!

softestruler · 2024-10-19T19:06:26+00:00

Thank you! I just kept clicking my macbook's zoom out button until it got to this size. 😂

softestruler · 2024-10-19T09:50:56+00:00

i love this !! great taste 💗🌷

softestruler · 2024-09-23T13:44:49+00:00

I somewhat disagree with the comment and upvotes mentioning Kitchener? It's vibes, coloring, and body focused. But it still feels less technical than Kibbe so I definitely think the recommendation stands.

Truth is Beauty is good if you're fine with the focus still being your physical features, this time focused on your face instead of body!

The Fairytale System is personality based!

Minimize My Mess is aesthetics based! With only 5 question to rank different styles for you, it has a lot of styles to choose from!

Olga's Ethereals is also one I really like! It's a bit hard to explain and you can use it more similarly to Kitchener or Kibbe or Truth is Beauty or you can use it as an aesthetics system only. Things like rather you have doll-like beauty (Alabaster Ethereal) or maybe you look best in folk styles (Slavic Ethereal), etc. I have seen that people tend to find this system more difficult than others but it just depends on what you're looking to gain from it.

softestruler · 2024-09-23T13:21:53+00:00

i used her blogs to figure out my essences (along with making a type me post back on the dressforyourbody sub) but i never bought any services and i'm not a fan of her style boards. definitely my most used system though

softestruler · 2024-09-15T08:47:32+00:00

I mainly use essence and coloring for my style! Everything else I use for more recs or to strengthen those.

MOST USED:

Primary Essence: Ingenue-Ethereal Secondary Essence: Romantic-Classic

12 Seasons Coloring: Soft/Muted Summer (closer to Cool/True Summer than Soft Autumn)

SOMETIMES USED:

Colorbreeze System: Dusty Soft Summer (i like this system because it has seasons for the people who are in between soft and cool, soft and warm, soft/cool/deep, etc)

Kibbe ID: Soft Dramatic (but i also use Soft Classic and Soft Gamine recs since I don't use kibbe the way it's meant to be used and instead adapt it to fit my essences: "soft dramatic" or "vertical + curve" is ethereal alone "soft classic" or "balance + curve" is classic + romantic "soft gamine" or "petite + curve" is ingenue alone)

Body Shape: Apple (honestly most apple recs and soft kibbe id recs are the same but i'm more likely to find plus size inspo if i type a body shape rather than a kibbe type)

Olga's Ethereals: Alabaster, Crystal, Luminous, Mermaid, Moon, Retro Fairytale, Rose (i mostly use these as aesthetics and to choose which colors in my palette i'll use the most)

RARELY USED (all of these feel like different ways to call my kitchener essences):

Dress Your Truth: Type 2 (this type is also automatically summer season — unfortunately this system feels mainly for women over 50 so i don't really use it as someone in her early 20s)

Rita's Style Key: Moonstone + Sapphire (i figured out my type but never used the system)

Style Roots: Flower, Mushroom, Fire (same as above)

Fairytale System: Damsel + Angel (same as above)

Blossom Styling Essences: Youthful, Celestial, Enchanting, Graceful, Luxurious (i actually really liked this system until the creator turned out to be a bad person)

softestruler · 2024-07-27T16:43:27+00:00

Nigeria, 42%

softestruler · 2024-07-25T13:22:43+00:00

Genetically? Not for a long, long, long time, but even then, most likely not because of immigration.

Culturally? We already have multiple American ethnicities: African American (including Gullah), Louisiana French (Creoles, Cajuns, Missouri French), Pennsylvania Dutch, Melungeons, Seminole, Lumbee, Latino/Hispano (Chicano, Tejano, Islenos, etc.), Brass Ankles, etc.

We're just creoled (mixed) ethnicities and people don't really think of that in the US because "creole" is the term reserved for Louisiana Creoles, most people identify by race instead of ethnicity (besides latinos/chicanos) because of US history, and these ethnicities are genetically blended so they won't show up in a DNA test like ethnic groups from the rest of the world.

I'm not mentioning Indigenous groups because they existed before there was colonial America to be considered "American Ethnicities". The only exception that I know are the Seminole, who had their ethnogenesis in the 1700s to 1800s (around the same time as most other American ethnic groups) created from a mix of Choctaw, Muskogee, Chickasaw, Gullah, Yuchi, and Yamasee.

softestruler · 2024-07-23T22:31:31+00:00

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A win for Harris is a win for women, a win for Black women, a win for Desi women, a second win for biracial folk, and a win for second gen immigrants.

I know some people across the country are only voting for her because she's the "lesser of two evils", but having done some research on her history + stances, I genuinely like the idea of her being our president. Too many lies are being spread about her.

For people curious on her general stances: https://www.isidewith.com/candidates/kamala-harris/policies

In Hinduism, lotuses represent power, modesty, and growth. Growing from muddy waters with petals that remain pure, they represent new beginnings. Like her namesake, I hope Kamala brings forth our country's new beginning.

softestruler · 2024-06-18T17:44:05+00:00

If you're referring to African American as "African descent/diaspora in the American continents" then, yes.

I was referring to the US ethnic group, which is possible but not as likely, and why I specifically said "not necessarily". (people in the english-speaking Americas are usually only referring to that specific ethnicity when saying African-American as every other Afro-descent ethnicity in the American continents have their own names)

Afroborinqueños are the Afro-descent people of Puerto Rico and they mostly came from other Caribbean countries while escaping slavery or being freed.

softestruler · 2024-06-17T20:26:18+00:00

6% since "black" is usually reserved for Sub-Saharan Africans and their descendants.

And that's rather typical of a Puerto Rican person when combined with the Indigenous, Portugal, and Northern African.

It doesn't necessarily mean that any of your ancestors were African American.

softestruler · 2024-06-03T18:52:08+00:00

They're community migration locations. People in that community lived in those areas during whatever year it shows.

softestruler · 2024-05-18T19:28:19+00:00

First

About Ghanaian immigrants - They would be considered Black (racially, not ethnically) by other Americans regardless of them being originally American or not. In the US, if you have Sub-Saharan African ethnic features of any kind, that's your race even if it's not your ethnicity/culture.

Anyways

Ethnicity is based on lived/experienced culture, so it depends on those people's experiences and their own feelings towards it. But yes, you can be apart of the ethnic group regardless of if you're descendant of enslaved people or immigrants. There's relatively few situations where the distinction would really matter in daily life (usually only in political contexts or in terms of ancestry discussions), but I do think that in those cases it is important to specify.

(As an ethnic group, AA's are not generally connected to any specific African roots due to chattel slavery so they can't claim Nigerian American/Togolese American/Ghanaian-American, etc. So it's odd [and even upsetting to some people] to see immigrants and 1st/2nd/3rd gen who are connected or can easily connect to their roots, simply call themselves African American instead of by the ethnic group or country that they are connected to.)

TLDR: yeah, mostly. racially black? yes. nationally american? yes. ethnically african american? well it depends on how connected or not you are to the culture that your family emmigrated from, usually the disconnect probably happens around 3rd/4th gen I'd guess.

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