FTDNA don't offer either option, which can be misleading for those who don't understand how complex this can be.īut if I consider my AncestryDNA percentage ranges in comparison to the other companies, I might see some more consistencies. 23andMe take a different approach by having categories for 'Broadly' regions, which is basically admitting they can't narrow it down any further.

I really wish other companies would do something like this. Something else to consider is the estimated percentage range that AncestryDNA provide. That might be a disappointing answer to some people but at least what I can take away from it is knowing there is a distinct difference between my Northern and Southern European DNA and that because of this, I can get a very precise percentage on my Italian DNA.ĪncestryDNA results, circled percentages add up to 63% In fact, there is a huge amount of consistency among all three companies, we just can't always expect there to be a more specific break down beyond 'Northern European' or other more broad regions that testers might be struggling to narrow down further. All this reassured me that these companies aren't just plucking numbers out of the air, or that it's not that the science isn't precise enough to get any kind of reliable or consistent results. And since I know that the rest of my ancestry is Italian, that means I'm 37% Italian, which is very close to what they all said as well (the range across the companies was 28-37% so it's at the higher end of that).

It still doesn't tell me a more definite break down of my Northern European DNA, but it occurred to me that if I added up all my Northern European results, every company said the exact same thing: 63% Northern European (shown in images). Recently though, I had an epiphany which just solidified that there are consistencies across all the companies.

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