Ancestry Regional Inheritance

6 September 2024

If you are tracking your Y-DNA at familytreeDNA.com and you have also done the Ancestry.com DNA test, you might find it interesting to take a look at your father’s regional ancestry. You can find it by going to DNA by Parent, then Region by Parent and scroll down to see a chart like the following:

This chart shows that my father had zero English or Welch regional inheritance. The impact of this knowledge for me is that, as far as my paternal Y-DNA lineage, I’m 94% Scotch-Irish based on Ancestry.com DNA algorithms. In my case this information helps me disassociate with the English Causey Y-DNA line and focus more closely on the Scotch-Irish possibilities. This is especially true since my Y-DNA haplogroup DNA Causey cousins trace their ancestry back to Ireland through Captain Wm. Causey d.1828 Amite Co. MS. Hope this can be of use to some of you.

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