Re: my ethnicity estimate on myheritage.com

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Do you think you have some Sephadic Jew in you?  Seems like this might
also explain it.

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:28:24 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > Spanish/Catalan/Basque 36.7%
 > Ashkenazi Jewish(Central Europe) 16.3%
 > Scottish/Welsh 16.1%
 > French 7.7%
 > Breton 5.6%
 > Ashkenazi Jewish(Eastern Europe) 5.5%
 > Irish 4.6%
 > English 4.2%
 > Portuguese 1.1%
 > North Italian 1%
 > Interesting about being less "French". My mom's father was from SW 
 > France so I suspect maybe that's why.When I added up French and 
 > French-adjacent then that's 50% so that makes sense.
 > "Calculating ethnicity results involves comparing your DNA to a 
 > reference panel of samples with known ethnicities, using 
 > mathematical models. The reference panel is established based on 
 > well-documented family trees corroborated with DNA analysis. 
 > Whenever a new Ethnicity Estimate version is released, the reference 
 > panel typically becomes bigger and more diverse, and the calculation 
 > algorithms are improved, allowing the delivery of more accurate 
 > results and identifying more ethnicities than in the previous 
 > version."