Looking closer at the DNA results

Following from yesterday's update to the AncestryDNA results, here's a bit more analysis of the new percentages. One Aunt had some interesting new areas in her ethnicity estimate.

Updated AncestryDNA results for L.K.

Like my Mom and her sister, she now has a higher percentage for England, Wales & Northwestern Europe. Native American is still at 13%, concentrated in Northwest Mexico & Southern California Coast, Sonora & Southern Arizona and Sinaloa. Her Spain is now 7%, Ireland & Scotland 5%. New percentages are France at 5%, Portugal 2%, Native American - Andean 1% and Cameroon, Congo & Bantu peoples at 1%. The Portugal and Native American - Andean are cool to see.

Unpacking this a bit further, my 3rd-great-grandfather (2nd-great-grandfather for my Mom & her sisters) Gabriel Vasquez was born in Valparaiso, Chile around 1838. As Gabriel's father was Jose Vasquez, likely his line came from the Basque region in Spain to Chile. I suspect our Andean descent comes somewhere on the line of Gabriel's mother, Agustina Rojas. This ancestor may have been Mapuche, Aymara or Quechua, the largest ethnic groups of indigenous people in Chile.

I'm waiting on another set of test results for myself. In early September, I sent off a sample to the National Geographic Genographic Project (administered by Helix). I'm very curious to see how my results come back compared to these new percentages from Ancestry.