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| Autosomal results for KDJ from LivingDNA, Apr 2025. |
In the interest of seeking DNA matches in as many pools as possible, I've uploaded my own AncestryDNA raw data and the file I manage from my Dad's DNA to LivingDNA. This is a UK-based company, so I am hoping any matches that might be generated to our data may help identify connections on our mystery Irish and English lines.
It was free to upload the data, but cost $30 to unlock the country-specific ethnicity results. Once uploaded, the reports were ready in about an hour or so. While I'm more interested in the potential matches, the comparison with other DNA ancestral journeys is also useful (see our 2024 AncestryDNA update). LivingDNA provides more granularity on subregions in Great Britain (not necessarily in Ireland). The percentages for Ireland with LivingDNA (11.3% on my Dad's results), match up fairly well with the 12% for Ireland in the 2024 Ancestry update. MyHeritage was lower at 8.7%. Ancestry also shows more subregions within Ireland.
What I don't know enough about is what reference panel LivingDNA is using to derive these subregions. It looks similar to reports from Gedmatch. I'm curious to see what matches will appear once these are returned in about a week.
