DNA Admixture/Ethnicity Estimate Updates

Many of the testing companies have released or are getting ready to release admixture/ethnicity estimate updates. My Ancestry estimates changed a little, but not significantly. I did notice a couple of "subregions" in the migrations portion added to some family members, but not to my own. I believe I've noticed MyHeritage and LivingDNA announce new/forthcoming updates.

Any new insights for anyone? Do they seem more or less accurate based on your paper trail?

I have mine through Ancestry and the most recent re-formulation gives me 1% Basque. I admit my first reaction was "whhhaaat?" But there were Basque whalers in the Canadian maritimes and down the coast of Maine. A colony on PEI at one point... a few intermarriages would do the trick....

If anyone is interested.

https://core.tdar.org/document/457281/early-basque-presence-in-the-gulf-of-maine...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_colonization_of_the_Americas

Other than that I'm fairly bland :-) btw, 2 of my 3 children got the Basque, too (it was the two redheads!)

Although I have many French ancestors on both sides of the family, very little shows up in the DNA analysis. Up till the mid-1800s, nearly 100% of my mom's family was French-Canadian-Louisiana Territory, and up to early 1800s so was my dad's grandmother's family. The DNA shows only 3% French. OTOH, it shows 9% Scandinavian, and I have found no Scandinavian names at all in the family tree/history. My best guess is the French ancestors were Norman, which came from the Vikings? My mother's great-grandfather was nearly pure French, with one documented Native American ancestor in the late 1700s. (which comes to 1% in my DNA). That NA ancestor was a common ancestor to both my parents (who did not know this until I did the research!) But mostly the DNA shows Scottish and German. There are few German names in the history, although again, the French may be from the common border of the two countries. I have not checked the map for where in Europe they originally came from.

No dramatic changes to mine, although they have zeroed in on more specific ethnicities I share DNA with in Finland.

>2 avaland: I found I have a bit of Basque also. It would be from my father as my mother was 100% Italian.
Thanks for the links.

>5 mnleona: No Basque for me. My Germanic (which is really Swiss) came closer to being accurate this time. I think one reason it becomes low for me is because they throw out a lot of my Amish DNA in what appears to be a pile-up region.