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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back.

Thank you for your time and responses.  It has been a bit unnerving and reading these responses have been helpful.

I am a woman, so maybe that is the issue.  Or maybe the test was inaccurate.  Or maybe I just need to ask my mom to take the test.

It was an Ancestry DNA test.  It says "100% European" and says "100% European Jewish".  And then it has my ancestry as all being from Western and Central and Eastern Europe all mixed in (I don't get percentages for that).

I guess I knew this wasn't accurate on my dad's side either, because he is 100% Russian (and yes, looks Russian and that's how I look, so I know my dad is my dad -- we look like twins) and is from much farther east in Russia than Ancestry stated, but it was close enough.

But, it is quite clear from Ancestry that England, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece etc are all excluded from "European" because they actually give you a picture of the area.  So, yes, Spain/Northern Africa/Middle East -- all the areas that I was expecting for 50% -- were all missing.

I don't know how to explain how the test results are displayed unless you take a test.

I'm 100% willing to take another test -- 23andme is the only big one I know but obviously that is unlikely to be different.  Is there a DNA test for Sephardim?  Is there at least a DNA test for Jews who want to learn their history.  We have no records at all so it would be helpful and it cannot be that far in my history based upon the Sephardic last names in my recent family tree -- and I only have a recent tree due to WW2.[/quote]

Based on firiends who took these, if you were100% ashkenazi it would have said that. It didn’t, because you aren’t.[/quote]

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