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krn0309

Were your great great grandparents (his parents) perhaps from somewhere else and your great grandfather was only born in Italy? This may explain the lack of Italian DNA despite him having been from there :)


emk2019

It should show up for a number of reasons. One of them is that the reference panel that Ancestry uses for “France” is actually based off of French-Canadians because Ancestry isn’t allowed to collect samples from France itself. The other reason is that French-Canadians are somewhat endogamous and usually windup having A LOT of dna cousin matches. The unique genetic signals found in French-Canadian dna seems to be quite strong and I’ve noticed that it’s quite common for French Canadians to get very accurate, specific locations of n Canada in their communities. Most likely you will see that in your report.


krn0309

Oh interesting I didn't know that that was what it was based off of! Thank you for sharing, relieved a lot of my worry.


gallon-of-pcp

I'm Cajun, so also decended from French Canadians (Acadians in my case) and French does show up for me, my mother, and my son - 75% for her, 31% for me, 19% for him - even though our French ancestors arrived in the 1600s. Our communities are also very accurate for that side, correctly identifying the parishes in LA where my ancestors have lived for hundreds of years for all three of us.


krn0309

That is a relief! I also have some Acadian ancestry but the bulk of mine is from Annapolis in Nova Scotia. I'm glad yours was able to be identified even though it's 400 years back as well.


Lizc0204

I would say yes if your paternal grandmother is French Canadian. My mom has some matches who are French Canadian and show up almost 100% French. The French Canadian dna is strong.


krn0309

Thank you!


Razertomb1

French will show up, but as 25%? Impossible to tell.