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Please Explain These Unexpected Ethnicity Results.

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Please Explain These Unexpected Ethnicity Results.

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 12:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gauthier, Lefebvre, Nadeau
I'm female.
My mother's tree was from England with a couple of Irish and Scots and a German thrown in. My MtDNA was 100% from the area of Great Britain. Exactly what we expected.

My father was 100% French Catholic from Quebec.
My brothers refused to get the Y-DNA.

I took the Autosomal test.

My Ethnicity Results:
Great Britain: 55% (Ok, I get that. It's from my Mom.)
European Jewish: 22% (Huh?)
Ireland: 5% (OK, I understand that, my Mom again.)
Iberian Peninsula: 5% (Spain, Portugal, a little bit of France----but it's only 5%)
Italian/Greek: 3% (Ok, it's NEAR France.)
Europe West: 3%
Finland/NW Russia: 3%
Europe East: 1%
Scandinavian: 1%

Where's the French Ethnicity??????

The history of the Iberian Peninsula includes a transfer of ownership of Jewish slaves from the Roman Empire to Spain, so I'm guessing that's where the Jewish Ethnicity comes in, but I could be wrong. I performed a rudimentary search of names of the Quebecois in my tree in the documents of the Spanish Inquisition of some of the people forced to convert from Judaism to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition. Some surnames in my tree: Lefebvre, Nadeau, Gauthier, Culyer. But are these people French or Spanish or Portugese or none of the above? Those are French names, not Jewish names. Were these people forced to drop their Jewish names and take on French names in order to escape the Inquisition?

Does Ancestry.com's DNA test tease out a French gene? Why was there no French in my Ethnicity? Am I not French after all? Am I really mostly Spanish or mostly Jewish from my father's side? What's the difference between a "European Jewish" heritage and any other Jewish heritage? I only have records from Canada dating back to 1746 or so. No records from France.

My father is long deceased so I can't ask him anything.
Any opinions on this puzzle is helpful.
Thank you.
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
pqrstny 18 Nov 2013 7:32PM GMT 
jbarry6899 18 Nov 2013 7:50PM GMT 
pqrstny 21 Nov 2013 12:29AM GMT 
Anita Baird 8 Dec 2013 1:46AM GMT 
deeflint01 15 Dec 2013 11:34PM GMT 
pqrstny 16 Dec 2013 8:48PM GMT 
RRamey 7 Jan 2014 8:33PM GMT 
pqrstny 9 Jan 2014 11:10AM GMT 
deeflint01 10 Jan 2014 5:11PM GMT 
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