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Old 06-09-2014, 08:54 AM
 
Location: North Carolina
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Originally Posted by PacoMartin View Post
Vanessa Williams lists her ancestry
23% from Ghana,
17% from the British Isles,
15% from Cameroon,
12% Finnish,
11% Southern European,
7% Togo,
6% Benin,
5% Senegal and
4% Portuguese.


Which tells me that Ancestry.com uses Portuguese as a specific result (not just Western European).
No, it doesn't. It does have a category for Iberian Peninsula but not specifically for Portuguese. Either Vanessa Williams used a different company or she had 4% Iberian Peninsula and she has done enough research to narrow down which nations her ancestry is from and therefore know that her Iberian result is representative of her Portuguese ancestry.

These are the regions Ancestry.com uses:

Africa
-Africa North
-Ivory Coast/Ghana
-Benin/Togo
-Cameroon/Congo
-Mali
-Nigeria
-Senegal
-Africa Southeastern Bantu
-Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers

America
-Native American

Asia
-Asia South
-Asia Central
-Asia East

Europe
-Great Britain
-Italy/Greece
-Europe West
-Scandinavia
-Finland/Northwest Russia
-Ireland
-European Jewish
-Iberian Peninsula
-Europe East

Pacific Islander
-Melanesia
-Polynesia

West Asia
-Caucasus
-Middle East
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