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Americana

The Old World Origins of Your Family

For Americans and Canadians of mainly European descent, whose families came from several Old World countries. We split your European side into the origin groups that DNA can actually tell apart, tested on real people of known origin, show any Native American or African ancestry as clearly labelled groups of their own, follow your European roots back through seven periods of European history, and compare you with 7 North American community references, with an AI narrative of how families like yours reached America.

  • 🌍 Old World origins, validated on real people
  • 🪶 Native American and African ancestry, clearly labelled
  • 🏛️ 7 periods of European history, from the hunters to the Middle Ages
  • 🇺🇸 7 North American communities (Anglo-American to Cajun and Hispano)
  • 🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
  • 🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI, in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portuguese
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⚠️ Designed for Americans and Canadians of mainly European descent. Works for families with several Old World origins (English, Scots-Irish, Irish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, French, Italian, Polish, Jewish...) and for mixed families with some Native American or African ancestry, which the report shows as groups of their own. For a detailed analysis of Native American ancestry, see El Gringo; for African ancestry, Sankofa; for French Canadian or Acadian roots, Nouvelle-France. If your roots are mostly in one European country, its own report goes deeper: Isles, Mitteleuropa, Italia, Hesperia, Sarmatia or Am Yisrael. Not sure? The free Report Finder tells you.

Who it is for

  • Old-stock Americans and Canadians descended from colonial English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, Welsh, Dutch and German settlers.
  • Descendants of the 19th-century waves: Irish, German, Scandinavian and British immigrants.
  • Families of the 1880-1920 wave: Italians, Poles, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Greeks and Ashkenazi Jews.
  • Cajuns, Acadians and French Canadians, and Hispanos of New Mexico and Texas.
  • Families with a Native American or African thread: shown as their own groups, never hidden or forced onto a European population.
  • Anyone whose answer to "where is your family from?" is "a bit of everything".

Your Old World origins: the groups DNA can tell apart

We tested the model on artificial mixtures of real people of known origin, none of whom was used to build the references, and merged every pair of countries it could not separate. These are the groups that passed:

Northwestern European

The British Isles, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, Scandinavia and northern France. Too similar to be split in one person, so they form one group.

Southwestern European

Southern France, Spain and Portugal, with a lean toward the French or the Iberian side when one clearly dominates.

Italian

Northern, central and southern Italy and Sicily, with a lean toward the part of Italy your profile resembles most.

Greek and Balkan

Greece and the Balkans (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania...).

Eastern European

Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, the most precisely measured European group.

Ashkenazi Jewish

The Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe, one of the European origins.

Native American

Indigenous American ancestry, measured within about a point. Never a statement about tribal membership.

West and Central African

African ancestry, measured within about a point; Sankofa analyses it in detail.

Middle Eastern and Asian

Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian ancestry, when present.

1. Choose your community (optional)

If your family belongs to one of these North American communities, pick it. Otherwise, or if your family is a mix, choose "Let the model decide". The community comparison is a closest reference: the heart of the report is your Old World origins.

Old Stock Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian (Texas, Utah, Newfoundland and others)

Descendants of the colonial and early American settlers, mostly of English, Scottish, Scots-Irish and Welsh origin with German and other north-western European threads; the reference averages Anglo-Americans of Texas, Utah and other states and Anglo-Canadians of Newfoundland and Labrador

Irish-American and Scottish-Canadian (New England, New York, New Jersey, the Maritimes)

Irish-Americans of New England, New York and New Jersey, Scottish-Canadians of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and Irish-Canadians of Newfoundland: the Irish and Scottish diaspora of the North-East

Italian-American (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts)

Italian-Americans of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, mostly descended from the great 1880-1920 migration from southern Italy and Sicily

Cajun and Acadian (Louisiana, the Maritimes)

The Acadians of the Maritimes, expelled by the British from 1755, and their descendants the Cajuns of Louisiana, mostly of western French origin; a small reference

French Canadian (Quebec)

French Canadians of Quebec, descended from the settlers of New France, mostly from north-western and western France (17th-18th c.); a small reference of three samples

Hispano of the Southwest (New Mexico and Texas)

Hispanos of New Mexico (Neomexicanos) and Texas (Tejanos), descended from Spanish colonial settlers and from Native peoples of the Southwest and Mexico

African American

African Americans, descended mostly from West and Central Africans brought by the transatlantic slave trade, with European and some Native American ancestry

🔎 Let the model decide (auto)

We compare you to every community and only name one if it is genuinely close.

What your report contains

🌍 Your Old World origins

The headline of the report: your European share split into the six groups above, and any Native American, African, Middle Eastern or Asian ancestry as separate groups, with the history of how such families reached North America: Chesapeake and New England colonists, the Scots-Irish of Appalachia, the Pennsylvania Germans, the Irish and German waves, the 1880-1920 immigrants.

🦴 Deep ancestry

The hunter-gatherers, the first farmers from Anatolia and the steppe herders: the prehistoric building blocks of every European.

🌾 Neolithic and Copper Age

The first farmers of central Europe, Britain and Ireland, France and Iberia and the Balkans, then the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker cultures that carried steppe ancestry across Europe.

⚱️ Bronze Age and 🛡️ Iron Age

Bronze Age Britain, the Nordic Bronze Age, Unetice and Urnfield, El Argar, the Mycenaeans; then the Celts, the Germanic north, the Etruscans, the Iberians and the Scythian-period east.

🏛️ Roman era and ⚔️ Migration period

Roman Britain, Gaul, Italy, Iberia and the Balkans, the Germanic peoples beyond the frontier and the Goths of Poland; then the Anglo-Saxons, the Franks, the Lombards and the Visigoths.

🏰 Middle Ages

The Vikings, medieval England, Ireland, Germany and the Low Countries, France, Italy and Iberia, the medieval Slavs and the medieval Ashkenazi community of Erfurt.

🇺🇸 Closest North American communities

Old Stock Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian, Irish-American and Scottish-Canadian, Italian-American, Cajun and Acadian, French Canadian, Hispano and African American references, ranked by distance as closest references.

🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA lineages

If your raw DNA file is available, we classify your paternal and maternal haplogroups (e.g. R1b-L21, R1b-U106, I1, R1a, J2, E-V13, Q-M3; maternal H, U5, K, J, A2, B2, C1, L), always as one line among thousands of ancestors.

98 reference populations

Your DNA is compared with modern reference populations of Europe and beyond (the Old World origins), ancient European populations of every period, and North American community averages.

Northwestern European

British and Irish (English, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Orcadian, Irish) · German and Dutch (northern and central Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium) · South German, Austrian and Swiss German · Scandinavian (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic) · Northern French (Nord, Paris, Brittany, Normandy, Alsace)

Southwestern European

Southern French (Auvergne, Occitanie, Provence, Gascony) · Spanish and Portuguese

Italian

Northern Italian (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Trentino, Emilia, Liguria, Aosta Valley) · Central Italian (Tuscany, Lazio, Umbria, Marche) · Southern Italian and Sicilian (Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Apulia, Abruzzo, Molise, Sicily)

Greek and Balkan

Greek (mainland Greece, Crete, the Dodecanese) · Balkan (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Albanian)

Eastern European

Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian · Russian

Ashkenazi Jewish

Ashkenazi Jewish (Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Germany, Austria, France, Romania, Latvia)

Native American

Native American (North American reference) · Native American (Mesoamerican and South American reference)

West and Central African

West African (Yoruba, Esan, Igbo, Mende, Mandinka, Gambian) · Central African (Kongo, Umbundu of Angola)

Middle Eastern

Middle Eastern (Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian, Druze, Iraqi, Assyrian)

South Asian

South Asian (Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Sri Lankan Tamil)

East Asian

East Asian (Han Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese)

Deep ancestral sources

Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG, Villabruna) · Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) · Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya, Samara) · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG, Kotias) · Iranian Neolithic farmer (Ganj Dareh) · Levantine Neolithic farmer (PPNB) · Yoruba (West African proxy) · Han (East Asian proxy)

Neolithic and Copper Age sources

First farmers of central Europe (Linear Pottery culture, c. 5500-4900 BC; Germany, Slovakia, Hungary) · Neolithic farmers of Britain and Ireland (the megalith builders, c. 4000-2500 BC) · Neolithic and Copper Age farmers of France and Iberia (c. 5500-2300 BC) · Neolithic and Copper Age farmers of the Balkans, the Aegean and northern Italy (c. 6000-3500 BC) · Corded Ware culture (c. 2900-2300 BC, steppe-related herders of central and eastern Europe) · Bell Beaker culture (c. 2500-2000 BC; Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Czechia, France) · Copper Age Levant (non-European proxy) · Yoruba Neolithic proxy (West African) · Han Neolithic proxy (East Asian)

Bronze Age sources

Bronze Age Britain and Ireland (c. 2200-800 BC) · Nordic Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (Denmark, Sweden, Norway) · Bronze Age central and western Europe (Unetice, Tumulus and Urnfield cultures; Germany, Czechia, the Netherlands, France) · Bronze Age Iberia (El Argar and the Iberian Bronze Age) · Bronze Age Italy, the Aegean and the Adriatic (Polada, Apennine culture, Minoans and Mycenaeans) · Bronze Age eastern Europe (Trzciniec culture of Poland, Baltic Bronze Age) · Bronze Age Levant (Canaanites, non-European proxy) · Yoruba Bronze Age proxy (West African) · Han Bronze Age proxy (East Asian)

Iron Age sources

Iron Age Britain (Celtic Britons, c. 800 BC - AD 43) · Hallstatt and La Tene Celts (Gaul, southern Germany, Bohemia) · Pre-Roman Iron Age of the Germanic north (Denmark, Frisia, northern Germany) · Iron Age Iberia (Iberians and Celtiberians) · Iron Age Italy (Etruscans, Latins and Picenes) · Iron Age Balkans and the Greek world (Thracians, Illyrians, Greek colonists of Himera) · Iron Age eastern Europe (Scythian-period Ukraine and the forest zone, Baltic Iron Age) · Iron Age Levant (Phoenicians, non-European proxy) · Yoruba Iron Age proxy (West African) · Han Iron Age proxy (East Asian)

Roman-era sources

Roman Britain (Romano-Britons) · Germanic peoples of the Roman Iron Age (Denmark, the Netherlands, southern Sweden, central Germany) · Roman Gaul and the Danube provinces (Metz, Klosterneuburg, Ovilava) · Imperial Rome and Roman Italy · Roman Iberia (Hispania) · Roman Balkans (Moesia and Dalmatia) · Wielbark culture of Roman-era Poland (the Goths and their neighbours) · Roman Levant (Classical) · Yoruba Classical proxy (West African) · Han Classical proxy (East Asian)

Migration-period sources

Anglo-Saxon England (5th-9th c.) · Franks, Alemanni and Bavarians of the Merovingian age (Germany and Flanders, 6th-8th c.) · Migration-period Germanic peoples of central Europe (Thuringians, Lombards, Gepids) · Late Antique Italy (Rome and Pesaro) · Visigothic Iberia (5th-8th c.) · Late Antique Balkans (Croatia, Viminacium) · Late Roman and Byzantine Near East (south-eastern Anatolia, non-European proxy) · Yoruba Late Antiquity proxy (West African) · Han Late Antiquity proxy (East Asian)

Medieval sources

Viking Age Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland) · Medieval England (early medieval cemeteries and 14th-century London) · Medieval Ireland (Kilteasheen, Roscommon) · Medieval Germany and the Low Countries (Saxony-Anhalt, Lubeck, Schleswig, Flanders, Groningen) · Medieval France (Burgundy, Pays de la Loire) · Medieval Italy (Rome, Basilicata, Sicily) · Medieval Iberia (Castile, the Balearics, Portugal) · Medieval Slavs (Piast Poland, Great Moravia, western Ukraine) · Medieval Ashkenazi Jews (Erfurt, 14th c.) · Early medieval Croatia (Dalmatia) · Byzantine Aegean (western Anatolia, non-European proxy) · Yoruba Medieval proxy (West African) · Han Medieval proxy (East Asian)

American communities

Old Stock Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian (Texas, Utah, Newfoundland and others) · Irish-American and Scottish-Canadian (New England, New York, New Jersey, the Maritimes) · Italian-American (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts) · Cajun and Acadian (Louisiana, the Maritimes) · French Canadian (Quebec) · Hispano of the Southwest (New Mexico and Texas) · African American

How it works, and its limits

🔬 How to read your results (please read)

Your result is computed by genetic similarity (Global25): we place your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space and find the mixture of reference populations that best reproduces it. The reference populations use G25 coordinates built from published ancient and modern genomes; none of our reference data is simulated.

We tested before we sold. We built thousands of artificial mixtures of real people of known origin and checked how well the model recovers them. For a family with many European ancestors, the group shares typically land within about 4 to 8 points of the truth; for a simple two- or four-way mix, about 7 to 20 points, Italian, Greek-Balkan and (in a mixed family) Ashkenazi Jewish being the hardest. British, Irish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian and northern French ancestry could not be told apart in one person, so we merged them into one group rather than print numbers that look precise and are not.

Native American and African ancestry is measured within about one percentage point, but shares under 2% are at the noise level and are labelled as such. No DNA test can establish membership of a Native American tribe or nation. Genetics is not identity: this report is not a national, ethnic, religious or political determination.

The North American community references cover only some groups (there is no German-, Polish-, Scandinavian- or Jewish-American reference yet), so the closest community is a closest reference, and the Old World origins are the main result.

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Is Americana right for your DNA?

Paste your G25 coordinates or drop your raw DNA file. We run the same fit test as our free Report Finder, for Americana only, and show you your verdict, your regional core and your 3 closest communities before you spend anything.

Click or drop your raw DNA file here 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FTDNA, LivingDNA or a chip VCF (Genotek, Atlas): .txt, .csv, .vcf, .zip or .gz

A raw file takes 1 to 3 minutes: we first estimate your G25 coordinates from it.

🔒 Your file is processed for this check only and immediately deleted.

⚠️ Designed for Americans and Canadians of mainly European descent (mixed families welcome). If your DNA is mostly of non-European origin, the checkout warns you before payment: El Gringo, Sankofa or the Report Finder will suit you better.

Get your Americana report

Optionally select your community above, then confirm your email. We send you a secure link to upload your DNA (raw file or G25 coordinates) and generate your personalised report.

Secure checkout after email verification. Your DNA is processed automatically and deleted; no human sees it.

📖 What is raw DNA & G25?

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Americana report for?

It is built for Americans and Canadians of mainly European descent, often with several Old World origins (English, Scottish, Irish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, French, Italian, Polish, Jewish and more), including families with some Native American or African ancestry. If your roots are mostly in one European country, its own Focus report goes deeper; if they are mostly non-European, our Advanced Ancestry Report, El Gringo or Sankofa will suit you better.

Can it tell my English, Irish and German ancestry apart?

Not reliably, and we would rather say so than print false precision. When we tested the model on real people of known origin, English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, Dutch, Scandinavian and northern French ancestry proved too similar in G25 to be separated in one person. They form one Northwestern European group. Your family tree and records are what can tell them apart; our Isles, Nordsee and Mitteleuropa reports explore these regions in depth.

Does it show Native American or African ancestry?

Yes. Both appear as clearly labelled groups of their own, measured within about one percentage point when they are a few percent or more; shares under 2% are at the noise level and labelled as such. No DNA test can establish tribal membership. For a detailed analysis, see El Gringo (Native American ancestry in the United States and Canada) and Sankofa (African ancestry).

How is Americana different from El Gringo?

El Gringo measures the Native American, European and African shares of North American DNA and analyses the Native American side in detail. Americana focuses on the European side: which Old World origin groups it comes from, the immigration history behind them, and seven periods of European history. Many families with a Native American thread enjoy both.

Why are some of my "countries" merged into groups?

Because Global25 cannot separate them in one person, and we tested it. A model can always print "32% English, 21% German", but when we checked such splits on real people of known origin, they were not reliable. We kept only the groups the test could recover: Northwestern European, Southwestern European, Italian, Greek and Balkan, Eastern European and Ashkenazi Jewish, plus the non-European groups.

What are the North American communities?

Seven reference averages: Old Stock Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian, Irish-American and Scottish-Canadian, Italian-American, Cajun and Acadian, French Canadian, Hispano of the Southwest and African American. They are closest references only, and they do not cover every origin (there is no German-, Polish-, Scandinavian- or Jewish-American reference yet), so a moderate distance is normal for many families.

Not sure it fits me. Can I check first?

Yes. The free Report Finder reads your raw DNA file (or your G25) and tells you honestly which report suits you, before you spend anything.

Do I need to have taken a DNA test already?

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

How much does it cost and what do I get?

€15. A full PDF report with your Old World origins (European groups and any Native American, African, Middle Eastern or Asian ancestry), seven period-by-period breakdowns of your European side, your closest North American community references, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups (if raw file provided), and a narrative interpreted by Claude AI, in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portuguese.

A DNA report for the Old World origins of North American families

Americana is a G25 ancestry report built for Americans and Canadians of European descent. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA and we compare your genome with modern reference populations of Europe and beyond, then follow your European side back through seven periods of history, from the Ice Age hunters to the Middle Ages.

Whether your ancestors were Chesapeake or New England colonists, Scots-Irish settlers of Appalachia, Pennsylvania Germans, Irish immigrants of the famine years, Scandinavians of the Midwest, Italian, Polish or Jewish families of the great 1880-1920 wave, Cajuns, Acadians, French Canadians or Hispanos of the Southwest, Americana reads the Old World origins your family brought to North America, honestly and with tested precision.

The report uses the Global25 (G25) system developed by geneticist Davidski, placing your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space alongside ancient and modern reference populations built from published DNA studies.

👁 Sample reports

See three real Americana reports

Full example reports, flip through every page: cover, Old World origins, the seven periods, closest communities and the AI narrative.

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🇺🇸 Anglo-German American sample

A typical old-stock profile: mostly Northwestern European, read through the colonial and German immigration history, with the deep European eras.

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🇺🇸 Italian and Irish American sample

A two-origin family: Northwestern European and Italian groups, the 1880-1920 immigration wave, and the closest North American community references.

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🇨🇦 Mixed North American sample

A European profile with a Native American thread, shown as its own clearly labelled group, with pointers to El Gringo for a detailed analysis.

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