Love the new SideView technology of DNA ethnicity at Ancestry but my problem is that both my parents have passed down very similar ethnicities. Here is the view from my DNA test.
But which parent is mum and which is dad?

With both having large amounts for England and NW European and Scotland, maybe I need to sort it out with the smaller percentages. Sometimes though Ireland is also connected to Scotland so will that 8% help in sorting out which parent?
Luckily both my parents have also tested so I should receive about 50% of their ethnicity – maybe their actual tests will help.
Let’s look at mum’s ethnicity results first:

So from mum, I should receive about 27% England, 15% Scotland, 3% Sweden and Ireland, 2% Wales and 1% Norway.
Is this closest to parent 1 or parent 2 on my SideView?
Let’s look at dad’s ethnicity results now:

So from dad, I should receive about 16% England, 16% Scotland, 13% Ireland, 3% Sweden and 2% Wales
Is this closest to parent 1 or parent 2 on my SideView?
My thoughts
Because of the large Irish percentage in dad’s ethnicity, I think that parent 1 is dad and parent 2 is mum. But what about that 4% Germanic Europe? In earlier versions, dad did have this mentioned as an ethnicity but it is not on the most current version.
I can also try to work out what ethnicity my mum and dad received from their parents as they also have SideView technology done on their DNA tests.
Will it be easier to work out their inherited ethnicity? That is for another post.