Meek

As of a few minutes ago, it doesn't show your Ancestry DNA file as having been uploaded. The short answer is that an Ancestry transfer won't directly show which group in the project you are in because the project is grouped by a type of DNA that Ancestry does not test, but sometimes we can predict which group you will be in based on who you match. Who is your earliest known paternal-line ancestor and where is he from? There are 3 main types of DNA used for genealogy: (1) Y-DNA which is paternal-line DNA that only men have passed down from father to son to son unchanged except by rare mutations, (2) mtDNA which is maternal-line DNA which both men and women have but only women pass on (a man's children inherit their mother's mtDNA), and (3) autosomal DNA which is everything else and which is the vast majority of your DNA that is randomly inherited 50% from each parent. Ancestry just tests autosomal DNA, so it is useful for all branches of your family but the randomness of what DNA is inherited means it's not really useful once you go back about 200 years. The project is grouped by Y-DNA, which only keeps track of your paternal line but which tracks that line back accurately hundreds or even thousands of years.

Do you know where they come from in Europe? It's possible you're in the S27900 SNP with Meek Group E (which I am in). That group has lots of common markers, includes men with the surname Powell, and is about 2000 years old. I'd recommend you join the ZZ37 project as well.

Presumable Ireland, Scotland, or England, but we have not been able to get further back than Virginia. Your guess seems to be likely as Powell is another common name in my YDNA results. I will look into that project. Thank you.