SHOCKED BY MY DNA RESULTS (New Zealander) | MyHeritage DNA
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
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Time to learn the Italian language! 😉
i know Im kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to watch new series online?
@Lorenzo Magnus Flixportal :)
@Ivan Kace thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it!!
@Lorenzo Magnus No problem =)
I'm a biomedical researcher and here are a couple of things I'd like to point out :)
1) These kind of tests compare all kinds of genetic markers, but not all of them actually contribute to how/who you are (as far as we know today). They can be extremely minor variations that almost certainly do not correlate with any certain physical look, let alone personality. So take everything with a grain of salt ;)
2) These markers are then compared to reference populations in certain geographical areas today. Those areas marked pink are regions where a high number of individuals carry a certain variation. In principle your family could live live in a completely different region and by chance carry the same specific marker. Or vice versa, carrying a marker that only a few people in Lebanon have but everyone in Iran doesn't make you Iranian. Or another example: The marked area covering France and Germany means that this certain marker is prevalent in those countries, it does not mean that you definitely had German ancestors.
3) The given percentages should be viewed like probabilities: The fact that the test says "30% Italian" doesn't mean that 30% of your genes stem from Italian ancestors. Firstly, MyHeritage doesn't test your entire genome but a certain (I assume small) fraction of it. The raw cost of sequencing an entire human genome is still several hundred dollars; believe me, they don't do that. Think more like: 30% of my markers are very similar to the markers of many Italians.
4) Don't underestimate the variance of these reference populations per country/area. The "most Italian person on the planet" might not carry the markers that made you "30% Italian".
5) Don't underestimate your own heterogeneity. You have 2 pairs of grandparents, 4 pairs of great-grandparents, 8 pairs of great-great-grandparents and 16 pairs of great-great-great-grandparents. All these great-great-great-grandparents (32 individuals!) statistically contribute equally to your own genetic markup. And they were born about 'only' 140 years ago (just my estimation), that's around 1870-1880. As an example, one of your ancestors in that generation was from Mars, born around 1880 with 100% Martian genes and came to earth. That would make you only 1/32 = ~3% Martian. Likewise, a great-great-great-grandfather who emigrated from Italy to Lebanon in 1900 would statistically only contribute 3% 'italianness'.
6) aaaand of course the obligatory nature vs nurture argument. Having certain genes doesn't necessarily reflect certain traites and behaviours blabla etc. Is it the genes that make you Italian or the culture? Different question, not my field... ;)
I kind of hope you actually read this. I think it's important to get the right perspective with this kind of information about your family. :)
Thanks for the detailed explanation, it was very interesting/eye opening hearing your perspective.
Antoinette Emily aww thanks for the reply :) you're very welcome!
Thank you so much for this informed comment! You basically broke down in a more detailed way what I said in my comment previously, based on years of studying human evolution. It makes me so sad to see genetic information from commercial tests like this totally taken out of context not only by youtubers, but by many of the commenters responding to such videos. Injecting some factual, critical and scientific analysis is so necessary. These tests are for fun only, not to be taken as some kind of gospel!
indrinita I agree! It also seems rather strenuous or even dangerous to mix genetics and ethnicity/nationality. Lot of bad stuff evolved from that in the past. Scientific perspective helps to defuse that bomb ;)
If you are a biomedical researcher, why would you even utilize modern socially constructed political borders in your explanation?
I find it crazy that you like Italian names and look Italian and then finding out your actually Italian ! It’s shows that everyone’s past is written on our faces 😊😊😘😘
You always have to look up the history of the region to make sense of your genetic results. My father is a doctor in eastern bavaria and he is specialized in transplanting organs so he knows a lot about the genetic heritage of his patients as he has to check for genetic compatibility. He told me that if he has patients from small mountain villages in the region south of vienna he would often get results showing their heritage somewhere in the near east. Why is that? He said the most likely answer is that when vienna was under siege by the turks in 1529 a lot of their soldiers just raped the women in the villages around and left behind a lot of children with genes from turkey.
That's just one example of how tricky it is to find your "true" heritage.
Wow, that is fascinating.
There are a lot of people in england with german origin. If your mom is from england, there is a good chance that her parents or her grand parents are from germany. There is also german blood in the british royal family.
I am sorry the German genes come from the Saxons and the French ones mainly from the Normans. Scandinavian genes in the UK are mostly from the Vikings and Danes.
@@petrameyer1121 germanic ≠ german.
@@HipsterKlatscher You are correct overall, but these test can distinguish the difference.
@@petrameyer1121 The Normans were Scandinavians.
Don't forget the Romans pushed Nothern Eurpoean tribes into the British Isles.
I am posting mine tomorrow!!! YAY. This was so interesting
Hayley Alexis Just watched yours! Sooo fascinating ❤️
Given the nature of the Ottoman empire, Greeks would have been living in what we call Turkey. In the 20th century Turkey and Greece exchanged populations. As far as Italian, I cannot speculate.
Jerome Mc Kenna take in to account labonese history. Where a portion has had Greek blood since Alexander the Great. It also next to the Mediterranean or the levant region of the Middle East which historical rich in influence from the Roman religion and ancient people groups
Lebanon was once in the Roman Empire and many Greeks have been trading all over the Mediterranean for millennia, so the migrations could be from a long time ago. Having said that, given the high percentages it may be recent and thus worth investigating in case there are any citizenships by decent.
Honestly?
When i see your face i see a little bit Italian and a little bit West Asian.
But it's a beautiful combination. ;)
Huh?? She could easily pass for Brit as well. Beckam's wife or Cheryl Cole are far swarthier and less Euro looking than her.
Well she's also part nw euro she's not full leb or as dark as her dad
I knew you were part GREEK!!!!! I’m also Italian how lovely!!!!!!! Who doesn’t want be Italian and Greek and Arab?!?!? I knew you had Greek in you Amelia is GREEK! Love it! Bless
Antoinette look into the history! I’m Greek but from Asia Minor which is now Turkey.. I too have the same Iran Azerbaijan too Syria we moved around a lot! I can explain but it would take a long time! X
Im also italian Greek and Arab 😍🙏🏽
I dont want any of those im content with my own ethnicity
@@steveboy7302 Everyone should be 100% content with their own ethnicity, that's who you are and that's beautiful
Yes, I also saw that coming.
I would have guessed you were Greek.
Same here I am Mexican but it turns out I have Lebanese blood and everyone always ask me if I was Lebanese.. I also have French, Iris, Greek, Iberian, ashkanazi Jewish, Moroccan, English and polish.. soooo confused 🤷♀️ I always thought I was Mexican from Guadalajara... I always dated middle eastern men and was always drawn by the culture now I see why
Many Italians worked and lived in Lebanon. Welcome in the Italian family :) and it is AMAZING you gave italian names to your kids
Lenanon ist a tiny country which is a melting pot. Under the Ottoman Empire there was a lot of movement among middle eastern peoples. After WWI a lot of Iranians and Armenians ended up in Lebanon. It's also a Mediterranean place, and obviously all Mediterranean people all around that Sea have much DNA in common.
Not even remotely. A North or a Central Italian has nothing in common with a Lebanese or a Cypriot, let alone North Africans.
They do 😂 the north iberians have less in common ! I'm sorry but italians are mostly mediterranean
Everyone, please do not overestimate DNA tests. “Ethnicity “ is largely a relatively new social construct. There is no such thing as a 100% German (or Italian or whatever) because people have been moving, wandering and travelling for MILLENNIA when most countries did not even exist in their current form (especially in ALL of Europe and Middle East). EVERYONE is a mix of (almost) everywhere when it comes to genes. There is no such thing as Italian or Greek genes. And: Genes don’t make you like or dislike names or cultures.
PS: was your dad an orthodox Christian? That could largely explain the Greek/Italian heritage.
exgratia2enigmatic this comment is like the bloody gender debate!
How so? I am pretty sure I can show you someone who is 100% male or female - but I am also sure that there is nobody whose dna results will be 100% Italian (or whatever). Unless you can show me one?
exgratia2enigmatic I think when it says 100 percent it means that it was many many many generations back that someone was African or something. 23andme says that I am 100 percent European. Meaning that my ancestors had been fucking Europeans for so long that there is very little any other DNA in me lol
As someone with a degree in physical and evolutionary anthropology (with plenty of archaeology courses taken as well), I cannot like this comment enough. Too many people seem to have no clue what ethnicity means in the first place and the fact that even the idea of "race" is an entirely socially constructed concept, mainly in order to justify subjugating groups of people throughout history. Human variation is indeed a very interesting thing, however there can actually be more differences within so-called "races" than there are between them. A lot of people also don't realize that the highest concentration of human genetic diversity is found in the African continent - even today - and the genetic variation of all the waves of humans who migrated out of Africa is much lower than what exists just in the African continent today. This is true for all species in terms of comparing their (much higher) genetic diversity in their place of origins vs. where that species migrated to. What this means for humans is that all of us who have closer genetic links to populations who migrated out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago have more in common genetically with each other than modern Africans have with each other. I.e. most of the population of the world outside of Africa is much more closely related to each other than Africans are to each other!
On another note, I've noticed there seems to be a trend among many youtubers to get these DNA tests done, and then talk about the results publicly. I can't help but wonder - aren't these people worried about privacy issues and such? These huge companies do not guarantee that your genetic information (however accurate or not they may be) will be safeguarded in a reliable way, and plus people are willingly uploading their personal information onto the internet. In our current dangerous times of fascism seeming to surge in many western countries, I'd be so concerned about this information being unwittingly used against people. Plus, it doesn't matter at all in a way "where we come from" - as we are all one human species and that species has its origins in the African continent. If we all go back far enough, that's what we'd find. Ethnic origins don't at all determine things like preference for names or food - your environment does. That's not a bad thing by the way, and that's what has helped a migrating species like humans to survive in a variety of environments at various points in our evolutionary history. No one is "genetically" linked necessarily to just one place. There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding among the general public about what your genetics can or can't tell you, and these kinds of companies don't even touch on epigenetics - i.e. your gene expression changing during your lifetime due to the environmental context. I wouldn't put so much stock into such tests - they are like a cartoon drawing of your actual genetic information - they can provide a sketch, but they can't get too detailed about how your genetic links determine who you are today. I'd be much more prone to losing sleep over such unreliable results being easily available to the wrong people with the wrong intentions, rather than the results themselves.
indrinita: I agree with most of your points. But I'm struggling with "It doesn't matter at all in a way "where we come from" - as we are all one human species and that species has its origins in the African continent". The latter part of the statement is true, but it still DOES matter, where you come from, it DOES make a difference: Eastern European Jewish origin means a high risk of carrying certain genetic diseases, Sub-Saharan African origin means a high risk of carrying sickel-cell anaemia, Northern Europeans easily deal with milk as opposed to Southern Europeans, many Eastern Asians cannot fully metabolize alcohol.... and on and on. I think, it is important to know "where you come from", at least to be aware of genetic risks. And: We ARE different. It is important not to devalue certain genetic features and to forget about the influence of the environment. But it is equally important not to ignore the differences between us. Let's rather celebrate them...
I have the opposite. I'm Italian but always mistaken for Arabic and spoken Arabic to. Yes, it is saying you are Lebanese. They are just showing areas where the DNA is most prominent but when you already know your heritage is from Lebanon, then you can make sense of the areas on the map.
The results are comparisons to current populations. So those countries have your distant relatives. Not necessarily that your ancestors lived there. As you know people move around. We all came from Africa...
no we dont all come from africa
The Italian and Greek is from your Lebanese father. The Lebanese are of European and Arab descent.
Exactly ! This is evident from the sharp division of segregation of Christian dominions of Lebanon sharply divide on ethnic lines such as Manorites, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Armenian Apostolic etc.
@Antoinette Emily
The thing is, these tests can't really replace proper research. They determine your ethnicity by matching genetic variations with samples of different populations, but if the sample size was too small (some very isolated regions), certain variations are very widespread (former Empires or traderoutes) or two populations are too similar (splits/colonisation) they can often be very misleading.
Some examples: Some tests tend to mix up (Northern) Germans with English (-> Anglosaxon invasion), Albanians with Greeks or East Asians with Amerindians, but I'd argue they most frequently fail in the middle East and around the mediterrenean sea.
I'm Austrian and we have common variations from Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe. But that usually doesn't indicate some wacky recent family history, people and their variations have sometimes been around for up to 1400 years!
So your Italian percentage can indicate Italian ancestry from the early 20th century - but as well be something going as far back as Roman times. It's only really reliable with close relatives.
Nice! I’ve always wanted to do this because people also question if I’m other things(also Italian) some ask if I’m some Hispanic but I don’t trust the tests lol and when I did my family tree, it shows a lot of Scottish, German and Irish .. which is just what I was told lol I love watching these videos though because they’re so interesting to see how diverse people are in their ethnicities and yet they don’t always have “the look” you expect of those ethnicities. We’re all just people and mutts at the end of the day 😊❤️
I got emotional by your test results! I could listen to you all the time your voice is so heartwarming and gives me peace 😊
The "West Asian" and "Middle East" is the Lebanese Ancestry, or at least part of it, it is just awkwardly marked. The Greek would also come from that "route" and even the italian could have come there via the Venetians in the middle ages or some trader/sailor later on. What was your dad's family's religion?
Middle eastern dna is pretty similar despite the borders, the have been united as one nation/empire multiples times in history
Oooh this is so fascinating! I've wanted to do the 23andMe test for the looongest time, mostly to see the health analysis part but it's not available in NZ as of yet (I don't have high hopes for the ancestry analysis because they don't have very big sample sizes for Asian, which makes the numbers pretty inaccurate).
Hmmm I have a friend who's also constantly being asked if he's Italian... Now I'm wondering if he should do this test too!
I loved hearing about the family connections you discovered, and seeing your enthusiasm! I mean, what a wonderful way for modern technology to bring us closer in this day and age ❤🌏
For your health analysis try, if you've had a DNA test done, www.promethease.com/ It's about $10 US
When you repeated that you were so shocked by the results, it had me think for a second that they found out your dna was of extraterrestrial origin :-D
😂
italian, greek, west asia is textbook ottoman empire blend, it could be possibly 100% lebanese and thats just the mix lebanese people are.
if you were really from italy, you should have had some african % as well, based on history. For example if you are chinese without mongolian, it usually means you are korean.
Lebanon and the Levant as such, especially for Christian Arabs in the area, often can trace European ancestry from crusaders.
You can see in youtube:
1) ( The History of the Greeks)
2) (Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia)
3) (What the Calabrian Greek sounds like)
4) (Griko language)
5) (History of Sicily, ancient period)
6) (History Of Greek Colonies In Sicily)
7) (History of the Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire)
8) (Why Italy is north / south divided?)
9) [Athos the Holy Mountain (Greece) - CBS Documentary]
A lot of Lebanese people are Greek. Greek DNA can be found in modern Greece, Turkey and Middle east as well as Italy and the Balkans. Your results should not be surprising to you at all.
Brava! Welcome to club Italia!
Grazie mille!
Antoinette Emily prego!
The funny thing is, I always felt the same like you about Italy and Italian, and everyone always asked me whether I'm Italian - even Italians in Italy wouldn't believe me if I said no. I am not sure how accurate these tests are, I must say it did show my Persian heritage very clearly and it also showed that my cousin is my cousin, which means parts of it must work quite well.
If you take a tests and it shows Iranian, it doesn't mean that you are Persian.
middle eastern people are mixed with various ethnicities, including the ones that showed up for you. and they're not saying that you are from all those countries, they just don't have the ability to tell the difference between them. your dad is lebanese, they're not saying he's not.
Most people in Anatolia have some level of Italian and Greek roots. The fascinating thing about the Turkish people who occupied Anatolia after the 11th century was that they dominated the existing culture even though they were nomads. Usually the opposite occurs, for example Mongols occupied many places but you can't find anyone speaking Mongol language there.
Your father is probably a Mhallami, i.e. his ancestors probably migrated from Mardin/Turkey to Lebanon. People in Mardin area may easily be confused as European. My sis for example, many people confuse her as a tourist in touristic destinations, or think that she has Albanian roots due to her looks.
I’m from New Zealand as well and am waiting on my results but I am pretty confident that my results will be Scottish (50%+) Irish (30%+) England (15%-) and then small amounts of Norwegian and/or Scandinavian. That’s my educated guess.
My dad is german, my mum is irish, I speak german and people often question why I speak german and not irish, I'm using an English to german translated right now because I actually have no idea from english :)
Irish is a dead language and no one knows that, it's not spoken by ireland anymore, and if it would be it would be spoken by donegal, as my mum was from donegal, she spent her years trying to teach me irish because she wanted me to be one of the irish speakers, but meanwhile, I only spoke german, and my mum started getting worried, I'm under pressure trying to learn English before any language ahead, I would be so happy if someone told me they had the same problem so we could work it out :) if you read to here, thank you!
This is the first video of yours that I have ever seen. Right from the beginning i tried to guess your ethnicity just based on your looks and I guessed Greek and Irish...lol Glad to see I was partially correct!
I have a family tree from my Mom's side which reaches back to 1626. On this side of the family I'm 100% German but my father's side is kinda complicated. I want to find out more about this side of the family :)
I was shocked to a certain degree when I received my results.Mum is Irish.I was 49% Irish on Mum's side with 1% Danish( knew about Viking heritage.No surprise there.Dad was GermN.His father's family go back 100s of years to 16th C
His Mum half German and half Polish.I believe from Poznamn( Posen).Descendants from aristocracy. What shocked me( know about border changes) but was blown away with ony 6% German and 30% Polish.Also Norwegian and Baltic states.
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I did an Ancestry.com test last year. 63% Irish Scottish 15% Western European 15% Quebec area. Found 2 half brothers that were adopted that I didn't know about and a family tree that streches back to the early 1400s. I'm American and my ancestors include the original settlers that came from England on the Mayflower and ancestors that fought in the American revolution. I tried tracing my family tree and there were so many branches that it was getting overwhelming. The best part of doing this is I got to meet one of my brothers and his family. My mother denied that she had placed any children for adoption, but my brothers birth certificate doesn't like with her maiden name on it from the area where she was raised. I have one cousin that tried to finish the family tree. So far he has found over 12,000 members. Try tracing your tree and see if you have any surprises. I don't know if you can do it with company you used. Interesting vlog.
If Lebanon is in some way included in the circle, it's probably Lebanese DNA. The difference isn't great enough to say for sure which exact country, especially because countries are a made up concept that DNA doesn't follow by. But the theory that some part of your ancestors originated in a different Middle Eastern country seems very likely. Just like another part (note that it can't be that long ago if you still have 30%!) were immigrants from Italy.
I have to write something about it in German, because I can't write it in English properly (school is long time ago and I needn'd English for most of my job):
Antoinette, Du hast eine falsche Vorstellung von Nationalität: Einerseits waren die Menschen auch früher viel mobiler als man heute denkt und zum anderen haben wir ja bis zum 2. Weltkrieg ein munteres Grenzen verrücken.
Zur Libanon DNA: Vor gut 100 Jahren war der Libanon noch Teil des Osmanischen Reiches. Vor 200 Jahren war auch Griechenland Teil des Osmanischen Reiches. Zu einer Art ethnischen Säuberung kam es in der Türkei erst nach dem 1. Weltkrieg. Der Libanon war traditionell ein Gegend mit viel Handel, daher passt es, dass es dort zu einer breiten Vermischung der DNA gekommen ist, denn mit italienischer und griechischer DNA hast Du wiederum zwei Völker mit viel Seehandel. Sozusagen findest Du in einer Durchgangsregion eine breite Mischung.
Zur Britischen DNA: Vergiss bitte nicht, dass bis zum 1. Weltkrieg viele deutsche Gastarbeiter in Groß-Britannien gegeben hat. Damals gab es in der englischen Bevölkerung regelrechte Überfremdungsängste. Vielleicht war die Lage dort damals mit der Frage der polnischen Gastarbeiter in Groß-Britannien vor er Brexit-Abstimmung vergleichbar. Ebenso dürfte es in den Küstenregionen zu einem lebhaften Kontakt mit ausländischen Seeleuten gekommen sein.
This is one of the few intelligent comments among the sea of completely ignorant comments I see in this comment section - thank you!
@@indrinita Can you tell this because you speak german? We mostly understand nothing about this comment. He could even use Google translate in order to comunicate something . Today almost everybody can speak a Little of english, or maybe he Is still a kid...
@@user-dl7ck4vw5t Why does everybody needs to talk in english? It is easier for me, talk my own language. I also do often. The comment is to Antoinette. She understands it.
Wow! Before I saw your results I thought you may have had a bit of greek in you. And now I can see the italian!
Tinana D.I.Y Really? That’s so funny 😆
This is so interesting! You inspired me to do the test, as well - I expected it to be the most boring outcome, like mostly German and a tint of East European, because my father was born in what is today Poland (it was Germany, back then) - This may not be as exiting as your DNA-Results, but I was still blown away: 51,4% East European, 26,9% Scandinavian, 12,5% English, 7,6% Baltic and 1,6% Balkan - no "German", or rather North and West Europe - Well, the Scandinavian part makes sense, in a way, because I'm from Northern Germany, and e.g. my mother's Grandfather was born in Tondern, which is Denmark now (but was Germany, then), but I still didn't expect this - I am happy about the English part, also, but have no clue, as yet, how it got in ;) :) I had always thought I tended more towards my mother's side of the family - but now I guess it's time to learn Polish :O
Your English heritage probably comes from the Scandinavian side (Vikings).
@@nickdentoom1173 It comes from the Saxons who went to Britain from northern Germany
Nowadays Lebanon was a point of interest for merchants and conquerors from all over europe since pre-Roman times - and you are the result :) Thats pretty cool I guess and shows how narrow-mindet nationalism is.
Descent: various European bloodlines plus Asia Minor and West Asia.
Family culture: Polish influenced German plus Kiwi.
I don't think that someone immigrated to lebanon, or at least immigrated is the wrong term here.
The mediterranen area, and especially the eastern part is a melting pot and was so even before the roman empire. Thinking back to the times of old egypt.
So it's quite normal that someone from the lebanon has ancestry from all over the place.
And don't get me started about central europe. I don't know If there is a name for it in english, but the german word Völkerwanderung has the migration of whole"nationalen" in it
First, the area of today's Lebanon was part of the Turkish empire until pretty recent times. So a certain fluctuation of people can be expected. Also, the Middle East clearly includes Lebanon. In addition the Roman Empire spread Italian Genes all over the Mediterranean area.
You are lebanesse. a lot of west asians have some greek and middle eastern and italian in them. They have a mixture going on over there.
Actually Iran is Western Asia and not Middle East in all DNA testing kits. So that map was misleading. So when you get Iran under "Middle East" that's probably a bug or an error.
Great presentation and a well balanced discussion. Thank you.
Iranian born and raised in Germany now living in the UK, and I must say the Iranian and Lebanese culture is so close and similar - same as the Southern Italian and Greek one.
@Nasılsınız fakirler hahaha
Not at all.
@@dejantodorovski5222 yeah agreed we don't have Kafala system like Lebanon!
There was a distinct colonial dynamic in 19th century Europe to the extent that there were actual incentives for European couples and families to move abroad.
I can't speak for Lebanon specifically, but I have been researching ancestry of one of my grandmothers who was from Algeria. It's painstaking work because there are no proper indexes, so I go through birth declarations one by one and I'm astonished at the number of Italians and Greeks living in Algiers at the end of the 19th century, while it was a French colony.
Also what is now know as Lebanon has long been part of the huge Ottoman empire which was very mixed ethnically to begin with and was built upon the last foundations of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire.
Up until right after World War 1, there was still a huge Greek population in West-Asia.
The Greek part is most likley coming from the Antiochans who inhabits the Syria and Turkey so they most likley moved to Lebanon because of the higher proportion of Christians in Lebanon at the time and integrated with the cultural region there
There had always been trade and settlements between Phoenicia, Greece, Sicily, Iberia.
Super interesting! Makes me want to do this too!
Just look at the movements of people during known history, which is reaching about 3500 years back. So Lebanon once was a egyptian colony, the Greeks invaded western Asia all the way to India, the mongols from eastern Asia invaded eastern Europe, all western Europe was part of the Roman empire, the Vikings traded slaves from one end of the known world to the other, the spanish armada lost many ships (and men) in Scotland and many, many more. All of them dropped some DNA here and there. Finally we are all from Africa!
My thirst idea than i see you was "possible some greek inside" ;)
And its fascinating.
You dad look a little bit like Paul Michael Glaser from old "stusky and hutch" series.
STUSKY
You have a cool as hell mixture of cultures!!
Antoinette you do look Italian. I look very German. I also got on a plane one time and the lady say if I went to Germany people would speak German to me. My fathers family is from the area you live in.
i’m italian and u honestly u look so italian... lol
i feel the same with greece and middle east, i love their cultures and i’m pretty sure i’ve something from there
DNA testing is illegal in France unless ordered by a judge so you'd never know for sure. I did a DNA test (I was born in NZ) and I am everything on the planet!
I have done my DNA tested and I find something that shocked😳 me too. It's amazing how we got a bit have the same thing to. I find that I have Italian blood gosh . You know what it is is because these people are so close to each other and they travel and marry each other and this is probably happened long time ago. That's probably what it is. I'm amazed how we have kind of a same thing.
I know this is late but... the circles around certain areas can be confusing, but basically it just means that they're so similar that it's very hard to differentiate. For example, Iran and Iraq have quite similar genetics (as well as other arab/middle eastern countries) so they kind of group it together. Also for example, a person from Lebanon could have the genetic marker for 'Syrian' in their results, but the syrian marker is also found in surrounding areas... I don't know if that made any sense but hope it helped somehow!
There were lots of Italians that came to work in the big cities of the Ottoman Empire as builders and craftsmen from the 19th century onwards, but also merchants and other traders going back much further. Perhaps one of them married a Greek Christian girl, and then their offspring married into your Lebanese ancestral family!
I have just seen your video. Those region consists of green, orange and right down grey countries belong to the Ottoman Empire. Those places are so dense. I am from turkey and we all know that none of Turkish people has absolute Turkish blood, since so many people who have different ethnicity lived together in the Ottoman Empire term and there was no certain border between those region. I just wanted to share my opinion. It is a cool stuff to share thank you for this video.
I highly suggest you take the ancestry dna or the 23andme dna test also. I found the my heritage one quite different in regards to results. If you take either of the two I just mentioned you can also upload those onto Myheritage for free or a minimal fee. This way you can see if the results come back differently on My Heritage via Ancestry or 23 ' s results.
Thanks for sharing! Your results were great. My family is from El Salvador and it has alot of influence from Lebanon. I've also noticed that alot of Latin American countries has political figures with Lebanese background and are some of the wealthiest families. I myself have DNA from West Asia (Middle East). And I do have that stereotypical Middle Eastern look, my profile pic proves it, lol. I look very similar to your dad 😀
There's no such thing as typical "middle.eastern look". There's only stereotypes typically spread by Hollywood
Well am not sure about your profile pic 😂
Ich überlege auch schon seid jahren so einen Test zu machen 😍😍😍😍 Danke für das Video 😘😘😘😘
Nice mixture.. ^^ But well, Libanon/Levant/Ottoman Empire was a melting pot for hundreds of years, so no suprise. Also, western Europe is the next big melting pot, so .. ^_^
The Roman Empire also had a far reach.
@@elissafanzo1124 Ottoman empire existed until XX century, so probably it had more influence.
Love you from Iran 🇮🇷♥️
West Asian admixture component is spread out and distributed among those various populations/countries shown in that shaded area @ 9:06 and following the logic of that map, has its' peak centered in the center of that area, namely in NW Iran, Eastern Anatolia, Northern Iraq, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and the South Caucasus Republics: Dagestan, Ingushetia, Chechnia, etc.. Lebanon has quite a bit of that autosomal component too, but as one moves away from the more 'northern' mountainous/highland parts of the region, towards the 'lowlands', (that is, towards the Arabian Peninsula and The southern Levant), another component, 'Middle Eastern' or 'South West Asian', starts to become more prominent - @ 10:00, there it is, with its more 'southern' distribution.
Hi Antoinette Emily, Ages ago, the byzantine empire (who were the roman empire) ruled over the countries in the levant area (i.e. syria, lebanon) and they settled there for a very long time. This is why so many arabs from those regions have fair skin compared to other arabs as it is likely that they have roman and greek blood in them from there ancestry. I think that the fact that you have 30% italian in you is therefore based on the fact that the roman empire is from Italy and the ruled over lebanon for a long time. I hope this explanation helped you in some way.
I got my test results back a couple of days back and I am 100 percent European. 55.8 percent English and Irish!
I am a little late commenting on your video but I have a similar Myheritage experience. See, my mum is from Spain and my Dad is Eastern Anatolian, I had both my parents and myself tested. My parents are actually mostly accurate, Mum 80% Iberian and Dad nearly 100% West Asian however on my result I received an intriguing 25% Greek/Italian which none of my parents had. Now, this is because the Myheritage Algorithm does not always do a good job differentiating the results in "mixed children". Likely, your dad was well and truly from the Levant and if he had tested it would show accordingly with maybe a little Italian. Do you have a lot of DNA matches with Italian names? If not, then this is likely why.
I've always thought I'm 100% German, maybe some part Scandinavian until I took the same DNA test. Turns out I'm exactly 0% German, about 50% Scandinavian, 30% Eastern European and some English and French.
du bist 100% deutsch
It somehow all makes sense. In the past Lebanon was the sanctuary for christian refugees from other countries of the middle east and it had a great greek-orthodox and roman-catholic population. So this may explain - in a simplified way - Your Italian, Greek, Middle east DNA from Your dads side...
what a surprise i had no idea you were half lebanese, i'm also lebanese :)
She's not half Lebanese didn't you watch the whole video.
Syrian or Turkish & "west Asian" which could be Iranian? Greek & Italian. "Spanish" can mean Andalusian Moor, esp. if that line ended up in England where they'd've simply been perceived as foreign.
You are 100% New Zealander ;)
The Greeks spread their dna all over the Mediterranean world. So many people especially in countries like southern Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine etc etc have Greek DNA. They had a vast empire and huge cultural power and civilization that was important for thousands of years! Nice video!
I highly recommend you do ancestry. Larger data base of users may find more relatives.. more regions. Compare the results to each other. Get other family members to do a test.
I am enjoying all of your videos. They are very interesting. I am particularly interested in the videos about Germany and DNA.
The minute you said 'Italian' I thought: 'That's right!! She looks Italian!!' Why have I never consciously realized that before?!
Southern italians commonly have greek dna, lots of greeks have historically inhabited the area since ancient times
Ahlan wa sahlan, ya Antoinette! I'm not Lebanese, but I just wanted to welcome you. 😊
And you assume she is Muslim???
I don’t think you know much about Lebanese history. We are an ancient multiethnic society. Your dad probably belonged to a Greek speaking church formed during the Roman Empire. The Italian is probably the Greek Italians that lived there (southern Italians, + Sicily) Lebanon spoke Greek before Arabic and Greeks and Phoenician (the native Lebanese people) were very intermixed. Lebanese is actually a made up country/ethnic group as it was always part of an empire
I thought you looked Italian-
LOL:)
LOL, the DNA Neanderthal code is most common in Tuscany, Salve Romanum :-)
Interesting results, my results from ancestry dna were:
Great Britain 24%
Europe West (most likely German) 10%
Mali 9%
Ivory Coast/Ghana 8%
Benin/Togo 7%
Cameroon/Congo 7%
Africa Southeastern Bantu 6%
Caucasus 5%
Finland/Northwest Russia 4%
Iberian Peninsula 4%
Nigeria 4%
Scandinavia 4%
Ireland/Scotland/Wales 3%
Europe South 2%
Native American 1%
Senegal 1%
Africa South Central Hunter-Gatherers
I know that just by looking at someone you can’t tell where you from because people always tell me I look South American when in reality in South African. But you can pass for an Italian, Greek and Lebanese all at once. To me you look like all three of them 🤣
Maybe your heritage goes as far back as the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire (Which was also called the Eastern Roman Empire).
That explains your Italian and Greek for Europe and West Indian and Middle Eastern heritage.
That means your first ancestors move from Italiy to Greece and then farther east.
I am German. Born in Erlenbach am Main, near Aschaffenburg in lower Franconia. It's about 80-85 km straight east from Würzburg. But I grew up and live in Antwerp, Belgium.
My father was German. His family lived in Poland since the 19th century, but they always were Germans. But, from the names I can see in the family tree, going back to the early 19th century, I kind of think there will be Jewish blood in there too. Not too sure on what level, though. But obviously some Slavian blood won't be out of the question either, even though the rich - and I am of rich descent - didn't quite mixed with others in those days. What I also know is that we somehow were connected to Russia, but I'm not really certain on what level either.
My mom was German too, from the German enclave of East Prussia, the city of "Königsberg". With the 1st WW this part of Prussia became disconnected from the rest of Prussia. Since WW2, this former Prussian region is a part of the USSR, and now Russia. This kind of means that my mother's side of the family can have quite some Slavian blood mixed in too.
I really would like to do a heritage DNA test and I surely would love to be dazzled with amazing surprises... but unfortunately, I cannot afford it as of now. But I'll definitely do it in some years.
They did not immigrate from Italy to Lebanon, they went there as crusaders and probably married a local.
I love your videos!! you are so lovely :)
The Italian portion could be from both sides of the family. At a certain point there were many Italian people in Ireland and Scotland so if your ancestry is old and you have a little bit of Italian ancestry on your mothers side that would make sense.
A lot of people in Lebanon, Libya, Turkey and Syria have Greek and Italian ancestry and vice versa because of close ties in the past. So I would guess at least 20 percent of your Italian ancestry is from your fathers side. If your mother is around to take the test you would quickly find out whether or not she has Italian ancestry and how Italian you are.
Yes that means they are all these places. Yes you're right your father is probably the the Italian and the Greek and all all these places also the Middle East to. Because these nations are the mixed people😊
Wow! I would have been so shocked! From what I know I am mostly German (one of my great-grandmother's family can be traced back to 17th century Bavaria), a bit Czech and a tiny bit French. But now I really wonder what such a test would reveal!
You should take a test, it's so much fun! I think you look like a mix between German and Swedish ❤️
Antoinette Emily I don't have any Swedish blood that I know of but it would definitely make sense if it had
There may be European DNA is Lebanese people due to travel and trade and all of that BUT the Italian could be what you thought was French, if you're family was from southern France too.
And I forget to mention that my mums mum little brother married a German grandma which I which I called her grandma as a respect They had uncle's and aunties And they live in Germany.
The Europeans held the Middle East during the Crusades. The Venetians, in particular, had big trading colonies along the Mediterranian coast. Lebanon was a big trading area since 2500 BC and people there came from everywhere...LOL...
The borders in the Middle East didn't exist 120+ years ago. There is no strictly Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, etc. ethnicity.