I remember seeing a video where a girl was in tears because she thought her dad couldn’t be her dad because he was from Scotland, and she only had 20% Scottish DNA. She needed someone to explain to her that pretty much all Scottish people have Irish and Scandinavian DNA. I’ve mapped my family tree back seven generations, and apart from my Welsh grandad’s family, they were all Scottish. I’m still only 55% Scottish, the rest is a mix of Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish and English.
My Ancestry results are 52% English, 27% Irish, 13% Scottish, 5% Swedish, 3% Welsh. I only know where the English and Irish come from, but the Irish is about three times as high as I would’ve thought it was. I’ve done my family tree, and all of the direct ancestors I’ve found were from England and Ireland. I would like to find out where the other percentages come from, especially Scotland, because it is pretty high, but it doesn’t seem like it was fairly recent.
When people complain that their results are wrong because their grandparents are 100% Italian and have lived in Italy for 4 generations, I like to snap back with “my ancestors have lived in the same country for almost 400 years, but I get no American in my results”. It’s not where people live, it’s where there ancestors came from that shows up in DNA results.
yes, and those "100% xy" grandparents are probably not even true. also, how could they be so sure who their ancestors slept with secretly or otherwise? 😂
Actually it's the opposite. DNA tests compare you to the present population because that's how the results are sourced. Some tests do take into consideration specifically alleles that are typically present historically in regions, but unless tests are only given to those whose families have been in the area for many generations the current population influences the results.
It saddens me when Hispanic people can't understand why they are European learn your history Spanish is a European language and Spaniards are not the only European people who settled in Latin America. It's even worse when they don't get why they are Native Americans.
So true. People need to learn about this. Too many people define their selves as Mexican but are ignorant to the fact that Mexico is a just a place. The majority of Mexicans are mostly native Americans that mixed with Europeans and Africans due to slavery of natives and Africans. Know your history!
It’s because a lot of the Hispanics that take this test grew up in the United States (trying to ship 23andMe to Mexico is crazy expensive). They aren’t taught a lot about central and southern American history. It is unfortunate. They also associate Native American with “United States of America” rather then the Americas. Just what I’ve noticed at least. Proud Mexican here. Lol thankfully my mom and grandma taught me a lot about the history. Otherwise I’d be in the same boat.
@@lushiousification I’ve watched her but not really who I thought of. Abby Cox and Karolina Żebrowska were among my first thoughts...after just "corsets...what do corsets have to do with....oh, never mind" lol
Being from England, I find it weird how these people just represent themselves as "basic white person" when they see they've got British & Irish, or Scandinavian roots. Besides it being the least bit basic or boring, do you feel you're not allowed have some pride in your ancestral origins just because you're white in America? Because if so then damn, that don't sound good
Wokeism and mainstream media shove down all americans' throats that you're either a "bad white colonialist" or an "oppressed black"... it is so ridiculous to classify all european ethnicities as "white" whereas each european ethnicity has offered so much(almost everything) to humanity
I knew a white American from Maine who .was thrilled about the. 1 percent Italian and iberian 😂 but not the 85 percent northwest euro Scandinavian and french and german😮😅
It's amusing how other white people in the US often seem compelled to downplay their results (basic white guy) because it's not pc to feel excited or even a little proud of your European heritage. I always thought I was equal parts Irish and Cherokee with a smattering of German. Turns out I'm approximately 51% English and Nw Europe, 28% Scot, 10% Irish, 8% Norwegian and a 3% trace from Sweden. I've always been an English history and mythology buff so that's pretty cool. I also thought both sides of my family were fairly recent arrivals, but it turns out both were here when we declared independence. Nothing basic about my heritage.
Yeah, I'm just a basic Ashkenazi Jewish girl with about a thousand 4th cousins. Although, Ancestry's latest update showed some distinctly Latvian & Lithuanian roots which I know is true.
I'm Cuban too my whole family is from Havana and Santiago. And it's hard to believe you don't have a couple of Congos on that tree as well. I don't know any Cubanos whatever they look like, without some sangre Africana. After all even the patron saint of the island is mulata😂💪🏾🇨🇺
I was getting a Drivers License and a Hispanic guy was complaining about there wasn’t a brochure in Spanish. I asked him if he thought all white people speak English. All white people are not Anglo Saxons and not that many English people are either. We have let skin tones have a disproportionate weight when discussing genetics.
I like the new definition for genetics and genealogy being "Boning and migration", if Parasitologist can be summed up as "A strange person sitting on a stool, looking at another stool".
My mom dug into our family tree a bit. We learned that our last name was spelled differently just a few generations ago but because someone spelled it wrong on a document it changed so that was fun to learn. She also had some trouble looking up records on her side because of a similar issue. People were bad at spelling names. Also my great-grandfather is adopted and we have no idea where he came from originally
I also did 23andme and ancestry. I am of a cuban mother and Portuguese father, born in the 🇺🇸. The diffence between 23andme and ancestry are as follows: with Ancestry, I am 100% european: 60% Portugal, 35% Spain, 2% Basque and 3% French. With 23andme I am 94.4% Spanish and Portuguese, 2.9% arab, egyptian and levantine, 0.3% ashkenazi jewish, 1.4% native american, 0.3% Sub-Saharan African, and 0.6% North India and Pakistan. 23andme was way more dynamic in my results.
The whole "not narrow down on country" thing is why I've yet to do a test like this - I've gone about 250 years back in my family tree, and so far EVERYONE's basically existed in the same 25 km circle. xD But because i'm Belgian and we're just smack dab in the middle of Europe, any DNA test would just say "broadly western european".
The volume on this video is terribly low. I crank it up in the video and it's not much better. I cranked up the volume on my HDMI connected TV and usually at 100% it's blasting the room, but not for this video~
It's hard to find ancestry when you don't have names or having a family members who went through Ellis Island and had complete name changes. My grandma just found out that her american name isn't the one on her birth certificate because they changed it.
Well that’s why these DNA databases link you with your relatives from around the world. To help with that piece. Typically for every immigrant that came to America there were multiple family members that stayed behind.
That's where DNA comes into it... I've done family history research and will be doing the DNA test, and find out more since I'm struggling to get back any further in certain lines..
I loved all three of these! I wish there were a whole set of them I could binge from you. I do have a question: at what percentage does it tip over from being ‘trace’ to being viable? For example, I’m 3% Swedish and my full blood sister is 8% Germanic Europe. Are those both ‘counted’ as us genetically being from those population groups or no?
Glad you enjoyed! I'm planning to do a lot more of these, and a few each time, so you'll get a little mini-binge each time I upload. I'm not quite familiar with an exact definition of trace results, although I usually view it as anything under 2%, but just because it is trace doesn't necessarily make it untrue. Sometimes those little 1% reads are correct and verifiable through research. As well, I have seen larger size inferences disappear after an update by companies. So when you are dealing with any single digit percentages it's best to view it with some skepticism while understanding it still may hold some truth.
GeneaVlogger ok, that makes total sense. As I tell my family, it’s not about being ‘plain’ - as they like to put it. It’s about finding those stories, like you said. All our lines, and I mean ALL 😂, go back to at least The Revolutionary War with good documentation. There the records begin to really thin and it is hard to see our exact people group starting point from outside the states.
This kind of videos always show how little American schooling system teach about the world’s history and geography. Like I am always shocked when they are amazed by some basic stuff, especially when it comes to Europe and colonisation
it is kinda funny. I knew enough of migrations in northern european (namely the anglos going from Germany to Brittan) so when i got British/irish on my test results I was surprised but then went they're probably just picking up on the anglo-saxon blood in my dna that actually stayed in Germany when the others fled. My sister was so set that we had ancestry from british isles (had to tell her no, they are probably picking that up cuz where a certain line of our german family came from)
I live in America, there is no real concept of ethnicity, or background, or history beyond the U.S. all there is is white, black, brown, etc. I never liked using colors to generalise people into specific groups, I honestly think color labels should be abandoned entirely.
i think it is really sad when people are self deprecating like that really all culturs ethnic and racial groups are equally part of the the human race and help shape humanity and really should be celebrated.
Im Korean and adopted, my parents became foster parent to a child from Korea before they adopted me. My foster sister said i looked mixed, our japanese foreign exchange student, and most people I've encountered from that area. Had multiple Koreans say "no you're not". Some say i was mixed with Caucasian, most common was Japanese. I just say, all I know is my parents adopted me from S. Korea, all we know is that I'm Korean. 😊
I like your channel, but in this episode I couldn't hear the original video enough as your voice interrupted what was being said enough that I feel like I missed out on the things you were reacting to. That said, keep up these episodes. I do enjoy them!
loved doing my genetic test (23 and me). I was going if I am anything other then 100% white girl with german polish blood cuz i've done enough background hunt on my ancestors to know where they came from. I guessed that the only surprise ethnicity that would come in there would probably be maybe some minut Ashkenazi Jewish blood cuz of my polish blood. Test came back and yep, 100 percent european. No Ashkenazi. But looked at the british & irish and the scandinavian percentages and went huh didn't expect that. It wasn't surprising when I thought about it more. One of the branches from my mom's side came from the area where Anglo-saxons migrated from in Germany/Denmark (which also could tip the scandanavian blood as well). I've kept track of the 23 and me updates to my test results and that one update eliminated all of my british irish blood. That being said it also took away the southern European percentages that i had (my sister still has them on her test results)
I'm curious to know if Scottish people with a "clan" surname, as I do, are more likely to be related to the Clan chieftain or did people like tenant farmers or serfs, just inherit the clan leader's name when they began taking the census?
I had the ancestry test. Would there be any point to getting a 23 and me test as well? Like would I find out anything extra? My results: Scotland 39% England & Northwestern Europe 27% Wales 17% Ireland 10% Norway 6% Northern Italy 1%
Your admixture looks to be essentially 99% british isles, so not much to dig there. If you are looking to get health information, or to have cousin matches using the database of a popular service, 23andme is a nice addition, otherwise, I personally wouldn't do it for the percentages - the only service that may be helpful in your case is LivingDNA's regional breakdown in the isles.
Yep, I'm a VERY basic white guy as well. numbers in brackets represent my own genetic distance. taken from mytrueancestry, taken with a grain of salt! Visigoth + Saxon (3.073) Viking Danish + Frank (3.099) Saxon + Frank (3.367) Viking Danish + Visigoth (3.392) Saxon (3.555) Viking Danish + Saxon (3.626) Viking Danish (5.199) Frank (5.83) Visigoth (7.0) Celt (8.517) Vandal (8.529)
Atleast Americans can be like omg I was from this other country, most Europeans is basically oh you're basically 90% from the country you were born in and if you live close to the border maybe you have some mix with the bordering country
But I guess that also isn't always true... Since we are all so close, most European countries ar small, the borderd changed a LOT and Europeans have been around here and migrating and intermarrying for quite some time. It won't be as "exotic" as in America. But I don't think most of us are totally pure blooded without any traces of something else...
@Larissa Brewington @GeneaVlogger Larissa, your individual European percentage may be higher than 3%. Jared, feel free to correct me 👌🏽 The percentage ancestry shown on 23 and me is not recent ancestry, or the individual's recent ancestral percentage. I'm pretty sure the percentage ancestry throughout the individual's Ancestral line going many generations back.. It seems that people taking those tests assume that it's themselves who have those percentages, when it's the total percentage makeup from their earliest determined ancestor to the individual.. Let's look at the 'black' girl with the 2.3% ancestry having 2.3% of her total mother lode of ancestors that are white. If she wants to find out what he actual percentage of 'other! she is, she would take a test that analyzes her recent ancestry to the last 2-3 generations before her. Let's say you have 250 generations of ancestors then that means 1000 ancestors total. If your white ancestors (0.03 x 1000 x 100% = 30 white ancestors in total per 1000 ancestors were close to the middle of your ancestral line, your percentage of recent European ancestry may likely be incremental. But say your mother or father has a white great grandmother, your recent ancestry might show 12.5% European. Or a white grandmother would show you to have 25% European ancestry. In other words, if you had European grandparents in the last 2-3 generations, your individual white ancestry would be much higher than 3%. I am biracial/mixed race. In my case, my CRI Genetics total ancestral timeline to date shows 92% African and 3.6 European over more than 40 generations. But my recent ancestry (last 2-3 generations) shows 52% European, 40% African, 8 % West Indies, with German as the highest percentage of all at 21%. My 23 and me ancestry results shows German at 0.8% which looks like a trace amount over the Ancestral line . But my German grandparent was born 2 generations before me , which explains the percentage of my recent German ancestry.. Recent ancestry is much more representative of the tested individual's ancestral makeup than what 23 and me shows there. It'd be good for 23 to feature recent ancestry in this test. I'm curious to know who named you Larissa. As I learned from friends having that name, it's Russian and Ukrainian.
And you know there was a European slave trade as well of Europeans to mostly the Middle East. And mostly females, but that also explains some mixture and they were also Africans who were taken from Africa to Europe, so you can have full-blooded Europeans with African ancestry because of the Africans who brought to Europe in 16th, 15 etc. centuries
I only have about 6 percent European DNA. The rest is West African. I’ve heard that a majority of Black Americans have a higher percentage, as mentioned. I guess that makes me an outlier.
Start learning your family's story, then you don't feel so basic..... My ancestors were Tenant Farmers for three hundred years on one side, and poverty stricken, drunken Catholics on the other. I'm basic. 😆
I wouldn't considered Eastern European/Northeast European or Southern European/Southeastern European as basic US White ancestry. It's not common in the US, outside of Urban areas, or certain communities, and often has lots of Eastern or Near Eastern traces or ties, and you will stand out amongst more Northwest Euro people. Northeast Euros (Balto-Slavic, Finno-Urgic), have a Uralic (Ladogan), Siberian, Caucasus, or Central Asian component). Southern and Southeast Euros have a Balkan Illyrian, Anatolian, Caucasus, and Near East Levant component. It's why say Finns, and Northwest Russians cluster farther away from other Europeans, despite mixing with Germanics or Slavics. And paternally N1c men share a tie to Asian Siberian groups. It's also why Southern Italians, Greeks, and many Balkan populations like Albanians and Romanians show more ties to Anatolia, the Levant, and Caucasus. Also religiously you have more Orthodox (Eastern) Christian, and even Muslim religious people the further East and Southeast in Europe you go. Not the average in Culturally Calvinist Protestant (Western) Christian America.
I wouldn't underestimate the trace results... I made that mistake originally... thinking it was just noice... only after a long time trying to understand my distant cousin matches... trying to figure out which one of my great grandmothers had been lying about which grandparent's paternity, failing to find proof of any infidelity... only then did I realize that the answer to my question had been staring me straight in the face all along... in my trace regions.... 0.2% Sub-Saharan, 0,3% South-Asian, 1.36% American, on top of quite a bit a Mediterranean (from West-Asian to Iberian, with a whole lot of Scottish, Irish and Welsh... I have substantial amount of ancestry from Virginia and the Carolinas that is nowhere to be found in the records. None of these trace regions showed up on my MyHeritage test as they seem to smooth over the smallest amount of trace regions in an attempt to assign you countries... which smooths over the actual information to be found in the trace regions.
Trace results can be useful but not always. In no way am I saying to ignore trace results but anyone going through their results should understand that any trace results could very likely be noise. Having analyzed hundreds of DNA results across all the companies since 2013, it is extremely common for these small trace results to disappear when the companies update their algorithm for results.
@@GeneaVlogger Yes, the ethnicity estimates are a very inaccurate science still... and I think that some of them are moving in the wrong direction. They seem to be more concerned/obsessed with guessing your nationality correctly (which most people know already... if they have a passport) rather than getting your ethnic admixture as accurate as possible. But, to be fair I don't envy them. Trying to figure out what the "original" cocktail was that went into the cocktail, that went into the cocktail, that went into the cocktail that is you! Regardless, it's cocktail all the way down!... so which is the original cocktail LOL ;-P
@@sgjoni I agree, depending on your own individual history trace results are useful Although I know it’s probably not 100 percent accurate my trace results make a lot of sense considering where I know my grandparents to be factually from
People also know that everyone comes from Africa basically we’re all Africans no matter what we look like it’s just that we’re not recently from Africa that’s the whole juxta it but most people go by what you look like. I am supposed to be African-American but most people don’t see me as that and when I’m in Europe, they think I’m European when I’m in Africa they think I’m European. And when I’m Asia, they think I’m Asian. And all my relatives no matter what group they are automatically think I should do the other relatives and only be what they are crazy.
Society has made people feel bad for being European because of colonisation. And they think Europeans have no culture but in reality it’s because our culture spread everywhere from colonisation and white Americans have lost the connection of European culture. Also European history is amazing, people should be proud to be any ethnicity.
Hi GeneaVlogger in the video you were saying that trace regions are likely noise but I have 0 1% Eastern Europe and my Mother has 0.6% also we both have 2% on Ancestry could this mean it's not noise?
It definitely helps lean towards it possibly not being noise but it's hard to say for sure at such low amounts unfortunately. If you decide to research your family tree and find hints towards a family connection in Eastern Europe then that might be where the DNA is coming from but it is also likely that in researching your family tree you find no direct connections to Eastern Europe.
Jealous of people who say they are a basic white person but then have cool things like places in Eastern Europe... I'm 90% Irish, 3% English, 3% Welsh, and 4% German like talk about boring basic white person. I'm pasty, can't tan, and my Granda is 100% Irish according to AncestryDNA so I don't know what I was expecting but idk would've been nice to get a bit of something other than the British isles and a bit of German
I did get 2% Scandinavian on 23andme but it disappeared after an update and none of the other tests I took had it so Im not sure if that's accurate or not. Would be pretty cool if it is though. I'm assuming its just from invasion type stuff back in the day haha
Being Irish is cool, you had your own language and religious mythology. the issue with many northern Europeans is that you guys killed your own uniqueness by inventing the concept of “race” and inventing “white racial alliance” to justify colonialism That is partly why many “white” people think their results are “boring” Celtic history is very cool
I hate the whole “I’m a just a basic white guy/girl” be proud of yourself and your ancestry it’s weird as fuck. No wonder these people work for buzzfeed
Yes thats what annoys me about some ppl taking these Test.. I am %100 Porto Rician or All i know is i am Venezuelan. or Mexican.. Thats like say I am Canadian.There is no Race/ethinicty "Canadain" or "American" American are annoying "I am %100 percent "American"". hel they wil even say things like"i am irish or Scottish" yes you heritage maybe thsoe but you are not that. and another thing They get made at ppll coming fron other countries.. saying things like " I am cuban-amreican porto rican-american, meixcan -amreican" and they Blow a Gasket "Your are either an American or what every country you came from you can't both". Yet they proudly run around declaring "I am Scotich-American Irish-american(St paddys Day) Italian-american" i have notice you aren't allowed to be proud of where you come from Unless it is a European county although they do look down on some European countries. oh an of course Canada has its "French-Canadian".
I wonder what is wrong with buzzfeed all their ppl splitting off from them and creating their own channels. ah yeah content control.. creativity stifling..
those tests seem outdated already. english is not irish, it is also the divide that keeps scotland. native american is not asian, it is too old to merge them. Ancestry.com has been doing good at identifying markers. in fact they found northern america (inuit) is not the same as the mexican native. Anyway, believe it or not, the most confusing and very closely related is mainland europe (minus scandinavia). All those borders and languages....mountains and oceans must be the keepers.
So Californian. It's sad to hear the white kids devalue their ancestry. Even the British ones, come on, you're part Scandinavia -- you're a Viking, that was actually a Viking.
Since in America, being 100% white (esp. if 100% x or y specific ethnicity) just demonstrates that all your ancestors since colonial times have avoided mixing with any other group... yikes.
STOP!!!!!! No one is BASIC IN GENETICS!!!! I do not think these tests are pure! Why do Blacks show European ancestry , but Europeans do not show Black ancestry? Europeans are mixed and still mixing with African ancestry, PERIOD!!!STOP THIS RACISM!!!!!We are ALL MIXED BETTER THAT THAT!! Africans mixed with a lot of Europeans, so Europeans mixed with Blacks, also !!!!!
HHMMM its not at all that much really.. plus spit is natural. i only find watch other ppl spitting gross and disgusting. yuck. i had no problem spitting in to the vials. although yes swabs are easier.
I can definitely relate to the 'basic white girl' disappointment. I mainly did DNA for the genealogy/cousin matches, so the ethnicity breakdown wasn't that big a deal to me, but I was bummed when I found out that I'm literally 100% white. And all of my DNA comes from the British Isles, even though my genealogy goes back to Colonial America on most of my lines and my most recent immigrant ancestors came from continental Europe in the first half of the 19th Century. I really thought I'd have something cool, but my DNA is all Celtic and Anglo-Saxon/Norman British Isles. Luckily, the cousin matches helped me verify a lot of my research, and helped me get past more than one brick wall, so it was all a net positive.
Celtic/Anglo-Saxon/Norman/British etc IS cool. There's nothing boring there at all, that is a huge amount of rich history to uncover. I don't understand what people want from a DNA test, everyone has a fascinating culture and story - you should come visit the UK and soak it up. We may only be a small island, but we've got up to a lot in the last 1000 years!
Ye if youre 100% british and in the americas since colonial times, it means your family has been marrying within their group only since colonial times lmao. If you're european then I guess it isn't as bad a sign tho, not moving away from home tends to be seen as less bad than moving away and not mixing at all with others there.
I remember seeing a video where a girl was in tears because she thought her dad couldn’t be her dad because he was from Scotland, and she only had 20% Scottish DNA. She needed someone to explain to her that pretty much all Scottish people have Irish and Scandinavian DNA. I’ve mapped my family tree back seven generations, and apart from my Welsh grandad’s family, they were all Scottish. I’m still only 55% Scottish, the rest is a mix of Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish and English.
I did a test and it said I'm 30% Scottish which was interesting as we're not aware of any Scottish family!
My Ancestry results are 52% English, 27% Irish, 13% Scottish, 5% Swedish, 3% Welsh. I only know where the English and Irish come from, but the Irish is about three times as high as I would’ve thought it was. I’ve done my family tree, and all of the direct ancestors I’ve found were from England and Ireland. I would like to find out where the other percentages come from, especially Scotland, because it is pretty high, but it doesn’t seem like it was fairly recent.
When people complain that their results are wrong because their grandparents are 100% Italian and have lived in Italy for 4 generations, I like to snap back with “my ancestors have lived in the same country for almost 400 years, but I get no American in my results”. It’s not where people live, it’s where there ancestors came from that shows up in DNA results.
yes, and those "100% xy" grandparents are probably not even true. also, how could they be so sure who their ancestors slept with secretly or otherwise? 😂
Actually it's the opposite. DNA tests compare you to the present population because that's how the results are sourced. Some tests do take into consideration specifically alleles that are typically present historically in regions, but unless tests are only given to those whose families have been in the area for many generations the current population influences the results.
It saddens me when Hispanic people can't understand why they are European learn your history Spanish is a European language and Spaniards are not the only European people who settled in Latin America. It's even worse when they don't get why they are Native Americans.
Me too
So true. People need to learn about this. Too many people define their selves as Mexican but are ignorant to the fact that Mexico is a just a place. The majority of Mexicans are mostly native Americans that mixed with Europeans and Africans due to slavery of natives and Africans. Know your history!
It’s because a lot of the Hispanics that take this test grew up in the United States (trying to ship 23andMe to Mexico is crazy expensive). They aren’t taught a lot about central and southern American history. It is unfortunate. They also associate Native American with “United States of America” rather then the Americas. Just what I’ve noticed at least. Proud Mexican here. Lol thankfully my mom and grandma taught me a lot about the history. Otherwise I’d be in the same boat.
He said "boning" and my first thought was corsets. I spend too much time studying history of other kinds, I guess. lol
Bernadette Banner?
@@lushiousification I’ve watched her but not really who I thought of. Abby Cox and Karolina Żebrowska were among my first thoughts...after just "corsets...what do corsets have to do with....oh, never mind" lol
I never thought of Shane as "basic" white guy tbh. Man is like 6'4 tall and has (not to be rude) unique fac features
Being from England, I find it weird how these people just represent themselves as "basic white person" when they see they've got British & Irish, or Scandinavian roots. Besides it being the least bit basic or boring, do you feel you're not allowed have some pride in your ancestral origins just because you're white in America? Because if so then damn, that don't sound good
People want to be surprised I guess. Its not self hate
Wokeism and mainstream media shove down all americans' throats that you're either a "bad white colonialist" or an "oppressed black"... it is so ridiculous to classify all european ethnicities as "white" whereas each european ethnicity has offered so much(almost everything) to humanity
In the US.. it's considered R@CIST to have pride with those roots.. or any European ancestry
@@chillthompson3387you’re spot on plus here in the states those of us that have British are considered colonizers and slave owners. Marxist 101
I knew a white American from Maine who .was thrilled about the. 1 percent Italian and iberian 😂 but not the 85 percent northwest euro Scandinavian and french and german😮😅
It's amusing how other white people in the US often seem compelled to downplay their results (basic white guy) because it's not pc to feel excited or even a little proud of your European heritage.
I always thought I was equal parts Irish and Cherokee with a smattering of German. Turns out I'm approximately 51% English and Nw Europe, 28% Scot, 10% Irish, 8% Norwegian and a 3% trace from Sweden. I've always been an English history and mythology buff so that's pretty cool. I also thought both sides of my family were fairly recent arrivals, but it turns out both were here when we declared independence. Nothing basic about my heritage.
It's ridiculous that people are brainwashed into believing that Northwestern European is "boring", "basic", and not "cool".
They haven't been to Europe and experienced the vast amount of different cultures and all that.
As a european it makes me so irritated...These idiots have no idea...If there was ever one part of the world that is not boring, its europe.
Exactly. I find it so confusing.
Thats pretty much 100% of what I am lol
I'm proud of my N W European Ancestors.. it's not boring at all.
Yeah, I'm just a basic Ashkenazi Jewish girl with about a thousand 4th cousins. Although, Ancestry's latest update showed some distinctly Latvian & Lithuanian roots which I know is true.
I’m a basic white guy from Cuba 🇨🇺 😂 I’m Spaniard 🇪🇸, Portuguese 🇵🇹, French 🇫🇷, Irish 🇮🇪, Basque, and Sardinian
I'm Cuban too my whole family is from Havana and Santiago. And it's hard to believe you don't have a couple of Congos on that tree as well. I don't know any Cubanos whatever they look like, without some sangre Africana. After all even the patron saint of the island is mulata😂💪🏾🇨🇺
Yeah that makes sense, a variety of predominantly white countries
I was getting a Drivers License and a Hispanic guy was complaining about there wasn’t a brochure in Spanish. I asked him if he thought all white people speak English. All white people are not Anglo Saxons and not that many English people are either. We have let skin tones have a disproportionate weight when discussing genetics.
I like the new definition for genetics and genealogy being "Boning and migration", if Parasitologist can be summed up as "A strange person sitting on a stool, looking at another stool".
Can't wait to share my results on RUclips too haha, I'm loving your reactions and insights!
My mom dug into our family tree a bit. We learned that our last name was spelled differently just a few generations ago but because someone spelled it wrong on a document it changed so that was fun to learn. She also had some trouble looking up records on her side because of a similar issue. People were bad at spelling names. Also my great-grandfather is adopted and we have no idea where he came from originally
I also did 23andme and ancestry. I am of a cuban mother and Portuguese father, born in the 🇺🇸. The diffence between 23andme and ancestry are as follows: with Ancestry, I am 100% european: 60% Portugal, 35% Spain, 2% Basque and 3% French.
With 23andme I am 94.4% Spanish and Portuguese, 2.9% arab, egyptian and levantine, 0.3% ashkenazi jewish, 1.4% native american, 0.3% Sub-Saharan African, and 0.6% North India and Pakistan.
23andme was way more dynamic in my results.
I like your points. The results are estimates. Your family tree can be way more interesting than these estimated percentages.
The whole "not narrow down on country" thing is why I've yet to do a test like this - I've gone about 250 years back in my family tree, and so far EVERYONE's basically existed in the same 25 km circle. xD But because i'm Belgian and we're just smack dab in the middle of Europe, any DNA test would just say "broadly western european".
Bring white is somehow not being diverse. Tell that to Europeans back in the day they were at each others' throats because of their differences.
The volume on this video is terribly low. I crank it up in the video and it's not much better. I cranked up the volume on my HDMI connected TV and usually at 100% it's blasting the room, but not for this video~
Thanks for the feedback!
It's hard to find ancestry when you don't have names or having a family members who went through Ellis Island and had complete name changes. My grandma just found out that her american name isn't the one on her birth certificate because they changed it.
Well that’s why these DNA databases link you with your relatives from around the world. To help with that piece. Typically for every immigrant that came to America there were multiple family members that stayed behind.
That's where DNA comes into it... I've done family history research and will be doing the DNA test, and find out more since I'm struggling to get back any further in certain lines..
I loved all three of these! I wish there were a whole set of them I could binge from you.
I do have a question: at what percentage does it tip over from being ‘trace’ to being viable? For example, I’m 3% Swedish and my full blood sister is 8% Germanic Europe. Are those both ‘counted’ as us genetically being from those population groups or no?
Glad you enjoyed! I'm planning to do a lot more of these, and a few each time, so you'll get a little mini-binge each time I upload. I'm not quite familiar with an exact definition of trace results, although I usually view it as anything under 2%, but just because it is trace doesn't necessarily make it untrue. Sometimes those little 1% reads are correct and verifiable through research. As well, I have seen larger size inferences disappear after an update by companies. So when you are dealing with any single digit percentages it's best to view it with some skepticism while understanding it still may hold some truth.
GeneaVlogger ok, that makes total sense. As I tell my family, it’s not about being ‘plain’ - as they like to put it. It’s about finding those stories, like you said. All our lines, and I mean ALL 😂, go back to at least The Revolutionary War with good documentation. There the records begin to really thin and it is hard to see our exact people group starting point from outside the states.
This kind of videos always show how little American schooling system teach about the world’s history and geography. Like I am always shocked when they are amazed by some basic stuff, especially when it comes to Europe and colonisation
it is kinda funny. I knew enough of migrations in northern european (namely the anglos going from Germany to Brittan) so when i got British/irish on my test results I was surprised but then went they're probably just picking up on the anglo-saxon blood in my dna that actually stayed in Germany when the others fled. My sister was so set that we had ancestry from british isles (had to tell her no, they are probably picking that up cuz where a certain line of our german family came from)
I live in America, there is no real concept of ethnicity, or background, or history beyond the U.S. all there is is white, black, brown, etc.
I never liked using colors to generalise people into specific groups, I honestly think color labels should be abandoned entirely.
Why do those of European descent hate their lineage? 'Basic white girl/guy'?
It's really sad isn't it!? But that's what society has created. You are supposed to feel ashamed of being white.
cultural brainwashed people, a sad evolution of western society kind of ultrapostmodernist when you hate your identity
i think it is really sad when people are self deprecating like that really all culturs ethnic and racial groups are equally part of the the human race and help shape humanity and really should be celebrated.
Im Korean and adopted, my parents became foster parent to a child from Korea before they adopted me. My foster sister said i looked mixed, our japanese foreign exchange student, and most people I've encountered from that area. Had multiple Koreans say "no you're not". Some say i was mixed with Caucasian, most common was Japanese. I just say, all I know is my parents adopted me from S. Korea, all we know is that I'm Korean. 😊
I like your channel, but in this episode I couldn't hear the original video enough as your voice interrupted what was being said enough that I feel like I missed out on the things you were reacting to. That said, keep up these episodes. I do enjoy them!
Ryan doesn’t look like a typical mexican. He looks more asian mix.
loved doing my genetic test (23 and me). I was going if I am anything other then 100% white girl with german polish blood cuz i've done enough background hunt on my ancestors to know where they came from. I guessed that the only surprise ethnicity that would come in there would probably be maybe some minut Ashkenazi Jewish blood cuz of my polish blood. Test came back and yep, 100 percent european. No Ashkenazi. But looked at the british & irish and the scandinavian percentages and went huh didn't expect that. It wasn't surprising when I thought about it more. One of the branches from my mom's side came from the area where Anglo-saxons migrated from in Germany/Denmark (which also could tip the scandanavian blood as well). I've kept track of the 23 and me updates to my test results and that one update eliminated all of my british irish blood. That being said it also took away the southern European percentages that i had (my sister still has them on her test results)
I'm curious to know if Scottish people with a "clan" surname, as I do, are more likely to be related to the Clan chieftain or did people like tenant farmers or serfs, just inherit the clan leader's name when they began taking the census?
I had the ancestry test. Would there be any point to getting a 23 and me test as well? Like would I find out anything extra? My results:
Scotland
39%
England & Northwestern Europe
27%
Wales
17%
Ireland
10%
Norway
6%
Northern Italy
1%
Yeah I thinking that mysel
Your admixture looks to be essentially 99% british isles, so not much to dig there. If you are looking to get health information, or to have cousin matches using the database of a popular service, 23andme is a nice addition, otherwise, I personally wouldn't do it for the percentages - the only service that may be helpful in your case is LivingDNA's regional breakdown in the isles.
Yep, I'm a VERY basic white guy as well.
numbers in brackets represent my own genetic distance.
taken from mytrueancestry, taken with a grain of salt!
Visigoth + Saxon (3.073)
Viking Danish + Frank (3.099)
Saxon + Frank (3.367)
Viking Danish + Visigoth (3.392)
Saxon (3.555)
Viking Danish + Saxon (3.626)
Viking Danish (5.199)
Frank (5.83)
Visigoth (7.0)
Celt (8.517)
Vandal (8.529)
im i the only one who gets annoyed when people are disapointed where there from? every region has culture history and storys
These test/Videos you react to always show how little Americans know about history. (E.g. who invaded Mexico/south America)
Primarily German and Ashkenazi-I’m happy with that. 😊
Atleast Americans can be like omg I was from this other country, most Europeans is basically oh you're basically 90% from the country you were born in and if you live close to the border maybe you have some mix with the bordering country
But I guess that also isn't always true... Since we are all so close, most European countries ar small, the borderd changed a LOT and Europeans have been around here and migrating and intermarrying for quite some time. It won't be as "exotic" as in America. But I don't think most of us are totally pure blooded without any traces of something else...
Nothing wrong with being basic white or basic black.
I'm just a basic human from earth
"a catalogue of boning" 😂
I don't know what the problem is but I can't hear what you're saying
That 24% average for European didn't happen for me! Scotland, Wales and England came to 5%. I was 41% southern portion of Africa and 31% Nigerian.
That makes a bit sense because of the slavery so most Africans have at least tiny amounts of European dna
@Larissa Brewington @GeneaVlogger
Larissa, your individual European percentage may be higher than 3%.
Jared, feel free to correct me 👌🏽
The percentage ancestry shown on 23 and me is not recent ancestry, or the individual's recent ancestral percentage. I'm pretty sure the percentage ancestry throughout the individual's Ancestral line going many generations back..
It seems that people taking those tests assume that it's themselves who have those percentages, when it's the total percentage makeup from their earliest determined ancestor to the individual..
Let's look at the 'black' girl with the 2.3% ancestry having 2.3% of her total mother lode of ancestors that are white. If she wants to find out what he actual percentage of 'other! she is, she would take a test that analyzes her recent ancestry to the last 2-3 generations before her.
Let's say you have 250 generations of ancestors then that means 1000 ancestors total.
If your white ancestors (0.03 x 1000 x 100% = 30 white ancestors in total per 1000 ancestors were close to the middle of your ancestral line, your percentage of recent European ancestry may likely be incremental. But say your mother or father has a white great grandmother, your recent ancestry might show 12.5% European. Or a white grandmother would show you to have 25% European ancestry. In other words, if you had European grandparents in the last 2-3 generations, your individual white ancestry would be much higher than 3%.
I am biracial/mixed race. In my case, my CRI Genetics total ancestral timeline to date shows 92% African and 3.6 European over more than 40 generations. But my recent ancestry (last 2-3 generations) shows 52% European, 40% African, 8 % West Indies, with German as the highest percentage of all at 21%. My 23 and me ancestry results shows German at 0.8% which looks like a trace amount over the Ancestral line . But my German grandparent was born 2 generations before me , which explains the percentage of my recent German ancestry..
Recent ancestry is much more representative of the tested individual's ancestral makeup than what 23 and me shows there. It'd be good for 23 to feature recent ancestry in this test.
I'm curious to know who named you Larissa. As I learned from friends having that name, it's Russian and Ukrainian.
And you know there was a European slave trade as well of Europeans to mostly the Middle East. And mostly females, but that also explains some mixture and they were also Africans who were taken from Africa to Europe, so you can have full-blooded Europeans with African ancestry because of the Africans who brought to Europe in 16th, 15 etc. centuries
I only have about 6 percent European DNA. The rest is West African. I’ve heard that a majority of Black Americans have a higher percentage, as mentioned. I guess that makes me an outlier.
Please react to the television show The Real's ancestry DNA results. :)
Start learning your family's story, then you don't feel so basic.....
My ancestors were Tenant Farmers for three hundred years on one side, and poverty stricken, drunken Catholics on the other.
I'm basic. 😆
I wouldn't considered Eastern European/Northeast European or Southern European/Southeastern European as basic US White ancestry. It's not common in the US, outside of Urban areas, or certain communities, and often has lots of Eastern or Near Eastern traces or ties, and you will stand out amongst more Northwest Euro people. Northeast Euros (Balto-Slavic, Finno-Urgic), have a Uralic (Ladogan), Siberian, Caucasus, or Central Asian component). Southern and Southeast Euros have a Balkan Illyrian, Anatolian, Caucasus, and Near East Levant component.
It's why say Finns, and Northwest Russians cluster farther away from other Europeans, despite mixing with Germanics or Slavics. And paternally N1c men share a tie to Asian Siberian groups.
It's also why Southern Italians, Greeks, and many Balkan populations like Albanians and Romanians show more ties to Anatolia, the Levant, and Caucasus.
Also religiously you have more Orthodox (Eastern) Christian, and even Muslim religious people the further East and Southeast in Europe you go. Not the average in Culturally Calvinist Protestant (Western) Christian America.
hmm 2021 even in 202 23andme had an Update i wonder how their results change?
I wouldn't underestimate the trace results... I made that mistake originally... thinking it was just noice... only after a long time trying to understand my distant cousin matches... trying to figure out which one of my great grandmothers had been lying about which grandparent's paternity, failing to find proof of any infidelity... only then did I realize that the answer to my question had been staring me straight in the face all along... in my trace regions.... 0.2% Sub-Saharan, 0,3% South-Asian, 1.36% American, on top of quite a bit a Mediterranean (from West-Asian to Iberian, with a whole lot of Scottish, Irish and Welsh... I have substantial amount of ancestry from Virginia and the Carolinas that is nowhere to be found in the records.
None of these trace regions showed up on my MyHeritage test as they seem to smooth over the smallest amount of trace regions in an attempt to assign you countries... which smooths over the actual information to be found in the trace regions.
Trace results can be useful but not always. In no way am I saying to ignore trace results but anyone going through their results should understand that any trace results could very likely be noise. Having analyzed hundreds of DNA results across all the companies since 2013, it is extremely common for these small trace results to disappear when the companies update their algorithm for results.
@@GeneaVlogger Yes, the ethnicity estimates are a very inaccurate science still... and I think that some of them are moving in the wrong direction. They seem to be more concerned/obsessed with guessing your nationality correctly (which most people know already... if they have a passport) rather than getting your ethnic admixture as accurate as possible.
But, to be fair I don't envy them. Trying to figure out what the "original" cocktail was that went into the cocktail, that went into the cocktail, that went into the cocktail that is you! Regardless, it's cocktail all the way down!... so which is the original cocktail LOL ;-P
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I agree, depending on your own individual history trace results are useful
Although I know it’s probably not 100 percent accurate my trace results make a lot of sense considering where I know my grandparents to be factually from
That "Mexican" guy isn't very educated is he?
People also know that everyone comes from Africa basically we’re all Africans no matter what we look like it’s just that we’re not recently from Africa that’s the whole juxta it but most people go by what you look like. I am supposed to be African-American but most people don’t see me as that and when I’m in Europe, they think I’m European when I’m in Africa they think I’m European. And when I’m Asia, they think I’m Asian. And all my relatives no matter what group they are automatically think I should do the other relatives and only be what they are crazy.
Why does everyone not want to be white or European? Its like people get excited for everything except finding out they are white.
Society has made people feel bad for being European because of colonisation. And they think Europeans have no culture but in reality it’s because our culture spread everywhere from colonisation and white Americans have lost the connection of European culture. Also European history is amazing, people should be proud to be any ethnicity.
Because they are stupid people and victim of the politically correct.
Hi GeneaVlogger in the video you were saying that trace regions are likely noise but I have 0 1% Eastern Europe and my Mother has 0.6% also we both have 2% on Ancestry could this mean it's not noise?
It definitely helps lean towards it possibly not being noise but it's hard to say for sure at such low amounts unfortunately. If you decide to research your family tree and find hints towards a family connection in Eastern Europe then that might be where the DNA is coming from but it is also likely that in researching your family tree you find no direct connections to Eastern Europe.
@@GeneaVlogger Thank you
Jealous of people who say they are a basic white person but then have cool things like places in Eastern Europe... I'm 90% Irish, 3% English, 3% Welsh, and 4% German like talk about boring basic white person. I'm pasty, can't tan, and my Granda is 100% Irish according to AncestryDNA so I don't know what I was expecting but idk would've been nice to get a bit of something other than the British isles and a bit of German
I did get 2% Scandinavian on 23andme but it disappeared after an update and none of the other tests I took had it so Im not sure if that's accurate or not. Would be pretty cool if it is though. I'm assuming its just from invasion type stuff back in the day haha
Being Irish is cool, you had your own language and religious mythology.
the issue with many northern Europeans is that you guys killed your own uniqueness by inventing the concept of “race” and inventing “white racial alliance” to justify colonialism
That is partly why many “white” people think their results are “boring”
Celtic history is very cool
But Irish culture and history is one of the best European.
are you familiar with gedmatch?
I hate the whole “I’m a just a basic white guy/girl” be proud of yourself and your ancestry it’s weird as fuck. No wonder these people work for buzzfeed
Has COVID affected genetic testing intake?
No
They need to seperate Asian and native American they ain't the same
Yes thats what annoys me about some ppl taking these Test.. I am %100 Porto Rician or All i know is i am Venezuelan. or Mexican.. Thats like say I am Canadian.There is no Race/ethinicty "Canadain" or "American" American are annoying "I am %100 percent "American"". hel they wil even say things like"i am irish or Scottish" yes you heritage maybe thsoe but you are not that. and another thing They get made at ppll coming fron other countries.. saying things like " I am cuban-amreican porto rican-american, meixcan -amreican" and they Blow a Gasket "Your are either an American or what every country you came from you can't both". Yet they proudly run around declaring "I am Scotich-American Irish-american(St paddys Day) Italian-american" i have notice you aren't allowed to be proud of where you come from Unless it is a European county although they do look down on some European countries. oh an of course Canada has its "French-Canadian".
She said her dad is Nigerian. Not african american.
I wonder what is wrong with buzzfeed all their ppl splitting off from them and creating their own channels. ah yeah content control.. creativity stifling..
America was a melting pot between Europeans.
those tests seem outdated already. english is not irish, it is also the divide that keeps scotland. native american is not asian, it is too old to merge them. Ancestry.com has been doing good at identifying markers. in fact they found northern america (inuit) is not the same as the mexican native. Anyway, believe it or not, the most confusing and very closely related is mainland europe (minus scandinavia). All those borders and languages....mountains and oceans must be the keepers.
So Californian. It's sad to hear the white kids devalue their ancestry. Even the British ones, come on, you're part Scandinavia -- you're a Viking, that was actually a Viking.
This one is so quiet! shhh!
Hard to spit when you're so use to swallowing.
Why are Americans so indifferent about their European ancestry?
Since in America, being 100% white (esp. if 100% x or y specific ethnicity) just demonstrates that all your ancestors since colonial times have avoided mixing with any other group... yikes.
STOP!!!!!! No one is BASIC IN GENETICS!!!! I do not think these tests are pure! Why do Blacks show European ancestry , but Europeans do not show Black ancestry? Europeans are mixed and still mixing with African ancestry, PERIOD!!!STOP THIS RACISM!!!!!We are ALL MIXED BETTER THAT THAT!! Africans mixed with a lot of Europeans, so Europeans mixed with Blacks, also !!!!!
HHMMM its not at all that much really.. plus spit is natural. i only find watch other ppl spitting gross and disgusting. yuck. i had no problem spitting in to the vials. although yes swabs are easier.
I can definitely relate to the 'basic white girl' disappointment. I mainly did DNA for the genealogy/cousin matches, so the ethnicity breakdown wasn't that big a deal to me, but I was bummed when I found out that I'm literally 100% white. And all of my DNA comes from the British Isles, even though my genealogy goes back to Colonial America on most of my lines and my most recent immigrant ancestors came from continental Europe in the first half of the 19th Century. I really thought I'd have something cool, but my DNA is all Celtic and Anglo-Saxon/Norman British Isles. Luckily, the cousin matches helped me verify a lot of my research, and helped me get past more than one brick wall, so it was all a net positive.
Celtic/Anglo-Saxon/Norman/British etc IS cool. There's nothing boring there at all, that is a huge amount of rich history to uncover. I don't understand what people want from a DNA test, everyone has a fascinating culture and story - you should come visit the UK and soak it up. We may only be a small island, but we've got up to a lot in the last 1000 years!
Ye if youre 100% british and in the americas since colonial times, it means your family has been marrying within their group only since colonial times lmao. If you're european then I guess it isn't as bad a sign tho, not moving away from home tends to be seen as less bad than moving away and not mixing at all with others there.