I enjoy Celtic music - especially the highly-political "trad" Irish music - but my heritage from that side is Scots, and if I bothered to research it, more likely Borders than Highland.
On St. Patrick's, we welcome everyone regardless of heritage. Honestly, as long as you like the food and music, we don't care if you have any Irish in you at all. Come join the fun!
Could she have been a first child that was a girl and given away so the family could have a boy under the one child policy? Or a second or third child under the Chinese one child policy?
Im ethnically ambiguous... i got tightly curled almost afro hair, dark olive skin, bright green eyes, bushy brows and a thin hooked nose... most people think im from north africa, i sometimes get saudi arabia, jewish, people come up to me and speak arabic, some people think im Brazilian.... I did 23 and me and im 60% european, 25% native american, 10% black and 5% north africa and west asia....the whole map exept for east asia and eceania lit up, so I just identify as a citizen of the world XD
We've always just known that we're Mexican. We look pretty Mexican? But my parents wanted DNA tests for Christmas so we did Ancestry. We expected like 80% indigenous Mexican and a few scatterings of what you expect from Mexican heritage IE some Spanish and Iberian. But the results were similar to yours. My mom had way more European, Jewish, and Scandinavian than we expected. And my dad was literally everywhere. Argentinean, Korean, Russian, all over Africa, Arabian. He had Yakut. We never even heard of Yakut people. Fascinating how we come from all over!
Green eyes are rare and beautiful. I am dark olive skin and dark thick wavy hair and came out 48% Swedish and a mix of Irish, French, German. My bio sister has naturally curly tight carrot red hair and freckles and is white as white gets. She is mostly Irish with French and German and Swedish.
My father has about 3% of his ad mixture as African. His paternal line comes from Jalisco, which I've been able to document back to the 17th and 18th centuries. My 4x great-grandfather served as a witness in the marriage of his brother-in-law, identifying himself as mulatto. The paper trail backs up the DNA in that case!
I was kind of charmed by how excited and interested they all were, since amateur family tree research tends to be the luxury of the retired person. Shows how much even the younger generations crave that thread through history, with the bonus of seeing them realize how interesting it is to all be swimming in the same pool. Interesting commentary too, thanks for the video.
I imagine for the purpose of the video they were strongly encouraged to be very excited and lively. Everyone nodding and saying "hmm interesting" wouldn't sell as well for the camera.
Quite different from other videos making the rounds more recently, where people are incredibly upset to find out they have DNA from one particular ethnic group that it's been made okay to hate and be racist against these days.
My birth father (who was a con-artist) always told me I was Native and all my my life people always questioned where I was from/told me I'm 'exotic' or whatever and I when I did it I'm basically just north British lol. DNA is weird and apparently not really reflective on how you look.
My best friend who looks native and is from Brazil was told her whole life that she was native Amazonian, turns out she is just mixed African and European Italian 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, a part of my family thought we were native because we have dark hair and eyes and some of our family grew up on a reservation in Oklahoma... it turns out they were just poor white Welsh people, lol.
There's plenty of color in British people. The indigenous people of the British Isles and the Romans who occupied it were darker complected than the Anglo-Saxon immigrants.
African Americans are not just part white only because of slavery. In the cities in the North in the 1800s Blacks and Irish immigrants often lived in the same areas and intermarried, which is why many African Americans have a lot of Irish DNA. There was also common law interracial couples in the South even during Jim Crow, although those were almost always a white male with a black female.
My identical twin and I did both 23 and me, and ancestry at the same time for fun and we came out with different percentages for things lol. Occasionally we get an email as well to invite us to explore more information about a relative that’s labelled as self/twin 😂
My younger brother has our dads 25% swedish which is correct. I have nothing. But i'm a girl so I have less y dna. We are both correct on 12% irish from our mother's side. I am so mad i don't have any swedish.
It's obvious why Native American and East Asian are difficult to tell apart, considering that humans reached the Americas through the Bering Strait, when the sea levels were much lower. The Eastern tip of Asia was connected with Alaska and humans just walked through it.
No, its very easy to tell the two apart with geentics and even blood types, they are genetically very far removed, there is no way at all to confuse the two groups in genetic tests ever. Its just some weird bazaar "race" thing the americans have.. And nothing to do woth a dna test
Most of my family is a blend with Sami, we were thrown to find various percentages of Chinese in our results 😂 Helps explain my life-long struggle to find matching foundation I guess 🤷♀
I've lived in Central America, and in Singapore. So many people look alike between the two populations. At one point, I was sure I was sitting next to my C. American maid on Singapore public transport! Of course it wasn't possible in this case. But this shows it's not just a passing resemblance, but a real doppelganger determined by close observation.
I learned so much with this video! Me, my husband and two of our kids did MyHeritage. My son had Ashkenazi Jewish which neither my husband or I had, but now I understand where that comes from. My mom and dad did the test, I still have to send it in. My sister-in-law and her husband are doing it next month 👏🏻👏🏻
26:10 actually he said previously that he predicted polish ancestry according to their familiy records, so it could also very well be actual ashkenazi jewish
No one on that panel could be mistaken for Russian except maybe Jason who says people think he looks Asian. He also listed out that he''s Polish. He could pass for a Russian from more of a Muslim former Soviet republic.
Latinos are the most mixed people in the world… we have almost every country in our DNAs and it varies in percentages from person to person. Coloureds dont have dna from the American continent yet Latinos have dna from everywhere including Africa.
This reaction shows that Professional Genealogists should know "Broadly" population migrations, eSpecially from colonized countries. For example, he dismissed the broadly "Asian" findings for Andrea as "misreads", when in fact, it is expected because there was a massive slave trade between Mexico and the Philippines, where Filipino-Chinese slaves were brought to oversee the darker, native Mexican slaves. When the Filipino "Sangleys" arrived in Mexico, they were then called "Chinos".
There was no slave trade between Mexico and Philippines. Both were under Spanish control and Spain did not trade in slaves. The trade was in goods, linen and bamboo mostly.
I think it would be cool to do a follow up video with their parents taking a DNA test and putting together a tree. It might show how say 40% of a certain genealogy is actually a combination of 20% from each parent... make sense?
My sister, my mom and her dad have oddly olive skin. growing up she always assumed there was some long lost black or indigenous ancestor, but every time she's tested it only comes up with northwestern europe
French people have olive skin. I'm Canadian and most French Canadians have olive skin including everyone on my mothers side of the family. I did a DNA test and it use to show my French descent percentage but now it was put into the "Northwestern Europe and British" group. I did a family tree and was able to trace my family back to France in the 1500's. They came to Canada (Called New France at the time) in 1660.
Same here, I could tan darker than some of my black friends and also had curly, frizzy hair, so I always suspected some African heritage. I was kind of surprised that my DNA was mostly Polish and English, which explained nothing!
I know that my husband is Mexican and Chinese. I believe it is. And a lot of his family obviously started out in Mexico but moved to Arizona and I always just thought that was such a weird mix. Just because it dates back so long ago that it just seemed bizarre that those two cultures would have mixed. We went to tombstone and there was actually a very large population of Chinese immigrants that came there, so we are guessing that that is how it all happened.
A lot of Chinese came over during the Gold Rush. Some ended up in Ca, but some ended up, by accident or design, in Mexico. My Mexican ex once told me that there were also a good number of English last names in Baja Ca. Again, Gold Rush. Brits would take ship for Ca. The ship would dump them in Baja, which was technically Ca, just more than a thousand miles short of where they thought they were going. The ships then made a rapid turn around to England to pick up a fresh cargo of idiots.
I don’t understand why some people associate very curly hair only with being African. I’m a white woman with extremely curly hair and was told my entire childhood, 20s and 30s by my black friends that I must have African DNA because of my curly hair. According to my DNA test, I’m 85% British Isles and 15% Sweden/Norway/Denmark, so clearly other ethnicities can have very curly hair.
When I was growing up, my mom had tracked her dad's family back to the 1600s in Portugal. I always thought I would have a good amount of Portuguese DNA. The week after my mom passed, I got my results, and it was only 5%.
Great video! When I received my DNA results, they confirmed my family tree and the physical appearance of my mother's family ancestry from Kentucky - 86% W. African, 11% European, and about 3% Native American.
I've been mistaken for Hispanic or Native American several times because of my skint tone..especially when with my family who are all extremely pale. Except my baby sister who had a different father and has a lot of French and Choctaw ancestry on Dad's side. If they'd ever seen the picture of my half Welsh/half English great-great-grandmother they'd know where I got my darker skin tone from. The rest of the family shows our Irish, English and Norwegian ancestry more. I call myself an American Heinz 57. 😂 Your point about Andrea finding out which side the Sub-Saharan ancestry was on is why I had my mom take the Ancestry DNA test after my bio father did one. That's how I confirmed that the Welsh was on mom's side and that most of the German was on his side from a Hessian soldier who remained in U.S. after the Revolutionary War. My mom is 40% English & NW Europe. 26% Scottish. 19% Welsh. 11% Sweden & Denmark. 3% Irish. 1% Norwegian. My father's I have to find the print version since I don't have access to it online.
What's interesting is how these various sites change their estimates the more info they get. Years and years ago I got both 23andMe and AncestryDNA kits, and did them both. Their results were nowhere NEAR the same. Despite my family being Greek American, and knowing that all 8 of my great grandparents (and one of my grandparents) were born and lived in Greece before immigrating to the US, one of them was saying I was 78% Italian at first, the other one was like 38% "broadly mediterranean." But now, probably 10+ years later, 23andMe is saying 43% Greek, 23% Italian, and then 24% "Northern West Asian." AncestryDNA on the other hand says 98% Aegean Islands, specifically Crete, which is where 3 of my 4 grandparents families were from. Between the two, and knowing what I know of my family history, AncestryDNA seems the more accurate one for me at least. I wonder how accurate these will be in future, how detailed they can possibly get.
26:47 He was saying about Polish and Russian ancestry, so he actually can be an Ashkenazi Jewish because in this part of the world there was a lot of Ashkenazi Jewish. Their ancestors could be just Jewish, which lived there, maybe later became Christians or not (in Polish there is a word for Jewish who were baptized "przechrzta"), came to Brazil after participation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or some of World Wars something like that.
Thats is obvious I think. Lots of jews left poland and russia, also he said about history of judaism in his family. That's just dots need to be connected.
Ashkenazi Jews and non-Jewish Poles and Russians are not really genetically similar. I am Ashkenazi with ancestors from Poland and Russia, and I have virtually no east European or Slavic ancestry. Just because you live in a place doesn't mean you're genetically linked to it.
This was interesting, I'm half Indigenous, and close to half European, with 3 to 6% African and a tiny 1% Jewish. My great grandfather was German. In My Heritage it showed I had a medium connection with Rhine Germany. I thought that was interesting. Plus I found in my matches I have a medium connection with somone in Jewish ancestry. I just can't afford to get membership to search more.
My DNA test was pretty wild. 30% White which we absolutely know about--our last name is a town in England and my great grandparents married out of love. Even still I was so suprised that there was Portuguese, tons of basically everywhere in West Africa from Senegal down to Angola. Some thoughts on this video--kind of bogus how this dude is so dismissive towards any ancestry. While someone should be like "I'm Jewish' based on 1% ancestry, it's not cool to be dismissive either. An ancestor is an ancestor.
I am fascinated by your story and the beauty of your family. We are all tapestry. I actually discovered the name of my slave ancestor and that she married a white man named Thomas (my son’s name unknowingly). Thanks for sharing your story, history and heart.
My sister has done our family tree going back 11 generations, paternal on both sides. We do know there is native american in the family. And on our mothers side, at least, there may have been a bit of distant cousin marriages. She also took part in a national geographic DNA record survey. The result came back with a small amount of Polynesian ancestry. That very much surprised us! A few months later, they came back and had changed it to Inuit, which is what we expected based on her own family tree research. In regards to the video you viewed, I must confess that I found it a bit ..... not confusing, but only part of the story. As you stated, at least 45 percent was the result of the Ottoman in Iberia and I was wondering if these people knew the history. They were given the breakdown of the DNA, but I was wondering if they were given the why. That is the most important part of the story for me.
@@shuepsx652 No, but the Moors held much of Iberia through something like the 12th or 13th century CE, and they had a very open society regarding Muslims, Jews, Iberians, North Africans, Middle Easterns... So any time I heard the specialist say "X percent Iberian and some small percent of that amount under Jewish, North African, West Asian, etc." what I hear is "Moorish empire melting pot".
In case of Andrea's DNA, since she has Iberian in it please remember that South Spain was ruled by Arabs who had lots of north Africans with them. Just a thought.
South Spain was not "ruled" by Arabs as they were beaten in 1490. Prior to that the land was ethically mixed, since the Arabs would often enslave Iberian people or trade them with local Kingdoms.
This was an interesting one. I liked when she'd explain the area's that kind of covers since most of us would really have no idea. I also think it's more interesting because they were so mixed.
Interesting video, it's amazing that some people have DNA from so many areas, their ancestors were certainly well travelled. My DNA shows 47% England, 37% Scottish, small amounts of Ireland, Wales, and German, but surprisingly 9% Sweden/Denmark from one parent (my sibling has 13%). In my tree, if you go back to my 6th greats, no one is from Sweden or Denmark, and on that side of the tree I'm only missing 3 4th greats, 11 5th greats, and 41 6th greats, mostly from my maternal great grandfather's lines in Northern Ireland and England. Since 13% would be indicative of a grandparent, I don't understand how we got so much Sweden/Denmark. Would like to hear your comments as to how this can be.
My cousin did hers our dad's are brothers she has 14% Swedish.. before she sent it being British we'd said bound to be some Danish or out that way on our DNA.. not that we have any links there but, seems a possibility though..
My father was half Scots Irish Cherokee. His Scottish ancestors came in early 1700s and first Colonial born makes, one a direct ancestor was in American Revolution. My mother's ancestors came over 400 years ago, some on Mayflower, some other Colonists. My grandmother had a grandfather who immigrated from Sweden and frontiers the Midwest which were Territories, not states yet. That particular ancestor, Great Great Grandfather, I found his relatives traveled and married in England. He did travel. And, his ancestors also traveled. The male line traveled out of Sweden, South to France, Belgium and other countries and brought back wives to Sweden. People think Sweden is a very small population. But for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, they traveled, did trade and frontiering. Some brought back wives and others brought family to new places. Like my Great Great Grandfather brought his brother and mother once he purchased land and built a cabin. But one of his brothers stayed in Sweden. My Great Uncle passed down our Swedish heritage. And he kept all extended family connected. So, I even know my cousin in Sweden who is the Great Great Granddaughter of my Great Great Grandfather's brother. I believe my father's father who was from an actual tribe that was never separated in the Philippines married my Scots Irish Cherokee grandmother because my Scottish people and Cherokee people are tribal. In Scotland people lived in the same localities for generations back like all other Indigenous peoples. My grandparents were similar like that. My mother's Swedish extended family are also like that. In Sweden there are museums with names of Swedes who migrated from Sweden. I was given records of my ancestors decades before ancestry dot com existed. So, yes, the old world people traveled, not all but those who traded goods or were in militaries.
The Vikings (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway) were seafarers. Plundered British Isles, Greenland, parts of France, and even sailed into the eastern Mediterranean. Basically follow the north and western coast lines of Europe. They would steal women and bring others back as slaves.
Most people don’t understand that these numbers represent populations who SHARE the same DNA segments. It means that that segment can be found in those populations, but not that the person necessarily has ancestors from that region. Years ago, Myheritage used a poor algorithm that initially assigned me a sizeable African and a small Iberian reference population. It was later updated to reflect that the African was a misallocation and that the Iberian was actually Celtic (found in Ireland, Scotland, England and, among others, Switzerland). A later test with another vendor showed 99.8% Northern and Western European - the same as my parents and siblings. The process is complicated and not perfect - but getting better. And knowing how to interpret the data is everything.
But... she demonstrates that color doesn't determine ethnicity in the way that you suggested about the first girl. 👀 My grandmother was 25% african and white-passing. Genes are weird like that, and not the same as ethnicity markers. My dad came out brown, and they questioned his paternity and my grandmother's virtue over it. Being less than 50% African and coming out with tan skin isnt nearly as uncommon as people pretend. It's a color bias that needs to go away already. 🙄
I wish you would call “slaves” people who were enslaved, or enslaved people. A slave is a thing, and property of someone else, and it calls to mind a certain picture. A person is a person, to whom a terrible wrong has been done, but to whom dignity is owed.
The SE asian DNA could be the workers that migrated through the Galleon trade. Even today, there are a lot of Filipinos living in Mexico most especially in Guerrero Acapulco. Vice versa. There are also a lot of Mexicans that migrated here in the Philippines. A lot of borrowed words from Nahuatl and some Mexicans words are also from Tagalog. There are also a lot of chinese traders and workers
There is also that those who have traced their families to southern Spain, will find out that their family is from the Middle East from when the MOORS invaded southern Spain. The spelling was changed some where along the way.
East Asian/Native American makes perfect sense. There was alot of crossover from Asia and even Polynesia mixing with our bloodlines over time...I've got 2% Mongolian...still Native bloodlines. There was also alot of mixing north and south America. People are so used to current borders they don't realize that we have DNA from Incan to Plains Indian.
Native American DO NOT match "East Asian" populations. They already discovered that Native Americans were/ARE distinct populations from East Asian. They do not match Japanese, Chinese , Filipino etc. populations etc. They DO match West Asian populations research the "Malta boy" discovery. Those regions are Greece/Anatolia his haplogroup was R which is NOT an East Asian ancestor. He also was mixed with Siberian his ancestors are the ancestors of EVERY Native American in the Americas. So with this knowledge they figured why Native Americans do not match East Asian populations as assumed so any current populations of East Asian DNA are RECENT admixtures. As for their tests it appears to be very suspect also most Native Americans have not even tested they take populations in Mexico only which are in fact admixed they are not sampling from pre-colombian DNA already available. The results for "Andrea" were VERY high for Native American ancestry but dependent on the REGION of Mexico they are from. Also Spanish settlers were notorious for endogamy so these totals can quickly become rabbit holes. I do ancestry for Spanish records for Mexico etc. the records ARE THE BEST in the world really. The Spanish kept great records. They were methodic about it and identified Native American populations mothers fathers great grandparents. ALSO sub-saharan African in Mexican populations outside of areas near Belize where the plantations were is ACTUALLY usually from the North Africans they were MIXED! North Africans were not pure North African they intermixed for 800 years with Africans in Europe in Spain, also you must consider endogamy so this can come from MANY ancestors. As for the Jewish populations yes the families were RAMPANT in Mexico many bought "purity of blood" certifications to be able to come to the new world. The Carvajals were prolific they are in MANY families in Mexico who descend from them from New Mexico to Zacatecas and of course Mexico City. To me none of these people are ethnically ambiguous.
That is what I'm thinking. The Asian DNA could be from the recent migration through the galleon trade not thousands of years ago. They still have a lot of well known people of asian heritage
Based on what I see people who look majority sub-Saharan African always seem to think they're more of something else and they end up shocked when they're confirmed to be majority Sub Sahara Afro.
I had to read this more times than I'm comfortable admitting to realize this didn't say "Ethically ambiguous" .... I thought ... what tf does that mean? lol
I have never really wanted to "belong" because I never feel alone, even though I am not close to people, I have loved it that way as I have chosen to live this way, even refusing friendships often as I have no drive to really have friends, I just find people to be irritating to me, so the fact some of these HAVE to feel they "belong" really feels like insecurity in themselves.
East Asian & Native American. My father's mother was Scits Irish Cherokee from Trail of Tears ancestry. His father ilwas from a tribe in the Philippines. My nephew did his DNA. His, my father's y-dna line, is from South East Asia. My grandfather's tribe was on the cousline of the Sea of China, did trade with ancient India and China. They made a pottery for fermenting foods which... by the way, my ancestors shrank skulls. So, they understood fermentation. I went to Guatemala in 90s. The Mayans looked like my relatives in the Philippines. They thought I was Mayan mixed. Yhey treated me like family. Filipino sailors mixed traveled on sailing ships in Colonial times. They did mix with Native Americans. There are Native Americans who are descendants of those sailors. There is a small culture on the coast of the Gulf who are Native American Filipino desendents. I learned that from history from America Filipino groups I am a member of. 23andme ignores my Cherokee. It is racist to me. I have obvious Philippines DNA. They can even now tell my tribe. But they never trase out my Cherokee/Chippewa which I could tease out in ancient dna tests - genomelink. Wegene broke down my asian DNA to Han Chinese, a few other Chinese groups, Indigenous Taiwanese which in the Philippines it has been said for decades that anthropology evidence links ancestral Tawain tribes to our tribe. So that matches. One of my uncle's has Chinese features without epicanthic eye folds, normal eyes for my tribe. But he has features that look Chibese and I used to teade him calling him my "Chinese uncle." So I guess our tribe did more than trade with ancient Chinese.
I wish people understood better how non-homogeneous almost everyone's genetics are and how it's absolutely not cause for shock and musing about how crazy your family was when a test comes back showing that you have a mix of ancestry from a general broad region. Finding out you're 20% african when you thought your background was entirely european and asian, that's an interesting surprise. Finding out the asian portion of your ancestry is just a list of a bunch of adjacent asian countries with overlapping histories isn't. "Woah!! i'm 19.5% chinese AND 3.5% manchurian and 0.5% maybe japanese?!?!?! Crazy!! Woah my family was really getting around asia!! So weird!" nah that's totally normal.
It's amazing how many people get their results and expect to be the majority African and they're not. And it's very ironic to see a lot people get a fraction of Jewish ethnicity and are so proud but they hate to be European if they think they're some other ethnicity😂
I am Half Ashkenazi and isn’t it around Half Levant and Half Southern European with very little Eastern European Influence, my family has lived in Eastern Europe for many years but I am pretty sure genetically we are not that much Eastern European?
That’s exactly right. I score No Eastern European on Living DNA, ADNTRO, or DNAGenics, it’s all a mix of Southern European and Middle Eastern. On MyHeritage it reads Ashkenazi Jewish (with a map of Eastern and Central Europe), and Mizrahi Jewish.
@@romic8427don't you consider Bosnia east European? I don't know, perhaps the populations of the Balkans are different to places like Hungary or Slovakia and when you say east European you are thinking about that.
Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania', also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution. Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad (lit. 'Spain'), can also refer to the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, who were also heavily influenced by Sephardic law and customs.
I love my little percentages, they're so interesting! My percentages under 10% each are 7% Greece/Albania, 4% Northern Italy, 3% Scotland. Senegal, France, Germanic Europe, and Basque all showed as 2%. Cameroon/Congo, Jewish, Sweden/Denmark, and Baltics all showed as 1%.
As a black person there is nothing ambiguous about the two black females. And who ever ask that obviously black girl if she was Russian they were drunk. Seems like she wanted to be everything other than black to be honest
I found one line that went back to the 1700s on my father's side and all of them males. My mom's side was more difficult. Her mom family I couldn't get past her grandparents. On her dad's side I got stuck at the same place, her grandparents. That's where my Native American comes in. Her grandmother was Cherokee out of NC from what I was told.
One of the few that's actually probably Cherokee! Lol The Cherokees are one of the biggest and most successful tribes, but people from all over the US have that myth that "my great grandmother was a Cherokee princess". Lol Most people in my state with Native ancestors are actually descendants of Choctaw or Chickasaw, but they always claim Cherokee. Being from North Carolina, you are actually almost certainly part Cherokee.
I did my DNA report, and I am like these people. I never know what to check. I am European, Middle Eastern, Sub-Saharan, and tiny bits of everything else.
With Allison’s results you also need to consider that Italy - Sicily and Venice for especially - were HUGE hubs of trade with Africa and the Ottoman Empire
crazy thing is, my ancestry DNA test says I'm 45% European and i look black but my kids on the other hand, specifically my 2nd oldest, looks straight up white but his ancestry DNA test says he's 70% black. found out that my white ex-husband was actually my 2nd cousin (we broke up after I found out) and my grandfather's sister was my ex-husband's great grandmother. me and my ex husband are both of Irish ancestry. my family came from Ireland in 1734 and fought in the revolutionary war it's wild that I'm 44 and my late paternal grandfather was born in 1899. how many people have you met at this point in time younger than 50 with a grandparent who was born in the 19th century? a lot of people don't realize they had slavery in mexico too
No, SE Asian would be consistent with Japanese. It's just that they don't have enough data to assign that segment of your ancestry to any specific country, but that doesn't mean it's *not* Japanese ancestry.
DNA is honestly so fascinating, but over the years, I have learned just how unreliable it is and that's pretty sad. So I just go off of what my parents know with absolute certainty. Irish, Polish, Russian, German, Scottish, and the only thing I know percentage wise is at least 25% Ashkenazi based on my mom being 51% and my grandfather being 100% (Yes, that recent of an ancestor who's 100%). I'm actually really surprised that you said more "lost" Jewish records are starting to be found. That makes me really hopeful, because I can trace all the way back to the 1200's on my dad's side of the family, but not my mom's side. That might be because I don't know the birth names of any of my great grandparents, aunts, or uncles, though. I might be able to trace more if I did know. It breaks my heart not having any sort of records that might still exist from during or before the Holocaust. As for the video, I was actually wondering if the one guy was more Sephardi instead of Ashkenazi (I know you don't like the term, but it's the term) or if he was a mix, too. 'Cause Being Sephardi would make a lot of sense for him.
I think the term Ashkenazi is better than European Jewish. They themselves say they are Ashkenazi or Yiddish. I also thought Sephardic made more sense with the rest of his results.
Jarret, I am Brazilian and I just took an ancestry test, one my results came as 7% Sephardic Jewish, can you tell me when this ancestor lived ? My father said his family has new Christian ancestry
I love how we did all this work and tests, funding out we are all a part is each other and now ppl are just identified as what they look like again. We're so shallow and tribal
While it's possible there's a more recent ancestor from Scandinavia, it's quite possible these small percentages in people with British and Irish ancestry have the Scandinavian ancestry from there. A large amount of British people and some Irish have Scandinavian ancestry due to Viking invasions and in some areas Dane Law. Some areas like North East England had hundreds of years with strong connections with Scandinavia, as did some of the Scottish islands. Most people in these places will have Scandinavian ancestry. I'm from North East England and have it on both sides of the family. Connections were so strong, for so long that Northumbrian Dialect shares a lot of similar words with the Scandinavian languages, that while understood by Scandinavians, aren't understood by people from other parts of England. Due to the percentage of British and the percentage of Scandinavian they each have, it would pretty much fit with the percentage that someone who could trace their British ancestry back a few hundred years to only the UK would have. Like I said, they may actually have a bit of more recent ancestry there, but it might help them with their ancestry searches if they know that could be from their British ancestry and it might point to them being from one of the areas that was under Dane Law or maybe somewhere like Shetland where there have always been strong links with Norway. French and German would also be a common one to have in there too as it covered Angles, Saxons, Normans etc. Britain was invaded so many times, by different groups for over 1000 years. While it's not that common for any Roman DNA to show up in these (I don't know how much of that was just it was a long time ago, and how much was that while we had some villas here, as we were at the northern edge of the Roman Empire, most of the presence was military, so there maybe wasn't quite as much mixing and settling down with locals), Vikings, Jutes, Saxons, Angles, Normans and Frisians usually show up.
I am 3rd generation American. My mother is 50/50 German and Irish. My father is 50/50 Irish and English. My grandparents on all sides came from 100% bloodlines. In other words, Each grandparent came from 100% of their ethnicity, German, Irish and English. We can trace these lines back several generations. All of my great grandparents were born in their own countries of ethnicities or bloodlines. When I took my DNA test, I came back 85% Irish and 15% European. They showed maps where my bloodlines were in Ireland, and both are correct according to family history. Here is one thing I don't hear mentioned. What they are seeing are the strongest bloodlines that you have. My German and English DNA might actually be more than the test reveals, but the Irish is showing more because it is stronger.
I sent my DNA to 23 and me, and only one surprise. I'm mostly British, German, Irish and Norwegian, thus blond and pale. The one pleasant surprise; I'm 1% North African.
If Andrea has Iberian there will be Morrocan, Jewish, Levant, North African..just anything in Medditerranean plus Vikings arrived until Spain, Basques have Celtic DNA ..so Spain can have lots of everything...I was born in Poland in village where ppl lived from many generation.. I would think I am 100% Slav, but I was wrong, I am only 8% Slav, but rest is Jewish, Baltic, Balkan..
I was just reading a bit on the Vikings. I knew they had plundered much of NW Europe including British Isles and Greenland. I didn't realize though that apparently they had sailed into the Mediterranean as well. Could that also be part of the Scandinavian connection for those that have African DNA?
Practically everyone in Britain who isn't from recent immigration has Scandinavian DNA. So anyone from Britain who has a child with someone with African ancestry will pass on Scandinavian DNA to the offspring. As you say Vikings got everywhere so western Europe is the most common source but it could come from many directions. My mother has higher than average Scandinavian DNA for someone from the southern half of England which may be from French Hugenot exiles in the 17th century who may have come from the Normandy region. Once in England they probably married only within their own religious community for some generations.
that's true i really only identify with 1/4 of my grandparents heritage - i'm cornish (with coal mining in cornwall and the UP of michigan, and granfer being my moms grandpa and they all lived in cornwall in the 1800s), i know my grandpas family was from poland (at least partly), but otherwise i have no idea because my dad doesn't know who his dad was and i've never heard anything about his moms ancestry either the cornish side is the part of the family i know the most about so that's what i've really picked up on my entire life and identified with
I kinda love this video - I didn't even study organic chemistry or biology, I'm a linguistic anthro guy, but what little I know of human biology and genealogy, the 1%s and below are all easily discountable when it comes to painting the picture of one's family history. I often remind people that their "broadly SW European" tends to mean "yeah that's still Spanish/Portuguese. You're Mexican. This all tracks. And you had one single Jewish ancestor from Serbia or something, that's your Balkan/Ashkenazi 0.5%"
Knew from the start that the first guy was half white half asian. You often see that phenotype in people with such ancestry. The narrow face and nose with smaller eyes and sometimes attached ears. If you want an example just look at youtuber markiplier and you'll see the same features as the guy in this video.
The border between Germany and Poland moved around, too -- especially since Germany didn't exist as a single entity until 1866-ish and Poland didn't exist between 1795 and 1918. A friend of mine was born in Germany. When I asked her father what part of Germany, he said "a part of Germany that's in Poland now." I thought -- but did not say -- "or, as my Polish grandmother would say, "a part of Poland that was occupied by Germans."
My guess is that this buzzfeed vid is from around 2017? Back then everyones test showed all these misread traces. My test showed traces of polynesian, middle eastern, iberian, westen asian. if i look up my updated results in 2023 it is just 50% chinese and 50% northwest English.
First time viewer. Immediately subscribed after watching. So curious to see more. Hope I find the answer to this question. Did your blue eyes and red hair contribute to your interest in this line of work? ( I'm a green eyed red head )
I like those 1% results. Mine says I am 1% Irish and I be celebrating with my people every March 17th, including singing Celtic songs and all.
I enjoy Celtic music - especially the highly-political "trad" Irish music - but my heritage from that side is Scots, and if I bothered to research it, more likely Borders than Highland.
😂😂😂🍀🍻
On St. Patrick's, we welcome everyone regardless of heritage. Honestly, as long as you like the food and music, we don't care if you have any Irish in you at all. Come join the fun!
Sorry bruh - those 1% things don't really mean anything....but go have fun on the 17th!
Are you a Border Reiver too?! @@webwarren
I have a friend I talked into doing DNA. She was adopted in Korea and found out she has not one drop of Korean, but is Chinese and European.
Korea was part of china.
I would be fascinated. It makes you wonder about the type of life your ancestors had. Hope she wasn’t let down or anything lol.
Many Koreans have Chinese and Japanese admix. But since she is adopted, there may be a less common story there.
Korea has been invaded by other nations many time in the last 600 years
Could she have been a first child that was a girl and given away so the family could have a boy under the one child policy? Or a second or third child under the Chinese one child policy?
Im ethnically ambiguous... i got tightly curled almost afro hair, dark olive skin, bright green eyes, bushy brows and a thin hooked nose... most people think im from north africa, i sometimes get saudi arabia, jewish, people come up to me and speak arabic, some people think im Brazilian.... I did 23 and me and im 60% european, 25% native american, 10% black and 5% north africa and west asia....the whole map exept for east asia and eceania lit up, so I just identify as a citizen of the world XD
AS WE ALL SHOULD!
We've always just known that we're Mexican. We look pretty Mexican? But my parents wanted DNA tests for Christmas so we did Ancestry. We expected like 80% indigenous Mexican and a few scatterings of what you expect from Mexican heritage IE some Spanish and Iberian. But the results were similar to yours. My mom had way more European, Jewish, and Scandinavian than we expected. And my dad was literally everywhere. Argentinean, Korean, Russian, all over Africa, Arabian. He had Yakut. We never even heard of Yakut people. Fascinating how we come from all over!
@@barbarat5729 LOL, I was just going to make the exact same comment!
But we don’t. We all come from Africa. (Or the garden of Eden if you prefer the fairy story.)@@aortiz6203
Green eyes are rare and beautiful. I am dark olive skin and dark thick wavy hair and came out 48% Swedish and a mix of Irish, French, German. My bio sister has naturally curly tight carrot red hair and freckles and is white as white gets. She is mostly Irish with French and German and Swedish.
My father has about 3% of his ad mixture as African. His paternal line comes from Jalisco, which I've been able to document back to the 17th and 18th centuries. My 4x great-grandfather served as a witness in the marriage of his brother-in-law, identifying himself as mulatto. The paper trail backs up the DNA in that case!
African Blk? Or Caucasian?
@@lapislazulii141 Sub Saharan African or North African
I was kind of charmed by how excited and interested they all were, since amateur family tree research tends to be the luxury of the retired person. Shows how much even the younger generations crave that thread through history, with the bonus of seeing them realize how interesting it is to all be swimming in the same pool. Interesting commentary too, thanks for the video.
I imagine for the purpose of the video they were strongly encouraged to be very excited and lively. Everyone nodding and saying "hmm interesting" wouldn't sell as well for the camera.
Quite different from other videos making the rounds more recently, where people are incredibly upset to find out they have DNA from one particular ethnic group that it's been made okay to hate and be racist against these days.
@@baronjutterPrecisely.
20% Brazilian is funny. It1s like 20% American or Canadian.
Took the words out of my mouth. Typical North American distorted notion of reality. They walk around with their noses stuck int their butts.
Yeah, unless they specifically mean native Brazilian. Brazil is super mixed with ancestry.
Brazilian is not a race. I'm Brazilian and I have syrian-lebanese ancestry.
My birth father (who was a con-artist) always told me I was Native and all my my life people always questioned where I was from/told me I'm 'exotic' or whatever and I when I did it I'm basically just north British lol. DNA is weird and apparently not really reflective on how you look.
DNA literally determines what you look like in a general sense. It’s just that ethnic groups aren’t monolithic.
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I'm sorry he lied.
My best friend who looks native and is from Brazil was told her whole life that she was native Amazonian, turns out she is just mixed African and European Italian 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, a part of my family thought we were native because we have dark hair and eyes and some of our family grew up on a reservation in Oklahoma... it turns out they were just poor white Welsh people, lol.
There's plenty of color in British people. The indigenous people of the British Isles and the Romans who occupied it were darker complected than the Anglo-Saxon immigrants.
Humanity. Many colors. One people.
African Americans are not just part white only because of slavery. In the cities in the North in the 1800s Blacks and Irish immigrants often lived in the same areas and intermarried, which is why many African Americans have a lot of Irish DNA. There was also common law interracial couples in the South even during Jim Crow, although those were almost always a white male with a black female.
A lot of Afro Americans have Irish last names, "Mc".
When indentured servitude for whites was still happening it was very common for them to marry enslaved blacks.
True
True, my family is an example of this
He actually said in the video that slavery wasn't he only reason there could be an African/European mix in the Americas.
My identical twin and I did both 23 and me, and ancestry at the same time for fun and we came out with different percentages for things lol. Occasionally we get an email as well to invite us to explore more information about a relative that’s labelled as self/twin 😂
My younger brother has our dads 25% swedish which is correct. I have nothing. But i'm a girl so I have less y dna. We are both correct on 12% irish from our mother's side. I am so mad i don't have any swedish.
I have 22 yr old twins and want them to do this to see.
your fraternal twins
It's obvious why Native American and East Asian are difficult to tell apart, considering that humans reached the Americas through the Bering Strait, when the sea levels were much lower. The Eastern tip of Asia was connected with Alaska and humans just walked through it.
No, its very easy to tell the two apart with geentics and even blood types, they are genetically very far removed, there is no way at all to confuse the two groups in genetic tests ever. Its just some weird bazaar "race" thing the americans have.. And nothing to do woth a dna test
Most of my family is a blend with Sami, we were thrown to find various percentages of Chinese in our results 😂
Helps explain my life-long struggle to find matching foundation I guess 🤷♀
I've lived in Central America, and in Singapore. So many people look alike between the two populations. At one point, I was sure I was sitting next to my C. American maid on Singapore public transport! Of course it wasn't possible in this case. But this shows it's not just a passing resemblance, but a real doppelganger determined by close observation.
Amateur genealogist here. Thank you for this video! I learned so much from your reaction comments. You have earned a sub and a like.
I love your username. South Central Texas? I grew up near that creek.
I learned so much with this video! Me, my husband and two of our kids did MyHeritage. My son had Ashkenazi Jewish which neither my husband or I had, but now I understand where that comes from. My mom and dad did the test, I still have to send it in. My sister-in-law and her husband are doing it next month 👏🏻👏🏻
26:10 actually he said previously that he predicted polish ancestry according to their familiy records, so it could also very well be actual ashkenazi jewish
Yes! I have a Polish ancestor that gave my Native butt a little Ashkenazi also, but no one knew until my cousins and I did a test.
Is that common with polish mixed families??
One of his parents is a Polish Jewish
Ashkenazi and Polish are not really similar, genetically
No one on that panel could be mistaken for Russian except maybe Jason who says people think he looks Asian. He also listed out that he''s Polish. He could pass for a Russian from more of a Muslim former Soviet republic.
Yeah he looks like a type of uzbek for sure
So someone who says his family is still Jewish today is surprised that this shows up in his DNA? Weird or what?
I think he’s a tad ashamed or racist towards Jews. I think he wanted to be another ethnicity.
yeah lol
The last one with that big mixture indicates her Dad had a lot of European as well ancestry .
I would definately say that too. It can't just be her mother, that would make sense genetically.
It also blew his assumption that people with that skin tone have at least 50% African ancestry.
Ha. I misread the title. I thought it said ethically ambiguous. This make a lot more sense.
It would be cool if you could check out some Cape Coloured results from South Africa. Probably the most mixed group in the world.
I didnt know that the cape of South Africa is the most mixed people in the world.
I need to educate myself.
Spain brought thousand's of Asians to the Americas.
Latinos are the most mixed people in the world… we have almost every country in our DNAs and it varies in percentages from person to person. Coloureds dont have dna from the American continent yet Latinos have dna from everywhere including Africa.
@@bunjijumper5345they are not… Latinos are.
Latinos are
This reaction shows that Professional Genealogists should know "Broadly" population migrations, eSpecially from colonized countries. For example, he dismissed the broadly "Asian" findings for Andrea as "misreads", when in fact, it is expected because there was a massive slave trade between Mexico and the Philippines, where Filipino-Chinese slaves were brought to oversee the darker, native Mexican slaves. When the Filipino "Sangleys" arrived in Mexico, they were then called "Chinos".
FYI a person could not become a Slave in Spanish Colonial Philippines if they were baptized Roman Catholic
There was no slave trade between Mexico and Philippines. Both were under Spanish control and Spain did not trade in slaves.
The trade was in goods, linen and bamboo mostly.
I think it would be cool to do a follow up video with their parents taking a DNA test and putting together a tree. It might show how say 40% of a certain genealogy is actually a combination of 20% from each parent... make sense?
My sister, my mom and her dad have oddly olive skin. growing up she always assumed there was some long lost black or indigenous ancestor, but every time she's tested it only comes up with northwestern europe
French people have olive skin. I'm Canadian and most French Canadians have olive skin including everyone on my mothers side of the family. I did a DNA test and it use to show my French descent percentage but now it was put into the "Northwestern Europe and British" group. I did a family tree and was able to trace my family back to France in the 1500's. They came to Canada (Called New France at the time) in 1660.
Test older relatives if at all possible. Genes can pass down without ethnic markers.
Same here, I could tan darker than some of my black friends and also had curly, frizzy hair, so I always suspected some African heritage. I was kind of surprised that my DNA was mostly Polish and English, which explained nothing!
I know that my husband is Mexican and Chinese. I believe it is. And a lot of his family obviously started out in Mexico but moved to Arizona and I always just thought that was such a weird mix. Just because it dates back so long ago that it just seemed bizarre that those two cultures would have mixed. We went to tombstone and there was actually a very large population of Chinese immigrants that came there, so we are guessing that that is how it all happened.
Do you "know," or do you "believe?" These are two very different things.
A lot of Chinese came over during the Gold Rush. Some ended up in Ca, but some ended up, by accident or design, in Mexico. My Mexican ex once told me that there were also a good number of English last names in Baja Ca. Again, Gold Rush. Brits would take ship for Ca. The ship would dump them in Baja, which was technically Ca, just more than a thousand miles short of where they thought they were going. The ships then made a rapid turn around to England to pick up a fresh cargo of idiots.
@@jwhite-1471 we know, weirdo on the internet that shouldn’t feel so pressed over an innocent comment. Stfu
I don’t understand why some people associate very curly hair only with being African. I’m a white woman with extremely curly hair and was told my entire childhood, 20s and 30s by my black friends that I must have African DNA because of my curly hair. According to my DNA test, I’m 85% British Isles and 15% Sweden/Norway/Denmark, so clearly other ethnicities can have very curly hair.
When I was growing up, my mom had tracked her dad's family back to the 1600s in Portugal. I always thought I would have a good amount of Portuguese DNA. The week after my mom passed, I got my results, and it was only 5%.
That's one "100% Portuguese" ancestor approx. 4-5 generations back
Great video! When I received my DNA results, they confirmed my family tree and the physical appearance of my mother's family ancestry from Kentucky - 86% W. African, 11% European, and about 3% Native American.
I've been mistaken for Hispanic or Native American several times because of my skint tone..especially when with my family who are all extremely pale. Except my baby sister who had a different father and has a lot of French and Choctaw ancestry on Dad's side.
If they'd ever seen the picture of my half Welsh/half English great-great-grandmother they'd know where I got my darker skin tone from. The rest of the family shows our Irish, English and Norwegian ancestry more. I call myself an American Heinz 57. 😂
Your point about Andrea finding out which side the Sub-Saharan ancestry was on is why I had my mom take the Ancestry DNA test after my bio father did one. That's how I confirmed that the Welsh was on mom's side and that most of the German was on his side from a Hessian soldier who remained in U.S. after the Revolutionary War.
My mom is 40% English & NW Europe. 26% Scottish. 19% Welsh. 11% Sweden & Denmark. 3% Irish. 1% Norwegian. My father's I have to find the print version since I don't have access to it online.
when they say convert or die, I kinda call that forced conversion. That 0.6% could be Moorish ancestry since she has so much Spanish ancestry.
2 of them are not ethnically ambiguous. They just think they are.
What's interesting is how these various sites change their estimates the more info they get. Years and years ago I got both 23andMe and AncestryDNA kits, and did them both. Their results were nowhere NEAR the same. Despite my family being Greek American, and knowing that all 8 of my great grandparents (and one of my grandparents) were born and lived in Greece before immigrating to the US, one of them was saying I was 78% Italian at first, the other one was like 38% "broadly mediterranean." But now, probably 10+ years later, 23andMe is saying 43% Greek, 23% Italian, and then 24% "Northern West Asian." AncestryDNA on the other hand says 98% Aegean Islands, specifically Crete, which is where 3 of my 4 grandparents families were from.
Between the two, and knowing what I know of my family history, AncestryDNA seems the more accurate one for me at least. I wonder how accurate these will be in future, how detailed they can possibly get.
Cool video as always, you deserve more subscribers
I missed this but I'm watching now.
26:47 He was saying about Polish and Russian ancestry, so he actually can be an Ashkenazi Jewish because in this part of the world there was a lot of Ashkenazi Jewish. Their ancestors could be just Jewish, which lived there, maybe later became Christians or not (in Polish there is a word for Jewish who were baptized "przechrzta"), came to Brazil after participation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or some of World Wars something like that.
There are some Polish descendants in Brazil, mostly in the south (alongside Russian, Ukrainian, German, etc), so that would check.
Thats is obvious I think. Lots of jews left poland and russia, also he said about history of judaism in his family. That's just dots need to be connected.
Aschkenazy dna shows up in dna testing. Its not the same dna as Polish or Russian. They do not share the same haplo
Ashkenazi Jews and non-Jewish Poles and Russians are not really genetically similar. I am Ashkenazi with ancestors from Poland and Russia, and I have virtually no east European or Slavic ancestry. Just because you live in a place doesn't mean you're genetically linked to it.
This was interesting, I'm half Indigenous, and close to half European, with 3 to 6% African and a tiny 1% Jewish. My great grandfather was German. In My Heritage it showed I had a medium connection with Rhine Germany. I thought that was interesting. Plus I found in my matches I have a medium connection with somone in Jewish ancestry. I just can't afford to get membership to search more.
My DNA test was pretty wild. 30% White which we absolutely know about--our last name is a town in England and my great grandparents married out of love. Even still I was so suprised that there was Portuguese, tons of basically everywhere in West Africa from Senegal down to Angola. Some thoughts on this video--kind of bogus how this dude is so dismissive towards any ancestry. While someone should be like "I'm Jewish' based on 1% ancestry, it's not cool to be dismissive either. An ancestor is an ancestor.
Great reaction as always!
I am fascinated by your story and the beauty of your family. We are all tapestry. I actually discovered the name of my slave ancestor and that she married a white man named Thomas (my son’s name unknowingly). Thanks for sharing your story, history and heart.
I have a darker skin tone and I am 55.6% European. I knew the European was going to be there, but even I was shocked.
My sister has done our family tree going back 11 generations, paternal on both sides. We do know there is native american in the family. And on our mothers side, at least, there may have been a bit of distant cousin marriages. She also took part in a national geographic DNA record survey. The result came back with a small amount of Polynesian ancestry. That very much surprised us! A few months later, they came back and had changed it to Inuit, which is what we expected based on her own family tree research. In regards to the video you viewed, I must confess that I found it a bit ..... not confusing, but only part of the story. As you stated, at least 45 percent was the result of the Ottoman in Iberia and I was wondering if these people knew the history. They were given the breakdown of the DNA, but I was wondering if they were given the why. That is the most important part of the story for me.
The Ottoman Empire didn't reach Iberia though
@@shuepsx652 No, but the Moors held much of Iberia through something like the 12th or 13th century CE, and they had a very open society regarding Muslims, Jews, Iberians, North Africans, Middle Easterns... So any time I heard the specialist say "X percent Iberian and some small percent of that amount under Jewish, North African, West Asian, etc." what I hear is "Moorish empire melting pot".
@@webwarren Yes, Moorish rather than Ottoman.
In case of Andrea's DNA, since she has Iberian in it please remember that South Spain was ruled by Arabs who had lots of north Africans with them. Just a thought.
South Spain was not "ruled" by Arabs as they were beaten in 1490. Prior to that the land was ethically mixed, since the Arabs would often enslave Iberian people or trade them with local Kingdoms.
This was an interesting one. I liked when she'd explain the area's that kind of covers since most of us would really have no idea. I also think it's more interesting because they were so mixed.
Interesting video, it's amazing that some people have DNA from so many areas, their ancestors were certainly well travelled. My DNA shows 47% England, 37% Scottish, small amounts of Ireland, Wales, and German, but surprisingly 9% Sweden/Denmark from one parent (my sibling has 13%). In my tree, if you go back to my 6th greats, no one is from Sweden or Denmark, and on that side of the tree I'm only missing 3 4th greats, 11 5th greats, and 41 6th greats, mostly from my maternal great grandfather's lines in Northern Ireland and England. Since 13% would be indicative of a grandparent, I don't understand how we got so much Sweden/Denmark. Would like to hear your comments as to how this can be.
There were scandinavians who travelled to england in medieval times. It’s possible that it comes from there, in multiple places
My cousin did hers our dad's are brothers she has 14% Swedish.. before she sent it being British we'd said bound to be some Danish or out that way on our DNA.. not that we have any links there but, seems a possibility though..
Danelaw
My father was half Scots Irish Cherokee. His Scottish ancestors came in early 1700s and first Colonial born makes, one a direct ancestor was in American Revolution. My mother's ancestors came over 400 years ago, some on Mayflower, some other Colonists. My grandmother had a grandfather who immigrated from Sweden and frontiers the Midwest which were Territories, not states yet. That particular ancestor, Great Great Grandfather, I found his relatives traveled and married in England. He did travel. And, his ancestors also traveled. The male line traveled out of Sweden, South to France, Belgium and other countries and brought back wives to Sweden. People think Sweden is a very small population. But for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, they traveled, did trade and frontiering. Some brought back wives and others brought family to new places. Like my Great Great Grandfather brought his brother and mother once he purchased land and built a cabin. But one of his brothers stayed in Sweden. My Great Uncle passed down our Swedish heritage. And he kept all extended family connected. So, I even know my cousin in Sweden who is the Great Great Granddaughter of my Great Great Grandfather's brother. I believe my father's father who was from an actual tribe that was never separated in the Philippines married my Scots Irish Cherokee grandmother because my Scottish people and Cherokee people are tribal. In Scotland people lived in the same localities for generations back like all other Indigenous peoples. My grandparents were similar like that. My mother's Swedish extended family are also like that. In Sweden there are museums with names of Swedes who migrated from Sweden. I was given records of my ancestors decades before ancestry dot com existed. So, yes, the old world people traveled, not all but those who traded goods or were in militaries.
The Vikings (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway) were seafarers. Plundered British Isles, Greenland, parts of France, and even sailed into the eastern Mediterranean. Basically follow the north and western coast lines of Europe. They would steal women and bring others back as slaves.
I’ve been waiting for you to do this one!!!
Most people don’t understand that these numbers represent populations who SHARE the same DNA segments. It means that that segment can be found in those populations, but not that the person necessarily has ancestors from that region. Years ago, Myheritage used a poor algorithm that initially assigned me a sizeable African and a small Iberian reference population. It was later updated to reflect that the African was a misallocation and that the Iberian was actually Celtic (found in Ireland, Scotland, England and, among others, Switzerland). A later test with another vendor showed 99.8% Northern and Western European - the same as my parents and siblings. The process is complicated and not perfect - but getting better. And knowing how to interpret the data is everything.
10% Brazilian is no different than saying 10% Canadian.
But... she demonstrates that color doesn't determine ethnicity in the way that you suggested about the first girl. 👀 My grandmother was 25% african and white-passing. Genes are weird like that, and not the same as ethnicity markers. My dad came out brown, and they questioned his paternity and my grandmother's virtue over it. Being less than 50% African and coming out with tan skin isnt nearly as uncommon as people pretend. It's a color bias that needs to go away already. 🙄
I wish you would call “slaves” people who were enslaved, or enslaved people. A slave is a thing, and property of someone else, and it calls to mind a certain picture. A person is a person, to whom a terrible wrong has been done, but to whom dignity is owed.
preach!
Thank you for saying that.
The SE asian DNA could be the workers that migrated through the Galleon trade. Even today, there are a lot of Filipinos living in Mexico most especially in Guerrero Acapulco. Vice versa. There are also a lot of Mexicans that migrated here in the Philippines. A lot of borrowed words from Nahuatl and some Mexicans words are also from Tagalog. There are also a lot of chinese traders and workers
Bo Mexicans words are from tagalog at all
There is also that those who have traced their families to southern Spain, will find out that their family is from the Middle East from when the MOORS invaded southern Spain. The spelling was changed some where along the way.
The results of my DNA have been changed about six times since I took it about ten years ago.
I really enjoyed this video because I watched that original video years ago and seeing it again with the reactions was awesome! Really enjoyed this…
East Asian/Native American makes perfect sense. There was alot of crossover from Asia and even Polynesia mixing with our bloodlines over time...I've got 2% Mongolian...still Native bloodlines. There was also alot of mixing north and south America. People are so used to current borders they don't realize that we have DNA from Incan to Plains Indian.
Informative as usual! 👍🏽Thanks
My maternal grandmother's family has been traced back to around 1089 or 90. Mostly Iberian, Irish and native American.
"You have 0.1% arabian"
"WooOoOw" 😂😂
Native American DO NOT match "East Asian" populations. They already discovered that Native Americans were/ARE distinct populations from East Asian. They do not match Japanese, Chinese , Filipino etc. populations etc. They DO match West Asian populations research the "Malta boy" discovery. Those regions are Greece/Anatolia his haplogroup was R which is NOT an East Asian ancestor. He also was mixed with Siberian his ancestors are the ancestors of EVERY Native American in the Americas. So with this knowledge they figured why Native Americans do not match East Asian populations as assumed so any current populations of East Asian DNA are RECENT admixtures. As for their tests it appears to be very suspect also most Native Americans have not even tested they take populations in Mexico only which are in fact admixed they are not sampling from pre-colombian DNA already available. The results for "Andrea" were VERY high for Native American ancestry but dependent on the REGION of Mexico they are from. Also Spanish settlers were notorious for endogamy so these totals can quickly become rabbit holes. I do ancestry for Spanish records for Mexico etc. the records ARE THE BEST in the world really. The Spanish kept great records. They were methodic about it and identified Native American populations mothers fathers great grandparents. ALSO sub-saharan African in Mexican populations outside of areas near Belize where the plantations were is ACTUALLY usually from the North Africans they were MIXED! North Africans were not pure North African they intermixed for 800 years with Africans in Europe in Spain, also you must consider endogamy so this can come from MANY ancestors. As for the Jewish populations yes the families were RAMPANT in Mexico many bought "purity of blood" certifications to be able to come to the new world. The Carvajals were prolific they are in MANY families in Mexico who descend from them from New Mexico to Zacatecas and of course Mexico City. To me none of these people are ethnically ambiguous.
That is what I'm thinking. The Asian DNA could be from the recent migration through the galleon trade not thousands of years ago. They still have a lot of well known people of asian heritage
Based on what I see people who look majority sub-Saharan African always seem to think they're more of something else and they end up shocked when they're confirmed to be majority Sub Sahara Afro.
My thoughts exactly. Not sure why they were so surprised.
I had to read this more times than I'm comfortable admitting to realize this didn't say "Ethically ambiguous" .... I thought ... what tf does that mean? lol
Courteney and I have VERY similar results. I have 2% SE Asian and 1% Native American and trace North African and NE Indian & Bengali.
I have never really wanted to "belong" because I never feel alone, even though I am not close to people, I have loved it that way as I have chosen to live this way, even refusing friendships often as I have no drive to really have friends, I just find people to be irritating to me, so the fact some of these HAVE to feel they "belong" really feels like insecurity in themselves.
oh. I read "ethically ambiguous"
I’d much rather watch this than the buzzfeed video
East Asian & Native American. My father's mother was Scits Irish Cherokee from Trail of Tears ancestry. His father ilwas from a tribe in the Philippines. My nephew did his DNA. His, my father's y-dna line, is from South East Asia. My grandfather's tribe was on the cousline of the Sea of China, did trade with ancient India and China. They made a pottery for fermenting foods which... by the way, my ancestors shrank skulls. So, they understood fermentation. I went to Guatemala in 90s. The Mayans looked like my relatives in the Philippines. They thought I was Mayan mixed. Yhey treated me like family. Filipino sailors mixed traveled on sailing ships in Colonial times. They did mix with Native Americans. There are Native Americans who are descendants of those sailors. There is a small culture on the coast of the Gulf who are Native American Filipino desendents. I learned that from history from America Filipino groups I am a member of. 23andme ignores my Cherokee. It is racist to me. I have obvious Philippines DNA. They can even now tell my tribe. But they never trase out my Cherokee/Chippewa which I could tease out in ancient dna tests - genomelink. Wegene broke down my asian DNA to Han Chinese, a few other Chinese groups, Indigenous Taiwanese which in the Philippines it has been said for decades that anthropology evidence links ancestral Tawain tribes to our tribe. So that matches. One of my uncle's has Chinese features without epicanthic eye folds, normal eyes for my tribe. But he has features that look Chibese and I used to teade him calling him my "Chinese uncle." So I guess our tribe did more than trade with ancient Chinese.
I wish people understood better how non-homogeneous almost everyone's genetics are and how it's absolutely not cause for shock and musing about how crazy your family was when a test comes back showing that you have a mix of ancestry from a general broad region. Finding out you're 20% african when you thought your background was entirely european and asian, that's an interesting surprise. Finding out the asian portion of your ancestry is just a list of a bunch of adjacent asian countries with overlapping histories isn't. "Woah!! i'm 19.5% chinese AND 3.5% manchurian and 0.5% maybe japanese?!?!?! Crazy!! Woah my family was really getting around asia!! So weird!" nah that's totally normal.
It's amazing how many people get their results and expect to be the majority African and they're not. And it's very ironic to see a lot people get a fraction of Jewish ethnicity and are so proud but they hate to be European if they think they're some other ethnicity😂
You are Mongolian
I am Half Ashkenazi and isn’t it around Half Levant and Half Southern European with very little Eastern European Influence, my family has lived in Eastern Europe for many years but I am pretty sure genetically we are not that much Eastern European?
That’s exactly right. I score No Eastern European on Living DNA, ADNTRO, or DNAGenics, it’s all a mix of Southern European and Middle Eastern. On MyHeritage it reads Ashkenazi Jewish (with a map of Eastern and Central Europe), and Mizrahi Jewish.
Not surprising. I have ~40% East European but have no knowledge of anyone within the past 5 generations who's lived in East Europe (From Bosnia)
@@romic8427don't you consider Bosnia east European? I don't know, perhaps the populations of the Balkans are different to places like Hungary or Slovakia and when you say east European you are thinking about that.
Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania', also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad (lit. 'Spain'), can also refer to the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, who were also heavily influenced by Sephardic law and customs.
I love my little percentages, they're so interesting! My percentages under 10% each are 7% Greece/Albania, 4% Northern Italy, 3% Scotland. Senegal, France, Germanic Europe, and Basque all showed as 2%. Cameroon/Congo, Jewish, Sweden/Denmark, and Baltics all showed as 1%.
Bone structure is MUCH more telling than skin shade. If you look closely, not a single one of these is surprising.
As a black person there is nothing ambiguous about the two black females. And who ever ask that obviously black girl if she was Russian they were drunk. Seems like she wanted to be everything other than black to be honest
Maybe Jason needs to ask his mother some questions. On the one hand he says he knows his history and then seems surprised he’s half Jewish.
I found one line that went back to the 1700s on my father's side and all of them males. My mom's side was more difficult. Her mom family I couldn't get past her grandparents. On her dad's side I got stuck at the same place, her grandparents. That's where my Native American comes in. Her grandmother was Cherokee out of NC from what I was told.
One of the few that's actually probably Cherokee! Lol
The Cherokees are one of the biggest and most successful tribes, but people from all over the US have that myth that "my great grandmother was a Cherokee princess". Lol
Most people in my state with Native ancestors are actually descendants of Choctaw or Chickasaw, but they always claim Cherokee.
Being from North Carolina, you are actually almost certainly part Cherokee.
Thanks for bringing to light the overall lack of us being aware how little we generally and specifically know about our ancestry.
I did my DNA report, and I am like these people. I never know what to check. I am European, Middle Eastern, Sub-Saharan, and tiny bits of everything else.
This was a really interesting and informative video. Well done.
With Allison’s results you also need to consider that Italy - Sicily and Venice for especially - were HUGE hubs of trade with Africa and the Ottoman Empire
That doesn't mean much. Have you seen the people of those region today
crazy thing is, my ancestry DNA test says I'm 45% European and i look black but my kids on the other hand, specifically my 2nd oldest, looks straight up white but his ancestry DNA test says he's 70% black. found out that my white ex-husband was actually my 2nd cousin (we broke up after I found out) and my grandfather's sister was my ex-husband's great grandmother. me and my ex husband are both of Irish ancestry. my family came from Ireland in 1734 and fought in the revolutionary war
it's wild that I'm 44 and my late paternal grandfather was born in 1899. how many people have you met at this point in time younger than 50 with a grandparent who was born in the 19th century?
a lot of people don't realize they had slavery in mexico too
My grandfather japanese from Japan. I only inherited 19% okinawan Japanese dna. The rest are all SE Asian. Does it mean that he was not 100% japanese?
Not 1 person on this planet is 100% anything.
You are Burmese
No, SE Asian would be consistent with Japanese. It's just that they don't have enough data to assign that segment of your ancestry to any specific country, but that doesn't mean it's *not* Japanese ancestry.
@@DaltonMirklestein nope.
@@ettinakitten5047 uploaded to another dna test website. Went up to 21%. 😆 Anyway.. This is all an estimate afterall.
there are also a lot of ashkenazi communities in Brazil
Andrea's results only added up to 93%. What's the other 7%? It seems a bit strange given that they are including 0.1% results.
Just an hilarious thing - I read the title as ethically ambiguous, lol.
I gotta stop watching true crime.
Southeast Asian in Mexico can be Philippines which was also under Spanish control
DNA is honestly so fascinating, but over the years, I have learned just how unreliable it is and that's pretty sad. So I just go off of what my parents know with absolute certainty. Irish, Polish, Russian, German, Scottish, and the only thing I know percentage wise is at least 25% Ashkenazi based on my mom being 51% and my grandfather being 100% (Yes, that recent of an ancestor who's 100%).
I'm actually really surprised that you said more "lost" Jewish records are starting to be found. That makes me really hopeful, because I can trace all the way back to the 1200's on my dad's side of the family, but not my mom's side. That might be because I don't know the birth names of any of my great grandparents, aunts, or uncles, though. I might be able to trace more if I did know. It breaks my heart not having any sort of records that might still exist from during or before the Holocaust.
As for the video, I was actually wondering if the one guy was more Sephardi instead of Ashkenazi (I know you don't like the term, but it's the term) or if he was a mix, too. 'Cause Being Sephardi would make a lot of sense for him.
I think the term Ashkenazi is better than European Jewish. They themselves say they are Ashkenazi or Yiddish.
I also thought Sephardic made more sense with the rest of his results.
Jarret, I am Brazilian and I just took an ancestry test, one my results came as 7% Sephardic Jewish, can you tell me when this ancestor lived ? My father said his family has new Christian ancestry
Sephardic Jews lived in Spain before being expelled.
Probably a great-great grandparent if it all comes from the same ancestor.
@jv
Probably something to do with the mailman or even possibly the milkman ?
7% is a long way back.
I love how we did all this work and tests, funding out we are all a part is each other and now ppl are just identified as what they look like again.
We're so shallow and tribal
While it's possible there's a more recent ancestor from Scandinavia, it's quite possible these small percentages in people with British and Irish ancestry have the Scandinavian ancestry from there. A large amount of British people and some Irish have Scandinavian ancestry due to Viking invasions and in some areas Dane Law. Some areas like North East England had hundreds of years with strong connections with Scandinavia, as did some of the Scottish islands. Most people in these places will have Scandinavian ancestry. I'm from North East England and have it on both sides of the family. Connections were so strong, for so long that Northumbrian Dialect shares a lot of similar words with the Scandinavian languages, that while understood by Scandinavians, aren't understood by people from other parts of England. Due to the percentage of British and the percentage of Scandinavian they each have, it would pretty much fit with the percentage that someone who could trace their British ancestry back a few hundred years to only the UK would have. Like I said, they may actually have a bit of more recent ancestry there, but it might help them with their ancestry searches if they know that could be from their British ancestry and it might point to them being from one of the areas that was under Dane Law or maybe somewhere like Shetland where there have always been strong links with Norway. French and German would also be a common one to have in there too as it covered Angles, Saxons, Normans etc. Britain was invaded so many times, by different groups for over 1000 years. While it's not that common for any Roman DNA to show up in these (I don't know how much of that was just it was a long time ago, and how much was that while we had some villas here, as we were at the northern edge of the Roman Empire, most of the presence was military, so there maybe wasn't quite as much mixing and settling down with locals), Vikings, Jutes, Saxons, Angles, Normans and Frisians usually show up.
I am 3rd generation American. My mother is 50/50 German and Irish. My father is 50/50 Irish and English. My grandparents on all sides came from 100% bloodlines. In other words, Each grandparent came from 100% of their ethnicity, German, Irish and English. We can trace these lines back several generations. All of my great grandparents were born in their own countries of ethnicities or bloodlines. When I took my DNA test, I came back 85% Irish and 15% European. They showed maps where my bloodlines were in Ireland, and both are correct according to family history. Here is one thing I don't hear mentioned. What they are seeing are the strongest bloodlines that you have. My German and English DNA might actually be more than the test reveals, but the Irish is showing more because it is stronger.
I sent my DNA to 23 and me, and only one surprise. I'm mostly British, German, Irish and Norwegian, thus blond and pale. The one pleasant surprise; I'm 1% North African.
If Andrea has Iberian there will be Morrocan, Jewish, Levant, North African..just anything in Medditerranean plus Vikings arrived until Spain, Basques have Celtic DNA ..so Spain can have lots of everything...I was born in Poland in village where ppl lived from many generation.. I would think I am 100% Slav, but I was wrong, I am only 8% Slav, but rest is Jewish, Baltic, Balkan..
I was just reading a bit on the Vikings. I knew they had plundered much of NW Europe including British Isles and Greenland. I didn't realize though that apparently they had sailed into the Mediterranean as well.
Could that also be part of the Scandinavian connection for those that have African DNA?
I met a family that moved from Lebanon. Wondered about the light hair ans blue eyes. Vikings. They were hired as guards.
Practically everyone in Britain who isn't from recent immigration has Scandinavian DNA. So anyone from Britain who has a child with someone with African ancestry will pass on Scandinavian DNA to the offspring. As you say Vikings got everywhere so western Europe is the most common source but it could come from many directions. My mother has higher than average Scandinavian DNA for someone from the southern half of England which may be from French Hugenot exiles in the 17th century who may have come from the Normandy region. Once in England they probably married only within their own religious community for some generations.
Vikings were all over Europe. They also traded their slaves to the middle east.
that's true i really only identify with 1/4 of my grandparents heritage - i'm cornish (with coal mining in cornwall and the UP of michigan, and granfer being my moms grandpa and they all lived in cornwall in the 1800s), i know my grandpas family was from poland (at least partly), but otherwise i have no idea because my dad doesn't know who his dad was and i've never heard anything about his moms ancestry either
the cornish side is the part of the family i know the most about so that's what i've really picked up on my entire life and identified with
That makes you 90% sub Saharan African.
I kinda love this video - I didn't even study organic chemistry or biology, I'm a linguistic anthro guy, but what little I know of human biology and genealogy, the 1%s and below are all easily discountable when it comes to painting the picture of one's family history.
I often remind people that their "broadly SW European" tends to mean "yeah that's still Spanish/Portuguese. You're Mexican. This all tracks. And you had one single Jewish ancestor from Serbia or something, that's your Balkan/Ashkenazi 0.5%"
How did she not know she is atleast 67% West African?
Knew from the start that the first guy was half white half asian. You often see that phenotype in people with such ancestry. The narrow face and nose with smaller eyes and sometimes attached ears. If you want an example just look at youtuber markiplier and you'll see the same features as the guy in this video.
The border between Germany and Poland moved around, too -- especially since Germany didn't exist as a single entity until 1866-ish and Poland didn't exist between 1795 and 1918. A friend of mine was born in Germany. When I asked her father what part of Germany, he said "a part of Germany that's in Poland now." I thought -- but did not say -- "or, as my Polish grandmother would say, "a part of Poland that was occupied by Germans."
My guess is that this buzzfeed vid is from around 2017? Back then everyones test showed all these misread traces. My test showed traces of polynesian, middle eastern, iberian, westen asian. if i look up my updated results in 2023 it is just 50% chinese and 50% northwest English.
None of these people look ethnically ambiguous.
Thank you. I think they wanted to be but I didn’t see nothing but black
@@real8551 All look black?! Racist much?! Some look black, some look Hispanic to me NOT All black.
They just mean mixed.
Andrea more like andrew😂😂😂
I was going to say the same thing, that is a man, man.
First time viewer. Immediately subscribed after watching. So curious to see more. Hope I find the answer to this question. Did your blue eyes and red hair contribute to your interest in this line of work? ( I'm a green eyed red head )
They have the same nose. THAT IS BEAUTIFUL TO RECOONNECT WITH YOUR ROOTS!
Here are mine: Sweden & Denmark 32%, Scotland 21%, Ireland 20%, Germanic Europe 10%, Baltics 7%, Norway 5%, England & Northwestern Europe 5%.
Quite White 😉
I prefer Ancestry over 23 and me.