I’m Italian through both parents from Calitri and Bari 85 percent Italian 12 percent MENA 2 Greek/cyrpiot 1 Spanish I’m a living history of a southern Italian . It’s so awesome .
I’m 99.6% Northwestern European and also got 0.4% West African. This was interesting, because I also have very fair skin, hair, and eyes. Plus, no one in the surviving family had any idea where that would come from. Come to find out it’s not a mistake in the reading; I came in contact with a distant cousin who actually lived nearby, and imagine our shock when we met in person and we look completely different. She’s very obviously black, I’m very obviously not. While unable to deduce the exact ancestor, we discovered which line we share. Unfortunately, it’s very likely a slave/master situation that ties us together, but we’re still grateful to have found each other. I always thought I came from an all white family, but now I know that I have more extended family that are a beautiful array of colors. ❤️
They said "British-Irish" (rather than UK, Ireland or Irish/Scottish/Welsh) and "regions specifically" (rather than communities or ethnicity groups) so I think they tested with 23&me
They sort of treated it like a report card from one semester to the next that they “improved” and became more Italian or more British. I took a DNA test specifically to find out who my unknown paternal great grandfather was. The results answered the 110 year old mystery, and also enabled me to build out that part of my tree too, by reaching out to my dad’s 1/2 cousins. Before the test, that branch was the barest branch of them all ending at my grandfather, after the test I was able to build it back a further 4 generations on that side to my 4th Gr. Grandparents.
She had a small percebntage of Asian which is Native American. The African had nothing to do with that. Most likely slavery since she is American. Native Americans and the British did mnmix I have that in my history books.
LOL…your description near the end of long generations is me. My dad was 44 when I was born…his parents were 42 and 50 when he was born. His mom's dad was 50 when she was born. People know their great grandparents. Mine was born in 1845. And this is Italy!
I had a super strong idea of what my genealogy was on my moms side because she grew up in Komiza which is a small island off Croatia, that was identified as Balkans. That was cut and dry, my dads side took me for a loop. His side was middle eastern, north African, irish, german, western Asian, and Scandinavian. So my DNA test was an interesting mix.
They don't state who they tested with but it was 23andMe - I can tell when she corrected her husband it's British and Irish and not just British. I love when he sees the high percentage for this and says British and starts to crack up and she corrects him to state British and Irish. As you stated she looks very European but does seem to get a result for those with early colonial American stock especially from the Southeastern USA which does normally show trace amounts of DNA for African and Native American ancestry in people who are predominantly European. This would be for people who have the early colonial Virginia/Carolina's 1600's ancestry. I'm surprised though that none of the physical features of this ancestry is reflected in her looks.
I found my paternal great great grandfather at 17 in an English census (1871, I think). Found out that his occupation was as a confectioner and got to see his address. I’d love to see the home that he had lived in.
I think people are more excited for the DNA results because most people already have some picture of their genealogy. Obviously not everyone, but many people can go back about 3 generations and they have family stories ect. The DNA test, however, reveals a part of you that cannot otherwise be accurately measured and sometimes something people have zero clue about. It is what it is. Nothing to be frustrated about.
It was funny in editing the video because I didn't remember being that frustrated with it, so even as I was editing I was thinking I was taking it a bit too hard. I even mentioned it in my Discord while editing that I was a little too sassy with this one.
I feel the same as you, we want to see the results and what company. I did ancestry and 23 & me and found that ancestry was incredibly accurate for me whereas 23&me was more vague.
I feel the same way they should say what company they tested with so it can help some of us. And it would've helped if they had shown their results because I know I have to look at things visually too. I'm really bummed to find out on Ancestry that I don't share community in Ashkenazi Jewish with my 2nd cousins. I have only 1% Ashkenazi Jewish, and my dad 2%. I called Ancestry, and they just couldn't help me.
23&Me will identify Native American DNA when other companies won't, and the tools at GedMatch will show the same. At 23&Me, I have a very small trace of Native American, and my dad has the same segment plus another. So, despite the tiny amounts, I'm convinced that this is a real result but from a liaison at the beginning of European settlement. In my first test with 23&Me, I had an equal trace amount of Subsaharan African DNA, which in subsequent updates disappeared.
in my experience ancestry does it pretty well too I know my grandpa is Indigenous descent from Mexico and it seems pretty accurately split from my grandmas from the north
They tested with 23andme. Only 23 and MyHeritage give point percentages. MyHeritage category separates English from Celtic nations, whereas 23andme lumps them all into British.
My old camera use to do that focus on background and it cost me 3GS … I bought a canon m50 it’s perfect ,,, never looses focus on my face even when walking and vlogging and it’s 650$ it’s awesome
My 94 year old mother did genealogy first and then DNA. Paternal side emigrated from Northern Ireland but the latest Ancestry update says she has no Irish. Seems all those ancestors from County Antrim originally came from Scotland.
Also confused me on my DNA seems it's due to lots of movement between Northern Island & Scotland DNA so close. I actually had more Irish than my grt Aunt as mums other side had southern Ireland also.
My parents and my mom’s sister had always told my siblings and I what our supposed ancestry was (before Ancestry DNA). Starting to work on the family tree (dad was the reason why I got started) I started finding out that those weren’t the only ones, but some I wasn’t finding any proof of. The DNA tests showed even more than we thought. Confirmed some, debunked others. Still working on it to see what other interesting things I can find.
If you could test Napoleon we come back fully Italian, maybe with some Middle Eastern (his haplogroup was E-M34 I believe they tested a descendant). He came from Corsica and he was born from a practically Italian couple (part Ligurian part Tuscan)
My wife, who is 60% indigenous- Ecuador, 30/31% European, and 7/8% African (depending on whether it is the AncesrtyDNA or the 23andMe estimate)…23andMe also shows 0.1% Askenazi Jewish…. Interestingly, with AncestryDNA one of our 3 adult children show 1% Jewish
Just because her cousin had Native American results doesn’t confirm anything... it could have been from the cousin’s other parent. I have a cousin that was convinced we have Native American anc story on our shared line, but the only thing all the shared cousins have is European and African. I DO have Native American DNA results, but they’re from my other side, confirmed. So if my cousin was trying to use me as proof of anything, that would just be wrong.
I have confusing about our family results and I did 3 different tests with slightly different results. The biggest percentages were very similar just in different percentages but MyAncestry showed more Scandinavian when 23andme and MyHeritage don't. Also only 23andme showed me being 0,1% North-African and the same with my dad 0,5% North-African and multiple family members with these results 0,3 Coptic Egyptian and 0,8% Levantine. I don't really take those too serious but it does show up in most of my family matches. My haplogroup maternal is: J2a1a and my paternal haplogroup is: G-Z37368 which is less common then the Maternal one.
I used ancestry, my heritage mostly for help with building my tree. I am confused though about ancestry’s split between my parents. I have very few matches on my father’s side (his parents immigrated recently from Germany). For some reason ancestry dna has my mother’s youngest brother and his children related to me on my father’s side. Any idea why that would happen?
I'm unsure of the answer as to why that would happen. Only thing I could think (but this is just a guess) is because of something in the the trees connected to your profile or their profiles, similar to how wrong information can affect results on Thru-lines.
QUESTION: when you draw out your family tree, which side does the male or female go on? Say on a vertical tree, is the male side to the left and right for the female? Or does it even matter?
It is most commonly done with male side to the left and female to the right, especially with modern family tree software, but it isn't any sort of hard and fast rule. I have seen many trees, especially hand-drawn trees, where they do not adhere to this rule. Adhering to the rule does help if you share the tree with other genealogists since that is what most commonly deal with and when the rule isn't applied, it can make the tree a bit more confusing to understand.
North Italians are very much Southern European when it comes to genetics. They don’t cluster anywhere near Germans. The closest populations to Northern Italians are Tuscans, Portuguese, Western Spaniards, Albanians, Central Greeks, Greeks from Thessaly, and Southern Italians.
Yeah but in this case the guy is from the far north east of Italy right on the border with Slovenia and Austria. And no surprise, this area was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before Italy was a country, and has had a long history of being inhabited by Germanic peoples even back to pre-Roman times.
Also don't forget, from about 1200 to 1268 Kingdom of Naples was ruled by german Hohenstaufen dynasty. In Aosta Vally , french was spoken until few generations ago. And: In early 16th century, napoleonic era and 1859 ( Battle of Solferino) large french armies entered northern Italy.
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I don't understand why they insist there was a shock for both of them when their results were exactly what they predicted.
For clicks
I’m Italian through both parents from Calitri and Bari
85 percent Italian
12 percent MENA
2 Greek/cyrpiot
1 Spanish
I’m a living history of a southern Italian . It’s so awesome .
Cos' è MENA ?
@@Benny_M_1922Middle East and North Africa.
I’m 99.6% Northwestern European and also got 0.4% West African. This was interesting, because I also have very fair skin, hair, and eyes. Plus, no one in the surviving family had any idea where that would come from.
Come to find out it’s not a mistake in the reading; I came in contact with a distant cousin who actually lived nearby, and imagine our shock when we met in person and we look completely different. She’s very obviously black, I’m very obviously not.
While unable to deduce the exact ancestor, we discovered which line we share.
Unfortunately, it’s very likely a slave/master situation that ties us together, but we’re still grateful to have found each other. I always thought I came from an all white family, but now I know that I have more extended family that are a beautiful array of colors. ❤️
They said "British-Irish" (rather than UK, Ireland or Irish/Scottish/Welsh) and "regions specifically" (rather than communities or ethnicity groups) so I think they tested with 23&me
Also you're 100% right about the trace results being a 23&me thing... I got 0.1% Cypriot!
@@MattBishop Yes, it has to be 23&me because the other companies do not have that category of "broadly" something.
But….23&me does not separate French and German, they lump them together
But they do give regions sometimes so it sounds like they identified the regions.@@loislewis5229
They sort of treated it like a report card from one semester to the next that they “improved” and became more Italian or more British.
I took a DNA test specifically to find out who my unknown paternal great grandfather was. The results answered the 110 year old mystery, and also enabled me to build out that part of my tree too, by reaching out to my dad’s 1/2 cousins. Before the test, that branch was the barest branch of them all ending at my grandfather, after the test I was able to build it back a further 4 generations on that side to my 4th Gr. Grandparents.
She claimed Native American which more in likely it was an ancestor with African ancestry
Exactly what I hoped someone else had commented! Thank you!
She had a small percebntage of Asian which is Native American. The African had nothing to do with that. Most likely slavery since she is American. Native Americans and the British did mnmix I have that in my history books.
LOL…your description near the end of long generations is me. My dad was 44 when I was born…his parents were 42 and 50 when he was born. His mom's dad was 50 when she was born. People know their great grandparents. Mine was born in 1845. And this is Italy!
honestly the best ones ARE the ones with at least an image of their results with their video.
He hates french wine! Thats why this short was so funny.
I had a super strong idea of what my genealogy was on my moms side because she grew up in Komiza which is a small island off Croatia, that was identified as Balkans. That was cut and dry, my dads side took me for a loop. His side was middle eastern, north African, irish, german, western Asian, and Scandinavian. So my DNA test was an interesting mix.
They don't state who they tested with but it was 23andMe - I can tell when she corrected her husband it's British and Irish and not just British. I love when he sees the high percentage for this and says British and starts to crack up and she corrects him to state British and Irish. As you stated she looks very European but does seem to get a result for those with early colonial American stock especially from the Southeastern USA which does normally show trace amounts of DNA for African and Native American ancestry in people who are predominantly European. This would be for people who have the early colonial Virginia/Carolina's 1600's ancestry. I'm surprised though that none of the physical features of this ancestry is reflected in her looks.
I don’t think it was 23&me, because they lump French German together
This one did too. I was pretty certain it was 23andMe based on the result names and combinations.@@loislewis5229
Oh my gosh, they do? I just sent back my sample to 23andme. Thats not what I wanted, is to have that happen. Thank you@loislewis5229
I found my paternal great great grandfather at 17 in an English census (1871, I think). Found out that his occupation was as a confectioner and got to see his address. I’d love to see the home that he had lived in.
I don't why we Italians cheer for Italian dna (as if it's not obvious how italianissimo he is). Anyway it's hilarious 😂
I think people are more excited for the DNA results because most people already have some picture of their genealogy. Obviously not everyone, but many people can go back about 3 generations and they have family stories ect. The DNA test, however, reveals a part of you that cannot otherwise be accurately measured and sometimes something people have zero clue about. It is what it is. Nothing to be frustrated about.
It was funny in editing the video because I didn't remember being that frustrated with it, so even as I was editing I was thinking I was taking it a bit too hard. I even mentioned it in my Discord while editing that I was a little too sassy with this one.
I feel the same as you, we want to see the results and what company. I did ancestry and 23 & me and found that ancestry was incredibly accurate for me whereas 23&me was more vague.
I haven’t done Ancestry but my 23&me was 100% spot on
@@loislewis5229thank you for your input. I retestested with 23andMe to compare with Ancestry.
By the sounds of it, they tested with 23andMe
I feel the same way they should say what company they tested with so it can help some of us. And it would've helped if they had shown their results because I know I have to look at things visually too. I'm really bummed to find out on Ancestry that I don't share community in Ashkenazi Jewish with my 2nd cousins. I have only 1% Ashkenazi Jewish, and my dad 2%. I called Ancestry, and they just couldn't help me.
23&Me will identify Native American DNA when other companies won't, and the tools at GedMatch will show the same. At 23&Me, I have a very small trace of Native American, and my dad has the same segment plus another. So, despite the tiny amounts, I'm convinced that this is a real result but from a liaison at the beginning of European settlement. In my first test with 23&Me, I had an equal trace amount of Subsaharan African DNA, which in subsequent updates disappeared.
in my experience ancestry does it pretty well too I know my grandpa is Indigenous descent from Mexico and it seems pretty accurately split from my grandmas from the north
That's what I saw on utube with Native Americans doing 23andme dna tests. Ancestry didn't even show my Native American, only Indigenous from Mexico.
AncestryDNA is the most accurate for ethnicity estimates, overall, as they have the largest database.
They tested with 23andme.
Only 23 and MyHeritage give point percentages. MyHeritage category separates English from Celtic nations, whereas 23andme lumps them all into British.
My old camera use to do that focus on background and it cost me 3GS … I bought a canon m50 it’s perfect ,,, never looses focus on my face even when walking and vlogging and it’s 650$ it’s awesome
My 94 year old mother did genealogy first and then DNA. Paternal side emigrated from Northern Ireland but the latest Ancestry update says she has no Irish. Seems all those ancestors from County Antrim originally came from Scotland.
😮wow..
Also confused me on my DNA seems it's due to lots of movement between Northern Island & Scotland DNA so close.
I actually had more Irish than my grt Aunt as mums other side had southern Ireland also.
The reason the prank was funny was because Alessio always makes fun of French wine and French food. 😂
My parents and my mom’s sister had always told my siblings and I what our supposed ancestry was (before Ancestry DNA). Starting to work on the family tree (dad was the reason why I got started) I started finding out that those weren’t the only ones, but some I wasn’t finding any proof of. The DNA tests showed even more than we thought. Confirmed some, debunked others. Still working on it to see what other interesting things I can find.
The trace makes sense for Appalachia
If you could test Napoleon we come back fully Italian, maybe with some Middle Eastern (his haplogroup was E-M34 I believe they tested a descendant). He came from Corsica and he was born from a practically Italian couple (part Ligurian part Tuscan)
I am
52% italian
28,9% greek
11,8% NW euro
5,2% North African
2,1% Middle eastern
These are 23andme regions.
Sounds like 23andme
My wife, who is 60% indigenous- Ecuador, 30/31% European, and 7/8% African (depending on whether it is the AncesrtyDNA or the 23andMe estimate)…23andMe also shows 0.1% Askenazi Jewish…. Interestingly, with AncestryDNA one of our 3 adult children show 1% Jewish
I’m waiting for my results supposedly on the 19th let’s see what 23 and me say
Me too, I just sent my sample back this week to 23andMe.
So what is the best DNA test to take?
I should be getting a MyHeritage DNA results soon.
Just because her cousin had Native American results doesn’t confirm anything... it could have been from the cousin’s other parent. I have a cousin that was convinced we have Native American anc story on our shared line, but the only thing all the shared cousins have is European and African. I DO have Native American DNA results, but they’re from my other side, confirmed. So if my cousin was trying to use me as proof of anything, that would just be wrong.
I have confusing about our family results and I did 3 different tests with slightly different results. The biggest percentages were very similar just in different percentages but MyAncestry showed more Scandinavian when 23andme and MyHeritage don't. Also only 23andme showed me being 0,1% North-African and the same with my dad 0,5% North-African and multiple family members with these results 0,3 Coptic Egyptian and 0,8% Levantine. I don't really take those too serious but it does show up in most of my family matches. My haplogroup maternal is: J2a1a and my paternal haplogroup is: G-Z37368 which is less common then the Maternal one.
I used ancestry, my heritage mostly for help with building my tree. I am confused though about ancestry’s split between my parents. I have very few matches on my father’s side (his parents immigrated recently from Germany). For some reason ancestry dna has my mother’s youngest brother and his children related to me on my father’s side. Any idea why that would happen?
I'm unsure of the answer as to why that would happen. Only thing I could think (but this is just a guess) is because of something in the the trees connected to your profile or their profiles, similar to how wrong information can affect results on Thru-lines.
Our family never had any native american stories. At least not on my maternal side. Paternal side I don't know if they do.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are just as British as England. Just mentioning it 😅
QUESTION: when you draw out your family tree, which side does the male or female go on? Say on a vertical tree, is the male side to the left and right for the female? Or does it even matter?
It is most commonly done with male side to the left and female to the right, especially with modern family tree software, but it isn't any sort of hard and fast rule. I have seen many trees, especially hand-drawn trees, where they do not adhere to this rule. Adhering to the rule does help if you share the tree with other genealogists since that is what most commonly deal with and when the rule isn't applied, it can make the tree a bit more confusing to understand.
@@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts thanks 😊
Napoleon was italian who swore in a language not many understood. Wonder what language that was?
Napoleon bon Avatar from the island of Corsica before the Ireland take buy the French is part of Italy
Dentistry, but they had fun. ❤
Would Genoese Italian potentially have a good French/German in the mix?
Southern Italy ( Kingdom of Naples) was in middle age ruled by Normans, and for about sixty years by german Hohenstaufen dynasty.
@@brittakriep2938 Genoa is in northern Italy, almost on the border with France, what does southern Italy have to do with it???
🤌
I think I’m a RUclipsr if you want to try my family tree let me know
North Italians are very much Southern European when it comes to genetics. They don’t cluster anywhere near Germans. The closest populations to Northern Italians are Tuscans, Portuguese, Western Spaniards, Albanians, Central Greeks, Greeks from Thessaly, and Southern Italians.
Yeah but in this case the guy is from the far north east of Italy right on the border with Slovenia and Austria. And no surprise, this area was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before Italy was a country, and has had a long history of being inhabited by Germanic peoples even back to pre-Roman times.
Also don't forget, from about 1200 to 1268 Kingdom of Naples was ruled by german Hohenstaufen dynasty. In Aosta Vally , french was spoken until few generations ago. And: In early 16th century, napoleonic era and 1859 ( Battle of Solferino) large french armies entered northern Italy.
You have forgotten also forgotten a small German minority in italian Mountains, called Cimbri.
I find this couple very annoying.
Especially her
Ha ha ha cut to the chase guys!