thanks for the good review-- I am in the zero matches category- so a little frustrated. I appreciate you taking the time to review and give an overview! This reminds me of when Ancestry first ventured into the DNA business...it was stated that I was 99% Irish! I laughed and called them and asked where my Swedish great grandparents were...and a few other questions. Long story short- with time and a growing database the more accurate admixtures have shown up. I suspect the same will be true for this newer company.
I definitely agree with this assessment even all these months later. For my English DNA it did fairly well at identifying regions--all of the highlighted regions were ones I have recent known ancestry from (though it gave me a weirdly large amount of Southeast where my family is hardly)--and it also placed my Welsh (in the South rather than the North, though?), but outside of that it was fairly lackluster, and it seemed to overestimate the British percentages. My great-grandfather is from St. Gallen in Switzerland, his whole family lived there for as far as we can trace, and it gave me about 3.6% Northern Germany, the rest being identified as British, Irish, and Scandinavian. 3.6% would work for my Dutch side, but not for my significant Swiss ancestry which was detected by other DNA ethnicity estimations. This isn't new, however. Most testing companies don't seem to identify Swiss DNA well. Fortunately their matching has improved, at least for me. I started out with one match and now have 361, so I'm hoping once they release their planned features it will become a better resource.
I have to take issue with Living DNA's haplogroup results. I have taken both. They are not nearly as in depth as FTDNA. My FTDNA Y haplogroup brings me to around 2500 AD. Whereas Living DNA's result takes me to about is 8,000 years ago. However having said that I find that Living DNA autosomal results are much more accurate than any of the others.
I read that their _reference population_ that is what matters in terms of ethnicity, is one of the biggest out there, with numbers above 12,000 people. Did you check that information?
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I pointed this out because people in general do not understand the difference between reference population for ethnicity and cousin match for genealogy and family tree.
Uploaded from Ancestry to Living DNA over 1 year ago. Still not processed. Did a swab test in November. Results are through. Apparently I have 40% Lincolnshire. It must be very far back as I have my main lines firmly back to the 17th Century in Staffordshire. I do consider my 40% Irish to be accurate. As to matches. 60,000 on Ancestry, 6,000 on MyHeritage, 3000 on FTDNA and not sure on Gedmatch but I think over 40,000. Living DNA = 0. I am British and as far as I am concerned I will write this one off and maybe in 5 or 10 years time if I am still around they may find me a match. I am not going to hold my breath. I do like find my past. The Staffordshire records available are fantastic and seem better than Ancestry for those. Tree thing is clunky. I hate it. Same with their hints. Search is very good.
In my paternal mother's lineage there's a direct correlation between the Lincolnshire ancestors and their cousins and other relatives in the Staffordshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire areas and owing to the often changing county boundaries sometimes the historical villages, hamlets, boroughs, towns etc have changed somewhat, especially in my lifetime. There's a village in Staffordshire that one of my cousins family hails from and is named for them however he, at a decade younger than me, remembered it as being in Yorkshire. Good luck with your continued research
My brother, sister and I all tested at Ancestry. Pretty much as expected, half German (PA Dutch), half Scots-Irish. The only surprise was the 5% we each had of Sweden (sister and I) and Norway (brother). The purpose of the test was to find my deceased mother's ??? father, so we figured we must have got it there. Next step, test Dad and his sister. Guess what - they test 10-12% Sweden-Scandinavia in general. Still trying to figure that out, but I do have a couple of brick walls on his side. Uploaded my test to My Heritage - 12% Italian, 2% east Europe, 86% north & west Europe - HUH? Getting ready to upload Dad to My Heritage. Maybe it will sort itself out. Good news - we have thousands of matches! Thanks for all you do.
I´m German and did a DNA test on Ancestry which showed me that besides German I´m also 20% English and 13% Swedish. I was thinking of doing a living DNA test to see if I can find some more information about my English heritage. I´m mainly hoping to find some DNA matches so hopefully, they improved on their matches.
I was also thesame in that I had only i match, i.e. a 5th Cousin! But from May 2020, they have updated their website. I now have several hundred matches.
I uploaded my 23andMe test to LivingDNA a long time ago (along with my paternal grandfather's). I did not pay the extra money to see my detailed ancestry results, but I can see my matches. I have zero. I think my grandfather had like... 2, lol.
That's crazy to me that some people are getting zero or very few matches. Mine shows 630 matches. Maybe there's been a recent update or I just got lucky. I only took a test with Ancestry and have been uploading my raw DNA to other sites, such as Living DNA.
This video is now 2 years old. How often does Living DNA update your results? How accurate are the ethnicity estimations? And when are they actually going to get a legit app so they can be a real company in the twenty-first century?
Living DNA is a very small company. Thus, their ethnicity updates and their genetic genealogy research tools are slowly being developed. I don't have the answer to when they'll make an update. But I did do a video about what you are able to do in 2022 ruclips.net/video/uOWpMe1RE4M/видео.html
We used LivingDNA in the last 2 years and they were bob on with my dad's Polish and Irish and my mum's English. Even down to the regions I'd previously researched via a free search that ended up corresponding with the LivingDNA results. They've since updated their site and I think it's improving all the time. These things are never meant to be nailed-on accurate but tbf I was very pleased with the results we got back. The Viking upgrade is fun.
I am now seeing a couple hundred matches from UK, ireland, germany, s. africa, new zealand, australia, finland, norway, Canada and USA so I think their pool of matches is definitely increasing (when I first tested it was just a couple dozen.)
I guess I'm one of the fortunate ones. I have 2 matches! What I have trouble with is my personal history with the company regarding what upgrades I purchased. I did the free upload, then did a free ethnicity upgrade, then purchased an upgrade from the store for which I didn't notice any changes. What did I buy? My account doesn't reflect any of these.
Just uploaded my raw data on living . Did 23andMe Ancestry and MyHeritage , they all were pretty the same . Mom is Dutch and Indonesian dad is Egyptian . Got 23,8% Southern Italy 😐. I also tested both of my parents but neither one of them got Southern Italy , how is this possible . I am so confused
BlackRose D Yea in my other results I had middle eastern and with 23andMe I had egyptian . I know about Caesar but that was too long ago for me to have 23% , I understand the mixing and all . Egyptian are mixed with everything
But most of the confusion comes from the fact that few DNA companies have large enough reference populations outside of the UK and some European countries. The ones you mentioned are vastly under represented so I wouldn't trust the estimates. Instead, build a family tree using DNA matches and genealogical records (what we teach in other videos on this channel). And you'll know exactly where your family comes from.
If you're adopted, check out this series of videos to understand the research process. Genealogy for Adoptees ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg Basically, you will want to be in ALL possible databases that do genetic MATCHING (not just ethnicity results). Therefore, test with Ancestry and 23andMe. Then transfer your DNA to MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA, and GEDmatch. While you might not research on each platform, you might have DNA matches do the work for you. Always respond to email inquiries. But here's what to do after you take a DNA test ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdkFAwc5qOhAGI5ayYuP5-ws
I am getting ready to do the test now . I already did one test before and built my tree on the other Ancestry DNA and I knew a lot of the history from my grandparents and my great grandparents so the tree was a little easier for me but I want the break down of the British Isles and the mother line . Not sure how long it will take before I get the kit but 6 to 8 weeks for the results after they receive it .
Please HELP. Does anyone have any recommendations for which site/company would be the best for me, an Ossetian? Ossetians are such a small population, I did my heritage and literally just got 84% west Asian that's it no more elaboration. I want something with more detail. Thank u!!
You would need to try Ancestry, it's the largest, and perhaps MyHeritage as it's the most international. However, there aren't a lot of people in the reference population for your region, so you might have inaccurate ethnicity results and/or very few matches.
I've just uploaded my Ancestry DNA data to Living DNA, the process was very easy and fast, the results on the admixture were a available within a few hours. The gave me a continental level split for free. 100% European, not very informative if accurate. For £20 they gave me a regional level split, and I was impressed by that. I'm from the UK, and my family research suggests an entirely English ancestry, I've gone back a long way, and not only found no none English birth places, but only English surnames, usually in the areas they orginate in. There are missing branches of course, but every indication is that any migration from outside England is likely to be from the middle ages at the most recent. My Heritage gave me 83% English, but through in an entirely random 7% of Finnish. Ancestry has had numerous updates, I have moved from 55% English to 76% over time, but substantial populations appear and disappear, so I have no faith it them at all. Most recently while my Germanic Ancestry vanished I became 12% Scottish, its not credible. Living DNA calculated that I was 98% English and 2% Welsh, it also gave regions that fit with my family research. The percentages seem off, and the two lowest groups don't have any paper support, but I do think that as a British tool it is interesting. I will come back when I see how many matches I get. 😁
Be careful with the English results. My wife's DNA is inconsistent across all the platforms because of her Swedish great-grandfather and her Germans throughout her lines, but no closer than 2nd great-grandparents. When she took a Living DNA test, she showed us as mostly English with no Germanic or Scandinavian influences. Over time, this will improve. Just be careful is all I'm saying.
I have the same problem, a large amount of German Dutch Scandi on My heritage but pure British on Living. Was pleased to see in the breakdown 20% Devon and 15 Cornwall all from my dad's side, sure that's accurate!
I tested with Living DNA back in 2017. I also queried missing admixture populations at the time and have seen no change since then. A customer service rep responded and fobbed me off with a generic non-answer about my missing known heritage being represented in surrounding regions. My skepticism about the company's ancestral matching relates to both the British and the European breakdowns. I was born in Britain in East Yorkshire and from extensive research know that my heritage predominantly hails from this region (and North Yorkshire) and has done as far back as records allow to the 1700s, however these areas are blank on my Living DNA map. Ancestry specifically highlights these areas as being genetic communities by contrast. My known ancestry plus the results of other providers makes me doubt the accuracy of the Living reference populations. As an aside I am an archaeologist and so am familiar with some of the science behind the presentation of genetic populations in their cultural context so was similarly perplexed to see a South Germanic population displayed instead of Scandinavian which is a known part of our family heritage and which is represented correctly with Ancestry DNA.
Living DNA does not have the same reference population databases as some of its competitors. Additionally, ethnicity results aren't comprehensive but rather suggestions. Therefore, we rarely recommend folks take DNA tests for ethnicity results.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics weren’t the detailed descriptions precisely what it was advertised for originally? This sidesteps the point about the specific missing British reference populations (North and East Ridings of Yorkshire) fa region known to have distinctive input from Scandinavia both from Dna studies and historical records. Distinct enough to separate it from West Riding, Bernicia and the Anglian kingdom of Lindsey (North Lincs).
Wait. @7:10 you are talking about some kind of 'partnership link' that enables one to combine matches from one company w/another?? Or are you just talking about uploading raw dna? If you are talking about match combining, really would like to know more about this ability, thanks.
When this video was done, LivingDNA was only doing 2nd cousins and closer. They've since expanded that. Have you done an update since they've made all the changes to their site? They have more changes coming, too.
Thanks Andy for being Honest with Pro + Cons!! This is one that I haven't tried, and I think I should hold off until the kinks are worked out. Look forward for another review if they fix it. 🧬✍👩💻🧬🧬🧬
MyHeritage dna gave me 35% N/W European and 17% Iberian, whereas living dna gave me 93% GB. Maybe they counted it all as part and parcel of British dna?
I’m English and tested with Living DNA and with Ancestry in 2020 with very different results. Ancestry gave me English as my largest group with mainly Scotland and Wales as the remainder (along with small percentages of other European regions). Living DNA made me mainly German (Southern German) and did not recognise the English regions that I know my ancestors came from - I matched with plenty of cousins from these ancestors on Ancestry. My son also tested with Living DNA and got no German regions even though he correctly matched with me. Living DNA told me they are aware of some issues that they have with recognising the differences between the DNA of some people from Germany and England.
I'm mexican and i did a test with my heritage, I don't know how and why I got England 10.6% I don't know anything about English ancestors in my family...I uploaded the raw dna to living dna. So if they are specialized in great britain, they'll have to tell me if I really have English blood xd
My awesome sister-in-law is from Mexico and her DNA is extremely varied. Mexico has had a lot of intermixing of the world's populations so I'm not surprised you found English DNA. That being said, Living DNA is still a young company. They may give you the answers you're looking for, or might cause more confusion. My wife's DNA on Living DNA points this out clearly. She has multiple Germanic lines but Living DNA does not reflect that German heritage and instead calls it the southeast English ancestry. That is extremely confusing.
2022: At least for my results, I find LivingDNA one of the most accurate companies for ancestry (etnic origines) if not the most accurate of all, but talking about DNA matching (finding relatives) or family tree building it has a long way to go yet.
Like most mexicans, I'm a mixture of native American and Spanish ancestry. I'm worried that livingDNA isn't good for me because of what you said about lack of admixture data. Do you still recommend this product for me ?
I would recommend that you build your family tree using genealogical records as far as you can. Then take Ancestry's test and transfer your results to MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch. With a subscription to Ancestry, build your family tree further with DNA matching. Let users on MyHeritage, FTDNA and GEDmatch see your tree and make connections for you on their platforms.
Evidence shows that my Smith ancestors came from Crantock and Tregunnick in St Germans Parish in Cornwall. I just ordered the Living DNA test. Very eager to see what comes back.
My family matching isn’t showing on my living dna profile despite opting in. Strange though as my son and brother have relatives we share including myself showing on their profiles! I’ve taken the issue up with living dna so hopefully they can resolve this for me.
I did this test, I agree that the Y-DNA and mtDNA information they gave at such a cheap price makes it worth it compared to 23andMe and the others. I also agree that the admixture test results are very bad for this test, but they are very bad for 23andMe, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, and most of the rest of them. I think this is because they do not test all of your Autosomal DNAs. Also, many companies get mixed up.
It's not because these companies don't test your entire autosomal sequence. It's actually the 'control group' that your DNA is being compared to that is insufficient. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Upgraded uploaded kit from Ancestry. The UK regions look like they match many of the percentages for grandparents or great grandparents, but I got Northumberland leaving me with a question of where did that come from?
I did the free upload to Living DNA from FTDNA a while back. I still have 1 match, a 5th cousin the US. No British matches at all. My Aunt has no matches, not even me. I assume they are going through some of the growing pains My Heritage experienced with its DNA testing. I am patiently waiting to get some useful British matches to begin working on my maternal grandmother’s British born bio Dad. I keep hoping for a way to link my Aunt’s DNA to the tree I have on Find My Past. For now, I patiently wait and hope but use the other DNA sites for my research project.
I remember when I have just a few dozen matches on MyHeritage, then after not looking at the website for a few months, I came back and had thousands of matches.
I was looking into LivingDNA as I liked their health features, but I was a little concerned about the cult connections (Universal Medicine). You don't really want to hear that your DNA testing facility had a board member step down due to her involvement with an 'esoteric breast massage' group... I'd put that under cons, in more ways than one.
Thank you for sharing your concern. I advise everyone to study the businesses they support with their purchases. If you find some practices unsavory, then don't use their products. However, nearly every company has some unsettling relationships and connections, so our purchasing pool might be very, very limited. But buyer be ware is always a good motto.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I've traced my family tree back to countries that LivingDNA doesn't show for me, so I know it's not accurate. I have recent ancestry from France and Switzerland, for example.
I am German and uploaded my Myheritage rawdata to LivingDNA and ended up being 100% European Northwest (Germanic and Scandinavian) although having a great grandfather from Russia. On Ancestry I scored 2% Russian and East european (range 0-10%) and on Myheritage 1.4% Inuit. Also I scored about 1-2% Siberian on Gedmacht which is pretty high for West Europe, I think. My cousin got 15% Eastern European and a very bit Central Asian on both, Myheritage and LivingDNA. I am very disappointed that I scored zero Eastern European on LivingDNA :(((
Living DNA doesn't have a large database outside of England. I typically tell people only to put their DNA there if they have a large percentage of ancestors from the UK.
Oh btw we don't have LEE as a direct line, but, our Young and Jones ancestors were some of the primary families in Jones Chapel, Cullman County, Alabama along with the local LEE family. Lots of marrying into each other's families in that little town. I have my Young ancestor's probate to prove it! lol
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I think were Lees of Jones Chapel, Cullman Co, AL were from GA. Before that I would venture to say (from what history of migrations I have seen) probably from SC and before that probably VA. That's the most common migration route.
I wish SOMEONE would finally put out DNA testing designed for people who are Spanish or at least Mediterranean descent. All most ALL of the companies focus on British DNA. I can find almost no DNA matches living in Spain on ancestry or even "My heritage"! It is so frustrating. That said I do have better Spain matches via "My Heritage" including French cousins it just isn't focused enough on those types of DNA matches who aren't Americans. :/ Maybe you can tell me the reason why that is? Is Spain blocking DNA panels? I know France was blocking testing, did they block in Spain as well?? Thanks
The companies are designed to focus on all parts of the world. However, there are laws that prevent many parts of the world from participating. I discussed that in this video ruclips.net/video/_vsPS5KPrBI/видео.html
I've been with FTDNA for quite awhile (Big Y and Family Finder for me, 37 Y and FF for dad, FF for mom and her mom) and for at least a few years with Ancestry DNA (quite a lot of close family, first cousins, second and so on to match with there). I don't really feel any reason to spend more money on DNA testing. My own personal primary purpose for testing is finding matches to find (or confirm) ancestors. I have a Y-chromosome with a Non-Paternal Event (NPE), so my situation is somewhat particular in that regard. No matches or few matches is definitely not a huge selling point to me. However, I am fortunate in that several of my more recent lines (origins and migration to the New World documented) are UK and Germany. Southcombe from Devonshire in 1852. Just MADE the 1851British census. Morrison from Monquhitter Parish, Aberdeenshire sometime in the 1830s (I believe). Also Weigele/Wigle from Germany in the 1700s. In addition as far back as I can trace my mother's direct maternal line has been emphatically stated by other researchers as being Drake and the same Drake family as Sir Francis Drake (but of course he had no children and therefore no direct descendants). So I'm wondering if I could be a potential match to both of you guys if I tested with this Living DNA? Devon being just over the river from Cornwall. Also the family next down the direct maternal line from Drake is Beckwith (of East Haddam, Connecticut). I've seen a number of places where other Beckwith researchers place their origins in Yorkshire. So I also have some pros and cons. Also ethnic heritage has NOT been important to my choice of testing. Knowing history and how that can be mixed up so many ways, especially with ANY European ancestry, plays a large part of my knowing how that can easily be "falsely" identified and I'm not really that surprised when it is. Others in my family are like, "How come it doesn't show that we're Italian!" lol
good video, i wasn't please with them either, i uploaded my Ancestry results to Living dna 2 years ago and paid $30 to see more of the details which was very disappointing, they didn't show my middle eastern ancestry nor siberian ancestry like Gedmatch did, they definitely need more tested regions, it's understandable since they are still very new and growing, but they did get my native american results right but had me being way more italian than Iberian, i'm way more Iberian since 23 and me says 41% and with 0% italian.
I uploaded my 23andme raw data to Living DNA, I have a significant portion of my DNA from the UK (95.8%), what I thought was good is that it showed both North Wales (3.4%); South Wales Boarder (6.7%); and South Wales (2.1%). The fact that they slit it up, was I thought really, a set of 2xgr-grandparents on my mom's side, he was from Mold Parish, Flintshire (North Wales) and she is from Breconshire and her mom is from Monmouthshire, both in South Wales and Monmouthshire is close to the English border.
It depends on your research question. I don't recommend any of them for ethnicity tests. I do have a video about which is best for finding family members. ruclips.net/video/SdlBDVBu_fE/видео.html
So far I have taken 4 DNA tests. Ancestry MyHeritage, Living DNA, and Genom. The African side is solid. I just get lost with the small ethnic groups. 2 out of 4 say I have about 2 percent of a group. The other two says nothing about it. Who should I go by ? I had this problem with my cousin as well. She and her father took a test with Ancestry and the father had 5% of a group she didn't pick up at all. When things like that happen where it doesn't show , are we just to assume we aren't part of a certain group. I know DNA is random, but it causes confusion and disappointment sometimes with these tests. I hear alot that you can't rely on oral history to much. I do believe that to be true. It just gets hard to believe DNA fully. I just tell people don't rule out anything. I tested my Maternal Aunt since her and my mother have the same parents. She picked up a group I didn't have.
They have me 65% British which I think in total Ancestty has me 64%. I still don't agree with either. 23 and me has me 17.5% British. My grandma was half Italian and Living only have me 6.8% Aegean and 1.4% Arabic. I got 25% German. My African they only gave me 1.3%.
Funniest thing is that it is quite accurate for South Africa. I think they have great autosomal results for countries where they had colonies from. They can Identify some groups well but not other groups. Like I am a mix of Nguni and Sotho theu have a better representationof Sotho groups than Nguni because they lumped Nguni with greater South East African region and East African region instead of identifying the separate groups. But I am splitting hairs because the Nguni people groups can be found in those regions. Their matching algorithm is poor though, like very poor so people shouldn'ttake the test for that. I took it to get my haplogroupand that was pretty accurate and I took anotherdna test from SA that gave me the exact same haplogroup.
How does it know which locale you're from in England? They have focused their research on targeted folks from England and where their heritage is located.
I had originally taken MyHeritage DNA and it told me that I was 78.7% African, but when I uploaded my raw dna to My Living DNA, it said that I was 87% African and 12.3% European, when I was 15.4% on MyHeritage. I was wondering since it was raw data and they actually didn't test my dna, is it still accurate?
The variance in percentages is due to the different reference populations that each company compares your DNA to (regardless of whether you transferred your DNA or took their test). Check out this video for more details ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Tested with LivingDNA and AncestryDNA. Apart from the haplogroups, the results from LivingDNA were utter nonsense. My highest regions (apart from Ireland) were East Anglia, Southeast England and Aberdeenshire. Unfortunately I haven't got any ancestors from these areas. All my english ancestors in the last 400 years were either from Lancashire or Cheshire. And none of my ancestors are from Scotland. AncestryDNA put me in exact this area - North West England. Plus some highly accurate genetic communities
Just got my fnal results, and I found Living DNA to be very excellent in many regards: Found out I have a very high Viking DNA at 93%. I then used other sites to further and found 5 Viking ancestors from Denmark, and another one that was part of Hrafna-Flóki's Vilgerðarson's Expedition. Y chromosome is Celtic usually found in regions that withstood Anglo-Saxon invasion, this is likely Welsh grandfather's and/or Norman.
I uploaded my raw dna data from MyHeritage to LivingDNA, and what it did was break down my 99% Filipino results into other components which shocked me lol. With LivingDNA, I got: 56.3% South China 29.8% Southeast Asia 8.9% Japan and Korea 3.3% Austronesian 1.6% Mesoamerica Not sure what to make of these results, but I found it pretty interesting
Some year ago I made an transfer from FTDNA to Living DNA when it was free. I transfered my, my 3 sibblings, our fathers brother and our mothers sisters dna. We are ALL related, but on all kits there was 0 matches and we didn’t even match eachother. I did the same transfer to MyHeritage and it shows the same as FTDNA, me and my sibblings has the same parents, and oir uncle and aunt are really our uncle and aunt and the are 5th cousins. We have ancestor from sweden (of course) germany, netherland (wallons) france, poland, switzerland...... and a bunch of matches from ireland where my greatgreat..... grandmother came from during the vikingage according to FullmT at FTDNA and an british professor that studies all tested W-haplogroup. He even thougt that my parent was british. Living DNA seems to be a fake.
just received my results from living dna, earlier than expected so thats a pro, 73.9% Britain & Ireland, not surprising as im from England, and the 24.7% Eastern European is accurate as my Grandmother, Mums Mum, was from Poland. Im Both surprised and not surprised that of the 73.9% Britain & Ireland result that around a third is Irish, ive just always had a feeling there would be Irish there, didnt think it would be so high though, its the highest of all the regions im linked to, even the north west of england where i was born and live. The only downside is i think its on my Dads side and honestly me and mother have never played happy families with him, and he was adopted and never wanted to trace his family, i would have preferred the Irish on my Mothers side. i did try the link to find my past, just brought me back to living dna to upload my own living dna info, a bit odd lol.
Sorry the link didn't work to Findmypast. This video was made several years ago and genealogy companies keep changing on me. Go figure! Be advised that your ethnicity percentages could be a composite of your paternal and maternal lines. So, you're mother might have more Irish. The next thing to do is build your family tree and use DNA to support your research. Unfortunately, Living DNA doesn't have many tools for DNA matching, so you might want to test with Ancestry next.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics What is important is depth of the database for africans: how many Africans does the DNA testing company have and how many do they have from all the different tribes of Africa? The deeper the database of Africans and Africans of all the tribes the better the quality of product Living DNA or any other DNA can provide.
Find liveing dna pretty poor for the money id thought they could have family trees on there so u can work out who matches are as thats the biggest bit i want to learn just does not compare to ancestry for me plus not much people check in much so can't comunacate well through messages may wait up to month on replying if at all.
I am turkish and got 85% south caucasian, this is impossible. I did 3 other tests and everytime I got some turkish, greek, italian or middle asian DNA. Only living DNA says 85% south caucasian. I would not recommend this test.
LivingDNA is great for DNA results in the United Kingdom. I believe they have tried to be clear about that in their communications. Now, with Turkish ancestry, you're going to struggle to find a DNA test that has the most accurate results because that region is under represented in everyone's reference population. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
They just added 72 African regions to their full ancestry package, giving them a far more detailed breakdown of African ancestry than any other DNA test (about 5 times more specific than their competitors). The only problem is I don’t know how accurate they would be.
You forgot to say: It's FREE if you were tested somewhere else. Everyone can and should upload their raw DNA to LivingDNA, MyHeritage, GEDMatch, and Borland Genetics. They are all free, so there's no reason not to be on them. You should be on every free site so you are fishing in every pond, and so other people can find you.
Most people in Britain have large parts of Scandi, German, French, etc etc DNA but it's from ancestors from before 150-200 years ago. Living DNA does say recent ancestry for those results. People with a grandparent (25% DNA) can't be distinquished from someone with 25% German that comes from many different sources. They've done this because people have been asking for example I have 25% Scandi but all my grandparents are from Britain lol.
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thanks for the good review-- I am in the zero matches category- so a little frustrated. I appreciate you taking the time to review and give an overview! This reminds me of when Ancestry first ventured into the DNA business...it was stated that I was 99% Irish! I laughed and called them and asked where my Swedish great grandparents were...and a few other questions. Long story short- with time and a growing database the more accurate admixtures have shown up. I suspect the same will be true for this newer company.
I am slowly seeing more matches with Living DNA, so there is hope!
I definitely agree with this assessment even all these months later. For my English DNA it did fairly well at identifying regions--all of the highlighted regions were ones I have recent known ancestry from (though it gave me a weirdly large amount of Southeast where my family is hardly)--and it also placed my Welsh (in the South rather than the North, though?), but outside of that it was fairly lackluster, and it seemed to overestimate the British percentages.
My great-grandfather is from St. Gallen in Switzerland, his whole family lived there for as far as we can trace, and it gave me about 3.6% Northern Germany, the rest being identified as British, Irish, and Scandinavian. 3.6% would work for my Dutch side, but not for my significant Swiss ancestry which was detected by other DNA ethnicity estimations. This isn't new, however. Most testing companies don't seem to identify Swiss DNA well.
Fortunately their matching has improved, at least for me. I started out with one match and now have 361, so I'm hoping once they release their planned features it will become a better resource.
I suspect their matching will continue to improve. I think this is a regional company and not necessarily one for the world to use.
I have to take issue with Living DNA's haplogroup results. I have taken both. They are not nearly as in depth as FTDNA. My FTDNA Y haplogroup brings me to around 2500 AD. Whereas Living DNA's result takes me to about is 8,000 years ago. However having said that I find that Living DNA autosomal results are much more accurate than any of the others.
I read that their _reference population_ that is what matters in terms of ethnicity, is one of the biggest out there, with numbers above 12,000 people. Did you check that information?
Yes. But it's still limited and lacking, as I mentioned.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I pointed this out because people in general do not understand the difference between reference population for ethnicity and cousin match for genealogy and family tree.
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Uploaded from Ancestry to Living DNA over 1 year ago. Still not processed. Did a swab test in November. Results are through.
Apparently I have 40% Lincolnshire. It must be very far back as I have my main lines firmly back to the 17th Century in Staffordshire. I do consider my 40% Irish to be accurate.
As to matches. 60,000 on Ancestry, 6,000 on MyHeritage, 3000 on FTDNA and not sure on Gedmatch but I think over 40,000. Living DNA = 0.
I am British and as far as I am concerned I will write this one off and maybe in 5 or 10 years time if I am still around they may find me a match. I am not going to hold my breath.
I do like find my past. The Staffordshire records available are fantastic and seem better than Ancestry for those. Tree thing is clunky. I hate it. Same with their hints. Search is very good.
They have some matches now!
In my paternal mother's lineage there's a direct correlation between the Lincolnshire ancestors and their cousins and other relatives in the Staffordshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire areas and owing to the often changing county boundaries sometimes the historical villages, hamlets, boroughs, towns etc have changed somewhat, especially in my lifetime. There's a village in Staffordshire that one of my cousins family hails from and is named for them however he, at a decade younger than me, remembered it as being in Yorkshire. Good luck with your continued research
My brother, sister and I all tested at Ancestry. Pretty much as expected, half German (PA Dutch), half Scots-Irish. The only surprise was the 5% we each had of Sweden (sister and I) and Norway (brother). The purpose of the test was to find my deceased mother's ??? father, so we figured we must have got it there. Next step, test Dad and his sister. Guess what - they test 10-12% Sweden-Scandinavia in general. Still trying to figure that out, but I do have a couple of brick walls on his side. Uploaded my test to My Heritage - 12% Italian, 2% east Europe, 86% north & west Europe - HUH? Getting ready to upload Dad to My Heritage. Maybe it will sort itself out. Good news - we have thousands of matches! Thanks for all you do.
“Scots Irish” isn’t dna
I´m German and did a DNA test on Ancestry which showed me that besides German I´m also 20% English and 13% Swedish. I was thinking of doing a living DNA test to see if I can find some more information about my English heritage. I´m mainly hoping to find some DNA matches so hopefully, they improved on their matches.
I was also thesame in that I had only i match, i.e. a 5th Cousin! But from May 2020, they have updated their website. I now have several hundred matches.
That's great. My wife hasn't seen any improvements after the update. I think it depends on who is testing and where they're testing from.
I uploaded my 23andMe test to LivingDNA a long time ago (along with my paternal grandfather's). I did not pay the extra money to see my detailed ancestry results, but I can see my matches. I have zero. I think my grandfather had like... 2, lol.
You might not have many matches from the UK
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I have more matches now that their database has grown.
That's crazy to me that some people are getting zero or very few matches. Mine shows 630 matches. Maybe there's been a recent update or I just got lucky. I only took a test with Ancestry and have been uploading my raw DNA to other sites, such as Living DNA.
This video is now 2 years old. How often does Living DNA update your results? How accurate are the ethnicity estimations? And when are they actually going to get a legit app so they can be a real company in the twenty-first century?
Living DNA is a very small company. Thus, their ethnicity updates and their genetic genealogy research tools are slowly being developed. I don't have the answer to when they'll make an update. But I did do a video about what you are able to do in 2022 ruclips.net/video/uOWpMe1RE4M/видео.html
We used LivingDNA in the last 2 years and they were bob on with my dad's Polish and Irish and my mum's English. Even down to the regions I'd previously researched via a free search that ended up corresponding with the LivingDNA results. They've since updated their site and I think it's improving all the time. These things are never meant to be nailed-on accurate but tbf I was very pleased with the results we got back. The Viking upgrade is fun.
I am now seeing a couple hundred matches from UK, ireland, germany, s. africa, new zealand, australia, finland, norway, Canada and USA so I think their pool of matches is definitely increasing (when I first tested it was just a couple dozen.)
Slowly, yes.
I don’t even see the “find my past” on the website.
I guess I'm one of the fortunate ones. I have 2 matches! What I have trouble with is my personal history with the company regarding what upgrades I purchased.
I did the free upload, then did a free ethnicity upgrade, then purchased an upgrade from the store for which I didn't notice any changes. What did I buy? My account doesn't reflect any of these.
Just uploaded my raw data on living . Did 23andMe Ancestry and MyHeritage , they all were pretty the same . Mom is Dutch and Indonesian dad is Egyptian . Got 23,8% Southern Italy 😐. I also tested both of my parents but neither one of them got Southern Italy , how is this possible . I am so confused
I think livingdna is bullshit but who knows 🤷🏻♂️
wye I agree with your comment! They are probably worse than FamilyTreeDNA. My results were not even remotely close to other third party results.
BlackRose D Yea in my other results I had middle eastern and with 23andMe I had egyptian . I know about Caesar but that was too long ago for me to have 23% , I understand the mixing and all . Egyptian are mixed with everything
But most of the confusion comes from the fact that few DNA companies have large enough reference populations outside of the UK and some European countries. The ones you mentioned are vastly under represented so I wouldn't trust the estimates. Instead, build a family tree using DNA matches and genealogical records (what we teach in other videos on this channel). And you'll know exactly where your family comes from.
Which DNA testing do you recommend for Latin/Spanish ethnicity? I’m adopted and always wanted to know more about myself.
If you're adopted, check out this series of videos to understand the research process.
Genealogy for Adoptees ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg
Basically, you will want to be in ALL possible databases that do genetic MATCHING (not just ethnicity results). Therefore, test with Ancestry and 23andMe. Then transfer your DNA to MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA, and GEDmatch. While you might not research on each platform, you might have DNA matches do the work for you. Always respond to email inquiries.
But here's what to do after you take a DNA test ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdkFAwc5qOhAGI5ayYuP5-ws
Do you feel that Gedmatch is the best for determining closest admixture?
I don't think any company is best for admixture percentages.
I am getting ready to do the test now . I already did one test before and built my tree on the other Ancestry DNA and I knew a lot of the history from my grandparents and my great grandparents so the tree was a little easier for me but I want the break down of the British Isles and the mother line . Not sure how long it will take before I get the kit but 6 to 8 weeks for the results after they receive it .
I wish you all the luck in finding what you seek with Living DNA.
Please HELP. Does anyone have any recommendations for which site/company would be the best for me, an Ossetian? Ossetians are such a small population, I did my heritage and literally just got 84% west Asian that's it no more elaboration. I want something with more detail. Thank u!!
You would need to try Ancestry, it's the largest, and perhaps MyHeritage as it's the most international. However, there aren't a lot of people in the reference population for your region, so you might have inaccurate ethnicity results and/or very few matches.
I uploaded my 23andme results and got 551 matches, maybe it's a US problem
Great video! Does Living DNA tell you your exact haplotype including the subclades?
No, they don't. They only test autosomal DNA. For haplogroups and such, you'll want to test with Family Tree DNA>
I've just uploaded my Ancestry DNA data to Living DNA, the process was very easy and fast, the results on the admixture were a available within a few hours. The gave me a continental level split for free. 100% European, not very informative if accurate. For £20 they gave me a regional level split, and I was impressed by that. I'm from the UK, and my family research suggests an entirely English ancestry, I've gone back a long way, and not only found no none English birth places, but only English surnames, usually in the areas they orginate in. There are missing branches of course, but every indication is that any migration from outside England is likely to be from the middle ages at the most recent. My Heritage gave me 83% English, but through in an entirely random 7% of Finnish. Ancestry has had numerous updates, I have moved from 55% English to 76% over time, but substantial populations appear and disappear, so I have no faith it them at all. Most recently while my Germanic Ancestry vanished I became 12% Scottish, its not credible. Living DNA calculated that I was 98% English and 2% Welsh, it also gave regions that fit with my family research. The percentages seem off, and the two lowest groups don't have any paper support, but I do think that as a British tool it is interesting. I will come back when I see how many matches I get. 😁
Be careful with the English results. My wife's DNA is inconsistent across all the platforms because of her Swedish great-grandfather and her Germans throughout her lines, but no closer than 2nd great-grandparents. When she took a Living DNA test, she showed us as mostly English with no Germanic or Scandinavian influences. Over time, this will improve.
Just be careful is all I'm saying.
I have the same problem, a large amount of German Dutch Scandi on My heritage but pure British on Living. Was pleased to see in the breakdown 20% Devon and 15 Cornwall all from my dad's side, sure that's accurate!
Thanks for sharing your experience with the tests.
I tested with Living DNA back in 2017. I also queried missing admixture populations at the time and have seen no change since then. A customer service rep responded and fobbed me off with a generic non-answer about my missing known heritage being represented in surrounding regions. My skepticism about the company's ancestral matching relates to both the British and the European breakdowns. I was born in Britain in East Yorkshire and from extensive research know that my heritage predominantly hails from this region (and North Yorkshire) and has done as far back as records allow to the 1700s, however these areas are blank on my Living DNA map. Ancestry specifically highlights these areas as being genetic communities by contrast. My known ancestry plus the results of other providers makes me doubt the accuracy of the Living reference populations. As an aside I am an archaeologist and so am familiar with some of the science behind the presentation of genetic populations in their cultural context so was similarly perplexed to see a South Germanic population displayed instead of Scandinavian which is a known part of our family heritage and which is represented correctly with Ancestry DNA.
Living DNA does not have the same reference population databases as some of its competitors. Additionally, ethnicity results aren't comprehensive but rather suggestions. Therefore, we rarely recommend folks take DNA tests for ethnicity results.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics weren’t the detailed descriptions precisely what it was advertised for originally? This sidesteps the point about the specific missing British reference populations (North and East Ridings of Yorkshire) fa region known to have distinctive input from Scandinavia both from Dna studies and historical records. Distinct enough to separate it from West Riding, Bernicia and the Anglian kingdom of Lindsey (North Lincs).
Wait. @7:10 you are talking about some kind of 'partnership link' that enables one to combine matches from one company w/another?? Or are you just talking about uploading raw dna? If you are talking about match combining, really would like to know more about this ability, thanks.
When this video was done, LivingDNA was only doing 2nd cousins and closer. They've since expanded that. Have you done an update since they've made all the changes to their site? They have more changes coming, too.
I periodically do updates.
Is the data pool comparable to ancestry?
I have 13 matches on Living DNA. Yes, I have a considerable amount of British Isles blood.
Glad you have found some mathces there.
I have like 127 matches ! I think more people got tested in this company now
Thanks Andy for being Honest with Pro + Cons!! This is one that I haven't tried, and I think I should hold off until the kinks are worked out. Look forward for another review if they fix it. 🧬✍👩💻🧬🧬🧬
I'll let you know when they do.
I forgot to add my 2nd great grandma was from Zurich, Switzerland and 2nd GGF from Slovenia
MyHeritage dna gave me 35% N/W European and 17% Iberian, whereas living dna gave me 93% GB.
Maybe they counted it all as part and parcel of British dna?
I’m English and tested with Living DNA and with Ancestry in 2020 with very different results.
Ancestry gave me English as my largest group with mainly Scotland and Wales as the remainder (along with small percentages of other European regions). Living DNA made me mainly German (Southern German) and did not recognise the English regions that I know my ancestors came from - I matched with plenty of cousins from these ancestors on Ancestry.
My son also tested with Living DNA and got no German regions even though he correctly matched with me.
Living DNA told me they are aware of some issues that they have with recognising the differences between the DNA of some people from Germany and England.
I'm mexican and i did a test with my heritage, I don't know how and why I got England 10.6% I don't know anything about English ancestors in my family...I uploaded the raw dna to living dna. So if they are specialized in great britain, they'll have to tell me if I really have English blood xd
My awesome sister-in-law is from Mexico and her DNA is extremely varied. Mexico has had a lot of intermixing of the world's populations so I'm not surprised you found English DNA.
That being said, Living DNA is still a young company. They may give you the answers you're looking for, or might cause more confusion. My wife's DNA on Living DNA points this out clearly. She has multiple Germanic lines but Living DNA does not reflect that German heritage and instead calls it the southeast English ancestry. That is extremely confusing.
2022: At least for my results, I find LivingDNA one of the most accurate companies for ancestry (etnic origines) if not the most accurate of all, but talking about DNA matching (finding relatives) or family tree building it has a long way to go yet.
I mentioned the lack of tree building functions in this follow-up video. ruclips.net/video/uOWpMe1RE4M/видео.html
Like most mexicans, I'm a mixture of native American and Spanish ancestry. I'm worried that livingDNA isn't good for me because of what you said about lack of admixture data.
Do you still recommend this product for me ?
I don't recommend Living DNA for those who don't have UK ancestry.
Which dna company would you recommend to an Italian who wants to finds out her origins (also within the Italian peninsula)?
I would recommend that you build your family tree using genealogical records as far as you can. Then take Ancestry's test and transfer your results to MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch. With a subscription to Ancestry, build your family tree further with DNA matching. Let users on MyHeritage, FTDNA and GEDmatch see your tree and make connections for you on their platforms.
Evidence shows that my Smith ancestors came from Crantock and Tregunnick in St Germans Parish in Cornwall. I just ordered the Living DNA test. Very eager to see what comes back.
How did your results turn out?
My family matching isn’t showing on my living dna profile despite opting in. Strange though as my son and brother have relatives we share including myself showing on their profiles! I’ve taken the issue up with living dna so hopefully they can resolve this for me.
I did this test, I agree that the Y-DNA and mtDNA information they gave at such a cheap price makes it worth it compared to 23andMe and the others. I also agree that the admixture test results are very bad for this test, but they are very bad for 23andMe, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, and most of the rest of them. I think this is because they do not test all of your Autosomal DNAs. Also, many companies get mixed up.
It's not because these companies don't test your entire autosomal sequence. It's actually the 'control group' that your DNA is being compared to that is insufficient. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Upgraded uploaded kit from Ancestry. The UK regions look like they match many of the percentages for grandparents or great grandparents, but I got Northumberland leaving me with a question of where did that come from?
I did the free upload to Living DNA from FTDNA a while back. I still have 1 match, a 5th cousin the US. No British matches at all. My Aunt has no matches, not even me. I assume they are going through some of the growing pains My Heritage experienced with its DNA testing. I am patiently waiting to get some useful British matches to begin working on my maternal grandmother’s British born bio Dad. I keep hoping for a way to link my Aunt’s DNA to the tree I have on Find My Past. For now, I patiently wait and hope but use the other DNA sites for my research project.
I remember when I have just a few dozen matches on MyHeritage, then after not looking at the website for a few months, I came back and had thousands of matches.
I was looking into LivingDNA as I liked their health features, but I was a little concerned about the cult connections (Universal Medicine). You don't really want to hear that your DNA testing facility had a board member step down due to her involvement with an 'esoteric breast massage' group... I'd put that under cons, in more ways than one.
Thank you for sharing your concern. I advise everyone to study the businesses they support with their purchases. If you find some practices unsavory, then don't use their products. However, nearly every company has some unsettling relationships and connections, so our purchasing pool might be very, very limited. But buyer be ware is always a good motto.
LivingDNA has me completely in the UK and Ireland and Germanic Europe. The other companies show Scandinavia down to the Med, plus Native American.
LivingDNA has some challenges. Only use it for your English ancestry and leave the rest as speculation.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I've traced my family tree back to countries that LivingDNA doesn't show for me, so I know it's not accurate. I have recent ancestry from France and Switzerland, for example.
@@ver_idem My dad and brother are both deceased. My MtDNA is H2a2a1
I am German and uploaded my Myheritage rawdata to LivingDNA and ended up being 100% European Northwest (Germanic and Scandinavian) although having a great grandfather from Russia. On Ancestry I scored 2% Russian and East european (range 0-10%) and on Myheritage 1.4% Inuit. Also I scored about 1-2% Siberian on Gedmacht which is pretty high for West Europe, I think. My cousin got 15% Eastern European and a very bit Central Asian on both, Myheritage and LivingDNA. I am very disappointed that I scored zero Eastern European on LivingDNA :(((
Living DNA doesn't have a large database outside of England. I typically tell people only to put their DNA there if they have a large percentage of ancestors from the UK.
Is the ancestry for living dna free?
No.
Oh btw we don't have LEE as a direct line, but, our Young and Jones ancestors were some of the primary families in Jones Chapel, Cullman County, Alabama along with the local LEE family. Lots of marrying into each other's families in that little town. I have my Young ancestor's probate to prove it! lol
Neat. I don't have any ancestors from Alabama as far as I know.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I think were Lees of Jones Chapel, Cullman Co, AL were from GA. Before that I would venture to say (from what history of migrations I have seen) probably from SC and before that probably VA. That's the most common migration route.
I have thousands of matches. I suppose it depends if relatives have done the tests.
That is correct.
I wish SOMEONE would finally put out DNA testing designed for people who are Spanish or at least Mediterranean descent. All most ALL of the companies focus on British DNA. I can find almost no DNA matches living in Spain on ancestry or even "My heritage"! It is so frustrating. That said I do have better Spain matches via "My Heritage" including French cousins it just isn't focused enough on those types of DNA matches who aren't Americans. :/ Maybe you can tell me the reason why that is? Is Spain blocking DNA panels? I know France was blocking testing, did they block in Spain as well?? Thanks
The companies are designed to focus on all parts of the world. However, there are laws that prevent many parts of the world from participating. I discussed that in this video ruclips.net/video/_vsPS5KPrBI/видео.html
I've been with FTDNA for quite awhile (Big Y and Family Finder for me, 37 Y and FF for dad, FF for mom and her mom) and for at least a few years with Ancestry DNA (quite a lot of close family, first cousins, second and so on to match with there). I don't really feel any reason to spend more money on DNA testing. My own personal primary purpose for testing is finding matches to find (or confirm) ancestors. I have a Y-chromosome with a Non-Paternal Event (NPE), so my situation is somewhat particular in that regard. No matches or few matches is definitely not a huge selling point to me.
However, I am fortunate in that several of my more recent lines (origins and migration to the New World documented) are UK and Germany. Southcombe from Devonshire in 1852. Just MADE the 1851British census. Morrison from Monquhitter Parish, Aberdeenshire sometime in the 1830s (I believe). Also Weigele/Wigle from Germany in the 1700s.
In addition as far back as I can trace my mother's direct maternal line has been emphatically stated by other researchers as being Drake and the same Drake family as Sir Francis Drake (but of course he had no children and therefore no direct descendants).
So I'm wondering if I could be a potential match to both of you guys if I tested with this Living DNA? Devon being just over the river from Cornwall. Also the family next down the direct maternal line from Drake is Beckwith (of East Haddam, Connecticut). I've seen a number of places where other Beckwith researchers place their origins in Yorkshire.
So I also have some pros and cons. Also ethnic heritage has NOT been important to my choice of testing. Knowing history and how that can be mixed up so many ways, especially with ANY European ancestry, plays a large part of my knowing how that can easily be "falsely" identified and I'm not really that surprised when it is. Others in my family are like, "How come it doesn't show that we're Italian!" lol
Its possible, although, Cornwall was rather insular, and my ancestors were from the far end of Cornwall.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Ours were from up further north in Devon near Barnstaple. So yeah probably not related.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Any possible relationship to the party led by Joseph of Arimethea?
good video, i wasn't please with them either, i uploaded my Ancestry results to Living dna 2 years ago and paid $30 to see more of the details which was very disappointing, they didn't show my middle eastern ancestry nor siberian ancestry like Gedmatch did, they definitely need more tested regions, it's understandable since they are still very new and growing, but they did get my native american results right but had me being way more italian than Iberian, i'm way more Iberian since 23 and me says 41% and with 0% italian.
Yep. They billed themselves as an English company and that they are.
You still can't link livingdna to findmypast
I am disappointed in this relationship.
I uploaded my 23andme raw data to Living DNA, I have a significant portion of my DNA from the UK (95.8%), what I thought was good is that it showed both North Wales (3.4%); South Wales Boarder (6.7%); and South Wales (2.1%). The fact that they slit it up, was I thought really, a set of 2xgr-grandparents on my mom's side, he was from Mold Parish, Flintshire (North Wales) and she is from Breconshire and her mom is from Monmouthshire, both in South Wales and Monmouthshire is close to the English border.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I considered doing a Heritage DNA test what is the best one to buy.
It depends on your research question. I don't recommend any of them for ethnicity tests. I do have a video about which is best for finding family members. ruclips.net/video/SdlBDVBu_fE/видео.html
LivingDNA, the only company that confuses Tuscany with Northern Europe..
So far I have taken 4 DNA tests. Ancestry MyHeritage, Living DNA, and Genom.
The African side is solid. I just get lost with the small ethnic groups. 2 out of 4 say I have about 2 percent of a group. The other two says nothing about it. Who should I go by ? I had this problem with my cousin as well. She and her father took a test with Ancestry and the father had 5% of a group she didn't pick up at all. When things like that happen where it doesn't show , are we just to assume we aren't part of a certain group. I know DNA is random, but it causes confusion and disappointment sometimes with these tests. I hear alot that you can't rely on oral history to much. I do believe that to be true. It just gets hard to believe DNA fully. I just tell people don't rule out anything. I tested my Maternal Aunt since her and my mother have the same parents. She picked up a group I didn't have.
Be sure to check out my video that discusses African heritage showing up in DNA tests results ruclips.net/video/SFx_AHU__Tw/видео.html
They have me 65% British which I think in total Ancestty has me 64%. I still don't agree with either. 23 and me has me 17.5% British. My grandma was half Italian and Living only have me 6.8% Aegean and 1.4% Arabic. I got 25% German. My African they only gave me 1.3%.
At 4:44, you said "23 and me" when you obviously meant to say Living DNA.
Probably. Thanks for pointing out my mistakes and correcting them.
Funniest thing is that it is quite accurate for South Africa. I think they have great autosomal results for countries where they had colonies from. They can Identify some groups well but not other groups. Like I am a mix of Nguni and Sotho theu have a better representationof Sotho groups than Nguni because they lumped Nguni with greater South East African region and East African region instead of identifying the separate groups. But I am splitting hairs because the Nguni people groups can be found in those regions. Their matching algorithm is poor though, like very poor so people shouldn'ttake the test for that. I took it to get my haplogroupand that was pretty accurate and I took anotherdna test from SA that gave me the exact same haplogroup.
Wow. I didn't know that. Thanks for letting me know.
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How does it know which locale you're from in England? They have focused their research on targeted folks from England and where their heritage is located.
I had originally taken MyHeritage DNA and it told me that I was 78.7% African, but when I uploaded my raw dna to My Living DNA, it said that I was 87% African and 12.3% European, when I was 15.4% on MyHeritage. I was wondering since it was raw data and they actually didn't test my dna, is it still accurate?
The variance in percentages is due to the different reference populations that each company compares your DNA to (regardless of whether you transferred your DNA or took their test). Check out this video for more details ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Tested with LivingDNA and AncestryDNA. Apart from the haplogroups, the results from LivingDNA were utter nonsense. My highest regions (apart from Ireland) were East Anglia, Southeast England and Aberdeenshire. Unfortunately I haven't got any ancestors from these areas. All my english ancestors in the last 400 years were either from Lancashire or Cheshire. And none of my ancestors are from Scotland.
AncestryDNA put me in exact this area - North West England. Plus some highly accurate genetic communities
Just got my fnal results, and I found Living DNA to be very excellent in many regards:
Found out I have a very high Viking DNA at 93%. I then used other sites to further and found 5 Viking ancestors from Denmark, and another one that was part of Hrafna-Flóki's Vilgerðarson's Expedition.
Y chromosome is Celtic usually found in regions that withstood Anglo-Saxon invasion, this is likely Welsh grandfather's and/or Norman.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I uploaded my raw dna data from MyHeritage to LivingDNA, and what it did was break down my 99% Filipino results into other components which shocked me lol.
With LivingDNA, I got:
56.3% South China
29.8% Southeast Asia
8.9% Japan and Korea
3.3% Austronesian
1.6% Mesoamerica
Not sure what to make of these results, but I found it pretty interesting
Some year ago I made an transfer from FTDNA to Living DNA when it was free.
I transfered my, my 3 sibblings, our fathers brother and our mothers sisters dna.
We are ALL related, but on all kits there was 0 matches and we didn’t even match eachother.
I did the same transfer to MyHeritage and it shows the same as FTDNA, me and my sibblings has the same parents, and oir uncle and aunt are really our uncle and aunt and the are 5th cousins.
We have ancestor from sweden (of course) germany, netherland (wallons) france, poland, switzerland...... and a bunch of matches from ireland where my greatgreat..... grandmother came from during the vikingage according to FullmT at FTDNA and an british professor that studies all tested W-haplogroup. He even thougt that my parent was british.
Living DNA seems to be a fake.
just received my results from living dna, earlier than expected so thats a pro, 73.9% Britain & Ireland, not surprising as im from England, and the 24.7% Eastern European is accurate as my Grandmother, Mums Mum, was from Poland. Im Both surprised and not surprised that of the 73.9% Britain & Ireland result that around a third is Irish, ive just always had a feeling there would be Irish there, didnt think it would be so high though, its the highest of all the regions im linked to, even the north west of england where i was born and live. The only downside is i think its on my Dads side and honestly me and mother have never played happy families with him, and he was adopted and never wanted to trace his family, i would have preferred the Irish on my Mothers side. i did try the link to find my past, just brought me back to living dna to upload my own living dna info, a bit odd lol.
Sorry the link didn't work to Findmypast. This video was made several years ago and genealogy companies keep changing on me. Go figure!
Be advised that your ethnicity percentages could be a composite of your paternal and maternal lines. So, you're mother might have more Irish.
The next thing to do is build your family tree and use DNA to support your research. Unfortunately, Living DNA doesn't have many tools for DNA matching, so you might want to test with Ancestry next.
I didn't like the results of them. They don't have many Portugueses, Spanishs and Italians for reference populations..
That's because they need more people to test.
Did anyone take the test who ancestors were slaves.
Almost every DNA testing company has descendants of enslaved persons in their database.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics What is important is depth of the database for africans: how many Africans does the DNA testing company have and how many do they have from all the different tribes of Africa? The deeper the database of Africans and Africans of all the tribes the better the quality of product Living DNA or any other DNA can provide.
Find liveing dna pretty poor for the money id thought they could have family trees on there so u can work out who matches are as thats the biggest bit i want to learn just does not compare to ancestry for me plus not much people check in much so can't comunacate well through messages may wait up to month on replying if at all.
They gave me 7% Arabian lol
That's unexpected. I'm still waiting for my wife to be defined as 20% German.
LivingDNA, the only company where you need 20000cM to match.........
I am turkish and got 85% south caucasian, this is impossible. I did 3 other tests and everytime I got some turkish, greek, italian or middle asian DNA. Only living DNA says 85% south caucasian. I would not recommend this test.
LivingDNA is great for DNA results in the United Kingdom. I believe they have tried to be clear about that in their communications.
Now, with Turkish ancestry, you're going to struggle to find a DNA test that has the most accurate results because that region is under represented in everyone's reference population. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
My ethnicity says 100% European which is not very helpful from this company.
My wife would agree with you. As we've discovered, this company best serves those with UK heritage. It's nice for mine, but not my wife.
So don’t do it if your African ?
They just added 72 African regions to their full ancestry package, giving them a far more detailed breakdown of African ancestry than any other DNA test (about 5 times more specific than their competitors). The only problem is I don’t know how accurate they would be.
You forgot to say: It's FREE if you were tested somewhere else. Everyone can and should upload their raw DNA to LivingDNA, MyHeritage, GEDMatch, and Borland Genetics. They are all free, so there's no reason not to be on them. You should be on every free site so you are fishing in every pond, and so other people can find you.
Carl Kenner why Living DNA, read my comment please.
Yes if they succeed in analysing your file. In my case they failed twice
I agree with your comment, but one GEDMatch is now a big NO. The new owner's policies aren't really clear, to many "Red Flags".
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It's also free to upload to FTdna.
Most people in Britain have large parts of Scandi, German, French, etc etc DNA but it's from ancestors from before 150-200 years ago. Living DNA does say recent ancestry for those results. People with a grandparent (25% DNA) can't be distinquished from someone with 25% German that comes from many different sources. They've done this because people have been asking for example I have 25% Scandi but all my grandparents are from Britain lol.
Yep. They are heavily focused on British DNA and have some problems differentiating groups. But that's a problem for all the companies.