@@markhernandez8361 No, being born in a certain place doesn't label your genetics as from that place. Being an American or born in America doesn't have to do anything with genes, though you can be an American genetically if ancestors were originally Native Americans (Indians).
I took both. I personally recommend if you're looking for a relatives or if you're adopted I'd say do ancestry and if you're looking for your ethnic groups I'd say do my heritage.
I would disagree. My wife's ethnicity on MyHeritage doesn't resemble what her genealogical research has. I'm don't promote taking the DNA tests for ethnicity reports because they are the least valuable information the genetic tests provide. I also recommend that adoptees test with all the companies because you never know which database your relatives will be in.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I would disagre. Ancestry results say that I'm 86% African while Myheritage has me at about 79%. Also, Ancestry tells me that I'm 1% Greek when I dont have any known Greek ancestry. Also the communities they assigned me to are questionable.
@@melaninqueen2413 for me myheritage isn’t really specific in terms of my ethnicity results. It just says “north Europe” or “west Europe” instead of the country like Ireland or England which I have family in
I know DNA is a tricky mistress, but my Father used the test kit from MyHeritage and it says he's 95% Northern European. (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, and Norwegian) and 4.77% Caucasian and .23% Greek. His Skin tone, Facial structure, and family knowledge strongly suggest something different. We are Jewish, and his skin is as dark as a hardwood floor and we both have massive sniffers. Not saying it's completely wrong, for I am not a geneticist, but we have some doubts.
Such awesome comparison videos. Thank you. MyHeritage sounds phenomenal for the sophisticated tools and features as well as the growth potentiality! I do hear that Ancestry is better if you are adopted and you want to find and discover your family. MyHeritage has more detailed DNA results and matches however, that can help tremendously with finding your family history and where you are from. (Helps to know how distant a relative match is for example)
Better for adopted is a relative opinion. The best platform is the one that has your genetic relatives in it. There's no guarantee that your relatives are in Ancestry. Since you're working on adoptee research, have you seen my series about this topic? ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg
I have documents from my family history researched years ago and with my DNA test I can say that Ancestry agrees more with documentary evidence I have rather than My Heritage. This may be due to Ancestry's larger remit of evidence. I have documented records back to the late 1400s in England which attest my largely English ancestry (I'm English anyway and both my maternal and paternal branches have been in North-West England for centuries), with the also attested Welsh. Ancestry also cites Norwegian and German which I have no record of and most likely is more ancient due to Viking settlement in northern England where I live, and German being the Anglo-Saxon (English/German) connection. I trust Ancestry at the moment but that may change when My Heritage increases its data base.
Basically it's swings and roundabouts. Each site has its advantages and disadvantages. I did find that My Heritage did give me a far more detailed DNA Report breakdown that was far more meaningful and helpful in understanding my family history than Ancestry which was 2nd and 23 and me which had the least amount of detail.
The DNA reports is likely your ethnicity reports and I don't focus on those. However, i have compared these two companies and their genetic groups ruclips.net/video/LtbJ5t_Vy8E/видео.html. However the tools aren't swings and roundabouts. The tools to determine how you related to your DNA matches, depending on how many of your living genetic relatives have tested with each company, are generally spot on.
You completely ignored some of the DNA features on Ancestry, specifically ThruLines, which was not even mentioned and has no counterpart on MyHeritage that I know of.
@@paintitblack4199 Actually it is very much a DNA feature, it won't work without a DNA test on Ancestry. It will then use tree information to show where the people on your DNA match list link to your family tree, sometimes filling in the blanks for gaps in a family tree to find that common ancestor. But I will admit I was not familiar with Theory of Relativity on MyHeritage and I will look into it.
@@PNMarkW2 DNA is secondary when it comes to Thrulines and is more based on family trees. They even tell you it first goes through and looks at trees then the DNA. Many Thrulines may also be wrong because a lot of the trees on Ancestry have wrong information. But yeah check out Theory of Relativity, it determines relationships and ancestors based on DNA matches, Family Trees and also Records. I found it to be much more accurate than Thrulines.
@@paintitblack4199 Anything that uses someone else's tree, be it Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast, etc. is only going to be as accurate as the tree itself. And since I have the only perfect tree (sarcasm there in case it was missed) I always take anything that uses someone else's tree with a grain of salt. My point still stands though, ThruLines does use DNA in its results if only to help match people on your DNA list to your tree, and that was totally left out of the review presented and is at least as valid a DNA tool, if not more so, than looking at any list of potential DNA matches which was compared between the two services.
@@paintitblack4199 I don't think MyHeritage is generating Theory of Relativity from DNA like you describe. It is not like it looks at your DNA match with for example, 400cM then looks for the Half First Cousin spot to fill. It is "basically" doing the same thing as Ancestry ThruLines; but with more documents and showing different possibilities of how people could connect. But back to the original post...I think both should have been mentioned if you are comparing genetic tools at the 2 companies.
I was looking for my Scandinavian ancestry. Ancestry picked it up but My Heritage showed zero. What was interesting was that My Heritage put my Scandinavian ancestry into Ethnics groups ie I found out I’ve got 100s of Nordic cousins thru common Irish cousins (Hiberno Norse) I think Ancestry are better at Ethnicity Estimates and Historical events surrounding them which is very compelling and explanatory, but My Heritage has a more versatile search function but used together they’re very powerful and even complimentary. Basically both companies said the same thing but in different ways.
If you're looking for Scandinavian ancestry, my wife has yours. Do you have her German ethnicity? Seriously thought, the size of the Scandinavian or Nordic regions is under represented in all databases. I explain this further in this video ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics hi thanks for that I’ve got a little German and an amount of Finish. thanks again for the link and your kind assistance. Your clips are great!
I just want to know which one give more precise country history. On my heritage it said I'm English, Scandinavian and west-asian. OK. But what part of west Asia? Turkey? Iran? What part of Scandinavia? Does ancestry pinpoint these things better
I am using both AncestryDNA and MyHeritage DNA to look into a 3rd great grandmother and her father. On My Heritage, the ethnicity matches filter for Jewish may assist in solving a question of are they Jewish where a Mordecai Miles has a daughter Hester where the matches are for Millar on MyHeritage DNA and the family trees on AncestryDNA are for Millard and Milward? The percentage of Jewish is very small on MyHeritage DNA 1.1%, but the first names sound Jewish and the family name changes in both trees and records like they changed from European Jewish names.
I understand. We have free access as educators. However, before that, Devon would pay for a year's subscription to different websites and rotate them. Perhaps that's an option. Also, she asked for subscriptions as her Christmas and birthday presents. Family members contributed and it helped.
@@delreejackson260 Weird, all I see even now is the yearly option.... which I'm planning on doing as soon as I get my passport for. I wonder if its just stuck on it.
Are those filters based on what people manually register on the databases? Does anyone know what happen with the results if the lastname registered for the test does not actually belongs to person who provided the DNA sample? Are those companies still accurate on this case?
Forgive me for not entirely understanding your question. If you mean, are the Theories of Family Relativity and Ancestry ThruLines based on the same name, in the same place, at about the same time. Then yes. That's correct. And if people have differing trees, that will throw off the results. If you mean comparing names people use for the their DNA tests to determine whether they are DNA matches, neither company takes that into account. Does that help? If not, ask follow-up questions in a new thread for me to review.
Is the European Union restricting DNA information? I have ancestors on both my mom's side and my dad's side from Germany, but the only other countries where I see DNA matches are England, Ireland, and Australia.
There are a number of countries that have banned genetic tests. Germany is one of them. Folks have to travel outside of the country to purchase and submit their results.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Concerning Germany that's wrong. The only thing that is banned are DNA health reports and kits of companies that, among other things, violate our privacy laws. Genetic tests that are concerned with ancestry/ethnicity are not banned at all. Nobody here would run into problems purchasing e.g. a MyHeritage or Ancestry kit. The only thing that could happen is that your package might end at up at customs, which has more to do with the fact that DNA tests aren't really that common among our population so they can seem suspicious to the people working there.
Now from which companies (My Heritage or AncestryDNA) are your results gonna be more accurate? I got my results from My Heritage stating that I'm 78.7% African. I'm nervous and scared about the what the results from Ancestry is gonna say.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics so my Ancestry right are shocking. They tell me that im 86% African, which I don't agree with. Also a few couple of the results I question and the community that they assigned me to. I'm starting to question both companies
I took My Ancestry. Later downloaded the raw dna into My Heritage for only $29. The main results were practically the same, however, My Heritage discovered Balkan and South Asia which were not present in My Ancestry.
Do you mean ethnicity results or DNA matches? If you mean ethnicity results, then you're going to find variances between the two companies but the accuracy of both is actually questionable. Learn more from these videos DNA Tests and Ethnicity ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdlvwsLScE4NPKwGA-XUNhhM If it's DNA matches, way cool!
When My Heritage uses maiden names I'll be interested. Until then. No. Finding Ingredberkledink Humperdink thinking you've found your long lost gramma and then spend hours and hours looking for her. Surprise!! Humperdink isn't her maiden name. It's the name of husband #2 of her total of 5. And what was her maiden name? You may never find out.
I was setting up my tree in MyHeritage yesterday, and I noticed there was the option to put maiden names, which I used for my married female relatives and children.
It's possible but it depends. It depends on whether they (or a close relative) have taken a test with this company. If you're looking for your parents, you should test with MyHeritage, Ancestry, 23andMe and FamilyTree DNA to ensure that you have your DNA in every location.
I did both test but in ancestry I have no Italian but I got 27% Italian in MyHeritage so that has me confused, my African results was similar I got 28 percent in Ancestry and 23 percent in MyHeritage, same goes for my Native results 13 percent in Ancestry and 19 percent Mesoamerica in MyHeritage not such a big difference.
Check out this video about reference populations ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html Then check out this video about ethnicity percentages ruclips.net/video/u8lMfGqSrwg/видео.html
I took Myheritage and it told me 6% -meso and andean American . Ancestry says 1% Mexican and 1% North American, 23andme says 2% native (doesn't give which regions). Now that a big difference between 6% central and south American from Myheritage and ancestry/23andme saying 2%.
@@abrown198528 same. I took both companies and MyHeritage DNA results say I'm 78.7% African while Ancestry DNA results say I'm 86%. MyHeritage says I'm 15.4% European while Ancestry says I'm 12%. MyHeritage says I'm 4.9% Mesoamerican and Andean while Ancestry says I'm 1% Indigenous Mexican and 1% Indigenous North. Also on MyHeritage, they said I'm 1% West Asian while there was no West Asian on Ancestry, but Greek!! The one I'm more skeptical about is my African percentages.
Why would it be bad? Do you mean the ethnicity results aren't what you expected or they're not the same as other companies? Or do you mean you're not making matches with genetic cousins? I'm not an advocate of taking the DNA test without trying to build a genetic family tree. The ethnicity results are the least reliable and useful pieces of genealogical information.
It is They over estimate native american because they used mixed people Mestizos for Native American Reference samples. So you end up getting doubled native even though really half of that is closer to your real result. I have tested with multiple companies and its the only one with so much extra native estimation.
@@sgonzo5572 i had the same problem, I'm from Chile, my ancestors were mainly inmigrants from europe, however my paternal grandfather is Chinese. I shouldn't have any Andean blood, and if I do, not more than 5%, but still, I am 9.4% Mesoamerican and Andean
That's because the two companies look at Different SNPs. However, the amount of shared centimorgans for close relatives should not greatly swing the relations from say a 1st cousin to a 4th cousin.
My heritage got wrong results, ancestry was accurate based on my genealogy, matching relatives, etc. I was expecting few differences but what I got from my heritage was like if the test belonged to another person.
At Gedmatch My mother and I share 3,569.4 cM (segments at least 7 cM in length) At AncestryDNA, my mother and I share 3,305 cM That is a 264 difference. My father has been dead for over 20 years, and so there is no way of checking my DNA against his. but my paternal Aunt Carrie tested she is my father's maternal halfsister, and so she's my half aunt At Gedmatch, my paternal Aunt Carrie and I share 912.3 cM (segments at least 7 cM in length) At Ancestry DNA, my paternal Aunt Carrie and I share 766 cM That is a 146 cM difference. AncestryDNA is removing a lot of valid segments! I don't trust their Timber algorithm. I never did after I started losing matches that matched both my mother and me at other sites. I lost paternal Acadian DNA segment matches too, and some of them match me on other sites. I also checked my largest Acadian segment match at Ancestry. It's a Cajun woman that matches both me and my Aunt Carrie with a 27 cM segment match on Chromosome 5 but appears as a match to only me at AncestryDNA. AncestryDNA shows only 11.6 cM across 1 segment. That's 16 cM less than at Gedmatch. I am thinking that AncestryDNA wiped out much of my paternal European Chromosome 5 segment. I had three 11 cM Chromosome 5 matches that are 3 generations directly related at Gedmatch that used to appear at AncestryDNA. It was in the same area where I am matching people with Acadian ancestry. At Gedmatch, my largest chromosome segment with my Aunt Carrie is 89 cM segment on Chromosome 5 which seems to be my entire paternal Chromosome 5 European segment and where I am matching people with Acadian ancestry. Keep in mind that my Aunt Carrie is over 80 percent African. Ancestry seems to think much of my paternal European on Chromosome 5 is a pileup because I am matching too many people with Acadian (French in Nova Scotia,Canada) ancestry, and most of my 4 percent paternal European is the large segment on Chromosome 5. Well...If they read up on the Acadian history and genealogy, there is so much recent endogamy that all people with some amount of Acadian ancestry are related through at least one person that came to Nova Scotia from France in the 17th Century. Many of us are related to each other more than once and descend from an ancestor more than once. My 4th Great Grandmother Anastasia Bourgeois was 5 times a descendant of Jean Terriot and his wife Perrine Rau. She descended from 3 cousin couples that are no more distantly related than 3rd cousin.
I'm not sure. I thought there would be one when I filmed an ethnicity update in a video that was released after the one you watched. But it was not so.
@@rosealexander9007 you can upload your dna to other sites . For men it made more sense to test with 23 and me and Ancestry, then upload to MyHeritage, familytreedna, Geni, and Gedmatch for free. I uploaded both my 23 and me and Ancestrydna to my heritage. There is a huge difference with the number of matches I have. Last week I purchased a myheritage kit to compare the results.
MyHeritage was not good in my opinion. 23&Me and AncestryDNA had very similar results. Also their tools are better and don’t require that ridiculous $150 annual price. MyHeritage DNA result was completely different than those two. Based on my family history 23&me and AncestryDNA is more accurate. MyHeritage is probably better for people with high European DNA. Not so much for people from Latin America. Again this is just my opinion.
Ancestry has dominated their marketing messages to be sure. If MyHeritage could increase their DNA test market size, they would dominate Ancestry in terms of tools used.
I didn’t like MyAncestry. Every time I try and add to my tree or click the “smart match”...it kept saying that I had 0 matches. Yet I kept trying to add Aunt & Uncle matches to no avail. Dumb system, I’m surprised this guy rates it as a winner. Clearly Ancestry has millions more users because MyHeritage has major issues & little info & docs. Just sucks.
Maybe you don't have matches. Hints are good sometimes but it gives alot false positives. But it can also hint you to other peoples trees which can be useful sometimes
Saludos, estoy yo iniciando en este mundo de la búsqueda de origines familiares. Estoy esperando que me llegue la prueba de MyHeritage . Tan pronto tenga un resultado les diré mi experiencia. Pero lo que me molesta de esta plataforma es que no permite poner el segundo apellido. Entiendo que esto esta primero dirigido para los estadounidenses los cuales el apellido materno no lo utilizan. Pero en la comunidad latina, en mi caso Puerto Rico, sí se usa los dos apellidos. Para evitar confusiones con otra persona, por ejemplo mi padre, abuelo, hermano y tio, tiene el mismo primer nombre, segundo nombre y el primer apellido. Y por eso la pagina me esta dando coincidencias que no son de esas personas. (Entiendo que tal vez este comentario no sea tomado en cuenta) Pero entiendo que estas plataformas deberían ser más inclusivas con las realidades culturales de otros países a los cuales ellos también les dan servicios. Tan pronto tenga los resultados me estaré realizando la segunda prueba con AncestryDNA.
@@Guillermo153 ancestry is better its more specific and it has a larger database with people who have tested as well as a larger reference population my heritage was totally off with my European ethnic groups and over estimated my Native American ancestry.
@@Guillermo153 I heard that as well but ancestry again has the largest database so you have much more cousin matches I'm a member of a federally recognized tribe and I have numerous cousin matches from my tribe so i know the cousin matches are extremely accurate.
This comment is too overly simplified. 1. If you mean the ethnicity results are false, I would recommend watching this video ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html 2. If you mean close matches are wrong, that would not be the case. MyHeritage will accurately predict close relatives. Distant relatives is a struggle for all platforms. 3. If you mean family trees, well, you shouldn't believe all online trees ruclips.net/video/E_cVv7WM-Fc/видео.html
Why would you think that? All DNA companies are restricted by the participation of regions around the world in the reference populations. Some ethnic groups have more readily participated genetic testing than others. For instance, US native tribes are not included in ethnicity comparison groups because they have refused to participate. Does that help answer your question?
🥊Another showdown between Ancestry & MyHeritage 👉🏼 ruclips.net/video/LtbJ5t_Vy8E/видео.html
Can being an American, be an ethnicity if you were born in the USA?
@@markhernandez8361 No, being born in a certain place doesn't label your genetics as from that place. Being an American or born in America doesn't have to do anything with genes, though you can be an American genetically if ancestors were originally Native Americans (Indians).
I took both. I personally recommend if you're looking for a relatives or if you're adopted I'd say do ancestry and if you're looking for your ethnic groups I'd say do my heritage.
I would disagree. My wife's ethnicity on MyHeritage doesn't resemble what her genealogical research has. I'm don't promote taking the DNA tests for ethnicity reports because they are the least valuable information the genetic tests provide.
I also recommend that adoptees test with all the companies because you never know which database your relatives will be in.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I would disagre. Ancestry results say that I'm 86% African while Myheritage has me at about 79%. Also, Ancestry tells me that I'm 1% Greek when I dont have any known Greek ancestry. Also the communities they assigned me to are questionable.
@@melaninqueen2413 myheritage is saying that I’m 0% Irish meanwhile I have family members from Ireland
@@melaninqueen2413 for me myheritage isn’t really specific in terms of my ethnicity results. It just says “north Europe” or “west Europe” instead of the country like Ireland or England which I have family in
@@xochxrry6857 for me, it says Ireland, Scotland and Wales. I don't know what you're talking about.
Where is the "All Trees Details" menu in MyHeritage? I can't find it.
I found it under DNA matches --> filters
I know DNA is a tricky mistress, but my Father used the test kit from MyHeritage and it says he's 95% Northern European. (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, and Norwegian) and 4.77% Caucasian and .23% Greek. His Skin tone, Facial structure, and family knowledge strongly suggest something different. We are Jewish, and his skin is as dark as a hardwood floor and we both have massive sniffers. Not saying it's completely wrong, for I am not a geneticist, but we have some doubts.
Such awesome comparison videos. Thank you. MyHeritage sounds phenomenal for the sophisticated tools and features as well as the growth potentiality!
I do hear that Ancestry is better if you are adopted and you want to find and discover your family.
MyHeritage has more detailed DNA results and matches however, that can help tremendously with finding your family history and where you are from. (Helps to know how distant a relative match is for example)
Better for adopted is a relative opinion. The best platform is the one that has your genetic relatives in it. There's no guarantee that your relatives are in Ancestry. Since you're working on adoptee research, have you seen my series about this topic? ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg
I have read Thatcher Ancestry has beter detailed and accurate analyses. So which is one is more accurate. Myheritage or ancestry?
I have documents from my family history researched years ago and with my DNA test I can say that Ancestry agrees more with documentary evidence I have rather than My Heritage. This may be due to Ancestry's larger remit of evidence. I have documented records back to the late 1400s in England which attest my largely English ancestry (I'm English anyway and both my maternal and paternal branches have been in North-West England for centuries), with the also attested Welsh. Ancestry also cites Norwegian and German which I have no record of and most likely is more ancient due to Viking settlement in northern England where I live, and German being the Anglo-Saxon (English/German) connection. I trust Ancestry at the moment but that may change when My Heritage increases its data base.
Right on I look forward to getting my results back
Basically it's swings and roundabouts. Each site has its advantages and disadvantages. I did find that My Heritage did give me a far more detailed DNA Report breakdown that was far more meaningful and helpful in understanding my family history than Ancestry which was 2nd and 23 and me which had the least amount of detail.
The DNA reports is likely your ethnicity reports and I don't focus on those. However, i have compared these two companies and their genetic groups ruclips.net/video/LtbJ5t_Vy8E/видео.html.
However the tools aren't swings and roundabouts. The tools to determine how you related to your DNA matches, depending on how many of your living genetic relatives have tested with each company, are generally spot on.
You completely ignored some of the DNA features on Ancestry, specifically ThruLines, which was not even mentioned and has no counterpart on MyHeritage that I know of.
Thrulines is not a DNA feature, it's a family tree matching feature. Theory of Relativity is MyHeritage's version and it is based on DNA.
@@paintitblack4199 Actually it is very much a DNA feature, it won't work without a DNA test on Ancestry. It will then use tree information to show where the people on your DNA match list link to your family tree, sometimes filling in the blanks for gaps in a family tree to find that common ancestor. But I will admit I was not familiar with Theory of Relativity on MyHeritage and I will look into it.
@@PNMarkW2 DNA is secondary when it comes to Thrulines and is more based on family trees. They even tell you it first goes through and looks at trees then the DNA. Many Thrulines may also be wrong because a lot of the trees on Ancestry have wrong information. But yeah check out Theory of Relativity, it determines relationships and ancestors based on DNA matches, Family Trees and also Records. I found it to be much more accurate than Thrulines.
@@paintitblack4199 Anything that uses someone else's tree, be it Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast, etc. is only going to be as accurate as the tree itself. And since I have the only perfect tree (sarcasm there in case it was missed) I always take anything that uses someone else's tree with a grain of salt.
My point still stands though, ThruLines does use DNA in its results if only to help match people on your DNA list to your tree, and that was totally left out of the review presented and is at least as valid a DNA tool, if not more so, than looking at any list of potential DNA matches which was compared between the two services.
@@paintitblack4199 I don't think MyHeritage is generating Theory of Relativity from DNA like you describe. It is not like it looks at your DNA match with for example, 400cM then looks for the Half First Cousin spot to fill. It is "basically" doing the same thing as Ancestry ThruLines; but with more documents and showing different possibilities of how people could connect. But back to the original post...I think both should have been mentioned if you are comparing genetic tools at the 2 companies.
MyHeritage won, and it's now on sale 55% off. Awesome. Ordered!
Glad you got the test. Now, start building a partial family tree to fully take advantage of the service.
I was looking for my Scandinavian ancestry. Ancestry picked it up but My Heritage showed zero. What was interesting was that My Heritage put my Scandinavian ancestry into Ethnics groups ie I found out I’ve got 100s of Nordic cousins thru common Irish cousins (Hiberno Norse) I think Ancestry are better at Ethnicity Estimates and Historical events surrounding them which is very compelling and explanatory, but My Heritage has a more versatile search function but used together they’re very powerful and even complimentary. Basically both companies said the same thing but in different ways.
If you're looking for Scandinavian ancestry, my wife has yours. Do you have her German ethnicity?
Seriously thought, the size of the Scandinavian or Nordic regions is under represented in all databases. I explain this further in this video ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics hi thanks for that I’ve got a little German and an amount of Finish. thanks again for the link and your kind assistance. Your clips are great!
I get a matches update from MyHeritage once a week. I've yet to receive a single update from Ancestry in over six months.☹
I haven't had those emails but I turned them off. I just research when I have time and check things out then.
I just want to know which one give more precise country history. On my heritage it said I'm English, Scandinavian and west-asian. OK. But what part of west Asia? Turkey? Iran? What part of Scandinavia? Does ancestry pinpoint these things better
Not really, because a lot of the DNA from those areas look the same.
Upload your raw results to DNA Land. It’s free. It will tell you more specifics.
Swedes Danes and Norwegians is all ethnically Scandinavians.
Which is more precise in showing your ancestry? Shouldn't that be the main criteria?
That's the subject for a different video. I was focused on the tools to discover your ancestry.
My Heritage is for for better DNA results
I am using both AncestryDNA and MyHeritage DNA to look into a 3rd great grandmother and her father. On My Heritage, the ethnicity matches filter for Jewish may assist in solving a question of are they Jewish where a Mordecai Miles has a daughter Hester where the matches are for Millar on MyHeritage DNA and the family trees on AncestryDNA are for Millard and Milward? The percentage of Jewish is very small on MyHeritage DNA 1.1%, but the first names sound Jewish and the family name changes in both trees and records like they changed from European Jewish names.
Now, if MyHeritage had a monthly pay option. I'd love to get a sub, but especially now, money is tight and being reserved for emergencies.
I understand. We have free access as educators. However, before that, Devon would pay for a year's subscription to different websites and rotate them. Perhaps that's an option. Also, she asked for subscriptions as her Christmas and birthday presents. Family members contributed and it helped.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Yeah, once I save up, keeping it going would be easy enough, just tuck away a bit each month.
Just signed up today. They gave a monthly option
@@delreejackson260 Cool, and thanks! I'll go give a peek when I get a moment
@@delreejackson260 Weird, all I see even now is the yearly option.... which I'm planning on doing as soon as I get my passport for. I wonder if its just stuck on it.
Are those filters based on what people manually register on the databases?
Does anyone know what happen with the results if the lastname registered for the test does not actually belongs to person who provided the DNA sample? Are those companies still accurate on this case?
Forgive me for not entirely understanding your question.
If you mean, are the Theories of Family Relativity and Ancestry ThruLines based on the same name, in the same place, at about the same time. Then yes. That's correct. And if people have differing trees, that will throw off the results.
If you mean comparing names people use for the their DNA tests to determine whether they are DNA matches, neither company takes that into account.
Does that help? If not, ask follow-up questions in a new thread for me to review.
Is the European Union restricting DNA information? I have ancestors on both my mom's side and my dad's side from Germany, but the only other countries where I see DNA matches are England, Ireland, and Australia.
There are a number of countries that have banned genetic tests. Germany is one of them. Folks have to travel outside of the country to purchase and submit their results.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Concerning Germany that's wrong. The only thing that is banned are DNA health reports and kits of companies that, among other things, violate our privacy laws. Genetic tests that are concerned with ancestry/ethnicity are not banned at all. Nobody here would run into problems purchasing e.g. a MyHeritage or Ancestry kit. The only thing that could happen is that your package might end at up at customs, which has more to do with the fact that DNA tests aren't really that common among our population so they can seem suspicious to the people working there.
Now from which companies (My Heritage or AncestryDNA) are your results gonna be more accurate? I got my results from My Heritage stating that I'm 78.7% African. I'm nervous and scared about the what the results from Ancestry is gonna say.
Each DNA testing company compares your DNA to its own reference population. I talk about that in this video ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics so my Ancestry right are shocking. They tell me that im 86% African, which I don't agree with. Also a few couple of the results I question and the community that they assigned me to. I'm starting to question both companies
@@melaninqueen2413 or maybe you should question your family tree
Thank you, Andrew...informative and nicely done.
I took My Ancestry. Later downloaded the raw dna into My Heritage for only $29. The main results were practically the same, however, My Heritage discovered Balkan and South Asia which were not present in My Ancestry.
Do you mean ethnicity results or DNA matches? If you mean ethnicity results, then you're going to find variances between the two companies but the accuracy of both is actually questionable. Learn more from these videos DNA Tests and Ethnicity ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdlvwsLScE4NPKwGA-XUNhhM
If it's DNA matches, way cool!
When My Heritage uses maiden names I'll be interested. Until then. No. Finding Ingredberkledink Humperdink thinking you've found your long lost gramma and then spend hours and hours looking for her. Surprise!! Humperdink isn't her maiden name. It's the name of husband #2 of her total of 5. And what was her maiden name? You may never find out.
I was setting up my tree in MyHeritage yesterday, and I noticed there was the option to put maiden names, which I used for my married female relatives and children.
Is there any chance to find out who is a father and mother via those company?
It's possible but it depends. It depends on whether they (or a close relative) have taken a test with this company. If you're looking for your parents, you should test with MyHeritage, Ancestry, 23andMe and FamilyTree DNA to ensure that you have your DNA in every location.
I did both test but in ancestry I have no Italian but I got 27% Italian in MyHeritage so that has me confused, my African results was similar I got 28 percent in Ancestry and 23 percent in MyHeritage, same goes for my Native results 13 percent in Ancestry and 19 percent Mesoamerica in MyHeritage not such a big difference.
Check out this video about reference populations ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Then check out this video about ethnicity percentages
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I took Myheritage and it told me 6% -meso and andean American . Ancestry says 1% Mexican and 1% North American, 23andme says 2% native (doesn't give which regions).
Now that a big difference between 6% central and south American from Myheritage and ancestry/23andme saying 2%.
@@abrown198528 same. I took both companies and MyHeritage DNA results say I'm 78.7% African while Ancestry DNA results say I'm 86%. MyHeritage says I'm 15.4% European while Ancestry says I'm 12%. MyHeritage says I'm 4.9% Mesoamerican and Andean while Ancestry says I'm 1% Indigenous Mexican and 1% Indigenous North. Also on MyHeritage, they said I'm 1% West Asian while there was no West Asian on Ancestry, but Greek!! The one I'm more skeptical about is my African percentages.
@@melaninqueen2413 they use both algorithms and modelling based on previous calculations and feedback from the customer base
I heard MyHeritage is bad for Latinos like me, I got 59.4% Native, 32.1% European, 7.4% African (4% North, 3.4% Nigerian), & 1.1% Asian (Central Asia)
Why would it be bad? Do you mean the ethnicity results aren't what you expected or they're not the same as other companies? Or do you mean you're not making matches with genetic cousins?
I'm not an advocate of taking the DNA test without trying to build a genetic family tree. The ethnicity results are the least reliable and useful pieces of genealogical information.
It is They over estimate native american because they used mixed people Mestizos for Native American Reference samples. So you end up getting doubled native even though really half of that is closer to your real result. I have tested with multiple companies and its the only one with so much extra native estimation.
@@sgonzo5572 i had the same problem, I'm from Chile, my ancestors were mainly inmigrants from europe, however my paternal grandfather is Chinese. I shouldn't have any Andean blood, and if I do, not more than 5%, but still, I am 9.4% Mesoamerican and Andean
Which one, do you think is better for latinos? I think that I had the same problem
Some dna matches from ancestry have different shared centimorgans to me when i find them on my heritage
That's because the two companies look at Different SNPs. However, the amount of shared centimorgans for close relatives should not greatly swing the relations from say a 1st cousin to a 4th cousin.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics is 23cm and 2 segments 4th cousin range?
My heritage got wrong results, ancestry was accurate based on my genealogy, matching relatives, etc. I was expecting few differences but what I got from my heritage was like if the test belonged to another person.
Hey, where do you live/come from? Many people say ancestry is more accurate for people from North America and MyHeritage for European
Same
Same
@@eljefe4300 MyHeritage ain't even accurate for european
@@moimoimoi2585 so what now i got it now btw i dont think its accurate at all for my west asian side
thank you
You bet!
Yes it's amazing
At Gedmatch
My mother and I share 3,569.4 cM
(segments at least 7 cM in length)
At AncestryDNA,
my mother and I share 3,305 cM
That is a 264 difference.
My father has been dead for over 20 years, and so there is no way of checking my DNA against his.
but my paternal Aunt Carrie tested
she is my father's maternal halfsister, and so she's my half aunt
At Gedmatch,
my paternal Aunt Carrie and I share 912.3 cM
(segments at least 7 cM in length)
At Ancestry DNA,
my paternal Aunt Carrie and I share 766 cM
That is a 146 cM difference.
AncestryDNA is removing a lot of valid segments!
I don't trust their Timber algorithm.
I never did after I started losing matches that matched both my mother and me at other sites.
I lost paternal Acadian DNA segment matches too, and some of them match me on other sites.
I also checked my largest Acadian segment match at Ancestry. It's a Cajun woman that matches both me and my Aunt Carrie with a 27 cM segment match on Chromosome 5 but appears as a match to only me at AncestryDNA. AncestryDNA shows only 11.6 cM across 1 segment. That's 16 cM less than at Gedmatch.
I am thinking that AncestryDNA wiped out much of my paternal European Chromosome 5 segment. I had three 11 cM Chromosome 5 matches that are 3 generations directly related at Gedmatch that used to appear at AncestryDNA. It was in the same area where I am matching people with Acadian ancestry.
At Gedmatch, my largest chromosome segment with my Aunt Carrie is 89 cM segment on Chromosome 5 which seems to be my entire paternal Chromosome 5 European segment and where I am matching people with Acadian ancestry.
Keep in mind that my Aunt Carrie is over 80 percent African.
Ancestry seems to think much of my paternal European on Chromosome 5 is a pileup because I am matching too many people with Acadian (French in Nova Scotia,Canada) ancestry, and most of my 4 percent paternal European is the large segment on Chromosome 5. Well...If they read up on the Acadian history and genealogy, there is so much recent endogamy that all people with some amount of Acadian ancestry are related through at least one person that came to Nova Scotia from France in the 17th Century. Many of us are related to each other more than once and descend from an ancestor more than once. My 4th Great Grandmother Anastasia Bourgeois was 5 times a descendant of Jean Terriot and his wife Perrine Rau. She descended from 3 cousin couples that are no more distantly related than 3rd cousin.
When we will have an update in My Heritage ethnicities?
I'm not sure. I thought there would be one when I filmed an ethnicity update in a video that was released after the one you watched. But it was not so.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics all the other companies updated ethnicities.
Yeah my heritage DNA won!
Your among the few that agree.
Family History Fanatics I took my Dna heritage test and that’s the only one I took. Maybe that’s why lol
@@rosealexander9007 you can upload your dna to other sites . For men it made more sense to test with 23 and me and Ancestry, then upload to MyHeritage, familytreedna, Geni, and Gedmatch for free. I uploaded both my 23 and me and Ancestrydna to my heritage. There is a huge difference with the number of matches I have. Last week I purchased a myheritage kit to compare the results.
donaches I just recently found this out myself. I was thinking about trying it.
MyHeritage was not good in my opinion. 23&Me and AncestryDNA had very similar results. Also their tools are better and don’t require that ridiculous $150 annual price. MyHeritage DNA result was completely different than those two. Based on my family history 23&me and AncestryDNA is more accurate. MyHeritage is probably better for people with high European DNA. Not so much for people from Latin America. Again this is just my opinion.
Ancestry trails? Can you do a video on that
If there's enough interest.
I got 569 distant cousins on my heritage that's it! I'm waiting on my ancestry test
Keisha Williams most likely you will find way more cousins in Ancestry
And to think I've never heard of MyHeritage.
Ancestry has dominated their marketing messages to be sure. If MyHeritage could increase their DNA test market size, they would dominate Ancestry in terms of tools used.
I didn’t like MyAncestry. Every time I try and add to my tree or click the “smart match”...it kept saying that I had 0 matches. Yet I kept trying to add Aunt & Uncle matches to no avail. Dumb system, I’m surprised this guy rates it as a winner. Clearly Ancestry has millions more users because MyHeritage has major issues & little info & docs. Just sucks.
Maybe you don't have matches. Hints are good sometimes but it gives alot false positives. But it can also hint you to other peoples trees which can be useful sometimes
Your comment is a little messed up. So you like or you don't like ancestry.
Saludos, estoy yo iniciando en este mundo de la búsqueda de origines familiares. Estoy esperando que me llegue la prueba de MyHeritage . Tan pronto tenga un resultado les diré mi experiencia. Pero lo que me molesta de esta plataforma es que no permite poner el segundo apellido. Entiendo que esto esta primero dirigido para los estadounidenses los cuales el apellido materno no lo utilizan. Pero en la comunidad latina, en mi caso Puerto Rico, sí se usa los dos apellidos. Para evitar confusiones con otra persona, por ejemplo mi padre, abuelo, hermano y tio, tiene el mismo primer nombre, segundo nombre y el primer apellido. Y por eso la pagina me esta dando coincidencias que no son de esas personas. (Entiendo que tal vez este comentario no sea tomado en cuenta) Pero entiendo que estas plataformas deberían ser más inclusivas con las realidades culturales de otros países a los cuales ellos también les dan servicios. Tan pronto tenga los resultados me estaré realizando la segunda prueba con AncestryDNA.
Lo siento. Yo no hablo español.
Recibiste tus resultados?
My heritage sucks especially with DNA testing accuracy
Wich one is better then?
I'm from Europe and the most famous test is MyHeritageDNA
@@Guillermo153 ancestry is better its more specific and it has a larger database with people who have tested as well as a larger reference population my heritage was totally off with my European ethnic groups and over estimated my Native American ancestry.
@@johnbhughes3419 thank you for the advice
For what I've seen most people take the 23andMe and say that it's more specific
@@Guillermo153 I heard that as well but ancestry again has the largest database so you have much more cousin matches I'm a member of a federally recognized tribe and I have numerous cousin matches from my tribe so i know the cousin matches are extremely accurate.
@@johnbhughes3419 that's interesting
Dont use myheritage
False information
This comment is too overly simplified.
1. If you mean the ethnicity results are false, I would recommend watching this video ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
2. If you mean close matches are wrong, that would not be the case. MyHeritage will accurately predict close relatives. Distant relatives is a struggle for all platforms.
3. If you mean family trees, well, you shouldn't believe all online trees ruclips.net/video/E_cVv7WM-Fc/видео.html
Does Ancestry have a Jewish bias?
Why would you think that?
All DNA companies are restricted by the participation of regions around the world in the reference populations. Some ethnic groups have more readily participated genetic testing than others. For instance, US native tribes are not included in ethnicity comparison groups because they have refused to participate.
Does that help answer your question?