Evan Edinger Takes a DNA Test
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
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Saarland is a really mixed State, many people there have French and German heritage. I know some French people from Lorraine that went to school in Saarland (Germany). Many people speak both languages.
Yeah, and his pronunciation of Saarland is way off. He’s pronouncing the S like the English S sound. It’s supposed to more like the English Z
My Dad's Paternal Ancestors were from the Alsace region. That region was a part of Germany at the time my Dad's Ancestors lived there. My 6th Great-Grandfather actually emigrated to the US in 1731 on the Brittania.
I find it so frustrating when folks stop at the test results. This for me was the tart point rather than an end point. It stirred my curiosity and excitement, the results providing sign posts that further genealogical research would confirm or dismiss.
It really is incredible how many people jump straight into their results without spending any time carefully reading the supporting notes/documentation that is provided to assist them in how to best interpret the info!. I get so frustrated!
When I first asked my parents about our heritage, I got the following:
Mom’s side: German, Irish, French and White Prussian (a Ukrainian gentleman explained that last one to me)
Dad’s side: English, French, Scottish, Norwegian, Cherokee, Cheyenne and Sioux
Taking the test and working on the tree and using sources was an eye opener. For mom, the German, French, and Irish were confirmed, but we added English, Scottish and Baltic. For dad, all but the Native American was confirmed, but adding Scandinavian and German.
However, though Irish showed up in my mom’s results (4%), I didn’t inherit any of it. Makes me wonder what else didn’t hand down.
White Prussian? What is that? My great grandmother’s parents were from Prussia (occupied Poland) but they identified as polish or more specifically kociewie.
Brilliant!! I watch you both.
I'm an American, and growing up I was told that 'we're Irish', only to find out after studying my family tree and getting a DNA test that my family is probably of English, Scottish, or Scotch-Irish origin. Turns out I have VERY little Irish DNA, and multiple lines with a higher likelihood of being the source (looking at my Doyle line...).
I'm English, grew up being told I just have mostly English ancestry, one grandfather from Ireland. Did DNA and had mostly Irish, Scottish, Norwegian and then a little English. Did ancestry and found a lot of Irish some Scottish ancestry, but multiple lines settling in England between 18th to early 19th century. Only one line kept going back in England past the 18th century.
Our families don't know what we're talking about.
The use of Scotch Irish is incorrect no such thing. It is Scots- Irish
Scotch is a drink. We are Scots.
I think it’s outrageous to say the Scots-Irish are not Irish. They’ve been in Ireland since the 1600s. It would be like saying someone of Scots-Irish ancestry from the U.S. 1700s are not „real“ Americans. Ridiculous.
This guy, Edinger, is a complete idiot. Why does he yap on at speed like he’s on methamphetamine, and loudly? He doesn’t gave a hoot about his ancestry.
I didn’t really know much about my ethnicity before DNA. Most of my immigrant ancestors were in America before 1776, and their descendants seemed to intermarry, so it was colonists all the way down.
I have always been interested in doing a DNA test as im Scottish, but I look more Mediterranean. Im always asked where i come from here, but I go on holidays to Spain, and they assume im Spanish. My grandfather said his grandmother was Romanian, but he was a great storyteller, so I never ever found out if this was true.
I never pay any attention to any of the health information from these sites as I find them totally uninteresting.
He’s obtained British citizenship since this. He’s from New Jersey.
How this goofy guy ever pull off getting UK citizenship?
Nice video. I always like to go by the surname... my wife's uncle lived in Edingen -> Baden-Württemberg near Mannheim. It's possible that one of his ancestors was from that region.
Haha. It SOOOOO gets under your skin when people dismiss doing their pedigree! Cracks me up. Let's hope Evan Edinger has been doing his family tree. I agree with you about the STORY.
He has no interest in genealogy. His video was just click bait.
I actually had gotten 42% french german on the old v4 chip 23andme. I actually was able to track down family history through matches
16:00 I feel your pain, man.
I'm not a professional, but I was able to build an extensive and detailed family tree.
(I found the documents and reached the conclusions - I'm sure, with some mistakes - by myself, no import of other people's family trees. In fact, I quitted both MyHeritage and Ancestry because they were making the most dumb suggestions. And also because it freaked me out that they would automatically change my nth-GGM's surname to her husband's, my nth-GGF, when we didn't do that in Portugal! 👿I literally ceased paying them a quarterly fee or whatever because of their cultural insensibility! Take that, suckers!)
So, back to the topic after taking my medication... 😋
My tree was so big, I had to divide it into 4 trees, one for each GP. (I'm old-school, I actually have them as posters, not virtual.)
So... focus!
I'm from Trás-os-Montes, better said, SW Trás-os-Montes, i.e. Douro Wine Region, where the good stuff is made. I knew I had some ambiguously faraway male ancestors from Galicia (Spain) on both my GF's sides. And that was it.
Well, with the caveat that I have a lot of "exposed" ancestors (i.e., they were abandoned at birth), which are a brick wall; and further caveat that I have a lot of "unknown father" ancestors, and a lot of not-so-unknown fathers (i.e. Catholic priests... 😇); with all those caveats, I have many ancestors where I was expecting, but some in NW Trás-os-Montes (I couldn't go back in some cases because church records for those parishes were lost, unreadable, very incomplete, or the data was just too vague to allow for a honest call), many more from Galicia than family lore has it (indeed, from *all* 4 sides), a bit from N Beira - and a LOT from Minho, which was a drag 🤣because we in T-o-M ("transmontanos") usually say we are the "honest Hill-Billy" (positive connotation), "beirões" are also mostly authentic (though "papa-hóstias" - i.e. extremely Catholic), but "minhotos" are stingy (and also "papa-hóstias"). Darn! So yeah, here I am, a card-carrying atheist! 😂
I didn't find a lot of things further afield (other than Galicia, which is just next door...) but all my ancestors were poor, and I guess walking was a drag. 😁
Also, both testing companies sucked at matches. I guess my unknown relatives still can't afford a fricking commercial DNA test. Someone has to keep the family tradition alive! 🙃
But, as you often say, the most "funny" was finding some personal (and even statistical) details: the priests desperately trying to keep their "indiscretions" secret; the sheer number of exposed newborns each year on a small area, and appalling infant mortality; an ancestor that got arrested so they could force him to marry; two ancestors that married twice (to each other!) because it was uncovered that they were 3rd cousins and needed a dispensation, which they hadn't, so their 1st marriage was annulled; an ancestor that was born on the road while her pregnant mother was escaping the 2nd French Invasion (1809); an ancestor's brother and nephew that were murdered by the French soldiers caught pillaging their village; a Portuguese ancestor that died as a soldier in 1706 (if I recall it correctly) in Barcelona during the War of Spanish Succession... and (amazing, because so close in time) the fact that my GGM divorced my GGF in 1939 (a scandal in such a tiny village in then-über-Catholic Portugal...), a piece of info my mother had *NO* idea! (She met her!)
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But the most emotional stuff was actually not related to my family. (Because I'm old school, I find unrelated stuff.)
Top of the list:
- How the rare (and maybe non-representative) slave was treated, e.g. in terms of baptism, marriage, and burial (several examples)
- A church death record from 1855 that is actually a love letter (the vicar was clearly in love with the deceased); I can post its translation here, if you aprove.
(Sorry for the long comment/testament.)
You mentioned the Alsace Lorraine region. My gg grandfather on my mom’s side, grandpa’s side, great grandma’s side was born in Roeschwoog in Alsace Lorraine while it was under French control.
I heard that, from my Grandfather, about ancestor problems in Alsace. I haven't yet found the records to prove it. Search continues.
@@cefcat5733 I first knew that he was from France, put an inquiry on the ancestry message boards, had someone that sent me a family tree with him on it that had the town, but the birth record confirmed it all. It’s in French, as well.
@@karmagal78 Wow, as soon as I can afford a computer and Ancestry etc. I'll be having fun. Thanks.
@@cefcat5733 The birth record I located at the genealogy library in Salt Lake City and the marriage certificate to his 3rd wife I found locally in my state (next town and county over) at the courthouse.
@@karmagal78 Amazing.
Remember there are some countries who can't easily test their DNA due to laws. Some countries have folks who want to test but have to get kits shipped to a friend and then have the friend drop it in the mail. We are all missing out because of that.
DNA tests are banned in France and carry a 4000€ fine per violation.
I think it's so interesting how these DNA tests point out general regions someone might be from, which are far far broader than people in Europe identifying themselves with. I'm Dutch, haven't done a DNA test because it's probably just going to be typical of a Dutch person, but a lot of people here will quantify how much Frisian they are if it's in recent memory (i.e. I'm fully Frisian; people usually go by grandparents or great-grandparents so they may be half/a quarter/an eighth) when that's definitely not going to show up on DNA tests. Even more so because cultural identity here is pretty local, pretty strong, and pretty different from each other. (I guess that's a part of why these tests wanna point out a more specific area and what you're hinting at in the video).
Maybe you’ve answered this before, but how is it that Jewish, especially ashkenazi Jewish can be differentiated on a genetic level? I always thought Judaism began in the Middle East, and that the Sephardim were
Genetically similar to Arabs. It seems like all the other genetic categories are geographical. I can’t figure out how a religion is genetic. Maybe because they were separated from others around them so long ago? But then why Ashkenasi having its own genes?
Partly because of the separation you alluded to, but also because Ashkenazi Jews & Sephardic Jews & other Jewish populations are not exactly identical to one another due to intermarriage with other peoples (including non-Middle Eastern) over time. These are legitimate ethnicities.
@@user-jr4kc6lu9qashkenazi were in central.europe for 700.years and also gypsies from north India where in Balkans for years too
Im adopted and didn't know anything, whenni found my birth mother she insisted we were all irish on her side and mostly irish with a "little" german on my dads. 😂 after 2 tests and years and years of research. Ive discovered my dad was the easiest one to research. He is half polish so my grandfather is polish, and my grandmother on that side was mostly irish a quarter german. And my mothers side was really hard because bothel grandparents passed and then she passed also. But my grandmother was adopted too. But my recent discovery shows she was half irish half Luxembourg/german. And my grandfather is just old stock American. Like his ancestors came here before the revolution. Anyone else came in the 1800s
If he hadn't said a word, I would have thought that he was a German. I'm surprised that he has no eastern European DNA showing. He looks more like a Berliner, than a Londoner.
I did the my heritage and it tried to tell me I'm 17% scottish Irish and welsh. Well I know for sure both sides of my family are mostly Scottish and Irish heritage which makes sense seeing as I'm from Scotland. But the problem is that its given me 44.8% English dna which was confusing then I looked at my heritage and the english dna region it covers is all the way up to the central belt where 85% of the Scottish population lives and where most of my Scottish family is actually from .
It puzzles me when I see someone who is so excited about there dna, but then you try to find a tree and all you see is the individual and the parents. To me that shows I care but i don't really care about my background.
It's likely click bait, yeah ME - don't care about ancestors. 🤷🏼
Yes, he needs to the hard work of real genealogy and learn about his own true family history. It’s far more interesting than spitting in a tube and and getting DNA results. Getting DNA results is fine to supplement the paper genealogy, but if you really care about your ancestry you need to do both. (Doing the paper genealogy is actually quite fun.)
I really do hope Evan takes you up on your offer
I only have 0.2% Ashkenazi on 23 and Me, and it does go away at 90% confidence but then comes back at 80% confidence.
I do have a very high results of French and German in 23andme. I am 97% French and German in 23andme with a bit of English & Irish 2,8% and then 0,1% Broadly north-western European, 0,1% North African and I am European family that so far we know never left the province even going back to 1400s.
Charlemagne 😮
I'm going to get a test to see what comes up. I'm over 1/4 enrolled native.
On my mother's side, matrilinealy, as far as the eye can see, was straight Native American Indian. In the 1800s non native men started popping up in the tree. On my mother's father's side, as well as his parents, but before that, also late 1800s, non native came in.
On my father's side. His mothers mothers family came from croatia about 1910. His mothers fathers side was from Poznan, which is present day Poland.
My father's father's side has a person from Ireland and a person from Scotland. And then England of course. Other than that, all straight Netherlands on one branch and the other was all the way to multiple people that came over on the mayflower, so very, very deep American.
Imagine our ancestors watching Napoleon ride through town.
I’m waiting on results from ancestry. I know my grandparents are from Hamburg Germany and for a few generations maybe and my Australian is hard to track because no one wants to talk to me about it. When you were talking about the regions I was thinking it might help me figure out which archives to focus on especially if they aren’t linked to one family tree sight. At the moment I am focused a lot on Hamburg and northern Germany states because that’s the only information I know. And some German records are lost or I think are restricted because of the war.
Hi I did ancestry and got the results and I've found 99% are in UK and America and I have so few close matches in Australia hope you have more close matches with trees it makes it so much easier
My sister and I both tested, as did nine of my paternal first cousins...sadly my father was the last of his family to pass and that was 20 years ago, so paternal cousins testing was important....and half of us came with basque and half did not. Research then showed that yes, on the paternal side on a fourth great grandparent it was basque. Had I done it alone, I would not have known, because I did not get the basque but my sister did. As for my mothers, she is 92 and was quick to take the test, so we have that generation plus I have a glimpse of my maternal grandparents DNA by looking at hers, that shows which comes from her mother and father. Mom is also the last of her family left alive. I have NO maternal cousins who are interested in doing the test, but if their kids ever do....my mother doing it can still be helpful because her parents were born in the 1890's and we get a small glimpse into theirs through what mom inherited from them.
Evan has gotten A LOT less frenetic over the years.
Edinger sounds like a meth-head in this video. What a total moron.
And of course all these bloggers takes 23&me test, nothing changed in 4 years lol
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I’m British, and I did the test. Apparently I am REALLY British, but with a smattering of Irish as well! 97% British/Irish (rest is Spanish and Arab!). On the eve of the Six Nations kicking off it I can claim my traditional Welshness (2 Grandparents, 1 Maternal and 1 Paternal). I always deny my English roots (despite being born here, living here, and having the remaining 2 GPs from southern England). Apparently now though I can also claim both Lowland Scottish ancestry, and Southern Irish ancestry. So I am buying all the tops, and praying France doesn’t win!
Yeah you’ve a welsh name too. Is your lowland Scottish from Scotland or Ireland? A lot of Irish in the north have ancestors from the lowlands
My dad is haplogroup V!
It’s funny that a 20-something brushes off hypertension because he has low blood pressure now.
The guys a moron. He doesn’t even know what hypertension is. Hope is gets it.
I know this is no longer live but it’s possible the he and I are distant cousins. My mother’s ancestry dates back to earliest English/Dutch settlers in the Americas. My 9th great grandfather Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyck’s wife is said to be Ots-Toch their son (my 8th great grandfather Jacques Cornelis Van Slyck was also known as Itsychosaquachka.
I have 1% North American DNA.
Ironically my husband of French descent also had 1% North American 3/4 of our children still show 1 % North American descent. That makes some sense since without both parents having 1% my children should not register as having North American DNA.
23&Me assigned me to J1b, but others gave a further subscale J1b8. Not sure if this really changes much. I've read that this mtDNA found in Armenia, Turkey, Syria and the Maghreb, but it is hardly possible to connect this information to me (or someone else).
Recently, mtDNA haplogroup J1b8 has been broken into experimental branches by YFull MTree including J1b8a, J1b8a1, and J1b8a1a. Latvians remains at the root level, also known as J1b8*. Perhaps other types of Europeans also belong to that too, and I assume this includes you? The Armenian J1b8 HQ914447 who tested with FTDNA does not have C16260T so he remains in the root level as well. The Turkish & Arab & North African matches have been moved into those new branches.
Doing a DNA test for me would bring some very boring results. I am a Québécoise (Quebecker, French-Canadians), I have all my genealogy back to the parents of the first settlers in New France in the 1400-1600's and the exact cities they came from in France. Genealogy for Québec is very detailed and our DNA is studied by researchers because our population source is small and well documented. (They were able to prove the "Mother's curse" of "Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy" back to one single female ancestor, a Fille du Roi.) My husband's genealogy is the same, I know the exact cities from where his ancestors came from, so I have the full genealogy for our children. The only discrepancy from the France ancestry is my great-grand-mother who immigrated from Finland but still I know where she and her parents came from in Finland.
I think i might try 23and Me to see if I have any native American dna. Both me and my sister have done Ancestry test which proved the familytree I'd working on for a few years, both 90%+ Welsh less than 10% Salopian(english). I have identified all 4xg grandparents and about 80% 5xg but start loosing out on female lines.
Never heard anyone call themselves Salopian before. Bit niche. I presume this is just because the records in your and your matches trees showed they were from Shropshire? Did Ancestry show this in the suggested regions? 90% Welsh seems a lot, when did they migrate? I doubt many current Welsh would show that much!
I doubt that he would have Austrian ancestry, as Austria is the outlier in the French and German grouping. I would argue that it, or at least East Austria, should not be in that group, and should be with Hungary, and Czechia. When you look at where East Austrians cluster on a PCA chart, you will see that they are genetically akin to Magyarok, and Czechs.
Whattttt? No map?! 😂
luxembourg is a country
Yep....
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It's a region of Belgium.