Are my DNA test results WRONG? Genetic Genealogy Explained
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- How accurate is DNA testing for ancestry? Can a DNA test be wrong? What DNA tests get wrong? This video helps you know when and if DNA test results are incorrect.
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01:25 Is Raw DNA Data Wrong?
04:49 Are Ethnicity Results Wrong?
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I don’t think the DNA results are wrong, but the interpretation might not be accurate, and that’s influenced by the test pool, and that’s why they are updated sometimes because there’s more data to improve accuracy. Thanks for covering this topic.
You understand this better than most people
@@marduk2672 Most likely! Cynthia McLaglen
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics If it requires " interpretation " it is not science
2+2=4 everywhere and all the time
There is a RUclips video of identical twins that took the same test and got different results
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Please see this comment I wrote above. I'd love to know your thoughts as well.
**They'll interpret it wrong if you come from a place like Lebanon (for example). Various ancestries there. All going back to Canaanites (who were ultimately Caucasian), Europe, and to a small degree, Arabian Peninsula. I took 4 different tests that had wildly different results. Although they all gave me Near East and Caucasian, three out of four gave me a very high percentage of European, which is impossible given my genealogy. I had up to 20% British and 10% German in one. I'm not sure how to explain this away, but I think their algorithm/method misread the admixture (which as I said we have European admixture), and "thought" my recent ancestry is European. Not that I mind it, but this is an example of how the estimate can be inaccurate.**
@googlesmostwantedfrog147 DNA is not as simple in terms of interpretation as mathematical equation which is generally definitive.
DNA depends on how the data presented is interpreted.
Assuming a person was tested for Covid but had a marker different to all samples seen to date, so they are declared a negative match. However as time goes on, and more people tested had this marker, then scientists find that this is also a covid marker not previously identified.
The person's test results is unchanged however, due to further studies or improves data, the interpretation of it has now changed to declare the same results positive. Hope you get my drift. 😊
I had my DNA tested 4 times. 4 different unrelated companies. they all matched. They all matched to a point. Each one had a few differences in the smaller percentages. I did find out I have hundreds of 2nd and 3rd cousins in every state of the USA and on every continent. I also had some serious surprises. It's been interesting.
I have Wheelers in the US also. According to Family Search IGI I am distantly related to Seth Wheeler the inventor of the perforated toilet roll! Also I am related to Christopher Layton, Mormon and he turned up as a predicted Ancestry DNA relative....mind you he had 10 wives!
Finding relatives in other places has been fun for me to. I had one in England that we are related in several ways (5th and 6th cousin range) but I had been in contact with him previously for other research.
@@suelane3628 Yes. Some mormons had multiple wives. We have Mormon amcestors too.
I done a backflip finding out the stale old British isles and irish genetics I thought I had included my father being 4% Norwegian and my mother being 8% Swedish. Vikings and the Norman invasion I suspect. Now I know why there's so many blue eyes on each side of the family.
One thing I have going for me with some of my branches is lots of DNA connections and also very good records. I'm a descendant of Tristram Coffin so one thing Ancestry offers is something called thrulines. With thrulines you can see people you match with that has a common ancestor up to 5 generations back. So for my mother, she can look back to Barnabus Coffin born in 1751. She has 30 DNA matches with this ancestor so I'm confident it's correct. Not to mention, this segment of the tree was contained primarily to an island called Nantucket and they all intermarried so other last names in the tree have a large number of matches.
We do have videos about ThruLines. The first one is this one ruclips.net/video/f_70jgSlFcQ/видео.html
My problem with DNA: Ancestry first identified 30% of my ethnicity was A. About a year later, they had an update that completely changed it to B. Another year later, they said it was C. These are three distinct ethnicities. When I inquired about it, they changed it again by eliminating all the small percentages and said I was 100% D. The only thing they got right was the continent.
You have learned the thing that makes ethnicity estimates so frustrating.
1. They are always changing. (See this video about why ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html)
2. Small percentages aren't worth considering.
3. It's better to ignore the ethnicity results and instead build your family tree using DNA matching. ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdmsw25mbI-wJin_9_9QQUzI
The ethnicity estimates will keep changing. But your family tree will hold true for the most part as you building it steadily with DNA matching.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Thanks very much for your reply. I understand small percentages aren't necessarily correct, nor are they important. What they changed was the major part of my ethnicity from Sephardic to Spanish to Italian. I am Sicilian, and about a quarter Italian, based on where my relatives are from. I'm going to try another company. Thanks again.
I had the same problem! It was frustrating though because the updates made it inaccurate and I could tell it was just “ignoring” my dad’s side😓 I found Gedmatch to be the most accurate
@@meganjane3 Yes--very frustrating. Thanks for the tip about Gedmatch.
I've done two separate DNA tests, one Autosomal, the other was a Y DNA test. Both tests came back with very good results. The first was done mostly to get an idea of where my ancestors came from. No major surprises there (primarily English, German, and Scottish). The second (Y DNA) was done because tracing my dad's family line was quite troublesome, and had been for many years. Tracing back to the Revolutionary times was no problem, but beyond that is where things got about as clear as mud. The Y DNA test helped clear all that up and gave me several matches to distant relatives who shared my last name and who had a traceable family tree with some evidence to back it up. Only problem with that test is that only a male can do it, and can only trace his father's line.
You have expressed the potential successes and limitations of both tests. Thanks for watching.
My DNA heritage is constantly changing. The strange part is that they list French colonizers but don’t list France as an actual heritage. That makes NO sense to me!!
Yes..make you think🤨
I had traced my genealogy back to the mid 13th century England at which point I started seeing a lot of French names, surnames that have the prefix "de". That was about he same time that I had my DNA ancestry done. Much to my surprise, the results did not indicate any French DNA at all but a lot more Scandinavian than I expected. My charts did not show a single Viking connection at all. Puzzled by this I doubled down my research seeking to find the answer to this mystery. I eventually determined that my ancestors with French sounding surnames were in fact Normans that had invaded England in 1066. I was actually able to trace them back to specific communities in Normandy and traced them back many generations, so their clearly was a French connection. But no French DNA? How could this be? Well I studied the history of the Normans and learned that the region of France that is now Normandy was conquered by the Vikings. In a settlement with the King of France, they were allowed to stay in Normandy as long as they abandoned their efforts to take Paris. The Vikings settled in the region and adapted the French language and customs and even converted to Christianity. Then several centuries later they invaded under William the Conqueror and took control of England. England seemed to have thwarted the Vikings efforts to take control of England only to have fallen to them as Normans! Thus the DNA results confirmed that I have French ancestry but those French were actually Scandinavian invaders. Eventually I traced the lines back to the Danes and the Norwegian Vikings including one named Rollo who was the leader of Viking invasion of Frankia. Deep digging finally revealed the roots of those Viking invaders were in Norway and Finland. And that is why my genealogy says many of my ancestors came from France but my DNA says they came from Norway. My test results indicate 56% English, 34% Norwegian. France is a multiple heritage culture, as is England. And that makes me ask, what does it really mean to be English or French?
Dayna Lee - Interesting. Thanks for the comment. I too show Norway. I suspect that there was also a connection between the Normans and the Basque. Both were seafarers and I think they merged during one of those invasions into western France and Spain. During my research it suggested that the Vikings conquered the Basque and then bread then took their women as their own. Don’t quote me on this as most of this is secondhand knowledge and some YDNA and mDNA.
That’s an unusual result, but I wonder if it’s partly to do with French bioethics law not allowing commercial DNA testing. That likely means that the DNA reference pool for identifying French ethnicity estimates isn’t as strong/stable as other reference pools from other areas are.
Change is a good thing in a new academic pursuit. However, it's the marketing of permanence that is problematic.
I’m English and I have tested with Living DNA and Ancestry DNA. Living DNA estimated that I was 56% German (or German regions ) whilst my son who also tested with them was given no German ancestry. I know my family tree is largely accurate because of my Ancestry matches and my family is all English for generations. Living DNA tested my DNA again with a new sample at a different lab and got almost identical results. Living DNA say some English and some German people appear as very similar according to their data and they are aware of the problem. They hope to resolve the issue in the future. Ancestry gave me 50% English with 21% Scottish and 11% Welsh ancestry and some Norwegian, German, Swedish and Eastern European DNA.
@Carpe Diem lost your english - lucky you
You picked up German and Living DNA lost my wife's Germanic heritage? So weird.
It due to the Germanic invasions of England. The Anglo Saxons and Danelaw
I did 2 with 2 companies. They all essentially overlapped and matched what I had been told. One said I had Canadian blood. My great-grandfather was from Canada. Also, it declares I have German blood. My great-grandmother was born in Germany. The rest is pretty much British/Irish, which matches all the family tree research. The only odd bit is it says I had relatives on the border of France/Spain, some in Eastern Europe (Russia?) and 4% in Africa. The Africa I don't know, could be primordial Eve. But, the European makes sense.
Hello, I have a question what do you know about 24Genetics? It's the only DNA company I can take in my country and I don't find information on the internet about how correct is it.
My DNA test come back saying I’m not human 😳
I've taken 2 different tests, two different companies. Percentage is only a little off from each in results. However, I do believe mine is incorrect to a degree in both. I'm hoping as the database increases and becomes more updated, that the factor in question, may resolve and change.
I find that the “stories”
We are told growing up have heavy emotional consequences when accepting DNA. That being said the company may have a region verse a “town” of specific ethic group. Try Ged match they go deeper into DNA and world wide Ethnic groups
How does a community of DNA tests change your DNA?
I just got one back the other day. Seems a lot less varied than I thought it would be... I know I wouldn't necessarily inherit all of the DNA from my mother and father, but whilst they seem to have DNA from a good 7/8 different countries, I pretty much only have the British Isles (all 4 countries including Ireland) and 2% from Norway? This seems a little odd as both parents have some DNA from Sweden, and France, with mum and dad having a few different countries at around less than 2%.
Is it possible they screwed up here, or just that I inherited a very concise amount of DNA spread solely around the British Isles?
Anyone else have it where instead of getting more accurate over time, it actually gets less accurate? Also, the discrepancies I have with ethnicity are usually 30-50% off between tests from same sample. I wonder if it’s because my origins span Europe, SW Asia, Middle East, & America’s that it just can’t process it? 😫
I got my second dna test back from a different company. The percentages are off by a lot. Not even within a 5% error. It’s gapping at least 10-15%
That's not surprising. 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
And, it's also possible that your DNA is underrepresented in any database. That was covered in this video ruclips.net/video/Gi-jtNlUr3U/видео.html
Please watch the videos on my DNA & Ethnicty playlist. It will answer your question more completely. ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdlvwsLScE4NPKwGA-XUNhhM
I've found known relatives down to 15cm. I think that these distant matches are related but are usually genealogically unconfirmable. I know this because I've traced my European ancestry back to the 1600s and distant cousins show up having 15-26cm. I also found a lot of incest and double kinship(European lineage) which resulted in very distant relatives sharing more cm than normal from a certain segment of DNA.
Thanks for your comments. Small segment DNA is something I covered in this video. ruclips.net/video/OF5-PPMQvCg/видео.html
My great grandma is from Italy. She immigrated from Italy to Holland where she married a Dutch man. I have no Italian DNA. Neither does my dad. How is this possible?
Sara Emeka: They probably came from somewhere else in the first place. Cynthia McLaglen
@@cynthiamclaglen5687 people keep saying that, but they were from a long line of Italians, they had Italian last names. I find it super unlikely that they weren't Italian at all.
Like almost entire genetic makeup is dutch despite my mom coming from a completely different continent, and me being able to physically trace where my grandparents came from. I'm just super confused by it, I'm considering retesting, because it makes no sense to me.
@@saraemeka4582 you’re better off going on what your family have told you, these sites are a complete scam for worthless information. Most of my family are Spanish but it came out as Irish, load of absolute shit.
Can being related to people through two (or more) lines of descent put the amount of DNA shared into the amounts normally shared by closer relations? I match an Ancestry DNA user who is my fifth cousin through one line and my sixth cousin through another line. He shares 37 cM across 3 segments with me, 90 cM across 5 segments with my sister, 42 cM across 3 segments with my brother and 40 cM across 3 segments with my father. Another user with whom I match shares 29 cM across 2 segments with me, the same with my sister, 27 cM across 2 segments, and 26 cM across 2 segments with my Dad. She is my fifth cousin through one line but she also descends from someone with the same surname as me from the same area of Scotland as my greatx4 grandfather - both lines moved from Perthshire to the same Scottish town at about the same time. A likely cousin of that user - another descendant of someone with the same surname as me - shares 6 cM with my Dad, me, my sister, and my brother although that is now deemed too low to be a match by Ancestry.
Yes, I think Andy has a video on that someplace. If you have connections through 2 (or more) lines the cM's will be overstated.
yes of course? i am related to someone 3-4th cousin.. but her daughter i am more related to(daughter higher Cms) because i am distantly related to the daughter father also.
Thanks Robert! Here's the video: What does DNA do when you're related in multiple ways? ruclips.net/video/Wlq_a-gdf9k/видео.html
question about gedmatch; I belong to a Danish group and wish to find more matches than presented. I know most of my problem is that I have upload three different company results. I would like to be able to eliminate two of companies to do a search, then run report on each company alone, since results show all of my matches on each chromosome and takes up the room on the readout and stops, I assume, the ability to show more, am I right or wrong on this.
If you are using the one to many tool, then you can run a match list on each kit separately. If you want to find segments (but not matching segments to your own kits), then make your kits Research kits and run the segment search for each kit individually.
So because of this information we can be a lot more confident that they got it right when they tested the lizard dna.
Since they would flag Dog DNA as incompatible with genetic genealogy, I would suspect we shouldn't think that commercial genetic genealogy companies would fully test Lizard DNA. ruclips.net/video/SUTCxWk9HhY/видео.html
my 23andMe test stated that i was at least 45% ish French and German. Believable considering most of my family on both sides are french. However, it did state that my strongest match was in far east Switzerland and "not enough evidence to show matches in france" which is bologna. i have census, marriage and birth/death certificates going back to the 1600s, in some branches, proving otherwise lol. So definitely agree that it's stronger at the continental level than anything really more specific than that.
I Blame Reference Populations if Your Ethnicity Results Are Wrong ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
I had two different tests performed, each varying by percentages of certain countries. The breakdown is 71% West African and 29% European and 68% West African and 31% European/South Asian ancestry. Which is a little odd because the Nigerian content is more on one than the other. One is 47% and the other is 23%, why would it vary so vastly? Then, my matches don't seem to know my biological father, how could this occur?
great video :)
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it. Please share it with others to further show your support.
I was contacted on ancestrydna from someone. He says that i show up as a 3rd to 4th cousin but when i search for him in my match list or my mums match list, he doesnt show up in either. Is that possible? He does have a tree which has a surname from my moms side that goes back to same area in northern ireland. Also his grandfathers brother married a cousin on my dads maternal side, but not his direct line!
@@stardust86x thankyou. Yes i only manage mine and my mums. Those are the only 2 tests i manage
That's odd that he contacted you and he doesn't show up on your match list. Does he have a public or private but searchable tree?
The issue that I have is when the Mitochondrial DNA doesn't match (isn't even in the same tree) between two different companies. At least the Y-DNA was close between the two companies.
I had 3% swedish in my ancestryDNA results, however my mum has 0% and my dads parents also have 0%. Ancestry told me my dad should have it in his results as he could be more closely linked to his grandparents. What does this mean?
Go on GEDMatch and use their calculators.
My grandmother was born and bred in Donegal ancestry says I have no Irish. I can go back hundreds of years in Ireland
@@rabbitskinner Just because your family lived somewhere that doesnt mean their DNA is from there. I know a person whose family were Mennonites from Germany but he has mostly English DNA. My family lived in Portugal for Generations but I am finding out they were Spanish, Italian and North African living in Portugal. Most Irish today are Anglo Saxons from Middle Europe who migrated there. The original Irish were Gauls (Celts) from France and Iberia and a woman from Sardinia.
Mine seemed pretty accurate.I’ve gone through a few tests and submitted it to third party groups and it’s exactly what I’ve been told my whole life. I’m mostly Scandinavian (Icelandic), Scottish and German with a lil English
Perhaps you're one of the fortunate few who have the same genetic makeup of the people in the reference databases for all the companies that are from the places you named.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics yeah you're probably right. One site even showed me where my families moved to and from which was accurate from where both sides of my family are now. I especially liked gesmatches admixture tools, they were a lot of fun
What's also cool is that you likely have plenty of Irish Celt in you, since the Norwegians stole the Irish women and fled to Iceland with them lol
Do you have a table of cM match range and probability of false matches ?
Because I've got one at 44 cM (longest 34) and private tree who claims he's not related because its false.
At 44cM it will be genuine.
Can I get a consultation over my DNA results with you? I have 4 tests & 4 different results, some are very signifigant... TY
Email us.
I was thrown a curve ball. My mother was Irish and my father was Welsh. I had the DNA results back and the said 48%English the rest being German. No Irish or Welsh DNA and as far as I know I have no German ancestors they were all Irish or Welsh for many generations back.
CRI Genetics did this test I've now put in an Ancestry test and waiting results.
Results are just estimates and are dependent on the reference database and algorithm of each company
Elohim works in mysterious ways.
The more I learn about dna, the more I believe in Him!
Perhaps
Yah I am that I am amen
They'll interpret it wrong if you come from a place like Lebanon (for example). Various ancestries there. All going back to Canaanites (who were ultimately Caucasian), Europe, and to a small degree, Arabian Peninsula. I took 4 different tests that had wildly different results. Although they all gave me Near East and Caucasian, three out of four gave me a very high percentage of European, which is impossible given my genealogy. I had up to 20% British and 10% German in one. I'm not sure how to explain this away, but I think their algorithm/method misread the admixture (which as I said we have European admixture), and "thought" my recent ancestry is European. Not that I mind it, but this is an example of how the estimate can be inaccurate.
Different DNA companies are examine their very own databases, and not the other guys from different people. You could be related to both on each side of the testing.
I'm a little confused by what you're saying but what I do understand is partly true. Each DNA company compares your DNA to its own reference population. I talk about that in this video ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
I got like 27800 matches on MyHeritage, while my colleague who got me interested in dna-tests got 8000. It made him jelaous, hehe.
I jumped to the last page of distant relatives, page 2700 something. And the guys there were only sharing 0,1% dna with me, 8 cM.
Do you mean that there is a great chance that theese are not relatives or is it so long back that it's just impossible to tell how?
So I get this false match thing correct.
I mean if we are talking MyHeritage then there should be something saying confidence level, I mean this website has been known for falling off with accurate results when you get around the 6th cousin range, so I suggest Ancestry for DNA matches.
Watch this video and then ask a follow-up question there. ruclips.net/video/OF5-PPMQvCg/видео.html
Interesting that my test did not pick up a distinct Dutch origin, in spite of all lines coming from within a small region in the north of the Netherlands. Broadly Germanic, English and Scandinavian percentages. Possibly still a small sample size?
It's either a small reference population, no reference population, or you didn't inherit that DNA.
Isn’t because that’s what Dutch people are in the 1st place? A mix of Germanic, Scandinavian and English?
Three different test, and they point to the same countries or areas in the world, maybe just different percentages. And the most fascinating thing is they describe my features accurately, my hair color, my ear lobes, my blood type, … etc. I did found some family members, and it refers me to the most recent family members community in the country.
That's great you've found such similar overlap with your results. It's not the case for many.
I got both of my maternal grandparents DNA results a couple of weeks ago, as well as my dad's, but smth doesnt add up & idk who to contact for clarification... I tested them all in My Heritage, and since I don't have a subscription, I cannot get in contact with the company.
It got confirmed that they were all my biological relatives, so I was hoping to find out where my Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry came from, but instead , their ethnicity estimate results left me more confused - none of them have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry... but somehow I do??
How is that possible? I took all of their samples, and apart from my grandpa's being contaminated by food (he is extremely old and it made things a bit hard when taking his sample😅), the other DNA samples were in perfect condition. Could my grandpa's sample being contaminated with food have interfered with his results...? If anyone knows please LMK📩
Thank you❤️
I am part Norwegian, and I can’t go back far enough in my tree to discover who it may have been. I’m sad about it.
It might be kinda far back. I'm pretty sure a lot of people from Norway migrated to Great Britian so it could be one of your ancestors from like Englands grandparents.
@@brileekaSo far I discovered that four of my major family lines in colonial America had seperate links to the Norman Vikings. Different ancestral lines had no connections to Norman lines but had direct engagement with Viking invaders in York, Northern England and Scotland. They married many Viking women (who had the name xxxdottir).
The Viking penetration and mingling with the English natives was quite extensive prior to the Norman invasion. The Normans introduced a significant amount of Norwegian/Dane DNA.
But being that those connections go back nearly a thousand years or more, a single connection would not contribute a significant percentage of Norwegian DNA. But because the Vikings and Normans integrated so widely with the English populace the aggregated Norwegian DNA is very widespread.
In other countries away from the UK, the Viking connection may be directly sourced to Vikings, but they can also be sourced through the English who spread Viking DNA much further than the Vikings themselves.
A man I know identifies as native American and certainly looks it, was shocked to find 12% Norwegian. He could not find any Scandinavian ancestors in his family tree, but there were more than a few English links along several family lines that would have contributed that Norwegian.
I have only traced by paternal grandmothers tree back far enough to confirm Viking links but my other grandparents only go back a few generations. They were all known to be English so it is assumed they also carry significant Scandinavian DNA. That would account for such a high degree of Scandinavian DNA.
Via the English, Viking DNA could appear anywhere.I suppose this is also true for the French.
Thanks Brileeka for this insight.
That's one of the problems with ethnicity results. Like Brileeka said, they could be masked by your ancestors in other areas. Or, it can take a lot of records (that may not exist) to get to that heritage.
I recently got a dna test and every category showed that the tester who posted had little certainty. What does this mean?
If you're discussing ethnicity results, it's likely because the regions of the world that you're ethnicity originates have very few people in the reference population. Watch this video to learn more. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I got a test with myheritage, which I realize doesn't have the database of others. However on the results the wording is "probability confidence level low" on a whole as well as individual ethnicities.
being new to the dna scene ive watched loads of videos so im best prepared when diving into my family history, but it seems an impossible task, all but 2 of my 14,000 matches on myheritage i have no idea of, my grandad on my mums side is adopted and ive just found out that my great grandad on my dads side isnt the father of my grandma, i also always thought i was mainly british but got 72% scandinavian on my ethnicity estimate, does anybody have any ideas into what i can possibly do in terms of figuring some things out? thanks
First, set aside the ethnicity results and focus on building your family tree.
Since you mentioned adoption in your lines. I recomend the following video series
1. Genealogy for Adoptees ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg
2. Genetic Genealogy 201: The Basics of Building a Genetic Family Tree ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdmsw25mbI-wJin_9_9QQUzI
The ethnicity results were a tool to get you interested in genetic genealogy research. Lay it aside and work on piecing together your DNA matches and you will find more answers than you imagined. Be aware, it may take some time.
Being biracial, half Asian and half European, they got the continents 100% right, as for the ethnicities it's not really 100% accurate, but it's kinda right. As for Ancestry DNA I was expecting according to my family tree:
44%-50% Korea
18%-21% Germanic Europe
16%-20% Scotland
8%-10% England and NW Europe
1%-5% Northern Japan
1%-2% Ireland
1%-2% Wales
1%-2% France
What I got was:
48% Korea
29% Scotland
7% Germanic Europe
6% Sweden
5% Wales
3% Ireland
2% Northern Japan
I've done My heritage DNA
50.8% Europe
- 38.4% North and West Europe
--32.4% North and West Europe
--4.3% Scandinavian
--1.7% Finnish
- 12.4% Eastern Europe
--12.4% Eastern Europe
49.2 Asia
-45.6% East Asia
--18.8% Japanese and Korean
--14.5% Mongolian
--12.3% Chinese and Vietnamese
2.0% Central Asia
-2.0% Central Asia
-1.6% South Asia
--1.6% Nepali
Yeah, it's very interesting.
@@mjurney You need to take a DNA test from GeneLife. It's an Asian DNA testing company based in Japan, and is specifically for people of Asian descent. I say that b/c unlike American based DNA companies like 23andMe, MyHeritage DNA, and Ancestry.com DNA, GeneLife differentiates between Northern Han Chinese and Southern Han Chinese, they also differentiate the Japanese and the Koreans (after all, the Japanese are descended from the Yayoi and Jomon people, while Korean people are an Altaic ethnic group, with no genetic link with the Japanese people at all). Here's the link to their website, plus check this DNA youtube video featuring people who took a GeneLife DNA test:
www.genelife.asia/top
ruclips.net/video/FJ5Sh0heJ9E/видео.html
@@gregorypetty6887 That's pretty neat. I know that my mother was Korean. I might try the test in the future.
Thanks for confirming that on a continental level the tests are accurate. I would suggest you build your family tree and look for DNA matches. How accurate are those?
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics As for DNA matches, it's really accurate! I do have a family tree on Family Search and I'm building a tree on Ancestry.
I tested my DNA kit against itself and had places where it said I was a poor match. How can I trust anything they say? If it's .25 percent wrong with me, think how that would compound over the generations. So, I've lost faith
Did you see this video? ruclips.net/video/bj2KCzW44qU/видео.html
Does it cost a lot to hire someone to do genealogy research for you? Who would you recommend?
A lot is a relative term. You could be looking to pay anywhere from $40 to $100 dollars per hour. You would also need to negotiate how much of the researcher's time is spent doing research and/or writing a research report. We would recommend the folks at Legacy Tree genealogists www.legacytree.com/fhfanatics
I'm not sure that I trust these tests. I'm a 5th generation American but I'm almost 100% northern German and Scandinavian with a small possibility of some Irish and Scottish ancestory? Doesn't make sense.
Are you looking for American DNA? Forget political maps.
There is no "American" reference population because of how many populations migrated to this area. If you have that much German and Scandinavian, then you have multiple lines that are from those regions passing down German/Scandinavian genes to you. My wife is 30% German not because she has an ancestor recently from Germany. Instead, she has numerous lines on her father's side that were originally from Germany.
I had my tests done on myheritage and on ancestry. There was no match what so ever... On myheritage I was 5% central asian, on ancestry I was suddenly jewish. On my heritage I had 50% east european, on ancestry not even 3 %...
Mine were all over the place with different companies. I think the more mixed you are, the harder it is for these cheaper tests to be accurate. My father can trace his family back to at least 1428. There's something not right with these tests...at least for me as a very mixed person. One of my tests showed i was 34% Italian and 2% Spanish...the other test said i was 39% Spanish and 2% Italian. They can't be both correct...that is just one of many different results that I saw with my tests.
@@silviac4408 Problem is, I am not really mixed, as far as I know I am as European as you can get. This is why I am so confused. There should at least be some kind of overlapping of the results...
@@Maigodseki that is interesting. Are you very German? I noticed that Ancestry couldn't find one percent of my German, and that is the most I have in percentage as far as my father's genealogy shows in records. Living Dna and Cri found it, no problem! That also confused the heck out of me. Myheritage nor Ancestry didn't show any German, either. If you look at my fathers side, they all look stereotypically blonde Germans and all last names German for several hundred years in genealogy. Not only that...they didn't even find anything but Mediterranean it seemed with Ancestry and Myheritage report for me. It is almost like they just took my mother's dna and maybe 5% of my father's and left out the rest. So, I have zero confidence in these tests. Nebula (dna company says these cheaper companies only decode .02% of total genome or something like that). I am considering going with them in future, but the price is much higher. If they're accurate, I am definitely going to go there next. This link pretty much tells me not to rely on any of these results with Ancestry or any company like them. Triplets and their dna results:
ruclips.net/video/qyfWZZ7uPuE/видео.html
I used the same two and they were both completely different too. Hmmm
@@silviac4408 i can trace back my ancestry on both sides for at least 6 generations. No mixing
If you have a lot of inbreeding in an area then the common ancestor will be further back in time than expected based on centimorgan.
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Update to my previous comment...a certain company is repeatedly updating my results. The updates are way off from the original and almost looks like a completely separate persons DNA. And NOT matching my family tree. They originally matched it. And supposedly I now have thousands of unmatched "cousins" showing up. Why are they even showing up. What the heck is going on.
There are several reasons that your ethnicity results change:
1. The companies might be increasing the size of their reference database. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
2. They might be combing family trees with the ethnicity predictions to alter those results
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3. They companies might be trying out new algorithms or tools (like Ancestry's split the parent's ethnicity results).
As for DNA matches, they show up as new people take DNA tests. We can then process those new matches and create various clusters ruclips.net/video/G-rEHi5HDWw/видео.html
I’m half Yemeni half eritrean and my results said I’m Iraqi and only 3% eritrean despite the fact my cousins are mixed with Eritrean and my dad is mixed with Yemeni and eritrean aswell 💀
I think the reason is the small sample size from the reference populations that include your genetic heritage. That's something I explain in this video: ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Interesting how my sister had Iceland circled as a country with her genes. The TRUTH is, Iceland was founded by viking men and their irish wives. HOWEVER my mother is heavily Irish and 8% Swedish presumably from the viking settling in Ireland. Blue eyes in A LOT of her family. We had to laugh that she has 0% English. Didn't expect that.
I already knew my ethnicity. I did it mostly for the health. My test was accurate. I did my genealogy & some of the smaller amounts of DNA made more sense after doing my ancestry & it matched up. I hate cilantro, it tastes like soap , it determined that as all it makes DNA
On myheritage igot smallamounts of mesoamerican and Iberian,but the other five tests zeropercent came up,im white irish,is myheritage right
My results change 3 times from 23andMe. MyHeritage it's the same but the results are different.
I dont trust myhertiage. becuase it shows none of my European heritage at all. i am at least 10%
@@beingsneaky My Heritage is not accurate when it comes to percentages
Yes. your ethnicity will constantly change. Check out this video for why ruclips.net/video/i70SZRW9t90/видео.html
Focus on building your family tree and discovering how your DNA matches are related.
I got my DNA done it says I have 2 high percentages in England but I'm 76% North West Europe what? The company does have a section for England on their database. I scrolled down and it says I was 0% English that makes no sense since 2 of the high ranges were in England/Scotland
Northwest Europe DNA is very similar to English DNA, because England was invaded and settled by many NW European groups.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics That is true mine says I had 3 German ancestors 6 Irish ones Scottish I have English to I think for some reason it said 0%
So, if I understand, if the DNA estimates are 23% Scottish, 17% English, 4% Wales and 2" Irish, then 46% UK is probably more accurate? I have no one in my tree back into the 1600s from Scotland, but lots of folks from Ireland and England.
My two children show up as my niece, granddaughter or half sister. How is this correct?
Off of the top of my head, I think one explanation could be you are a chimera. Sadly this would be due to an early fusion of fraternal twins. Anyway, I would check it out as it can suggest an Uncle/Niece/Nephew relationship result of a DNA test . It has happened with paternity tests and with tissue matching for organ transplants, causing great confusion. Especially when a mother is told her children are not hers, but they are still closely related. This has even led to accusations of abducting the child of a close relative.
Another way of explaining chimeras. Fraternal (non-identical) twins can fuse together within a few days after fertilisation and well before the development of the immune system. The resulting embryo can have tissues/organs from one or the other twin, due to the way stem cells develop in the embryo. So it is possible that the gonads can be from one twin and the cheeks cells or blood from the other. Commercial DNA companies test cheek cells (spitting or swabbing cheeks). The gonads however lead to the production of eggs/sperm and hence the next generation. So any children of such a chimera (cheek cells from 1 twin/gonads from the other twin) can not be interpreted as a Parent/Child relationship. Of course, identical twins can fuse, but there is no way of finding out!
Wow Sue... great points about the Chimera.
I have family that shows up in the wrong category too...
@@sheenaperez1882 Hi, if possible check for chimeras. Certainly do that before doubting the integrity of relatives.
Haplogroup was wrong from 23&ME they said mtDNA U3a1 Turns out mainly H-H3 Y Paternal R222 Ireland
How did you know they were wrong
I have two tests, 23andMe and Ancestry. Comparing to Ancient DNA on GEDMatch, They're similar, not identical but one shows zero match for Clovis Man, the other many commonalities. ????
Yep. That's because different companies include the Ancient DNA than others. And each company doesn't test the exact same segments.
I took two different companies dna test and they were completely different.
You're comment prompted me to make this video. Did you see it? Why My Results Are Different At Each DNA Company? ruclips.net/video/mlAq-R1XCes/видео.html
They can absolutely be incorrect.... they also constantly change the results.... It's a waste of money
My test was extremely accurate from ancestry to 23 and me mum Ashkenazic Jewish and I’m 50% that dad a Moroccan Sephardic Jew I’m part North African part Middle East on his side plus Iberian and Italian bits
Awesome.
I know enough about DNA to know it is accurate. However, I'm looking at it from the family tree side. Ancestry tells me I have a 1st-2nd cousin and we share 367 cMs. That's close. Yet none of his family names match to my tree. We're only talking a few generations. So I'm beginning to question who my father is.
I would look back further, like, one of your Grandparents is not who you thought it was....... Believe me!!!!! Search out all the "new" second cousins matches and see how they connect together. You may find they are all from the same family.....you then need to figure out how you connect.........my experience is that DNA can totally wreck 30+ years of research!! LOL
Lee Ralph you are so correct, just discovered that situation with my maternal grandfather
What about if you are like me and you are a human chimera? DNA can’t be accurate but if you want to be entertained than I guess
I'm glad you're ignoring the ethnicity and focusing on matches. DNA helps you with close relatives, even if they don't match what we think we know. ruclips.net/video/SdlBDVBu_fE/видео.html
Ok so its been brought up by family members in a hush hush way that I was never intended to hear, that my dad is not biologically my father. I look zero like anyone on his side of the family. Plus his blood type is AB+ My mom's is O- and both my sisters are A- I'm A+ yes I know it's possible but unlikely. So my question is , if I got one of these tests and covertly got him one for Xmas , could I later compare the two and prove he was or wasn't my father? Or would I also need my moms data to cross reference any variables and rule the out as not being a family trait or something like that?
I need to know. He won't do a paternity test. I had a hard childhood and to know that the problem was my not being his kid vs me just being not worthy of love or compassion, well, it could be life changing. But I don't want to throw away a hundred bucks if it wouldn't do any good anyway. Can anyone advise me on this?
If you any of his relatives will take a test, then you can determine your relationship to him without him testing. Test your siblings, 1st cousins, aunts/uncles, or grandparents on that side of the family and you'll know if they are your blood relatives. You won't necessarily need your mother or her relatives, but it wouldn't hurt either.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics thank you!
My biggest gripe with this technology is that because it relies on clustering its not a very good analysis tool for mixed people of two or more not so distinctly different populations. Families from the Arab World, for instance, span the entirety of the Arab World, and they are not just limited to confined of a specific country the way that European or Asian families are, but that's only half my battle, the other half is that my family is a mixture of Romani and Eastern European. When all of those admixtures are combined together the end result looks like someone who's Central European, yet a substantial portion of my most closely related relatives are from the Middle East and North Africa.
If you're not mixed, I think the results are probably pretty reliable, but if you are mixed, good luck parsing the results. May you not be Arab and White, because boy oh boy, that was a lot of research to get to the bottom of why my results were getting white washed.
You speak some true with ethnicity results. That's why I strive to help people move away from ethnicity results and focus on building their genetic family tree based on DNA matches and genealogical records.
Why does 23AndMe have higher DNA cm/percentages that AncestryDNA and MyHeritage for the same relatives?
Each platform analysis our DNA differently. Additionally, they have different reference populations.
I just saw test from four different places, about the same guy, and they were about 20% different.
Why would my wifes dna results match her mothers dna results? Example: 27% Germany and her mothers 27% Germany and all the other places both are from is the same. Why would that be? Thanks, Floyd.
I submitted DNA to ancestry years ago. They have changed my ethnicity 3 times.
Cause their science improves overtime
@@mikkiminach9539 Well yeah but the results shouldn't vary THAT drastically, mine have stayed relatively the same with regions but the percentages go up and down like a roller coaster it's so hard to know what to believe when after a few months another update could come along and completely change it up again.
@@OpinionatedChicken59 you are right...I agree
As the science gets better the results get more accurate.
@@cherryorchard5600 yea but sometimes I think is just too much of a shift...I for instance notice that with My Heritage, the areas don't necessarily change drastically rather the percentage...which can make more sense...but they seem pretty consistent with the areas...
"My DNA report changed 3 times. Bunch of crap."
ToeNailBreaker is correct
I took ancestry DNA and all they did was say I was related to everyone else with my last name. I was ripped off. My father was born in Ireland and adopted by an American family. Of course he took on the surname of his adopted parents. Ancestry linked him as being related to his adopted parents and not his biological family. We are still clueless of my dad's ancestry.
If you want to use the DNA from Ancestry to research your father's biological line, check out this video series. You might discover you weren't ripped off but that the answers require a little more work. ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics we know that his biological mother is Irish. This didn't even pop up in the DNA. I had a friend dig deeper and he sent me information from ancestry that was purposely removed showing my dad's true lineage. Of course my friend had to go through loop holes to find this information. The question is why was his true lineage covered up. His ancestry goes back as far as the Kennedy family.
Extrapolating 99.5% errors in the DNA sampled to the full DNA sequence is problematic. The unsampled DNA has approximately the same error rate, i.e. 99.5% in the example. We all carry point mutations of the whole DNA sequence of 3 billion base pairs. Those mutations are dealt with in replication of the whole DNA. Ethnicity estimates are based of mutations in the non-critical regions of the whole sequence that got passed on for generations. There is apparently lots of DNA that does nothing in the genome, or that helps to correct error in the whole sequence.
MH says I am 12% Italian. I think they are guesstimating my Swiss ancestors as Italian. Ancestry doesn't show any, and no Italians in my family tree so far.
It could be that that your Swiss ancestors might have had parents who were born in Italy. I've heard of people who are Swiss-Italian and Swiss-German.
@@AdultThirdCultureKid1971 yes the Swiss-Italian area is right next to Italy, and of course many people in this area have Italian ancestors...actually their surnames are often "Italians" such as locatelli, sassella...
My Swiss-Italian partner told me for instance that his dad came from Southern Italy, 5 decades ago...he migrate to Ticino ( Swiss-Italian area )
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
Thanks for the video! So then if it's accurate to the continental level, then its likely I do have, let's say east Asian, southeast Asian, and Latin American if they showed up as having a grand total of 8% all together? Even if the exact areas can be wrong
It's possible but those regions do not have many representatives in the reference populations that your DNA is compared to. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
If you are asked to do another test, does the company who you tested with send out another test to you or do you have to buy a new one? I am guessing that you have to buy a new one.
No, if they have problems with the analysis and cant get a good reading, they will send you another test. It happened to me once. I have heard it happening to someone up to 4 times and they only had to pay for the original.
Hi I just received my results from My Heritage, they said I was 80.1% indigenous from Mexico, Ancestry said 54%. My Heritage was 12% Scandinavian instead of 2% Norway from Ancestry. They said I had no Jewish, but Ancestry said 1% Eastern Jewish. Then My Heritage said in the end I had 2.9% Balkan, with a medium confidence level of Germany. My mom's mother had German. Ancestry said I was 11%France, 10% Spain, 8% England, Basque & Portugal 4&5%, with 3% Africa as well. Ancestry said my mom had France, Spain, Basque, Portugal, England, Africa,and Norway like me. I wonder who is correct? Family Tree said back in 2021 I was 41% indigenous, with 14% Iberion, Slavic and Magyar 10 and 6%, and Ethiopia 2%, and Armenian 1%. I wonder 🤔 now. My dad and his nephews were tested by Ancestry. My dad was 2% Norway, 1% Scotland and had some Spain, Basque & Portugal, and Africa with Jewish 2%. My dad's two nephews from his brother were tested by Ancestry. One had Norway 8%, and the other had Finnish 1%, Ireland 1%, Scotland 1%, Sardinia 1% with Spain, Basque, Portugal, and Africa. The other nephew had some Spain, Portugal, Africa but had more England, and Germany like his mom, with 1% Italy. I wonder which company was correct? My Heritage, Ancestry or Family Tree?
Well, what ethnicities have your always known of? I think every family has some knowledge of their heritage.
I used my AncestryDNA raw file and loaded it to LivingDNA. They gave me almost entirely E German followed by some Balkan and French. My paternal side is Eastern European from East Slovakia and my mother's is British (mostly Welsh and English). The only reason I paid for LivingDNA was to get the British breakdown.
Since then I have loaded my father's results hoping to receive a better ethnic breakdown with the last update but I have not received an update in well over a year.
I'm sorry to hear your experience. I did a review of the company a few years back Living DNA Pros & Cons - Genetic Test Review ruclips.net/video/En52MNjfDfk/видео.html
However, my wife is interested to see her breakdown now. When she tested, she had no German breakdown at all.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I will have to watch that. Thank you.
There are over 6000 names on my family tree so dna is not likely to produce any surprises. 23and me are accurate to towns and areas we know are correct . Ancestry have been awful. They said I was 63% Irish. My mother was Irish but there’s not one Irish person in my fathers side. When I complained they said it was an estimate, which ranged from 3% to 64%! Their latest estimate says 48% Irish and 17% Scottish. I think this is a basic mistake they’ve made because I DO have dna relatives in Scotland but they’re my Irish relatives.
You're the reason why we need people to take DNA tests. Something I covered in this video. ruclips.net/video/bXzEQkNX-mM/видео.html The ethnicity results aren't important but your tree and DNA can help others.
Ancestry took my Native American DNA away
23 and me only gave a 1%
I know my lines and have 8 lines that are Native American with some on Dawes rolls and more.
Only DNA Consultants got my Native American correct.
Any idea
US Native Americans are not in the reference populations of most genetic genealogy companies. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
From what I've gathered, most native tribes do not trust such companies and have refused to patriciate. The Native DNA you see in various tests are typically Canadian or Central and South American native peoples.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics thank I for this
Where did you find a dna consultant and how much did it cost
I took two Dna Tests and two came up Different one said im Scandinavian on my Heritage and one said Scotland on My Ancestry have no Idea why this happened
I've explained this is several videos available on this playlist about DNA + Ethnicity ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdlvwsLScE4NPKwGA-XUNhhM
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Okay Thank you 🤗
I had 23 and me do my test and it came back with lots of errors and even with relatives they said I had a half sister and half brother and when I saw who it was it was my brothers kids and there is no way that would of happened even logistically but eww it would not of happened. 😊
Your question boils down to whether the person you thought was a full sibling is actually a parent.
Full siblings should share between 1613 - 3488 centimorgans (cMs), while Half-siblings between share 1160 - 2436 cMs with you. Notice there is a bit of overlap so a full siblings could share less DNA with each other and genetically look like half-siblings when they are not.
However, a half-niece/nephew shares between 492 - 1315 cMs with you. That range also can be a half-aunt/uncle, a first cousin, or a great-aunt/uncle, or a great-grandparent. While 23andMe might have suggested a half-niece/nephew, it could depend on other inputs you have on your account.
In short, look once again at your DNA and talk to your family members. You might not be genetically related to your siblings in the way you think you are. The only way to confirm this is to have as many of your siblings test as your can. In addition to testing cousins, aunts, and uncles.
I just want to know how I have dna matches with eskimo...is it from the koreside of my ancestry of my fathers Black ancestry through our first nations ancestors. Its complicated because so far, my DNA doesn't add up 50%/50% from each parent, I seemed to have inherited my Fathers dna a bit more. So if the eskimo ancestry is coming from my Moms ancestry that just means she has some Siberian ancestry through her Maternal bloodline. If it from my Father then thats makes me about 3%first nations....not much I know, but it gives some clues about the history of my family and the certain paths they chose to take in life.
I have matches with Inuit women now and then. I have some Amerindian DNA, my Inuit matches are coming from that.
@@kateeilers574 ty for replying, its so complicated, trying figure out what goes where. Especially when certain people have the same ancestral migrations and origins.
I'm African American and I'm an mixture of a lot of different things. Amerindian (North American native), mesoamerican ( native central American), arctic Amerindian (natives from the arctic) , Indian (India), middle eastern (Iran), Filipino (Philippines), scottish, Swedish, Wales, France, German, Irish, North, South, east and west African.
Not all African American DOS (descendent of slaves) has as many as me but they do usually have at least 5 or more different ones because of the slave trade.
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@@sheenaperez1882 ty Sis for the info!!
Hello , i need somebody to explain me something about DNA results. I am not adopted (I look too much like my parents, grand parents...). I am making my family tree for the last 3 years, very seriously with proof of every event found. I went back as far as the 16 th century, 475 years, 14 generations. All from the same region in France. I did a DNA test and i am not even remotely French (40% italian, 23% Spanish...). My daughter is 52% french (That should be my part) and 20 % Italian and 20% Spanish (her father). I really dont understand what went wrong. Can the results be wrong? How my daughter is more French than me when we know her father is not.
I don't follow what you describe as false matches. Are we saying false match = absolutely a false report when there is no match? Or are we talking about unidentified matches, meaning there is a common ancestor from so long ago that we just can't ever find it?
If tests show someone shares 0.16% of DNA with me, could that be a true false match when there really is no common ancestor within the previous 10 generations? If so, would that mean that we could be seeing reported distant cousins who are not cousins but just randomly happen to share a minor amount of DNA?
Watch this video to learn more about false matches ruclips.net/video/h-tONSD491g/видео.html
May I know how accurate are the assigning of haplogroups? I had my test and shows up in the (A) tree at least 80k years back! This made more confused as I’m only related to Adam☺️ there are some people though on more detailed subclades at least showing them some more refined knowledge. Any insight please? Regards (NB. I’m pure Arab and all my parental relatives look like pure Saudi Arabs) with all due respect to Africans, but we not at all look like Africans.
truthspotter2007:Read "Deep Ancestry inside the Genographic" by Spencer Wells and you will be very proud of what you find. Arabs are closely related to Africans, and all the human males come originally from your "Adam" Haplogroup. All humans come from Africa. I am a Gael but my first ancestor came out of Africa and I am very proud of her. She seeded the world, and so did your Ancestor. Cynthia McLaglen
Haplogroup accuracy is better than ethnicity estimates but not perfect.
@@cynthiamclaglen5687 Saudis are prejudiced no matter how you will try to convince them despite the fact that they have many tanned and brown people
If you really look properly at all Africans on the Internet, you will find every colour & all types of features, as Africans are all our ancestors. We changed as we came out of Africa into places where one had to cover up because it was too sandy or too cold or hot. After a long time doing this our skin becomes paler as to keep[ healthy we have to have some sun, and the paler one is the more chance we can get more sun in a cold dark climate. We obtain vitamins from the sun, essential for health, and we are more likely to die if we have a dark skin AND a diet which does not contain vitamins. I am white but I know that my black ancestor made all the females of the world starting 75,000m years ago when she came out of Africa and went to India. Cynthia Allen McLaglen
My 2nd cousin shows up as a 3rd cousin but as a 2nd cousin which is correct for my brother so that’s not correct because he’s also my 2nd cousin. It says that I share 151cm with him and my brother shares 201cm with him 🤨 but, the ethnicity part is pretty accurate.
Your cm percentages are well within the ranges for this relationship. You and your brother will not share the exact same amount of CM with a 2nd cousin unless you and your brother are identical twins. Put your cM percentages in this website and you'll see the ranges of cMs that a 2nd cousin can share. dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics okay thanks! 😊
I got my DNA results and I'm 52.9% British no surprise I'm half British on my dad's side but the 47.1% was scandinavian and I have no idea we're that's coming from my mom is Belgium (flemish) and as far as our families history does there is no sign of family coming from any of the scandinavian countries
Check out this video as a follow-up to your quesiton. Blame Reference Populations if Your Ethnicity Results Are Wrong ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Ancestry.com
Germanic Europe 26%
Eastern Europe and Russia 26%
Ireland 25%
Scotland 7%
Norway 4%
Baltics 4%
Sweden 3%
The Balkans 3%
England and Northwestern Europe 2%
23&me
Northwestern Europe 63.4%
British and Irish 30.2%
French and German 23.5%
Broadly Northwestern European 9.7%
Eastern European 32.2%
Southern European 1.4%
Italian 1.4%
Ashkenazi Jewish 0.4%
Broadly European 2.2%
Trace Ancestry 0.4%
Broadly central Asian, Northern Indian and Pakistani 0.2%
Japanese 0.1%
Levantine 0.1%
Wtf is trace ancestry? It’s all over the place???
Its like really old ancestors ! I am Balkanic and Eastern European to , but some somehow I am also North African 5% , Irish %4 and like 2%Nigeran ...Like DNA is weird !
Trace ancestry includes portions of your DNA that these tests can't truly confirm. Ignore them
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics I took a test 2 in 2017. And I was 98% European and 2% northern African. A few years later it said I'm just 1% North African. And today my results were up dated and I'm 2% again. I haven't found any evidence on my communities in America. I have a couple Spanish and Portuguese that were born on the Canary Islands which is historically part of North Africa.
Think it's more about location %
Hard to be completely certain your 22% Scottish.. you can be 15-25%
Each DNA test comes from a company and each of them rely on testers to get close on % that's why your results change every 6 months or more.
A great follow up to this video is our playlist ruclips.net/p/PLcVx-GSCjcdlvwsLScE4NPKwGA-XUNhhM
My only community is Puerto Rico even though my father was only half but my ancestry more connected with Puerto Rico I thought even though my father was also half Irish I thought Ireland would of been my second community but no it was explained that my DNA is more connected to my Puertorican ancestry
I had 0.9 Greek and south Italian no known ancestors from that area it can't be a false result as my mother and nephew also have it.
I got my results a week ago. My DNA traits didn't match with myself. I don't have a cleft chin, light hair and I'm pretty fair.
I discussed traits in this video (there's a part two as well). What Physical Traits or Diseases Are Traced to Your Chromosomes 1-13? ruclips.net/video/1UrocP5Ost8/видео.html
And why like ancestry dna have a lot of ethnicities in africa for example and myheritage have specifically 3 and like 2 more broadly?
It all comes down to the reference populations that each company uses and how they divide up their sub regions. Here's a video that explains reference populations. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Might it tell me that a thyroid condition is inherited from an ancestor?
Uh..no(?)
You may need to go to a genome browser for that, but I suggest you shouldn't because of genetic mutations,(rare/common) drug responses, risk, and genetic conditions that you may be at high risk of having, and children having.
You'll likely need to talk to your doctor about that genetic testing
My full blood brother took it said Nigerian yet I don’t have it even tho I look like it my hair etc and everything I’ve had multiple people tell me I look like I have black in me
Siblings don't inherit the same genetic make-up, so you're percentages will be different.
However, the Nigerian reference population is extremely small. It is POSSIBLE that your brother inherited the DNA segment that matches someone in the Nigerian reference population while you inherited a different segment that no one currently in that database has.
So, if you're expecting Nigerian, perhaps wait a little longer to see if the ethnicity results changes IF the companies are able to add more people to that portion of the database.
Caution: consider that .5% of 600,000 SNPs genotyped are 3000 possible erroneous calls. This is why I would not check for serious health-related SNPs via genotyping at a direct to consumer company. One should validate those results with a clinical genetic test and talk to a genetics counselor. Ancestry is not necessarily going to be very accurate, especially for non-European customers, but that's what I'd use DTC testing for- or I suppose for genealogy.
Good point, if you are using these tests for medical information it shouldn't be the reason for any medical decisions.
But i wonder if the interpretation could wrong. I'm German, but it says 60% british. Thing is I'm from the region the saxons went over to England (3/4 of the English are Anglo-Saxon genetically). So I have their DNA I guess, but the interpretation is the other way round. British people come from our region and not we here are british. Hope it's the reason, otherwise I would have to talk to mum. 😅
What one has to do is get the test from a proper Genetic testing company, and what you need to know is either your Male Haplogroup or your Female Haplogroup. All these comments from different companies that say you are 70% of a country and 10% of another country and 20% of yet another country is giving the wrong message. I got my Haplogroup from Bryan Sykes company Oxford Ancestors which is now no longer functioning. That was a long time ago. The thing is that he was associated with the original people connected with the Bradshaw Foundation and one of many geneticists such as Stephen Oppenheimer. This Foundation uncovered the whole worlds Human Genetics which took a long time. Some people do not find knowing their Haplogroup is good enough, but if you know it you can read "DEEP ANCESTRY Inside the Genographic Project" by Spencer Wells, and how all the people first came out of Africa and went around the world. Percentages of this country or that do not mean a thing when you know that we all came out of Africa over 70,000 years ago and travelled around the world and our appearance changed as we did so to suit the climates and this happened because of continuous mutations within our bodies. The Africans still left in Africa also continued to change as everyone else did and Genetics have shown that that there are still very old Human beings existing in Africa today, but they are rarer than the modern ones. Other older human beings had already come out of Africa before us, such as the Neanderthal and Denisovan and others we have discovered since, which enhanced some traits in us when some of us mixed with them. In "Deep Ancestry" the Haplogroups are all there beginning with the females who came out of Africa and then the males. It tells the whole story. Of course it is a simplified version of what happened, but the research began with the geneticists wanting to know about inherited diseases and misfunctions which were passed on people in the future. So much was learned that they decided to explore the whole human genome of the world. Some people are afraid of what they might find, and others are shocked that what they believed about their families is more complicated or not true at all. Others have their beliefs in what they have been told, reinforced. I think it is great that I know which African woman I came from and she has given most females the life they have through the centuries going across the world and mutating as they went and having amazing adventures and having great discoveries. Wanting to know if you are German or Spanish if you are European, does not make sense, because when Europeans came to live in Europe, most of the countries of the world today did not exist. If you just go back 10,000 years NONE of them did, and yet some Humans have been out of Africa since about 70,000 years ago. All that history is told in, "DEEP ANCESTRY" showing all the Haplogroups. It is out of date now because more has been discovered but still the majority of Haplogroups had been discovered. African Haplogroups were focussed upon at a later date and were very interesting, as it showed how different tribes were related. Cynthia McLaglen
my ancestry test basically said i was 99% european and 1% african. i took my dna to gedmatch and ftdna and i always have a higher percentage of middle eastern; which makes sense because my father looks middle eastern. idk if their reference population is incredibly small or if it just reads the middle eastern dna as european. i know i’m not 100% european tho. due to my paper trail ancestry.
not to mention, when my parents dna was first uploaded, lo and behold, it said “western asia” as the region. that was it. then, it completely disappeared, and turned into germanic europe? ancestry is so garbage because the reference populations are so disproportionate. europe has like 13,000 per region (aggregation) and the middle has like- 5. it’s bullsh*t because it almost feels like it’s invalidating my identity
You are hitting on the problem with ALL of the commercial genetic genealogy companies and their ethnicity results. The small reference populations. ruclips.net/video/ScZtHuU78n4/видео.html
Until that problem is resolved, the ethnicity results are not as beneficial as the ability to build your family tree using DNA cousins. However, in marketing their product, the companies have all thought that people would build their family tree after knowing their ethnicity. As YEARS of comments have proven, that's not the case and it's caused more confusion.
I think dan kits determine where you have ancestry. Or where your ancestors came from. I myself have Spanish and Portuguese relatives that were born in the Canary Islands, which are part of northern Africa. I am two percent North African. So I don't think im genetically related to the indigeouce Africans. The rest of my ancestry hails from England and northwestern Europe, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germanic Europe, Norway, and Portugal.
@@theintrovertedaspie9095 after being more well versed in genealogy and DNA testing- i am now aware of the fact that the kits tell you where you’re ancestors are from and not necessarily WHAT they are. 😺
@@orangstrat2042 I see. As you probably know Vikings did colonize the British isles. And they took men and women from Scotland and Ireland back to thee homeland to be their slaves. Thats why some Norwegians today trace their ancestry back Scotland and Ireland. So that might explain my Norwegian ancestry. Its not much.Only like 2% But I could be wrong after all Vikings did interbreed with Celts.
I have different results from different companies and they keep changing.
There data base keeps getting bigger so the have more data to compare you to your dna doesn't change, but the data base does if anything it gets more accurate.
Mine is the same. 3 tests 3 results
@@mbsnyderc It depends on what they are testing. I think the GEDMatch Calculators are more accurate especially if you come from a mixture of cultures. Also some companies tell you where your family lives vs what cultures they come from. So for an example, some tell me I am 95 percent Portuguese because my family lived there. But doing my genealogy I am finding Spanish names because they are spelling their names with a z rather than an s. DNA tests only go back 5 or so generations and I am researching past that. I also just found a West Asian name that originated from a country above Iran. I also found an Italian last name. So far I have only researched two of my grandparents lines going back. The area my family comes from had a mixture of races and cultures so it makes sense.
My Grandfather claims his father was a ''German-Jew''. First of all his last name is Wilson, definitely doesnt fit. Secondly, The DNA test showed neither, and my mothers is similar. Any input would be appreciated, I feel strongly his parents lied to him/were confused, or its a made up story. Same situation with the ''Cherokee'' ancestor. My Grandfather claims his mother was part Cherokee, yet there is no evidence to support this DNA wise, or family history wise.
First, US Native American DNA does not appear in any of the commerical genetic genealogy companys' results because US native tribes refuse to participate in the tests. Thus, you won't see Cherokee, or any other tribe in your DNA.
Second, the Jewish DNA is typically associated with ashkenazi and sephardic because these groups stayed genetically distinct by not intermarrying outside their community. Many other Jewish ethnicities are more difficult to isolate.
So, it's possible that the family stories are true, but that DNA will not pick up on it.
I would recommend you build out your family tree using genealogical records and DNA matching that supports those records as much as possible. Only then will you truly be able to determine the accuracy of your family stories.
I have been communicating w/ a person who shows a match on 50 cM on chromosome 10. After almost 2 yrs, we still haven't found a common ancestor -- that we know of. My 2x ggf's marriage license shows his father as "Illegitimate." We believe this is why we can't find that common ancestor. Is this reasonable or are we "barking up the wrong tree"?
50 cMs is not barking up the wrong tree. The best way to attack this project is to attempt to visually phase your chromosomes. (Both you and the match doing this with your closets relatives). Once you can isolate which DNA comes from which grandparent, then you can confirm which direction y'all should intersect. Then it's a matter of combing descendants research and triangulation to rule out who the people can't be and who is likely. By then, hopefully you have a good idea of who the likely ancestral couple is.