The reason why MyHeritage lumps most of us as Ethiopian Jews is not because we go back to Ethiopia...but rather the sample they got from people who claimed to be Ethiopian Jews originally had Proto-Judaic Semetic bloodlines from Eritrea and Yemen (the land of Sheba). Once it became mainly Judaic, some members moved to North Ethiopia by our border and settled there and intermarried with the locals like 3 thousand years ago. We still know who their descendants are. MyHeritage should not use then as the control sample but rather trace the origins of the DNA sample to the aboriginal stock in Eritrea and Yemen as well as include other Eritrean and Ethiopian tribes which are not Jewish/non Semetic (e.g. Cushitic and Nilotic tribes) so that people can have a better idea of the different varieties of ancient races and civilizations which make up the Eritrean stock.
horners Africans and average sudanese modern days just as many mauritanians are actually an admixtures between NorhAf Ancestors ( afroasiatics speakers but non-Semitics mostly ) and Nilotics ancestors mostly from the Nubians incoming during the 18th Egyptian dynasty. It’s exactly at that time that Upper Egypt ( mixing with nilotics ancestors ) definitively splitted from lower ones ( still more related and mixing with Berbers and Semitics ancestors ).
So much of the confusion that people have would be resolved by a simple google search of the history of their birth country. Even a Wikipedia article would be helpful. Eritrea borders Ethiopia and it's coastline lies along the Red Sea.
@@hassangingi7033 stop spreading lies and propaganda! Eritrea aka Medri Bahri aka the land of punt has never been part of Ethiopia. Eritrea took independence from occupying forces of Ethiopia in 1991. Eritrea independence was recognised by UN in 1993!
It cracks me up when people born into a specific country fail to grasp that this fact alone doesn't mean all of their ancestors were born there as well. People move :)
Mind you, Somaliland, Somalia, Puntland, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and parts of other bordering nations used to be one country at one point in history. Today, we have Somalis, in all these nations, with different citizenships but ONE NATIONALITY, i.e., all will say: I AM SOMALI. That’s there nationality at heart. See, nationality is more than just a piece of paper or data in a Database. Somalis don’t even know they have Hebrew, Aramaic, ancient Egyptian and Arabic words in their language. They think their language is unique and it is, but enriched by all these other languages. Before 1930, we had a whole different alphabet. Just a thought! 🧐
Yes true but us East Africans are very knowledgeable about our ancestors. I can say my fathers fathers names 24 generations back and thats pretty normal for us. I did a dna test as a somali and no shit i got 100% somali however apparently 23andme is not very accurate for east africans. Im hoping to redo one soon but im guessing its not fat off 100%
@@-ameera-9103all of them? 24 generations is is about 400 years. That is about one million grandparents. Half of that for males only is still half a million male ancestors in total. There is literally no way you know all that. Also even within the last 5 generations, most people don’t realise how many illegitimate pregnancies were common and how many sneaky family line disruptions there are. You can’t guarantee for sure that the people you’ve been told are your ancestors from hundreds of years ago, definitely are and there are far too many to count. You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents and this just goes on and continues doubling with each generation…
Not true. Somalis are the most Homogenous people in that area and they were literally in the middle of the Silk Road. The only reason why Hebesha. Show up as part middle-eastern is because they used to rule yemen at one point and the same couldbe said for arabs they’re usually mixed with either Ethiopian, Bantu or European depending on which area they’re from
@@JackChit-pv3dj autosomal DNA tests shows the average of yours are not. Stop lying you fool. NorthAf and EastAf both still debated are just the oldest Homosapiens places remaining, We know that during the Paleolithic times from mid to lower, the genetic pool of southwestaf were already splitted and differed from the NorthEast ones who is litteraly at the origins of everyone in the world. You’re an old admixtures of ancient NorthAf farmers with lates Nilotics ancestors that were hunters gatherers mostly from the Nubians, thats why the lightest of yours still looks strikely similar to an average northaf. the Austronesians origins as the Mongols origins came trough the oldest Paleolithic times, not the Lower Period to the Neolithic revolutions. dont confuse chronology. neanderthalians denisovians austronesian and mongols all of them passed originally from North or East Africa, nilotics ancestors proto-nigerocongolese are thoses who never left. as for you, your ancestors mixed with the Nubians, while NorthAf and MidEastern from the LowerPaleolithic times to the Neolithic revolution mostly mixed between themselves sinces the very start. autosomal studies shows clearly that NorthAf and MidEastern both are the closest relatives before anyothers groups in the world. Even Kush as his forfathers brothers and uncles all of them came from Mesopotamia. we are much more homogeneous than you like it or not. sorry my somali brother.
The connection between East Africa and Indonesia/Malaysia is well substantiated. The Malagasy people of Madagascar are Austronesian in origin with admixture from African peoples coming over from the continent. The Malagasy language is an Austronesian language. However, there have always been more recent seafarers from SE Asia to the Arabian peninsula and East Africa for hundreds of years, so it's very plausible if he gets a read of SE Asian or even Chinese. I would imagine that most if not all Eritreans would have a similar genetic make-up as he, so yes, he is Eritrean. Eritreans are made up of East Africans, Middle Easterners, and a little Asian. "Adopted" haha - she's f*ing with him just like he did with her about being 30% Chinese. Of course that's his real mom, I can see the family resemblance.
Yes - immediately thought of ancient trade, particularly The Austronesian Maritime Trade Routes, which included Maritime SE Asia (Malaysia, etc.) & Eastern Africa & The Middle East
East Africa is not a monolith, in history, ethnicities, or migrations. Madagascar's history has nothing to do with Eritrea's. When it comes to DNA testing companies like these, they're often terribly inaccurate when it comes to customers from the Horn of Africa. They lump markers unique to Horners as "North African" or "Middle Eastern". It could be due to a lack of samples from people of this region or perhaps they simply fail to consider that there's an error at all. 23andme has a bigger database on these populations and actually puts in effort to properly categorize groups from that region (they also include Ethiopian Jews as a result). There are Horners who got similar results as this young man but got different (and more accurate) results from 23andme. That's why I encourage most people from Northeast Africa to go with 23andme over other companies.
@@Meccarox Not at all, Ancestry DNA is wildly inaccurate when it comes to Africans and especially northeast Africans. 23andme is the only company that saw the errors in the results it provided them and actively sought out more northeast Africans to create a proper reference.
Oceanian is something I haven't seen come up much at all in DNA results. Would love to see more results from people from aboriginal communities in those countries, it would be really interesting.
One thing also to consider is that there was trade between East Africa and Asia though out history. There was even a small minority group in South China called Topazes which were the descedants of Afro Portugese who settled.
For what it's worth Ethiopia and Eritrea share ethnic/populations groups. The Tigre people share some history with their neighbors in Ethiopia; while the separate Tigrinya people are close cousins to the Tigrayans in Ethiopia. It wouldn't surprise me if all three of these groups share common ancestry. Ethiopia and Eritrea also shared a partial government from 1950 to 1958 or so. Sounds like SuperGebar needs to test more family members!
Very good comment. People must keep in mind that the borders of a state were probably imposed in the last few centuries. Ethnic groups, tribes and communities may fall on either side of a border.
@@verysmartultrahuman939 that's the whole point, it shouldnt be surprising if you take a dna test as an ethiopian/eritrean and it says you are the other.
Tigre, Tigrigna and Amharic languages all came from Geez. I am talking about language now and not culture . I am Eritrean tigre from lowerland of Eritrea and I am tribal man. If you tell my people we have common thing with Ethiopia, they will cut off your head. It is actually insulting because Ethiopia is seen as enemy due to the bloody war we had with them and we have nothing common with them. Our dress is different, our foods are different and even our religions are different. Tigre Eritrea and Tigrigna Eritrea are very close to each other. Tigrigna Ethiopia and Amharic people are foreigns to Eritrea.
@@yaya2006 Tegrena-speaking people in Eritrea and Ethiopia are one ethnic group, and they are related to Amhara people, as well as to Tigre people because many Tigre people are descended from Tegrena-speaking immigrants who settled in the lowlands centuries ago. Other Tigre groups are of Bega or Saho origin.
Eritrea have 9-11 ethnic groups Ethiopia have 84-90 ethnic groups Both countries share some ethnic groups . Specifically, Eritrea shares ethnic groups with Sudan, Djibouti, Egypt, and Yemen. I am not really surprised with the results. Plus there have been a lot of trade in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean
@@Mesfin887 around 1000 BC the Kingdom of Saba'a in South Arabia ruled some parts of the horn of Africa and semties South Arabian migrated to some parts of the Horn of Africa. Around ~ 500 AD the Ethiopians invaded and occupied south Arabia for some decades.
@@yakmi1116 that is completely false, they did not rule at all it was a relationship of trade and cultural exchange and nothing more. They did not rule and neither was there a mass migration. No significant influence has ever been found and the oldest scripts lie in Eritrea not Yemen
@selrell no your information is incorrect I'm afraid. Axum was a kingdom that was a continuation of civilisations in the horn, the relationship between those in the Arabian peninsula and the horn was one of cultural exchange and trade. They never ruled and neither is it supported by evidence. The Axumites ruled over Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia. So no Saba did not rule over the Axumites and Saba is most definitely an Ethiopian term in the first place.
Sometimes people, like myself take DNA tests merely to verify stories which have been in our family from way back. I not only wished to verify the truth of these rumours, but was eager to find out how recently we had been related. I was absoultely thrilled to have not only the stories verified, but to find out that the relationships were much closer than had previousy been thought. This opens up many new doors of discovery to me - just the beginning of my exciting journey!!!
As a Somali it should be a crime to list Ethiopians/Eriterean as middle-eastern 😂. The Hebesha dynasty was at one point from southern sudan to southern Yemen. So essentially it’s like saying your sons are your fathers.
I appreciate your knowledge of Black and African ancestry and how you try to understand others points of view. I would like to hear more about your Jamaican Jewish ancestors: their story and the research techniques for Jamaica.
That is what happens when you go into it, with expectations made of concrete. Then, even your Mom has to become a comedian. He really looks Eritrean, like the Eritrean melting pot. As a teen, I used to have a photo of a fascinating Eritrean soldier, on my desk. This young man looks similarly Eritrean, but thank goodness, he is a much happier individual. Ahh, it's so nice to be young and discovering 'the self.' May the big world be good to you but be good first, to yourself, to balance out the challenges it presents. 🙋🏻♀️
Eritrea was part of Ethiopia until 1991-1993. The country is a gateway to Sudan, Egypt and onto the Mediterranean from the gulf Aden. Across a very narrow strait lies Yemen and Saudi Arabia who have traded with India and further east for millennia. I suppose it's a bit like People who claim 100% english only to discover Scots, Welsh and sub-Saharan African in their dna.
@@BF-bb5us The historical region and province of Amasen was in fact part of the realm of Christian Ethiopia prior to Italian colonization. It was part of the Empire of Aksum as well (Aksuman inscriptions record the name of that province)
@5:00 I believe you're talking about the Malagasy in Madagascar who are mixed with Bantu and Austronesia. They typically carry a Bantu Y and Austronesian Mt
A lot of mothers, girlfriends and wives of questionable loyalty are going to protest against mandatory [beep] test ( YT censors me anytime I use _the word_ ) . I think there does actually have some social movements who currently protests against it.
I am Eritrean . It is my belief that during the bronze Eritrea was a melting pot of different people as is evidenced by the diversity of paternal and maternal haplogroups. E-V32, J1, E-V6- EV22 and low percentage of E-V34 are the most prevalent . Mtdna is also very diverse : L3i , M, N , U6
I'm Eritrean too. However, it amazes me when Eritreans think there is a specific Eritrean DNA. There isn't. Eritrea and Ethiopia are nationalities, not genes. If you are Habesha, then you're going to have Habesha DNA, the same as a Habesha from Ethiopia. Similarly, an Afar would share DNA with a Saho because they are both Cushitic.
@@Jafar.Jamal-175 I haven't seen much difference between Habesha and Cushitic Horner DNA. I am Cushitic and have V-32 and L3. I am seeing both Cushitic and Habesha carry this DNA on their results. Habesha is a cultural description not an ethnic group. Majority of Habesha are ethnically Cushitic but speak a Semitic language. Their DNA still appears to be the same as other Cushitic Horners.
Most people in Africa who take the DNA test use the recent colonial and political boundaries to define themselves. They forget that before colonialism, African tribes and clans moved freely from one region of Africa to another. It is possible his great grandparents migrated from one region of Ethiopia to present-day Eritrea.
No in this particular case it is different. I'm Eritrean with similar proportions to his, but we have a very well documented written history unlike many fellow African traditions with oral histories. We have Church records and Proto-Judaic inscriptions and records indicating who is who and where the boundaries are. The few who migrated and mixed know at what point that happened in their family and why (famine, war, etc.). Being a smaller population also, the need to be very distinct about which tribe to preserve is critical. The reason why MyHeritage lumps most of us as Ethiopian Jews is not because we go back to Ethiopia...but rather the sample they got from people who claimed to be Ethiopian Jews originally had Proto-Judaic Semetic bloodlines from Eritrea and Yemen (the land of Sheba). Once it was Judaic, some members moved to North Ethiopia by our border and settled there and intermarried with the local like 3 thousand years ago. We still know who their descendants are. MyHeritage should not use then as the control sample but rather trace origins of the DNA sample to the aboriginal stock in Eritrea and Yemen as well as include other Eritrean and Ethiopian tribes which are not Jewish (e.g. Cushitic and Nilotic tribes) so that people can have a better idea of the different varieties of ancient races and civilizations which make up the Eritrean stock. I hope that clarifies things.
Looking at the My Heritage map, they don't have an Eritrean group, tye country is covered by Middle Eastern, and Central African. The Ethiopean Jewish group, neighbours Eritrea, and if you dig, it mentions an Eritrean population. So his findings are entirely consistent with the vast majority of his heritage being Eritrean, but it looks like he may have an interesting story of conversion to uncover. Though he seemed more surprised to be Ethiopian than Jewish.
Hi GeneaVlogger. I am one of those people who stumbled upon the fact that my family has roots in Madagascar, and so many other seriously unexpected places that were NOT evident with just one DNA test. I would love to tell you some of my family stories - too much to write here. It has been one crazy journey!! Please let me know if you would like to know more & maybe you could help me with some brick walls.
Finding your roots episode was with Keenan Ivory Wayans in one his Y chromosome they found a connection with East African ancestry to the Malagasy people and that he had asian Y chromosome instead of African or European
I also checked My Heritage an found: Eritrea - top ethnicities There is not yet enough data to show the most common ethnicities in Eritrea. Select another country to view the most common ethnicities there. So, I checked Ethiopia: Ethiopia - top ethnicities There is not yet enough data to show the most common ethnicities in Ethiopia. Select another country to view the most common ethnicities there.
makes sense. Modern Eritrea was founded in 1869/70 by an Italian shipping company b/c of the Suez canal & before that the area was conquered/ruled by Ethiopia & the Ottoman Empire.
Another thing that was not touched on was although Eritrea has always been it’s own subsection/town post Italy colonization it was still lumped in and categorized as Ethiopia. We did not gain independence until 1991 I believe, many maps didn’t have Eritrea listed until 2006 and after. I remember due to telling a teacher this and she happily added a posted note with label and arrow ☺️
This is so much like if I was expecting my DNA to report that I'm American. I'm American, right? For generations, my family has lived in the US, a little bit of it was in Canada. I'm American!! Well, that's not what I expect. I actually expect it to show where my people moved here from. Ancestry has added the colonies, saying a lot of my ancestors lived here, but that's not the entirety of my genetic history. People have moved around. It's actually interesting to see where they migrated from.
It drives me nuts sometimes seeing people take DNA tests. It should be a learning opportunity. Until I took a DNA test I didn't realize the extent of population migrations and mixing as I do now. It caused me to really go in depth and learn a lot about the world and how borders were meaningless and that early man endured and spread everywhere and had no qualms about mixing with other populations. On another note, I've done MyHeritage, FTDNA, 23andMe, Ancestry and a couple of others and MyHeritage is very limited in populations.
Eritrea use to be a northern province of Ethiopia before they actually got their independence in 91. So Eritrea is basically Ethiopia, same people, tradition and culture. Politics is what sets them apart.
You don't have a clue, seems like you read a small paragraph out of the white man's history book, and now you feel like you have an understanding of our history. I will just give you a few important points to help you realise how mistaken you actually are. Then maybe you could do some research, perhaps ask an actual Eritrean about their history. Eritrea was given to Ethiopia by the British, to serve their own and USAs interests because Haile Selassie was their ally and puppet. The Red Sea which belonged to Eritrea not Ethiopia, hence the need for the forced coalition, was strategically important for the British and USA. That was the only reason the British gave Eritrea to Ethiopia, after the italians were defeated in the WW, and they were deciding what to do with the occupieds lands they now had power over. We are not the same, some Eritrean tribes have similarities with certain Ethiopian tribes, but that is it, and you could say the same about literally all neighbouring African countries, but as far as being one....no before the colonialists got involved Ethiopia never ruled over us and we never ruled over them!!! Each tribe had their own rulers, and systems in place, and they often did have tribal conflicts between each other, but never did Ethiopia rule over Eritrea, or vice versa. Except like I said, when the British gave Eritrea to Haile Selassie their personal lapdog/ally in 1952, against the wishes of the Eritrean people who unanimously voted against this. That is why fought for 30 years for our independence, against Ethiopia who was backed in the form of weapons, intelligence and personnel by the British, USA, Russia, Cuba at various times during that 30 year war. We are not the same, similar in some ways yes but not the same.
Eritrea was only a province of northern Ethiopia, since 1952, and that was by force. So what about before 1952??? Or do you think we only came into existence in 1952? We have a long and ancient history that precedes the colonialist history books you seem to be quoting. Please stop misinforming people!!! Its insulting.
People in Africa needs to learn the difference between nationality and race. Land Borders are charged all the time. New nations are born and old nations are renamed.
But understand that the Africans heritage is every important, defines who they are. We need more testing of Africans who are in Africa for others in other places to know with more DNA details.
My sons show 28% Native American via MyHeritage, the Issue is that they show roughly 10 points higher that the other commercial companies. Their NA is from their paternal grandmother. My (mom) NA is on the low end across the testing companies, about 2.5, even at MyHeritage. I truly hope they are not inflating NA to draw in customers
Some Ethiopian Jews migrated to Eritrea relatively recently. This could be one explanation. The father of comedian and actor Tiffany Haddish is an Eritrean of Ethiopian Jewish ancestry, while her mother is African American. The comic gets in touch with her Eritrean father’s Ethiopian Jewish roots in the movie “Black Mitzvah”. By the end of 2008, there were 119,300 people of Ethiopian Jewish descent in Israel, including nearly 81,000 people born in Ethiopia and about 38,500 native-born Israelis (about 32 percent of the community) with at least one parent born in Ethiopia or *ERITREA* (formerly part of Ethiopia). Going back to Haddish, in December 2019, she decided to have her Bat Mitzvah ceremony at age 40. Reform Rabbi Susan Silverman, the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, officiated. Haddish became a naturalized citizen of Eritrea on May 22, 2019, while taking part in festivities there commemorating the 28th anniversary of Eritrean independence from Ethiopia. So it is not like it’s not plausible that an Eritrean might have unknown Ethiopian Jewish ancestors who assimilated.
Yeah, we have had a synagogue in the capital city that we call Asmara Synagogue (Hebrew) בית הכנסת של אסמרה, since 1900s. There were many Eritrean -Jewish for sure.
There are no native Jews in the territory of Eritrea. Jews are from Israel. The Ethiopian Jews (Falasha) are of Agaw origin. It should be common knowledge that all Tegrena and Amharic-speaking peoples are of Agaw origin and are in fact roughly genetically identical. They also share common ancestry predominantly with other Cushitic peoples of Northeast Africa and the Amazigh peoples of North Africa from prehistoric times.
@@sophiawilson8696 - It is not up to you to male such a pronouncement on behalf of everybody else on the planet. You do not have to love the country, but obviously @awettesfandrias3395 does. Who would I be inclined to believe - the kind person or the nasty person?
I seen a video about the three big dna tests and had twins tested and their test came back that the weren’t even related.. Then they went to a Specialist that works with DNA and they told him about the tests results and he laughed and said that the test are for entertainment and when pin pointing where people come from it’s more of guess then being 100 percent correct..
Someone should explain to him that it’s not just where his mommy and daddy are from, because the country that he associates with has only been around since 1991. The tests go back about 20 generations, so his ancestors surely didn’t consider themselves to be Eritrean.
somebody should explain to you that ERITREA and its people has been THERE FOREVER the only problem was that it was under so many colonies. you should read history ERITREA WAS NOT CREATED in 1991. It was freed from all the enemies in 1991 after so much blood shed and sacrifies!!!
Eritrea is an ancient country , only thing that changed is it’s name. Go do your research of Medri behari or the land of punts! Civilisations started in Eritrea.
Heck even European ancestry is tricky because we think of Europe with its modern borders. I should have strong German DNA (in the 15-25% range) but genetically I only get a hit of about 3%. Why? Because they weren’t German as we think of it. While they spoke German, had German names, were Lutheran, they lived in what is now Poland. And guess who got a strong hit for Polish?
So my DNA just got updated on Ancestry. Included now is 1% Ethiopian & Eritrea. I had little to no knowledge of this region, so I'm watching videos. I'm in the United States.
Welcome brother you share 1% with us😊 am Eritrean am kind of scared to do it, but I always know we are mixed my dad use to tell me we are from Yemane ,Israel and African at the time I did believe him but when I see it growing up I see what he meant, you can see the skin tone,hair texture so on and I am believe 💯% Eritrean but people think differently they approach me with languages that I don’t understand thinking am one of them, I had so many people come up to me speaking Portuguese,Spanish,Arabic,Bangladeshi and the one still I can’t believe was when a lady came up to me for help in my work place speaking in Philippines 🤷♂️ but it depends on how my hair and my beard looks like at that time if I shave it or grow it. am international.
It's possible that the Jewish part of his family history was obscured because of discrimination - if at some point his Jewish ancestors were made to convert or hide their ethnicity/beliefs. Could explain why the percentage is so high but he was unaware of it
@@heluye7657Ethiopian Jews are indeed ethnic Jews with a very ancient heritage. They are not descendants of converts and this is a genetically unreliable claim at all . Probably their ancestors migrated from the Middle East to Africa and married local populations
I do hope the results spurred him to research his family history, as well as his ethnic population groups. People just don't understand that DNA doesn't adhere to political borders.
It's easier for white people to lump Africans as one group, but we are not. Even within Bantu we are so diverse Genetically and physically. Within horn of Africa, we have groups that are so diverse from each other than the entire Caucasoid people combined, but for foreigners you just assume these are tribe's that are related to each other. In real sense, some of us are the founding DNA that produce all other Human beings and we maintained separate Identity and separate cultures from each other groups, within Africa for thousands of years.
I heard some.dummy say Ethiopians aren't true Africans they are mixed with whites because the.arabs 😂 1st Arabs aren't even white lmfaoo and 2 east Africa isn't west Africa. They aren't gonna look west.african lol! Thats even dumber then sayin north euro whites are part central Asia because the Aryans originated in central Asian and all the South euros are all part arabians and n African mongrels 😂
There are 89 ethnic groups in Ethiopia and 9 ethnic groups within Eritrea. There's an overlap of specific ethnicities that settled in the central to north of Ethiopia and central-south Eritrea (Specifically Amhara, Tigryna, and Tigre, also known as Habesha )... That explains why there's a lumping of the ethnic group. Because they are all Semitic descent and share a vast amount of DNA. Abyssinia & Kingdom of Aksum were vast empires that included parts of modern-day Yemen, Ethiopia, and Eritrea once upon a century.
No we were not part of Ethiopia we were given by the English to be with Ethiopia with force, we were never part of Ethiopia pls stop spreading lies. Ethiopians tried to colonise us and kill my people so we can never be the same or we was never the same we have different traditions and ideologies and we got our independence in 1991, where r u getting ur information from?? U r so misinformed
Hi Jarrett, I just watched this video with the young man from Eritrea. When you read his dna breakdown of areas, you mentioned he has 1.6% Melanesian. I have 1.4% Melanesian listed in My Heritage DNA. I had AncestryDNA and 23 & Me DNA done also but no Melanesian shows up in the last 2 DNA kits mentioned. As I listen to your explanation in the video, it does make sense to me. I’m still very curious as to how/why I am the only one in my family that Melanesian appears. I had 3 siblings, 1 nephew and my 2 sons all taken My Heritage DNA test kits. Can you think of why my siblings wouldn’t show any Melanesian?
The amount of DNA we inherit from each ancestor is random, within a certain range. 1.6% is quite small, showing it is from an ancestor far back. It would make sense that over that many generations, the others inherited less from that ancestor or line and so it does not show.
Maybe because that parents pass down some DNA to one child but they pass some other DNA to other children, so some DNA will appear in one child but not the other.
Does Mr GeneaVlogger get in contact with the people he features and help them understand the results? Since he is using them as his content, it seems to me that he owes it to him.
Comedian actor Keenan Ivory Wayans was Melasian. Black people who have ancestors who came from Madagascar have this DNA. Madagascar us a country mafe of Africans and Indonesian mix population. They brought some Africans to the Americas from Madagascar
I'm Ethiopian(Tegaru) but I got 100% Eritrean. I don't think it can be possible to find a marker for Ethiopian jew. The test was a complete waste of money.
No wonder the Eritrean man that you have Ethiopian Jewish, I am Eritrean from Adikeih, I got my DNA result and shocked me when I saw I have 33.8% Ethiopian Jewish recently
What are the historical migration patterns of the people of Eritrea ? That would be the first question I think. Just based on common sense it seems like the people migrated here and that’s the ancestral background of Eritrean people.
In many countries in Africa, the Arab world, and the Turkish world, people only look for fathers. It doesn't matter where the mother comes from, it doesn't make any sense to say I'm from that country.
Question... There's a bunch of people in my family who are adopted. Some of them have done DNA testing but have the information private because the adoption was closed and to respect the biological parents wishes, they aren't publicizing that they were given up for adoption. Is there a way for an adoptee to connect their family tree to the family they were adopted into or do these only provide that service for biological matches? I think it would be fun to connect to distant relatives but because my mom wasn't biologically related to them, we don't seem to have that option 🙁
Yes, Geni has had this as an option for years! It is done in a way so if they decide to also include their biological family, they will still be connected to both family trees. In fact, they even have an option to also add Foster parents - help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229703627-How-can-I-add-adoptive-foster-parents-to-the-tree-
If your Ethiopian or Eritrean(north east african) you shouldn't be surprised if u got middle east or south arabian or other semetic roots like jewish(israel) - b/c this part of africa ( northeast / horn of africa ) r mixed with the semite people 50% so we are more semetocushite people, We can say that Ethiopian itself means east africa and southarabia together + north african like amazigh/berber of Morocco etc... like 20% + far east asian 1-1.2% (b/c u might have south east african / Madagascar which is related genetically with Australia & asian like india indonesia or Malaysia. & of course other neighbor african 2-10% like central and south african....😌👍💚💛❤️
No they weren't. That is historically inaccurate. Medri Bahri which is now Eritrea was not part of Ethiopia. Speaking the same language does not make them one and not unusual in any part of the world
Ethiopian is a nationality not an ethnicity, about 80 different ethnic groups are native to the country and live there. "Ethiopian ancestry" doesn't make sense to begin with.
@@BF-bb5us The office and title of baher negash was created by an Ethiopian emperor and the Tegrena-speaking people of Eritrea are predominantly of Tegrean origin or admixed with Tegrean emigrants. Not even Amhara people differ from Tegrena-speaking people from a genetic point of view. Eritrean nationalists are fighting a losing battle. A national identity that is based on colonialism and false narratives is not meant to endure.
Most if not all people commenting including the "Eritrean" guy seem to be oblivious about history as if they have never read any credible historical book of that region. I am from a land geographically situated in what is now called "Eritrea," in ancient time it used to be called "Adulis" also known to outsiders as "Punt" etc. My so called DNA test came out as "70% southern Arabian region indicating what is now an area covering modern day Yemen and the Res Sea coast," "12% Beja region east of the Nile River on the Sahel area," "2% a region covering the Afar desert", 6% Sahel region west of Nile River, plus some scattered percentages of the northern Red Sea coast of Africa 5%, and 5% of a collection of places that I've never heard before lol😂. DNA test is just a fun sport, it is not a pin point accurate, but I'm not surprised of the interesting result, because I know the history of the region and I have long known about my heritage since childhood.
I am from Eritrea and my grandparents from my mother side are from Tigray. My results are similar to him lol AFRICA Ethiopian Jewish 51.2%, North African 13.0%, Somali 7.1%, Nigerian 5.3% MIDDLE EAST Middle Eastern 21.6% ASIA Inuit 1.0%, Japanese and Korean 0.8% I was surprised by the percentage but I don't know why he was so confused.
@Big Niggs Tegrena and Amharic speaking peoples are in fact roughly genetically identical and share ancestry predominantly with other Northeast and North African peoples from prehistoric times.
Well Ethiopian and Eritreans are very closely related. The Tigre people of Ethiopia and the Tigrigna people of Eriteria have the same language (but different dialect), same cultural clothing, same food etc... not to mention they were the same country till 1993. I have roots in both countries so I have experienced the similarities and differences in both cultures but at the end of the day, Ethiopians and Eritreans are 'Habeshas'.
It’ll probably be hard to pick out Eritreans from the data, as it only got independence from Ethiopia in 1991, and the modern borders haven’t existed for that long (mid 19th century) so with that date, he kind of can’t be from Eritrea even if his family did not move around, as the geo-political side has shifted. Plus, if there’s so few testers in Eritrea, perhaps the result accuracy is more volatile.
Eritrea was not part of Ethiopia. It was a distinct area with its own kingdom with rhe exact same borders as now. It is a western fallacy to say it didn't exist prior it is historically inaccurate.
Modern day Eritrea was originally created in 1898 not 1991 by the Abyssinians and Italians according to The treaty of wuchale. It was a distinct area also known as Medri Bahri they have their own records of books and history that has been preserved.
Apart from the Malagasy hypothesis of Asian genes in Eritreans . Yemen, South Arabia and Eritrea has extensive trade relations with South Asian and South East Asia and they also trade in humans . Some South East Asians may have been traded to thee regions. The Other hypothesis is religion. During the last 300 years many people from the Islands of SEAsia went to Arabia for both trade and the Haj. Many if them stayed on in Mecca and Jeddah and these places have trade relations with Eritrea ad Yemen. So one ancestor from those parts may have descendants who migrated to Eritrea.
He really might be more Jewish than he thinks, but there are other explanations. He could have no Jewish DNA at all (none to speak of), but his three distant (Jewish Eritrean) relatives share some non-Jewish Eritrean ancestors with him. So it would not be about him being Jewish, but rather that every other Eritrean on MyHeritage is Jewish. Consider: 1. Maybe Eritrean Jews are more eager than other Eritreans to get a DNA test. 2. MyHeritage is based in Israel. 3. Eritrean Jews might choose to test with MyHeritage; Non-Jewish Eritrean might prefer other companies, or not test at all. About being adopted, I didn't quite catch whether his mother is joking. It was fun, and I will go and watch the original video next.
Approximately 2500yrs ago (approx) a lady a Queen came North to meet King Solomon. They had kids in Israel and those kids went South with her as she thus she had to go Back to Ethiopia in East Africa just South of Egypt. As it says Biblical that King Solomon let Levite’s go an they made a Temple there for Adonai. YES, I am Jewish.
I got 25% Ashkenazi and higher Middle Eastern percent eventhough both my pparents are Eritreans. I am still surprising by the result. I expected to get Ethiopian Jewish and from Sub Saharan, but none of them. I didn't believe the result🤔
@@milla411 some 80,000 Ethiopian Jews from the Eritrea, Shire/Tigray, North Gondar/Amhara moved to Israel near the end of the 20th century. What’s a fake Jew?
It’s the way they label the results. You will not find anything that says Eritrean from language, history and DNA. Everything about Eritreans is labeled as Ethiopian.
He’s probably not Jewish to be honest, if an Ethiopian or Djiboutian world to take the test from that company specifically they would come back similar results. This probably just lack of info in the company part as like you just said, “Ethiopian Jewish” was most likely lumped in many various ethnicities.
First of all, there is no such identity called Eritrean until in recent decades. The term itself is an Italian. All today's Eritreans, Tigrayans in Ethiopia and the Amharas in Ethiopia all have similar origins.
Hey can you help me out my daughter was classified as Yemenite Jewish but My Heritage has a Jewish bias? I am thinking this is closer to Yemenite Arab which honestly makes more sense. When I called My Heritage they let me know that don’t have a population sample for Yemenite Arab so they default to Yemenite Jewish. I’m my opinion that’s not to accurate. Please help me understand. Is there another company that doesn’t have a Jewish bias her father is Yemeni and he’s confused and said it’s BS. As you know Jews and Arabs hate each other so I just want to know the truth. I just don’t want them trying to reach some artificial numbers to pad their favorite ethnicities. I am not interested in that.
I've noticed a lot of Ethiopians, Somalians and Eritreans are very proud people, but are not aware of their ethnic admixture. His response is very similar to other people of that region who have taken a DNA test on RUclips. I would think they would know that African, Middle Eastern, Italian and Asian influences make up their culture. To me its evident in their music, language, food and dance....its very Arabic/Middle eastern influenced. Add to that, DNA doesn't have man made borders and shouldn't always be able to decipher an Ethiopian Jew from an Eritrean if they have the same DNA, just because they renamed the region. On a side note, I watch SuperGebar's channel and he is VERY talented, intelligent and creative. His mother is a gem as well.
Lol boy stop we have our own culture and dances that aren’t influenced. And most Horn Africans don’t have Italian or Asian dna we have ancient middle eastern dna that goes back as far as 3000+ and that goes for everyone in the world. Arabs and North Africans have more ethnic admixture ancient and recent in their dna than Horn Africans; we for most maintained our genetics. We’re homogenous culturally and linguistically we don’t speak Arabic or Italian or whatever you’re thinking we have our own ancient languages in the Afroasiatic language branch; we share similarities with other Afroasiatic languages like Berber and Arabic but they are completely different languages. Do not undermine our ancient history and culture that’s 20000+ years old if you don’t know anything about the Horn of Africa region I suggest you do research.
No that is false. The language and culture have ancient roots that have nothing to do with the middle east and are not arabic influenced. This is very wrong you should also know that arabic borrowed from ge'ez not the other round
I’m pretty sure he is Ethiopian Jewish. The funny thing is the region of Ethiopian that Ethiopian Jews “originate” borders Eritrea. The test is not lumping Ethiopians Jews with regular Ethiopians or Eritreans. lol
How the company able to tell if someone has jewish dna??? Just because they have middle eastern dna and moved from middle east to all over the world doesn’t mean they are jewish. Many syrian, iranian, iraqi, egyptian, yamani did traveled to all over the world as part of trading/merchant route back then!!!!
@@ancientpolyethnic2898 tell us we are mixed with anything. But calling Eritreans , Ethiopian is an insult. Death is better for us than being called Ethiopians.
At the time they were not considered Middle Eastern. They were just humans that settled across the small body of water that separates East Africa from Asia.
The reason why MyHeritage lumps most of us as Ethiopian Jews is not because we go back to Ethiopia...but rather the sample they got from people who claimed to be Ethiopian Jews originally had Proto-Judaic Semetic bloodlines from Eritrea and Yemen (the land of Sheba). Once it became mainly Judaic, some members moved to North Ethiopia by our border and settled there and intermarried with the locals like 3 thousand years ago. We still know who their descendants are. MyHeritage should not use then as the control sample but rather trace the origins of the DNA sample to the aboriginal stock in Eritrea and Yemen as well as include other Eritrean and Ethiopian tribes which are not Jewish/non Semetic (e.g. Cushitic and Nilotic tribes) so that people can have a better idea of the different varieties of ancient races and civilizations which make up the Eritrean stock.
horners Africans and average sudanese modern days just as many mauritanians are actually an admixtures between NorhAf Ancestors ( afroasiatics speakers but non-Semitics mostly ) and Nilotics ancestors mostly from the Nubians incoming during the 18th Egyptian dynasty.
It’s exactly at that time that Upper Egypt ( mixing with nilotics ancestors ) definitively splitted from lower ones ( still more related and mixing with Berbers and Semitics ancestors ).
So much of the confusion that people have would be resolved by a simple google search of the history of their birth country. Even a Wikipedia article would be helpful. Eritrea borders Ethiopia and it's coastline lies along the Red Sea.
Eritrea was part of Ethiopia before 1994!!in fact the ancient Abyssinia was made up of most of northern Ethiopia and Eritrea
@@hassangingi7033 stop spreading lies and propaganda! Eritrea aka Medri Bahri aka the land of punt has never been part of Ethiopia. Eritrea took independence from occupying forces of Ethiopia in 1991. Eritrea independence was recognised by UN in 1993!
Märäb Mellas was the northernmost province of the historic Ethiopian imperial state. Eritrea is an artificial creation of Italian colonialism.
@@eritreaeritrea4363 lmao
@@eritreaeritrea4363 land of punt was actually somalia
It cracks me up when people born into a specific country fail to grasp that this fact alone doesn't mean all of their ancestors were born there as well. People move :)
An American thing
Especially when the border lines and new nation names were defined 20 years ago 😂😂😂
Mind you, Somaliland, Somalia, Puntland, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and parts of other bordering nations used to be one country at one point in history. Today, we have Somalis, in all these nations, with different citizenships but ONE NATIONALITY, i.e., all will say: I AM SOMALI. That’s there nationality at heart. See, nationality is more than just a piece of paper or data in a Database. Somalis don’t even know they have Hebrew, Aramaic, ancient Egyptian and Arabic words in their language. They think their language is unique and it is, but enriched by all these other languages. Before 1930, we had a whole different alphabet. Just a thought! 🧐
Yes true but us East Africans are very knowledgeable about our ancestors. I can say my fathers fathers names 24 generations back and thats pretty normal for us. I did a dna test as a somali and no shit i got 100% somali however apparently 23andme is not very accurate for east africans. Im hoping to redo one soon but im guessing its not fat off 100%
@@-ameera-9103all of them? 24 generations is is about 400 years. That is about one million grandparents. Half of that for males only is still half a million male ancestors in total. There is literally no way you know all that. Also even within the last 5 generations, most people don’t realise how many illegitimate pregnancies were common and how many sneaky family line disruptions there are. You can’t guarantee for sure that the people you’ve been told are your ancestors from hundreds of years ago, definitely are and there are far too many to count. You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents and this just goes on and continues doubling with each generation…
That area of Africa was a massive trade route going back to ancient times. People in that area have a more mixed admixture.
No they don't and the Arab theory is unsubstantiated. Those theories were nonsense to try and take history outside of the African context.
Not true. Somalis are the most Homogenous people in that area and they were literally in the middle of the Silk Road. The only reason why Hebesha. Show up as part middle-eastern is because they used to rule yemen at one point and the same couldbe said for arabs they’re usually mixed with either Ethiopian, Bantu or European depending on which area they’re from
@@JackChit-pv3dj autosomal DNA tests shows the average of yours are not. Stop lying you fool. NorthAf and EastAf both still debated are just the oldest Homosapiens places remaining,
We know that during the Paleolithic times from mid to lower, the genetic pool of southwestaf were already splitted and differed from the NorthEast ones who is litteraly at the origins of everyone in the world.
You’re an old admixtures of ancient NorthAf farmers with lates Nilotics ancestors that were hunters gatherers mostly from the Nubians, thats why the lightest of yours still looks strikely similar to an average northaf.
the Austronesians origins as the Mongols origins came trough the oldest Paleolithic times, not the Lower Period to the Neolithic revolutions.
dont confuse chronology.
neanderthalians denisovians austronesian and mongols all of them passed originally from North or East Africa, nilotics ancestors proto-nigerocongolese are thoses who never left.
as for you, your ancestors mixed with the Nubians, while NorthAf and MidEastern from the LowerPaleolithic times to the Neolithic revolution mostly mixed between themselves sinces the very start.
autosomal studies shows clearly that NorthAf and MidEastern both are the closest relatives before anyothers groups in the world. Even Kush as his forfathers brothers and uncles all of them came from Mesopotamia.
we are much more homogeneous than you like it or not. sorry my somali brother.
The connection between East Africa and Indonesia/Malaysia is well substantiated. The Malagasy people of Madagascar are Austronesian in origin with admixture from African peoples coming over from the continent. The Malagasy language is an Austronesian language. However, there have always been more recent seafarers from SE Asia to the Arabian peninsula and East Africa for hundreds of years, so it's very plausible if he gets a read of SE Asian or even Chinese. I would imagine that most if not all Eritreans would have a similar genetic make-up as he, so yes, he is Eritrean. Eritreans are made up of East Africans, Middle Easterners, and a little Asian. "Adopted" haha - she's f*ing with him just like he did with her about being 30% Chinese. Of course that's his real mom, I can see the family resemblance.
Yes - immediately thought of ancient trade, particularly The Austronesian Maritime Trade Routes, which included Maritime SE Asia (Malaysia, etc.) & Eastern Africa & The Middle East
Indeed.
East Africa is not a monolith, in history, ethnicities, or migrations. Madagascar's history has nothing to do with Eritrea's.
When it comes to DNA testing companies like these, they're often terribly inaccurate when it comes to customers from the Horn of Africa. They lump markers unique to Horners as "North African" or "Middle Eastern". It could be due to a lack of samples from people of this region or perhaps they simply fail to consider that there's an error at all. 23andme has a bigger database on these populations and actually puts in effort to properly categorize groups from that region (they also include Ethiopian Jews as a result).
There are Horners who got similar results as this young man but got different (and more accurate) results from 23andme. That's why I encourage most people from Northeast Africa to go with 23andme over other companies.
@@senecak1345 Is Ancestry DNA an accurate test for North East Africans?
@@Meccarox Not at all, Ancestry DNA is wildly inaccurate when it comes to Africans and especially northeast Africans. 23andme is the only company that saw the errors in the results it provided them and actively sought out more northeast Africans to create a proper reference.
Oceanian is something I haven't seen come up much at all in DNA results. Would love to see more results from people from aboriginal communities in those countries, it would be really interesting.
I’ve seen black people come up with it but very rarely since those people are so isolated
I’m Somali and also got Melanesia / oceana of about 1% too. Weird
@@hodana8576 it’s probably because of trade between the Sultanates and Kingdoms.
One thing also to consider is that there was trade between East Africa and Asia though out history. There was even a small minority group in South China called Topazes which were the descedants of Afro Portugese who settled.
For what it's worth Ethiopia and Eritrea share ethnic/populations groups. The Tigre people share some history with their neighbors in Ethiopia; while the separate Tigrinya people are close cousins to the Tigrayans in Ethiopia. It wouldn't surprise me if all three of these groups share common ancestry. Ethiopia and Eritrea also shared a partial government from 1950 to 1958 or so.
Sounds like SuperGebar needs to test more family members!
Very good comment. People must keep in mind that the borders of a state were probably imposed in the last few centuries. Ethnic groups, tribes and communities may fall on either side of a border.
Breh I'm Tigre we don't really share much with Ethiopia except DNA.
@@verysmartultrahuman939 that's the whole point, it shouldnt be surprising if you take a dna test as an ethiopian/eritrean and it says you are the other.
Tigre, Tigrigna and Amharic languages all came from Geez. I am talking about language now and not culture . I am Eritrean tigre from lowerland of Eritrea and I am tribal man. If you tell my people we have common thing with Ethiopia, they will cut off your head. It is actually insulting because Ethiopia is seen as enemy due to the bloody war we had with them and we have nothing common with them. Our dress is different, our foods are different and even our religions are different. Tigre Eritrea and Tigrigna Eritrea are very close to each other. Tigrigna Ethiopia and Amharic people are foreigns to Eritrea.
@@yaya2006 Tegrena-speaking people in Eritrea and Ethiopia are one ethnic group, and they are related to Amhara people, as well as to Tigre people because many Tigre people are descended from Tegrena-speaking immigrants who settled in the lowlands centuries ago. Other Tigre groups are of Bega or Saho origin.
Eritrea have 9-11 ethnic groups
Ethiopia have 84-90 ethnic groups
Both countries share some ethnic groups . Specifically, Eritrea shares ethnic groups with Sudan, Djibouti, Egypt, and Yemen. I am not really surprised with the results. Plus there have been a lot of trade in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean
Also Abyssinia empire used to have half of Sudan Ethiopia Eritrea Djibouti Somali and Yemen
@@Mesfin887 around 1000 BC the Kingdom of Saba'a in South Arabia ruled some parts of the horn of Africa and semties South Arabian migrated to some parts of the Horn of Africa.
Around ~ 500 AD the Ethiopians invaded and occupied south Arabia for some decades.
Yup Kushetic, Nilo-Saharan, Arabic, Jews, Sub-Saharan African groups to name a few
@@yakmi1116 that is completely false, they did not rule at all it was a relationship of trade and cultural exchange and nothing more. They did not rule and neither was there a mass migration. No significant influence has ever been found and the oldest scripts lie in Eritrea not Yemen
@selrell no your information is incorrect I'm afraid. Axum was a kingdom that was a continuation of civilisations in the horn, the relationship between those in the Arabian peninsula and the horn was one of cultural exchange and trade. They never ruled and neither is it supported by evidence. The Axumites ruled over Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia. So no Saba did not rule over the Axumites and Saba is most definitely an Ethiopian term in the first place.
Sometimes people, like myself take DNA tests merely to verify stories which have been in our family from way back. I not only wished to verify the truth of these rumours, but was eager to find out how recently we had been related. I was absoultely thrilled to have not only the stories verified, but to find out that the relationships were much closer than had previousy been thought. This opens up many new doors of discovery to me - just the beginning of my exciting journey!!!
They should offer discounted or free dna tests for people from such places that they don’t have data from.
@woro2000 - They need you on their marketing teams!
I’m going to watch this on his channel also. He’s hilarious 😂
As a Somali it should be a crime to list Ethiopians/Eriterean as middle-eastern 😂. The Hebesha dynasty was at one point from southern sudan to southern Yemen. So essentially it’s like saying your sons are your fathers.
You confuse the Oldest Paleolithic Humans Migrations with the Neolithic Revolution from Mesopotamia 😂😂😂 you’re crazy as hell go study more you CHILD
I appreciate your knowledge of Black and African ancestry and how you try to understand others points of view. I would like to hear more about your Jamaican Jewish ancestors: their story and the research techniques for Jamaica.
Who is Jamaican?
Slave owner
Eritrea was one of the chosen land . They have the highest iq too. Geez is older than Hebrew .
Haqi❤
Ashkenazi jews actually have the highest IQ of any "ethnic group." Google it.
That is what happens when you go into it, with expectations made of concrete. Then, even your Mom has to become a comedian. He really looks Eritrean, like the Eritrean melting pot. As a teen, I used to have a photo of a fascinating Eritrean soldier, on my desk. This young man looks similarly Eritrean, but thank goodness, he is a much happier individual. Ahh, it's so nice to be young and discovering 'the self.' May the big world be good to you but be good first, to yourself, to balance out the challenges it presents. 🙋🏻♀️
Eritrea was part of Ethiopia until 1991-1993. The country is a gateway to Sudan, Egypt and onto the Mediterranean from the gulf Aden. Across a very narrow strait lies Yemen and Saudi Arabia who have traded with India and further east for millennia.
I suppose it's a bit like People who claim 100% english only to discover Scots, Welsh and sub-Saharan African in their dna.
Was not part of Ethiopia. Historically inaccurate.
@@BF-bb5us The historical region and province of Amasen was in fact part of the realm of Christian Ethiopia prior to Italian colonization. It was part of the Empire of Aksum as well (Aksuman inscriptions record the name of that province)
@5:00 I believe you're talking about the Malagasy in Madagascar who are mixed with Bantu and Austronesia. They typically carry a Bantu Y and Austronesian Mt
So much prejudice gets a kick in the nuts when people have their DNA tested. It should be mandatory for everyone, and hereafter at birth.
A lot of mothers, girlfriends and wives of questionable loyalty are going to protest against mandatory [beep] test ( YT censors me anytime I use _the word_ ) . I think there does actually have some social movements who currently protests against it.
Eritrea and Ethiopia are the same historical region, I agree that, sometimes, these tests englobe people from close regions into one region.
@miyan3738 - Yes.
Bro please explain to him before he freaked out lol 😂
I think that was an episode with Keenan Ivory Wayans on Finding Your Roots.
I am Eritrean . It is my belief that during the bronze Eritrea was a melting pot of different people as is evidenced by the diversity of paternal and maternal haplogroups. E-V32, J1, E-V6- EV22 and low percentage of E-V34 are the most prevalent . Mtdna is also very diverse : L3i , M, N , U6
Eritrea's population have also e-m293,e-v1515 which are found in significant amounts
I'm Eritrean too. However, it amazes me when Eritreans think there is a specific Eritrean DNA. There isn't. Eritrea and Ethiopia are nationalities, not genes. If you are Habesha, then you're going to have Habesha DNA, the same as a Habesha from Ethiopia. Similarly, an Afar would share DNA with a Saho because they are both Cushitic.
@@Jafar.Jamal-175 I haven't seen much difference between Habesha and Cushitic Horner DNA. I am Cushitic and have V-32 and L3. I am seeing both Cushitic and Habesha carry this DNA on their results.
Habesha is a cultural description not an ethnic group. Majority of Habesha are ethnically Cushitic but speak a Semitic language. Their DNA still appears to be the same as other Cushitic Horners.
Most people in Africa who take the DNA test use the recent colonial and political boundaries to define themselves. They forget that before colonialism, African tribes and clans moved freely from one region of Africa to another. It is possible his great grandparents migrated from one region of Ethiopia to present-day Eritrea.
No in this particular case it is different. I'm Eritrean with similar proportions to his, but we have a very well documented written history unlike many fellow African traditions with oral histories. We have Church records and Proto-Judaic inscriptions and records indicating who is who and where the boundaries are. The few who migrated and mixed know at what point that happened in their family and why (famine, war, etc.). Being a smaller population also, the need to be very distinct about which tribe to preserve is critical. The reason why MyHeritage lumps most of us as Ethiopian Jews is not because we go back to Ethiopia...but rather the sample they got from people who claimed to be Ethiopian Jews originally had Proto-Judaic Semetic bloodlines from Eritrea and Yemen (the land of Sheba). Once it was Judaic, some members moved to North Ethiopia by our border and settled there and intermarried with the local like 3 thousand years ago. We still know who their descendants are. MyHeritage should not use then as the control sample but rather trace origins of the DNA sample to the aboriginal stock in Eritrea and Yemen as well as include other Eritrean and Ethiopian tribes which are not Jewish (e.g. Cushitic and Nilotic tribes) so that people can have a better idea of the different varieties of ancient races and civilizations which make up the Eritrean stock. I hope that clarifies things.
Looking at the My Heritage map, they don't have an Eritrean group, tye country is covered by Middle Eastern, and Central African. The Ethiopean Jewish group, neighbours Eritrea, and if you dig, it mentions an Eritrean population. So his findings are entirely consistent with the vast majority of his heritage being Eritrean, but it looks like he may have an interesting story of conversion to uncover. Though he seemed more surprised to be Ethiopian than Jewish.
@S R noo
The various ethnic groups of Madagascar were active in East Africa, that is where the probable Oceanic connection would be.
The Falasha Jews from Ethiopia and the vertiges of the residents of Aksum
Eritrea and Ethiopia is our root is Axum Saba semitic people
Hi GeneaVlogger. I am one of those people who stumbled upon the fact that my family has roots in Madagascar, and so many other seriously unexpected places that were NOT evident with just one DNA test. I would love to tell you some of my family stories - too much to write here. It has been one crazy journey!! Please let me know if you would like to know more & maybe you could help me with some brick walls.
Finding your roots episode was with Keenan Ivory Wayans in one his Y chromosome they found a connection with East African ancestry to the Malagasy people and that he had asian Y chromosome instead of African or European
I also checked My Heritage an found: Eritrea - top ethnicities
There is not yet enough data to show the most common ethnicities in Eritrea.
Select another country to view the most common ethnicities there. So, I checked Ethiopia: Ethiopia - top ethnicities
There is not yet enough data to show the most common ethnicities in Ethiopia.
Select another country to view the most common ethnicities there.
Where on My Heritage do you find this? Thanks in advance!
makes sense. Modern Eritrea was founded in 1869/70 by an Italian shipping company b/c of the Suez canal & before that the area was conquered/ruled by Ethiopia & the Ottoman Empire.
Another thing that was not touched on was although Eritrea has always been it’s own subsection/town post Italy colonization it was still lumped in and categorized as Ethiopia. We did not gain independence until 1991 I believe, many maps didn’t have Eritrea listed until 2006 and after. I remember due to telling a teacher this and she happily added a posted note with label and arrow ☺️
I'm not surprise from this result becouse we Eritrean people are mixed people
It would be interesting to see what his results would be with 23andme or Ancestry.
This is so much like if I was expecting my DNA to report that I'm American. I'm American, right? For generations, my family has lived in the US, a little bit of it was in Canada. I'm American!!
Well, that's not what I expect. I actually expect it to show where my people moved here from. Ancestry has added the colonies, saying a lot of my ancestors lived here, but that's not the entirety of my genetic history.
People have moved around. It's actually interesting to see where they migrated from.
And both Canada and USA are in North America.
I think this is the Finding Your Roots clip you were talking about.
ruclips.net/video/dYbH0OIGE4g/видео.html
Yep, that's it!
It drives me nuts sometimes seeing people take DNA tests. It should be a learning opportunity. Until I took a DNA test I didn't realize the extent of population migrations and mixing as I do now. It caused me to really go in depth and learn a lot about the world and how borders were meaningless and that early man endured and spread everywhere and had no qualms about mixing with other populations. On another note, I've done MyHeritage, FTDNA, 23andMe, Ancestry and a couple of others and MyHeritage is very limited in populations.
Eritrea use to be a northern province of Ethiopia before they actually got their independence in 91. So Eritrea is basically Ethiopia, same people, tradition and culture. Politics is what sets them apart.
That is false
You don't have a clue, seems like you read a small paragraph out of the white man's history book, and now you feel like you have an understanding of our history. I will just give you a few important points to help you realise how mistaken you actually are. Then maybe you could do some research, perhaps ask an actual Eritrean about their history.
Eritrea was given to Ethiopia by the British, to serve their own and USAs interests because Haile Selassie was their ally and puppet. The Red Sea which belonged to Eritrea not Ethiopia, hence the need for the forced coalition, was strategically important for the British and USA. That was the only reason the British gave Eritrea to Ethiopia, after the italians were defeated in the WW, and they were deciding what to do with the occupieds lands they now had power over. We are not the same, some Eritrean tribes have similarities with certain Ethiopian tribes, but that is it, and you could say the same about literally all neighbouring African countries, but as far as being one....no before the colonialists got involved Ethiopia never ruled over us and we never ruled over them!!! Each tribe had their own rulers, and systems in place, and they often did have tribal conflicts between each other, but never did Ethiopia rule over Eritrea, or vice versa. Except like I said, when the British gave Eritrea to Haile Selassie their personal lapdog/ally in 1952, against the wishes of the Eritrean people who unanimously voted against this. That is why fought for 30 years for our independence, against Ethiopia who was backed in the form of weapons, intelligence and personnel by the British, USA, Russia, Cuba at various times during that 30 year war.
We are not the same, similar in some ways yes but not the same.
Be careful throwing out insulting comments like Eritrea is basically Ethiopia.
Eritrea was only a province of northern Ethiopia, since 1952, and that was by force. So what about before 1952??? Or do you think we only came into existence in 1952? We have a long and ancient history that precedes the colonialist history books you seem to be quoting. Please stop misinforming people!!! Its insulting.
People in Africa needs to learn the difference between nationality and race. Land Borders are charged all the time. New nations are born and old nations are renamed.
I saw a eritrean get 5 percent arabian and 2.5 percent greek and he was like tf 😂
But understand that the Africans heritage is every important, defines who they are. We need more testing of Africans who are in Africa for others in other places to know with more DNA details.
the guest from Finding your roots is Damon Wayans!
My sons show 28% Native American via MyHeritage, the Issue is that they show roughly 10 points higher that the other commercial companies. Their NA is from their paternal grandmother. My (mom) NA is on the low end across the testing companies, about 2.5, even at MyHeritage. I truly hope they are not inflating NA to draw in customers
Some Ethiopian Jews migrated to Eritrea relatively recently. This could be one explanation. The father of comedian and actor Tiffany Haddish is an Eritrean of Ethiopian Jewish ancestry, while her mother is African American. The comic gets in touch with her Eritrean father’s Ethiopian Jewish roots in the movie “Black Mitzvah”.
By the end of 2008, there were 119,300 people of Ethiopian Jewish descent in Israel, including nearly 81,000 people born in Ethiopia and about 38,500 native-born Israelis (about 32 percent of the community) with at least one parent born in Ethiopia or *ERITREA* (formerly part of Ethiopia).
Going back to Haddish, in December 2019, she decided to have her Bat Mitzvah ceremony at age 40. Reform Rabbi Susan Silverman, the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, officiated.
Haddish became a naturalized citizen of Eritrea on May 22, 2019, while taking part in festivities there commemorating the 28th anniversary of Eritrean independence from Ethiopia.
So it is not like it’s not plausible that an Eritrean might have unknown Ethiopian Jewish ancestors who assimilated.
Yeah, we have had a synagogue in the capital city that we call Asmara Synagogue (Hebrew) בית הכנסת של אסמרה, since 1900s. There were many Eritrean -Jewish for sure.
There are no native Jews in the territory of Eritrea. Jews are from Israel. The Ethiopian Jews (Falasha) are of Agaw origin. It should be common knowledge that all Tegrena and Amharic-speaking peoples are of Agaw origin and are in fact roughly genetically identical. They also share common ancestry predominantly with other Cushitic peoples of Northeast Africa and the Amazigh peoples of North Africa from prehistoric times.
Eritrea 🇪🇷 is nice county.
Please Etirea Is the North Korea of Africa.
@@sophiawilson8696 whatever you delusional agame! Eritrea is the best in the world.
@@sophiawilson8696 - It is not up to you to male such a pronouncement on behalf of everybody else on the planet. You do not have to love the country, but obviously @awettesfandrias3395 does. Who would I be inclined to believe - the kind person or the nasty person?
I seen a video about the three big dna tests and had twins tested and their test came back that the weren’t even related..
Then they went to a Specialist that works with DNA and they told him about the tests results and he laughed and said that the test are for entertainment and when pin pointing where people come from it’s more of guess then being 100 percent correct..
Someone should explain to him that it’s not just where his mommy and daddy are from, because the country that he associates with has only been around since 1991. The tests go back about 20 generations, so his ancestors surely didn’t consider themselves to be Eritrean.
The test go back 8 genetic generations depending on the service. Also their algorithms vary as well
somebody should explain to you that ERITREA and its people has been THERE FOREVER the only problem was that it was under so many colonies. you should read history ERITREA WAS NOT CREATED in 1991. It was freed from all the enemies in 1991 after so much blood shed and sacrifies!!!
Eritrea is an ancient country , only thing that changed is it’s name. Go do your research of Medri behari or the land of punts! Civilisations started in Eritrea.
@selrelleritrea was a distinct entity to say it didn't exist before 91 is seriously inaccurate.
Oh dear. The history of what is now Eritrea spans thousands of years and was called Medri Bahri. Please do research before commenting.
I never heard of of it, this is a new ethnic background before now. This is very interesting.
Heck even European ancestry is tricky because we think of Europe with its modern borders. I should have strong German DNA (in the 15-25% range) but genetically I only get a hit of about 3%. Why? Because they weren’t German as we think of it. While they spoke German, had German names, were Lutheran, they lived in what is now Poland. And guess who got a strong hit for Polish?
So my DNA just got updated on Ancestry. Included now is 1% Ethiopian & Eritrea. I had little to no knowledge of this region, so I'm watching videos. I'm in the United States.
Welcome brother you share 1% with us😊 am Eritrean am kind of scared to do it, but I always know we are mixed my dad use to tell me we are from Yemane ,Israel and African at the time I did believe him but when I see it growing up I see what he meant, you can see the skin tone,hair texture so on and I am believe 💯% Eritrean but people think differently they approach me with languages that I don’t understand thinking am one of them, I had so many people come up to me speaking Portuguese,Spanish,Arabic,Bangladeshi and the one still I can’t believe was when a lady came up to me for help in my work place speaking in Philippines 🤷♂️ but it depends on how my hair and my beard looks like at that time if I shave it or grow it. am international.
@@henynua3405 if your dad says stuff like that then i doubt he‘s eritrean
It's possible that the Jewish part of his family history was obscured because of discrimination - if at some point his Jewish ancestors were made to convert or hide their ethnicity/beliefs. Could explain why the percentage is so high but he was unaware of it
Ethiopian jews are converts not ethnic jews. They’re not rlly genetically distinct from other Ethiopian highlanders.
American actress Tiffany Haddish, her dad according to her is from Eritrea and she claims Jewish ancestry as well.
@@heluye7657Ethiopian Jews are indeed ethnic Jews with a very ancient heritage. They are not descendants of converts and this is a genetically unreliable claim at all . Probably their ancestors migrated from the Middle East to Africa and married local populations
I do hope the results spurred him to research his family history, as well as his ethnic population groups.
People just don't understand that DNA doesn't adhere to political borders.
@krcmaine - Very true.
It's easier for white people to lump Africans as one group, but we are not. Even within Bantu we are so diverse Genetically and physically.
Within horn of Africa, we have groups that are so diverse from each other than the entire Caucasoid people combined, but for foreigners you just assume these are tribe's that are related to each other. In real sense, some of us are the founding DNA that produce all other Human beings and we maintained separate Identity and separate cultures from each other groups, within Africa for thousands of years.
Africa has mote diversity than all the rest of the world.
I heard some.dummy say Ethiopians aren't true Africans they are mixed with whites because the.arabs 😂 1st Arabs aren't even white lmfaoo and 2 east Africa isn't west Africa. They aren't gonna look west.african lol! Thats even dumber then sayin north euro whites are part central Asia because the Aryans originated in central Asian and all the South euros are all part arabians and n African mongrels 😂
There are 89 ethnic groups in Ethiopia and 9 ethnic groups within Eritrea. There's an overlap of specific ethnicities that settled in the central to north of Ethiopia and central-south Eritrea (Specifically Amhara, Tigryna, and Tigre, also known as Habesha )... That explains why there's a lumping of the ethnic group. Because they are all Semitic descent and share a vast amount of DNA. Abyssinia & Kingdom of Aksum were vast empires that included parts of modern-day Yemen, Ethiopia, and Eritrea once upon a century.
Keep in mind Eritrea was once part of Ethiopia. Eritrea gained its independence in 1993.
No we were not part of Ethiopia we were given by the English to be with Ethiopia with force, we were never part of Ethiopia pls stop spreading lies. Ethiopians tried to colonise us and kill my people so we can never be the same or we was never the same we have different traditions and ideologies and we got our independence in 1991, where r u getting ur information from?? U r so misinformed
This young man's main problem is he does not know the history of his country.
Keenan Wayans was the guest from finding your roots.
Hi Jarrett, I just watched this video with the young man from Eritrea. When you read his dna breakdown of areas, you mentioned he has 1.6% Melanesian. I have 1.4% Melanesian listed in My Heritage DNA. I had AncestryDNA and 23 & Me DNA done also but no Melanesian shows up in the last 2 DNA kits mentioned. As I listen to your explanation in the video, it does make sense to me. I’m still very curious as to how/why I am the only one in my family that Melanesian appears. I had 3 siblings, 1 nephew and my 2 sons all taken My Heritage DNA test kits. Can you think of why my siblings wouldn’t show any Melanesian?
The amount of DNA we inherit from each ancestor is random, within a certain range. 1.6% is quite small, showing it is from an ancestor far back. It would make sense that over that many generations, the others inherited less from that ancestor or line and so it does not show.
It probably was an error
Not evey sibling will get the same amount of the dna. Some will get just a tiny bit some will get none and some will get a larger portion.
Maybe because that parents pass down some DNA to one child but they pass some other DNA to other children, so some DNA will appear in one child but not the other.
Call your mother. Lol 😂
Does Mr GeneaVlogger get in contact with the people he features and help them understand the results? Since he is using them as his content, it seems to me that he owes it to him.
Comedian actor Keenan Ivory Wayans was Melasian. Black people who have ancestors who came from Madagascar have this DNA. Madagascar us a country mafe of Africans and Indonesian mix population. They brought some Africans to the Americas from Madagascar
I'm Ethiopian(Tegaru) but I got 100% Eritrean. I don't think it can be possible to find a marker for Ethiopian jew. The test was a complete waste of money.
Tegrena-speaking people are one ethnic group. We are both Habasa. Even Amhara people are genetically similar to Tegrena speakers.
No wonder the Eritrean man that you have Ethiopian Jewish, I am Eritrean from Adikeih, I got my DNA result and shocked me when I saw I have 33.8% Ethiopian Jewish recently
That normal Eritrea ist Not that old it was aksum or abesinia but Not Ethiopia too. The europeans devided africa
Extended family on myheritage is 1st-2nd cousins
Distant relatives are 3rd cousins onwards
What are the historical migration patterns of the people of Eritrea ? That would be the first question I think. Just based on common sense it seems like the people migrated here and that’s the ancestral background of Eritrean people.
In many countries in Africa, the Arab world, and the Turkish world, people only look for fathers. It doesn't matter where the mother comes from, it doesn't make any sense to say I'm from that country.
Question... There's a bunch of people in my family who are adopted. Some of them have done DNA testing but have the information private because the adoption was closed and to respect the biological parents wishes, they aren't publicizing that they were given up for adoption. Is there a way for an adoptee to connect their family tree to the family they were adopted into or do these only provide that service for biological matches? I think it would be fun to connect to distant relatives but because my mom wasn't biologically related to them, we don't seem to have that option 🙁
Yes, Geni has had this as an option for years! It is done in a way so if they decide to also include their biological family, they will still be connected to both family trees. In fact, they even have an option to also add Foster parents - help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229703627-How-can-I-add-adoptive-foster-parents-to-the-tree-
@@GeneaVlogger thank you!
@@GeneaVlogger will they allow for trans and non binary people to add that information if they wish?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 This is so funny. I think I am going to get mine, to see how high my “Somalilander” percentage is 😂😂😂?!!!!??????!!!
I'm from Eritrea too. I got same result.
If your Ethiopian or Eritrean(north east african) you shouldn't be surprised if u got middle east or south arabian or other semetic roots like jewish(israel) - b/c this part of africa ( northeast / horn of africa ) r mixed with the semite people 50% so we are more semetocushite people,
We can say that Ethiopian itself means east africa and southarabia together
+ north african like amazigh/berber of Morocco etc... like 20%
+ far east asian 1-1.2% (b/c u might have south east african / Madagascar which is related genetically with Australia & asian like india indonesia or Malaysia.
& of course other neighbor african 2-10% like central and south african....😌👍💚💛❤️
I'm Eritrean and plan on taking a test. Just iffy on which one to go with! Any suggestions??
If some people had knowledge about Geography they would know that Eritrea is bordering Ethopia. It is literally one land separated by border.
Most people in africa don’t understand that most African countries borders where made in the 1920 to 1930s
He should look at a map of Africa 🌍 and that alone should tell him where the Ethiopian ancestry comes from. They were basically one country
No they weren't. That is historically inaccurate. Medri Bahri which is now Eritrea was not part of Ethiopia. Speaking the same language does not make them one and not unusual in any part of the world
@selrell yes, that happens all over the world sharing languages. They were not one nation.
Ethiopian is a nationality not an ethnicity, about 80 different ethnic groups are native to the country and live there. "Ethiopian ancestry" doesn't make sense to begin with.
@@BF-bb5us The office and title of baher negash was created by an Ethiopian emperor and the Tegrena-speaking people of Eritrea are predominantly of Tegrean origin or admixed with Tegrean emigrants. Not even Amhara people differ from Tegrena-speaking people from a genetic point of view. Eritrean nationalists are fighting a losing battle. A national identity that is based on colonialism and false narratives is not meant to endure.
@@BF-bb5us - DNA does not care about artificial country borders, no matter how old they are.
Most if not all people commenting including the "Eritrean" guy seem to be oblivious about history as if they have never read any credible historical book of that region. I am from a land geographically situated in what is now called "Eritrea," in ancient time it used to be called "Adulis" also known to outsiders as "Punt" etc. My so called DNA test came out as "70% southern Arabian region indicating what is now an area covering modern day Yemen and the Res Sea coast," "12% Beja region east of the Nile River on the Sahel area," "2% a region covering the Afar desert", 6% Sahel region west of Nile River, plus some scattered percentages of the northern Red Sea coast of Africa 5%, and 5% of a collection of places that I've never heard before lol😂. DNA test is just a fun sport, it is not a pin point accurate, but I'm not surprised of the interesting result, because I know the history of the region and I have long known about my heritage since childhood.
I am from Eritrea and my grandparents from my mother side are from Tigray. My results are similar to him lol
AFRICA
Ethiopian Jewish
51.2%, North African 13.0%, Somali 7.1%, Nigerian 5.3%
MIDDLE EAST
Middle Eastern
21.6%
ASIA
Inuit
1.0%, Japanese and Korean 0.8%
I was surprised by the percentage but I don't know why he was so confused.
@Big Niggs Tegrena and Amharic speaking peoples are in fact roughly genetically identical and share ancestry predominantly with other Northeast and North African peoples from prehistoric times.
Well Ethiopian and Eritreans are very closely related. The Tigre people of Ethiopia and the Tigrigna people of Eriteria have the same language (but different dialect), same cultural clothing, same food etc... not to mention they were the same country till 1993. I have roots in both countries so I have experienced the similarities and differences in both cultures but at the end of the day, Ethiopians and Eritreans are 'Habeshas'.
I think you mean "Tgrayan" because "Tigre" is a whole different ethnicity. There is Tigrinya, Tigrayan, and Tigre.
Tigray *
It’ll probably be hard to pick out Eritreans from the data, as it only got independence from Ethiopia in 1991, and the modern borders haven’t existed for that long (mid 19th century) so with that date, he kind of can’t be from Eritrea even if his family did not move around, as the geo-political side has shifted. Plus, if there’s so few testers in Eritrea, perhaps the result accuracy is more volatile.
Eritrea was not part of Ethiopia. It was a distinct area with its own kingdom with rhe exact same borders as now. It is a western fallacy to say it didn't exist prior it is historically inaccurate.
True
Modern day Eritrea was originally created in 1898 not 1991 by the Abyssinians and Italians according to The treaty of wuchale. It was a distinct area also known as Medri Bahri they have their own records of books and history that has been preserved.
@@BF-bb5us They don't want the world to know about Eritreas existence.
I’ve always pronounced Eritrean with the stress on the penultimate vowel. Is that wrong? Is it a British thing?
If you know the politics of Eritrea, his test and reaction is hilarious 😭
Apart from the Malagasy hypothesis of Asian genes in Eritreans . Yemen, South Arabia and Eritrea has extensive trade relations with South Asian and South East Asia and they also trade in humans . Some South East Asians may have been traded to thee regions. The Other hypothesis is religion. During the last 300 years many people from the Islands of SEAsia went to Arabia for both trade and the Haj. Many if them stayed on in Mecca and Jeddah and these places have trade relations with Eritrea ad Yemen. So one ancestor from those parts may have descendants who migrated to Eritrea.
Most of Oceania has malay ancestry (which comes from Malaysia & Indonesia so since it's there malaysian makes sense too
do u know professional folks that do DNA privately so one is not a part of 23 and me etc?
You can use a fake name and email, and set your account to private, if that helps.
He really might be more Jewish than he thinks, but there are other explanations. He could have no Jewish DNA at all (none to speak of), but his three distant (Jewish Eritrean) relatives share some non-Jewish Eritrean ancestors with him. So it would not be about him being Jewish, but rather that every other Eritrean on MyHeritage is Jewish. Consider:
1. Maybe Eritrean Jews are more eager than other Eritreans to get a DNA test. 2. MyHeritage is based in Israel. 3. Eritrean Jews might choose to test with MyHeritage; Non-Jewish Eritrean might prefer other companies, or not test at all.
About being adopted, I didn't quite catch whether his mother is joking. It was fun, and I will go and watch the original video next.
Approximately 2500yrs ago (approx) a lady a Queen came North to meet King Solomon. They had kids in Israel and those kids went South with her as she thus she had to go Back to Ethiopia in East Africa just South of Egypt. As it says Biblical that King Solomon let Levite’s go an they made a Temple there for Adonai. YES, I am Jewish.
I got 25% Ashkenazi and higher Middle Eastern percent eventhough both my pparents are Eritreans. I am still surprising by the result. I expected to get Ethiopian Jewish and from Sub Saharan, but none of them. I didn't believe the result🤔
The Ethiopian jews they used to be living in Eritrea
Eritrea 🇪🇷 is nice county
@@milla411 some 80,000 Ethiopian Jews from the Eritrea, Shire/Tigray, North Gondar/Amhara moved to Israel near the end of the 20th century. What’s a fake Jew?
Eritrea was part of Ethiopia for thousand of years the 1890s when Italians captured the region. They really Ethiopians!
It’s the way they label the results. You will not find anything that says Eritrean from language, history and DNA. Everything about Eritreans is labeled as Ethiopian.
Keeping it simple some people traveled all over the world 😂and some did not venture too far from their home😊
He’s probably not Jewish to be honest, if an Ethiopian or Djiboutian world to take the test from that company specifically they would come back similar results. This probably just lack of info in the company part as like you just said, “Ethiopian Jewish” was most likely lumped in many various ethnicities.
Eritrea is literally right next to Ethiopia..and he's shocked that he's Ethiopian?
Eritrea is a political entity, not ethnic. Ethiopian is political and ethnic.
First of all, there is no such identity called Eritrean until in recent decades. The term itself is an Italian. All today's Eritreans, Tigrayans in Ethiopia and the Amharas in Ethiopia all have similar origins.
Hey can you help me out my daughter was classified as Yemenite Jewish but My Heritage has a Jewish bias? I am thinking this is closer to Yemenite Arab which honestly makes more sense. When I called My Heritage they let me know that don’t have a population sample for Yemenite Arab so they default to Yemenite Jewish. I’m my opinion that’s not to accurate. Please help me understand. Is there another company that doesn’t have a Jewish bias her father is Yemeni and he’s confused and said it’s BS. As you know Jews and Arabs hate each other so I just want to know the truth. I just don’t want them trying to reach some artificial numbers to pad their favorite ethnicities. I am not interested in that.
Eritrian and ethiopian both are habeshas
Not all eritreans and Ethiopians are habasha ://
I've noticed a lot of Ethiopians, Somalians and Eritreans are very proud people, but are not aware of their ethnic admixture. His response is very similar to other people of that region who have taken a DNA test on RUclips. I would think they would know that African, Middle Eastern, Italian and Asian influences make up their culture. To me its evident in their music, language, food and dance....its very Arabic/Middle eastern influenced. Add to that, DNA doesn't have man made borders and shouldn't always be able to decipher an Ethiopian Jew from an Eritrean if they have the same DNA, just because they renamed the region. On a side note, I watch SuperGebar's channel and he is VERY talented, intelligent and creative. His mother is a gem as well.
Lol boy stop we have our own culture and dances that aren’t influenced. And most Horn Africans don’t have Italian or Asian dna we have ancient middle eastern dna that goes back as far as 3000+ and that goes for everyone in the world. Arabs and North Africans have more ethnic admixture ancient and recent in their dna than Horn Africans; we for most maintained our genetics. We’re homogenous culturally and linguistically we don’t speak Arabic or Italian or whatever you’re thinking we have our own ancient languages in the Afroasiatic language branch; we share similarities with other Afroasiatic languages like Berber and Arabic but they are completely different languages. Do not undermine our ancient history and culture that’s 20000+ years old if you don’t know anything about the Horn of Africa region I suggest you do research.
I did ancestry Dna and have 95% Somali and 5% Ethiopian
No that is false. The language and culture have ancient roots that have nothing to do with the middle east and are not arabic influenced. This is very wrong you should also know that arabic borrowed from ge'ez not the other round
I’m pretty sure he is Ethiopian Jewish. The funny thing is the region of Ethiopian that Ethiopian Jews “originate” borders Eritrea. The test is not lumping Ethiopians Jews with regular Ethiopians or Eritreans. lol
Ethiopian and eritrian have same historical bakeground ethiopa and aritria are the north koria and south koria of africa
How the company able to tell if someone has jewish dna??? Just because they have middle eastern dna and moved from middle east to all over the world doesn’t mean they are jewish. Many syrian, iranian, iraqi, egyptian, yamani did traveled to all over the world as part of trading/merchant route back then!!!!
I mean he looks a mix of middle eastern and black african 🤷🏽♀️
Some people are very nationalistic… try telling them they look mixed with anything else and it’s a fight 🤣
thats what most east africans look like though.
@@ancientpolyethnic2898 tell us we are mixed with anything. But calling Eritreans , Ethiopian is an insult. Death is better for us than being called Ethiopians.
Middle east a modern geographical term there was no middle east back then.
At the time they were not considered Middle Eastern. They were just humans that settled across the small body of water that separates East Africa from Asia.