You are my new “go to DNA utuber”...I trust your remarks & thoughts very much....

About the Iberian DNA part: People from Iberia were heavily engaged in trade with the British, Britain was the main source of tin. There is also the myth of the Milesians, one of the groups who supposedly settled Ireland; they came from what is now Spain. There's also the Galician myth of Breogán, which is basically the Milesian story. So, it's entirely possible that Iberian DNA would appear in the results of people who haven't had a connection with what is now Spain or Portugal for a very long time.

@86upsmaya

3 жыл бұрын

Spain and North Africa are quite ckose too, Spain was even invaded by North Africans in the past, so Middle Eastern heritage is understandable. That guy was not so happy about that though

@Cosmicfraud3209

20 күн бұрын

They get very low.iberian the southrrn french have more

I’m from a Northern Ireland and my family is a mix of English, Scottish and Irish. The small percentages vary between different companies. MyHeritage (I uploaded my livingDna) gave me 3.9% Ashkenazi Jewish and 2.6% west Asian, neither of which show up in the other tests I took. Livingdna changed my small percentage of French/Spanish to 3% Balochistan (in Pakistan) in the last update, which is further away geographically. Ancestry gave me 2% Norwegian then took it away again in the next update. All the companies picked up the English/Irish/Scottish, but the small percentages vary widely across companies so I am not sure of I can believe any of the small percentages

@Datacorrupter234

2 жыл бұрын

the jewish and the other parts you mentioned arent that different from some of the ancient farmer dna all europeans have so it seems very plausible to me that its probably just noise, my dad had a similar result as you 8% basque (hes 100% english welsh irish) but none of his kids got any amount basque or southern related dna in our results..well after the update it said im now 1% basque. At the end of the day these tests test for certain things and in related populations it can be indestinguishable from, but it doesnt mean you actually have any of that in youre ancestry in reality. Also myheritage seemed the least accurate

@drrd4127

Жыл бұрын

I got between 90-100 percent British and Irish between companies. One company said I was 90 percent British and Irish but the other companies said I was 100 percent British and Irish. I am from a rural village in central Scotland.

There was a monolithic culture that started on the Iberian peninsula and worked their way up to Ireland, so Iberian in an Irish person's test could just be because they share some genetic similarities and not as a result of any recent ancestry from Spain or Portugal. After all there is a Celtic language spoken in the Galician region of Spain.

@joeblow9275

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I just commented this. The Milesian story from Ireland and the Breogán story from Galicia. "Iberian" DNA is surprisingly common among people of British/Irish ancestry.

@gearoiddom

3 жыл бұрын

You are right in all the tie-ins you point out (monoliths, language, DNA). But we as Irish don't then automatically 'descend' from the Iberian setup. It may be that both the Irish and Iberian thing themselves descend from a common push from the eastern steppe. Galician is not 'celtic' at all. It is most certainly a latin tongue. However I have seen some proto-Iberian stuff with words similar to Gaelic (klounia-> meadow, ku -> hound). I've also seen words in Gaulish with a common root to Gaelic (lama -> hand, gobano -> god of metalwork). My guess (purely amateur) is that there is a common root in a Yamnaya culture that spread westwards, ultimately into European extremities. They tamed the first horses and brought Indo-European language with them. The DNA commonality originates with those people.

@joeblow9275

3 жыл бұрын

@@gearoiddom The Galician language is Romance, but the pre-Roman culture was Celtic.

@Cosmicfraud3209

20 күн бұрын

​@@joeblow9275iberians get Italian and n African.. 2:30 Irish don't they get like 0.5 percent Iberian so they are way diff

When I researched my son in law's Irish ancestors I discovered that many Irish descended ship-wrecked Spanish sailors.

My sister and I have tested with Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilyTree DNA and 23&Me and most are very comparable to one another EXCEPT MyHeritage. There numbers are WAAAAY off. They are top heavy on the Scandinavian results and have me with NO English at all when half of my ancestors have paper trails back to England to the 1500's and before. (The other companies show us as English.) I am also descended from several Mayflower Pilgrims. I hope they (MyHeritage) update their ethnicity results soon.

@chopsyoutube

3 жыл бұрын

same

@Ramian1

3 жыл бұрын

You do know how much Scandinavian dna the vikings brought to the british Isles in the 900's - 1000's, right?

@drrd4127

Жыл бұрын

My my heritage results matched my other results. I never got any Scandinavian though

I watch their channel too. Love them. I am waiting on My Heritage results to compare to my Ancestry and 23 & me. Might do a video.

I just commented on another video asking for this. So glad to see it's already been done, even more so that you watch their videos! Thanks so much for this

The one that is Amazonian could be derived from the Iberian visits to South American and back

These are the Try Channel ppl. I love them

I’ve done 23andMe, Ancestry DNA, and MyHeritage, and MyHeritage was definitely furthest off. 😂

@rockygirlstevenson3568

3 жыл бұрын

Was it furthest off from the other 2 or from what you know of your lineage? I am trying to decide what company to test with. Thank you

@dragonwings36

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. I've done Ancestry DNA, and LivingDNA, and when I uploaded my AncestryDNA results to MyHeritage I also got odd results. Greek/Italian is currently at 4.7% and Ashkenazi Jewish is at 3.4%. Irish/Scottish/Welsh got 53% and Scandinavian got 37.3%. Ancestry and LivingDNA definitely got more English/Irish/Scot with a smidge of Welsh. **shrugs** So I'd say MyHeritage is off with their ethnicity breakdown.

I personally find ancestry dna more accurate. However, its all still interesting.

@angelgoddess1981

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. I find ancestry.ca quite a bit more accurate and I've been able to go back to two 10x great grandfather's on my moms side❤

@TheSiobhan12

3 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@dragonwings36

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. My results from ancestry dna, when I uploaded them to my heritage, were a bit more varied with the results. Livingdna was closer to ancestrydna too.

@weejackrussell

7 ай бұрын

I did Ancestry and they adust ethnicity regularly due to learning more as sample sizes grow. I expected to be 25% Irish but they now have me at 35% and this now ties in with what I have recently learned about my family history.

When i started doing dna, i was surprised i had such little irish percentage (13%). However, now i know my ancestry more, its not a surprise. Some of my dads family came from england in 16 and 1700s. Mums came from wales, scotland and England. I was born here in ireland and lived here all my life

@Slapnuts9627

3 жыл бұрын

13% Is pretty decent, not what you would expect if you've been told you're Irish you're whole life though haha

@ianrushsmoustache2282

3 жыл бұрын

I'm actually surprised I got so much Irish DNA , my grandmother was Irish and I got 32%

@msartlit

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian :) . My father was born in the US. His parents came from Germany in 1840 and 1880 migrations. We've researched German ancestors and know the villages they all live in for 400 years prior to going to America. My mother's ancestors have been in North America since the 1600's. her father's side were of "English" (Scot, Irish, Welsh, Cornish) descent. Her mother's family was mostly Dutch, smattered with French, Indigenous Americans, English again these ancestors had been in North America 400 years already. There have been families that crossed back and forth over the US Canadian border almost generationally. It's still true today that my family is made up of wanderers. I have cousins, siblings, nephews and nieces who have dispersed now to include New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, Germany, And Thailand. I imagine 150 years ago these people would have left home never expecting to return. Now in the digital age we can chat, email and can be in contact daily. It's truly amazing.

This guy I'm pretty sure he has a great grandparent that's greek from cypress,but on his results it come up as italian,the guy with dark hair go tee beard likehe did another dna test talking about his family, myheritage just added genetic communities,but still hasn't updated their ethnicity estimate in about 5 to 6 years

My mother was born in Ireland while my father was born in Newfoundland over 100 years ago. When I did an ancestry DNA test the results were that I am 89 percent Irish. I have traced the paternal side of family being in Newfoundland to at least prior the US War of Independence. Looking at the family tree thr paternal side there are some links with the West Country England and Channel Islands. On the maternal side I see some relatives who have similarly high Irish profiles but others who still reside in Ireland have lower levels of Irishness.

So a lot of South Asians during the Empire were moved to the British Caribbean colonies, Trinidad and Guyana* especially. Guyana is on the mainland and it's southern half is in the rainforest, possibly that way. *Although Guyana and Suriname are on the mainland, culturally they are classed as Caribbean because it has more in common with the English/Dutch speaking islands of the Caribbean than Latin America.

3:40 The surname Costello is not Spanish, it's originally Coisdealbha

@abelnodarse1841

2 жыл бұрын

Is Italian

@fnansjy456

Жыл бұрын

Well Costello In ireland is an irish name of Norman (Norse/french) the name is an Anglicisation of Mac Oisdealbhaigh. There could be a similar italian name

My family has been in Canada for hundreds of years yet I am 59% Irish and 29% Scandinavian. They settled into communities and married within.

Did you know there is an area of Spain that was settled by Irish people. Makes sense that some of them would bring people back to Ireland

Thank you! I have been enjoying your videos. My own journey into genealogy testing finally made sense when my mitochondrial results arrived. My maternal Haplogroup H7c2 originated within Ashkenazi Jews. This explained both my connection to east European in my matches and to family teachings and traits. It also explained my autosomal results. Knowing of my Jewish connection however far back has had a profound effect on me. My maternal grandmother looked very Jewish and now I know why. Please do not dismiss mitochondrial testing. Somehow I can understand talks by Jewish rabbis. And I have instinctively never eaten shell fish. Pork is another matter. Sigh!

I bet that Indian woman "part Irish" but is actually British (Scottish and Welsh) from when Britian ruled India.

He did say that he had a Cypriot grandparent.

I would definitely expect to see Scandinavian in Irish people. Their royal family, in the classical period was Scandinavian. Irish males tend to have more British than Irish, and you only need to look at people to see there's a large Spanish admixture. Regarding the Ashkenazi, the first priests/monks are said to have been of that extraction.

I have submitted my same sample to multiple databases and the ethnicity result from MyHeritage was WAY off from the others, finding Ashkenazi Jew, Iberian, and Italian/Greek in my results when the others found only results from countries much further north. They were off over 12%. But MyHeritage is basing their estimates on comparisons to their database subjects and their database is ( presently) much more Mediterranean- centric than other DNA companies. And it is a new company with a smaller sample pool. But they are growing very fast and as they grow they will, like Ancestry and FTDNA, revise their ethnicity estimates in accordance with new data. And when they do, I fully suspect that a whole lot of previous test takers will find that “Ashkenazi Jew” is no longer listed in their ethnicity results. But there is an upside to mistakes like this. When you are told that you have in you bits of other cultures you know nothing about, you go out and try to learn more about them. Those foreign cultures then do not seem so alien to you and they start to have an appeal that sometimes can magically erase any unconscious biases you may have harbored against them in the past. And I don’t think those biases will come back after they learn it is a mistake. We all could benefit from such accidental anti- prejudice inoculations, couldn’t we?

Always fun to see you react to these. I wish you could SOMEHOW have your followers register to have their family tree done by you - or a particular line by a lottery of sorts. Or select a few fans and do a professional deep dive on the brick walls. (Some of us cannot afford to HIRE professionals because of our situations.) That would be very cool to view also. Actually if the states had a lottery where all you won was a professional genealogist - I would buy a ticket for that. I don't buy for the $$$$. And if you decide to do this - please do it on KZread because I don't know how to instagram or twitter at all - and don't facebook much either...heehee.

MyHeritage in 2017 seem to be a hit and miss. No way she has Amazonian natives DNA with the other DNA combination she had. Also, don't you think it's weird all have Jewish blood in a country that didn't have many Jews?

Since this video was made Ancestry now tells you which parent you inherit which ethnicity from. Some comes from both, some exclusively from one parent.

MyHeritage gave the strangest results of any of the three I did. Ancestry DNA and 23andMe were in agreement - identical British and Irish (84%). MyHeritage said I was 48% Scandinavian. 28% NW European, 17% Irish, Scottish, Welsh and 2.1% Italian. The really odd stuff is 3.2% North African which neither of the other tests show and there is no family history of it. So yeah, I don't know what to think about their results.

@givemesubsplz5698

3 жыл бұрын

Myheritage isn't accurate at all it is so rigged

MyHeritage is known to have a high percentage of false readings with ethnicities (Time for an update). The reason is, a DNA marker can be found predominantly found in South Asia (India subcontinent), but that same marker could also be found in South America and Italy, but to a lesser extent. Ancestry & 23andMe may have some sort of "sifting" with markers removing "noise" but MyHeritage seems to leave this noise and adjust against probability. This is why the one lady got South America, in my opinion. It doesn't mean she has ancestry from there, but her DNA marker is found in a percentage of DNA testers with that area of South America. They did this with my wife. She's Sindhi. I would give a DNA company a read showing Middle Eastern, Turkey or even Greek at a small percentage, but MyHeritage gave her Irish/Scottish/Welsh at 9% !!! It is more likely that her South Asian marker can be found in the UK isles, because South Asians do live in Ireland and UK and by having kids there, a % of people show the DNA. The other four DNA companies have her pretty much localized in the Indian subcontinent with some showing Middle East but at low percentages.

My DNA testing just confirmed the family lore except for a wee bit the was not actually a surprised. My dad’s family is Irish. My mom is Scottish and Welsh. It all was dead on result but the only unknown was .04 percent Scandinavian. I just figured there was a Viking raid at some time. But the family had it correct for the most part and we’ve been in America for hundreds of years, pre USA on my mom’s side. Dad’s family were 1840’s immigrants. It just seems like my kin didn’t get around much. My parents were more adventurous.

Which companies are most accurate regarding African and Asian ethnicities? I'm curious to know others' opinions

i have a question, my 23andme results gave an extremely high french german and ancestry only gave 5% but that was before the 23andme v5 chip which changed

Would it make sense for the Eastern European & Jewish to be coming from the same relative? I know lots of Jewish people escaped the Pale of Settlement to the UK in the 1880s and the EE + AJ = about a great grandparent. Just an idea.

confirm myheritage is bad for admixture

I think MH over-rates in some aspects the Ashkenazi Jewish aspect.... e.g. in MH I get 5.5% , in the last 23&Me Update I get 1.3% (at 50% confidence, at 90% it is 0.8%), at Ancestry I get 1% (before the last update, this was 2%), so the difference is kind of big considering the confidence levels.

I am mostly scottish and irish, but got Hungarian 8% and Scandinavian 10%. Apparently the Hungarians migrated to Ireland in large numbers a few thousand years ago, along with the Spanish Basque tribes. I also got 1-2% Basque and Ashkenazi Jews (a smidget).

Nooooo, Ireland isn't part of the UK. Saying that to an Irish person will get you slapped.

@pengy4792

3 жыл бұрын

Well technically .... Northern Ireland is a devolved constituent part of the United Kingdom. But who knows how long that will last after Brexit.

13:01 LOOK!!!

I think there is research to be done on DNA identification of people known to be descendants of converso ancestors. I have a paper trail back to a man from the Netherlands in the early 1600s who converted from Judaism to Christianity and came to the new world with the pilgrims. I haven't done my DNA but now I am curious as to how that would show up.

@hawkeyescoffee6399

3 жыл бұрын

I thought your comment was interesting so figured I'd have a go at working some answers out for you. I would think if you're talking about as far back as 1600s then you likely wouldn't see any reflection of his DNA in yours, primarily because the tests just aren't sensitive & accurate enough at that low a level; I don't know how old you are but if this were my tree then myself (being born in the 1970s) wouldn't see any of that original man's DNA reflected in my DNA test, I say this because: If he was genetically 100% Jewish, and assuming no other Jewish people married into his line of descendents then it would take approx 7 further generations (if inheritance were exactly 50% each time*), for it to become trace DNA of about 0.78%, and at such a tiny amount it's easy for it to be misread or over looked and confidence in it is low. So, assuming this guy (I'm calling him Mr X) was born around 1620, and allowing the average 30 years for each generation (of course some have a larger gap & others have less, but 30 years has been suggested as a good average), then the DNA would have taken about 210 years for a person to be born (around 1830) where the Jewish would be relatively unreliably detected at that 0.78% on a DNA test. Obviously, we do tend to see trace readings that are as little as 0.1% in some cases (usually with a very low confidence of course), and again, we're assuming the same conditions as before, then the descendant born 10 generations after Mr X would just dip below that 0.1%, so it may show as that tiniest trace ...but not necessarily (idk if they'd round up from 0.0976% to 0.1% 🤷), and that person would have been born around 1920 (again with estimated 30 years for each generation). Depending on your family's ages/date of births etc, you could _theoretically_ have a grandparent still alive, of course they'd be around by now (mybgrandmother was born in 1920, she'd 101 now, but that's not unheard of), or they could have done a test before they died, and they _might_ show that 0.1%. However, a further 3 generations (so 13 after Mr X) and you'd be down to 0.01% remaining of the original person's DNA and they'd be born around 2010, which means the next generation after that would be effectively 0.00%...again that's assuming that perfect 50% inheritance pattern each generation. *The problem is that inheritance isn't always 50% in each generation, and patterns of inheritance don't always follow a clean cut formula. I always use the example of my mum's Swedish grandmother on her paternal side (my dad's side shows no Swedish and neither does mum's maternal side): mum has this reflected as 30% Swedish in her DNA test results, if 50% held true each time it would be expected she would have had 25% but she doesn't, she has noticeably more than what you would expect, but then with her 30% it could then be expected my brothers and I would have about 15%... well, I have 14% (it did originally show as 8% but it increased with the last updates) so that's close enough, but my brother has 25%, so if we didn't know better and only had his results to go off we would likely assume that _he_ had the Swedish grandmother, when it's actually his great grandmother. So in their case the pattern of inheritance has been greater than 50% in both generations. Which, if that continues for each generation that original Swedish DNA could last a few generations longer in her descendants than expected & therefore could conceivably show as that 0.1% trace even after in a person born some 360 years later (possible? yes. Likely? Not so much, but can't be ruled out though). But to have that 30% from her grandmother, it also means that my mum would have inherited only about 20% from her grandfather. So, if patterns of inheritance were significantly higher than 50% from each generation from Mr X's grandchildren down, the Jewish DNA could have survived longer and may show in your parent or even your DNA (but the confidence in it could be very low). Alternatively, if the inheritance was lower than 50% in each generation then it would have disappeared a lot quicker and there would be absolutely no sign of it left in anyone living. All that said, it's entirely possible that someone with Jewish ancestry could have married into Mr X's descendents (your ancestors) and that would throw everything off, especially if they didn't know they had Jewish ancestry (or knew and kept it secret for their safety sake). I'm not sure it matters so much how much of his DNA is seen in yours though if you have the paper trail to him, that's far more interesting, I think. I believe that could all change if you have a direct male line (all males all the way back to him) to do y chromosome DNA testing, that may be of interest. So, yeah, doing your DNA may not show anything of him because he's just too far back, there's a very tiny chance you could see a 0.1% trace but it's equally as possible that his DNA hasn't been detectable for a good 5 or 6 generations. Testing may get more accurate and sensitive in the future but even if it does there's no saying there's anything left to detect. I hope something here has been interesting or of use to you in your curiosity. If it were me I'd still get the dna test just because you never know what it might show, there are always surprises to be had. If there's any mistakes or if it's incoherent then I apologise, it's 3am lol.

There were many Jewish merchants sailing around back in the day, especially from Holland and Germany. Many people in Iceland are getting traces amounts of Jewish, up to 4% because of that Jewish DNA floating around. Though there may not have been much mixing into the Jewish communities back in the day, it seems there was plenty of mixing out of it ;-)

@blahblahblahblah2837

3 жыл бұрын

I just watched The Dubliners' brief history of Dublin and it briefly mentions an influx of Jewish and Dutch to Dublin city in the late 17th century, who helped develop Dublin as a center of commerce. Wiki says there were Jews in Ireland from at least the 1200s! No doubt those genes would have filtered throughout into the population over time. How interesting

I'd ignore the MyHeritage and GEDMatch ethnicity guesstimates, take the FTDNA with a half pond of salt, and suggest 23AndMe, Ancestry, and LivingDNA could do better.

I am Scottish (with a Irish mother and Scottish father, my dad's grandmother was half English) My Heritage: 53 percent Scottish, Irish and Welsh, 47 percent British (which included Southern Scotland = 100 British and Irish. MylivingDNA: 47 percent Irish, 11 percent English, 39 percent Scottish, 3 percent Hallstatt culture, Austria (This is interesting because Hallstatt culture is proto-celtic culture) = 97 percent British and Irish, 3 percent Austrian.

Love your vids👍😀 I used MyHeritage and got results looking like this: 86% Nigerian; 8.5 West African; 2% Noth African Morroco Tunisia Egypt Libya Algeria; 1.9% Italian and 1% Kenyan. But the Noth African and Italian got me😀 What's your take on this result?😄 Love hear from you thanks👍

What is the best DNA company to go to please? I actually do have family trees going fairly far back - my dad’s to only about 1817 but we are pure Icelandic (unless the rescued a drowning fisherman or something!). I’m 4th generation Canadian but I still have distant relatives in Iceland. My mom’s family was traced back to around 1540 and that’s where a mix would get in. We should be mostly Welsh/Scottish/Irish but I’m wondering about any others especially Indigenous North American.

funny, I'm 97% Irish and 3% Ashkenazi, how the hell did that happen. all my grandparents got off the potato boat 120 years ago. We know our villages and counties and can trace every grave ging back hundreds of years, but somehow a Jew got assimilated into the family somehow. Funny enough my first job after school was working in a bagel store cleaning the dough tables and mixers for the Jewish bakers in New Jersey. . hehheehh

Awesomeness!

The iberian dna, jewish dna could be one dna as spanish used to trade and fight the British during war with them. Spain had allot of pirates, who helped muslims and jews escape the Spainish equisition, like famously Jack Birdy (yes he is original Jack Sparrow) who had become muslim, but continued piracy. I am guessing to dodge the British ships who usually would of jailed them as they hated each other, the spanish pirates went around England and went around to Ireland to drop them off. Thats my theory

66.3% Irish via 23 & me

As someone named Niamh, I'm very familiar with Facts/The Try Channel :-P lol

@TheSiobhan12

3 жыл бұрын

As someone named Siobhán so am I, wish one of them were from the north like i am but still loads of craic everytime I watch them.

Contact the Welsh Twins, Robert and James Welsh, pretty please?!

I imagine that the lady with South Asian ancestry could have had a British (subject) ancestor who served in the military (or was in the merchant trade) that led them to the Americas back in the 1700s or 1800s and hence the Amazonian results.

I used 23andMe first and got no Ashkenazi, but when my data uploaded to MyHeritage I got 4% Ashkenazi. My grandma is Ukrainian and Russian so I wonder if MyHeritage is really that accurate for those specific results

Holy Hell! I'm American and far more Irish than these Irish! 😂😆

@Mysticgames136

3 жыл бұрын

You're very lucky to have a lot of Irish in your dna. Mine is like a mix between a lot of European regions like so many.

@MsPeabody1231

3 ай бұрын

You aren't Irish though as you don't live in Ireland.

@Cosmicfraud3209

20 күн бұрын

Lots of Jews in Britain

In 1851 the census of Ireland reported a total of 500 Jews . The overwhelming majority of Jewish people all Ashkenazim arrived in following decades. From areas on or around the Russian empire. Therefore these Irish people taking the test would have some knowledge of a great great grandparent being Jewish as there was no need to be secretive Of the 500 Jews in 1851 it is possible to make informed speculations firstly no one was going to emigrate to Ireland in the middle of the famine Jews arriving in Ireland on the late 40s were probably members of the Jewish relief fund coming from London as gratitude for achieving emancipation by Irish Roman Catholic efforts in Westminster immediately after Roman Catholic emancipation was achieved by the Irish. The Jewish relief fund workers would also have had families with them The remaining Jewish people perhaps 250 or so could not have resulted in modern random selection of Irish people having 5 or 6 percent Ashkenazi Jewish This makes me inclined to think that this DNA may well have been acquired by a number of ancestors entering marriages with people coming from families no longer identifying as Jewish Great video as usual Thanks 😀👍🙋

The Amazonian isn’t that strange, lots of Jewish business man went to South America and had plantations so did the Spanish. People from India went there as well.

While watching several of your videos, I have heard you say something like "with X% of _____ (fill in the country) that equals out to a great grand parent".... May I ask the formula for figuring this out? Thanks

@jattupardu1860

3 жыл бұрын

@Lee Ralph, since everyone has two parents, you are ("on average") 50% the ancestry of your mom and 50% the ancestry of your dad. Since your parents both have moms and dads, you have 4 grandparents. So you should carry ("on average") 1/4 or 25% of your mom's mom, 1/4 or 25% of your mom's dad, 1/4 or 25% of your dad's mom, and 1/4 or 25% of your dad's dad. Since they all have parents too, you have 8 great-grandparents. So you will carry 1/8 or 12.5% from each of your grandparents' parents (your great-grandparents). You just keep going back and doing the math. It's a lot easier to visualize and calculate when it's in a graphic form like a family tree. If you have a lot of ethnic mixture in your ancestry, it becomes clearer the further back you go. The downside is that you may have less access to records further back. So if you find that you have 25% (or 1/4) Italian DNA, that might mean 1 of your 4 grandparents was full blooded Italian. It could also mean that you inherited Italian from a great grandparent (1/8 or 12.5%) from both your mom and dad's side (2/8) which would also add up to 25%. I hope this makes sense and answered your question!

I did 23 and Me, and the Italian percentage seemed way off. It was only around 15%, when my mother, her parents, their parents, their parents are all Italian. Pretty much all Italian back to the 16th century. Meanwhile, there was all this unaccounted for "French and German." I'm hoping that Ancestry will do better. I haven't gotten the DNA results yet, but I am certainly impressed so far. With the Mormon side of the family (my father), they pushed my family tree back about five generations earlier than what I knew--including birth dates, death dates, marriage certificates, immigration records, and even photographs. Unfortunately, this was not true of the Italian side of my family. I'd love to know more about my great-grandfather Socrate Tomassini. How great is that, to be named "Socrates"?

@taraized

3 жыл бұрын

I just did ancestry DNA, my great grandfather was from Italy... I have no Italian whatsoever that showed up. Other relatives from that line have it, all depends on the mix you get

@ccoodd26

3 жыл бұрын

French and Germans lived in northern and central Italy

@brileeka

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not Italian but I relate to them giving me a ton of German and French. I have done plenty of research on my ancestors and I'd say I am almost equally Irish/English as I am German and 23 and me said I am 78% German and only 15% Irish and English. I think things could massively change later when they update.

“Dark Irish”

DNA is so weird, my brother got 8% French, but both of our parents have no French.

@blahblahblahblah2837

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps unrelated, but how genetically similar do you think your French milk man is to your father?

Could the Eastern European they're getting be Yamnaya?

I know you surely get many comments. But if I could bother you for just one question. My son had a DNA test, he’s almost half Scottish and half Northern European, English. With only 3% Irish. Do you have any idea what dna he could’ve gotten from me? I have hereditary hemachromatosis. I know it’s prevalent in Irish. But if he’s only 3% maybe I’m not Irish at all? This is very hard for me to all grasp.

@GeneaVlogger

3 жыл бұрын

Your son only inherits 50% of your DNA and the recombination is quite random , so even if you are 50% Irish it is possible for him to get a reading of only 3%. As well, it may also be that your family lived in Ireland for many generations but their ancestry may have been from elsewhere just a few hundred years ago. Lastly, double-check if he has any readings for Broadly Northwestern European or something similar, which may be from the Irish ancestry. Best way to figure it all out is to build a family tree and/or take a DNA test yourself.

@moonchaserstudio

3 жыл бұрын

@@GeneaVlogger Thank you so kindly for responding. I’m so grateful. I have ordered a test from ancestry the same one that he took. I will definitely check back with you when it gets here and completed. To let you know the results. I love watching your channel and I am a new sub.You are very kind and easy to understand. I felt foolish for even asking such a question since I’m a nurse. But we all have our fields. And genetics is not one of mine LOL

@moonchaserstudio

3 жыл бұрын

@@GeneaVlogger I just went back and looked at his results the Northern European narrowed it down to Scotland and northern Ireland. Thank you again so much I didn’t even think to look at that.

@moonchaserstudio

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry I read that wrong. The prior was from the Scottish part. The other (NW European)part just said primarily in England.

@hawkeyescoffee6399

3 жыл бұрын

@@moonchaserstudio did you get your results yet, curious to know how they came out.

Seen this before.?.can we be 100% celt??

Lupita Nyong'o DNA was traced back to Mitochondrial eve dna...which is very rare and special! Love your channel!!

@Cosmicfraud3209

20 күн бұрын

She probably has nilotic dna

I like to be on your channel.

2017 was the year I had my DNA tested by Ancestry. I've used Ancestry for years to do my family tree. Expensive, but I like them for their records. Their first results had me with some Ashkenazi Jew. By the next update it was gone. I've often wondered why that happened. There have been about 3-4 updates since, every time there would be changes. The latest update (month or two old) made some changes again. I always had southern Italy, now they added northern Italy. They are separate categories. I had Greece just recently added (maybe an update 2 or more ago) added BUT now it's listed as Greece AND Albania together. My biggest surprised...18% Scotland! There has never been a hint of Scottish results before!! Granted I have always had a big percentage of English/UK and Northeastern but the Scottish result really has me thinking a different way for a "brick wall" I have. Anyhow, I just thought my experience with the updates could be informative. As long as the updates are improvements, I am not complaining.

I don’t really trust my heritage that much :/ my grandma got 0% European other than Italian And a trace greek result on 23&me, yet 12% british & Irish on MyHeritage. She also got 4% ashkenazi Jewish on myheritage yet nothing in 23&me. My father & I didn’t get Jewish on either. Thinking it could possibly be a misread of middle eastern or North African Jewish ? Idk

The fact that all of the people in the video have some Jewish DNA supports the theory that there was a migration from the Levant to Iberia and then to Ireland in the distant past.

Can you do more African Americans?

@victorypacome7319

3 жыл бұрын

He already did it several times.

"Jews are the best what?" Didn't hear that part

@JediSimpson

3 жыл бұрын

Comedians.

Irish is boring?. Fantastic history.

MyHeritage is notoriously inaccurate. Eastern European, Ashkenazi and obviously Indigenous Amazonian are not at all native to Ireland. Therefore, these individuals most likely have recent immigrant ancestors to Ireland. That’s not to say that these results are necessarily wrong; it is not unlikely that many Eastern Europeans would have immigrated to Ireland some 100 years ago. Moreover, it makes sense that for the segment, they might have intentionally picked Irish people with some non-Irish admixture to make the video more “interesting” then having people who were purely Irish. Bottom line, 23andMe is much more accurate and trustworthy.

3:45 what a racist thing to say. I have some dark in me it must be from Spain... People in Spain are light honey. I am Spanish and Im often confused as German or Dutch. In Fact I look like him a lot actually (but in blond). So what a nonsense to say. Spaniards arent dark... LOL

@Cosmicfraud3209

20 күн бұрын

Southern Spain she means I bet they are darker olive Antonio Bandera Penelope Cruz Cristiano ronaldo etc

My brother did the Ancestry.com test a couple years ago and got basically 100% Irish...I think it was between 98 and 99. Sometimes I wonder if going through a different company would give anything different but it doesn’t really feel worth it just for that since I have a sibling who’s already done this.

@hawkeyescoffee6399

3 жыл бұрын

As long as your parents haven't also done it then I would say it can definitely still be worth doing. I've done mine and my brother, my mum and her brother and it's fascinating to see differences in admixtures and we even get different matches sometimes. The most notable for us is that mum's grandmother is Swedish, mum shows as 30% Swedish (if I remember right her brother shows about 24-26%), my brother has 24-25% of the Swedish from mum's, but I only have 14% (We don't have any from my dad's side). Then, of course, there are some I have more of than my brother does. Of course, if both your parents are basically 99% Irish then there's probably not much point in having it done just on the chance you have slight variations on trace DNA. However, if they're still around & willing then it might be better to get them tested instead (it's easier for figuringnout matches to which line). I went with 23 & me because it has the haplogroup testing included, but I've heard that Ancesty has a bigger database some we're also going to do that because our main goal has been to find family on my maternal grandfather's side and we still haven't managed that yet; it's probably the only grandparent branch we haven't had a match on. lol typical, really. I guess it also really depends on your goal and what you want out of it (the admixture or finding genetic matches/cousins)