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As far as I know all my mother's emigrant ancestors were English, Welsh, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Germans who arrived before the Revolutionary War. My father is from Syria (reflected as 36.9% West Asian and 13.1% Middle Eastern). My inherited DNA from my mother was reflected as 40% Scandinavian. Even knowing that the Vikings occupied Britain for hundreds of years this seems abnormally high as I have no recent Scandinavian immigrant ancestors and the Norse population in Britain surely would have intermarried and mixed with people of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Descent. Is this test legitimate?
MyHeritage did the same with me. I have a great many English ancestors, 50% per new Ancestry update. MyHeritage gave me 0% and gave me Scandinavian instead.
In general, MyHeritage struggles with admixed individuals. I find they do better with people from one region in Europe. The are the superior service for my wife's family (Greek), and way off for me.
DNA websites are dependent on the samples they have. My Scandinavian was higher there then ancestry, but with the recent ancestry update they’re a bit closer. It could just be that they have a lot more Scandinavian results than other sites. Have you uploaded your data to other sites?
MyHeritage gives me 55% Irish when it is roughly 25% and they ignored any English. I also got sizable percentages of Finnish and Baltic percentage which should be Polish/German and (surprise) I got 2.2% Iberian with no clue where that comes from. They seem very confused.
My wife's 1/2 Italian 1/2 Greek cousin just got her MyHeritage results back.
Italian 61.3%
Greek 20.0%
Ashkenazi Jewish 3.1%
West Asia 12.9%
Middle Eastern 2.7%
Here was what 23andMe returned:
91.9% European The break down is
46.1% Italian
32.5% Greek
12.2% Broadly Southern European
1% Broadly European
7.8% Western Asian & N African
6.6%. Western Asian
1.2% Broadly Western Asian & N African
Pretty close to each other, and her known family tree. I am at the point where I would recommend MyHeritage over Ancestry.com for Southern Europeans. Although buying the test from Ancestry and uploading to MyHeritage for free is probably more bang for your buck.
My wife's 1/2 Italian 1/2 Greek cousin just got her MyHeritage results back.
Italian 61.3%
Greek 20.0%
Ashkenazi Jewish 3.1%
West Asia 12.9%
Middle Eastern 2.7%
Here was what 23andMe returned:
91.9% European The break down is
46.1% Italian
32.5% Greek
12.2% Broadly Southern European
1% Broadly European
7.8% Western Asian & N African
6.6%. Western Asian
1.2% Broadly Western Asian & N African
Pretty close to each other, and her known family tree. I am at the point where I would recommend MyHeritage over Ancestry.com for Southern Europeans. Although buying the test from Ancestry and uploading to MyHeritage for free is probably more bang for your buck.
I agree. I'd buy a test at Ancestry and upload to my heritage. If you have a family tree of the closest 200 family members, please upload that too so they can refine their ethnicity results.
So far I'm pretty happy there. I'm Hungarian and a small bit Italian which ancestry shows as Greek/Italian which I didn't know which one till I got my heritage results back. They used me for their test panel because they saw my tree.
They have the best features with free ethnicity, choromosome browser, sorting matches by country and they also give matches trees and surnames when available
I agree. I'd buy a test at Ancestry and upload to my heritage. If you have a family tree of the closest 200 family members, please upload that too so they can refine their ethnicity results.
So far I'm pretty happy there. I'm Hungarian and a small bit Italian which ancestry shows as Greek/Italian which I didn't know which one till I got my heritage results back. They used me for their test panel because they saw my tree.
They have the best features with free ethnicity, choromosome browser, sorting matches by country and they also give matches trees and surnames when available
Thank you for that. I just downloaded my wife's tree there and linked it up to her Yia Yia and dad. It would be so cool if she is chosen as part of the test panel. We will see, I guess.
Last edited by westsideboy; 09-24-2018 at 09:32 PM..
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