I did 23andme and was excited when I found I could upload my raw dna to My Heritage. I'd heard it was not as accurate but more precise. From my family tree, most of my recent ancestry is English, but with 23andme found 1/3 British and Irish, 17 percent French and German but over 1/3 is general northwest european that could be British, Irish, French, German, Swiss, Benelux, Scandinavian. My Heritage said I was 27 percent English and 70 percent northwest european : the places I listed minus UK and Scandinavian. That seemed right. However, 23andme said I was 5 percent South European including Iberian and Italian, but My Heritage just gave me 1 1/2 percent Italian. My great grand father was part Indian and 23andme found I was 3 percentile South Asian. My Heritage gave me none,but 1 1/2 percent middle eastern. 23andme also gave me a tiny amount of sub-Saharan African which wasn't detected by My Heritage. I tend to think 23andme was nearer the truth, but the general view of both was that I'm mainly continental northwest european with a few bits from the south.
Pretty much straight white.
I took a test with ancestry and on Friday it told me one set of percentages and today it said it updated and it completely flipped around all of the percentages..added countries and then took some away. Today I am utterly confused lol
I had a difference with Ancestry and Myheritage too. I have no idea wich is more accurate.
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There's a lot of French blood flowing through England but don't tell them.
Did you do a Myheritage dna kit also? if so Upload your RAWDNA from ancestry to myheritage also. and compare the too, that what i did. I did both ancestrydna and myheritage..
I have to marry you right now!!!!!!!!!!
I feel that when some people don’t get the result they were expecting they blame the test, family members cannot be that accurate all the time they listen to hear say and then beleive what they are told about their ancestry
It’s actually not that different
I think the results depend to some extent on how far back in history they go. The Vikings settled on the coast of Scotland and Ireland in the 8th to 15th century, as well as having a presence in what is now Turkey. Test that only go back a few centuries wouldn't show so much Scandinavian. Vikings also settled in Iceland. So, for example, having Iceland or Turkey/Iran showing in your DNA results doesn't necessarily mean your ancestors came from there. It may mean that distant relations went to Iceland and West Asia at some point centuries ago and you share some DNA with their modern descendants.
Well Which one do you think is Right ? OK thanks
For me, Ancestry was an anomaly and all the other sites I uploaded my DNA to had similar results (like Gedmatch and DNA land). I was confused, but now I feel more secure.
WeGenes?! What were you thinking?! The way to go is Ancestry DNA for serious and definitive raw data, then GedMatch for confirmation and lots of fun playing around. 23andMe and ftDNA could be decent alternatives for Autosomal DNA and Y DNA respectively, but most of the rest are a waste of time and/or money…
41% Hungarian… believable! That's why you are so pretty! Like my beautiful Hungarian wife : )
Send everything to DNA LAND which is a North American college and you will have a better understanding of your genetics and we will know more about genetic testing …
You should try 23andme. Were very accurate in pinpointing exactly where my husband's and my ancestors descended from. Also got our results in under 4 weeks.
You look more North Italian or Portuguese to me. You could also be from Northern Spain / France / Germany. There are people like you in Poland, Hungary, Austria as well. So I would say anything between Portugal and Poland.
On your ancestrydna findings when you click on each individual ethnicity it shows the range of their tests. The numbers they report are the average of the different "runs" they did of each test. They test several runs and then average the findings. So the differences between some of the different tests could be because Ancestry reports the average of the range.
I don't think wegene gets Europeans right…. it had me as mostly Hungarian and I have almost zero Hungarian ancestry (at best .1% if that much). It's mostly for Asians.
I've been taken the My Heritage DNA test recently, and the results show about 70% Scandinavia and 25% East European, and some West European/NorthWest Asia. At first I was schocked about the results since I have always been told stories about when our family fled to Sweden from Finland during the war, but the results showed no Finnish DNA. But I assume the reason for that is that they were finno-swedish (who came to Finland during the time Finland and Sweden was a unity). I also have heard we shall have ancestors in Russia, which the East European and NorthWest Asia percentage clarifies. I find the test to be accurate from what I have been told within the family. It is important to know the difference between where people live, and where their DNA origins from.
Best thing is to go by Gedmatch, then paper trails like birth certificates, census, and a little bit of anthorpology.
You are so beautiful.
These percentages are entirely artificial. They were created to appeal to the public. Built to sell tests. If you do not like the result, just retake the test at another company. In the end, you believe in the result you like best.
If your ancestors originated from British Isles and Netherlands you are certain scoring Scandinavian DNA. The vikings settled down on the British Isles, Iceland, The netherlands , Normandy and to some extent todays Germany also a bit in Russia. Also during the 16th or 17th Century Norwegians came and settled down in the Netherlands. I have Heard about figures round 30000 people. So its not a mystery where your Scandi-DNA comes from. In some cases Brits score higher Scandie-DNA than native Scandinavians do.
my heritage is much more accurate because they test against a much larger population. Ancestry is more generalized. That is the reason for the variances.
My results were way off I was 43% Great Britain on Ancestry vs. 2 % on MyHeritage.
Hello Kimberly, I have similar experience with MyHeritage and Anchestry DNA. In Anchestry DNA test I had just 0,7 % Scandinvian. I uploaded raw data from anchestry dna to the Myheritage and wow – I have 12,1% Scandinavian. Also more African genes with Myheritage than in Anchestry. So, who know where I´m from? .)
Honestly im wondering the accuracy of myheritage after taking its test. (I posted a video on my page if ur interested). I would like to try ancestry.com since my sister did that to see if its more close to what she got. I think the most accurate thing is to take a couple tests and see what keeps coming up with high percentages esp depending on what ur family has told u that u are.
Mediterranian woman
Each company use different database and algorithms to determine the percentage thats why its not going to be exactly the same
Hey Kimberly I'm a little curious about we gene, how much did it cost you? I would like to know I may want to purchase it
I found Ancestry was horrible. My daughter in law is shown as 100% East Asian, so she is in a group of 2 billion people. The Ancestry file was transferred to Myheritage and it came back 100% Japanese. So what is wrong with Ancestry?
You might want to try Crigenetics. I believe they may be more accurate than the rest. They actually have geneticist scientist who do the dna interpretation. I too have gotten wide ranging results from 23&me, ancestry, myheritage and ftdna.
SORRY .but to me you look more….latin or greek.or even middle easterner, Persia turkish etc.
Hi 5 I am so proud you have no horrible Jew in you
Idid heritage dna and it was weird
you need your father's side, for a complete assessment
I did 23andme and was excited when I found I could
upload my raw dna to My Heritage. I'd heard it was not
as accurate but more precise. From my family tree, most of my recent ancestry is English, but with 23andme found 1/3 British and Irish, 17 percent French and German but over 1/3 is general northwest european that could be British, Irish, French, German, Swiss, Benelux, Scandinavian. My Heritage said I was 27 percent English and 70 percent northwest european : the places I listed minus UK and Scandinavian. That seemed right. However, 23andme said I was 5 percent South European including Iberian and Italian, but My Heritage just gave me 1 1/2 percent Italian.
My great grand father was part Indian and 23andme found I was 3 percentile South Asian. My Heritage gave me none,but 1 1/2 percent middle eastern.
23andme also gave me a tiny amount of sub-Saharan African which wasn't detected by My Heritage.
I tend to think 23andme was nearer the truth, but the general view of both was that I'm mainly continental northwest european with a few bits from the south.
Pretty much straight white.
I took a test with ancestry and on Friday it told me one set of percentages and today it said it updated and it completely flipped around all of the percentages..added countries and then took some away. Today I am utterly confused lol
I had a difference with Ancestry and Myheritage too. I have no idea wich is more accurate.
Investi dans une bonne caméra
There's a lot of French blood flowing through England but don't tell them.
Did you do a Myheritage dna kit also? if so Upload your RAWDNA from ancestry to myheritage also. and compare the too, that what i did. I did both ancestrydna and myheritage..
I have to marry you right now!!!!!!!!!!
I feel that when some people don’t get the result they were expecting they blame the test, family members cannot be that accurate all the time they listen to hear say and then beleive what they are told about their ancestry
It’s actually not that different
I think the results depend to some extent on how far back in history they go. The Vikings settled on the coast of Scotland and Ireland in the 8th to 15th century, as well as having a presence in what is now Turkey. Test that only go back a few centuries wouldn't show so much Scandinavian. Vikings also settled in Iceland. So, for example, having Iceland or Turkey/Iran showing in your DNA results doesn't necessarily mean your ancestors came from there. It may mean that distant relations went to Iceland and West Asia at some point centuries ago and you share some DNA with their modern descendants.
Well Which one do you think is Right ? OK thanks
For me, Ancestry was an anomaly and all the other sites I uploaded my DNA to had similar results (like Gedmatch and DNA land). I was confused, but now I feel more secure.
WeGenes?! What were you thinking?! The way to go is Ancestry DNA for serious and definitive raw data, then GedMatch for confirmation and lots of fun playing around. 23andMe and ftDNA could be decent alternatives for Autosomal DNA and Y DNA respectively, but most of the rest are a waste of time and/or money…
41% Hungarian… believable! That's why you are so pretty! Like my beautiful Hungarian wife : )
Send everything to DNA LAND which is a North American college and you will have a better understanding of your genetics and we will know more about genetic testing …
You should try 23andme. Were very accurate in pinpointing exactly where my husband's and my ancestors descended from. Also got our results in under 4 weeks.
You look more North Italian or Portuguese to me. You could also be from Northern Spain / France / Germany. There are people like you in Poland, Hungary, Austria as well. So I would say anything between Portugal and Poland.
On your ancestrydna findings when you click on each individual ethnicity it shows the range of their tests. The numbers they report are the average of the different "runs" they did of each test. They test several runs and then average the findings. So the differences between some of the different tests could be because Ancestry reports the average of the range.
I don't think wegene gets Europeans right…. it had me as mostly Hungarian and I have almost zero Hungarian ancestry (at best .1% if that much). It's mostly for Asians.
I've been taken the My Heritage DNA test recently, and the results show about 70% Scandinavia and 25% East European, and some West European/NorthWest Asia. At first I was schocked about the results since I have always been told stories about when our family fled to Sweden from Finland during the war, but the results showed no Finnish DNA. But I assume the reason for that is that they were finno-swedish (who came to Finland during the time Finland and Sweden was a unity). I also have heard we shall have ancestors in Russia, which the East European and NorthWest Asia percentage clarifies. I find the test to be accurate from what I have been told within the family. It is important to know the difference between where people live, and where their DNA origins from.
Best thing is to go by Gedmatch, then paper trails like birth certificates, census, and a little bit of anthorpology.
You are so beautiful.
These percentages are entirely artificial. They were created to appeal to the public. Built to sell tests. If you do not like the result, just retake the test at another company. In the end, you believe in the result you like best.
If your ancestors originated from British Isles and Netherlands you are certain scoring Scandinavian DNA. The vikings settled down on the British Isles, Iceland, The netherlands , Normandy and to some extent todays Germany also a bit in Russia. Also during the 16th or 17th Century Norwegians came and settled down in the Netherlands. I have Heard about figures round 30000 people. So its not a mystery where your Scandi-DNA comes from. In some cases Brits score higher Scandie-DNA than native Scandinavians do.
my heritage is much more accurate because they test against a much larger population. Ancestry is more generalized. That is the reason for the variances.
My results were way off I was 43% Great Britain on Ancestry vs. 2 % on MyHeritage.
Hello Kimberly, I have similar experience with MyHeritage and Anchestry DNA. In Anchestry DNA test I had just 0,7 % Scandinvian. I uploaded raw data from anchestry dna to the Myheritage and wow – I have 12,1% Scandinavian. Also more African genes with Myheritage than in Anchestry. So, who know where I´m from? .)
Honestly im wondering the accuracy of myheritage after taking its test. (I posted a video on my page if ur interested). I would like to try ancestry.com since my sister did that to see if its more close to what she got. I think the most accurate thing is to take a couple tests and see what keeps coming up with high percentages esp depending on what ur family has told u that u are.
Mediterranian woman
Each company use different database and algorithms to determine the percentage thats why its not going to be exactly the same
Hey Kimberly I'm a little curious about we gene, how much did it cost you? I would like to know I may want to purchase it
I found Ancestry was horrible. My daughter in law is shown as 100% East Asian, so she is in a group of 2 billion people. The Ancestry file was transferred to Myheritage and it came back 100% Japanese. So what is wrong with Ancestry?
You might want to try Crigenetics. I believe they may be more accurate than the rest. They actually have geneticist scientist who do the dna interpretation. I too have gotten wide ranging results from 23&me, ancestry, myheritage and ftdna.
SORRY .but to me you look more….latin or greek.or even middle easterner, Persia turkish etc.
Hi 5 I am so proud you have no horrible Jew in you
Idid heritage dna and it was weird
you need your father's side, for a complete assessment