I loved this sweet family video .. Your children are so sweet just hanging on you--adorable family you and Melissa have. I would say your a lil bit rock n roll (Elvis) and a lot Country(Johnny Cash) lol
Your daughter is cute as a bug. She seemed more interested in the camera staring at her than your results. I can really get a sense for just how close you are as a family from this video..and take it from someone that didn't have that growing up -- family matters!
After your announcement today I came back to look at this video about taking the DNA test and I can't get over how little the kids are and how much they've grown in just over four years! Love your family and your videos!! Wishing you all the best!!
I love all the different versions of where we are from. My GG grandmother was off the boat Italian. We have the records going all the way back. But 2 of my 4 children apparently have no Italian dna. Too funny
I am half Latvian and half Estonian, I think Alex definitely has Eastern European looks - high forehead, great bone structure...! Okay, , I am biased, but yeah, Alex would pass as a local in Warsaw, Riga or Tallin.
Watching this now, knowing what was coming for you and your family and new found family as well. This is awesome to see, glad you shared it with us, Alex. “Maybe I’ll find out something cool !” Well,.. that you did, Sir. I totally want to do one of these DNA tests as well, it would be so cool to find some siblings.
We did ours as well and turns out I'm part English, East European, Italian, but mostly West European. My girlfriend was 100% West European. First thing I told her when we saw these results was "sorry to polute your pure gene pool" :)
You look exactly like my dear, dear friend from Denmark. That is actually how and why I started watching your videos in the first place; I saw a glimpse of your video and thought you were him... ;D
I JUST left a message on another video of your new house build about how much you remind me of my son-in-law. I then looked at your playlist videos and found this! My son-in-law was adopted at birth.
I don’t get why people keep saying he looks Latino, people seem to think of a person has dark hair and eyes that they can’t be white which is just ridiculous, he looks clearly European.
Ale World When they say Latino they’re not talking about a white Latino, because there isn’t much of a difference between a white Latino and white non Latino . They’re trying to say that he looks like a typical Latino.
Vicky Martinez I do think they are talking about white Latinos. But what I think is that they are so ignorant that they don't know that's white, because they think that Europeans can just be very lighted skin and/or with light hair and eyes...
Lol! Half grill cheese,you're hysterical! What kind of cheese was it? Any swiss or cheddar? Lol! Send in the cats or the dogs dna and really blow their minds! Lol! thanks again guys! ▪☆☆☆▪
You have a beautiful family! DNA inheritance is random, so even full siblings can have different profiles. My brother & I have differing profiles-he inherited more German & French & I inherited more more English & Spanish from our parents.
What a great video, So very interesting, You had to fill that tube up a long way lol, So no pregnancy this time around then lol, Love how your family gathered for the results, You have a very beautiful family Alex. Great video.
I would of loved to have seen your reaction if you were recording this and hit the DNA Match and found out on the recording about your sister. I'm sure that would have been great to capture on film. LOL
LOL your children were all sooo serious looking, but sooo darling! ;) This was very interesting. I know my background as much as I need to know. People have asked me if I want to do my DNA testing, I just say no interest here, I tell everyone I am an Olive American! LOL! Actually, half Hungarian (Jewish on my father's side and 2nd generaltion American), and 1/4 Romanian, and 1/4 Irish (Gentile, on my mother's side, 3rd generation American). This is all I need to know. Kiss the kids for me and Be blessed!
One person answers that the dark hair and eyes (Black Irish look) come from the Spanish Armada. Can confirm that there was a "English - Spanish War" 1585-1604. The "Eighty Years' War" 1568-1648 started 20 years earlier and left deep Spanish traces. Mainly in The Netherlands and Belgium as it started in the West Indies (Colonies) where the Spanish at first helped England. I've been doing a lot of genealogy and ancestry and have all original certificates of my families back to mostly 1200.
I did this also. Keep checking back because they keep changing mine. Some of what they told me I was, is no longer on my chart. I was disappointed in the test, and now that they keep changing it, I am even more so. It's a blood test. How can they tell you, you are one thing and then six months later tell you that you are not that. How can it change when it's in the blood the first time and not the next time they check it. When I gave them part of my family tree, that's when things started changing. So I believe my research more than their test.
You should also check your mom’s side as well. My dad’s side is part Scottish and part English based from his father and mother’s side. My moms side is mostly English based from her father and mother’s side. But that only extends to my great grandparents. I’m sure there are probably other mixes from my great great grandmothers sides and beyond.
I have a Ukrainian background. The whole time I have been watching you I have been thinking... you look sooo Ukrainian/Russian/Polish. Slavic guys are gorgeous. Basically Slavic/Eastern European. You have my brother's EXACT eyes.I have never seen anyone one else with his exact eyes before. Your personality is very Slavic too. The entrepreneurship, family orientation, do it yourself trade person, cool, calm collected male personality - all VERY common Ukrainian guy personality trails.
I would say I’m about 75% German, from studying my Ancestry chart, with some doses of Scottish and French and Native American thrown in. I have yet to take the DNA test, planning to soon.
You’re not supposed to eat just before the test, so you were lucky that it didn’t affect the results. Did you also do the “Traits” which recently became available? Very interesting. The exciting thing is when you go to the list of DNA Matches… Good luck on your genealogy journey. 🥰
Finland and Northwest Russia - it means you have Finnish haplogroup N, it is not Russian haplogroup, but Finnish (they are living also in Russia). Main East European haplogroup is R1a1 - it is Slavic, and Aryan haplogroup. Western Europe has R1b haplogroup, Celtic, non-Aryan.
I have been able to have males from my paternal Matlock line, my maternal Owens and Ruggles lines to take the Y-DNA test with FamilyTreeDNA. We are currently upgrading to the Big Y-700. My husband has as well. We are looking deeper into their origins and how they migrated to America. Able to prove and disprove the assumed ancestors which have brought some wonderful news of who our immigrant fore-fathers are and correcting our Ancestry Tree. Some of what we have been able to learn is that at one time our Owens, Matlock & Ruggles male ancestors were all in Iberia and then branched off. Our Ruggles line is showing they were in the Basque Region of Spain. Through our male lines, the Rh Negative factor was picked up as a female paternal Matlock descended cousin, a female Ruggles cousin and myself (Kathy) are all Rh Negative. You should look into taking the Big Y-700 with FamilyTreeDNA.
+Garnett M yup! Haha pretty much. The interesting thing was that it links you to other members, found out I've got a lot of second cousins I didn't know about :)
@@rubyd3745 Sorry, but what does that have to do with my comment? We can all see he has a lovely wife, but I never referred to her. Alex was saying he discovered second cousins he never knew about, and I took Garnett's pun about the grilled cheese to joke that maybe they confused other grilled cheese customers at the same diner for his cousins. It's a corny joke, but there you go.
Here is a true Ancestry DNA story. I know, cause it's mine. It's going to be long, but I hope amusing. When you get your results I know you'll have many a unique story of your own to pass down! First, a bit of my back ground, I was born in the Italian section of Harlem NYC in 1957. (Ironic because I am not Italian!) Since the age of one I grew up, with my mother, her mother and my younger sister in the small city of Barre, Vermont. My grandmother was born in the Amish/Mennonite home of her grandfather in upstate NY. He immigrated there as a teen with his family and they were part of the first Anabaptist Community that established the northern NY town of Croghan. His father was one of the founding Bishops. They migrated for religious sanctity from the EU, who had no tolerance for Anabaptists. My father had been married three times, once before my mother's marriage and once after. Each marriage produced two children. Never one to stay with a woman very long, and in and out of prison, I didn't know very much about him at all growing up. We were NOT allowed to speak of him - ever - in front of my grandmother! So I had no way of knowing about him or his family. So this is a two-part story. Both resulting in blessings. One a surprise and one a validation. In college I took a genealogy study and (long before computers) sent about two hundred snail mail letters into the heart of NYC where my father was from. The addresses I used, were from NYC phone books, that were available in our State Library. The letter was short. A brief intro to who I was, that I was looking for my father, with a little family chart at the bottom. (About a hundred lovely people responded and wanted to adopt me, but no relatives.) The second batch of letters had among all the others a response in a Christmas card, "You found your Uncle Al!" Fast forward a couple decades and have met most of my surviving family. Though I still do not know the names of my two older brothers from my fathers first marriage. His ex-wife remarried and the boys were adopted by her husband so no longer had my father's name. I do know my younger brother and sister who live up near Toronto. (My father had duel citizenship - he was QUITE the con man!) Sadly I missed knowing my father himself as well as most of my Aunts, Uncles and my grandparents in person, I do know and am close to my many wonderful first cousins. I've learned a lot about the family from them, including the family joke about one or more of "Mickey's" (my father) children just showing up one day! One of my cousins is very curious about family history and had done an Ancestry DNA that showed some questionable close relatives that she and her sister could not place. She asked me to take the test as a gift from her. I said I would love it. I would have done it years ago, but for the cost. The first thing I saw on the "results" was the breakdown of where "my" people came from. 70%+ Irish and a good part of the rest came to me on the journey "over the pond" with the immigration of the Amish/Mennonites as they fled Europe. It's one thing to hear the family stories, but quite another to know you are carrying that real life history today in every cell of your body! I'm going to skip sideways here and tell you about Joan. She was put up for adoption as an infant in the early 1950's and was raised as an only child. She discovered her birth mother's name only a few years ago after both her adoptive parents had passed. She was happily married but unable to have children. With no family ties she knew of, she looked for and located her birth mother journey, discovering she had gone on to marry and had seven children! Joan has been united with all her siblings on her mother's side, but still didn't know her father's name. She then took the Ancestry DNA test. Well, I guess you know where this is going. Joan is my half sister! We have "spoken" through email and phone and plan to meet this September in Person. Along with me, she now knows of the other five siblings she has from our father's side. From growing up as an only child to having 13 siblings (plus all of our children and grandchildren and cousins,) she now has a HUGE family that love and accept her. (twelve people just from me, my three children and eight grandchildren!) My father was not what would be thought of as a "good" man. He was selfish and he hurt a lot of people, but because of his ways, we have so many amazing people in our large family. I look forward to getting to meet my "new" sister and possibly so many more I do not yet know. So, my story isn't over. Neither is yours. You've just opened the cover of your story. If you find something that seems "bad" in the in it, just look a bit further. You have quite a journey yet to be discovered! You, of all people, know that true value is often hidden, overlooked and buried away, waiting for you to find and appreciated it! Bless you and your family!
So today you posted that you, in fact, have "found" a "new" sister as well! My heart overflows for her and you as well as your wife and children! Your father is surely watching this process of reunion between you and your sister. How valuable your memories of who your father was you can give to your sister! Congratulations a thousand times over for the blessing of discovering more family to love! Much love to all of you from Vermont!
Mine came back as 38% Irish. There was a small percentage of African Congo thrown in along with British and east European. I'm from the southern US, so it wasn't a surprise to see the Congo part.
I've been told for years that my great great grandmother on my father's side was native american. My son did a DNA test this year and no native american blood but we have some African blood (maybe she was part black?). My son is part Russian so that obviously showed up, as did my background which is mostly English and Scottish.
You just may not have inherited the Native American DNA. I did the test a few years ago, and was surprised that there was no Native American DNA, because one look at my maternal great aunts looked like classic Native American women.
A quick genetic explanation: The Y chromosome never changes. Your Y is your father’s Y which is his father’s Y back to the beginning of your line. The X chromosome is where the changes and differences come in. You inherited an X from your mother, who has two Xs. If one X carried the Native American genetics, and the other X did not, and you got the X that did not carry it, it would not show in your DNA. However if you had a brother or sister that got the Native American X, it would show up for them. Genetics is like a big crapshoot. I plan to do this test eventually, to see if the family rumor of having Native American DNA holds true. My brother has done one, but I haven’t heard what his makeup is yet.
I like watching AncestryDNA results on UA-cam, like your's. I see most people have quite a large mixture, but I don't. I guess I am an oddball!? I am from the United States and did my test back in June and got my results in July. This DNA test taught me I am so white and now I know why I get sunburn so easily. LOL! I find this DNA test so accurate, since it has proven some of my previous research I have done in my family tree. In some instances, it has helped me break some brick walls. I would highly recommend this test to anyone and I don't get why so many complain about this. I will leave my results below. Have a good day! Europe [98%] Great Britain - 93% Finland/Northwest Russia - 4% Europe West -
+MrOrange thanks for sharing! It's fun to learn more about our ancestors and our genes, tells a story. Mine was pretty plain... European. But I found out I have Ojibwe cousins so someone branched out at some point!
I find a lot of Americans who are distant cousins of mine and who show family trees going back a way in the Southern States seem to very solidly British/Irish, more so than myself whose family stayed in Britain and Ireland.
Ancestry has done updates to their database since you did this video. Have you checked to see if you had any changes. I went from having Jewish ancestry to no Jewish and 6 % African and 1 percent Indigenous North American. Cheers!
JL Collins Just had to comment. I only had mine done through 23andme and they have also recently updated my results. There is something fishy going on. I asked them why people now have to declare BEFORE testing if they are Ashkenazi Jewish. If it's a DNA test, isn't the test supposed to tell you that? I am not anti-Semitic in any way and in fact I was looking for a Jewish result but I can't help but think the owners of these companies who were getting so many people with Ashkenazi results they decided to contain the results to not show it unless it was declared in advance. I didn't get an answer. I had trace North African/Middle Eastern (I am 98.9 European) and these have also disappeared. The craziest one is my nephew, whose parents are solidly British and results prove it, now has Greek/Balkan which is absolutely impossible.
@@susancrawford5927 Ashkenazi Jews tend to be very endogamous because they were often restricted to small areas so married within that group. I expect that is why they wanted to know so their results could factor that in. I have never seen or heard of them dong that so maybe it was just for a short time that they did.
@anne Pelton Well they have changed the way they give those results. If you don't declare your Ashkenazi roots, 23andme will not give you a result of that any more. It has definitely been altered in terms of what you get back from them. I have watched a lot of older DNA videos. If those same people go back into their profiles, I guarantee the results have now been altered.
You should come to Dublin Ireland and check out the Irish Antique Dealer's Exhibit in the Royal Dublin Society . It is fantastic gathering of all Dealers from Ireland and England .
It all depends which bits of your ancestors genes you inherited. As an amateur genealogist can you trace the paperwork. I have all tges American, Canadian cousins & have no idea where we all cross.
Funny when you said thought there would be a little mixing when you got to the Africa area. I wound say the same thing but I’m pretty sure there would at least a percentage
I'm 100% European. Most my family were Quakers who came to America about 1630s. I'm still searching for where and how my ancestors lived before they crossed the pond.
I’ve read and heard you used the best Company. Ancestry has the best results.. I’m the same age as the brothers from Oak Island. I remember reading the same Readers Digest. I also lived in Michigan. Kentucky is my home now....Enjoy your youtube video’s. Even sent some of your music,to a Producer in Nashville. He represents several artists, Rhonda Vincent is one. He was Allen Jacksons road manager when he toured. Tony L Stevens works for Gaylord at the Opry. My neighbor and Tony where best friends (Gerald has since passed). If you all ever come south, I would love to fix you a southern meal...your kids would love the General Jackson Showboat. Meal then a stage show, going up the river and back. So much to do...Dollywood bought out all of Opryland’s rides.They are in the Smokey’s now. Smokey’s are wall to wall people. Way overpriced...Clarksville TN. is home of 101st. Airborne 🌞(border)Fort Campbell Ky. Screaming Eagles..
Ancestry keeps updating their estimates as they get more data from more DNA samples, so look again in a couple of months. It will change. If you don't have a family tree, you should do it. The Ancestry site looks for information for you, once you put in what you know. It can be very informative. Thank you for taking us along on your adventures.. If that is an Aladdin hanging lamp in your shop, I want it. I could email, but if you are behind ....
after a wee+ binge watching, i watched x-men: dark phoenix. if melissa were to completely bleach her hair white, she'd look so much like jessica chastain in the movie. not saying she should. i was watching the movie, wondering who she reminded me of. paused it for a while, saw a couple of your videos and realized it.
In England the highest numbers of the name Archbold is in the northeast of England - Northumberland especially. A friend of mine is called Archbold, who told me it was originally a tribe of border reivers (cattle robbers and raiders) along the Scottish border. Have you checked to see if your Archbold’s could be from there?
This is great- that is the exact data I was thinking of typing for Alex, @curiousityinc and that the Scots Irish back and forth families often ended up in The Borders area of Northumberland after... So that explains the Irish DNA and the Northumberland family tree.
Oh my god how much has happened in only 3 years. Feel like yesterday this came out. In the mean time, I have found out I am 99%Norwegian and 1% Italian 😎
I said the same about myself being as European as local Europeans. By way of Appellation Mountains to land in Southwest Ohio. With a pinch of Iberian Peninsula thrown into the recipe. If we could only know about our specific stories and tribulations lost to time....
You need to 23 and me, for it will give you medical and will even give you the exact villages your family is from. Also personality traces. Also you need to visit Ukraine, we have many second hand stores that sell very old housewares, like Dresden China.
I knew where my two maternal grandmother's were born and the test came back with Ireland and Norway. The test did NOT however tell me about the paternal blood line. I can trace out our sir name back to Staten Island, NY in the mid 1600's.
I have never needed to do that, but i have a site on Ancestry . I have immediate ancestors from several different nationalities which caused one of my cousins to ask " is there any oppresed ethnic group we are not decended fr4om ? " LOL! Family history has always been of interest to us because of the many interesting ancestors, a king (yes really) barons,(one of whom invented the combination lock ,) a few knights, the founder of modern day methodism .Some Freed african slaves even . Some of the ancestors may not have been so special but some married rather well .LOL!.
Not unusual for Russians to havwe skandanavian and Asian DNA.Why? Russia was originally formed by Vikings who travelled across Russia to the middle east to trade and Ghengis Khan conducted lots of raids into the Russian heartland.One reason why Some Russian Women are so incredibly beautiful ,the mix of asiatic Ancestory works well.
My sister and I have the same mom and dad. Our DNA profile came back different as far as percentages of a specific ethnicity. I thought I was more “French” but apparently have zero while my sister has 4%..... Go figure. At least I know where I got my red hair and freckles from. Of course they lumped together Scotland and Ireland....
Dear Tim O. What??? No parents? Are you made/mixed in a laboratory? Or is it only statistics because your parents didn't do a DNA test yet? Appreciate your answer. Thanks in advance. Best regards.
@@speeder36 Aaah, Okay, this explains a lot. You are from outer space. ;-) A vacation tour to see your DNA relatives will be extremely expensive then... or is it just: Scotty, beam me up!?
I want to do this but im half polish and half native American but u really never no what surprises u will find my moms parents r both polish and my dads r native but his dad was a ? And thats y i want to do this but dont have the cash they ask 4 for the test
I loved this sweet family video .. Your children are so sweet just hanging on you--adorable family you and Melissa have. I would say your a lil bit rock n roll (Elvis) and a lot Country(Johnny Cash) lol
Your daughter is cute as a bug. She seemed more interested in the camera staring at her than your results. I can really get a sense for just how close you are as a family from this video..and take it from someone that didn't have that growing up -- family matters!
Thanks! I love having the kids involved whenever I can :)
Love her assortment of glasses purple is my favourite
After your announcement today I came back to look at this video about taking the DNA test and I can't get over how little the kids are and how much they've grown in just over four years! Love your family and your videos!! Wishing you all the best!!
I love all the different versions of where we are from. My GG grandmother was off the boat Italian. We have the records going all the way back. But 2 of my 4 children apparently have no Italian dna. Too funny
That was cool, thanks for sharing Alex! You’re such a funny guy, you have a good since of humor. 😃
Little did we know that we would find that Alexander has a sister :) Heather was the most wonderful surprise
I am half Latvian and half Estonian, I think Alex definitely has Eastern European looks - high forehead, great bone structure...! Okay, , I am biased, but yeah, Alex would pass as a local in Warsaw, Riga or Tallin.
I personally like 23 and me. It was a lot more accurate and detailed!!
The real DNA results: A really great decent guy with a great family ! ;-)
I'm obsessed with these videos, I can't wait for my results!
Watching this now, knowing what was coming for you and your family and new found family as well. This is awesome to see, glad you shared it with us, Alex.
“Maybe I’ll find out something cool !” Well,.. that you did, Sir.
I totally want to do one of these DNA tests as well, it would be so cool to find some siblings.
We did ours as well and turns out I'm part English, East European, Italian, but mostly West European. My girlfriend was 100% West European. First thing I told her when we saw these results was "sorry to polute your pure gene pool" :)
Being a Mut makes us a purebred Canadian lol.
You look exactly like my dear, dear friend from Denmark. That is actually how and why I started watching your videos in the first place; I saw a glimpse of your video and thought you were him... ;D
Alex...LMAO, "I never handed a box of my spit to someone before"-- too funny! The kiddos are so cute! Thanks for sharing this with us, very cool!
I JUST left a message on another video of your new house build about how much you remind me of my son-in-law. I then looked at your playlist videos and found this! My son-in-law was adopted at birth.
I don’t get why people keep saying he looks Latino, people seem to think of a person has dark hair and eyes that they can’t be white which is just ridiculous, he looks clearly European.
There are many white Latin Americans. Not all are mixed...
Ale World When they say Latino they’re not talking about a white Latino, because there isn’t much of a difference between a white Latino and white non Latino . They’re trying to say that he looks like a typical Latino.
Vicky Martinez I do think they are talking about white Latinos. But what I think is that they are so ignorant that they don't know that's white, because they think that Europeans can just be very lighted skin and/or with light hair and eyes...
Ale World Yeah definitely, like I said they think blonde hair and blue eyes is the standard of white or something, so you could be right.
A lot of Latin Americans came from Spain and Portugal.
I love this! I did it a few years ago and was so surprised and love the updates.
Lol! Half grill cheese,you're hysterical! What kind of cheese was it? Any swiss or cheddar? Lol! Send in the cats or the dogs dna and really blow their minds! Lol! thanks again guys! ▪☆☆☆▪
I am not Neil , I know what you and your family are , your all fabulous .
You have a beautiful family! DNA inheritance is random, so even full siblings can have different profiles. My brother & I have differing profiles-he inherited more German & French & I inherited more more English & Spanish from our parents.
Love the video. GREAT DNA test. Thank you
The kids have sure grown in the last 5 years. This is also the beginning of discovering your big sister and brother.
Great video! I love the family together and your kiddies hanging on to you. Too sweet! Mutt. Hahaha
What a great video, So very interesting, You had to fill that tube up a long way lol, So no pregnancy this time around then lol, Love how your family gathered for the results, You have a very beautiful family Alex. Great video.
Interesting back ground to your history. Nice one, I enjoyed that!
I would of loved to have seen your reaction if you were recording this and hit the DNA Match and found out on the recording about your sister. I'm sure that would have been great to capture on film. LOL
This just popped up on the UA-cam feed. June 2021. What a difference 3 years ( according to feed ) makes in your beautiful children.
I know you posted this a while ago. But I just saw it and had to share my story. Now I have to find your follow-up vids!
haha the few first seconds are so funny, realizing and knowing its alterd.
Your youngest son is gorgeous. Little model right there lol
Stunning family, Gratz
I'm Irish, English, Bohemian, and Dutch on my Dad side, my mom side was from Copenhagen Denmark
A Lil mixin goin on lol..! I agree with that, people's DNA is all over the map and it's fun to see where our ancestors came from.
Just sent my kit back, I'm so impatient to get the results!
LOL your children were all sooo serious looking, but sooo darling! ;) This was very interesting. I know my background as much as I need to know. People have asked me if I want to do my DNA testing, I just say no interest here, I tell everyone I am an Olive American! LOL! Actually, half Hungarian (Jewish on my father's side and 2nd generaltion American), and 1/4 Romanian, and 1/4 Irish (Gentile, on my mother's side, 3rd generation American). This is all I need to know. Kiss the kids for me and Be blessed!
I love how your kids are laying on you
what a lovely looking family! Real Canadian, eh!
You look "Black Irish" i.e. Irish from the west coast of Ireland known for jet black hair, blue eyes and fair skin
I was told that "Black Irish" are darker because the Spanish Armada landed on the southeast coast.
One person answers that the dark hair and eyes (Black Irish look) come from the Spanish Armada. Can confirm that there was a "English - Spanish War" 1585-1604.
The "Eighty Years' War" 1568-1648 started 20 years earlier and left deep Spanish traces. Mainly in The Netherlands and Belgium as it started in the West Indies (Colonies) where the Spanish at first helped England.
I've been doing a lot of genealogy and ancestry and have all original certificates of my families back to mostly 1200.
Black hair blue eyes fair skin probably French of origin (Normans?)
I did this also. Keep checking back because they keep changing mine. Some of what they told me I was, is no longer on my chart. I was disappointed in the test, and now that they keep changing it, I am even more so. It's a blood test. How can they tell you, you are one thing and then six months later tell you that you are not that. How can it change when it's in the blood the first time and not the next time they check it. When I gave them part of my family tree, that's when things started changing. So I believe my research more than their test.
Me too. I lost all my Iberian Peninsula when they updated their test. I still do not understand how they count the DNA location origin.
Your kids and wife are so cute :) Greetings from Ukraine!
You should also check your mom’s side as well. My dad’s side is part Scottish and part English based from his father and mother’s side. My moms side is mostly English based from her father and mother’s side. But that only extends to my great grandparents. I’m sure there are probably other mixes from my great great grandmothers sides and beyond.
I have a Ukrainian background. The whole time I have been watching you I have been thinking... you look sooo Ukrainian/Russian/Polish. Slavic guys are gorgeous. Basically Slavic/Eastern European. You have my brother's EXACT eyes.I have never seen anyone one else with his exact eyes before. Your personality is very Slavic too. The entrepreneurship, family orientation, do it yourself trade person, cool, calm collected male personality - all VERY common Ukrainian guy personality trails.
He doesn't look Slavic imo.
I would say I’m about 75% German, from studying my Ancestry chart, with some doses of Scottish and French and Native American thrown in. I have yet to take the DNA test, planning to soon.
Congrats, has a only child Ive often wondered if I have a secret sibling. Didnt know these test could share that info if its found.
I did the 23andMe DNA test...I'm 90% Italian and 10% Turkish...the Turkish part was a huge surprise to me. I always thought that I was 100% Italian!
You’re not supposed to eat just before the test, so you were lucky that it didn’t affect the results. Did you also do the “Traits” which recently became available? Very interesting. The exciting thing is when you go to the list of DNA Matches… Good luck on your genealogy journey. 🥰
Finland and Northwest Russia - it means you have Finnish haplogroup N, it is not Russian haplogroup, but Finnish (they are living also in Russia). Main East European haplogroup is R1a1 - it is Slavic, and Aryan haplogroup. Western Europe has R1b haplogroup, Celtic, non-Aryan.
+dohaeng82 thanks for tho info!
I have been able to have males from my paternal Matlock line, my maternal Owens and Ruggles lines to take the Y-DNA test with FamilyTreeDNA. We are currently upgrading to the Big Y-700. My husband has as well. We are looking deeper into their origins and how they migrated to America. Able to prove and disprove the assumed ancestors which have brought some wonderful news of who our immigrant fore-fathers are and correcting our Ancestry Tree. Some of what we have been able to learn is that at one time our Owens, Matlock & Ruggles male ancestors were all in Iberia and then branched off. Our Ruggles line is showing they were in the Basque Region of Spain. Through our male lines, the Rh Negative factor was picked up as a female paternal Matlock descended cousin, a female Ruggles cousin and myself (Kathy) are all Rh Negative. You should look into taking the Big Y-700 with FamilyTreeDNA.
Congratulations we`ve found out from the Grilled cheese sandwich you ate your from the Edmonton vicinity and like old stuff .LOL
+Garnett M yup! Haha pretty much. The interesting thing was that it links you to other members, found out I've got a lot of second cousins I didn't know about :)
@@CuriosityIncorporated Alex, maybe they were just other customers at the same grilled cheese counter... ;)
@@sintonias his wife is beautiful and smart ...
@@rubyd3745 Sorry, but what does that have to do with my comment? We can all see he has a lovely wife, but I never referred to her. Alex was saying he discovered second cousins he never knew about, and I took Garnett's pun about the grilled cheese to joke that maybe they confused other grilled cheese customers at the same diner for his cousins. It's a corny joke, but there you go.
Here is a true Ancestry DNA story. I know, cause it's mine. It's going to be long, but I hope amusing. When you get your results I know you'll have many a unique story of your own to pass down! First, a bit of my back ground, I was born in the Italian section of Harlem NYC in 1957. (Ironic because I am not Italian!) Since the age of one I grew up, with my mother, her mother and my younger sister in the small city of Barre, Vermont.
My grandmother was born in the Amish/Mennonite home of her grandfather in upstate NY. He immigrated there as a teen with his family and they were part of the first Anabaptist Community that established the northern NY town of Croghan. His father was one of the founding Bishops. They migrated for religious sanctity from the EU, who had no tolerance for Anabaptists.
My father had been married three times, once before my mother's marriage and once after. Each marriage produced two children. Never one to stay with a woman very long, and in and out of prison, I didn't know very much about him at all growing up. We were NOT allowed to speak of him - ever - in front of my grandmother! So I had no way of knowing about him or his family.
So this is a two-part story. Both resulting in blessings. One a surprise and one a validation.
In college I took a genealogy study and (long before computers) sent about two hundred snail mail letters into the heart of NYC where my father was from. The addresses I used, were from NYC phone books, that were available in our State Library. The letter was short. A brief intro to who I was, that I was looking for my father, with a little family chart at the bottom. (About a hundred lovely people responded and wanted to adopt me, but no relatives.) The second batch of letters had among all the others a response in a Christmas card, "You found your Uncle Al!"
Fast forward a couple decades and have met most of my surviving family. Though I still do not know the names of my two older brothers from my fathers first marriage. His ex-wife remarried and the boys were adopted by her husband so no longer had my father's name. I do know my younger brother and sister who live up near Toronto. (My father had duel citizenship - he was QUITE the con man!) Sadly I missed knowing my father himself as well as most of my Aunts, Uncles and my grandparents in person, I do know and am close to my many wonderful first cousins. I've learned a lot about the family from them, including the family joke about one or more of "Mickey's" (my father) children just showing up one day! One of my cousins is very curious about family history and had done an Ancestry DNA that showed some questionable close relatives that she and her sister could not place. She asked me to take the test as a gift from her. I said I would love it. I would have done it years ago, but for the cost.
The first thing I saw on the "results" was the breakdown of where "my" people came from. 70%+ Irish and a good part of the rest came to me on the journey "over the pond" with the immigration of the Amish/Mennonites as they fled Europe. It's one thing to hear the family stories, but quite another to know you are carrying that real life history today in every cell of your body!
I'm going to skip sideways here and tell you about Joan. She was put up for adoption as an infant in the early 1950's and was raised as an only child. She discovered her birth mother's name only a few years ago after both her adoptive parents had passed. She was happily married but unable to have children. With no family ties she knew of, she looked for and located her birth mother journey, discovering she had gone on to marry and had seven children! Joan has been united with all her siblings on her mother's side, but still didn't know her father's name.
She then took the Ancestry DNA test. Well, I guess you know where this is going. Joan is my half sister! We have "spoken" through email and phone and plan to meet this September in Person. Along with me, she now knows of the other five siblings she has from our father's side. From growing up as an only child to having 13 siblings (plus all of our children and grandchildren and cousins,) she now has a HUGE family that love and accept her. (twelve people just from me, my three children and eight grandchildren!) My father was not what would be thought of as a "good" man. He was selfish and he hurt a lot of people, but because of his ways, we have so many amazing people in our large family. I look forward to getting to meet my "new" sister and possibly so many more I do not yet know.
So, my story isn't over. Neither is yours. You've just opened the cover of your story. If you find something that seems "bad" in the in it, just look a bit further. You have quite a journey yet to be discovered! You, of all people, know that true value is often hidden, overlooked and buried away, waiting for you to find and appreciated it! Bless you and your family!
So today you posted that you, in fact, have "found" a "new" sister as well! My heart overflows for her and you as well as your wife and children! Your father is surely watching this process of reunion between you and your sister. How valuable your memories of who your father was you can give to your sister! Congratulations a thousand times over for the blessing of discovering more family to love! Much love to all of you from Vermont!
Karen Fitzpatrick beautiful!!
Just gone back into this. What a change in the kids. Dont they grow up so fast
Mine came back as 38% Irish. There was a small percentage of African Congo thrown in along with British and east European. I'm from the southern US, so it wasn't a surprise to see the Congo part.
I did mine a few years ago. It was fun.We were considered early settlers of North America..
Hello from East EU! Croatia
+nikola kurjakovic hello back! Apparently I’m European too!
I did this test the results were a bit of a surprise since it said I had DNA from places I never thought of.
I've been told for years that my great great grandmother on my father's side was native american. My son did a DNA test this year and no native american blood but we have some African blood (maybe she was part black?). My son is part Russian so that obviously showed up, as did my background which is mostly English and Scottish.
You just may not have inherited the Native American DNA. I did the test a few years ago, and was surprised that there was no Native American DNA, because one look at my maternal great aunts looked like classic Native American women.
A quick genetic explanation: The Y chromosome never changes. Your Y is your father’s Y which is his father’s Y back to the beginning of your line. The X chromosome is where the changes and differences come in. You inherited an X from your mother, who has two Xs. If one X carried the Native American genetics, and the other X did not, and you got the X that did not carry it, it would not show in your DNA. However if you had a brother or sister that got the Native American X, it would show up for them.
Genetics is like a big crapshoot. I plan to do this test eventually, to see if the family rumor of having Native American DNA holds true. My brother has done one, but I haven’t heard what his makeup is yet.
I like watching AncestryDNA results on UA-cam, like your's. I see most people have quite a large mixture, but I don't. I guess I am an oddball!? I am from the United States and did my test back in June and got my results in July. This DNA test taught me I am so white and now I know why I get sunburn so easily. LOL! I find this DNA test so accurate, since it has proven some of my previous research I have done in my family tree. In some instances, it has helped me break some brick walls. I would highly recommend this test to anyone and I don't get why so many complain about this. I will leave my results below. Have a good day!
Europe [98%]
Great Britain - 93%
Finland/Northwest Russia - 4%
Europe West -
+MrOrange thanks for sharing! It's fun to learn more about our ancestors and our genes, tells a story. Mine was pretty plain... European. But I found out I have Ojibwe cousins so someone branched out at some point!
MrOrange 93% is higher than any actual British persons results I've ever seen that's really rare
I find a lot of Americans who are distant cousins of mine and who show family trees going back a way in the Southern States seem to very solidly British/Irish, more so than myself whose family stayed in Britain and Ireland.
That’s pretty neat to know.
Just seeing this video now and oh my, have the kids grown!
Very interesting! Thanks!
Ancestry has done updates to their database since you did this video. Have you checked to see if you had any changes. I went from having Jewish ancestry to no Jewish and 6 % African and 1 percent Indigenous North American. Cheers!
JL Collins Just had to comment. I only had mine done through 23andme and they have also recently updated my results. There is something fishy going on. I asked them why people now have to declare BEFORE testing if they are Ashkenazi Jewish. If it's a DNA test, isn't the test supposed to tell you that? I am not anti-Semitic in any way and in fact I was looking for a Jewish result but I can't help but think the owners of these companies who were getting so many people with Ashkenazi results they decided to contain the results to not show it unless it was declared in advance. I didn't get an answer. I had trace North African/Middle Eastern (I am 98.9 European) and these have also disappeared. The craziest one is my nephew, whose parents are solidly British and results prove it, now has Greek/Balkan which is absolutely impossible.
@@susancrawford5927 Ashkenazi Jews tend to be very endogamous because they were often restricted to small areas so married within that group. I expect that is why they wanted to know so their results could factor that in. I have never seen or heard of them dong that so maybe it was just for a short time that they did.
@anne Pelton Well they have changed the way they give those results. If you don't declare your Ashkenazi roots, 23andme will not give you a result of that any more. It has definitely been altered in terms of what you get back from them. I have watched a lot of older DNA videos. If those same people go back into their profiles, I guarantee the results have now been altered.
@@WillChil466 it is!
You should come to Dublin Ireland and check out the Irish Antique Dealer's Exhibit in the Royal Dublin Society . It is fantastic gathering of all Dealers from Ireland and England .
Have you looked again since they did the update in 2018? Mine changed drastically when they did the update!
The update was done around Sept 10th, 2018
Mine changes a few times a year.
It all depends which bits of your ancestors genes you inherited. As an amateur genealogist can you trace the paperwork. I have all tges American, Canadian cousins & have no idea where we all cross.
Funny when you said thought there would be a little mixing when you got to the Africa area. I wound say the same thing but I’m pretty sure there would at least a percentage
Your spit trip is a great fun x as your are suffering from Egor.
100% Canadian Prairie boy. I've got similar heritage myself.
I'm 100% European. Most my family were Quakers who came to America about 1630s. I'm still searching for where and how my ancestors lived before they crossed the pond.
Hello from Ukraine! Alexander ))
My sister also got 7% Scandinavian, it seems to be a commonality for many.
I’ve read and heard you used the best Company. Ancestry has the best results..
I’m the same age as the brothers from Oak Island. I remember reading the same Readers Digest.
I also lived in Michigan. Kentucky is my home now....Enjoy your youtube video’s. Even sent some of your music,to a Producer in Nashville. He represents several artists, Rhonda Vincent is one. He was Allen Jacksons road manager when he toured. Tony L Stevens works for Gaylord at the Opry. My neighbor and Tony where best friends (Gerald has since passed).
If you all ever come south, I would love to fix you a southern meal...your kids would love the General Jackson Showboat. Meal then a stage show, going up the river and back.
So much to do...Dollywood bought out all of Opryland’s rides.They are in the Smokey’s now. Smokey’s are wall to wall people.
Way overpriced...Clarksville TN. is home of 101st. Airborne 🌞(border)Fort Campbell Ky. Screaming Eagles..
Glad you did this. I am a mut also.
Ancestry keeps updating their estimates as they get more data from more DNA samples, so look again in a couple of months. It will change. If you don't have a family tree, you should do it. The Ancestry site looks for information for you, once you put in what you know. It can be very informative. Thank you for taking us along on your adventures..
If that is an Aladdin hanging lamp in your shop, I want it. I could email, but if you are behind ....
I'm just seeing this and oh man how little the littles look!
Very interesting would not mind knowing my own ancestry
Your son is the spitting image of you.
YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL FAMILY HAVE A GREAT DAY
Im uk looking at you id say your Italian 100% does that connect somewhere at all
have you checked you ancestryca updates. A few things may have changed.
after a wee+ binge watching, i watched x-men: dark phoenix. if melissa were to completely bleach her hair white, she'd look so much like jessica chastain in the movie. not saying she should. i was watching the movie, wondering who she reminded me of. paused it for a while, saw a couple of your videos and realized it.
In England the highest numbers of the name Archbold is in the northeast of England - Northumberland especially. A friend of mine is called Archbold, who told me it was originally a tribe of border reivers (cattle robbers and raiders) along the Scottish border. Have you checked to see if your Archbold’s could be from there?
This is great- that is the exact data I was thinking of typing for Alex, @curiousityinc and that the Scots Irish back and forth families often ended up in The Borders area of Northumberland after...
So that explains the Irish DNA and the Northumberland family tree.
Oh my god how much has happened in only 3 years. Feel like yesterday this came out. In the mean time, I have found out I am 99%Norwegian and 1% Italian 😎
I got my DNA test back I failed! Three days of study, I'm told my parents provided linen and not jeans
I said the same about myself being as European as local Europeans. By way of Appellation Mountains to land in Southwest Ohio. With a pinch of Iberian Peninsula thrown into the recipe. If we could only know about our specific stories and tribulations lost to time....
You need to 23 and me, for it will give you medical and will even give you the exact villages your family is from. Also personality traces.
Also you need to visit Ukraine, we have many second hand stores that sell very old housewares, like Dresden China.
My moms polish Jewish and my dad’s Spanish and Irish. But I’m 100% European which is pretty rad.
I thought you would be like 100% french. 🤣🤣 and i was surprised you dont speak french. LOL. I thought that you are french because of your eyelids.
I knew where my two maternal grandmother's were born and the test came back with Ireland and Norway. The test did NOT however tell me about the paternal blood line. I can trace out our sir name back to Staten Island, NY in the mid 1600's.
Always nice to know your lineage :)
It doesn't tell the paternal bloodline??
They say they CAN if you pay additional fees.
surname. There's no such thing as a 'sir name.'
I have never needed to do that, but i have a site on Ancestry . I have immediate ancestors from several different nationalities which caused one of my cousins to ask " is there any oppresed ethnic group we are not decended fr4om ? " LOL! Family history has always been of interest to us because of the many interesting ancestors, a king (yes really) barons,(one of whom invented the combination lock ,) a few knights, the founder of modern day methodism .Some Freed african slaves even . Some of the ancestors may not have been so special but some married rather well .LOL!.
+Mercmad that sounds more exciting then me!
Curiosity Incorporated The one percent West Asian was Caucuses?
Not unusual for Russians to havwe skandanavian and Asian DNA.Why? Russia was originally formed by Vikings who travelled across Russia to the middle east to trade and Ghengis Khan conducted lots of raids into the Russian heartland.One reason why Some Russian Women are so incredibly beautiful ,the mix of asiatic Ancestory works well.
My sister and I have the same mom and dad. Our DNA profile came back different as far as percentages of a specific ethnicity. I thought I was more “French” but apparently have zero while my sister has 4%..... Go figure. At least I know where I got my red hair and freckles from. Of course they lumped together Scotland and Ireland....
You should add the update about finding out you have a half sister.
The last 0.01% is Grilled Cheese ☺
I did 23 and me. My results were like yours. Maybe somehow we are related😉
😂Congratulations Alex, you're pregnant.
Linda Janczikowski 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I did my DNA test thru the same company and it turns out I have NO parents, No brothers and sisters , 1 First cousin and 869 possible 6th cousins!
Dear Tim O.
What??? No parents? Are you made/mixed in a laboratory? Or is it only statistics because your parents didn't do a DNA test yet?
Appreciate your answer.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
@@Chr.U.Cas1622 According to them they check municipal databases and birth records along with DNA samples and apparently I'm not human born
@@speeder36
Aaah, Okay, this explains a lot. You are from outer space. ;-)
A vacation tour to see your DNA relatives will be extremely expensive then... or is it just: Scotty, beam me up!?
Hi Curiosity , how is the family doing ? 👍😃
thanks for this
I want to do this but im half polish and half native American but u really never no what surprises u will find my moms parents r both polish and my dads r native but his dad was a ? And thats y i want to do this but dont have the cash they ask 4 for the test
Alex looks like he could be my brother. We are almost same age too