DNA Test Comparison: Ancestry, 23andMe, MyHeritage, Living DNA
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2024
- In today’s video I sit on the Magenta Otter couch with my oldest brother Alan and talk about DNA and Family History research. Alan is a great brother, and also a great genealogist and DNA expert. He will share some advice with us about family history research, DNA testing, and give a side-by-side review of the different DNA testing companies: Ancestry, My Heritage, 23 & Me, and Living DNA. He will also talk about how he uses DNA results to find relatives and build our family tree.
Please watch last week’s video if you want to see the DNA ETHNICITY RESULTS for me, my British husband Ian, and a comparison of my ethnicity with my brothers Alan and Brian. That video is here - • Surprising DNA Results...
For FREE family history resources as you research your family tree, try visiting - www.familysearch.org/
For more on DNA you can visit the site Alan mentioned - dnapainter.com/
Website for British Society of Genealogists - www.sog.org.uk/
For our Family History vlogs, see below:
Birmingham - • Birmingham Family Hist...
Herefordshire - • Herefordshire Family H...
Love the otter space tshirt and meeting your brother. Interesting explanation!!!
Alan and Carmen are pretty wonderful. I am lucky to have them in my life 💖💖
Thanks so much for sharing happy easter ❤lot of love ❤
Thank you for watching! I wish you a wonderful Easter weekend!💛🐑
Brilliant lucid explanations from Alan. Awesome stuff Dara!
He is a clever man. Very grateful to have him as a brother!
Very interesting. Alan appreciate your expertise you did a fabulous job. When searching 23&Me or ancestry I have to watch the clock as I start to go down a rabbit hole 😂. Thanks Dara & Alan! ~Cara
Oh yes family history research is easy to get lost in!!
Oh gosh, Alan is a fountain of knowledge...need to save this vlog ❤xx
He is a smarty pants (as we say in the states)! I take all my toughest questions to him!😉
@MagentaOtterTravels ...we say "smarty pants" as well, but yes it is originally an American term 😉😅
@@glastonbury4304 OK, I just needed you to know I was not referring to underwear! Lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels ... 🤣😂🤣
Thank you friends for sharing videos on very interesting topics, friends
Thanks for watching!
Interesting conversation with your brother Alan, Dara. Lost me at the first centimorgan! 🤣🤣I was surprised as to why direct siblings (who share the same parents) would have so different geographical results. You brother somewhat cleared that up. As I indicated last week, I believe it would take some time to delve into this further. Some day I would like too. Interesting conversation.
Thanks! To further confuse us.... Alan told me today that we share 50% the same DNA as a banana 🍌!!
you two look awesome loved the content
Thank you so much!
Such an intriguing and mystical topic. Being able to "dissect' if you like, one's actual being. I have access to a really extensive Family Tree fabulously researched by two cousins. The thought of having my DNA investigated is gathering my curiosity sense. Found both the videos very interesting. Thank you big brother Alan, you were a true support and comrade in arms for Dara in this quest. Dara, love the top your sister in law found for you. Just perfect - Otter Space. Happy Easter. 👌😎🇳🇿🙋♀🥝
Happy Easter! I hope you had a fabulous day with your family Down Under!
I'm very lucky to have Alan and Carmen here in Texas with me. Brian is coming from Utah next week.... to see the solar eclipse!! ☀️
@@MagentaOtterTravels I'm having a wonderful time Dara thank you. I have 8 weeks to go! Isn't that just awesome? Have a great time with your family too Dara. 🇳🇿😎🥝🐣🙋♀
Loved the ''Otter Space" sweatshirt! 😍 It was so interesting and helpful to listen to big bro Alan 👍 I haven't followed through as much with my DNA connections as I have with my searches through historical records. One thing that was really helpful was determining who the father of my paternal grandfather was. At the time of his birth his mother was single. The name of the father had been inscribed on his birth certicificate but then later crossed out. Did that person have his name removed because he didn't think he was actually the father? A few months later she married this man and my grandfather was included as a son on various censuses. I discovered I had DNA matches with his descendants so I could then presume he was the father. Thanks, Alan for letting us know about My Heritage being the best and biggest. I haven't uploaded my tree to their site yet or used their DNA kit. I now think I should. I use Ancestry and Find My Past. I will check out DNA Painter. Thanks for the tips for using Family Search, very helpful. Really loved this video. Big thanks to you both ❤
That is such an interesting story about your grandfather! And a great example of why DNA can be helpful in piecing together your Family Tree!!
FYI, myheritage DNA kits are currently on sale for $36! I think that's a great deal
For a minute I thought you were more Miss R than Miss M 😮
Wow Alan knows a lot! You lost us, but I wish we knew half as much as he does! Love your otter top. The French are a funny lot aren't they! Intersting video. 🍻
I can't keep up with Alan either! Lol
I'm planning to wear my "otter space" shirt next Monday for eclipse day ! ☀️
Thanks for watching😘
awesome upload 👍🎥💯
Thanks
Fascinating, your brother seems like a nice bloke! The French are a funny lot eh😏Like the otter top too
My brother and his wife are both amazing. Grateful to have them both in my life!
And yes, I can't believe that the French outlawed DNA tests!!
I enjoyed this interview with your brother.
I have 23andMe I find interesting is the haplogroup numbers. I have 3 perfect matches on maternal side.
I may do a My Heritage test to see what it says and finds.
Yes, I wish that we had more time because Alan loves talking about haplogroups. MyHeritage is having a big sale right now... It is $36 in the US or £34 in the UK.
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you. 😊
Dara、Wow, your older brother clearly describe each DNA analysis company's pros and cons.
I am familiar to only Ancestry and 23and Me as K7S and our daughter curiously tested.
As my understand, as more PPL test and more data saved, the DNA analysis will be updated.
Great conversation with your older brother you are fond of.
I thank YOU for bringing up another interesting topic
haha My home country was closed to out of the world for a long time. I did not really get into..
Well, I may discover surprises. Well done
I've only met one person who was 100% a single ethnicity. My friend from Korea is 100% Korean... but I think he was still happy he did a DNA test. I think you should try it!
@@MagentaOtterTravels That’s interesting! Here’s me, waiting in anticipation to take the test, imagining (doubtless in my ignorance) that I’ll be pure north western English, that my dna will show that my all my ancestors originated 12 miles or so either side of Manchester - I await the results with a hint of trepidation.😬
@@woodentie8815 please let me know what you find out!
That was interesting, and more informative than the "jazzy" adverts that I usually see from those companies. I may, one day, discover that I am your 19,472,603rd cousin or something.
In the meantime, you can be my "otter from another mother", as the kids say on the streets nowadays, or something like that.
Haha sounds good 👍
It's Good Friday
Yay, so you can watch the video when it launches!
Happy Easter weekend!
I hope you are nailing it. lol
@@jeanlongsden1696 no hope, can't even nail down Easter holidays
I have a couple of questions for Alan who has so much knowledge! Thank you both for this great video.
On Familysearch, are the information filled in taken from other people's family trees and can i trust them or should i double check everything ?
If they come from other trees, can i find out who created the tree as they obviously share ancestors with me ?
For info, I am french - I hope my ancestors were not as naughty as decribed in your video or my tree will be very incorrect. My tree goes about 500 years back in every branch of the family, however my dna results from Ancestry don't show any french in me - zilch - even though Ancestray says that France is my communauty. 😏
Ignore any silly comments made about French people! It was just a joke. That is amazing that you have 500 years of history in your family tree!!! Good for you!
I will be honest with you, you need to double check everything you find in family search trees. It's great that everyone's trees come together, but if someone makes a mistake, it can mislead you. So it is best to transfer the information to another website like ancestry where you maintain your own tree.
It sounds like you already have a tree, so just see if you can get any new information from family search, and then bring it over to your ancestry tree . Family surge has a wonderful database of records, though, so I hope you just give it a try to see if you learn anything new. Good luck!
Hi Alan, now there’s a man that screams DNA expert! Love the otter space top, very clever. Great shots n the MG ❤ that’s interesting about siblings and how much they share. How much DNA does Alan share with Bill Pullman? Id say over 50%. Great actor btw. Could be a regional 50s American thing? 🧐 I’m quite big on people being very similar based on times, places and diets… great tip about MyHeritage. Pricey stuff. Some great tools on these websites, WATO approved. A wonderful review of the resources available.
I haven't told Watto about that yet! Lol
MyHeritage has a sale right now and is only $36 for a kit!
@@MagentaOtterTravels he will be impressed. Thats very reasonable!
@@GENerationXplorers just confirmed it's £34 in the UK... but the sale ends in two days
@@MagentaOtterTravelsthey will sell like hot cross buns! ❤
Your shirt is out of this world!!
Heehee... I plan to wear it on eclipse day!
@@MagentaOtterTravels the perfect gift doesn't exi...
Now there's a man with a passion 🏆
He is a very scholarly fellow! I go to him with all my really hard questions! I'm pretty much any topic. Except Fashion or design. Then I ask his wife Carmen! Fun fact: they pretty much only watch British TV shows. Anytime a new program is released here in the states, I ask them if they've seen it yet. The answer is always yes 🤣
Ethnicity is an estimate which depends a lot on the pool of people tested on each DNA company. Your matches depend on shared DNA they are real
Especially when it comes to Living DNA, it does appear that the pool of other people really affects your results! That seemed obvious to me in the prior video. I was surprised!
Fascinating topic, interesting to learn about all these different companies. For people doing family research though, I wouldn't get too caught up with focusing on which company has the most European or American records. World events come into play with the huge movement of people particularly in the 20th century. Europe had a large exodus of Displaced People (generally leaving countries that came under communist control) after World War II. The Greek civil war caused mass movement in the late 1940s and then there was those wanting to escape poverty who moved in the 1950s. They ended up in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand some in the UK and we're a few generations down now, so there are DNA matches with people spread out across the world. Just in my generation I have first and second cousins in the US, Australia, Sweden, Canada, Italy and Croatia and that's because our parents (or grandparents in my case) were part of that exodus.
Wow, you do have family all over the place! How nice!
That was really interesting. My oldest sister is 16 years older than l am, so a similar age gap but she didn’t have an MG but my middle sister did!
Oh Liz, that is really funny and coincidental!
Have the clocks already gone forward in the US because your videos normally come on at 4o’clock but they have been at 3 recently?
@@lizbignell7813 yes! It is so irritating! Normally we jump ahead one week before you. This year we jumped ahead a month early! I always have my videos release at 10 AM Chicago time. So this year, it was super confusing for my British viewers who pay attention 🤣
If you do 23 &me and ancestry you can upload your DNA from one of these to other companies
We want to know as much about anything, as your brother knows about DNA!
Lol, right?! Me too!
What about FTdna. How do they stand. I have discovered a DNA cousin in Houston - in fact she ran the "Littles" DNA group at FTdna
Family Tree DNA?
Yes - that’s who I did my dna with
@@RobLittleuk I'm not as familiar with them. But I saw they were at RootsTech!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Its all fascinating - you can "waste" a lot of inter evenings doing genealogy !!
@@RobLittleuk it is quite enthralling! But I think a good use of time in the long run 😉
Which of the companies allow law enforcement access to their databases? and sell details in the database to other companies so they can use it to send you marketing emails
The DNA companies do not sell their mailing lists to other companies like drug companies or marketing purposes.
GEDmatch allows law enforcement to use their database. However, when you sign up you are given the option to opt in or not. Alan opted in because it is helpful for identifying unknown remains and solving violent crimes or exonerating people erroneously convicted. Law enforcement ultimately uses their own database system called CODIS. In the well-known case of the Golden State Killer, GEDmatch helped them identify a possible suspect, but then the police followed him and saw him discard a coffee cup and then they tested that and identified him through their CODIS database against DNA they had collected at the crime scenes.
Other DNA sites like Ancestry do not allow law enforcement to use it. Ancestry once got a subpoena to provide information and were successful in defending against it.
DNA testing companies sometimes sell aggregated information to drug companies. No personally identifiable information is transmitted. However having aggregated DNA information helps them identify whether a particular drug is worth developing.
@MagentaOtterTravels I just found out that I'm a direct descendent of Edward III. Amazing what you find out listening to a scientist on the test match cricket commentary. 😁😁
@@Poliss95 well done, Boppy!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Not just me. Ian is also a direct descendant of Edward III. 😁😁
@@Poliss95 ok... go on...
@@MagentaOtterTravels Scientist Dr Adam Rutherford looked into it and found that anyone born in the UK up to the 1970s is a direct descendent of Edward III. 😂The chances of anyone not being a direct descendent are zero.
Went for the MyHeritage kit as you recommended. One thing with this company, as I’ve had previously experience with, is that they give you a free trial, at the end of which, if you don’t cancel, they charge you for a year’s subscription - last time I let it go and they took £70+ off me! - this time, along with the kit, they’ve entered me in a free trial which, if I don’t cancel after 30 days, they’ll charge me a whopping £114!!, so folks, just remember to cancel, otherwise!😮
Oh my! Gotta put a note in your calendar for a few days at the end of the free trial to be SURE you cancel!
Just an update on the free trial. Went to cancel the trial today, a week before it’s due to end. They offered me an extension of the free trial for an extra month, taking it to the end of May, an offer I couldn’t refuse!🙂
@@woodentie8815 well that's good news! 🙌
So how can you find a person when the records run out. ie before 1500
If your ancestors were of the aristocracy, then there will be church records and other documents that could take you much further back than the 1500s. If the were just normal folk, then there won't likely be any records I'm afraid
I wish I knew! Church records seem like the best bet... unless you have some stone tablets or cave drawings
I have done a lot of research on my family background and know the origins of my antecedents going back over 200 years. I have done DNA tests with Ancestry and Living DNA. Ancestry's results were a pretty close match with what I knew, but Living DNA was almost totally wrong,
I'm not surprised to hear you say that. Living DNA seemed extremely different than the other sources!
UK Story and Ancestry. My mother and her sister were born out of Wedlock, there mother at the material time was unmarried. It was always known who the father was. A married man and world champion Boxer, but not proven in any documentation . Because of his fame and well know family, , I could establish that my grans extended family and the boxers family lived close by in London England. Most of the Boxers family had taken the DNA test. I done the test and low and behold a match. I did receive from the USA a similar match. The contact stated that while on tour from the UK he fathered a child. We are talking about 1909, when he would have had many female admirers, just like Celebs of today.
That's SO interesting!! I saw a similar story on a genealogy TV show where they discover people's roots. Those boxers must have had a reputation for getting around 😉
Centimorgans are not "probability". They really do behave a lot like centimeters. Let's imagine your whole genome is 3500 cM - doesn't matter which unit you are thinking about - and you share 2500 cM with your brother. That means that you share a total SIZE of 2500 cM "segments" of your DNA with him. Your DNA is identical in many segments (roughly one CM = 1 million base pairs of DNA), and adding up the size of all those segments yields the 2500 cM number. So the same way, that a distance of 2500 centimeters is not a probability of that physical size, a total shared segment value of 2500 centimorgans is a real measurement for the value of all the identical DNA that is shared by two persons. If your 3500 cM of DNA would get mapped in a 3500 centimeter diagram, and you'd measure the size of all those 2500 cM segments, you'd arrive at a 2500 centimeter value for the size of the shared DNA (in that 1cm = 1 cM diagram).
Thank you for explaining!
'I'm going to answer that a little bit differently.' Is your brother a politician? 😁😁
No, just very diplomatic! haha
What I want to know is where they get the ancestry database from, and for ethnicity, do they take DNA from people who were buried hundreds of years ago?
My sister and niece are interested in family trees. I'll pass on the video. As I've said before I'm not interested in the least, but as you say you're gong to be visiting the Scottish borders this year perhaps you can pop in to Sanquhar church and see if my grannie is listed there? 😁😁
The dna databases are of modern day populations around the world and are built up by compiling all the results from all of the dna tests for any particular company. If for example, your dna says you have Norwegian in your genetic make-up, it is actually saying you have similar dna to some of the present day Norwegian population.
@@richardeasterlow6988 That's what I thought, but I did a little digging, (pardon the pun), and they use historical DNA sources. If they just used modern DNA the results would be highly inaccurate because people move around the world so much more these days.
@@Poliss95 mostly it's modern populations. Obviously they count where you are ethnically from and not where you now live. If an English person moves to Spain for example, they wouldn't count them as Spanish. This is why dna ethnicity estimates are updated on a fairly regular basis, as more results are compiled
Why not in France?
Also banned in Israel.
It's illegal, and there's a huge fine!
“Otter Space”, oh dear ! Are you sure about these ages, Dara, Alan looks just a young lad ? I’m from Venus, so that’s all right DNA-wise. LOL.
Alan looks way younger than his age! Full head of hair, and not even that grey!! He's 76!
@@MagentaOtterTravels just a boy then
@@MrGyges haha with boyish good looks 😀
I don’t particularly like my Heritage I prefer Ancestry. I get the same matches on people who have done the uploads on all of them.
Good to know! Thanks for sharing your experience.
so it seems that Alan confirmed my theory about the French women sleeping with the Germans in WWII.
what about people from Norfolk, who's family tree is just a trunk. lol
have great Easter weekend everyone.
Someone from Devon said their family tree was a 2 x 4! Lol
50% of my DNA is duf and the other 50% is also duf
LOL
Otter Space 🥴Oh dear.
So cute!! 🦦
Hi windup the clock
Those clocks are all dead. Sorry!
@@MagentaOtterTravels HI your amazing nice to meet your family to and to see how far back your history gose
@@peterforfun210 cheers!
I like how Britain invented DNA and America exploded it.
The land of opportunity 🤔
Your thumb nail, so childish 😂
Mind you, it is Easter 🐇
Better hope Alan doesn't disown you
Alan is pretty goofy, so I didn't think he would mind. The funny thing is that I did that, and chose the yellow background without even realising the video would be published on Good Friday! It all looks like an Easter theme I did on purpose, LOL!