I Took 10 DNA Tests and Compared Them | Which One Should You Take?
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- UPDATE: I uploaded my DNA to five more companies:
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• I Took 5 DNA Tests and...
Nebula: bit.ly/UsefulChartsNebula
MyHeritage: bit.ly/USEFULCHARTS_DNA
(use the code USEFULCHARTS2 to get free shipping)
Circle: circledna.com/
(use the code MATTB33 to get 33% off)
Others:
23andme.com/
ancestry.com/
familytreedna.com/
livingdna.com/
www.crigenetics.com/
www.helix.com/
www.tellmegen.com/
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Charts & Narration by Matt Baker usefulcharts.com/
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. Available from incompetech.com.
Which DNA test is best for African Americans?
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Perhaps it would be interesting for you to do DNA tests with some of the same companies again (but using another name?) and compare with their previous results!?
Answer dis now
How do we Register the Kit ??
What about for black people that aren't American?
In the future, people will look back with disgust and wonder how these companies were allowed to take ownership (for the purposes of research or whatever they see fit to do with it) of another persons DNA and profit from it. They will be perplexed as to how people were fooled into paying for the privilege. This is the new colonialism.
You are still missing one MAJOR fact. If you buy an ancestry test, you can upload it to my heritage for free. If you buy a my heritage test, you CANNOT upload it to ancestry, therefore, if you are interested in genealogy, ONLY go for ancestry, and from there, you can upload it to my heritage and livingDNA for no cost whatsoever.
Thanks for saving me 23 minutes and confirming what I already thought lol
What about 23andme
123 and i,and my heritage are not so good,,i prefer family tree dna and ancestry.going to do an ancestry test soon
@@blackiedarling7539 living dna is the worst it literally removed 27% of my dna like wtf
You forgot 1 important thing lol, Ancestry selling your DNA to other companies :)
MyHeritage and FTDNA do NOT sell it further, and it's most accuracy in world, with same laboratory. They are in texas USA.
I work in forensic genetics and do those analyses every day for unidentified bodies or kinship analysis for living people. Those companies are scamming people as you can see when you compare them. If they would use scientifically proven methods, the results would match exactly. This is why we are doing interlaboratory test with other facilities around the world all getting the same samples and the results have to match 100% to be certified doing this. There is some leeway when using Y-chromosomal DNA when interpreting the results, depending on if you are using STRs or STRs plus SNPs, but they should not contradict but rather be more specific. Same with mtDNA, if you sequenced the whole genome or just the D-Loop. Doing ancestral analysis with autosomal DNA is bogus. There are some alleles you will find more often in people from region A than from region B, but even if we are talking percentages of about 90% or 99%, will still give you a 10% or 1% error rate. If your database is 20 million people, that would be 2 million or 200000 false results. Do not let high percentages fool you. A paternity test usually gives you a 99.999999% match if you are the father using just around 20 DNA systems, as long as no close relatives are also possible contenders. 99% is not really saying anything. Even if you combine all the thousands of studies done for different ethnicities and their autosomal DNA alleles, you cannot use that data to say with some certainty that this person with those alleles is from that ethnic group, let alone splitting up this group and give you even more detailed information. The Viking score is, of course, also bogus. As are differences between France and Germany, Norway and Sweden and Denmark etc. You could also roll a dice and be happy with the results without paying money for someone telling you random stuff.
Now, the only real way to get ancestry information in the way you want, going back generations, is mtDNA and y-chromosomal DNA. And for those, the results have to match because they should be all based on the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence (rCRS) and use the same databases (EMPOP, Mitomap, etc.) which use the same mutations to get to the mitochondrial haplogroups. If they do not give you your data (usually given as deviations from the rCRS) do not bother with them. That way you can just check their work for yourself using the same free databases.
Same with Y-chromosomal DNA. We all use the YHRD database. If they do not give you your Y-STR profile, do not bother with them. Actually, they should always provide the data they used to get to the results, so you can check it.
As you can see, there is no scientific reason the results should vary so much. Or any reason they should be able to get any ancestral results from autosomal DNA alone that would reliably work. All this "10% Roman, 71% Viking, 3% Inuit"-stuff is just made up. The underlying scientific data is used in a way it was never supposed to be used and thus any references to those articles just want to lull you into a false narrative.
And don't get me started on those health related results... they use results, sometimes contradicting each other, from thousands of articles, lump them together and build their own "database" for certain ailments. Some are rather easy and only rely on one or two genes and are thus easy to predict and accurate. Others are under the influence of dozens or hundreds of genes, not yet fully understood. Some paper might tell you SNP AB in Gene X will get you a 70% chance of that disease, other tell you SNP CD in Gene Y will reduce your risk by 10-40% and SNP EF in Gene Z gets you a 20% chance. Not one study will have looked at those three combined, but the company algorithm will lump those chances together as if they were, despite them probably interacting and ignoring the other 84 from other publications and the 93 not yet discovered. But they give you a 50% chance of dying of a cardiac disease anyway. Yet, even 10% or 90% mean nothing in this context. As we could see, the rheumatoid arthritis was right (with a prevalence of 1-2% in the population), the insomnia was not (with a prevalence of up to 30% in the population it was a nice try). Except the few that have a distinct genetic pathway linked to a small number of polymorphisms, all others are just an elaborate guess. Genetic dispositions are often as accurate as horoscopes...
Instead of paying good money to these companies, just pay a certified and accredited lab to analyse your DNA and use the free databases yourself to get the real results. They are not as flashy as those you get from them, but feel free to embellish them yourself. Use a dice or toss a coin to determine your Viking Score...it's about as accurate that way. Or just say you are 70% Icelandic Viking if that makes you feel better.
But it would be nice, if you put your DNA in a public database so we can get your murderous uncle behind bars. He has always made you feel uneasy anyway and now you know why^^
I believe you.
it isn't a dice roll though..... some alleles are ONLY found in certain ethnicities.....
So in some cases you wouldn't even be dealing with a percentage chance of error.
Are you one of those mentally ill leftoid types?
Thank you for the thorough explanation!!! I was told by a genetic counselor that most DNA testing services are not accurate. I wanted to ask you a couple questions if you don't mind:
1. I live in the bay area, California. Is there a university or other type of genetic facility you could recommend
2. There's a lot of hype behind Nebula Genomics due to the sequencing of the entire genome. What's your opinion about this company?
3. Since you're a forensic geneticist, I wanted to know if there's a company or a method to get my DNA sequenced anonymously. Should I be worried about trusting my data with these companies?
I know it's a lot of questions, but I would rather get some feedback from someone in the field. Thanks in advance :)
This was a fantastic read!
@@mikeg1877 Would love to know the answers to 2. & 3.
Ancestry DNA helped me find my brother that I never even knew I had or existed. I’m so thankful for them ❤
Can we just pause to appreciate the remarkable diction and clarity of speech used to convey the information? It's abundantly clear that you are intentionally making an effort to enhance the clarity of speech, and some of us REALLY appreciate it!
I would be interested to see what happens when you send 2 or 3 samples to the same provider. Before you can talk about accuracy, it is important to know if the results are even reproducible.
I was thinking the same thing. Hear that UsefulCharts
guy? You redo the tests and I will sub and ring the bell.
been done with DNA tests for pets, and the results were predictable (for the skeptic).
Several of those companies sent back wildly different results for different swaps from the same pet, different enough that it appeared that the report was just randomly generated from a series of paragraphs and phrases stored in some database rather than based on any DNA analysis at all.
@@margaretford1011 was not aware of that service. Excellent suggestion!
Ancestry are watching and testing for that. I did a blind test/hid my identity/address/bank details. They refused my result. They knew I was trying to do two different tests to compare.
@@gingernightmare9152 Interesting. Did they refund your money?
The bad thing about MyHeritage is that being from Latin America does not differentiate between your percentage of indigenous and mestizo, but mixes everything as Mesoamerican and Andean, also in America there are many indigenous peoples and it seems that they only take into account the most famous indigenous people such as the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs. Being Chilean, I probably have Mapuche or aymara blood (indigenous from Chile) and I would like the companies to differentiate between these peoples. I uploaded my results in case you want to see them.
Hola! Una consulta, qué test usaste y como lo hiciste, dado que 23andme no envía a Chile y necesito hacer el test. gracias!
23andMe also doesn’t give you specific peoples but it does give you country and region where your ancestors are likely from. I’m also Chilean and I got Santiago and the O’Higgins region as the two most likely origin and then a few others that are likely but not as strong.
Same thing happens to indigenous people here in North America, we’re grouped in with Mongalian and Siberians. It does have a separate portion for just larger area indigenous peoples, such as greater lakes or plains indigenous.
As much as it sucks, I think the only way Native people's would get as good DNA results is if our blood was compared against the DNA tests already done on Native remains removed from the ground. I don't want our dead disturbed further, either, but in cases where it's already been done, we may as well use what we've got.
And you expect them to be able to do this, how? It's not magic, you realize that right? There are going to be limitations.
Thank you for being the tester of many & showing side-by-side results of each. Appreciate the work involved to share & teach.
I have just binged on 8 or so of your youtube videos (mostly historical ones, but this one caught my eye). You have a gift for explaining complex topics in an "easy to digest" way. You also have a great verbal cadence which is hard to master...not too fast, not too slow with intonation in check. Keep it up!
I'm a researcher in Genetics. One issue you didn't cover was how easy it is to get your raw data. I think most of them allow you to request the results, but I remember that several years ago, HELIX didn't provide a way to get your raw genotype data. They wanted to keep your data and sell you lots of extra tests. I would not buy a test that didn't give me full access to my data. Also, if I have the data, I don't need to pay someone to compute my Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) since I can do that myself. More importantly, you didn't mention that a PRS may not be accurate if someone is of an ethnicity not well represented in the reference study (which is particularly a concern for people with non-european ancestry).
If you do get the raw data from multiple tests, it would be interesting to compare the data. There are no absolute gold standards here, and all the tests with have some (generally very few, but some) errors. One can look at Kappa statistics between the various tests.
Personally, I'd like to get whole genome sequence for myself, but from blood, not a spit or swab kit. In our research, we've seen that the spit kits are less reliable than DNA taken from blood draws.
Did you watch the full video?
Agreed! I have 6 kids, and we all took a few tests, haha well I can promise you they all came out of me, but we're not related or distantly related 😅. My grandson who is 18 is my son!
I'm concerned about the staff contracting Covid from the samples. Is it safe for them?
@@mala3isity Im certain they lick each sample.
I was comparing my Ancestry and 23&me results and the ancestry had about 680k lines on notepad, and the 23&me was about 602k. Next I glanced over chromosome#1 in each file, compared the first 6 and last 6 entries from each test on that #1 chromosome. Of the 12 for each test, only 4 were identified by both tests. I notice some tests show the X chromosome, some do not, and some show 1-22 while others show 1-26. It's a bit confusing. It would be nice to be able to combine multiple raw data files into one, I have I'd like to combine somehow.
A major but valuable investigation would be taking all nine existing tests once more, to see if some results deviate significantly between rounds!
The same samples will yield different ethnicity and perhaps also traits results over time as the databases increase and as the science progresses. No need to retest. Your DNA is already a digital file and they automatically run that digital file through their new algorithms and inform you of the updates.
@@margaretford1011 Yeah, but the idea here is to test how reliable the results actually are. Not how well they do at printing off a copy of the results from a previous test. It shouldn't matter to any company to run the full test battery a second time on the new sample. It's what people paid for. Thing is, we have no real way of know whether they would run it twice or not.
@@a_diamond One thing I can tell you is that I have seen quite a few people upload DNA results from two different company test kits to a third database and the match readouts were identical, indicating that the procedures these companies used to count the raw DNA proteins were identical as well. So although I have now tested with two different companies using two different sampling methods (I first tested with FTDNA but later wanted to get in the larger Ancestry database and one has to test with them to get that). I wouldn’t do that again. Instead, I would test with Ancestry and then download the raw file and upload to other databases. What changes over time is not the physical processing, but the computer analysis of all the ATGC’s after they have been counted. The raw data file is the readout of the ATGC’s. The company determination of ethnicity,traits,and matching segments is based on a company specific algorithm. Whenever the algorithms update, the whole database of ATGC files are run through them and you get the results. This is not the same as “making a copy”. Anyway, … I think it would be a waste of money, and only really worth it if you suspect the labs are being sloppy in their handling of the specimen. Or.. if you’ve had a blood transfusion or organ transplant or have just carried an embryo - all of which could add someone else’s DNA to your body. That would actually be a cool experiment.
@@margaretford1011 That makes a lot of sense. However Useful Charts said only one of the companies offered the full sequence. Others were looking for specific sites. Or did I misunderstand that? How does a person a person who has a sequence done upload to other databases? I assume that would be a paid for service also?
Or... how about retaking 3 of the tests (for a total of 3 times each) 3 months apart. This is NOT to waste money... but rather to assess accuracy and consistency of test results... particularly within same company.
It'd be interesting to see how newer results compare with periodically updated info of original findings.
I'd also be interested in determining if there's a greater deviation or not... especially because the 9 tests in this video didn't significantly agree with one another (20:03).
20 YEAR OLD COLD CASE. Detectives in Jersey contacted me! I guess I share close DNA to a murderer. I allowed them to search through my DNA relatives trying to locate this person.
it was you right? ;-)
if they need you permission to do what they do, never give the permission. it's amazing how easily women seek to be "responsible" when it can hurt someone else.
@@Roar.kI did it
You didn't mention an important factor in CRI's DNA testing that I really liked for my genealogy research. The tell you at which generational time period changes came into your genetic genealogy. For example, it might show Tuscan Italian was added to my gene pool in my 4th generation during the 1800's. This is useful information when you are researching marriages as it could help in locating church records.
23andme does the same
You forgot to mention that CRI Genetics goes back farther in your dna time line. They also tell you when in time that specific dna entered into your heritage. I’ve taken several DNA tests and this is why I liked CRI the best.
CRI Genetics uses the 3 letter citations from 1000 Genomes. Look into how 1000 Genomes does their research. It really helps to get to more detailed information as to where your ancestors originate from.
Yes, it's not only the database size but how many years do they go back? From people I've interacted with genealogically, they're lucky to find where their 2x great-grandparents LIVED at times. It's where their people were BORN that interests me. Nomads, travelers, conquerors, natives are important factors.
@@mala3isity Geneticists can use DNA to match you to archeological sites. That is what MyTrueAncestry does. There is also an ancestral section of GEDMatch that does that for Europe. I am doing Portuguese research in Madeira and have access to a database with the original birth marriage and death records. I have taken parts of my ancestry back to the beginning of Madeira in the mid 15th century. I wish there were the same parish records in the US.
I went with CRI for this reason. Know what I am is great; knowing who that came from when is fascinating; and a great time killer to dig into.
23andme does the same though. I've heard a lot of bad reviews about Cri so I don't trust it.
Starting in 1990, it took 13 years and billions of dollars to sequence the first human genome, and now they can do it for less than $1,000. That's utterly astonishing.
(And you could argue it took 32 years depending on your definition of "fully complete genome")
That pattern is quite common. To develop and produce a new car model may take 4yrs and cost +$1billion to roll the first one off the line. After that you can bang one out for a few thousand.
Many years ago I bought my first digital camera. The first photo I took (still have it) cost me ~$800. The second photo cut the cost to $400. A couple years later my cost per photo was pennies.
Bonuspoints for that the first human sequence was only fully sequencef in 2003 (with the "human genomen project).
@@CraftAero Get into a fist fight in front of a police station, and your photo won't cost you a single penny.
Ah the Human Genome Project! I just did my college essay on genomes and this lol
I thought the project was across several people and had more (not counting comparing to databases) work going into it?
You did an excellent job in explaining all the various tests, especially using your great charts. Thanks!
I took both 23andme and Crigenetics. My father was 1st gen American. We know his Germanic ancestors came from the Prussian empire in an area that is now Poland in the 1860s. All have Germanic surnames. While Crigenetics categorized these ancestors as German, 23andme attributed them as Polish using post WWII borders. Just saying...
I had a similar situation, my father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father came to the British colony of Pennsylvania from Prussia in 1753, but Ancestry calls that Prussian heritage “German” despite the fact that Germany didn’t exist at the time. If my dad were alive he would definitely have something to say if someone tried to say his ancestors were German instead of Prussian. The difficulty perhaps arises from temporal imprecision of DNA testing, it’s hard to know precisely *when* an ancestor lived solely from DNA, so it’s hard to know what country they lived in at the time they lived, plus national borders don’t always hew closely to ethnography.
@@jpe1 What do you mean "He would have something to say about it"? Prussia always understood itself to be one of the german states, it was indisputably german - arguably the most important and often leading kingdom within the empire. I don't think any prussian would've taken offense to being called german. Being called polish back in those times however...
I was reading some studies about genetic differences in Slavic populations in Europe. Basically and roughly, West Slavs (Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, Sorbs, etc.) are, as a whole, far harder to distinguish from their neighbours than South and East Slavs. And vice versa of course. There was a lot of mixing there in the last 1500 years.
One can see that in RL as well: I have a Polish friend, who can count at least 4 generations that consider themselves Polish. Their name and last name is pure German though as they lived in territory that was once under Germany. So, genetically, who knows. It's the culture that you grow up in that defines you in the end.
@@vilena5308 Very important point, yes. Most western europeans have a mixed heritage in both genetics and culture - even people who are like "I can trace my heritage back to the 1300's and all of them are french" will have to make concessions at some point or another. Like: Really, not a single colony-officer lover-boy among your great-(...)-grandfathers? Nobody who brought home a cute german girl from the Rhineland back when it was occupied by France? Not a single italian dude from one of the islands in the Med that kept changing sides?
The fact is that culture and, kinda with it or around it, borders change much, MUCH more quickly than genetics do. So while this is a fun little exercise it says *NOTHING AT ALL* about how your ancestors where raised, saw themselves or were seen by others at the time of their life.
@@QemeH my dad was always very insulted to be called German, he would point out that he fought Germans in WWII, but the Prussian people didn’t become Nazis.
I did both MyHeritage and Ancestry, and I got very similar results. That said, MyHeritage lumps together all Scandinavians into one group, which made the ancestry results way more interesting. Also found quite a bit of unknown relatives on there!
My sister utilized ancestry. It was interesting. Lo and behold, a young woman reached out to her asking about one of our first cousins. Turns out she was our cousin's daughter who had been searching for him. My cousin had no idea as it was a one night stand. They met and all is well. I can see where this would be a problem for some people finding out you have children you didn't know about.
Yes or a half sister. Thanking God my mother is no longer here.
Yeah allot of doctors where caught from these test kits the most notorious being Dr. Donald Cline. Sick individual and messed up story but pretty interesting 🧐
Good it had a happy ending for that cousin.
@@MovingOnSoon 😂
That’s nuts makes me wanna do this because I know I have brothers and sisters on the island from my father (Dominican republic)
I like narrator's clear voice, enunciation , tone & speaking speed as it is easy to understand, along with the charts -- very interesting and informative.
My soapbox (one of several): the real value, _the incredible value_ , of taking some of these DNA tests is _to find cousins_ . Many times discoveries can be made about one's family's history by finding these cousins. The biggest will be non-paternity events (i.e., the father was not who is on record.) Genealogy is family history and if you want to know about your family then *study the actual records and see if you cousin matches line up with your developed family tree.*
My matches is seldom in my trees mostly because the trees are mostly on dead persons.
Exactly. I use DNA matches to verify my paper-based tree. My father's family tree turned out to be wrong which I proved with DNA matches. It wasn't an NPE but someone had the wrong birth record for my GGF. Paper is paper, blood is blood.
I agree Dan. At this time, I have placed over 800 dna matched cousins into my tree by meticulously rebuilding their trees to where it matches mine with a common ancestor. This has provided new insights and has also either confirmed or debunked connections and assumptions that I had to my 3x, 4x & 5x GGPs.
@Dan Edwards - agree 100 %.
@@RickMcQuay - the paper issue happens all too often but the DNA is solid proof.
UPDATE: I uploaded my DNA to five more companies:
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That's how I originally found your channel; I recommended it to people thinking about doing the DNA thing.
You win UA-cam this week! Best posting! 😉
Good morning Matt. I was thinking a video/chart on the subject of the world's food supply (where does the bulk of the world's food come from).
I'm sorry to post this here but I couldn't find a place to post it specifically.
Have a good weekend.
Mike
@Khurram Aziz you match those who have also tested in the database for that company. They would generally be cousins. You don’t match ancestors unless your parent or grandparents have tested because they are your ancestors. They came before you.
If you build a tree in Ancestry or MyHeritage, they use your matches and your tree to find common ancestors that have been inputted into both your trees.
@Khurram Aziz one possibility for this is with Y-DNA tests, if you are looking to discover if you are a direct male descendant (male to male to male, etc.) of someone deceased. Because Y-DNA does not change by much over generations (there is no mixing, only mutations), you could ask a known descendant of that potential ancestor to take a Y-DNA test and see if you match. If you do, that will tell you that you share an ancestor on that male line, but it could be any generation. You can then get more specific by upgrading to the most comprehensive form of the test offered at that time. And you supplement all of this with comprehensive genealogy paper tracing. A woman can trace ancestors through testing brothers and same-surname uncles.
Good review. I have used Ancestry and they do periodically update your information, as they get more data. Mine has changed quite a bit over about 5 years, so another thing to consider, as the first results were more broad brush and now, they seem to be homing in on distinct areas.
Wow thank you so much for the extensive details in this video, graphs 📊 and charts are Amazingly useful! I can not begin to tell you how interested I am but had no clue even what I wanted for myself! You helped me so much! I will share this with anyone I know looking into DNA 🧬 testing! Your voice is so pleasant too which is a bonus!
I'm adopted and my birth mom was of European ancestry. She lived in the US, but was impregnated by an Italian on a trip abroad. I found a "cousin" in Italy via MyHeritage, which checks out as having a greater footprint in the EU. I have met my birthmother through an Ancestry test, and hope to meet my birth father some day from the MyHeritage connection, though he doesn't know about me and that might upset his own family....
Looking for biological mother also, thanks for sharing
@♜ ᴜꜱᴇꜰᴜʟ ᴄʜᴀʀᴛꜱ middle finger
Also adopted met biological mother 30 years ago....trying to meet biological father before its too late. Trying to find him using these tests.
@@maestroclassico5801 My biological daughter found me through Ancestry when she was 47. Actually, she found me first, and then I helped her find her biological mother.
@@rogermichaelwillis6425 Found you FIRST? Wow that's a switch up.
23and Me did a great job. I have an unusual health condition, and it did pick it up. Also, I know exactly we’re my grandfather came from. The test was very specific, and they were correct. I also know where my ancestors came from on the other side of the family. Again, they were correct. Interestingly, there were also some surprises.
I have something unusual too. I actually have several defects. I was wondering if I should,see what it says just for curiosity sake. I just don’t want any relatives to know I took it. I know it sounds weird. It’s a whole big mess.
23 and me was very accurate indeed. My daughter did her test there and all the facts about my and my husbands family that were known to us already showed up in the results. My husband came from Turkey but my mother in law always told everybody she came from Iran. And she was right, 55% Iranian. My mixed Scottish , German and Dutch heritage showed up as well. Maybe I will try livingDNA to check my Scottish heritage, just for fun😁
Ancestry is a scam - the first test I did with them said i was 10% iberian peninsular. My great great grandmother was either Spanish or Portuguese (came from Olivenza) and could have been both, uploaded to CRI genetics and I am 15.9% Iberian Peninsula, but now that Ancestry has redone their algorhythm I NO LONGER HAVE ANY IBERIAN PENINSULA IN MY RESULTS AT ALL...AND WE KNOW MY GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS portugese/spanish.. now that to me is a ripoff. Now it says I am also British... THAT I KNEW BEFORE I STARTED AS MOST OF MY RELATIVES ARE BRITISH (Ireland, Scotch, English).
@@valdasilva123 I’m kind of in the same boat. Part of the Iberian peninsula comes up as Sephardic Jewish. My dr thinks it’s a very bad idea because I have so many things wrong with me and my children that we should just wait for each specialist to do their tests. She’s very afraid that somehow we could lose our insurance. We did have some blood work done from a hematologist and got some answers regarding my husband. I’m next up. One of my children has something so weird that it doesn’t have a name. My heritage is very similar to yours. I just look like I should be in an Irish spring commercial but both parents had black hair.🤔. We’re just a mystery I guess. Good luck to you.
Did my heritage a couple of years ago and it’s interesting to see how the ethnicity results have ever so slightly changed over the last couple of years to be slightly more detailed. Guessing that’s as they have more and more people from different regions signing up.
If you clicked this to see result comparisons, I'll save you some time, this is essentially an ad for each company
One that is similar to Nebula but much cheaper is "ADNtro". It also shows the scientific papers that they got their info from, their reliability, the risk, etc. It's really nice for all of this health analysis while also including much more such as genealogy, and other miscellaneous stuff.
I originally tested with 23&Me and have uploaded to My Heritage, FTDNA, GedMatch and Living DNA. The results were pretty similar for ethnicity. I've gotten the best matches on My Heritage and GedMatch, with Living DNA being a bang on match with my tree research into my UK ancestors. Via My Heritage we discovered our Swedish ancestors actually originated in Finland.
Thank you, Matt, for your continued research. CRI was my interest. I'm happy it was included. I didn't know about the other "lesser knowns" so including them was an eyeopener.
AWESOME work and information! Thanks so much. This is exactly what I need.
good video. you might also include in your comparison which sites allow you to upload your DNA raw data generated from another site's test for free (or for a small fee), and receive their dna analysis.
The whole clone Army is gonna be Matt at this point!
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Excellent work! This is a great summary. Thanks for posting.
This is really great info! Thank you for providing for free!
Very good review! One thing I would add is that if someone is looking for matches (relatives) then they should test with more than one company because you can find different matches depending on who has tested with whom. Also, if you have a sibling having them test also because we don't get the same exact 50% DNA from each parent.
I’ve done both Ancestry DNA and 23 & Me. (My family tree is on Ancestry). Got the complete package including health results with 23 & Me. Happy with both companies. Quite similar results, but a few differences in north west European results. However…yes… accuracy should increase over time as more and more people take the tests. I’ve already seen that happening during updates.
Thank you for your videos.
Never came across, nor previously heard of this channel/individual ... nor would I think I'd find it interesting in the least, but WOW have I been surprised. VERY IMPRESSED by what comes across as a convincing non-bias (as much as anyone is capable of), transparency, and great details/breakdown. Instant subscriber, and looking forward to checking out more of their (or your, if you read these) work!
Wow this is a very detailed review, exactly what i been looking for.
I went through Ancestry. Results were very impressive correctly stating the areas in Ireland that my great grandparents came from as well as the area of Poland my father came from. A second cousin who I am on touch with was first on my list of relatives and subsequently when my sister completed a test she became top of the list with the same results. I've also inherited some new cousins with whom I am in regular contact.
The ancestry test correctly narrowed down my Irish great-grandparents to the correct county of origin (Clare).
I was spooked by the latest update that correctly zeroed in on an area within an Irish county that included the town and village I know my great grandparents came from.
Which one did you order? AncestryDNA, or AncestryDNA+Traits?
Since I have an incredibly well documented family tree I opted for Nebula Genomics. All the looking at death certificates had me wanting a deeper understanding of my genetics. Learned some interesting things and am very glad I saved my pennies and then jumped when they had a half price sale last year.
I do bioinformatics on mosquitos for a living, so Nebula Genomics doing WGS and allowing you to download the actual sequencing results is really tempting. It would be fun to run some of the analysis myself.
That said, all these need to be taken with a huge grain of salt... Lots of companies oversell the accuracy.
Also, it is a shame that each of these companies keeps proprietary databases. It would be much more powerful if we combined them all. I'd probably go for 23andMe's SNPChip just to have it run against their database. (Ancestry's religious/agenda origin creeps me out.)
Well documented tree is a good helper in determination of possible relationships with DNA matches. And by connecting them, you get your tree expanded sideways into unknown side branches. That's why it's beneficial to test your DNA even if you have a deep tree of ancestors.
Can anyone answer this Question. I recently did AncestryDNA. My Native American DNA didn’t show up. But I did My heritage my indigenous showed 3% of Native of America
Your approach to this subject was very informative and I really liked your format. I like that you dispelled all the conspiracy theories about how individual DNA is used and not used. If one reads the privacy disclaimers, it’s quite clear and I’m with you, if my “Uncle Bob” murdered someone, I want him caught. Law Enforcement only accesses public forums and not the private ones.
This video is sooo well-made and informative, loved it from beginning to end 💯
Best bang for the buck is to use the cheapest 23&me kit, then upload the raw data to Promethease to get health reports. They use the SNPedia database to give 40,000 ties to genetic phenotypes. Total cost a bout $100, and you get Mito and Y haplogroups too.
Love your presentation and the graphics!
You earned a like just for the premise. Good work!
Thank you for sharing! I've had interest in trying, out of curiosity, but those seem quite a bit different in terms of results and I'm also not comfortable with private companies having my DNA. If I had the money, I'd be more interested in having a genealogist research my family tree.
It's kind of pointless waste of money... nobody can "research" your genealogy. In order to understand your genetics you need to compare them to other, in other words a huge sample. Only machines can do this, humans are worthless here.
@@maximusasauluk7359 I mean my family tree.
Reading through these comments, it's become all the more evident that our future is limited and nearing its inevitable end for the majority of people.
You're the first person I've seen that's questioned the motives of collecting people's DNA.
Klaus Schwab has been rather specific about the intentions, but as usual, the majority of people are so gullible and willfully ignorant and stupid.
That they jump jump into the fire with no thoughts about the consequences.
Just watch how the majority haven't learned anything about the lies during the plandemic, and will be lining up for their own deaths.
A dog is smarter than that.
Thing is your family tree could be a borrowed family tree. There are secrets in all families. There are people who have spent decades researching their family tree only to take a dna test and discover that their grandfather or great grandfather or even themselves did not really belong into that family tree. This is why genealogy goes hand in hand with genetics.
Just as a single critique - 'anonymized' data can be de-anonymized extremely easily, depending on the amount of data provided. You only need a few points of data to make an extremely small pool of potential people, and each additional piece reduces the number of potential candidates gets even smaller. Just Birthday and zip, you're already down to maybe a dozen people, if sex is included you've halved that.
Just be aware that 'anonymized' data doesn't really make anything anonymous, at least if the person/group that purchased the data is remotely competent with that data.
You are correct. But, if you take precautions and know what you are doing. you can get the information with absolute anonymity. The only data point that is a real challenge is your address. It connects you to everything. So as it happens I know of addresses in my city where the post office delivers large volumes of mail to and don't check the names and all go into the same box and random people go there to pick up their mail. I used the one most convenient to me as I'm curious yet paranoid about intrusion. I am one of dozens of volunteers at a facility that helps hundreds of homeless people every day. One of the services that the facility provides is free mail service. All anyone need do is log into the free wifi account there, register a free anonymous email with our server (only available in person to our clients and volunteers-I have several) and pay with a visa gift card since it is a one time purchase and not a recurring membership. They ship the test kit to the facility addressed to your choice of John Doe's and you spit in it and mail it back being careful to use gloves so as not to leave prints. Then you get an email announcing your results. For email the best they are going to do is narrow it down to one of around 4800 half of whom gave us fake names to begin with. The address will come up as that facility if someone google's it and if you paid cash for the visa gift card that too is untraceable. Did I miss anything? Well yes there is the whole part about you will be part of a data base and will have a pretty good idea who you are related to but the only relative who has had any contact with me in 40 years would be my brother and he's more paranoid than I am and hates genealogy and could care less so he's not in the data base. My cousins are but I have over 100 of them and don't have any contact with them. I occasionally google some and see their data on Ancestry but if someone wanted to track me down it would be damned near impossible and since I've committed no murders or any other serious crimes they are not going to waste their resources on me. The last time I did commit a crime I went to prison for it and got out years before DNA testing was a thing.
If any of these tests are processed in China, how can you be sure that you have anonymity? The Chinese gov't is known to have massive amounts of data on its citizens and from others abroad. What's to stop them from keeping this data too?
@@nunyabiznez6381 that’s some next level effort, congrats
@@MartinVillagra You should see some of the things some of these homeless guys do to stay anonymous.
@@nunyabiznez6381 a homeless person can’t afford an dna test
Thank you this has been very interesting, for me because of my very very mixed heritage I will,have to look at a few of them, I knew this early on when I first started looking j to doing this. But after watching your tutorial it has at least given me a good foundation of which companies I will need to use. This is a huge step in the right direction for me, 🤗🤗🤗
Thank you brother ... I had insomnia until I watched your video which made me very sleepy, thanks!
As interesting as it would be to take one of these tests, I'm not doing it. A few years ago FamilyTreeDNA voluntarily gave all their data to the feds without informing their customers. Ancestry and 23andMe have sold their data to companies like GSK and Calico (a company run by Google). This industry is completely unregulated and, since it doesn't provide healthcare or insurance, isn't subject to HIPPA laws. It amazes me that people worry about Facebook selling their browsing data, but they'll hand over their genetic data with zero qualms.
Not quite. FTDNA didn't "give all their data to the feds" but they do have a process through which they will create an account for law enforcement to upload its own genetic profile in an attempt to match perpetrators or victims of certain violent unsolved crimes to identities.
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You are absolutely right.
I'm adopted in a private adoption in the 50's. I used CRI and was very intrigued by the results. The only thing I was told was (in version 2 of my background) was Biological Maternal Grandfather came over on the boat from Italy. I was really surprised to find I was 32% Italian and to my shock 28.6% German! I'm short, 5'3" with dark brown hair. My adoptive mom is so German mom's last name was Keil, like the town in north Germany. They're all blue eyed blondes so I was blown away.
In the Advanced Ancestry section, where they try to go back up to 50 generations, turns out I'm Northern Han Chinese, then Southern Han and it keeps going west from there! Both of my older children have been asked at various times if they're Native American, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korea and more. The answer now is yes, kind of, lol. CRI also found an ancestor from the Esan tribe of Nigera, one from Puerto Rico, Columbia, Peru and Mexico! I was floored to say the least.
Well... very strange results that with 50 generations back... I think that chinese people with germans... never met...
Thanks for this video & insight. I've been trying to justify spending on a Nebula kit (they are having a huge sale this weekend) & feel that it would assist even more greatly in the creation of a Lazarus kit for my Dad. I also have many health problems, and a vast long-term interest in genealogy (20 years) & DNA (8 years). An interesting site that you can now upload raw data to is mytrueancestry, where they hold the genomes from archeological digs & ancestral royal seats, including all the pre-culloden clans. Very interesting.
Excellent video. Thank you for your concise presentation.
I was able to backtrack my history through my Grandfather. Though we have been a hodgepodge of German, Polish and Ukrainian, really we were Swedish and Polish descended settlers in German who moved to Western Ukraine. I was only able to solve the mystery when my grandfather's Ancestry results reported him to by 26% Swedish. Gonna check out that Viking Data Base, Thanks Useful Charts!
I did CRI Genetics and was surprised to see I am 7% Armenian. After talking to my grandfather he showed me a picture of his great grandmother whom he said was Cherokee. She looked middle eastern and did more research to find there was absolutely nothing listed in databases about her being Native American but that she was "found" as a young child and pretty much adopted so I am believing more the middle eastern rather than the Cherokee.
If the timeline matches up, she could very well have been a refugee from the Armenian Genocide, which would explain the "found" nature.
How old was that photo?
@@pav688 it was an old sepia colored picture given to him by his father. So not real sure.
@@risingsun9595 she was born early 1900s and that is all anyone knows it seems.
@@risingsun9595 "a refugee from the Armenian Genocide" seems likely given "she was born early 1900s". Surely, tests with several other companies (MyHeritage and FTDNA preferably, as they're targeting testers from Europe) would provide more info, and, if Nicole would get lucky, even some distant cousins. But it's better to test Nicole's father.
These have been super helpful and i love the break down! I still cant decide what's most important for me to pick one though lol😅
Thanks, man. You did a great job. I got Nebula's complete genome sequencing done over a year ago and am clueless about what to gain from all of the massive information. But this was a good start. Can you recommend any videos, tutorials, etc on how to best use the Nebula complete genome sequencing? thanks. Joe
My ancestry results have been changing overtime which is a good sign that more and more information is being compared with each other making it more accurate which is good!
Not for me, my great great grandmother was Spanish/Portuguese (could have been both. My first Ancestry DNA result showe 10% Iberian Peninsular (my gg grandfather was in the Peninsular war when he met my gg grandma)... but now their "new" result shows NO IBERIAN PENINSULAR AT ALL...just British, (Irish, Scotch, English) which I knew already!!! RIPOFF
Very interesting - particularly the part where you compare the accuracy between all the labs. Ideally, you'd also check repeatability - that is, the reports generated from multiple tests - even though, that would become quite expensive, quite quickly.
I'm thinking about some test among wine tasting 'experts', who regularly fail to recognize the same wine when given repeated glasses . Maybe this is the cynic in me, but there seems to be no way to really evaluate how diligent these companies are in performing their tests.
THX a lot for you effort, i really apreciate all the information that you give us
At the end i decided to take the 23andme but they cant send itto my country (Mexico) could you recomend me other? similar to 23andme or focused in wellnes and health
thx by advance
Thanks! This was very helpful.
If you do another of these, please do SEQUENCING. I did their whole grenome sequencing and have found several conditions that fit my consellation of symptoms
Should try changing your diet to what is more species-appropriate (carnivore) and see how that impacts you.
@petrapedia how does one go about doing sequencing?
The most important thing that everyone needs to know about about genetic testing for genealogy purposes is that the ethnic percentages are mostly useless. It's better for finding people alive today that are closely related, like distant cousins, so you can perhaps add more information to your tree. That's the strength of these tests which is to see how closely two individuals are related.
I was curious about the ethnic percentages just because I wanted to know if a grand grand parent had an affair or something, but I guess they are not that accurate.
@@sezinun5819 well, an affair that resulted in one of your parents? 😂
You would need the DNA of both person's to see who you are more closely related to.
@@Linkedblade lol haha
I have my family tree traced back about 300 years and my DNA tests from two companies have come back to match it quite closely. Not useless at all.
The percentage is accurate. Some people think you automatically get a certain percentage from each nationality and DNA just doesn't work that way. Just because your grandfather is Italian doesn't mean you are 25% Italian. You can be anything from 0 to 25%. Your DNA doesn't discriminate where/who it's coming from.
I have wondered about this. Thank you for sharing
Really well made videos, thanks a lot 🙏
I am part Lebanese and I have seen some videos of Lebanese folks taking DNA tests. Some tests say that they are Jewish, while others say they are Levantine (From Lebanon/Syria area).
Jewishness is a religion not a race. The tribes lived in a Levantine stew.
@@charlesrb3898 Historically Jews were extremely genetically isolated (only married other Jews for the most part) so DNA tests can easily identify them (especially Ashkenazi Jews).
That’s not very useful is it. Levantines are definitely not a race. Various peoples have settled in that area like Arameans, Europeans, Arabs, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, etc etc
@@charlesrb3898 well you might think so, to be Jewish you are supposed to be born to a Jewish mother and be raised Jewish in religious practice. But since anyone can convert to Judaism, it does muddy the waters. In its most pure form it's a race of people and their descendants. It's like Islam, supposed to be a religion but it's really a political ideology. Contrasted with being native American, where if you are too diluted you can't call yourself one.
@@charlesrb3898 - Jews have a Semitic ethnicity.
I'm glad you mentioned not eating for a while before taking the test.
I did a swab once to send for a blood cancer charity but was a bit afraid some of my saliva might have traces of food in it.
If I had just eaten say an egg sandwich and a banana they might find I'm 50% banana, 25% chicken and 20% wheat and just a little bit human!!
If "we are what we eat", then diet may have just as big (or bigger) role in health than genetics!
Unless certain genes make us like or dislike certain foods. I don't have much of a 'spice' gene so can't take much of something spicy before it burns or stings or makes me ill (at least strong ones like chilli, pepper, mustard) Maybe the allergy/intolerance is genetic. A bit of ginger or cinnamon is not so bad...!
Thank you very much for the health related information.
I already had my ancestry information as my mother did the family genealogy about 40 years ago. My mother’s parents were born and raised in Yorkshire, England and so were most of their ancestors for the 7 generations my mother got information on (8 including my grandparent). The exception was one Irishman who married into the family about 4 generations ago. All 4 of my fathers grandparents were born in Denmark, and his genealogy also did not have much variation.
However, in my father’s family an alarming number of family members in his parents’ generation and his generation died of various cancers, including my father. So, thanks to your video, I know which company from which I might be able to get more health related information. So, thank you again.
Great information! @UsefulCharts ... Curious if you have manually built your family tree and then compared it to the predicted ancestry dna results? I would love to see a video of you comparing the dna results to the manually built family tree as far as location of ancestors.
Very useful information. Thank you! My maternal grandmother emigrated from Germany when she was a teenager during WWI, so we always thought we had a lot of German in our blood. My brother took the Ancestry DNA test and it turns out there's no German DNA, but Scandinavian instead. I have been wondering if German and Scandinavian DNA were lumped together, but your video shows they aren't, at least not for 23 and Me and Ancestry. I sure wish all this info was available 40 years ago, I would have talked to my grandma about her heritage more. Her family must have emigrated from Scandinavia to German prior to WWI. I love history. Love your UA-cam Channel!
Nobody in Europe gives a shit about how much your DNA is. If she speaks the language and know the customs she would be considered German. Before 1919 her state would also be more important e.g. Bavaria, Saxony, Hamburg, etc. than the nationality.
@@ravanpee1325 Why are you so angry at a stranger? Peace to you.
For those with Anglo ancestry, Living DNA has an excellent database by English county. And their maternal and paternal DNA analyses are great.
I know I have quite a bit of English and Irish ancestry through my father's side, it'll be very interesting to see a whole breakdown of where specifically they came from. LivingDNA is definitely on my To Get list once I have the income for it!
Is it good for Celtic too? Welsh specifically
Thanks. Very interesting. Will look into some of these.
I really like the way how you explain!
I’ve only used 23andMe but I can vouch for how well my results matched all the records I have of my family’s ancestry. It even got some of the exact regions correct.
Any distant cousins found? Have you tried uploading your raw data from 23andMe to MyHeritage and FTDNA for free to get more matches?
In India we don't even need expensive DNA tests, we just have to visit Haridwar or Varanasi there are many priests who had written full biodata of each and every person who had visited Haridwar or Varanasi. I found my Ancestors to be from Pakistan about 400 years ago they came to Pune were I am from 😂
That method may not be 100% accurate. Many families (if not most) have family secrets in their history which will not be told to the priests.
Thank you for the additional information
Thank you for the interesting breakdown between these various brands and what they offer. When you describe the results for your own particular heritage you mentioned twice England and settler communities in Nova Scotia. I also noticed the predominance of Scottish names of matches from other people who have taken a test you briefly illustrated. With Nova Scotia ( New Scotland) being the immigration destination for thousands of Highlanders cleared from the land forcibly my question would be are you saying English rather than Scottish in a similar way the Amish call anyone who is not Amish?. Just curious.
I hope your friend, Jabari does LivingDNA since they have an extensive Africa ethnicity breakdown
I know a woman in her 50s whose family was very close to her mom's ex-boss and his family when they were growing up. She and her sisters decided to all get a DNA test and got quite a surprise... they were all half-siblings of the ex-boss's kids (who had apparently been tested by the same company)! Now the ex-boss and the man they thought was their father were dead by this point, but mom had some explaining to do!
The tests cant differentiate between half siblings abd first cousins, so their assumption may be misleading.
I would like to see a video demonstrating or explaining how to (meta) connect multiple tests and secondary information sites. Specifically, having watched your reviews, I am interested in taking the ancestry and familytreedna tests and uploading the results of both to genomelink and mytrueancestry. Also, while nebula is used for health purposes, would not having your entire genome mapped also be useful for secondary sites like mytrueancestry?
This is helpful. Thank you for your sacrifice.
I did ancestry, but I was also able to download my dna data and upload it to family tree dna. I can’t access everything, but I got some connections for free. I can unlock the rest of the stuff for $19.
Excellent video again! I used your first vid to inform my choice for my DNA test that I took this January (Ancestry), and the journey of discovery has been well worth the price. ...Curious: For people of mainly Western European heritage interested in ancestry connections and accuracy, how advantageous would it be to get a second DNA test from a different company? So, for example, if I complemented my Ancestry results with test 23 & Me test, would the 2nd test likely reveal significantly useful information, or mainly a repeat confirmation of the first test results?
I’m also of mainly Western European ancestry (although not entirely) and have done quite a bit of genealogical research on my family tree. I took both Ancestry and 23&Me. 23&Me picked up on my known and documented non-European bits, but Ancestry did not. It also did better on my European admixture. So for me, 23&Me was much more accurate. Hope that helps!
I'm of mostly Western European heritage and have also taken both tests. I also feel as though 23&me was more accurate. It was even able to pinpoint precise regions that I know for sure my ancestors lived. I also have about 1% of African ancestry showing up with both Ancestry and 23&me. I don't have any known African ancestors, but I do have a 7x great-grandmother who immigrated from Turkey to the USA so I've just been assuming that African ancestry estimate is a remnant from her, but I could be wrong. The weird thing is that when I first got tested with Ancestry in 2019 (I think?) it showed that I had about 3% West Asian ancestry, but they've since updated their ancestry composition algorithm and it looks like it was reattributed as 3% European Jewish.
But also, to ACTUALLY answer your question, in my personal case it indeed was kind of a repeat confirmation.
@@zigm7420 Thank you for that info! Ancestry didn't find any non-European at all, even though I'm virtually certain I have a small-but-significant amount of something else (not sure what). Have been thinking about trying 23&me, and you've given me greater incentive.
You can upload your ancestry to GedMatch for free.... Ancestry dropped my Iberian DNA in their latest update... (my great great grandmother was Portuguese/Spanish) but GedMatch says I am 15.9% Iberian Peninsula). Ancestry is a ripoff..
Wow the nebula company had me spot on regarding the Arthritis. I did not realize there were so many DNA companies. Baker from another mother. 😎🇺🇸
Super helpful. Thank you!
Being a well trained scientific researcher I started
researching my geneaology in graduate school. I have traced my fathers geneaology bck to the early middle ages quite easily though it took me 6 mos of all day online research in retirement to get back that far. I have zero research on my mother becuas her surname name is too common...very frustrating but I will search every few years again because databases are expanding.
Both of my parents were orphans. The surnames indicated Irish and dutch. I used CRI mostly because they seem more privacy oriented. The results were mind blowing because they showed ancestors from all over the globe, mostly at costal locations. Since air travel is a recent invention it seems that would indicate sea faring was a long lasting part of my ancestors traditions. Sir Francis Drake was a notable ancestor listed so that touches home. Lots more interesting relatives of notables were matched in the 26 generations they traced. Very interesting stuff. I would appear to be a mega mutt.
Definitely worth a try to test your parents in different companies to get them included into as many databases as possible in order to get more matches. Some of them could be close relatives. And don't discount Y-DNA testing and matching at FTDNA - their Big-Y tests are best at revealing deep paternal line ancestry.
I did the Ancestry and found it very spot on with what I’ve uncovered with my Tree.
Does anyone know which DNA test could be good for someone who isn't North American or European? My ancestors are from the Middle East, Siberia and Central Asia, approximately (I'm a very big mix). I wonder whether the tests will be able to tell me anything since everyone I see online taking them is very North European.
Edit: I wrote this before watching the whole video.
My brother went through Ancestry since we knew our grandparents came from the Isle of Wright he went through Ancestry. He found out we have dominant English, Irish & Scottish. He didn’t mention any cousin’s or second cousin’s. Anyway again thanks for the information.
Ancestry has recently updated their DNA information and now includes Ethnicity inheritance which shows what you have inherited from your parents. Although at this stage it is only Parent 1 and Parent 2.
It’s easy to pick out who the specific parent is if their trees are known and there is a certain ethnic outlier presence on one versus the other. Mono ethnic individuals will have more trouble discerning who is who until AncestryDNA starts to associate matches with the parents. After that it should be a cakewalk.
@@starventure My parents are both Portuguese from Madeira so yeah. I'm trying to figure out why one side has Spain and the other side has Scotland. Just small amounts and who is who?
@@sr2291 Port your data into Gedmatch and then try to correlate your known matches with the ethnicities.
@@starventure I don't believe that GEDMatch differentiates between Spanish and Portuguese. And I don't remember Scotland being on there. But I will try and see what I come up with. Thanks. Too much information to talk about it here.
@@sr2291 If your matches have trees posted, you can use them to try to determine where the ethnic origin points are.
These are very helpful, I went with AncestryDNA in an effort to find my father. Since I only have his name, approximate dob and that he was born in Texas, i can’t figure out if any of hints are him. Plus he has super common name. It would be helpful if the side breaks down dna matches to paternal or maternal, or maybe it does and I just can’t figure out. Any suggestions?
I'm from & live in North Wales..glad to hear you have some ancestors from here :)
I’ll start off by saying that I have a good understanding of my genealogy, my mom has been working on it for over 30 years. I also know a bit about my dad side to. And a side note, my girlfriend also knows about her family history.
I tried out CRI because in my research it was considered one of the better DNA companies. The results I got back from them was pretty accurate to what I know about my family history. For fun I decided to get my heritage for myself and my girlfriend and yes the results were quite interesting. She is predominantly German, yet my heritage found no German but said she was Greek. And with me I know I have Italian in me but they found no Italian but instead I was Greek too. She tried Cri and the results match more to her family tree with some surprises.
I called my heritage and to my surprise when asking them about my results they told me that it was hard to tell the difference between Greek and Italian. So to be honest watch out for my heritage, if you know your family history you may get some strange results like we did.
These videos always make me wonder if the companies afterwards become the owner of your DNA profile or that they don't keep records etc. I'd like that information in this type of videos.
I address that at the end of this video.
Thanks for the reply! Must have missed that part, good that you addressed it.
You already know the answer. Don't listen to what anyone else tells you!
@@ill2daMAX 💯
@@ill2daMAX yes hello, I'd like to buy my DNA please
That was very useful. Thank you so much
Need Help!!!! Looking for the best way to confirm results...I used CRI Genetics, learned a lot but it did not match my Parents (MT-DNA)test from 23andme. Mom has passed, Want more info. before I confront my Dad-What should I do???? What would be the best test to confirm and find relatives?