In Subsaharan Africa, most people keep track of their lineages by listing their forefathers names. Most of us don't have surnames, but our villagenames could be equal to that. So I hope those companies will consider thinking about that.
Exactly and I wish that these big five also tried to delve into actual ethnicity breakdowns as opposed to just regions. Since I’m sure you don’t get a lot of Africans buying and sending in kits, the African database(s) for each respective company is quite small. However, you do have publicly available data from large genomic studies that the companies could use to fine tune their algorithms/models. Alas, it’s still pretty primitive but getting better. One person who submitted and just did it to see how accurate it’d be and to see what the autosomal results were (haplogroups).
A good way to find ancestry is to also trace the white DNA down because that will lead you to county and state records of slave owners and wills where slaves are often named along with other information like age and parental history.
@@philipbutler6608What a weird comment. This person referenced Subsaharan Africa which would indicate their family was not wholly impacted by slavery as they are African. Let’s not use that American or British thinking to give incorrect advice.
That's a very very good job. If Ancestry would get over their squeamishness over customers' accidentally finding information that might disturb them, they could give us access to how our matches match one another. This is their stated inhibition about providing that. I don't really understand it as customers already see their own matches directly. If they are worried about "embarrassing" results being seen by strangers, I'd say only the person affected knows whether a match is unexpected or implies something they'd rather keep secret. It's hard to discuss. I guess from what you have said, Ancestry will never move into real DNA analysis tools for customers. As far a genealogy is concerned, though, Ancestry cannot be outstripped by any of the other DNA testing companies. In my experience, My Heritage is very costly.
LivingDNA covers the UK & Ireland, England is but one country within the UK. Their test as well as showing my English & Irish DNA, also picked up on my Cornish, Scottish & Welsh DNA.
Ancestry is # 1 for me because of the size of the database. I was able to use my DNA matches and many other cousin's DNA matches and discover our 4th great grandparents on a brick wall line. You simply can't do that with any of the other sites.
My closest matches on MyHeritage are dad, sister, brother, maternal 1st cousin, paternal half aunt, paternal 1c1r, and paternal 1/2 1st cousin. Why? Well, I uploaded and manage five of them and got two to transfer their Ancestry. It has helped with Theory of Family Relativity and also maternal line information. I connected with a 4c1r living in Prague on my maternal side and we determined we share 4xGGPs. She has a family tree going back to as early as 1712 and 8xGGP. I would not have gotten this on Ancestry, because MyHeritage is more widely used in Continental Europe. So while I agree Ancestry's database is the largest and best for Anglophone matches, MyHeritage is the better platform. If its growth rate continues and catches up to just 23andme's database size, it'll seem far superior.
I understand that Anglos will lean towards Ancestry. I really like Ancestry but I don’t like their lack of DNA genealogical tools. MyHeritage is my no. 1 as well because of those DNA genealogical tools and because they have a much broader none Anglo coverage, also when it comes to Genealogical records.
@@DanSolo871 As a non anglo myself, I personally found Ancestry database + wiliness of responses to get me back a lot further on my family tree. Myheritage is probably good for non Anglos out of the US and Western Europe, but for minorities in these regions, Ancestry appears to be far more superior in terms of docs and cousin matching.
An excellent in depth review of the 5 sites. Like most things in life there is no one perfect site that covers all the bases. The data bases are still just a drop in the ocean at this point, I can only imagine how much more data we'll have in another 20 years- probably too much to manage and therefore a whole suite of filters will be required to make sense of it all! This has been really useful as there are several tools on My Heritage that I appear to have overlooked so I'm about to take a deep dive. Thanks
I’m sure you’re familiar with Family History Fanatics. Andy gave his annual review of the top 5 and for 2021, his company order was exactly the same as this. I didn’t know about the X Chromosome feature in the works. That will be great for the Fan Tree (you didn’t mention that feature) Since X inheritance can only be along certain paths, to combine the path on a Fan Tree could really help see a visual picture when doing research. Great review.
Nice video! I’ve tested with ancestry and uploaded to the other main sites which allow uploads. MyHeritage is a favourite of mine also, especially for the Chromosome browser and the fact that they lift matches by country. I’m mostly of British isles origin with a small amount of Germanic heritage and this combination of features has allowed me to find distant continental European cousins and how we might be related from way back in the day. I also loved their genetic groups feature, but I did get 10 groups with MyHeritage compared to only 2 with ancestry, so I’m a bit biased; I imagine ancestry only allocated people communities if they have a high degree of confidence. Hopefully MyHeritage will provide an ethnicity update soon: with a solid database of around 6 million users now, combined with a large amount of users from Europe; the British Isles, and the ‘new world’ English speaking countries, I feel like they would now have the potential to provide a very strong ethnicity estimate. Hopefully we’ll hear something soon. I think if Ancestry, MyHetitage and 23 & me combine we’d have the perfect site. If only data linkage could be a thing 😁
Excellent reviews, thank you. I’ve worked on my tree off & on since the 70s. I did Ancestry, 23&me, familyTreeDNA, None have helped me further/grow my tree. The matches are mostly with less than 3% shared DNA.
As someone of 100% UK/north-west European heritage, I really like LivingDNA for the county breakdown. The counties match what I know in my tree. But I would also rank it in 5th position. It's my understanding that the company developed out of a major academic genetic study being run by one of their universities. As someone who is not American I find the matches at 23&Me absolutely useless (and hardly anyone provides names for effective matching) and would rank it 4th, well before FamilyTree DNA.
Also, I wonder about its' accuracy for British regions. I am mostly German (for sure) and I get a few regions as part of my breakdown, for example, Cornwall.
@@CitizenTurtleIsland Britain has a mix of Celts, Angles, Saxons, Normans, Vikings etc Different areas have different concentrations and it is possible to have almost all Saxon or Norman dna. After 1066 about 28,000 Norman families moved into to become the new elite and those same families still own most of the land in Britain. They preserved their power because their kids tended to marry each other instead of dirty peasants.
I saw your display name in the video on FTDNA so I looked up your name on my matches just out of curiosity and found that were "4th Cousin - Remote" with 52 shared cm lmaooo dope
The biggest problem with 23 and Me is that most people are there just to get the Ethnicity info or to participate in some study. I've gotten very few people over there willing to exchange info or even respond. I also find Ancestry to be superior to my Heritage in a number of ways. There are far more open trees on Ancestry than there are on My Heritage which makes it much easier to figure out the relationship. I find the Auto cluster thing to be only good if you know who the shared ancestor is and that's impossible to know if you can't view the trees of the others.
Sorry, but it was a bit difficult to follow what your trying to say with the music. I was splitting my time zoning out 😴 over the music than what you were trying to say. I would have really like to hear what you “really said” instead of focusing on the loudness of the music. Wish there was a way you could tone down the music a bit. I’ll check out your other vids to see if this is constant or not…which will be a deal breaker on me subbing or not. ✌🏻
I feel like this video should be sent to these companies as constructive feedback. It really clearly points out pros and cons in a way that could help them serve their customers better and improve their product.
23andme is allowing me to figure out my grandparents haplogroups. I figured out two so far. You used to be able to see other people's profiles even if you weren't directly related by searching for name and also filter by haplogroup but they removed it.
I also find a lot more matches for my mom's side on MyHeritage, which makes sense, since all four of her grandparents came over from Eastern Europe early last century.
One benefit of the 23&Me+ subscription is that you get 5,000 matches. I’ve been trying to confirma my 4g grandparents, so I wanted to target 5th cousins. So I paid my $30 and found out that I have 4995 people listed as 4th cousin or closer. Doh! The DNA tree at 23&Me is pretty cool. They create a tree based solely on shared DNA. It’s different that the one Jarrett mentioned in that you don’t have to have a parent tested. You can fill in names of people who haven’t tested. It doesn’t include all (or even many) of your matches, and if you have any endogamy you will probably have to move things around to begin with, but it makes visualizing how your matches fit in your tree much easier. I agree that MyHeritage had the best set of tools for genealogy. But for some reason out of the top 3 it’s where I spend the least amount of time.
23andme+ was offered at a sale price of $9.99 last December, so I decided to take it. I have it until December 23rd and will probably cancel it unless I see another Holiday offer for $9.99. Keep Your Eyes Out For a Sale! Ten bucks is worth it to use the advanced features for a year. Not so much $30 though.
I totally agree with your ordering. And pros and cons. I have my parents and my own dna kits on as many sites as I could but bought from myheritage. The only downside I have with myheritage is that testers have to pay more to get the same access as those that upload. For that reason I’ve had to shift my research to the free sites so my money goes to myheritage for my dna research.
For strictly genealogy, I prefer Ancestry. For DNA I really like my results on MyHeritage because since I’m a quarter Alaska native, MyHeritage includes 7% Inuit to my 22.7 Mesoamerican. And since I’m native from Alaska it’s only logical that they specify that I’m part Inuit. And I actually have a distant DNA match who is 100% Eskimo.
Totally agree! I did test with MyHeritage, 23andMe and Ancestry. Also I uploaded my raw DNA data to FamilyTreeDNA and LivingDNA . MyHeritage is the best geneology platform. Also I uploaded my raw DNA from Ancestry and 23andMe to Myheritage.
I would put MyHeritage third. It doesn't do much good to have the DNA tools when you don't have the matches. I wonder if more people would use it for DNA if the genealogy aspect was better.
I'm greek and got 2,5% ashkenazi..i did exactly what you said..i took a look at all my dna matches who have high ashkenazi percentage to figure out where it comes from...i came across a bunch of matches with high ashkenazi and noticed they are all located in Hungary!
MyHeritage has by far the largest Iberian sample so the results are correct. You will see Italian in your results and this is something that other sites do not have. The reason is simple, MyHeritage knows that a very heavy part of the Iberian genome came via the Roman Empire. Part of the genome is difficult to pick apart between Southern European countries and MyHeritage has a better sample and uses better methods in my opinion.
This is a great video and very informative. I've tested with FTDNA and Ancestry. FTDNA at one time stated that I had a small percentage of Sephardi. Ancestry when I first tested with them said I had Iberian ancestry. This no longer true. All that previous information has disappeared. I'm wondering what your thoughts are? Again, great video
These tests get more precise with time because the companies are constantly running population group testing and analyzing data from population groups being tested by others. So when you see a small percentage like that disappear, that is just an indication that new studies have identified certain DNA segments as having different origins than they previously thought. This is quite common to see small percentages disappear with new updates, but when you see those small percentages stay true through updates then the confidence in that reading is increased.
you HAVE to give it to 23andMe because they GIVE you X and Y DNA along with Autosomal. Also with the gene sample size, not as big as Ancestry but still pretty large for anyone not of European descent. So maybe MyHeritage for people looking for specific things. I think 23andMe and Ancestry are ABSOLUTES for people just wanting to know what ethnicities they share DNA with.
Some years ago familysearch had a partnership with another websites, where if you made a new account in myancestry and ancestryDNA, I think, you would got free premium for 4 years, but has been more than 4 heart and my myancestry's account it's still premium, that made me very happy when I bought my DNA test :)
I remember hearing that 23 & me (i think) has had a couple of controversies, suh as a guy who sent his pet lizards dna in, and got told it was 52% ashkenazi jewish. And their ceo said they put a little african results where there not supposed to be to annoy the racists
My ancestry results keep updating and I have to say they start matching my family info more ( what I been told all my life) but at the same time is a little bit annoying not to know from whom I get what; even though, I do have an Idea.
After researching, my heritage has a larger variation of ethnicities & is more accurate for ethnicities. I’ve taken ancestry & 23 & me. Both results seemed lazy. Especially ancestry. They focused way too much on european. I have Asian grandparents and my heritage found 10% of Asian ethnicity. Ancestry only had 3%, 23 had 3%. Ancestry & 23 also took away other percentages… at the same time. Very odd.
I have been bingewatching dna results videos however i have one question: what does it really mean when your results show 75% of one ethnicity 15% of another and 10% of another.. does that mean that one of your grandparents was actually from that country(15%) or did they happen to live there or does your dna match the modern people of that country by 15%? And also how far back do they go?
It means that almost no one is 100% anything, because a lot of populations migrated over time. 15% DNA from some region means that 15% of your DNA, matches people from that region who also tested with that service who are (or were) living there today. If you want to know how you connect to that population, first you’ll need to be open to the idea that you might find unexpected results in terms of where your family comes from. Then you’ll need to do the genealogy research to find out: 15% is going to be one or more great-grandparents or further back. That’s the point where you take family lore with a grain of salt and follow the paper trails of birth, marriage, death, and military records (those are the ones I’ve found to be most accurate). ** The exceptions to “no one is 100% anything tend to belong to one of two groups: European Ashkenazi Jews, who tend to deliberately practice endogamy, or ancestors who came from a relatively isolated geographical region. Example: my mom’s grandparents all came from the same small village. So when we tested my grandmother, she turned up as 87% matching others from the larger geographic area-actually a couple degrees higher than the local population. It’s kind of unintentional endogamy due to ancestors having a more limited population of potential parties, unless they were willing to relocate beyond their home village. If you do (or did) follow the paper trail, I wish you the best of luck and exciting discoveries!
For me Living DNA & 23 & Me at 90% confidence level were the closest to my known ancestry. But Ancestry's raw data is the best for Gedmatch, Admixture Studio and G25 self modeling.
23&me did offer uploads to Ancestry DNA users a few years ago. So, I have my DNA at Ancestry DNA, FTDNA, Living DNA, MyHeritage and 23&Me and I have only taken 1 test. I don't know why they never offered again. Maybe because they didn't' include any matches and you had to upgrade to get matches. You got admixture and 4 other reports that were like traits and health.
MyHeritage's Genetic Groups (introduced Dec 2020) are much more accurate than their ethnicity estimates, based on many DNA kits I manage. I'm on all the sites you mentioned above, and I agree with your conclusions. One thing further--MyHeritage's Theories of Family Relativity (similar to ThruLines) also incorporate billions of records to find/stitch together trees of your DNA matches. This means that if you've missed a record that could add a crucial person to connect you to a DNA match, their TOFR's could find it for you.
Omg! Thank you for mentioning this! My mom is a huge genealogy buff. But she has stuck with Ancestry and a few other older programs I believe for 15 years... Maybe MyHeritage was one of them. But she hasn't had a DNA test with MyH. Is MyHeritage a site you can upload DNA results to? I'm shopping for DNA tests. 😁
I think ancestry is better because there isn’t a lot of stuff behind the pay wall I can go to my local historical society and find information on it. With my heritage a lot of the dna information is behind the pay wall and I don’t like that I can’t figure out more information about my cousin but overall a great video
Also, I believe that vast majority of everyone who has tested is doing it for genealogy. They just wanna know their ethnic background. As far as 23andMe goes. It’s ridiculous to even have a charges that much to use just a few more features. Even more so to have it a recurring charge. They’d be better off charging 6.99 for the extra features and $30-$45 for an upload of a dna file.
Will you do a review of the additional features or memberships of these sites? Or possibly even the medical side of it, even though I know that’s not really your thing?
Hey I’m searching for my birth father and I have a match on 23& me 1st cousin once removed but it says the dna we share is 8.34% do you think that is definitely a first cousin once removed or could it be a uncle? My other matches of 2nd cousins share a significant amount less dna, thank you
8.34% (~620 cM) is quite significant but could be a number of possible relations including 1C1R, but that is outside of the typical range for an Uncle relationship. This chart should help - dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4
Good video: 1. MyHeritage has not updated their calculations in YEARS. Despite a growing data set. 2. FTDNA and 23andME do not have reliable reporting for Ashkenazi and/or Sephardic, compared to DNAGenics, which you can upload your DNA to and run various tests. LivingDNA doesn't seem to break it down well either. It seems to be basically NW European only.
Hi! Thank you for the video. My husband's bday is coming up and I want to gift him a signet ring with his family crest. I know his ancestor is from Castile, Spain. However, im unsure if it's the same De Castro family from Spain.
I have a kit uploaded to and/or processed by all those sites. I have to agree with your ranking, for many of the same reasons. Makes sense to me. And, yes, they are all flawed. For those who love Ancestry... imagine if you couldn't use MH as a complement. That lack of browser is terrible.
How does one get access to manage multiple accounts for Ancestry? My grandparents are not computer savvy and I've struggled with managing their accounts and responding to DNA relatives. I do have the membership but after watching this video I believe I've been greatly under-utilizing all the features!
I have been considering doing a test however I have some concerns, while your reviews break down what is offered and what is not if you go to google reviews and refer their reviews the top 2 are both woeful. Customer service appears terrible and it appears they are subscriptions involved which can be difficult to cancel. I have also seen cases where tests are done with the more than one of the business's and the results are different.Think I will save my money.
Hi, I would like to know where my irish ancestor was from (i dream to visit his town, know his parents name). I only know his name (Thomas Collins) but i couldn't find, in Argentina, where he married (nearly 1858) and where he died (1859-1869). I been searching everywhere for years. The ADN Test seems to be my best posibility to track my irish origins, through matches. What do you recomend me? Thanks a lot!
Just ordered two kits from My Heritage. One for me, and one for my 99 year old Mother. We've always believed that we are 100% Polish. Will be interesting to see if there is any Jewish in our background. Or, anything else for that matter. 😁
Question, how is it possible that MyHeritage and another DNA company (Sequencing) are seeing North Africa in my DNA, about 5-6% between the two, but Ancestry sees only 100% Ashkenazi Jewish? I decided to try Ancestry to see if it gave farther info to support or bridge the other two, because where MyHeritage showed that North Africa was a Sfardic Jewish line, Sequencing did not. My hope being that Ancestry would see it and say one way or the other, on the Jewish part. We know that we have roots from North Africa, so finding it on the two sites was not a surprise. Thanks for all your content. It’s been very interesting to watch.
Heritage maybe the best but 150 dollars a year to get to my test? Not only do they have DNA that I paid for to get tested. They have my DNA that provides a profit for their site and I have to pay 150 dollars a year to access after 30 day free trail. Pricing will be a huge issue. It is probably best to just stick with Ancestry and hope for the best.
Last month I tested a friend on My Heritage. I am still in shock at how limited the options are without buying a subscription at $39/mo. There's no trial that I could find. This I'd definitely drawback #1 for them. Unfortunately this comes just as my Ancestry annual payment is due (where I manage 8 DNA kits). So for now, the My Heritage kit is just a tease.
Hello, I stumbled upon your videos as I am interested in getting one of these kits. Since you can upload DNA data to MyHeritage. Is it a good idea to buy a kit from Ancestry and just upload it for free in MyHeritage instead of purchasing separately a kit from MyHeritage? Thank you.
Yes, taking the test with ancestry and then uploading to the other sites which allow uploads is the route many genealogists suggest. Then, the only major database you are missing is 23andMe, which may be worthwhile to do as well if you are looking to find genetic matches to help expand your family tree.
There's an additional problem with 23andme's database size. What they are counting is the # of "Genotyped Customers". But that's not the same thing as # of people. Some people have more than one genotyped profile (because they tested on different chip versions of the test) and they're counted more than once in the database.
I am from central-eastern Poland. I know my family tree to the early 1800's and it didn't really tell me much as most of my 4xgreatgrandparents are in the same villages as my grandparents. 80% Polish catholics. But there are some Austrian surnames and people whose history strongly indicates they might be of XIV century Wallachian settlers. How could I make sure if I have Austrian or Wallachian ancestors in centuries before 1800? Which DNA test would tell me that? I'm a woman. The Wallachian ancestors are direct paternal lineage.
CRI (Cellular Research Institute) Genetics does not share/sell/etc. my DNA info. They told me and showed on maps exactly where my ancestors married to bring a genetic change into my blood line. For example, it was Rome, Italy for 2 generations, not "somewhere" in Europe. It was near Madrid, Spain, Puerto Rico, a tiny village in Mexico, etc., etc. And my forefathers 10 marriages to Indian women showed the exact city/town where the women were from. And, only 5 generations back, my relative left Finland after more than 20 generations living there to find and marry an Indian woman to bring back to Finland. I've seen youtube postings about the other "testing facilities" like 23 and me, Ancestry, etc. that do not get specific about the locations where your forefathers lived and married. What a waste!
I have done Ancestry and Myheritage. Although I can't really fault Ancestry, and they are so much more user-friendly, I have found Myheritage far more helpful when it comes to the dna matches. Also get brassed off with Ancestry constantly updating; one minute I have Norwegian and French, then I don't. I have been Irish, then not, then got it back again. At least I can look at Myheritage and it stays constant.
My Ancestry app updates often. But my ethnicity has yet to change. I keep hoping for it lol. I want my England & Nw Europe to drop and my German to rise. It's crazy bc my mother's side is heavily German (and Irish) but I only got like 6% German and 3% Irish. And after having my kids tested, it would appear I ha e more Irish and Scottish than what Ancestry found. (Unless it's tied up in the England & Me Europe).
I am looking at starting off with my personal family tree. I have tried doing a traditional genealogy family tree (meaning no DNA work) using trial memberships on a couple of the more popular sites (mainly Ancestry). I immediately hit a stone wall. My mother was adopted. To make it worse, it appears to be a private adoption where no agency was involved. I am trying to figure out what genealogical DNA testing service would be the best to help me find potential relatives and exclusively in my mothers' biological family tree. Thanks to anyone who has information and/or an informed opinion on this.
If your parents are no longer available to test, I would actually have one or more of your dad’s relatives (his siblings, or your paternal cousins) test, along with submitting a test yourself to the same site. What this will do is give you a good baseline as to which of your DNA matches are on your dad’s side; you can then safely eliminate them, and whoever is left that you match with will be default be from your mom’s side. After that, depending on how far you want to take it, you can browse the public trees among those maternal matches to determine how they are related to you. Or if you really want to get specific, if you find first or second cousins, or potential aunts/uncles, you start contacting them for help identifying your potential biological grandparents, leading you to your mom’s parents. If you have any non-identifying information on her biological parents, such as their ages when she was born, or where they were living, that can also be useful in narrowing down potential options. If your mom was born in the U.S., you might also want to see if the state she was born in will allow you to request her original (pre-adoption) birth certificate. If it was all aboveboard and legal, she should have two birth certificates: one issued with her actual birth name, and at least a name for her biological mother, and then another issued when the adoption was finalized that lists her legal parents. Once the adoption was finalized, her original birth certificate (OBC) would have been sealed from the public record in most states. Two states never sealed OBCs, and we are currently up to 10-12 states where adult adoptees can request their OBC, no questions asked. Good luck!
My mother was adopted. Her birth certificate is redacted. Black marks all over it so we never even knew what her moms name was. I’ve been interested in seeing what I’m made out of and also want to possibly find my mothers side of the family. What’s my best bet? I’ve been debating on doing this since my biological grandmother was 16 when she had my mother it could have been incest or worse but I’m ready to find out and find them before that side of the family is no longer alive.
I would definitely recommend buying two tests at a minimum. One for yourself and the other for one of your parents. If money is no object, then fill your boots and buy more. With one parent tested and on your account, then any matches not shared with you and your parent are going to be your other parent. It's unremarkable easy to find the unknown parents of G/parents as I was in a similar situation myself. Within a few hours of receiving my results I was able to work out who they were simply by using Ancestry's ability to colour dot other users DNA tests, and looking at who else (Ancestry DNA users) who also shared that individual. You don't need a parental DNA test to do that, but it makes it a lot easier as Ancestry will automatically tag DNA matches as 'maternal' or 'paternal' for you if a parent has tested. Personally, I wouldn't buy tests for siblings unless either you have lots of money or there is doubt as to whether you both share the same parents. But DNA is definitely the way forward for genealogy as it rattles the cupboards and makes all the skeletons fall out...
1) Check again to see if you can request your mom’s original birth certificate. Some states are, ever so slowly, opening up to allowing adult adoptees to request their OBC, no questions asked. If there is a state reunion registry, give that a try too. There’s no guarantees on that one, but it might be worth a shot. 2) Fill in whatever little you know about your biological grandmother. It sounds like you at least have an age (birth year), and probably the city/state she was born or living in when she gave birth. 3) Get relatives from your dad’s side to test, as Tim suggested. When you get a match that shares a match with one of your known paternal matches, you can rule them out. Whoever is left is likely a maternal match. Start checking out their public trees, or contacting them for assistance, especially if they are potential first cousin or aunt/uncle matches.
I’m a bit suspicious about My Heritage’s results because it shows less than 2% Iberian when 23andMe shows around 40%. It also lists my half sister as my aunt.
MH is crap, they mess up with their native american dna, for people that are from south america they are horrible. People that are actually 10% american for example, in MH they are 25%, its pure crap. They put iberian dna into amerindian dna, and they dont update their crap calculator.
Where is Theories of relativity I can't find that option anywhere??? I've used the app and website don't see that anywhere in myheritage??? How come you have that option yet I cannot even find it. Didn't even know myheritage had that
Did the National Geographics test when they ran their project, was probably one of the first avaliable tests. Going to make a new one soon see if there are any differences. The newer test should be a bit more advance.
The innovation I would like to see is people before 1850 census, being able to state which man was married to which woman and what their children are in all the websites. I have seen so many people under the wrong trees, because the logic is just not there. I know that you can go into wills, military service, and newspaper stories to try and figure it out, however, there are a lot of people with the same name out there. I was trying to find information about a James Robert Moore, both my brother-in-law and his great great grandfather. My brother-in-law was born at home and he joined his wife's church where they only report their member's death to the church. I can't find anything on him. I knew him, I knew he existed, but there is no record of him, until they load the Vietnam Records. His Great Great Grandfather lived in an area that had two James R. Moore's. One census said he was born in TN, the other said MO, I have heard someone state that it was another state, but I can't remember which one. It is so frustrating! I have another tree with a Smith on one side and a Jones on the other. I don't ever try to figure them out. But someone told me that some of the tree is wrong. Not really surprised.
I find this comment kind of funny because I explain in the video that my rankings are based off of genealogically relevant tools, which is what will allow you to the learn the EXACT locations and stories of your ancestry through genetic genealogy, whereas the ethnicity admixture percentages are the least genealogically relevant tool these sites offer.
I recently did a 23&me test and I have quite a bit of unassigned ancestry, why can’t they assign it ? Also I am going to take an ancestry test to do a comparison of the two companies and I’m not sure if they results will be the same ?
I uploaded my AncestryDNA to My Heritage and they are completely different like AncestryDNA not mentioning I’m 17 % Italian is that accurate or AncestryDNA that found I’m 2% Italian the right one ?
Ha, ha, that last comment makes me feel like finding an excuse to have my Great Grandmother exhumed, so I can get a degraded DNA sample from her! I don't understand how to use the chromosome etc information at all or whether it can help me try & identify which one of my early 19th century ancestors has the surprising ethnic ancestry.
I did ancestryDNA and uploaded my DNA to myHeritage, Living DNA and my True Ancestry. Ancestry is bad with German ancestry and give you to much Scandinavian for Northern Germany, to much Irish and for some reason I got a high number of Balkan, but although ancestry isn't that good with percentages, ancestry gave me a good breakdown of all my ethnicities. My heritage is to inaccurate and way worse with German ancestry. I saw some test from Germans on UA-cam (+my test) that all showed that Germans get Scandinavian, Baltic and Celtic, but not German (North and West European). Living DNA was the best with German ancestry, although they got my Persian ancestry wrong and thought it was ancestry from the Southern Caucasus, probably Armenia. They also got my South Asian ancestry wrong, because they gave me way to much Sindhi ancestry (Southern Pakistan) although my ancestry was from North India/Pakistan. Btw my mix is (on paper) 1/2 Southasian (Kashmiri, Punjabi, Pashtun) 1/4 German 1/8 Iranian 1/8 Tajik
What about CRMI and Helix? Also can DNA tests single out Jewish DNA of Jews from North Africa and Iran, Iraq and other Arab countries? Can DNA tests teach my DNA back to the Middle East?
As I finally understood by russian people results MyHeritage somehow looks at not modern ethnicities but existed ~1500 years ago. So all russian people become mixed and if you see 25% of somewhat it's most likely not "grandparent of other ethnicity". But the names of ethnicities that MyHeritage gives are modern - it confuses. 100% russians by ethnicity (at least since 1649) get about 60-70% East European (I guess slavic) and 30-40% Baltic. But this "baltic" is definitely not Latvian baltic - it's it's cousin that had same ancestor. People in Volga region looking asian have higher "baltic" results than in closer regions to Baltic states. Also we have ethnicities who are cousins to Finnish and Scottish as I know. I saw a lot of "balcan", "filippino" - that must be misreadings too.
I'd happily pay $200 to be able to copy an FTDNA kit to Ancestry. The person died before doing Ancestry. Hell I'd even bribe some employee at Ancestry DNA to do it.
Please check out: Scottish History Tours as a possible callab for your youtuber series. He did a DNA result video, but I wouldn't do a reaction video, he talks to his family and only has a little bit at the end showing results. He has more family test too, so maybe react to that one when it's out. He wants to connect with matches to see how he connects. He's very fun and curious!
My Mom is 83, wants to find if any living relatives are alive so she can contact them, and also to find out if she is Jewish, which test would do both? ???? Or do I need to get two test kits from two different companies ??
All of the tests will tell you both of these things, although LivingDNA technically won't directly say any sort of Jewish percentage. If you are looking for relatives, your best bet is to be in all of the databases because it means more genetic matches and more chances of finding close relatives. You can have your mom test with 23andMe and Ancestry, then upload those results to FTDNA, MyHeritage, and LivingDNA. I'd also suggest uploading the results to GEDmatch, Geni, and GeneaNet, three more databases where you can find more matches.
A lot of good information. I am one though that believes the medical aspect should be left to your family doctor. In fact, my doctor started using a lab many years ago and to do so in the agreement, they were to do this type of testing for what the insurance company would pay. If the insurance company would not pay, the patient was not billed. Few ever paid, but they got the other work which more than made up for these tests.
In Subsaharan Africa, most people keep track of their lineages by listing their forefathers names. Most of us don't have surnames, but our villagenames could be equal to that. So I hope those companies will consider thinking about that.
They go only 8 generation. Most of them
Exactly and I wish that these big five also tried to delve into actual ethnicity breakdowns as opposed to just regions. Since I’m sure you don’t get a lot of Africans buying and sending in kits, the African database(s) for each respective company is quite small. However, you do have publicly available data from large genomic studies that the companies could use to fine tune their algorithms/models. Alas, it’s still pretty primitive but getting better.
One person who submitted and just did it to see how accurate it’d be and to see what the autosomal results were (haplogroups).
A good way to find ancestry is to also trace the white DNA down because that will lead you to county and state records of slave owners and wills where slaves are often named along with other information like age and parental history.
@@philipbutler6608Most black people in the world don't have slave ancestry
@@philipbutler6608What a weird comment. This person referenced Subsaharan Africa which would indicate their family was not wholly impacted by slavery as they are African. Let’s not use that American or British thinking to give incorrect advice.
The music in the back didn't let me concentrate. Please use it lower next time 😅 I love your videos by the way.
I did ancestry in 2018 but curious about my heritage and 23 and me. Nice to know about newer companies as well! Thanks for uploading this video!!!
Last month I bought one for my mommy and this month I bought one for my daddy, I am pretty sure I will never regret it :) I love genealogy
That's a very very good job. If Ancestry would get over their squeamishness over customers' accidentally finding information that might disturb them, they could give us access to how our matches match one another. This is their stated inhibition about providing that. I don't really understand it as customers already see their own matches directly. If they are worried about "embarrassing" results being seen by strangers, I'd say only the person affected knows whether a match is unexpected or implies something they'd rather keep secret. It's hard to discuss. I guess from what you have said, Ancestry will never move into real DNA analysis tools for customers. As far a genealogy is concerned, though, Ancestry cannot be outstripped by any of the other DNA testing companies. In my experience, My Heritage is very costly.
If ancestry let people see others matches I think of help so many people. As it is, it's a case of being so close yet so far
So happy all of the concerns both of you had were made available! It shows matches and now shows whether it’s maternal or paternal
LivingDNA covers the UK & Ireland, England is but one country within the UK. Their test as well as showing my English & Irish DNA, also picked up on my Cornish, Scottish & Welsh DNA.
Thanks for the breakdown! My son gave me Ancestry as a gift minus the DNA and I was truly wondered which I should choose!
Ancestry is # 1 for me because of the size of the database. I was able to use my DNA matches and many other cousin's DNA matches and discover our 4th great grandparents on a brick wall line. You simply can't do that with any of the other sites.
Absolutely agree.
My closest matches on MyHeritage are dad, sister, brother, maternal 1st cousin, paternal half aunt, paternal 1c1r, and paternal 1/2 1st cousin.
Why? Well, I uploaded and manage five of them and got two to transfer their Ancestry. It has helped with Theory of Family Relativity and also maternal line information.
I connected with a 4c1r living in Prague on my maternal side and we determined we share 4xGGPs. She has a family tree going back to as early as 1712 and 8xGGP. I would not have gotten this on Ancestry, because MyHeritage is more widely used in Continental Europe.
So while I agree Ancestry's database is the largest and best for Anglophone matches, MyHeritage is the better platform. If its growth rate continues and catches up to just 23andme's database size, it'll seem far superior.
I understand that Anglos will lean towards Ancestry. I really like Ancestry but I don’t like their lack of DNA genealogical tools. MyHeritage is my no. 1 as well because of those DNA genealogical tools and because they have a much broader none Anglo coverage, also when it comes to Genealogical records.
@@DanSolo871 As a non anglo myself, I personally found Ancestry database + wiliness of responses to get me back a lot further on my family tree. Myheritage is probably good for non Anglos out of the US and Western Europe, but for minorities in these regions, Ancestry appears to be far more superior in terms of docs and cousin matching.
@@DanSolo871 yh it's good for Europe 👍🏼🏴
An excellent in depth review of the 5 sites. Like most things in life there is no one perfect site that covers all the bases. The data bases are still just a drop in the ocean at this point, I can only imagine how much more data we'll have in another 20 years- probably too much to manage and therefore a whole suite of filters will be required to make sense of it all! This has been really useful as there are several tools on My Heritage that I appear to have overlooked so I'm about to take a deep dive. Thanks
I’m sure you’re familiar with Family History Fanatics.
Andy gave his annual review of the top 5 and for 2021, his company order was exactly the same as this.
I didn’t know about the X Chromosome feature in the works.
That will be great for the Fan Tree (you didn’t mention that feature)
Since X inheritance can only be along certain paths, to combine the path on a Fan Tree could really help see a visual picture when doing research.
Great review.
Nice video!
I’ve tested with ancestry and uploaded to the other main sites which allow uploads. MyHeritage is a favourite of mine also, especially for the Chromosome browser and the fact that they lift matches by country. I’m mostly of British isles origin with a small amount of Germanic heritage and this combination of features has allowed me to find distant continental European cousins and how we might be related from way back in the day. I also loved their genetic groups feature, but I did get 10 groups with MyHeritage compared to only 2 with ancestry, so I’m a bit biased; I imagine ancestry only allocated people communities if they have a high degree of confidence.
Hopefully MyHeritage will provide an ethnicity update soon: with a solid database of around 6 million users now, combined with a large amount of users from Europe; the British Isles, and the ‘new world’ English speaking countries, I feel like they would now have the potential to provide a very strong ethnicity estimate. Hopefully we’ll hear something soon. I think if Ancestry, MyHetitage and 23 & me combine we’d have the perfect site. If only data linkage could be a thing 😁
Of course FtDna also good if you’re interested in more detailed haplogroup info.
Excellent reviews, thank you. I’ve worked on my tree off & on since the 70s. I did Ancestry, 23&me, familyTreeDNA, None have helped me further/grow my tree. The matches are mostly with less than 3% shared DNA.
If your kin doesn't test, what can be done? We in post soviet world have the problem too
As someone of 100% UK/north-west European heritage, I really like LivingDNA for the county breakdown. The counties match what I know in my tree. But I would also rank it in 5th position. It's my understanding that the company developed out of a major academic genetic study being run by one of their universities. As someone who is not American I find the matches at 23&Me absolutely useless (and hardly anyone provides names for effective matching) and would rank it 4th, well before FamilyTree DNA.
23& me was such a waste of money for me
Also, I wonder about its' accuracy for British regions. I am mostly German (for sure) and I get a few regions as part of my breakdown, for example, Cornwall.
@@CitizenTurtleIsland Britain has a mix of Celts, Angles, Saxons, Normans, Vikings etc
Different areas have different concentrations and it is possible to have almost all Saxon or Norman dna.
After 1066 about 28,000 Norman families moved into to become the new elite and those same families still own most of the land in Britain. They preserved their power because their kids tended to marry each other instead of dirty peasants.
@@disposabull you are a useless elitist. God hates those who are proud selfish narcissist aloof fools..loves the meek humble and obedient.
I saw your display name in the video on FTDNA so I looked up your name on my matches just out of curiosity and found that were "4th Cousin - Remote" with 52 shared cm lmaooo dope
The biggest problem with 23 and Me is that most people are there just to get the Ethnicity info or to participate in some study. I've gotten very few people over there willing to exchange info or even respond. I also find Ancestry to be superior to my Heritage in a number of ways. There are far more open trees on Ancestry than there are on My Heritage which makes it much easier to figure out the relationship. I find the Auto cluster thing to be only good if you know who the shared ancestor is and that's impossible to know if you can't view the trees of the others.
Sorry, but it was a bit difficult to follow what your trying to say with the music. I was splitting my time zoning out 😴 over the music than what you were trying to say. I would have really like to hear what you “really said” instead of focusing on the loudness of the music. Wish there was a way you could tone down the music a bit. I’ll check out your other vids to see if this is constant or not…which will be a deal breaker on me subbing or not. ✌🏻
I feel like this video should be sent to these companies as constructive feedback. It really clearly points out pros and cons in a way that could help them serve their customers better and improve their product.
Excellent video! I'd like to see you expand this list to include CRI Genetics and TellmeGen tests.
Very Interesting. I first used CRI, then I did My Heritage. Now, I'm waiting for results for 23 and me.
23andme is allowing me to figure out my grandparents haplogroups. I figured out two so far. You used to be able to see other people's profiles even if you weren't directly related by searching for name and also filter by haplogroup but they removed it.
I also find a lot more matches for my mom's side on MyHeritage, which makes sense, since all four of her grandparents came over from Eastern Europe early last century.
One benefit of the 23&Me+ subscription is that you get 5,000 matches. I’ve been trying to confirma my 4g grandparents, so I wanted to target 5th cousins. So I paid my $30 and found out that I have 4995 people listed as 4th cousin or closer. Doh!
The DNA tree at 23&Me is pretty cool. They create a tree based solely on shared DNA. It’s different that the one Jarrett mentioned in that you don’t have to have a parent tested. You can fill in names of people who haven’t tested. It doesn’t include all (or even many) of your matches, and if you have any endogamy you will probably have to move things around to begin with, but it makes visualizing how your matches fit in your tree much easier.
I agree that MyHeritage had the best set of tools for genealogy. But for some reason out of the top 3 it’s where I spend the least amount of time.
I have done ancestry and 23+me. 0 extra dollar on ancestry and i have 11,580 matches. I have heard of people with more matches.
23andme+ was offered at a sale price of $9.99 last December, so I decided to take it. I have it until December 23rd and will probably cancel it unless I see another Holiday offer for $9.99.
Keep Your Eyes Out For a Sale! Ten bucks is worth it to use the advanced features for a year. Not so much $30 though.
Which one doesn't require a parent to be tested?
I totally agree with your ordering. And pros and cons. I have my parents and my own dna kits on as many sites as I could but bought from myheritage. The only downside I have with myheritage is that testers have to pay more to get the same access as those that upload. For that reason I’ve had to shift my research to the free sites so my money goes to myheritage for my dna research.
For strictly genealogy, I prefer Ancestry. For DNA I really like my results on MyHeritage because since I’m a quarter Alaska native, MyHeritage includes 7% Inuit to my 22.7 Mesoamerican. And since I’m native from Alaska it’s only logical that they specify that I’m part Inuit. And I actually have a distant DNA match who is 100% Eskimo.
how would they know id they are full eskimo because I thought natives and colonizers intermixed
wow that´s interesting. I got 1.4 Inuit and I have a match who is 100% Mesomarican.
I am turkic and also got inuit and a little bit Andean.
my heritage is terrible for dna theyre results are very innacurrate
@@-thatonefoo my heritage is more accurate for ethnicities
I did Ancestry in 2016 and 23andMe in 2022.
I have so many DNA tests and websites, most all except 23andMe. This is a new hobby.
Totally agree! I did test with MyHeritage, 23andMe and Ancestry. Also I uploaded my raw DNA data to FamilyTreeDNA and LivingDNA . MyHeritage is the best geneology platform. Also I uploaded my raw DNA from Ancestry and 23andMe to Myheritage.
And the result from myheritage kit compare to the result of myheritage with Raw data were the same or very similar?
I would put MyHeritage third. It doesn't do much good to have the DNA tools when you don't have the matches. I wonder if more people would use it for DNA if the genealogy aspect was better.
I'm greek and got 2,5% ashkenazi..i did exactly what you said..i took a look at all my dna matches who have high ashkenazi percentage to figure out where it comes from...i came across a bunch of matches with high ashkenazi and noticed they are all located in Hungary!
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Very comprehensive, thank you very much!
That was my favorite test as well…. My Heritage. What do you think of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa regions?
MyHeritage has by far the largest Iberian sample so the results are correct. You will see Italian in your results and this is something that other sites do not have. The reason is simple, MyHeritage knows that a very heavy part of the Iberian genome came via the Roman Empire. Part of the genome is difficult to pick apart between Southern European countries and MyHeritage has a better sample and uses better methods in my opinion.
This is a great video and very informative. I've tested with FTDNA and Ancestry. FTDNA at one time stated that I had a small percentage of Sephardi. Ancestry when I first tested with them said I had Iberian ancestry. This no longer true. All that previous information has disappeared. I'm wondering what your thoughts are? Again, great video
These tests get more precise with time because the companies are constantly running population group testing and analyzing data from population groups being tested by others. So when you see a small percentage like that disappear, that is just an indication that new studies have identified certain DNA segments as having different origins than they previously thought. This is quite common to see small percentages disappear with new updates, but when you see those small percentages stay true through updates then the confidence in that reading is increased.
you HAVE to give it to 23andMe because they GIVE you X and Y DNA along with Autosomal. Also with the gene sample size, not as big as Ancestry but still pretty large for anyone not of European descent. So maybe MyHeritage for people looking for specific things. I think 23andMe and Ancestry are ABSOLUTES for people just wanting to know what ethnicities they share DNA with.
Some years ago familysearch had a partnership with another websites, where if you made a new account in myancestry and ancestryDNA, I think, you would got free premium for 4 years, but has been more than 4 heart and my myancestry's account it's still premium, that made me very happy when I bought my DNA test :)
It would be great to do an update of this video after the new releases coming in 2024.
Well time to watch this video
I remember hearing that 23 & me (i think) has had a couple of controversies, suh as a guy who sent his pet lizards dna in, and got told it was 52% ashkenazi jewish.
And their ceo said they put a little african results where there not supposed to be to annoy the racists
My ancestry results keep updating and I have to say they start matching my family info more ( what I been told all my life) but at the same time is a little bit annoying not to know from whom I get what; even though, I do have an Idea.
Ancestry has added some great features and it correlates with 23&me. As for MyHeritage, I'm not so sure about my result's accuracy.
After researching, my heritage has a larger variation of ethnicities & is more accurate for ethnicities. I’ve taken ancestry & 23 & me. Both results seemed lazy. Especially ancestry. They focused way too much on european. I have Asian grandparents and my heritage found 10% of Asian ethnicity. Ancestry only had 3%, 23 had 3%. Ancestry & 23 also took away other percentages… at the same time. Very odd.
The 65 year old, Joseph Zarelli cold case, in Philadelphia is pretty encouraging. You can run, but you can't hide, anymore.
I have been bingewatching dna results videos however i have one question: what does it really mean when your results show 75% of one ethnicity 15% of another and 10% of another.. does that mean that one of your grandparents was actually from that country(15%) or did they happen to live there or does your dna match the modern people of that country by 15%? And also how far back do they go?
It means that almost no one is 100% anything, because a lot of populations migrated over time. 15% DNA from some region means that 15% of your DNA, matches people from that region who also tested with that service who are (or were) living there today.
If you want to know how you connect to that population, first you’ll need to be open to the idea that you might find unexpected results in terms of where your family comes from. Then you’ll need to do the genealogy research to find out: 15% is going to be one or more great-grandparents or further back. That’s the point where you take family lore with a grain of salt and follow the paper trails of birth, marriage, death, and military records (those are the ones I’ve found to be most accurate).
** The exceptions to “no one is 100% anything tend to belong to one of two groups: European Ashkenazi Jews, who tend to deliberately practice endogamy, or ancestors who came from a relatively isolated geographical region. Example: my mom’s grandparents all came from the same small village. So when we tested my grandmother, she turned up as 87% matching others from the larger geographic area-actually a couple degrees higher than the local population. It’s kind of unintentional endogamy due to ancestors having a more limited population of potential parties, unless they were willing to relocate beyond their home village.
If you do (or did) follow the paper trail, I wish you the best of luck and exciting discoveries!
For me Living DNA & 23 & Me at 90% confidence level were the closest to my known ancestry. But Ancestry's raw data is the best for Gedmatch, Admixture Studio and G25 self modeling.
23&me did offer uploads to Ancestry DNA users a few years ago. So, I have my DNA at Ancestry DNA, FTDNA, Living DNA, MyHeritage and 23&Me and I have only taken 1 test. I don't know why they never offered again. Maybe because they didn't' include any matches and you had to upgrade to get matches. You got admixture and 4 other reports that were like traits and health.
MyHeritage's Genetic Groups (introduced Dec 2020) are much more accurate than their ethnicity estimates, based on many DNA kits I manage. I'm on all the sites you mentioned above, and I agree with your conclusions. One thing further--MyHeritage's Theories of Family Relativity (similar to ThruLines) also incorporate billions of records to find/stitch together trees of your DNA matches. This means that if you've missed a record that could add a crucial person to connect you to a DNA match, their TOFR's could find it for you.
Omg! Thank you for mentioning this! My mom is a huge genealogy buff. But she has stuck with Ancestry and a few other older programs I believe for 15 years... Maybe MyHeritage was one of them. But she hasn't had a DNA test with MyH.
Is MyHeritage a site you can upload DNA results to? I'm shopping for DNA tests. 😁
@@arkieologistyou can upload raw data
I think ancestry is better because there isn’t a lot of stuff behind the pay wall I can go to my local historical society and find information on it. With my heritage a lot of the dna information is behind the pay wall and I don’t like that I can’t figure out more information about my cousin but overall a great video
Also, I believe that vast majority of everyone who has tested is doing it for genealogy. They just wanna know their ethnic background.
As far as 23andMe goes. It’s ridiculous to even have a charges that much to use just a few more features. Even more so to have it a recurring charge.
They’d be better off charging 6.99 for the extra features and $30-$45 for an upload of a dna file.
"DNA from items" could you imagine figuring out who DB Cooper is by using the DNA from his Tie to find a match.
congratulations My Heritage 🧬
Will you do a review of the additional features or memberships of these sites? Or possibly even the medical side of it, even though I know that’s not really your thing?
The music is too much and VERY distracting, it’s not normally on your videos is it?
Hey I’m searching for my birth father and I have a match on 23& me 1st cousin once removed but it says the dna we share is 8.34% do you think that is definitely a first cousin once removed or could it be a uncle? My other matches of 2nd cousins share a significant amount less dna, thank you
8.34% (~620 cM) is quite significant but could be a number of possible relations including 1C1R, but that is outside of the typical range for an Uncle relationship. This chart should help - dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4
@@GeneaVlogger thank you so much 💚
Good video: 1. MyHeritage has not updated their calculations in YEARS. Despite a growing data set. 2. FTDNA and 23andME do not have reliable reporting for Ashkenazi and/or Sephardic, compared to DNAGenics, which you can upload your DNA to and run various tests. LivingDNA doesn't seem to break it down well either. It seems to be basically NW European only.
Hi! Thank you for the video. My husband's bday is coming up and I want to gift him a signet ring with his family crest. I know his ancestor is from Castile, Spain. However, im unsure if it's the same De Castro family from Spain.
I have a kit uploaded to and/or processed by all those sites. I have to agree with your ranking, for many of the same reasons. Makes sense to me. And, yes, they are all flawed. For those who love Ancestry... imagine if you couldn't use MH as a complement. That lack of browser is terrible.
How does one get access to manage multiple accounts for Ancestry? My grandparents are not computer savvy and I've struggled with managing their accounts and responding to DNA relatives.
I do have the membership but after watching this video I believe I've been greatly under-utilizing all the features!
I have been considering doing a test however I have some concerns, while your reviews break down what is offered and what is not if you go to google reviews and refer their reviews the top 2 are both woeful. Customer service appears terrible and it appears they are subscriptions involved which can be difficult to cancel. I have
also seen cases where tests are done with the more than one of the business's and the results are different.Think I will save my money.
Hi,
I would like to know where my irish ancestor was from (i dream to visit his town, know his parents name). I only know his name (Thomas Collins) but i couldn't find, in Argentina, where he married (nearly 1858) and where he died (1859-1869). I been searching everywhere for years. The ADN Test seems to be my best posibility to track my irish origins, through matches. What do you recomend me? Thanks a lot!
Just ordered two kits from My Heritage. One for me, and one for my 99 year old Mother. We've always believed that we are 100% Polish. Will be interesting to see if there is any Jewish in our background. Or, anything else for that matter. 😁
@@JohnZolla-bp7tl what was the result?!
Question, how is it possible that MyHeritage and another DNA company (Sequencing) are seeing North Africa in my DNA, about 5-6% between the two, but Ancestry sees only 100% Ashkenazi Jewish?
I decided to try Ancestry to see if it gave farther info to support or bridge the other two, because where MyHeritage showed that North Africa was a Sfardic Jewish line, Sequencing did not. My hope being that Ancestry would see it and say one way or the other, on the Jewish part. We know that we have roots from North Africa, so finding it on the two sites was not a surprise. Thanks for all your content. It’s been very interesting to watch.
I really don't like ancestry that much
I'm wondering to what extent DNA testing reveals shared DNA between Ashkenazi, Sepharadi and Mizrachi (and other lesser known) Jewish populations.
So Living DNA + My heritage sounds like a good coupling.
For optimal results, being in every database casts the widest net for the most possible genetic matches.
Do you feel safe with letting private companies have your full DNA data? Who knows what future government could do with this information?
Heritage maybe the best but 150 dollars a year to get to my test? Not only do they have DNA that I paid for to get tested. They have my DNA that provides a profit for their site and I have to pay 150 dollars a year to access after 30 day free trail. Pricing will be a huge issue. It is probably best to just stick with Ancestry and hope for the best.
Last month I tested a friend on My Heritage. I am still in shock at how limited the options are without buying a subscription at $39/mo. There's no trial that I could find. This I'd definitely drawback #1 for them. Unfortunately this comes just as my Ancestry annual payment is due (where I manage 8 DNA kits). So for now, the My Heritage kit is just a tease.
Hello, I stumbled upon your videos as I am interested in getting one of these kits. Since you can upload DNA data to MyHeritage. Is it a good idea to buy a kit from Ancestry and just upload it for free in MyHeritage instead of purchasing separately a kit from MyHeritage? Thank you.
Yes, taking the test with ancestry and then uploading to the other sites which allow uploads is the route many genealogists suggest. Then, the only major database you are missing is 23andMe, which may be worthwhile to do as well if you are looking to find genetic matches to help expand your family tree.
There's an additional problem with 23andme's database size. What they are counting is the # of "Genotyped Customers". But that's not the same thing as # of people. Some people have more than one genotyped profile (because they tested on different chip versions of the test) and they're counted more than once in the database.
I am from central-eastern Poland. I know my family tree to the early 1800's and it didn't really tell me much as most of my 4xgreatgrandparents are in the same villages as my grandparents. 80% Polish catholics. But there are some Austrian surnames and people whose history strongly indicates they might be of XIV century Wallachian settlers. How could I make sure if I have Austrian or Wallachian ancestors in centuries before 1800? Which DNA test would tell me that? I'm a woman. The Wallachian ancestors are direct paternal lineage.
I would like to see a video ranking these tests based on ethnicity results.
MY HERITAGE IS THE WORST!!
@@celticmulato2609 where you from?
The music in the background is totally distracting, and completely unnecessary. If you must have music, get something quieter and less obnoxious.
CRI (Cellular Research Institute) Genetics does not share/sell/etc. my DNA info. They told me and showed on maps exactly where my ancestors married to bring a genetic change into my blood line. For example, it was Rome, Italy for 2 generations, not "somewhere" in Europe. It was near Madrid, Spain, Puerto Rico, a tiny village in Mexico, etc., etc. And my forefathers 10 marriages to Indian women showed the exact city/town where the women were from. And, only 5 generations back, my relative left Finland after more than 20 generations living there to find and marry an Indian woman to bring back to Finland. I've seen youtube postings about the other "testing facilities" like 23 and me, Ancestry, etc. that do not get specific about the locations where your forefathers lived and married. What a waste!
What is the best DNA test for Turkish people?
I have done Ancestry and Myheritage. Although I can't really fault Ancestry, and they are so much more user-friendly, I have found Myheritage far more helpful when it comes to the dna matches.
Also get brassed off with Ancestry constantly updating; one minute I have Norwegian and French, then I don't. I have been Irish, then not, then got it back again.
At least I can look at Myheritage and it stays constant.
My Ancestry app updates often. But my ethnicity has yet to change. I keep hoping for it lol. I want my England & Nw Europe to drop and my German to rise. It's crazy bc my mother's side is heavily German (and Irish) but I only got like 6% German and 3% Irish.
And after having my kids tested, it would appear I ha e more Irish and Scottish than what Ancestry found. (Unless it's tied up in the England & Me Europe).
I am looking at starting off with my personal family tree. I have tried doing a traditional genealogy family tree (meaning no DNA work) using trial memberships on a couple of the more popular sites (mainly Ancestry). I immediately hit a stone wall. My mother was adopted. To make it worse, it appears to be a private adoption where no agency was involved.
I am trying to figure out what genealogical DNA testing service would be the best to help me find potential relatives and exclusively in my mothers' biological family tree.
Thanks to anyone who has information and/or an informed opinion on this.
If your parents are no longer available to test, I would actually have one or more of your dad’s relatives (his siblings, or your paternal cousins) test, along with submitting a test yourself to the same site. What this will do is give you a good baseline as to which of your DNA matches are on your dad’s side; you can then safely eliminate them, and whoever is left that you match with will be default be from your mom’s side.
After that, depending on how far you want to take it, you can browse the public trees among those maternal matches to determine how they are related to you. Or if you really want to get specific, if you find first or second cousins, or potential aunts/uncles, you start contacting them for help identifying your potential biological grandparents, leading you to your mom’s parents. If you have any non-identifying information on her biological parents, such as their ages when she was born, or where they were living, that can also be useful in narrowing down potential options.
If your mom was born in the U.S., you might also want to see if the state she was born in will allow you to request her original (pre-adoption) birth certificate. If it was all aboveboard and legal, she should have two birth certificates: one issued with her actual birth name, and at least a name for her biological mother, and then another issued when the adoption was finalized that lists her legal parents. Once the adoption was finalized, her original birth certificate (OBC) would have been sealed from the public record in most states. Two states never sealed OBCs, and we are currently up to 10-12 states where adult adoptees can request their OBC, no questions asked.
Good luck!
I have questions about my DNA, because my dad is 5'9" tall and my mother is 5'10" tall and I'm 6'8" tall.
My mother was adopted. Her birth certificate is redacted. Black marks all over it so we never even knew what her moms name was. I’ve been interested in seeing what I’m made out of and also want to possibly find my mothers side of the family. What’s my best bet? I’ve been debating on doing this since my biological grandmother was 16 when she had my mother it could have been incest or worse but I’m ready to find out and find them before that side of the family is no longer alive.
I would definitely recommend buying two tests at a minimum. One for yourself and the other for one of your parents. If money is no object, then fill your boots and buy more. With one parent tested and on your account, then any matches not shared with you and your parent are going to be your other parent. It's unremarkable easy to find the unknown parents of G/parents as I was in a similar situation myself. Within a few hours of receiving my results I was able to work out who they were simply by using Ancestry's ability to colour dot other users DNA tests, and looking at who else (Ancestry DNA users) who also shared that individual. You don't need a parental DNA test to do that, but it makes it a lot easier as Ancestry will automatically tag DNA matches as 'maternal' or 'paternal' for you if a parent has tested. Personally, I wouldn't buy tests for siblings unless either you have lots of money or there is doubt as to whether you both share the same parents. But DNA is definitely the way forward for genealogy as it rattles the cupboards and makes all the skeletons fall out...
I was adopted also want to find out also
1) Check again to see if you can request your mom’s original birth certificate. Some states are, ever so slowly, opening up to allowing adult adoptees to request their OBC, no questions asked. If there is a state reunion registry, give that a try too. There’s no guarantees on that one, but it might be worth a shot.
2) Fill in whatever little you know about your biological grandmother. It sounds like you at least have an age (birth year), and probably the city/state she was born or living in when she gave birth.
3) Get relatives from your dad’s side to test, as Tim suggested. When you get a match that shares a match with one of your known paternal matches, you can rule them out. Whoever is left is likely a maternal match. Start checking out their public trees, or contacting them for assistance, especially if they are potential first cousin or aunt/uncle matches.
The information that might disturb people is, they don't want people to find out that the person they thought was their Dad isn't their Dad.
I’m a bit suspicious about My Heritage’s results because it shows less than 2% Iberian when 23andMe shows around 40%. It also lists my half sister as my aunt.
MH is crap, they mess up with their native american dna, for people that are from south america they are horrible. People that are actually 10% american for example, in MH they are 25%, its pure crap. They put iberian dna into amerindian dna, and they dont update their crap calculator.
That’s because they would both share a similar amount of DNA with you.
Where is Theories of relativity I can't find that option anywhere??? I've used the app and website don't see that anywhere in myheritage??? How come you have that option yet I cannot even find it. Didn't even know myheritage had that
Did the National Geographics test when they ran their project, was probably one of the first avaliable tests. Going to make a new one soon see if there are any differences. The newer test should be a bit more advance.
Me too, back in 2005.
Is there a website I can test my results against ancient dna like corded ware and yamnaya?
The innovation I would like to see is people before 1850 census, being able to state which man was married to which woman and what their children are in all the websites. I have seen so many people under the wrong trees, because the logic is just not there. I know that you can go into wills, military service, and newspaper stories to try and figure it out, however, there are a lot of people with the same name out there. I was trying to find information about a James Robert Moore, both my brother-in-law and his great great grandfather. My brother-in-law was born at home and he joined his wife's church where they only report their member's death to the church. I can't find anything on him. I knew him, I knew he existed, but there is no record of him, until they load the Vietnam Records. His Great Great Grandfather lived in an area that had two James R. Moore's. One census said he was born in TN, the other said MO, I have heard someone state that it was another state, but I can't remember which one. It is so frustrating! I have another tree with a Smith on one side and a Jones on the other. I don't ever try to figure them out. But someone told me that some of the tree is wrong. Not really surprised.
He needs to comment on which is the best when it comes exact geographic locations!!
I find this comment kind of funny because I explain in the video that my rankings are based off of genealogically relevant tools, which is what will allow you to the learn the EXACT locations and stories of your ancestry through genetic genealogy, whereas the ethnicity admixture percentages are the least genealogically relevant tool these sites offer.
@GeneaVlogger yes I heard that after I wrote that and agree with you. The admixture is Totally off!
I recently did a 23&me test and I have quite a bit of unassigned ancestry, why can’t they assign it ? Also I am going to take an ancestry test to do a comparison of the two companies and I’m not sure if they results will be the same ?
I uploaded my AncestryDNA to My Heritage and they are completely different like AncestryDNA not mentioning I’m 17 % Italian is that accurate or AncestryDNA that found I’m 2% Italian the right one ?
Have you made a video listing the best dna test for Y- chromosome and mitochondrial dna?
Superb in depth analysis video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. 🙌
i havent found any close matches from my heritage and the ancestry results are terribly off
DNA Test question, how accurate is the National Geographic project 2.0?
Ha, ha, that last comment makes me feel like finding an excuse to have my Great Grandmother exhumed, so I can get a degraded DNA sample from her! I don't understand how to use the chromosome etc information at all or whether it can help me try & identify which one of my early 19th century ancestors has the surprising ethnic ancestry.
I did ancestryDNA and uploaded my DNA to myHeritage, Living DNA and my True Ancestry. Ancestry is bad with German ancestry and give you to much Scandinavian for Northern Germany, to much Irish and for some reason I got a high number of Balkan, but although ancestry isn't that good with percentages, ancestry gave me a good breakdown of all my ethnicities. My heritage is to inaccurate and way worse with German ancestry. I saw some test from Germans on UA-cam (+my test) that all showed that Germans get Scandinavian, Baltic and Celtic, but not German (North and West European). Living DNA was the best with German ancestry, although they got my Persian ancestry wrong and thought it was ancestry from the Southern Caucasus, probably Armenia. They also got my South Asian ancestry wrong, because they gave me way to much Sindhi ancestry (Southern Pakistan) although my ancestry was from North India/Pakistan.
Btw my mix is (on paper)
1/2 Southasian (Kashmiri, Punjabi, Pashtun)
1/4 German
1/8 Iranian
1/8 Tajik
What about CRMI and Helix? Also can DNA tests single out Jewish DNA of Jews from North Africa and Iran, Iraq and other Arab countries? Can DNA tests teach my DNA back to the Middle East?
As I finally understood by russian people results MyHeritage somehow looks at not modern ethnicities but existed ~1500 years ago. So all russian people become mixed and if you see 25% of somewhat it's most likely not "grandparent of other ethnicity". But the names of ethnicities that MyHeritage gives are modern - it confuses. 100% russians by ethnicity (at least since 1649) get about 60-70% East European (I guess slavic) and 30-40% Baltic. But this "baltic" is definitely not Latvian baltic - it's it's cousin that had same ancestor. People in Volga region looking asian have higher "baltic" results than in closer regions to Baltic states. Also we have ethnicities who are cousins to Finnish and Scottish as I know. I saw a lot of "balcan", "filippino" - that must be misreadings too.
I'd happily pay $200 to be able to copy an FTDNA kit to Ancestry. The person died before doing Ancestry. Hell I'd even bribe some employee at Ancestry DNA to do it.
Please check out: Scottish History Tours as a possible callab for your youtuber series. He did a DNA result video, but I wouldn't do a reaction video, he talks to his family and only has a little bit at the end showing results. He has more family test too, so maybe react to that one when it's out. He wants to connect with matches to see how he connects. He's very fun and curious!
My original comment was deleted, was it because it included a link to the video?
ua-cam.com/video/QBKHUe41tvY/v-deo.html this is the video
I need the best place for dna sequencing on health.
My heritage will show you the info you completed in the geneaology tree lol
My Mom is 83, wants to find if any living relatives are alive so she can contact them, and also to find out if she is Jewish, which test would do both? ???? Or do I need to get two test kits from two different companies ??
All of the tests will tell you both of these things, although LivingDNA technically won't directly say any sort of Jewish percentage. If you are looking for relatives, your best bet is to be in all of the databases because it means more genetic matches and more chances of finding close relatives. You can have your mom test with 23andMe and Ancestry, then upload those results to FTDNA, MyHeritage, and LivingDNA. I'd also suggest uploading the results to GEDmatch, Geni, and GeneaNet, three more databases where you can find more matches.
A lot of good information. I am one though that believes the medical aspect should be left to your family doctor. In fact, my doctor started using a lab many years ago and to do so in the agreement, they were to do this type of testing for what the insurance company would pay. If the insurance company would not pay, the patient was not billed. Few ever paid, but they got the other work which more than made up for these tests.
Do you know haw many years they go back in time?
About 200 years or 6 to 8 generations.
Which is best for just to find out my ancestry?