Professional Genealogist Reacts is a series created by Jarrett Ross, the GeneaVlogger. This series includes all sorts of reactions to DNA test result videos, genealogy related videos, and genealogy tv shows. It also includes reviews of DNA and genealogy questions posted to the GeneaVlogger subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/GeneaVlogger.
I think these Haplogroup tests could be wrong, I took a few tests at some of these sites and they all show mostly the same things, but it can't possibly be true. Like, everything from Haplogroup, phenotype or traits was weirdly inaccurate, or it has to be some mistake. Admixture was different on every site but at least more accurate.
We need to stop using these terms, black, white ect. Putting people in one big box. It is from the old racist ways , you know that one% rule that makes them able to use u as a slave. Tricky
My mother lost her life because I took a 23andMe Gene test! In Canada the Monarch is targeting genetically. They cut and shocked my mothers brain by Nuraleve Royal Assent medical device until she died. I escaped, damaged from their concentration camp experiments and the Peel Region Ontario Politicians and Developers are evicting me and coming after my life. This is wrong, have we inherited land is that why ? The following genes are targeted Haplogroup - M5A1b Ox- Copper Disorder Lion - Lipid Storage Disorder Eagle- Non PKU (Hawkinsuria) Woman - G6PD, congenital thryoid
We absolutely DO descend from ALL of our ancestors. We do not inherit genetics from all our ancestors. Descendancy and Inheritance do NOT mean the same thing. A professional genealogist should know this and not make such an erroneous statement. You don't inherit all your parents genes, either. But you certainly do descend from your parents. You also have to consider that "generations" are HIGHLY dependent on the average age of parents at the time and offspring is born. Today, it would be odd, so to speak, that someone has a child at age 14. However, Before the 1800's, it was very common, and even more common the further back in time one goes. Average life span decreases as well, so "generations" cannot be divided into specific time frames. For one person, 400 years could equate to 20 generations. For another it could 390, for another it could 410. If we're going to use royalty as an example, Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, was 12-13 when she had Henry. Henry was nearly half a century old when his youngest child was born. My grandfather was born 100 years before his youngest grandchild was born. If you're calling generations "30 years" you'd be a half century off with my family.
I have often wondered about testing DNA from the old rings that had strands of hair from dead relatives in them or the old art work that use to be made from hair of a relative.
A woman doesn't form an egg; she is born with all the eggs she will ever carry. It's a biological fact. So the line at 8:01 should be stated differently. She is not creating an egg. I guess technically her body grew it while she was being grown in her mother's womb from an egg her mother carried with her since she was grown in her mother's womb and so on. Interesting, isn't it?
Wow that's really fascinating to learn about... how you are more likely to inherit a more or less balanced quarter of your DNA from each of your two paternal grandparents; unlike your two maternal grandparents. I have 3 half brothers who share the same mother as me, and 1 half sister who instead shares the same father. It MAY explain why I resemble this half sister moreso than any one of my three half brothers.
I think because we, in the modern world, live in homogenized communities, even in big cities like NYC, pedigree collapse is possible to happen regardless whether it is intentional or not and we don't even think about it. GEDmatch has the "are your parents related" tool for this very reason.
Great video regarding the the genealogy of African Americans by the way! I happen to be both Afro Caribbean (maternal grandparents 🇧🇸 and paternal grandfather 🇧🇸/🇭🇹 ) and African American (paternal grandmother 🇺🇸) and did testing with Ancestry and 23andMe. Both results placed my ancestry at 97.2-98% Sub-Saharan African while 2.8% came back from England and Northwestern Europe (France and Germany) and 23andMe pinpoint my mtDNA and Y chromosome as L2a1f and E-M4451 both of which are African. I took African Ancestry MatriClan and PatriClan tests and I discovered that I share genetic ancestry with Tuareg and Fula people living in Mali 🇲🇱 and Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 today. I am open to the opportunity of doing FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA and Big Y (37-700) and see if they pinpoint them to those countries African Ancestry did or to another African country.
According to 23 and Me, I'm carrying around some Neanderthal DNA. How is it possible to go back that far? I'm happy that I don't have heavy eyebrow ridges though.
Often people with Irish DNA get a little Iberian DNA mixed in. The Iberian peninsula usually means Spain or Portugal. Portuguese sailors traveled the world. As Spain is next to Portugal, some Spanish travel to Portugal and became sailors. As Portugal is on the Atlantic Ocean, it has major shipping ports. Read up on the many Black Irish theories. Basically black Irish refers to way back people born in Ireland who looked less Irish and had black hair, brown eyes and olive skin color. One theory is that a sailing ship, or a few, went off course and ended up off the shore of Southern Ireland. There was some intermixing of the crew and local women, which resulted in crew members fathering a few babies with the local Irish women. However there are theories that while early Irish came to Ireland, some related to them went to Spain instead.
23andMe keeps the dna of everyone tested by the company. If that person is dead or gets their account deleted as mine has, their dna is stored there. How useful it is considering that 23andMe have been using different chips during the existence of the company. I have been tested on the v2, v3 and v5 chips. The earlier chips have no Y chromosome SNPs that indicate your haplogroup. I lost my v5 chip results but the haplogroup found was thousands of years old, and not specific to me. I don't care about nefarious individuals or groups using my dna. There's nothing I have that could result in any discrimination. I remember Cee Cee Moore from 23andMe when she was active there obviously building her business. I don't have the ability to pinpoint actual relatives from my dna due to incomplete family trees and coming from a group that shares a lot of dna without being closely related. I let GEDmatch do what it wants with my dna, there's no nasty people in my family, and if there are, tough to them. Thanks for the combo kit facility on GEDmatch, I hope it's free. I have dna tests from Ancestry, 23andMe, MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA. I would like a combo dna result. I would just say that a criminal is a person convicted of a crime. Innocent until proven guilty. I
That video is unnecessarily complicated. All you need to do is assumed you have 128 5th grand parents, who were unrelated and look at the fraction 1 over 128, it's quite visible that 1 over 128 is less than 1%. It is unlikely that you have inherited dna from all those people. Working out segments and King Charles' pedigree is over doing it, as in the end it is still an estimate based on assumptions. I use my dna results to prove that my ancestors are my ancestors, no NPE, but it's limited how far back you can go. Past that point of proof it really doesn't matter to me who those people are., That is why I only go to my 5th great grandparents even though I can go further back to my 10th great grandparents on paper. With every generation back the likelihood of an NPE increases to the point it makes the family tree fictitious.
I don't understand why people get so hung up on ancestry. It's kinda interesting yeah, but I really don't care. I'm supposedly Scots -Irish, whatever that means but I don't have the time or money to waste finding out. Another thing that bugs me is the whole cannibal thing. I just about bet you someone, somewhere back in my ancestry,ATE another human for some reason. I don't care.
It isn't a lot of money. People waste lots of money eating and drinking things their bodies can do without. They go on vacations, turn their hair purple, buy things they don't need. So spending money to find out about your ancestry, your genetic vulnerabilities are about you. If that doesn't interest you, okay. Nearly 100% of humanity couldn't care less about you from birth to death, you might as well take some interest in yourself instead of drinking all that vodka out of a bottle you didn't need to buy.
Somalis 0 Europeans, and if there is any it must had to do with the shared ancestors for thousands and thousands of years ago, because Somalis never ever mixed or had intermarriage with the colonizers, it was a sin and it is to marry non-Muslim men,
A lot of people tend to forget that people move, especially in the past 400 years. Due to people moving around for various reasons, you are going to get a large mixture of DNA from different places going into one location. Making a tree with a paper trail and doing research in the areas will give her a large idea on what was going on when her relatives left for the US will give her massive clues. Another thing to think about is that genetic history doesn't care about any country/empire/kingdom boarders. There also another thing that she needs to know is that when her parents have children, they randomly pass down half of their DNA to her and she ends up whatever they give her. My DNA making a huge mess on Europe, eating a large portion of Russia, and ignoring England to the point where I have a joke about it now is pretty funny. My English DNA got broken down to it's core parts to the point that there is barely any of it left. It looks like my Welsh and Scottish DNA are actively avoiding England like it was infected by a plague. 😂 My Scottish DNA took over all of Scotland, a portion of northern England, most of all of North Ireland, the surrounding small islands, and a small portion of the French coast. My Irish DNA covers 99% of Ireland, Ulster Scotts came from both of my parents. The Irish DNA touches Scotland's neighboring islands tells that my Scottish and Irish ancestors interacted a lot. My Welsh DNA covers all of Wales and lightly covers the portion of England immediately next to it and hugs the south and north costs nearby.
I find it interesting how the genes split up and the dna match differences between siblings. I have a lot of cousins my siblings aren't matched to. It seems that I got the dna from the hanky panky side of the family because I have matched to several people who were adopted and the result of affairs. This is on top of being French Canadian and my parents sharing several common ancestors makes trying to figure out my family tree a challenge.
Dumb, dumb title. Yeah, you got me to click but certainly not to subscribe. By DEFINITION, you ancestors are the people you descend from. If people are created "phantom" ancestors by assuming that there is no overlap of any branches in their family tree, then that's their mistake. It doesn't mean that some of those phantoms really were ancestors but that you don't descend from them. It means they were wrong about how many ancestors they had.
Very good discussion on the ethics and risks of storing so many people's DNA and who might get hold of it and use it for nefarious purposes. Health insurance fears is very reasonable, even in other countries that don't have as predatory health insurance corporations. I sure as hell wouldn't trust my insurance company with this and we have universal tax-funded healthcare. Also, third largest party here is a "ex" nazi party. I trust them to do horrible things with any DNA vaults they get their hands on.
41:00 that room with all the DNA in, that's a sci-fi trope! A ship with a crew of just a handful set out on a life-long voyage into the starts with enough DNA to get a very diverse population of millions going when they find a good planet. I did not expect that DNA vault to already be a thing (even if cloning & high fraction of light-speed travel isn't).
THESE NATIVE AMERICAN READINGS AREN'T AS ACCURATE as you have explained.... The colonizers were the goto for INDIAN verifications and only thru the so called 5 civilized tribes... Most were Label Negro colored and MULATTO on the censuses.. Its a very ling story but YOU im sure know this ALREADY.
They can totally target you genetically, which is why part of the job of secret service is to collect any sample of the president’s DNA when in public. Of course this would probably be a nation state attack, so if you aren’t famous right now you’re only a casualty if you’re DNA is similar enough to the attack vector and you’re unlucky enough to be close to the target at time of deployment?!??!
When I mentioned that it might be used to catch criminals to my dad, he said “go for it.” Dad wanted to opt in. He said if it catches someone, it catches someone.
I have nearly all Slavic DNA with about 40% coming from the Balkans. I had a Croatian grandmother, but clearly there is something else going on if I'm 40%. In any case, and not surprisingly, religion plays a big part in the hatred among Balkans. This is true even among the Slavs. In the case of the Croats, they are mostly Catholic, while the Serbs are mostly Eastern Orthodox. Many in Bosnia were converted to Islam as part of the Ottoman conquest and the advantages conferred to adherents. Today about half of Bosnians are Muslim while there are sizable minorities of Eastern Orthodox and Catholics. I suppose the juxtaposition of the Christmas decorations in a video where his DNA suggests that he's largely ethnically Bosnian is part of the entertainment of the video and emphasizes internal conflict?
What’s even worse about the records…where I live in Virginia, we are very close to the former capital of the confederate. Records were burned on a mass scale because of fear of retaliation from the Union against plantation owners. I currently live on land that was, at one time, a plantation were some of ancestors were born. I have no idea what ethnicity that are.. most I hit a brick wall on one of their sides. I’m about as European as you can get, but we’re talking about mixes back in the 1600s that could be in my family. I also have some suggestion that I may have some ties to melungeons on part of my paternal grandmothers side, including surnames and where they moved and when
Judy Russell has never, that I know of, been leery of law enforcement involvement in consumer genealogy sites. I strongly suspect that she opts in. On the other hand, as a lawyer, she is a fierce believer in companies keeping their customers informed, through the terms and conditions, as to what they are allowing or not. She analyzes them so we don't have to ;) She regularly posts about changes in TAC. Sometimes with just "nothing much to the changes" to "this is big!". That is why the woo-haw when Gedmatch allowed the case that didn't fit what they said they were allowing. I am very glad they caught the guy, but there was a whole 'slippery slope' thing going on. What else were they going to allow, without letting their customers know? That was where the trust broke some. So it was all about breaking their own TACs. This was fixed because of the confustication. I'm opted in.
I wish Ancestry would allow an opt-in. The database is so much larger.... But I understand that they just aren't interested in any of the legal/ethical issues, and the stress on potential customer confusions.
Ive also opted in directly with GEDmatch. Ive been opted in since years before i was estranged from my family (which has been a few years). I always figured if any of my relatives harmed someone, they deserve to get caught.
I have seen the work of Genie Milgrom, but I also know about a lot of the issues with her work and how it uses inadequate evidence which does not adhere to the Genealogical Proof Standard. She has even been quoted many times saying that crypto-Jewish research is the "underbelly of regular genealogy", which seems to be a roundabout way of saying "does not adhere to the Genealogical Proof Standard". I am also familiar with the work of others, such as Judith Neulander, who have shown a lot of this is overblown and uses inadequate evidence.
