Ancestry vs 23 and Me: RESULTS COMPARISON & BREAKDOWN - Which Is The Best DNA Test? 

I’m adopted and found my bio dad thru AncestryDNA using both genealogy and DNA matching. Through DNA cousins I was able to tie two branches together to narrow my search to two men. A first cousin and Uncle tested which proved the other guy was my dad. I’ve tested on all the sites.

Love your video.. I did the 23andme just for fun and then decided to get one for my dad. Huge mistake... results!! He is not my dad. He doesn't know it yet, I'm dying. Couldn't find any close match, so I ordered a kit from Ancestry. Wish me luck 🙏😔

That’s an awesome intro to your vlog. I’m definitely on my way to watching it now!!! Thank you for allowing us into your life…

my friend and I just ordered 23 and me two days ago, really excited! Your video was very helpful, thank you!

This was a fantastic review! Thank you so much. I had never watched your videos before, but now I'm looking forward to the documentary :D

Great job on this one Tommy... The edited is on point! Great drone footage too..

I did both Ancestry and 23&Me. I found people on one that are not on the other!

Wow...what a story and great review on these tests! Im looking forward to watching this documentary:) After more than a decade, I decided to come home to my Jewish soul officially through conversion. I dont know how to explain it, but I always felt so naturally drawn to the Jewish people, even though I too was born and raised a Christian. But, by the time I hit my late 20s, I knew that wasnt my path. And I've so wanted to do these DNA tests just to see what comes up. My mother's family is middle eastern (from Lebanon) and father's, Caribbean and Nigerian, but theres so many "holes" in my family's story, and Im damn curious...

This is a great video! Very professional. I’m surprised there’s only 1k subscribers.

My dad was also adopted. His bio mom had ran around and got pregnant. Never knew bio fam. He too became a pastor. I have two older sisters. He was diagnosed with ALS and dementia. Lost him in November of this year. Your story is pretty similar. Going to see what my test says, maybe something cool. Love your story. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this review! It’s nice that you found out about your Genetics ancestral & for health and about your Dads results. Lovely story about your family. And so sorry for your loss. My Dad really wants to test his DNA because his father was adopted at young age and since has passed away. I’ll definitely purchase the Ancestry DNA for him. ✌🏽

Your editing and formatting is very impressive. You'll grow if you keep this up!! You'll be amazing

I’ve done Ancestry and now I’ve ordered 23&Me, I have really severe health issues and I wanted to learn more about my family initially but now I would also like to know more about my health as well.

Just ordered my 23andme kit. I’m excited to get mine. I’m interested in the health portion because my family has some rare health problems.

I love your videos Tommy, thank you. My sister has the Bracha 1 gene and has had breast cancer as well. I am going to do the Ancestry dna to see if I am Ashkenazi Jew as well. Sending off for it today! Can't wait for these results too.

Thank you for sharing. I'm about to take both test.

Your editing skills are on point, big props!

Not the NCT instrumental in the back!!! Thanks for this it really helped!!!!!!

I'm adopted, and even though it's kind of overwhelming to see that I can really figure out my history, it's so interesting and helpful.

Great video. Did an AncestryDNA test and found out my brother wasn’t from my Father, nevertheless he’s still my brother, he already knew for some time. You can get addicted doing these dna test lol.

That is exactly what I wondered..how accurate all across the board.

I have taken ancestry and 23andMe DNA tests because I am an orphan my parents had passed when I was young, and my father was adopted and I've never known where he had come from his whole life he never knew anything about where he had come from so I had taken these tests and I am still in the dark I still have yet to find a single soul on my father's side I may have found someone on my mother's I'm just waiting for a response back I have been waiting for this my entire life I believe and I pray that I will find my place in life one day and that's why I need a DNA one day I hope to fulfill my father's dream and know who his family is and know where he came from because he didn't know now that I have genetic generalized epilepsy my search has gone deeper, thank you for your videos its helped me so much right now, send love and light your way from Alberta Canada ✌️ 💛 🇨🇦 🕯️

My 23andMe kit just came today. I am so excited to find out my results!! Heck, I'm just excited to spit in the vial 😂

this is such a well put together video. i was very surprised when i saw you didn’t have more subscribers.

Still wanting to do both tests and uncover everything, so yeah that will happen when I have the financial means

The biggest issue with these tests is that very few people really know what they are looking at when they get their results. Tests can provide recent ancestry but they can also provide deep ancestry, so deep that it proceeds the invention of the nation state by thousands of years. Many people of northern Euro extraction will be surprised to find Greek, Sardinian, Italian and Spanish ancestry- typically about 5-8%. This doesn’t mean you have any of this ancestry but rather that your ancestors lived in southern refuges during the last Ice Age, that, 9000 years, would become these areas. Trace amounts (2% or less) means literally zero… and yes, these results will change constantly because the database is constantly updated. These databases are also heavily skewed because the ethnic determinations are based entirely on who is participating.

I'm Latina so I'm looking for a test that can give me more exact information on my indigenous roots. I don't want a test that tells me I'm from South America, I already know that, but it'd be awesome if I knew what ethnicity from there I got DNA from. I'm sure it's really hard because these kits aren't cheap and I doubt many indigenous people would take these tests, so their gene pool for it will be very very limited. However, I think that maybe with time they'll have bigger databases from more diverse backgrounds and then I will be able to find what I'm looking for.

Hi from the UK.Excellent clear information.

I'm from Nazareth. Went to school with some Werkheisers. Work with one. Sorry about your Dad. I met him a few times. He got his reward. God bless.

I took 23 and me to see if I had the Breast cancer variant as my mom is a carrier. Thankfully I do not have it. But now I’m trying to start up a family tree and quite excited for this journey.

Wow, the ending is especially touching.

Great video thank you! I myself are on a different path but a path to find my family history.

Great Video 🙏🏽‼️

How I made it to this video Is a weird story. I have been having this reoccurring dream for a couple of years now where I am with this man and I know him in my dream but never got around to remembering his name, until yesterday when I had that same dream and called him "levalence" or "Le Valence" I had never heard that name in my life lol... Now I am curious as to what I have in my DNA and where my bloodline comes from, my history was lost because of mental illness in my family :( I am leaning more towards Ancenstry than 23andme ... but Thank you for posting, you were incredibly thorough and concise with everything! I really appreciate it!

I come to find about DNA testing and I learned your family story.. Im sorry for your lost.. And I hope you find your dad's family 🤗

Great video, man. Could have sworn it came from a huge fancy RU-vid channel haha. Keep it up 👍

I have taken two test Ancestry and 23andme. While both offer some good things, I would say Ancestry wins. Some of the reasons this video points out but also with Ancestry, they have a feature called Thrulines which can help you to determine connections up to 5th great grand parents and people who share the common ancestors... if they have done a DNA test and providing that family trees are correct. I find that 90% or more of the time, it has been correct. Sometimes the relationships are off with a distant cousin and sometimes totally off. but again it's mostly correct from my investigation. Ancestry is great for genealogy whereas if you just want to see your ethnicity and health report than 23andme is fine. Also, I find Ancestry people are generally more hardcore into genealogy so they are way more likely to respond. The only thing that I don't like about Ancestry is that their subscriptions are way to expensive; if they were half expensive, I would buy one.

I was found to have 14% Irish our mom was 26% & 28% Scandinavian & our dad was 51% my siblings are each a little lower in both & I'm the youngest! We don't know our grandmother's ancestry except that she was Scandinavian & we were told that she was German.

Great video. I submitted a 23andMe test first because I wanted to know more about my health history. My biological mother was adopted and I do not know her or her side of the family. I did connect with a first cousin on her side through 23andMe, but he was my only close match. I recently sent in a test to AncestryDNA to see if I can find anymore close DNA matches. I’m still waiting on my results.

Great channel!!

This is a great video

I had taken an ancestry test a few years ago and I just bought a 23 and me test, I’m super hyped to compare the two because I’m a total nerd for stats and data lol

I'm happy to have found your channel...and have subscribed...my question is ..I am more interested in my Fathers side of the family...do these tests cover that..or is it an addon? Thanks...

I got my 23andme results back. I have 11.2% Ashkenazi ancestry . I knew I had some Jewish Ancestry from my Grandfather on my mom's side.

I took a Ancestry test to see if my father was really the person I was told was my father. When I took the test I was surprised and so was my mother. She then admitted she was raped and I also found a half brother that was also looking for his parents. He was surprised to have found me and also he knew he was given for adoption because his mother was also raped. I believe that I have found my father but is deceased. I was able to contact one of his sons and he was willing to pass the Ancestry test. He is waiting for the result which is said that he will receive pretty soon.

I sent for a 23and me kit yesterday. My family have been in Scotland for generations so I don't expect any startling revelations unlike many North American's who have fascinating tales. I do want to find out a bit more of what genetic traits and health issues I might have.

As I was watching this I noticed that both of us have the same DNA makeup on ancestry. The only difference is that I don’t have Norway. And also my paternal grandmothers maiden last name is Werkheiser . As well as you I am also Pennsylvania settlers

I want to do these DNA test however they don’t seem to be accurate and my perfectionism isn’t comfortable with that :( I might still try though

My mom was adopted in Mexico when she was little. She doesn’t remember how old she was or what her birth name was. I want to get this for her in hopes she could find out who her birth parent are. Any advice in which one I should get her?

Very interesting results! And by the way, I live only 20km away from the village Werkhausen, where it seems one of your ancestor is coming from. It is in the north of the german federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Greetings from Germany.

I used Ancestry DNA My results: 47% Chinese 3% Japanese 38% Finnish 5% Scandinavian 3% Irish 2% Scottish 2% German PROUD TO BE A WASIAN :)

These are really interesting.

Your channel is so high quality! I'm subbing to boost you!

My DNA seems to be a better match on Ancestry. But to be fair, 23andme focuses more on health markers, so they both have benefits.

Follow your path and be the person you were meant to be. Becoming human is a lifelong journey. Be happy.

Also I took a dna test in Ancestry DNA, but in future also I want to took dna test in 23andMe ! )))

Do you have to take a test every time they update their database or it automatically adapts to the new statistics?

My mother her whole life had thought she was just french, Scottish and Irish. Turns out shes 55 percent Jewish and her "full sisters" are her half sisters. She has always been asked if she was Jewish since she was little , I guess that explains it. We found that most of her matches were 100 percent Jewish and she has a secret half sibling that is Jewish. A community she had was in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. i'm 27 percent Jewish from a test and I look a lot like my mom. We sent in a 23 and me yesterday and I guess we will find out if she has anymore half siblings we don't know about. Me and my mom had both been asked if we had been Jewish over the years just because of our looks.

My mom, my maternal half brother, my full sister and I did DNA test with Family Tree DNA. My maternal half brother, my full sister and I did a DNA test with ancestry. I did a DNA test with 23andme. We all have different DNA results from each other. I talked to a employee at Family Tree DNA. That employee told my that my maternal half brother and my full sister have more DNA from my maternal side then me. That employee told me that I have more DNA from my paternal side then my full sister. We did a DNA test to try find 3 of my full sister's kids who got adopted out and the same with my maternal half brother kids to. I did gave my full sister my word that I will keep on looking at our DNA matches to see if her kids is our DNA matches . My full sister passed away this past August of 2020.

does your sister Stacy have her own channel? She should cause she seems super rad!! Total dig her style and her... demeanor (almost put attitude there but felt that gave a negative conotation, but then again demeanor seems a bit too refined. I'm sure you know what I mean. haha)

Cool video

I only want to take one to find out more about what I am... I have some general ideas but no specifics. That is what I would be after. Making family connections might be cool too though. I also want to DNA test my (shelter adopted) dog... find out what she is specifically though I am certain she is mostly Border Collie. I probably will do her test first. :)

the results refresh automatically? i mean you didn´t do anything and it was change in 2 years? and also myheritage could do this or just 23andme?

I took ancestry. When I first took it it said I was 53% Sicilian and around 30% Irish. Now they have my percentage as 49% Irish and 27% Sicilian. Does anyone know why that is? My mom took an ancestry test but my dad didn’t and I know that my father is around 75% Sicilian and 25% Irish. My mom is 50% Irish and 25% Sicilian. I feel like something is off.

I did both looking for an unknown biological father. One first cousin matched up on each site. and they knew each other at the nexus of two large families. The family tree on Ancestry provided a good deal of information. The haploid information included by 23 and Me may serve to rule out one family or the other. I am 82 so all the potential fathers are dead, but there is one male cousin in my generation.

I did the ancestry DNA to hope to find any matches, I was orphaned at age 11 and found out my father was adopted when I was 15 and he passed away in 1993 and my mother passed away in 1999 and only knew that my mother's parents had come from Norway and I have had no luck in finding any family members or matches, I think I maybe the last living relative, not even a cousin match and I was so shocked about my results, I need to try the 23 and me and see what the 2 differences are in heritage and traits sounds nice along with the health aspect included. I needed to know my ancestry for health-related issues like my genetic generalized epilepsy which was found from the geneticists of the University of Calgary Canada and the epilepsy Association, and the it said I had all of the markers for genetic epilepsy but I wasn't tested for anything else, I'm hoping 23 and me will be more helpful, ancestry left me feeling alone when I had no matches and have been waiting for over 5 years for some matches to show up, nothing, zip, nodda. I'm still praying to find out more about me and my family, I wonder if it is a good idea to try the tests again after 5 years, hopefully I can get more accurate info or just the same results of no family matches, what does one do when they may be the last person to still standing. It left me with more questions than answers, like where did my father come from I'm female and it's hard to find out much on my father he was purchased from the church because he was indigenous to Canada and there are no results from him or any of his family, It made me feel more alone in the world since I guess there is only me left. I need to try every DNA test now, I have been searching for anyone who maybe related.

But I have a question, which company is the best in genetic testing, is Ancestry DNA or 23andme, because I heard that the new algorithm that was used in Ancestry DNA in genetic testing is inaccurate and this is why the test results are inaccurate, while the results of 23andme are more accurate. And what do you advise about genetic testing, is Ancestry DNA or 23andme?

I have done a ckecking of several companies that do ancestry testing, 23andMe is the first and only direct-to-consumer DNA test that includes 55+ health reports that meet FDA requirements. However, I believe the most comprehensive ancestry test is 24Genetics with over 1500 regions, as opposed to AncestryDNA. AncestryDNA can estimate your origins to more than 1000 regions around the world. While it is true that AncestryDNA offers family matching, which 24Genetics does not offer.

Which one is better to see all my ethnicities? And also health stuff

I'm surprised you didn't mention their privacy policies because that's one of the biggest things thats kept me from doing one of these tests in the past. Since they are private companies they are not covered by HIPAA and the security of your genetic information is much lower than if it was in the hands of medical professionals

which one you guys think is the best?

I’ve taken both of these and there completely different oddly enough. I did 23andMe first and as of recent update, I’m 94% British (English more specifically) with 2.2% Italian and so on. Ancestry as I’ve recently had an update, I’m 49% English with 23% Swedish and Danish (which is the biggest difference compared to 23andMe with no Scandinavian ancestry results), as well as 13% Irish and 13% Scottish. I wonder why I get Scandinavian ancestry appear on one test but nonexistent on another.

what does it mean when the DNA results update?

Congratulations on your DNA ethnicities test!!!!! PS You're a citizen of Europe!!!

All fun and games until you realize it's a giant complex guiding this adventure. Big pill to swallow

For an adopted person just trying to find their ethnicity, who would you choose?

Which one do u think is better .

Great analysis! fyi, GEDmatch is pronounced "jed-match," not spelled out.

So which is over all better for just finding your background?

I’m a non identical twin. My brother has blonde hair and blue eyes. I have black hair and brown eyes. My father is from Iran and my mum is English/Irish New Zealander. I wonder if we both did the test what percentage of each side will we have. You would think it’s 50/50 split but as mentioned it not the case.

I prefer ancestry because they draw from a much larger data base and I find better at the ad mixtures. Genetic ancestors and genealogical ones are not the same as we only share DNA with 120 of our ancestors...so considering our number double each generation, ,2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128...etc. plus you can skip some and have recessive genes....plus there is the entire recombination issues.

I took my on mother day my ethnicity estimate Germanic Europe 38% Nigeria 28% England &northwestern Europe 13% mail 8% Scotland 5% Ireland 3% france 2% Cameroon congo & western bantu peoples 2% ivory coast &ghana 1%

Is the church building your dad planted called life church now?? I think that’s the church I was baptized in! I grew up in Bangor PA area!!

I'm actually more interested in health report and maybe ethnicity, but I can't deny it's very enticing to have a better grasp of your ancestry and relatedness to people in other countries... Is 23and me really that bad for ancestry??

If you end your ancestry subscription, will you lose all your data? Do they own it?

we want this exam here in Brazil, I think it's the best among all the ones I've done 23andMe with more precision it gives the small % like for example 0,2% 0.3% o Myheritage you the other labs not not like that %

I tried to see about my ancestors from family members that had been cut off. And I reached out to one side well they cut me off from seeing anything about our family. And they wouldn't answer me and blocked me even though they put me on the tree

I have family in the Lehigh valley area, and I also have Werkheisers in my family line.

We want this test here in Brazil thank you

Thank you for your insight. 😊 I am black and as ancestry informed I have to come up with information because they didn’t have the information for blacks.

Which one do you prefer? I want to order one

Would this tell you who your parents are? Or can I not do this without knowing their name?

I wanted to find out what percentage of my dna was Neanderthal, and so I took 22&me, as they give that info and Ancestry does not. I already knew a lot about my family tree, and so there were no surprises there, except that I have more detailed and accurate info than the test did.

Brca 2 positive here! First in my family to find the gene mutation. I'm trying to learn which test to do which is what brought me here to your video.

My daughter has just done 23andme. I was a bit disappointed that welsh, Scottish, Irish and English are lumped together. I am going to do 23andme and ancestry. I was a bit surprised at one result. I thought she would have german and polish because my mother's father came from East Germany to England in the 30s because, as my gran told me, he had seen Hitler at a rally and thought he was crazy. He was a wealthy, land owning German baron. I always thought that seemed weird until my daughters results showed 0 German but high Ashkanazi Jew.

Which one is better

I chose AncestryDNA because I needed to dispell the myth that my paternal family line consisted of deadbeats and cowards. Resulting test concluded that particular family line actually consisted of heroes and innovators. Don't those types of people usually get a bad rap anyway? Identity issues solved. Through AncestryDNA. Should I need genetic health info, I will probably test through 23andMe.

I took a DNA test about 12-14 years ago, private company wanted to know how much Viking DNA was in the English population, was for a TV show etc. I came back 100% ancient briton, no VIKING DNA They said back then, my DNA is closely related to the first people to arrive in Briton. Just recently had a Ancestry results arrive, 70% English, which most pin pointing where I live now, which 8% Norway, 7% Sweden. So basically, my past family since arriving in Briton thousands of years ago, and stayed in the exact same location to this day. The references from Norway and Sweden would be from the Anglo Saxon-Viking invasions. All pretty interesting.

Do u think being asian makes any difference which one i shld do. I m more interested in the health profile.

Hi, can I do this even I’m from not from the U.S? I have a Chilean background.