My ITALIAN Husband Take a DNA Test! He's NOT ITALIAN? shocking 

As for Napoleon...wait until Alessio finds out Napoleon was a descendant of ITALIAN nobles! He may have been born in Corsica, but his paternal ancestors were TUSCAN nobles, while his maternal ancestors were GENOESE! As others have mentioned, I'm pretty sure the French part of Alessio's DNA has to do with the Celts who once lived in Friuli. French ancestry doesn't have to mean the French ethnicity but rather that he has ancestry from peoples who lived in what's now France. As for Jessi's, I'm pretty sure she's Melungeon since she's from Tennessee and the Melungeon people are mostly found in the Appalachia part of Tennessee where she said her family is from. Melungeons are people with mixed European/Sub-Saharan African/Native American and this all checks out with Jessi. The term Melungeon likely comes from the French word mélange ultimately derived from the Latin verb miscēre (to mix)

She looked British the moment I saw her for the first time. 😅 She has the most typical British-Irish face ever. Not surprised at all.

“Are you sure that’s not the cat’s dna?” 😂😂😂

The way he said “Frrench” killed me! 💀🤣🤣🤣

Napoleone Buonaparte was an Italian from Corsica ethnically speaking.

I see French babies in your future😂😄🙃

Alessio to try british food, oh boy will that be interesting 😂

I think Alessio's French-German side is more likely Austrian. Friuli-Venezia Giulia is all the way in Northeast Italy, bordering Austria and Slovenia. Based on geography, it is most likely that his ancestors were Italian and Austrian, as Northern Italy has constantly redrawn its borders, hence the different ethnic groups had to adopt a new ethnic identity. For example, South-Tyrol (Alto-Adige) is really an Austrian territory that Italy ceded. Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, is very likely composed of Italians with a lot of German-speaking Swiss ancestry. Lombardy, the region where Italy's economic hub Milan is found, was named after the Lombards, who were a Germanic tribe. That whole northern area of Italy was inhabited by Germanic people after the fall of the Roman Empire, in fact, the Ostrogoths and Vandals reached pretty south too. So I believe Italians would have some Germanic DNA in there.

Ha so funny! Maybe you two should start a French Cooking channel.. lol

You're right about the variance of ethnicity percentages within families. My sister and I have the same biological parents but the % shown of each ethnicity in our DNA tests are very different. We both have the same ethnicities but to different degrees. We both look different from eachother too.

This is hilarious to watch! 🤣😂 But I love these dns tests and love that people can find what their backgrounds are and most of us are mixed with different ethnicities. I’m Puerto Rican but when I did this test it was a mix of a WHOLE lot! More than the Spanish, African, Indian I thought I was. 😂

Ancestry does update periodically as more and more people submit, they get more accurate. Also, they do explain that a lot of the things people are surprised by (like being French over Italian) is directly related to historical migration of the population to where there was food or work). I loved both of your reactions 😂

Alessio... 25% French. Accept it brother. You are French by blood. You should cheer for your French brothers on the next World Cup when Italy fails to qualify for the 3rd time.

So interesting! When my parents did theirs, my mom was 98% Irish. My father was a smorgasbord Polish Irish Russian Eastern European English and Alsatian. If you still have your grandparents talk to them and ask questions you'll learn so much!

It's the databases that are refined, it's not that a person's DNA changes

How can you do this? I think is because you love each other more than anything. Kudos to your understanding towards each other. It is your love and understanding that shines true

He is 100% from the Roman Empire

We are in France. Home of Alessio!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If going to Scotland with Jessi wearing a flowing Scottish dress then Alessio needs be prepared to be seen wearing a Scottish KILT!! Laugh out loud!

Love the Italian / France rivaly! It's hilarious!

Love Jessi !!!

You are so sweet guys ❤kisses from Greece

Apparently Conan O'Brian is 100% Irish ... but he was told that means he was inbred :D

I did 23andMe for mine and my results listed the specific parts of a country I can trace the largest chunks of my ancestry to. I am over 40 percent Spanish/Portuguese, specifically from the Canary Islands as my great grandma lived in the Canary Islands before she moved to Cuba. And my Portuguese ancestry lists the Azores. I am over 20 percent British and Irish which is from my dad's side with County Cork and Kerry in Ireland as my likeliest match as well as Lancashire and West Yorkshire in the UK. I am 19.8 percent Eastern European also because of my dad with my ancestry pointing to the Polish-Slovak border (it also included Czech Republic as a likely match). I am 3.3 percent Native American (Taíno; which I knew already because I'm Cuban), I am 2.3 percent Western Asian/North African (which I was once asked by an Arab brain doctor I went to if I was an Arab and was confused but now it makes sense knowing Spain's history) which includes the most shocking...1.1 percent CYPRIOT (which was updated two years ago and has stayed since). Caught me off-guard because I don't know where that came from, but Cyprus is one of the most go

Time for Rapunzel to update the shirt to French fries and French guys 😂

if you're from napoleon, you're 100% italian. because his "french" line is actually corsican, which is also italian. his name is napoleon because his ancestors were from napoli!

haha no way, my dads from fruili too, pordenone! Great video that was fun to watch

Yes you two should have lots of kids!! Children are a blessing from heaven (aka God)

LMAO Alessio is going to keep taking the test every year until he gets the number he wants😂😂😂

You guys are so cute!

I agree and I am not surprised. Long ago Corsica,Malta, and Elba were under Italy. Napoleone Buonaparte was from Italien descent. You can argue if you want, but it doesn't change the fats. Infact, if you go to Malta, Corsica, all the streets names all over are Italian names. End of story. Lol it or not it is what it is. Ciao.

Jessi, the trick is if you feed your husband croissants every morning! He will become 50% French in time. It is proven in scientific journals

You both are so brave

It’s true, wait a year, your ansestry updates. I was 74% Italian ( friulano) and now I’m 86%. Yippee!

I love this video 😂😂

Hello and much love here in San Angelo, Texas!! ❤️

I love how everyone just ignored the last little comment at the end 😅

25% french german because the frankish ruled italy for some time. so don't worry about it. it happened over 1000 years ago. they can't pinpoint it any further than the holy roman empire days of the franks (austria, germany, france, switzerland).

I am German and I can kind of see it in him actually XD welcome to the family

Just came across your video, brilliant hi from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌺🌺🦋💫🌺🌺🦋

My Dad is 2nd Generation American Norwegian & is STILL 100% Norwegian. Viking power! 😊

Texas 4 Ever!!❤❤❤

OMG! A genealogical researcher told my Italian uncle that we had a lieutenant from Napoleon's army in our ancestry. So, a French Lieutenant back in the early 1800s married an Italian woman, perhaps in the northern area of Italy. I'll have to ask my cousins if they have the original report. Thanks for sharing your results! DNA is a fascinating thing.

he does look french though

That's hilarious 😂 "pardon my French"

When these two get kids they gona be more french then italian haha.

The trace ancestry isn’t that accurate unless both of your parents also test. I had a bunch of random trace results until my parents tested and it disappeared

It’s possible to have Roman DNA in Britain, when the Romans ruled Britain for almost 500 years. And that can come into it being “Italian” DNA although Italy has only been a country for over 140 years or so

French-German ancestry mean that you have ancestors from that area. Not necessarily France or Germany that countries as you know it today. Over the centuries, different peoples lived there, from Celts to Romans to the Franks and Swiss.

me and my sister both took our dna test thru 23 and me. It does change every so often. We have tracked down our family trees back to the 1700s on both sides. When we first got our results it showed us having british isle roots and since it has updated that has been merged with our german and scandinavian percentages. If you have Germanic heritage and especially from northern most part close to Denmark it will mark it as British and or Scandinavian just cuz of the closeness of the region and the history of the migration to Britain from that area. But DNA test can be subjective. If you have a dna that they can't quite place but alot of people from say India have taken DNA test and came back with that same DNA, you might get reported as from being from that region as well. There are certain DNA testing that is more specific to certain ethnicities that will narrow it down more (Native Americans and Asians for examples)

Awe Alessio its ok welcome to the French Family..

Mine has changed a lot and in the past year years. Although now it’s more closely related to what I’ve seen in the immigration records of my ancestors than it was originally.

I took mine I know I’m mostly Italian and tiny bit polish & Brit but on mine I got all those & I also got Greek, cypress, Albanian, and middle eastern…. I think if you are Italian because of the location & history you will probably get lots of Mediterranean countries.

Just curious what is Alessios mother ancestry? Love you both 🤗🤗

This is funny cause I literally have an Irish last name, always thought I was Irish, turns out… I’m Italian!!!

I'm thinking of doing this. I know my mom's dad was German, and my dad's dad was Armenian...but the rest I think British and NW European. So it would be interesting to see what the a test will show. In the end, I'm an American ❤

I remember seeing mine the first time. I am 92+ % Irish and 6%Scottish. No big surprise because we're soooo Irish from the time we immigrated in the 17 and 1800s. My Mom believed there was some native American but nope. Love your reactions!!!

Yes, but he FEELS 100% Italian. 😂

01:18 French Meditation begins

Wow your more British then me! And I was born in 🇬🇧

French German... Okie being Alsatian that's probably what I am too... We don't have those tests here in France and I'm too lazy to get one of those from where it is allowed 😂

Alessio reminds me of a Swiss German friend of mine a lot. just a fun observation.

That was fun, thanks.

In the Highlands, maybe you’ll find a village that only appears every 100 years (Brigadoon). 😮

“You are a British” 😂

This was very entertaining and from such a wonderful couple. I, Italo american and my German wife are waiting for our results. By the way, are Neanderthal genes included? Some europeans have up to 2%.

So neat!

A lot of southern people have Sub Saharan African blood and they used to say "Grandma was a Cherokee princess" to cover up African blood.

You can see in youtube: 1) ( The History of the Greeks) 2) (Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia) 3) (What the Calabrian Greek sounds like) 4) (Griko language) 5) (History of Sicily, ancient period) 6) (History Of Greek Colonies In Sicily) 7) (History of the Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire) 8) (Why Italy is north / south divided?) *** You can see in wikipedia if you whrite (Magna Graecia).

Prof. Dr. Stefanos Yerasimos "The Origin of the Turks and Troy part3 "As a result, Renaissance intellectuals trying to get rid of religious schemes did not only look at Turks in terms of Christianity and Islam. Going back to our example, "The Life of Muhammad", which forms the introduction to the first edition of Sansovino's Historia Universale, is omitted in the third edition, after being re-added in the fourth edition, it disappears in the next editions. Thus, instead of marginalizing the Turks within the framework of an insurmountable opposition, the way of examining them by introducing them into the historical and ideological patterns of the West was preferred. Therefore, the Roman model, which represents absolutism together with military and administrative power, was easily adapted to the Ottoman state. Geopolitics also played an important role in this, because the Ottoman was the product of the same geography, especially the East Roman Empire. However, by doing this, the West reaches the point of renouncing the Roman heritage, which it regards as the origin of its culture and history, especially in the Renaissance period, and risks losing this legacy to the most important adversary of the period, the Turks. In the Enlightenment period, starting from the second half of the 17th century, when the state and power model based on military and purely political power, whose most important representative was Machiavelli, gradually began to give place to the concepts of freedom and human rights, the concept expressing the Ottoman order was admired. He left the Roman "as a force, to the Eastern despotism, which would be presented as a counter-model by thinkers like Montesquieu." As can be seen, what has happened since that day is not that the "West" "recognizes" Turks or "fails to recognize them", but its interpretation according to the models it has produced. As for the Turks, before their time of Westernization, they could have remained unaware or at least indifferent to these debates and comments. However, since the process of Westernization starting from Tanzimat until today expresses the integration with the Western way of thinking in the final analysis, it also brings the necessity of adapting to the way the West perceives Turks. Prof. Dr. Stefanos Yerasimos Social History Journal, Issue 118, October 2003 Notes: 1 “Chronica per extensum descripta”, published by E. Pastorello Rerum italicarum scriptores, Bologna, 1932, c. XII. 2 Andanças e viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos, Madrid, 1874, p. 168. 3 History of Mehmed the Conqueror by Kritovoulos, trans. Charles T. Riggs, Princeton, 1934, p. 181-182. 4 The manuscript was purchased by the French ambassador Girardin in 1687 and is today in the French National Library; see. Julian Raby, "Mehmed the Conqueror's Greek Scriptorium", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 37/1983, p. 20-21. 5 La Cronica dell'anno 1400 all'anno 1500, Florence, 1984, p. 127-128. 6 Discorsi sulla prima Deca di Tito Livio, first edition 1531. The quote is from the French edition (La Pl’iade, 1974, p. 511). 7 Eugenio Alberi, Le relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senate durante il secolo decimosesto, III. serial, Florence, 1840, c. 1 se

DNA Results 84.7 Native American 13.4 percent Congo 1.37 British .104 Irish .426 Scottish Me and Jessi could be related. I did mine in 2015. Mine has changed. I used to be French and Spanish from Spain. I’m not anymore.

Super interesting! I really enjoy your content!

Remember there were two world wars, so it makes sense that French German was in your blood, lots of romance during those high times of stress, not knowing if tomorrow would come. Maybe try a different lab like 23 and Me, just to see if your genetics stay the same. Thanks for sharing.

12:33 if you try running through the Highlands you'll probably break an ankle in a dip ;-) and either freeze or get bitten by thousands of midges.

"Do you want kids?" Could be a hint to some other news in the near future. 😉

Northern Italians are Gauls and Germanic that settle in Italy from Tuscany to Lombardy Piedmont and Swiss Alps.

Maybe now it’s a perfect time to create a family tree👋👍🏻.

Good luck with British food😅

My ancestry has a very long lines in the UK and a line from the Middle East. When my aunts, dad, sister and daughter did the DNA thing it typically comes up with 60% Italian.

I have been thinking of doing a DNA 🧬 test, but not sure which company to go with. Which one do you recommend?

Mine is very similar to your Jessie. I’m mostly English, Irish, Scottish, Danish, French, Dutch, Swiss, and German.

Which company did you go with? I did mine through 23&me and it doesn’t seem accurate

When I first got my Ancestry DNA results back, it stated I was 18% Iberian Pennisula. This was a surprise to me as I had spent over a decade doing my ancestry history and know where each of my great-great grandparents were born and for several lines I can trace back to the 1700s, some as far back as 1400. So for my DNA to be from Spain or Portugal, I felt like one of my ancestors had to have cheated on a spouse or a child had been adopted. Due to the amount of time and money spent on my history, this was frustrating to me. So I had both of my parents take the test and somehow they BOTH also identified as having DNA from the Iberian Peninsula so I was not able to narrow down where I had gone wrong in my search. I did the update a year later and my DNA test no longer had Iberian Peninsula listed, nor did either of my parents 🤦‍♀️

I did Ancestry DNA last year but I didn’t realize it could change…did you have to pay again or does it just update on its own?

You only have to be from the rich and cool ones!!!🎉

Napoleon was Italian and a lot of France's early history was informed and influenced by Tuscans especially from Florence. You are Italian.

I mean...i might be wrong..but those tests have to be put in historical context, his 25% french-german is just the Celtic DNA that it is still very present in Friuli (apparently the Celts where there before the Romans), so you are basically 100% from Friuli...congrats.

It depends on what genes are strongest in your "gene pool" . You can have Italian grand parent, mother , but if there are other ethnicities mixed in via fathers ( or vice versa) gene pool, what shows up in ones d.n.a. is very individual and according to what made you , you ... doesn't mean one wouldnt have Italian heritage. Just, thats not what was strongest when you were formed.....

I ended up having about 2% Basque which is cool as heck. rest is Irish and british.

"Let's go to England and Ireland for the food"...said no foodie EVER. What will you eat there? Bangers and mash, canned baked beans on boring white toast, $hitload of fried fish and chips and in Ireland they serve 3 types of potatoes with your fried fish. When you give in and eat at a Chinese restaurant in Dublin, the server will ask, "Do you want chips or rice with your meal". Save the money and go back to Italy. Just talking from my own experience when I went there. Jessi still has the British/Irish palette with her Kraft Mac-n-Cheese. And THIS didn't give you a clue of your heritage? LOL LOL LOL. You 2 are so adorable and I love your videos. The ending of this one was PERFECTION!

It is very interesting to learn these things, but I wish people wouldn’t have their hearts set on, nor be disappointed by, their numbers. It’s history and can’t be changed. Having DNA purely from 1 country isn’t an achievement any more than having from many places isn’t a failure.

The same happened to me, he is from northern Italy and northern Italy was under the French, the Austrian- Hungarian empire, etc. As a matter of fact, the dialect of Italian regions like Emilia Romagna, just south of Veneto-F, are significantly influenced by French, as the French dwelled in that area as they were trying to get down and conquer Naples. In the latest iterations, the Italian is in front of the French in my case as well.

Alessio, you can use your 25% French (even if it isn't exactly), when correctly criticizing French food, that even that you are French you believe this. Makes you even more 'credible.'

Historically north Italy was settled by the Lombards which were from the areas later conquered by Charlemagne which was broadly the areas of France and Germany.

What’s wrong with being French? I am French and it is great!

I'm from Barcelona and I really don't get why there are so many Spaniards, Italians and Germans who mock or even hate France. The Napoleonic era is far gone and chauvinism is not only a french thing

only way to vary DNA between siblings is change the DNA donors.

Alessio's ancestors are very likely all Italians since the creation of the modern country of Italy, and probably all the way back to the late middle ages. The French in Alessio's results is a proxy for local North Italian ancestry not captured by the Italian category that 23andme created. Italy's genetic landscape is actually a long continuum stretching from fairly Northern Italians who aren't too distant genetically from Southern French and Iberians on one side all the way to Southern Italians which are not too divergent from Greek islanders. North Italians tend to have more Iron Italic ancestry than others, especially those in the Northwest. In Northeast Italy, there might be minor German and/or Slavic ancestry too.

Wasn't Napoleon of Italian descent? Those Romans, conquering the world man. ;)

Don' t forget, Kingdom of Naples was for some generations ruled by Normans ( frenchified Vikings) and for sixty years by german Hohenstaufen dynasty in middle age.