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@paulbislin8471 6 лет назад

Time to learn the Italian language! 😉

@lorenzomagnus2183 3 года назад

i know Im kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to watch new series online?

@ivankace3541 3 года назад

@Lorenzo Magnus Flixportal :)

@lorenzomagnus2183 3 года назад

@Ivan Kace thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it!!

@ivankace3541 3 года назад

@Lorenzo Magnus No problem =)

@MaxAmSax 6 лет назад

I'm a biomedical researcher and here are a couple of things I'd like to point out :) 1) These kind of tests compare all kinds of genetic markers, but not all of them actually contribute to how/who you are (as far as we know today). They can be extremely minor variations that almost certainly do not correlate with any certain physical look, let alone personality. So take everything with a grain of salt ;) 2) These markers are then compared to reference populations in certain geographical areas today. Those areas marked pink are regions where a high number of individuals carry a certain variation. In principle your family could live live in a completely different region and by chance carry the same specific marker. Or vice versa, carrying a marker that only a few people in Lebanon have but everyone in Iran doesn't make you Iranian. Or another example: The marked area covering France and Germany means that this certain marker is prevalent in those countries, it does not mean that you definitely had German ancestors. 3) The given percentages should be viewed like probabilities: The fact that the test says "30% Italian" doesn't mean that 30% of your genes stem from Italian ancestors. Firstly, MyHeritage doesn't test your entire genome but a certain (I assume small) fraction of it. The raw cost of sequencing an entire human genome is still several hundred dollars; believe me, they don't do that. Think more like: 30% of my markers are very similar to the markers of many Italians. 4) Don't underestimate the variance of these reference populations per country/area. The "most Italian person on the planet" might not carry the markers that made you "30% Italian". 5) Don't underestimate your own heterogeneity. You have 2 pairs of grandparents, 4 pairs of great-grandparents, 8 pairs of great-great-grandparents and 16 pairs of great-great-great-grandparents. All these great-great-great-grandparents (32 individuals!) statistically contribute equally to your own genetic markup. And they were born about 'only' 140 years ago (just my estimation), that's around 1870-1880. As an example, one of your ancestors in that generation was from Mars, born around 1880 with 100% Martian genes and came to earth. That would make you only 1/32 = ~3% Martian. Likewise, a great-great-great-grandfather who emigrated from Italy to Lebanon in 1900 would statistically only contribute 3% 'italianness'. 6) aaaand of course the obligatory nature vs nurture argument. Having certain genes doesn't necessarily reflect certain traites and behaviours blabla etc. Is it the genes that make you Italian or the culture? Different question, not my field... ;) I kind of hope you actually read this. I think it's important to get the right perspective with this kind of information about your family. :)

@AntoinetteEmily 6 лет назад

Thanks for the detailed explanation, it was very interesting/eye opening hearing your perspective.

@MaxAmSax 6 лет назад

Antoinette Emily aww thanks for the reply :) you're very welcome!

@indrinita 6 лет назад

Thank you so much for this informed comment! You basically broke down in a more detailed way what I said in my comment previously, based on years of studying human evolution. It makes me so sad to see genetic information from commercial tests like this totally taken out of context not only by youtubers, but by many of the commenters responding to such videos. Injecting some factual, critical and scientific analysis is so necessary. These tests are for fun only, not to be taken as some kind of gospel!

@MaxAmSax 6 лет назад

indrinita I agree! It also seems rather strenuous or even dangerous to mix genetics and ethnicity/nationality. Lot of bad stuff evolved from that in the past. Scientific perspective helps to defuse that bomb ;)

@michaelroberts1570 6 лет назад

If you are a biomedical researcher, why would you even utilize modern socially constructed political borders in your explanation?

@duftstabkerze4236 6 лет назад

I would have guessed you were Greek.

@HayleyAlexis 6 лет назад

I am posting mine tomorrow!!! YAY. This was so interesting

@AntoinetteEmily 6 лет назад

Hayley Alexis Just watched yours! Sooo fascinating ❤️

@derriegel5705 6 лет назад

You always have to look up the history of the region to make sense of your genetic results. My father is a doctor in eastern bavaria and he is specialized in transplanting organs so he knows a lot about the genetic heritage of his patients as he has to check for genetic compatibility. He told me that if he has patients from small mountain villages in the region south of vienna he would often get results showing their heritage somewhere in the near east. Why is that? He said the most likely answer is that when vienna was under siege by the turks in 1529 a lot of their soldiers just raped the women in the villages around and left behind a lot of children with genes from turkey. That's just one example of how tricky it is to find your "true" heritage.

@juliz2500 6 лет назад

Wow, that is fascinating.

@klauskleber5154 6 лет назад

Honestly? When i see your face i see a little bit Italian and a little bit West Asian. But it's a beautiful combination. ;)

@alessandrom7181 4 месяца назад

Huh?? She could easily pass for Brit as well. Beckam's wife or Cheryl Cole are far swarthier and less Euro looking than her.

@Cosmicfraud3209 Месяц назад

Well she's also part nw euro she's not full leb or as dark as her dad

@jeromemckenna7102 6 лет назад

Given the nature of the Ottoman empire, Greeks would have been living in what we call Turkey. In the 20th century Turkey and Greece exchanged populations. As far as Italian, I cannot speculate.

@ryanhugh25 6 лет назад

Jerome Mc Kenna take in to account labonese history. Where a portion has had Greek blood since Alexander the Great. It also next to the Mediterranean or the levant region of the Middle East which historical rich in influence from the Roman religion and ancient people groups

@erictrumpler9652 5 лет назад

Lenanon ist a tiny country which is a melting pot. Under the Ottoman Empire there was a lot of movement among middle eastern peoples. After WWI a lot of Iranians and Armenians ended up in Lebanon. It's also a Mediterranean place, and obviously all Mediterranean people all around that Sea have much DNA in common.

@alessandrom7181 4 месяца назад

Not even remotely. A North or a Central Italian has nothing in common with a Lebanese or a Cypriot, let alone North Africans.

@Cosmicfraud3209 Месяц назад

They do 😂 the north iberians have less in common ! I'm sorry but italians are mostly mediterranean

@stefanw7406 6 лет назад

There are a lot of people in england with german origin. If your mom is from england, there is a good chance that her parents or her grand parents are from germany. There is also german blood in the british royal family.

@petrameyer1121 6 лет назад

I am sorry the German genes come from the Saxons and the French ones mainly from the Normans. Scandinavian genes in the UK are mostly from the Vikings and Danes.

@WasGuckstDuSo65 5 лет назад

@@petrameyer1121 germanic ≠ german.

@petrameyer1121 5 лет назад

@@WasGuckstDuSo65 You are correct overall, but these test can distinguish the difference.

@Pommy1957 4 года назад

@@petrameyer1121 The Normans were Scandinavians.

@elissafanzo1124 4 года назад

Don't forget the Romans pushed Nothern Eurpoean tribes into the British Isles.

@mexicanbeautyqueen7988 6 лет назад

Same here I am Mexican but it turns out I have Lebanese blood and everyone always ask me if I was Lebanese.. I also have French, Iris, Greek, Iberian, ashkanazi Jewish, Moroccan, English and polish.. soooo confused 🤷‍♀️ I always thought I was Mexican from Guadalajara... I always dated middle eastern men and was always drawn by the culture now I see why

@AtheneA5123 6 лет назад

I knew you were part GREEK!!!!! I’m also Italian how lovely!!!!!!! Who doesn’t want be Italian and Greek and Arab?!?!? I knew you had Greek in you Amelia is GREEK! Love it! Bless

@AtheneA5123 6 лет назад

Antoinette look into the history! I’m Greek but from Asia Minor which is now Turkey.. I too have the same Iran Azerbaijan too Syria we moved around a lot! I can explain but it would take a long time! X

@congolaise6046 6 лет назад

Im also italian Greek and Arab 😍🙏🏽

@steveboy7302 6 лет назад

I dont want any of those im content with my own ethnicity

@wonderlandian8465 5 лет назад

@@steveboy7302 Everyone should be 100% content with their own ethnicity, that's who you are and that's beautiful

@harrok38 4 года назад

Yes, I also saw that coming.

@T0000000000001 6 лет назад

Lebanon was once in the Roman Empire and many Greeks have been trading all over the Mediterranean for millennia, so the migrations could be from a long time ago. Having said that, given the high percentages it may be recent and thus worth investigating in case there are any citizenships by decent.

@exgratia2enigmatic 6 лет назад

Everyone, please do not overestimate DNA tests. “Ethnicity “ is largely a relatively new social construct. There is no such thing as a 100% German (or Italian or whatever) because people have been moving, wandering and travelling for MILLENNIA when most countries did not even exist in their current form (especially in ALL of Europe and Middle East). EVERYONE is a mix of (almost) everywhere when it comes to genes. There is no such thing as Italian or Greek genes. And: Genes don’t make you like or dislike names or cultures. PS: was your dad an orthodox Christian? That could largely explain the Greek/Italian heritage.

@swillou2 6 лет назад

exgratia2enigmatic this comment is like the bloody gender debate!

@exgratia2enigmatic 6 лет назад

How so? I am pretty sure I can show you someone who is 100% male or female - but I am also sure that there is nobody whose dna results will be 100% Italian (or whatever). Unless you can show me one?

@thelilredhead7005 6 лет назад

exgratia2enigmatic I think when it says 100 percent it means that it was many many many generations back that someone was African or something. 23andme says that I am 100 percent European. Meaning that my ancestors had been fucking Europeans for so long that there is very little any other DNA in me lol

@indrinita 6 лет назад

As someone with a degree in physical and evolutionary anthropology (with plenty of archaeology courses taken as well), I cannot like this comment enough. Too many people seem to have no clue what ethnicity means in the first place and the fact that even the idea of "race" is an entirely socially constructed concept, mainly in order to justify subjugating groups of people throughout history. Human variation is indeed a very interesting thing, however there can actually be more differences within so-called "races" than there are between them. A lot of people also don't realize that the highest concentration of human genetic diversity is found in the African continent - even today - and the genetic variation of all the waves of humans who migrated out of Africa is much lower than what exists just in the African continent today. This is true for all species in terms of comparing their (much higher) genetic diversity in their place of origins vs. where that species migrated to. What this means for humans is that all of us who have closer genetic links to populations who migrated out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago have more in common genetically with each other than modern Africans have with each other. I.e. most of the population of the world outside of Africa is much more closely related to each other than Africans are to each other! On another note, I've noticed there seems to be a trend among many youtubers to get these DNA tests done, and then talk about the results publicly. I can't help but wonder - aren't these people worried about privacy issues and such? These huge companies do not guarantee that your genetic information (however accurate or not they may be) will be safeguarded in a reliable way, and plus people are willingly uploading their personal information onto the internet. In our current dangerous times of fascism seeming to surge in many western countries, I'd be so concerned about this information being unwittingly used against people. Plus, it doesn't matter at all in a way "where we come from" - as we are all one human species and that species has its origins in the African continent. If we all go back far enough, that's what we'd find. Ethnic origins don't at all determine things like preference for names or food - your environment does. That's not a bad thing by the way, and that's what has helped a migrating species like humans to survive in a variety of environments at various points in our evolutionary history. No one is "genetically" linked necessarily to just one place. There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding among the general public about what your genetics can or can't tell you, and these kinds of companies don't even touch on epigenetics - i.e. your gene expression changing during your lifetime due to the environmental context. I wouldn't put so much stock into such tests - they are like a cartoon drawing of your actual genetic information - they can provide a sketch, but they can't get too detailed about how your genetic links determine who you are today. I'd be much more prone to losing sleep over such unreliable results being easily available to the wrong people with the wrong intentions, rather than the results themselves.

@fpwu 6 лет назад

indrinita: I agree with most of your points. But I'm struggling with "It doesn't matter at all in a way "where we come from" - as we are all one human species and that species has its origins in the African continent". The latter part of the statement is true, but it still DOES matter, where you come from, it DOES make a difference: Eastern European Jewish origin means a high risk of carrying certain genetic diseases, Sub-Saharan African origin means a high risk of carrying sickel-cell anaemia, Northern Europeans easily deal with milk as opposed to Southern Europeans, many Eastern Asians cannot fully metabolize alcohol.... and on and on. I think, it is important to know "where you come from", at least to be aware of genetic risks. And: We ARE different. It is important not to devalue certain genetic features and to forget about the influence of the environment. But it is equally important not to ignore the differences between us. Let's rather celebrate them...

@Alias_Anybody 6 лет назад

@Antoinette Emily The thing is, these tests can't really replace proper research. They determine your ethnicity by matching genetic variations with samples of different populations, but if the sample size was too small (some very isolated regions), certain variations are very widespread (former Empires or traderoutes) or two populations are too similar (splits/colonisation) they can often be very misleading. Some examples: Some tests tend to mix up (Northern) Germans with English (-> Anglosaxon invasion), Albanians with Greeks or East Asians with Amerindians, but I'd argue they most frequently fail in the middle East and around the mediterrenean sea. I'm Austrian and we have common variations from Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe. But that usually doesn't indicate some wacky recent family history, people and their variations have sometimes been around for up to 1400 years! So your Italian percentage can indicate Italian ancestry from the early 20th century - but as well be something going as far back as Roman times. It's only really reliable with close relatives.

@hermannschaefer4777 6 лет назад

Nice mixture.. ^^ But well, Libanon/Levant/Ottoman Empire was a melting pot for hundreds of years, so no suprise. Also, western Europe is the next big melting pot, so .. ^_^

@elissafanzo1124 4 года назад

The Roman Empire also had a far reach.

@bescriva1 4 года назад

@@elissafanzo1124 Ottoman empire existed until XX century, so probably it had more influence.

@KaisaKylakoski 6 лет назад

The results are comparisons to current populations. So those countries have your distant relatives. Not necessarily that your ancestors lived there. As you know people move around. We all came from Africa...

@steveboy7302 5 лет назад

no we dont all come from africa

@thorstenbrandt6256 6 лет назад

I don't think that someone immigrated to lebanon, or at least immigrated is the wrong term here. The mediterranen area, and especially the eastern part is a melting pot and was so even before the roman empire. Thinking back to the times of old egypt. So it's quite normal that someone from the lebanon has ancestry from all over the place. And don't get me started about central europe. I don't know If there is a name for it in english, but the german word Völkerwanderung has the migration of whole"nationalen" in it

@lindacosta3381 5 лет назад

I thought you looked Italian- LOL:)

@Belgarion2601 6 лет назад

If Lebanon is in some way included in the circle, it's probably Lebanese DNA. The difference isn't great enough to say for sure which exact country, especially because countries are a made up concept that DNA doesn't follow by. But the theory that some part of your ancestors originated in a different Middle Eastern country seems very likely. Just like another part (note that it can't be that long ago if you still have 30%!) were immigrants from Italy.

@bartolo498 6 лет назад

The "West Asian" and "Middle East" is the Lebanese Ancestry, or at least part of it, it is just awkwardly marked. The Greek would also come from that "route" and even the italian could have come there via the Venetians in the middle ages or some trader/sailor later on. What was your dad's family's religion?

@rekordia4885 5 лет назад

Nowadays Lebanon was a point of interest for merchants and conquerors from all over europe since pre-Roman times - and you are the result :) Thats pretty cool I guess and shows how narrow-mindet nationalism is.

@pharostower 6 лет назад

When you repeated that you were so shocked by the results, it had me think for a second that they found out your dna was of extraterrestrial origin :-D

@AntoinetteEmily 6 лет назад

😂

@Serjohn Год назад

italian, greek, west asia is textbook ottoman empire blend, it could be possibly 100% lebanese and thats just the mix lebanese people are. if you were really from italy, you should have had some african % as well, based on history. For example if you are chinese without mongolian, it usually means you are korean.

@Ophomox 6 лет назад

I have to write something about it in German, because I can't write it in English properly (school is long time ago and I needn'd English for most of my job): Antoinette, Du hast eine falsche Vorstellung von Nationalität: Einerseits waren die Menschen auch früher viel mobiler als man heute denkt und zum anderen haben wir ja bis zum 2. Weltkrieg ein munteres Grenzen verrücken. Zur Libanon DNA: Vor gut 100 Jahren war der Libanon noch Teil des Osmanischen Reiches. Vor 200 Jahren war auch Griechenland Teil des Osmanischen Reiches. Zu einer Art ethnischen Säuberung kam es in der Türkei erst nach dem 1. Weltkrieg. Der Libanon war traditionell ein Gegend mit viel Handel, daher passt es, dass es dort zu einer breiten Vermischung der DNA gekommen ist, denn mit italienischer und griechischer DNA hast Du wiederum zwei Völker mit viel Seehandel. Sozusagen findest Du in einer Durchgangsregion eine breite Mischung. Zur Britischen DNA: Vergiss bitte nicht, dass bis zum 1. Weltkrieg viele deutsche Gastarbeiter in Groß-Britannien gegeben hat. Damals gab es in der englischen Bevölkerung regelrechte Überfremdungsängste. Vielleicht war die Lage dort damals mit der Frage der polnischen Gastarbeiter in Groß-Britannien vor er Brexit-Abstimmung vergleichbar. Ebenso dürfte es in den Küstenregionen zu einem lebhaften Kontakt mit ausländischen Seeleuten gekommen sein.

@indrinita 6 лет назад

This is one of the few intelligent comments among the sea of completely ignorant comments I see in this comment section - thank you!

@user-dl7ck4vw5t 4 года назад

@@indrinita Can you tell this because you speak german? We mostly understand nothing about this comment. He could even use Google translate in order to comunicate something . Today almost everybody can speak a Little of english, or maybe he Is still a kid...

@hejo721 4 года назад

@@user-dl7ck4vw5t Why does everybody needs to talk in english? It is easier for me, talk my own language. I also do often. The comment is to Antoinette. She understands it.

@omarzeitouni2109 5 лет назад

The Italian and Greek is from your Lebanese father. The Lebanese are of European and Arab descent.

@muhammadshehreyarkhan1851 4 года назад

Exactly ! This is evident from the sharp division of segregation of Christian dominions of Lebanon sharply divide on ethnic lines such as Manorites, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Armenian Apostolic etc.

@archonpanagiotis6158 3 года назад

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?) 9) [Athos the Holy Mountain (Greece) - CBS Documentary]

@jaquayparker6160 6 лет назад

You are lebanesse. a lot of west asians have some greek and middle eastern and italian in them. They have a mixture going on over there.

@paulshealthfitness7922 3 года назад

I don’t think you know much about Lebanese history. We are an ancient multiethnic society. Your dad probably belonged to a Greek speaking church formed during the Roman Empire. The Italian is probably the Greek Italians that lived there (southern Italians, + Sicily) Lebanon spoke Greek before Arabic and Greeks and Phoenician (the native Lebanese people) were very intermixed. Lebanese is actually a made up country/ethnic group as it was always part of an empire

@truthseekerv1318 6 лет назад

I have the opposite. I'm Italian but always mistaken for Arabic and spoken Arabic to. Yes, it is saying you are Lebanese. They are just showing areas where the DNA is most prominent but when you already know your heritage is from Lebanon, then you can make sense of the areas on the map.

@zackgravity7284 5 месяцев назад

Middle eastern dna is pretty similar despite the borders, the have been united as one nation/empire multiples times in history

@specialparadise 6 лет назад

A lot of Lebanese people are Greek. Greek DNA can be found in modern Greece, Turkey and Middle east as well as Italy and the Balkans. Your results should not be surprising to you at all.

@samarelneser4602 6 лет назад

what a surprise i had no idea you were half lebanese, i'm also lebanese :)

@ajrwilde14 5 лет назад

She's not half Lebanese didn't you watch the whole video.

@temperateortropical161 5 лет назад

Syrian or Turkish & "west Asian" which could be Iranian? Greek & Italian. "Spanish" can mean Andalusian Moor, esp. if that line ended up in England where they'd've simply been perceived as foreign.

@cholponkudus8719 2 года назад

It was no turkey before, Constantinople was there. Capital of Byzantine empire

@PiccoloMichelaChannel 6 лет назад

Many Italians worked and lived in Lebanon. Welcome in the Italian family :) and it is AMAZING you gave italian names to your kids

@jorgschimmer8213 6 лет назад

Funny. I am German, because of ww2. I am 100% sure that i am NOT 100% German. 😉

@deonator7 6 лет назад

You are 100% New Zealander ;)

@dalienadal6177 6 лет назад

I find it crazy that you like Italian names and look Italian and then finding out your actually Italian ! It’s shows that everyone’s past is written on our faces 😊😊😘😘

@philomenak.8949 6 лет назад

I have a family tree from my Mom's side which reaches back to 1626. On this side of the family I'm 100% German but my father's side is kinda complicated. I want to find out more about this side of the family :)

@xoxo7630 6 лет назад

middle eastern people are mixed with various ethnicities, including the ones that showed up for you. and they're not saying that you are from all those countries, they just don't have the ability to tell the difference between them. your dad is lebanese, they're not saying he's not.

@markoe1652 6 лет назад

Lebanon and the Levant as such, especially for Christian Arabs in the area, often can trace European ancestry from crusaders.

@cesarpisa6964 6 лет назад

Brava! Welcome to club Italia!

@AntoinetteEmily 6 лет назад

Grazie mille!

@cesarpisa6964 6 лет назад

Antoinette Emily prego!

@mandarinenzeittv860 6 лет назад

Oooh this is so fascinating! I've wanted to do the 23andMe test for the looongest time, mostly to see the health analysis part but it's not available in NZ as of yet (I don't have high hopes for the ancestry analysis because they don't have very big sample sizes for Asian, which makes the numbers pretty inaccurate). Hmmm I have a friend who's also constantly being asked if he's Italian... Now I'm wondering if he should do this test too! I loved hearing about the family connections you discovered, and seeing your enthusiasm! I mean, what a wonderful way for modern technology to bring us closer in this day and age ❤🌏

@vrp406 6 лет назад

For your health analysis try, if you've had a DNA test done, www.promethease.com/ It's about $10 US

@GGAAGGAA2006 4 года назад

For an italian you speak a very good English! :)

@EatPrayCrunch1 6 лет назад

Super interesting! Makes me want to do this too!

@ajrwilde14 5 лет назад

People will see different things in you compared to what they find familiar. Italian people think you're Italian. I'm from West Britain and think you look Scots-Irish personally.

@crystalcastlesgf 5 лет назад

My dad is german, my mum is irish, I speak german and people often question why I speak german and not irish, I'm using an English to german translated right now because I actually have no idea from english :) Irish is a dead language and no one knows that, it's not spoken by ireland anymore, and if it would be it would be spoken by donegal, as my mum was from donegal, she spent her years trying to teach me irish because she wanted me to be one of the irish speakers, but meanwhile, I only spoke german, and my mum started getting worried, I'm under pressure trying to learn English before any language ahead, I would be so happy if someone told me they had the same problem so we could work it out :) if you read to here, thank you!

@xoDaRyLlLeEox 6 лет назад

I know that just by looking at someone you can’t tell where you from because people always tell me I look South American when in reality in South African. But you can pass for an Italian, Greek and Lebanese all at once. To me you look like all three of them 🤣

@m.breiti3691 6 лет назад

The funny part is that I had thought you were an Italian first when I saw a thumbnail of yours, ofcourse your accent threw me off bigtime.

@truthseekerv1318 6 лет назад

Ok..to help you out. Italian.....Greek....and Middle Eastern share common DNA back from the times when the Greek Empire stretched across the Middle East with Alexander the Great. Then, the Roman Empire over took the Greeks and they controlled the Middle East. Plus, Middle Eastern people (The Phoenecians and Etruscans) were some of the earliest settlers all over Italy and Greece before those dominant Empires came into being. So, for thousands of years, peoples from Greece, Italy and the Levant have been intermingling and intermixing. Remember, back then, the countries of "Greece", "Lebanon" and "Italy" did not exist. These countries were named in the 19th century or later. So, it's no surprise that "Greek" and "Italy" show up in your fathers DNA. You have ancestors from those areas from thousands of years ago. Just like in my Italian DNA, Middle East and West Asia show up for me. So, yes, you are Lebanese culturally but genetics wise you are a human with ancestors from various parts of the world. There is no Lebanese, Greek or Italian DNA. Those are cultures, not races.

@tiluriso 5 лет назад

Even before that, because the Early European Farmers who brought Neolithic technology to Europe were of Middle Eastern/Levantine/West Asian/Anatolian origin and the very first part of Europe they reached was modern day Crete and mainland Greece, around ,7000 BCE.

@user-dl7ck4vw5t 4 года назад

Yes because we are a race of Blacks like the Arabs surely....what we do in Europe... You should look for the Truth Better, we can be a Little close to the semite but we aren't them. In England ,Ireland and Netherlands people are connected with the Amazigh of northern Africa, but nooo nobody Tells that. They should start looking theirselves in the mirror.

@MsCathy42 5 лет назад

Antoinette you do look Italian. I look very German. I also got on a plane one time and the lady say if I went to Germany people would speak German to me. My fathers family is from the area you live in.

@bejeezus3818 6 лет назад

Thanks for sharing! Your results were great. My family is from El Salvador and it has alot of influence from Lebanon. I've also noticed that alot of Latin American countries has political figures with Lebanese background and are some of the wealthiest families. I myself have DNA from West Asia (Middle East). And I do have that stereotypical Middle Eastern look, my profile pic proves it, lol. I look very similar to your dad 😀

@marmary5555 3 года назад

There's no such thing as typical "middle.eastern look". There's only stereotypes typically spread by Hollywood

@maddatheist7254 2 года назад

Well am not sure about your profile pic 😂

@brip799 2 года назад

Nice! I’ve always wanted to do this because people also question if I’m other things(also Italian) some ask if I’m some Hispanic but I don’t trust the tests lol and when I did my family tree, it shows a lot of Scottish, German and Irish .. which is just what I was told lol I love watching these videos though because they’re so interesting to see how diverse people are in their ethnicities and yet they don’t always have “the look” you expect of those ethnicities. We’re all just people and mutts at the end of the day 😊❤️

@wmf831 6 лет назад

I doubt anyone is 100% of something.

@janethockey9070 5 лет назад

Europeans started out in Asia

@mompofelski4191 6 лет назад

This test just indicates traits from those areas that were passed genetically to you. This does not indicate your entire family tree. ((my brother & I who look a lot alike - same parents - resembling father - both took DNA test from Ancestry. He had Ashkenazi Jew - I did not, He had East Asian - I did not, he had Finland/NW Russia - I did not; I had Caucasus - he did not. Small percentages, but still. Same family tree - different results. What does that mean? Just a tumble of the dice in what we inherit from our parents. )) HAVE YOUR MOTHER DO THE DNA TEST. IT WILL INDICATE WHERE YOU GOT YOUR SURPRISING DNA - then get a pedigree chart and fill it in as far as you know with mom, grandparents, aunts & uncles. The fun and really interesting thing is researching your family tree - names, places, dates - you might discover photos, diaries, stories, etc. No fooling - the best part is when you start the search - solving the mystery. THE GAME IS ON!!!!

@ember1794 4 года назад

This is so interesting! You inspired me to do the test, as well - I expected it to be the most boring outcome, like mostly German and a tint of East European, because my father was born in what is today Poland (it was Germany, back then) - This may not be as exiting as your DNA-Results, but I was still blown away: 51,4% East European, 26,9% Scandinavian, 12,5% English, 7,6% Baltic and 1,6% Balkan - no "German", or rather North and West Europe - Well, the Scandinavian part makes sense, in a way, because I'm from Northern Germany, and e.g. my mother's Grandfather was born in Tondern, which is Denmark now (but was Germany, then), but I still didn't expect this - I am happy about the English part, also, but have no clue, as yet, how it got in ;) :) I had always thought I tended more towards my mother's side of the family - but now I guess it's time to learn Polish :O

@nickdentoom1173 Год назад

Your English heritage probably comes from the Scandinavian side (Vikings).

@dboy-uo1xp Год назад

@@nickdentoom1173 It comes from the Saxons who went to Britain from northern Germany

@xray114 6 лет назад

I did an Ancestry.com test last year. 63% Irish Scottish 15% Western European 15% Quebec area. Found 2 half brothers that were adopted that I didn't know about and a family tree that streches back to the early 1400s. I'm American and my ancestors include the original settlers that came from England on the Mayflower and ancestors that fought in the American revolution. I tried tracing my family tree and there were so many branches that it was getting overwhelming. The best part of doing this is I got to meet one of my brothers and his family. My mother denied that she had placed any children for adoption, but my brothers birth certificate doesn't like with her maiden name on it from the area where she was raised. I have one cousin that tried to finish the family tree. So far he has found over 12,000 members. Try tracing your tree and see if you have any surprises. I don't know if you can do it with company you used. Interesting vlog.

@edstar83 3 месяца назад

The Italian and Greek could be from Antiquity. Rome and Alexander the Great.

@joannathesinger770 Месяц назад

Don't hold too much stock in My Heritage. They are the least accurate.

@renatewest6366 9 месяцев назад

I was shocked to a certain degree when I received my results.Mum is Irish.I was 49% Irish on Mum's side with 1% Danish( knew about Viking heritage.No surprise there.Dad was GermN.His father's family go back 100s of years to 16th C His Mum half German and half Polish.I believe from Poznamn( Posen).Descendants from aristocracy. What shocked me( know about border changes) but was blown away with ony 6% German and 30% Polish.Also Norwegian and Baltic states. .

@Estrella21 6 лет назад

This is the first video of yours that I have ever seen. Right from the beginning i tried to guess your ethnicity just based on your looks and I guessed Greek and Irish...lol Glad to see I was partially correct!

@zackgravity7284 5 месяцев назад

Southern italians commonly have greek dna, lots of greeks have historically inhabited the area since ancient times

@jamesbowman7963 7 месяцев назад

I would look many people on your dads side to verify that is the origin of your obvious Italian ancestry... You are right to look at that as a clue but one sample could just be an anomaly although I suspect you hunch might be correct. If your mom is alive get her tested by the same company and do a chromosome comparison or a cousin aunt or uncle on your dad's side and do the same. As to the overlap ranges yes probably Lebanese still makes sense. If you have a male paternal relative that has done a Y chromosome test and they know their Y haplotype that could be a big clue. If they come back as R1b then probably an Italian deep paternal line... If Elb1b then probably deep Lebanese, and if If J1 or J2 then Syrian, Jewish or deeper Middle Eastern. Not sure you even have access but this would make your conclusions far more sure. I'm of known Italian ancestry from my Grandfather and I only show up as 14% Italian on My Heritage.

@samstruyven8523 6 лет назад

There was a distinct colonial dynamic in 19th century Europe to the extent that there were actual incentives for European couples and families to move abroad. I can't speak for Lebanon specifically, but I have been researching ancestry of one of my grandmothers who was from Algeria. It's painstaking work because there are no proper indexes, so I go through birth declarations one by one and I'm astonished at the number of Italians and Greeks living in Algiers at the end of the 19th century, while it was a French colony. Also what is now know as Lebanon has long been part of the huge Ottoman empire which was very mixed ethnically to begin with and was built upon the last foundations of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire. Up until right after World War 1, there was still a huge Greek population in West-Asia.

@ashtesera6949 Год назад

Lebonon are not Arabs or middle Eastern Arabs are only Saudi,Emerates and Oman and Yemeni. Lebonon are mixed with Europian.

@Den99338 Год назад

I am a little late commenting on your video but I have a similar Myheritage experience. See, my mum is from Spain and my Dad is Eastern Anatolian, I had both my parents and myself tested. My parents are actually mostly accurate, Mum 80% Iberian and Dad nearly 100% West Asian however on my result I received an intriguing 25% Greek/Italian which none of my parents had. Now, this is because the Myheritage Algorithm does not always do a good job differentiating the results in "mixed children". Likely, your dad was well and truly from the Levant and if he had tested it would show accordingly with maybe a little Italian. Do you have a lot of DNA matches with Italian names? If not, then this is likely why.

@markushanshesse188 6 лет назад

LOL, the DNA Neanderthal code is most common in Tuscany, Salve Romanum :-)

@nickdentoom1173 Год назад

Maybe your heritage goes as far back as the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire (Which was also called the Eastern Roman Empire). That explains your Italian and Greek for Europe and West Indian and Middle Eastern heritage. That means your first ancestors move from Italiy to Greece and then farther east.

@marmary5555 3 года назад

Actually Iran is Western Asia and not Middle East in all DNA testing kits. So that map was misleading. So when you get Iran under "Middle East" that's probably a bug or an error.

@israelladhams 6 лет назад

Yes that means they are all these places. Yes you're right your father is probably the the Italian and the Greek and all all these places also the Middle East to. Because these nations are the mixed people😊

@tarraa541 3 года назад

The funny thing is, I always felt the same like you about Italy and Italian, and everyone always asked me whether I'm Italian - even Italians in Italy wouldn't believe me if I said no. I am not sure how accurate these tests are, I must say it did show my Persian heritage very clearly and it also showed that my cousin is my cousin, which means parts of it must work quite well.

@bhka6423 3 года назад

If you take a tests and it shows Iranian, it doesn't mean that you are Persian.

@peterblahut5106 5 лет назад

You are Jewish. Look back into the 1500-1600AD izerbigan (part of Spain) 75% of Spain they are Jewish. Over on you’re Mediterranean side, look. Back in the time of King David and King Solomon they owned a HUGE part of the Mediterranean there.

@ahmadfarhat4149 2 года назад

Yes you are similar to libanese girls. West Asian and middle est are relatives from the same haplogroup J. WEST Asian j2 Middle East J1

@doga9670 2 года назад

Your ancestors may came from Turkey to Lebanon during the Ottoman Empire.

@JEREMY99218 3 года назад

The borders in the Middle East didn't exist 120+ years ago. There is no strictly Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, etc. ethnicity.

@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands 2 года назад

Those countries were all in the Turkish Empire for centuries... The whole middle east..

@WILTALK Год назад

Modern borders and countries did not necessarily exist in times past. It is not a surpise that Italy shows up because of the expanse of the Roman Empire all over the middle east. What these centers represent is the people who inhabited that general region. A study of history will show that there have been vast migrations of people over large expanses. For example the German language is catagorized as Indo Europian because the people that inhabited Germany came from that region at some time in history. Basically each person is who they are at this time. Having DNA origins does not make you any different. Basically if you go back far enough in time no one really knows where people originated. They have found graves of blond people on the coast of South America.

@eyhmus5018 3 года назад

Most people in Anatolia have some level of Italian and Greek roots. The fascinating thing about the Turkish people who occupied Anatolia after the 11th century was that they dominated the existing culture even though they were nomads. Usually the opposite occurs, for example Mongols occupied many places but you can't find anyone speaking Mongol language there. Your father is probably a Mhallami, i.e. his ancestors probably migrated from Mardin/Turkey to Lebanon. People in Mardin area may easily be confused as European. My sis for example, many people confuse her as a tourist in touristic destinations, or think that she has Albanian roots due to her looks.

@jwilleseries7764 4 года назад

The Greek part is most likley coming from the Antiochans who inhabits the Syria and Turkey so they most likley moved to Lebanon because of the higher proportion of Christians in Lebanon at the time and integrated with the cultural region there

@Astrostone666 4 года назад

You know that these tests only root your heritage to only one person back in the days? But for real you have 10000 of grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandparents if you get what I mean. it's not a very exact test. You have two parents of which either of them has again two parents, makes 4. These 4 have also 2 parents each, makes 8. And so on, exponentially. I don't want to say it's all wrong. But You can't make any conclusions out of such test, sadly :/ :( Don't overvalue your Testvalues and I'd say it's nearly impossible to regenerate whether they emigrated from italy to lebanon o lebanese slaves where brought to the roman empire back in the days miixing up with the italian/romans, aftwerward the split of the roman empire they moved back to lebanon who knows... but that's only a tiny part of your family, over the decades you had thousands of ancestors. You just can't say you are this or this ethnicitiy today, because we all aren't homogenic anymore. Unlike the icelandic people which is pretty homogenic until today :) The human genome was sequenzed in 2001 I guess, but still.. you can't make anything out of that. :)

@mariner3304 4 года назад

Just look at the movements of people during known history, which is reaching about 3500 years back. So Lebanon once was a egyptian colony, the Greeks invaded western Asia all the way to India, the mongols from eastern Asia invaded eastern Europe, all western Europe was part of the Roman empire, the Vikings traded slaves from one end of the known world to the other, the spanish armada lost many ships (and men) in Scotland and many, many more. All of them dropped some DNA here and there. Finally we are all from Africa!

@user-97n0xg.d6gfh 2 года назад

There had always been trade and settlements between Phoenicia, Greece, Sicily, Iberia.

@gazthejaz8910 3 года назад

I’m surprised you don’t have any Maori in you since there was some mixing between the European settlers!

@dadbidad1322 Год назад

They did not immigrate from Italy to Lebanon, they went there as crusaders and probably married a local.

@frtjf 6 лет назад

I've always thought I'm 100% German, maybe some part Scandinavian until I took the same DNA test. Turns out I'm exactly 0% German, about 50% Scandinavian, 30% Eastern European and some English and French.

@WasGuckstDuSo65 5 лет назад

du bist 100% deutsch

@jahabich559 5 лет назад

The Lebanon isn't an old country. It was the mediterranean part of Syria and therefor a melting pot of European and oriental culture. And so was your father, half European and half oriental.

@michaelgrabner8977 6 лет назад

Well this genetic footprints so to say are not about just your grandparents or the grandparent´s grandparents -- it´s really about "the whole thing" - going back thousends and thousends and thousends of years back in history. So I would go much further back than you already did.. And when you look at the places - That was the ancient roman Empire (= profound explaination for your italian markers) - where a huge population-transfer took place...and after the western part of the roman empire collapsed (early 4th century) the eastern part (which includes the whole so called "little Asia" including today´s Libanon as well) which was in fact dominated by the greek culture before the romans came and also after they went still existed and became "Byzanz". And the greek influence lasted till the so called "early modern period"(1450-1850) till the Ottomans took over these places so there you have a profound explaination for your greek and west asian markers as well. And I´m pretty sure that many Libanesian would have italian and greek markers and the west asian markers as well simply because of the ancient history and the population transfers which took place over there for thousands of years....so there is no reason to panic or for being confused...it´s just history Also the "english-markers" are very interesting because they are a mixture of scandinavians(vikings)in the north of England and saxons and anglians in the south and south-east of England and not celtic blood at all which you´ll found in Ireland Wales and Scottland like yours(although in the scottish south which were the former kingdom Strathclyde and former Bernicia and former northern Northumbria you´ ll also find saxon and vikings blood as well) ...that´s also just history....

@ilqar887 4 года назад

you look lebanese too ..mediterrian..u can pass for jew for sure or southitalian

@ismaelalamri9796 3 года назад

Well, notice the genetic dna refers not to countries but to race and nations The percentage 6.1 of middle eastern it shows arabian ancestry and the west asian gets mainly three major races persian aramaic turck ect So by guessing , could you have aramiac race from west asian which is semetic race and might labeled Mesopotamian or assyrian as well refers to be semetic heritage and may refers to be arab specfically with 6.1 arab You finally are formed lebanese heritge exactly who have mainly mostly aramiac , arab and some greek in their bloods You can check lebanese heritage dna Excatly same of half of you

@xXxHeliixXx 6 лет назад

You should check out this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u8lMfGqSrwg.html on how different companies interpret the same results differently (and apparently you can upload the result to different websites) and what the problem with determining exact locations is. For example your ancestors left their countries some years ago but these companies can usually only look at what the dna of people living there right now is ;)

@Kueytwo 4 года назад

People travel and mix. A cat has kittens next to an oven. It would not make them loaves of bread.😊

@angiecats5298 2 года назад

I’m from New Zealand as well and am waiting on my results but I am pretty confident that my results will be Scottish (50%+) Irish (30%+) England (15%-) and then small amounts of Norwegian and/or Scandinavian. That’s my educated guess.

@hailandplaice 6 лет назад

There were lots of Italians that came to work in the big cities of the Ottoman Empire as builders and craftsmen from the 19th century onwards, but also merchants and other traders going back much further. Perhaps one of them married a Greek Christian girl, and then their offspring married into your Lebanese ancestral family!

@laghman9086 5 лет назад

Dee in ay Tist....😂😂😂😂👍 love the accent...

@beverlyanne5192 4 года назад

I thought these testsare only on tbe maternal lines so these resultshave nothing to do with your father. Am l correct in thinking this ?

@jjauger96 6 лет назад

I knew simply by your looks that you had Italien in you. 😄

@craftuar2439 6 лет назад

My thirst idea than i see you was "possible some greek inside" ;) And its fascinating. You dad look a little bit like Paul Michael Glaser from old "stusky and hutch" series.

@peterkonaar3724 6 лет назад

STUSKY

@alinemalheirocanallegal2270 4 года назад

I already have a Dna test too. Let's see in my Channel on RU-vid

@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands 2 года назад

So You're more Dutch than that you are English :)

@aysenurdemirkiran9237 5 лет назад

I have just seen your video. Those region consists of green, orange and right down grey countries belong to the Ottoman Empire. Those places are so dense. I am from turkey and we all know that none of Turkish people has absolute Turkish blood, since so many people who have different ethnicity lived together in the Ottoman Empire term and there was no certain border between those region. I just wanted to share my opinion. It is a cool stuff to share thank you for this video.