Twins get 'mystifying' DNA ancestry test results (Marketplace) 

lol...I can relate. I sooooo wanted to be adopted. Now, I have to accept how much of my parents that I truly am, from both nurture AND nature...all the way from misplacing keys to storing tissues under my left bra strap. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Lol

This was an initiation into true bonding. you are truly blessed.

Hahahahaha

I don't get why.....

Your comment is my favorite!!

Oonga boonga?

@Shayne Punim Grooming a mate to swing from a tree - thats the difference.

Neanderthals didn't grunt more than our Homo sapiens ancestries.

Got the joke; chuckled. 🙂 Still, for anyone interested...in the tone of an old Geico theme ("...even a caveman..."), we're not so sure they were that dumb. New research suggests Neanderthals died out due to interbreeding pressure, not for lack of intelligence. If they'd survived they might have done better than we've done.

that's what confused me. at one point i did one through a mostly uk company and so they had very few germans in the database i guess, so on that one my entire german side was left out and referred to as Southern England. I'm still a little confused but that's when I figured out it's about matching your profile against those already living in a certain area. if those in that certain area don't have any of a certain part of your dna it just goes as undefined or they put it under something else as a best guess? i have english/irish/scottish/welsh and also german

another issue that's not addressed is that nationality is NOT encoded into your DNA. just because your family's been living in Sicily since your great, great, great, great grandpa, it doesn't necessarily mean your DNA is similar to a typical "Italian". Sicily, for example, has had Greeks, North Africans, Germans, Phoenicians and Romans inhabiting some parts of it since ancient history. Migration and history should be in the appendix to these results, as they can and do affect it.

You put it clearer than I did. They didn’t research the background before they condemned the tests with this shock horror video.

@@bvbxiong5791 exactly 💯

they are etruscans, that's the explanation

I just found my mothers biological father after YEARS of searching! I love hearing stories like your (and mine..)

Not the same test and different approaches. Believe me I am geneticist. Much easier and accurate to compare two people than comparing a person to many populations.

@Clementina Yael Severina M. like Frank Lloyd Wright? Lol

@Xrey All ANYONE'S talking about are DNA tests!

They found jack the ripper in a similar way

Exactly. My brother, for example, claims a Scottish heritage and is confused as to why his Genetic results show Scandinavian, English, and Irish, not Scottish. I've tried explaining it to him...

This is a very good point.

@Holly 12345 I was always led to understand the Irish and Scots, both being Celtic, were ethnically the same. I'm not sure how or why DNA would differ between the two groups.

You wrote it so much more eloquently than I did. It's a big mix. That's why I wish we could all just get along. ;-)

LOL

Hello Sara what make of test did you use

Yes what test?

I had tried "My Heritage." It did this.

Ethnicity estimates are useless for genealogy. You want actual DNA to find relatives.

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Yep, that’s gotta be a very small database in a great big universe.

Who knows u might get shipped to area 51.

Love it! I hear you. I've been told that several times. You and I might be related.

If you can fly, shoot laser from your eyes and wear the underwear outside, yeah you probably is.

Congratulations! As a family genealogist I have found remarkable results with AncestryDNA matching my tree. It has helped confirm that my research is correct!

Hahah

@ReturnoftheBrotha No, its not. I found a 1st cousin with 23 and me

My daughter found my my son who was adopted without using a dna kit. She used Facebook!

I'm adopted and found 2nd cousins via Ancestry. Met a lot of nice people and they're connected via Facebook now.

How can you trust the DNA results?

@@lindabaggio5859 I trust the DNA results because I work with them on a daily basis. I know from a massive amount of experience that they are correct.

​@@lindabaggio5859Different from the guesses of family origins data, DNA matching is actually using science.

@@lindabaggio5859 the guesstimates relate to ethnicity, however matching strands of dna with relatives are much more precise. Only in instances where there is endogamy (populations who keep marrying within one community group) will people be predicted to be more closely related than they actually are).

The people from Friesland are the original inhabitants of Netherlands who are living there for thousands of years. The rest of Netherlands is a mix of other near direct European country’s and they will get the same soup as in the video. Chaos of predictions and inaccurate dna results.

@Captain America It's called epigenetics, and yes they do change over time through environmental exposure.

@@litusbatus What about through environmental alterations like radioactivity?

@Social Justice Warrior dna never ever changes the only thing that changes is epigenetic markers

@Social Justice Warrior no it absolutely does not I just took an epigenomics course and besides that I have 6yrs of medical school behind me and a 4.0gpa as well. You are full of crap buddy epigenomic markers does not=a change in DNA and mutations do not=a "change" in dna either. Neither does recombination nor the snipping out of DNA none of these natural processes=a change In dna

For one, no one has "1 genome" anyways; every generation of daughter cells have DNA sequence changes. Thus, you really have as many genomes as you have cells. It's even more important to remember that

Right, do they even study history in school watching this video is so frustrating... Europe is mixed gosh ..especially Italy which was conquered by tons of populations.

many people dont think about this. its the sad truth, 99% of americans are clueless of sicilian history. it almost souds like a joke because 95% of us dont know any AMERICAN history.

Mine came back 93% Italian and 7% Greek and Balkan.

Normans were in Sicily too.

I disagree...with the middle east aspect...North Africa yes...middle east not so much....they are pretty far apart.

Same! Big “ who’s (not) your daddy?” surprises in my family, too.

Lol

💀 YESSSSS 😂 but they'll never admit the 💩

I mean French and Italian people are both European you won’t see the difference and they’re soo near to each other it could be that her grandparents were from French but then they travelled to Italy

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Exactly.....

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BINGO! You win the DNA "Where Do I Come From?" Contest! All the millions of you who played along and paid for DNA results, sorry!

You don't have to care (you probably do in some situation though) but it's a little broad to say "people move around". Yeah... true... but it hasn't been some equal rainbow pie of everyone moving around everywhere. In Scotland, well you had Scottish folk going back 40,000 years, and you do have people moving around, like Irish, English, Nordic countries, okay. But that's not 500 different groups all mixing in Scotland over thousands of years. So yes people move around, but it's not everyone moving everywhere, and there is such a thing as a people, an ethnicity, a clustering of DNA to a particular home region, etc

That's very true. I'm actually waiting for my DNA results, hopefully soon. Both sides of my family come from the same town in Sicily. It will be interesting since history weighs heavily on Sicily.

And... if you’re sitting by the door drooling, waiting on the doorknob to jiggle, I’m guessing you’re dad was right.

Well, that's really grosd if you consider the implications.

Lmao

Ha ha

Paternity fraud. Its too common nowadays

Exactly. Know history is important.

But the huge differences between them, between companies and between tests at the same company, not movement of ancient people are at issue.

@@yaelB9467 yes archaic historical cultures are nothing like the Modern world which these women are using as a yardstick for their results .

We are Greek/Balkan and discovered actually 30% Italian. Definitely not hard to believe.

They are confusing cultural with genetics is all...

It's mainly about private companies collecting genetic information that is sold to China and the CIA for policing purposes........

It seems to me that this type of situation is the best use of these dna tests. It could also be useful to get a general idea of what your heritage is but then I beleive you would need to do more research to know precisely where they lived and even then documentation of such things is very limited.

Whao, that sound serious. Which test did you do? :-)

matching individual people is only possible with a true, full dna test to match with other true, full tests. these companies are looking at tiny portions of dna, and giving you the odds of where your people used to live based on the people who live in that place right now. ou did not find your aunt throuh the typical ancestory dna testing.

@@nonyabizness.original It is a starting point for many. I now have a lovely 2rd cousin who had been adopted as an infant. She found her way to our family after many years of searching, including several false starts. The initial lead was being identified as related to another of my 2nd cousins via one of these tests.

I believe Ancestry is the most accurate. An adoptif girl find biological real parents and in the same time that she was adopted thanks to that test A man meet his biological father too

Totally. They keep talking about how misleading it is, and omg they're even saying that they've given a best guess! And this one says it's only 50% confident in their results?! So yes, its an estimate. I have no idea why people wouldn't realise, or why you'd be angry when the companies actually point it out. I thought that's what they wanted?

Of course. The thing is, the more people that take these tests the more accurate they become. This is because the companies will have more DNA to extract and more information from them means you can pinpoint the locations more precisely. It's no different than doing medical tests on a broader population say...100,000 vs 1,000 people. The results will be more specific the more information you have, since no 2 people are the same.

It's the advertisements. People are really naive and don't understand population genetics. People imagine these nationalities or ethnicities existed since the beginning of time, unchanged. Meanwhile, they're mostly cultural fabrications.

In the ads they make it seem that they are 100% correct so its not that shocking

@Bre Ne I assume you have higher esteem since in your estimation you correctly estimated that it was estimated.

Simon Knight oof

Simon Knight LOOOOOL

Simon Knight I don’t know if Croatia is balkan

LimeFossa16 it is

@@limefossa1672 As a croatian i can confirm that it is

That is awesome. I am really glad for you. Sorry about your father though. My Dad was never legally adopted but, he was raised by his Mom's mother & step-father. His mother died when he was 19 (3 years before I was born) & 3 months before my Mom met him. And to confuse things even more, his mother's 1st husband left her after having 2 girls together. The oldest 1 was only 1 year old when her Dad left & never came back. Dad's father, he too, was married & left his wife after having 3 kids but, was pregnant for a 4th one that he (I assume) never knew about. He had 1 boy & 2 girls & then when Dad was 49, I found out that he had another brother. A son that his Dad never told us about. Therefore, I am positive that Grandpa died not even knowing about this kid. Which is very sad. That Uncle is now 82 & the other one we knew about died last year at 89 years old; & he was the one that knew about my Dad from day 1. And even though Dad goes by his Mom's previous married name, his late brother knew he was his brother & even told everybody Dad was his brother too. Dad looks like my Grandpa the most besides that. It really freaked out both of his brothers & all the rest of our extended family too. They always said, there's no doubt in our minds who his father is eh. Sometimes the genes are so strong between 2 half-siblings that you would have never guessed that they were only half-siblings & not full siblings. My Dad is the youngest of 8 altogether which includes each of his parents' 1st families as well as him & an older full sister that died at birth due to a doctor's mistake. Yet, he has strong resemblances to all of these half-siblings that hit adult age. That's DNA for ya. :)

The more people tests the better the results are for everyone-it’s why it’s shows small changes or % changes -it becomes more accurate the more people are tested

It's exciting isn't it! I hope you keep in touch with your cousins and half-sister.

Hi neighbor! Glad to share with you. = )

I guess it depends how far back you look

I didn't get that at all....

SAME HERE! I'M 0.099% apple, and 0.001% dandelion. 🤫

Hmm.. best re-test

Exactly. Nobody ever gets to choose their parents. It's what you do now that matters.

I think that behind this nonsense of the DNA heritage..there are the sionist. Cause like this they validate the lie..that they are a race.

yep it seems to be identity crisis overload, some people take this stuff way too seriously.

People are so dumb in 2020.

While you're right, it's also true that identity is always behind whom we see ourselves as being when we are "being ourselves". That is because who we are is a function of what we believe about ourselves. We can place our identity anywhere...personality, skills, character, interests, race, nationality, etc. If our sense of self is built upon inner qualities or our skills, then we won't crumble over our genealogy. But if we build our house upon genealogy and the culture of that race, then that house will fall if it comes out that the foundation was sand. Ultimately, we don't know much about ourselves. We can't really trace our genealogies, despite ancestry websites, because we cannot assume every father listed is the true father. So this is not a place to build one's identity house.

Was my fav test too

I guess it all depends- me any my sister were on the other side of that 50% - she had Native American dna - me none.

doublebassbass lmao I can’t with this comment 🤣🤣🤣

doublebassbass :-No certainly not!.You are 98%genius and 2% jackass!.Check your genes!

Zoidberg hhhh

@@MsG4L4DRIEL you're genius I laughed so much i'm dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Family dna test works different so they are accurate. These tests they are talking about just some guess and a bit statistics.

@@tamilyatamilya all the companies they're talking about matches you to/with people you're related to, in addition to estimates of your heritage.

Sorry, but the ancestry test is not solid proof of family members. Ancwstry themselves says you must check against the most likely matches then do extra research to follow the family tree or take a proper DNA test like Sibling, Paternal, or Maternal testing in a professional lab.

@@maryst77 no they looking some random strings and compare them with other continental's random strings. As much as that the part of dna's similar, they gave you the percentage. But as video says even the collected data dna from countries is vary and changes. Because they grab different parts of DNA sometimes and participation changes. There is no a certain string that tells you, your ancestors coming from a certain country. But parental or sibling test are 99.9 accurate.

@@tamilyatamilya Yes, I'm aware of all that. These tests, FamilyTreeDNA, ancestry, 23andme do match you up with people related to you, though, in addition to the stuff about your heritage, which is very useful for genealogy. I'm not arguing the accuracy of the heritage stuff. I was just responding to your comment that these tests don't work for people related to you (if that's what you were saying - I may have misunderstood your comment). I've done some of the above tests, as well as my family members and it's been very accurate for showing how we're related - although I don't doubt that there are issues for some people.

same. I was linked to known relatives.

Funky Fungi, exactly. My GF’s Family is Sicilian but GEGE. Albanian immigrants from the 15th century trying to escape Ottoman rule in the Balkans.

Yeah. They do need to learn that most places in the worll is really not that homogenus.

This is my entire thought process while watching this. Anyone with a cursory understanding of history would know WHY these results have different classifications for the haplogroups. If the actual HAPLOGROUP results were wrong, then that would be more cause for alarm. This entire segment made a mountain out of a molehill. Statistical variations and a growing data pool account for all of the discrepancies shown here. I'm really underwhelmed.

@serendipidus1 Slavic and Central Asian DNA is more common in the Balkans than in Greece.

How about how the tests conveniently omits any African ( sun saharan) DNA matches.... i guess they feel Hannibals presence has been effectively breeded out!! ..lol!!

Exactly. It's just sad how history and migration isn't even taken in account when they are trying to understand the results. Italian is pasta, no more.

Exactly right, count in two world wars in Europe and everyone is migrating everywhere.

Not to mention South Tyrol. That region of north Italy is inhabited by Germans!

@@zd2243 Not to mention South Tyrol. That region of north Italy is inhabited by Germans!

The disturbing point is that identical twins got different results...

And i understand :)

"celestial"

Hehe

everyone from black Africa has zero Neanderthal DNA, everyone from everywhere else has Neanderthal DNA, so Chinese Arab White Indian Mayan all have Neanderthal ancestry, FACT for you

Remember, if you're white, it is all about purity. Thankfully, there is no purity.

@Sig Kimber Like the name you've chosen. 😊

Look up the owner of 23 and me. Ann Wojcicki and who she was previously married to.

@thesix107 Yeah. OWOrder crowd like the idea of getting everyone used to the idea that we're all the same. Maybe, even to the extent of giving false genetic info to the world, while keeping your true full DNA for themselves (and some of the companies even have the rights to sell or use you're DNA for whatever else they want). Testing is a scary thing to be doing "just for fun"!

How many of these companies share their data with government agencies if any of them do thats a bit sinister

Wow, just a guess - timate ? The way they advertise, you think they's be right spot on, being with a genealogy facebook page though you find out different.... getting my dad's results soon...

Congratulations that’s wonderful

That’s fantastic! I’m so happy you were able to find your family and possibly lay to rest any questions you had. That’s just neat!

Make up for the lost time

@@8cupsCoffee congratulations. That's wonderful

How many tests did you do? I’m trying to help my sister find out who her biological father is or what her nationality is. Did you know your moms or sisters real names or anything about them? And congratulations 🍾 😀👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

That's funny af lol

🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂 What is wrong with you? Omg 🤣

Love

Love your comment about your dog! Took me totally by surprise never thought of swabbing an animal. It makes sense though, dogs have been man's best friend for many thousands of years.

Damnit. The funniest comment ever.. 🤣🤣🤣

Identical sequences should yield identical results

@@danielculver2209 And considering we share 99% of our DNA worldwide, we are all family.

These test couldn't test anything accurate. They're a rip off. Identical twins have ZERO DNA variation. They failed at detecting identical twins, lmao.

@@360revolucion8 Not true identical twins do not have identical dna after birth, there are variations.

@@nathr7375 identical twins have identical DNA unless there was a rare mutation.

Everyone keeps forgetting that

Not just an army, but also merchants, envoys etc.

Sicily in particular changed hands many times

I believe the original britain dna was superceded by german saxon dna only several hundred years ago 🤣

Somer kids. Some er here some er there. So I said some er everywhere

How?

@@Kopie0830 huh

That's not from a DNA test though, it's from you inputting information.

Did he leave you a gold watch?

can you prove it tho without the dna test? or u bought it and just went with it?

I was waiting for them to talk about this. In history, there has been a lot more moving of people across borders (or borders across people) than we envision. If your ancestors have lived in what we now call Italy for a few hundred years, you can feel 100% culturally Italian and still look muddled genetically.

not to mention the Roman/Byzantine Empire that came after that.

The Spanish invaded Sicily and Italy as well. Which is why that is very likely to show up as well. Just goes to show that everyone is a mix of something. Even if the tests are not 100% accurate, it does prove that no one is singularly from one place.

exactly, I really couldn't believe no one in this video talked about that or just about people migrating in general.

But regardless, they were twins, right? Should be the same.

Yes, I was wondering about scenarios like this. In terms of ethnic analysis, they can only approximate. But I’ve also heard neat stories of long lost family members being reunited. So, I suppose what one is using the tests for can vary how one views the success of the test. I know too that some are even more geared toward health analysis moreso than ethnic origins.

Same thing happened with my friend. Sad it's like a blow to the heart. But there are so many things that motivate people. That you have to respect those feelings. Maybe someday the Mother will come around.

So the mother is trying to deny the past by punishing her daughter?

@@tulsaguy9963 That is not how she sees it at all. She sees it as having a child for people who wanted children and she has said that she has no right to any information on the child or that family. I also believe that since the father (now deceased) left her before learning she was pregnant, had three daughters, by three different mothers, and supported none of them, she doesn't want in any way to be connected to his family, which still lives near where she lives. But, she has never said that to me, so it's just a guess.

Why?

Sho Kosugi Because it is a scam.

Rahim Htmal me 2

Lol, me too actually.

Exactly. My husband wasted money on one of these tests and gave him weird results. Lol

did you finish watching the video? Your results about your ancestry breakdown is clearly a not scientific

You do realize that Spain controlled the Netherlands for period of time. So there could easily be Spanish genes in her family.

@@steveramsey7983 their was no spain until around 1492

@@steveramsey7983 We know there are.

Mediterraneans are not dark skinned. Im sick and tired of AngloSaxons talking about Mediterraneans as if they were "different" or exotic.

And at 20:48 - if humans *already* share over 99% of DNA, a 99% match between twins should be in the remaining under 1%, i.e, about 4 decimal places out. When people throw out pennies as irrelevant, this is like splitting pennies into 100 more pennies then trying to make the smaller ones important again.

@@definesigint2823 what's more important is, what are their Insta''s?

@Shayne Punim For these testing they are not sequenced, but markers are used. The same method is used to identify humans (or other species) in crime investigation. Some markers are mostly found in Euroasia, Afrika or Australia. They are not more specific than that. Sequencing the whole genome is way more expensive ;)

Not necessarily. My results were 87% British, and the rest was Sweden, Ireland, and germanic Europe. If you look through history, all of these migrations date back to the Indo-European people's. So technically, it is a pure ethnic result.

Please define "ethnic".

The disadvantage is I have had grey hair ...and losing it for a lot of years while my twin is just starting to go grey and still has most of his .

are we too shallow? i was thinking the same thing!!!! hahaahahhaha

whoddaya My sister is 7 years older than me but we look very very similar. A few months ago she convinced me to get a short haircut (I’ve always had long hair) then got the exact same haircut. She literally just wanted to see how the haircut would look on her 😒

@@Kate-lc3ce That's not nice of her

Oh that's so true!

I was surprised nobody mentioned that as well... Btw Alexander the great was born in Macedonia, a region of Greece and the country that is named North Macedonia today actually contains only a small part of the territory of the ancient greek kingdom of Macedonia.

Macedonians (North Macedonia/FYROM) are ethnic Bulgarians in deny. Also, Alex The Great was NOT born there.DNA tests do not take into account the population migration. Why Greece & Balkans and not Thrace?

Snooooore

Michael Ernst All of that’s irrelevant.

Michael Ernst pyrrhic wars

it was a dowsing rod in our case

@@jerkchickenblog Heck, be glad it was only dowsing, they found me, and well, they said they were trying to Baptize me, the only problem was, they wouldn't let me up.

Aw how sweet. I hope you have a great loving bond and relationship with your granddaughter and grandchildren

@@hn45645 Thank you. We talk daily, but we have not met in person yet because we're in different countries. It's only been a few months since we found each other.

Awesome mate. Hope you meet soon.

They really didn't.

@@TheOwenMajor Since most human civilizations were nomadic they really did

@@s.a.8548 the people's of Europe advanced beyond nomadicy thousands of years ago.

If only everyone had built a wall..

@@TheOwenMajor ...really now. Aren't you the same people in Australia, the Americas, and some Asian/African regions? Come on now. Every tribe move around A LOT. Europeans isn't an exception.

Emphasis on the "con" part, lol.

Brilliant

and your dna - your genetic fingerprint

Yes. 23 and me lost me when they said I have blue eyes and red hair. I’m a brown-eyed brunette.

Or where the DNA company turns another profit from selling your info to drug companies

Yeah, Greeks built colonies all the way to Marseille. Also Greeks are in the Balkan .. Italy was the center of Roman empire and people from all Mediterranean went their to settle and live the Roman dream.. anyone with basic knowledge of history would anticipate it.

Mary Vallas Sicily is made up of Albanians honey The Arbereshe

@@jonikej When I said Historically speaking.... it is before Albania existed. They were Macedonians... hence... Greek.

Mary Vallas I am talking about people from Albanian territories and they were not Greek or Macedonian

@@maryvallas772 Macedonians werent "greek", macedonians shared the "helenistic" culture with greeks but they werent "greek".

@Zionism toHell In a sense it does. It confirms hundreds of my ancestors. It says more than you know, that is for sure.

Actually: Greek/balkan DNA in Sicily are common thing in fact Sicily was part of Greek a long time ago even today you can hear a version of greek language on Sicily spoken by natives and when we talking about Greeks they are ortodox christians like a lot of Slavic nations from which have a long tradition of close ties. Carigrad today Istanbul was ortodox capital city with slavic/russian priests before muslims/Turks run over.

@@altergreenhorn That's interesting.

@@altergreenhorn YES! Hit the nail on the head. Most people don't know that.

@@altergreenhorn Yes! Hit the nail on the head. Most people don't know that.

Waiting on Facebook's CEO to take DNA test and prove he's an 👽.

If a genetic test would say I'm mostly non homo sapiens sapiens, but have other human groups ancestry, I wouldn't be shocked at all.

omg what no fair! I was raised as a human but it says I am undetected T_T

Better than being a lizard....

Remember names for us Hunans just give a referance point.... The truth is a name is not human the people are. Let's ask The Lord Yeshua to remove the blindness from us and please. Adonia Help us from the darkness that is all around and consuming us HUMANS We are like an orchard with many flowers.... Do you think the red rose thanks in its heart about the white rose, (Pride) I'm better than you,( Lust) I'm wiser, smarter and more beautiful. And even more ( Lust) I can be WHO I WANT. Well, this is what we do to eachother, The Lord is coming with ten thousand of His saints...... We people need to repent of our sins, and ask Yeshua ( Jesus) for forgiveness.... or we will go to a pit of OUR own choosing Amen

I don't even know why they even wondered about them not having higher percentage of 'Italian' ancestry especially if their ancestors came from Sicily. They really need to read up on the history of Sicily much less Italy.

@asdf Because I am the result of the Sicilian inhabitants that were conquered by the Normans. And yes, there are blonde haired, light eyed Sicilians because of this. I also have Arab DNA as well because the town my family is from Sambuca di Sicilia was conquered by the Arabs at one time. Just as I have Lebanese friends who are blonde haired and light eyed because of the same conquerors.

@@ArtistGV You can get dark haired and dark eyed Northern European and blond haired and blue eyed Southern Europeans. It doesn't mean because someone has blond hair that they have a Viking in the woodpile or a Northern European has an Italian ancestor.

Greeks were conquerors too, they weren't the original inhabitants of the island.

@@TheAnarchistBeekeeper The Siculi were Phoenicians - most identify them as Greek.

I think they just wanted to make a dramatic reporting piece and twisted the story to sound like this is a big marketing scam when actually is a result of the fact that the database does need to expand and will improve over time.

I did them as well. My initial findings fit very closely with my genealogy. Their update, however, for me, falls apart and does not really reflect well even the past 100 years of known ancestry. Something went way off on their update for me. 23andMe's update, however, seems more accurate.

Mine was accurate except one area we were Irish instead of what should have been german or similar area. Figured out via DNA relatives that my great grandfather was probably NOT my great grandfather. Trying to fill the gaps but we don't know my mother's grandfather is. We have leads, but we'll have to do golden state killer type research in building trees and trying to identify people. If there is a single adopted unknown who fell through the cracks in having a paper trail...it isn't going to be easy.

@@PapaPhilip in the update I found out that I am 13% Norwegian which was not really a surprise, I am almost entirely British and we all know about the Vikings and their raids, anyway, I highly recommend using findagrave.com which has some free info, when I looked up my last name (which is not common but very British sounding) I found a slew of people with that name buried in Norway.

@@omfug7148 Actually, you found out that you are an ESTIMATED 13%.

In fact, Sicily was colonized by Greeks a couple thousand years ago.

I'm surprised they were surprised re their Greek ancestry. Sicily has a long history of being "owned" by various conquering armies throughout thousands of years. Greece ruled southern Itsly snd islands for hundreds of years so having their DNA still in the admix is fair enough.

Everything from Balkan and Greece to Northern Africa makes a lot of sense for somebody from Sicilian decent. The only surprising thing is when identical twins get different results ;)

so, The Illiad and roaming all around the Med, meant that Sailors had a wife in every port? you might be on to something there.

@@stephanieyee9784 Sicily was visited by Vikings and their cousins, the Normans. If your land is near any large transport route then it got invaded many times over the centuries. Norway and Sweden....not so much.

@Clementina Yael Severina M. Apart from the fact that Sicily did not have mass immigration from north africa, and the same applies to albania, yeah.

@SicilianScoundrel not mass immigration but elite immigration or work immigration . nobody goes to another placce for no reason .

It's amazing at the wave of people settling in Sicily. Between the Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Moors, Normans, it really was a crossroad.

Yes their DNA is not shocking at all. Of course they have a lot of Balkan and Middle Eastern DNA, the Barbary Moorish pirates traveled all over there as well as the Roman Empire has had history with the Balkans for a very long time. Patriotism and Nationalism are silly for this exact reason.

I think that could be a bit problematic, because they must probably test for quite different subsets of genes that are known to have high variability instead of being identical in all humans like most of the genome, and a tendency to have common alleles in certain areas that are rare or nonexisting in others. There isn't necessarily all that much overlap in what they actually test.

Yep, never take that wife to anything Italian.

If you were born in America you are American. People seem to take it that if they've had an ancester from Italy that they themselves must be part Italian. This concept baffles my mind. I'm from South Africa so I identify myself as either South African or African not English because of where my father came from or Irish because of where his father came from or even Romanian because of where his grandfather came from. There are too many variations in where our ancesters were born. People have to re-evelatuate their concept of where they're from and where they were born to get a more accurate sense of their ancestrial heritage otherwise it promotes incorrect information on their ancestrial history.

@@amyelizabethjacobs3183 Same. It's your cultural heritage that matters

Amy Elizabeth Jacobs there’s a difference between nationality and ethnic background/ethnicity. Obviously everyone born in America is American, but my ethnicity is Irish-Italian. That doesn’t mean I’m saying I’m not American. ..?? How does that not make sense to some people?

Tbh I've met so many "Italian"-Americans who are only a quarter Italian yet they insist on calling themselves Italian and completely disregarding their other heritage, as if they have anything to do with Italy anyways, culturally speaking. A hilarious example is the American actress Ileana Douglas, her dad was mostly English/anglo-saxon, her mom was half Romanian/half Italian with a Romanian last name, yet she tells everybody her mother was Italian. I've even seen interviews with her where she's asked where her name comes from (Ileana is a Romanian name) and she says her mom named her after "some Romanian princess" lmfao, those are the exact words she uses, but she NEVER says that she's part Romanian too despite the fact that her mother's last name is something with an -escu which is obviously Romanian and not Italian. She straight up tells people that her mother is Italian and that she "identifies more with her mother's working class Italian immigrant side of the family" as opposed to her dad's "old school American side" and she says nothing about her mother being Romanian as well. Imagine having a Romanian name and a mom with a Romanian last name and saying your mom's side of the family is only Italian. Also if her family has been in America for three generations, she's "old school American" too. People like this are a parody of themselves. It's some weird warped cultural chauvinism to ignore 75% of your ancestry. Some lady who lives in my building is mostly Scottish but she tells everybody she's French bc she's like 1/8th French and she has a French last name. She couldn't speak French to save her life. Either accept your American-ness or Canadian-ness and say that's what you are, or if you're going to talk about your ancestry, acknowledge all of it, don't cherry pick 20% of it and totally ignore the rest because you think being Italian or French makes you sound "more interesting" or some such garbage. You have nothing to do with that culture anyways.

Well yeah that is what DNA is used for. Maury has been doing this for years. Lol

@@xinthamiddle lol 😂 Maury: "You ARE the father!" Father: "Damn..."

Which service did you use?

Ya!haa

I have found out that even when it says 0,5% common DNA in matches it lines up with how I am related to them when we compare family trees and find out we share a common ancestor in the 1800s

So worth it to find close relatives?

@@marcellemccalla6325 yes, but that assumes that they have done the test as well, it can only compare to the data it has in it's database. But yes it can accuratly find relatives.

@@marcellemccalla6325 I, my daughter and my brother, all have different names. My daughter and I have married named. We three live in separate parts of the U.S. It connected our relationships to each other .... of myself to my child and my sibling! They connected all three of us to each other, correctly. 👍🏼😉

Linking relatives is more accurate as it doesn't involve the calculation of ethnicity as they can just check if any dna in the database are similar to yours. the issue is not in how they analyze the dna but how they try to match it to a specific area of origin.

Lol so true

Love this comment! So sad but true. To extend it... does that make your haplo group your birthdate / sign / lucky numbers?

Totally acceptable assumption based on facts! Thank you for making this point the way you did

LetzBeaFranque hehe

probably a 50% certain guess though

Lol a deep dive into fraternal twins will shock you, especially once you realise that being "twins" (aka same womb, same time) doesn't always mean being twins (same parentage, same results but a few numbers off). Human reproduction can be wacky like that.

Fraternal twins are more like siblings than actual identical twins, so you'd share around 50% of your genes.