WHAT!? I'm not Dutch?! | MyHeritage DNA Test Results 

Don't forget that the Netherlands were a huge trading hub some centuries ago. People from all over Europe gathered there.

Well for Scandinavian part I am not shocked, I mean it is believed that all of Germanic people stem from the region of what is today southern Sweden and Denmark. Plus do no forget the Viking raids. In general, our ancestors were much more mobile than we think, and mass migrations were even more common. Balkan is indeed a high percentage, and at a first glance one could say that you look South Slavic (Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Slovenian/Montengrin/Macedonian) as well. So, dig in your family tree :)

This is a fact a lot of people dont know. During the 16- and 1700s there was en emigration wave from Norway to the Netherlands. More than 100 000 people migrated. Alot of Danes also settled in the Netherlands. In Norway we consider Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and Finland to be our Brothers. The dutch are somewhat like our first cousins. There are lots of similaritires between our languages.

You have to look at what is common for Dutch people in general. So in this case 61.9% of Dutch people have North/West European, 54.4% have Scandinavia, 42.8% have English, 11.9% have Eastern European, 10.3% have Iberian .... 7.5% have Balkan ... 5.3% have Irish/Scottish/Welsh. So your results are not that atypical for a Dutch person, except the Balkan is a bit more than expected, so that would be something to look into, but the others I would say is pretty typical for a Dutch person.

You definitely have Scandinavian blue eyes/and Face.. I am 95% Scandinavian, the rest being Finnish and Sami people (Scandinvian aborigines?). But those mixes are probably something happening 500-1000 years ago. I suppose the Netherlands have been a part of Europe where people moved by a lot, being traders etc.

Looks very similar to my resuls, and my family mainly came from Wetphalia, on the Dutch border.

interesting results, high Balkan percentage is not common in Western Europe, it is rather surprising. Its somewhat common within Germans so you might have some ancestors from there. Cheers from Balkan.

I am from Romania, but live in The Netherlands!😆 I am going to take a MyHeritage DNA Test next year.

Our granddaughter had similar results, plus Italian ... from my wife and her dad... and I have a Dutch surname and my uncle was part of the Dutch society. ...

I loved your eye color :)

The Netherlands is North and West Europe. So you have relatives with Dutch/The Netherlands

Hey! Bulgarian here. Really glad to hear that you like our culture! Hugs!

Welcome to Balkan Familly

I am also Dutch on my mother’s side, and my DNA results came back with a significant percentage Norwegian. As it turns out, there is a history of Norwegians coming to Noord Holland in the 1600s and 1700s for job opportunities, mostly in shipping to and from the Dutch colonies.

Koster zit ook in mijn stamboom (een overgrootmoeder heette zo). Die helemaal 100% in Nederland zit (heb ALLES terug kunnen vinden vanaf ca 1500). Veel Koster in Rotterdam (havenstad, trok veel mensen vanuit Europa die oceaan over wilden), veel Koster in regio Vijfherenland. Dat Engels en Balkan zal wel door de oorlogen komen, die hier altijd geweest zijn. Er werden in bepaalde regio's altijd veel soldatenkinderen geboren.

I have some Balkan too (8,6%). According to My True Ancestry it comes from Thracians.

most Dutch have dna from Scandinavia and the British isles

I understand why people call me Dutch descent, but sometimes it looks like I'm from Finland, England, Portugal and other European countries. means the Dutch are also a mixture of other European nations.

You look extremely pale, so it's not surprising your Northern European (Scandinavia). Plus it's also possible that your ancestors were Nomadic so yeah...

I was born in Brazil. and i am 84% Asian Japonise.............. And my dad is italian and my mom is Brazilian, But my grams mom was japonise........... and i didnt know.

I did my DNA test with Ancestry, I discovered that not only am I decended from John D Rockefeller but also King Edward VIII and Bessie Wallis Simpson Warfield.

As a Belgian i don't know how i have more English dna 73,5% and also 5,6% Eastern Europian dna and 1,2% Iberic dna while my family tree and ancestors were mainly in Belgium/Netherlands 🤔

There were many Vikings in Netherlands arived from scanadavian

Have your parents tested- or grandparents if possible. It will be a huge reveal. It may help you do your family tree.

My grandpa immigration wise is 75 Dutch and 25 Swiss with one ancestor a little further back that we don’t know where is from but he took a dna test and it came back 18 percent Scandinavian 72 percent Germanic which would be Dutch and Swiss and then there was a little Scottish and English

The Dutch where Germanic people who mix and where invaded .

Congrats on Balkan results

Hope you don't mind me saying: 98.9% eyes!!! (wow the hue of blue is like wow) .01% cheeks (so much that I thought they could have been manually chiseled lol) 1% human .09% from out of space or another dimension Edit: If you are able to, do AncestryDNA or 23&Me, they have a better data base (you will have to spit in a vial, not like MH which is a swab test), but they will give you a better Ancestry Composition, and with 23&Me, they give you your maternal and paternal haplogroup info (since you're male) which is the direct line of father-father-father to the "Adam" of your lineage, same with your mom's will be the mother-mother-mother, to the "Eve" of your lineage) Also remember, back a few two-three hundreds years [and beyond] country borders have changed, some do not exist anymore, others have changed names (especially when we go back a millennia), not because most of our families were born in one country, means that your genes were originally from there ;) Good luck in your search! OOOh and if you can test your parents/grandparents, at least over AncestryDNA and 23&Me phase your results (meaning you will know what part of your result is from which parent, %'s get shifted to a "better" result), and will divide which DNA relative is from your maternal/paternal side

I find it interesting how people can have a great mix in their ancestry and how big surprises may come in. I have an aunt who traced my family history. I now live in the Netherlands, but I come from South Africa. My first ancestor who set foot in South Africa on my mom/aunt's side was a Java woman who came to South Africa with a Dutch man... it is believed he was some kind of royalty I'm not sure the exact details (my grandmother's maiden surname is Jonker so it is from that side). My grandmother used to say things in Afrikaans that is very dutch. Instead of reën (Afrikaans for rain), she would say reënt( which is closer to regent as in het regent it is raining). So that's interesting. Her mother was born in a concentration camp, they lost everything. My grandfather came from Germany (surname Hattingh) where they owned a lot of land. They then moved to England where they purchased land and from England to South Africa where they again purchases a few farms one of which was the well known La Motte wine farm (for a long time has not been in our family). During the English/Boer war the English left my grandfather's parents estates alone because they spoke English very well and seemed all too English. By that time they were actually speaking Afrikaans as mother tongue in their household and not English anymore yet they still passed very well as English people and was so able to stay out of hardship... So very interesting. I came to the Netherlands as an Afrikaans/English native speaker and my daughter is now speaking Dutch in school but if she did a heritage test one day thinking she is Dutch (which she is somewhat), it would have very interesting results!

I am not sure about heritage dna, how accurate it is, I have just done an ancestry test so it will be interesting to compare the two, mine also said I have 18% balkan, and as far as I know I am half english and half scots, its complicated

I myself am Dutch, but my Herritage says 63.4% Scandinavian, most of Norway and the rest of Northern Europe, mainly Frisian. 36.6% So it's not that crazy.

Dutch too. I was surprised I do not have any north and north West European DNA. The big majority of the Dutch share this. Instead I got 81% Brittish DNA, which basically says nothing because many etnicities lived there. I got some scandinavian which is common to the Dutch, but way lower than average. Also I do have Finish DNA, which is not common within the Dutch. I still have no clue about 81% my etnicity 😂

The "North and West European" probably contains the Dutch. MyHeritage is not so specific with that part of Europe, however 23andMe is, here is an example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-juS44JdUWNY.html It has the category "French & German" he clicked it and the highest match was The Netherlands, and within that it even tells the specific regions the DNA matches most in Nederland. Unfortunately I don't think people can order 23andMe in Europe. I also took AncestryDNA, 23andMe, and MyHeritage. The latter was by far the most vague with Western Europe. It's ironic, the one Europeans use the most, is the most vague with Western Europe.

You are not a Dane Mr. Koster, you are a Norse, be proud.

Historie en antropologie leggen wel veel uit. De balkan is niet zozeer dat jij daar vandaan komt, maar dat je voorouders daar geleefd hebben en dat die mensen daar jou dna hebben. Volkeren hebben gereisd door de geschiedenis heen als je antropologie en historie gestudeerd hebt.

Just came by to check this because I am awaiting my results, mine won´t be surprising at all and that´s a guaranteed prediction. I have no idea who my parents are/were nor do I know where I originate from, it will be interesting. By my looks ... Latino of some kind.

The Netherlands is a meltingpot, Scandinavians, Finnnish, English and East Europeans moved to the Netherlands to work here by the thousands in the Goldencentury... Specially Germans came here to work on farms every season... History...

There is no individual result for Dutch, people there are a mix of people from Scandinavia and mainland Europe.

Im dutch. My results are 68% western Europe and 32% Scandinavia according to MyHeritage.

Ciao sono kevin ho un problema ho un match che e collegata ha me e altri del gruppo.poi nel suo albero i suoi genitori hanno il.simbolo del dna ma ce la scritta privato e i loro risultati non li ho visti mentre quelli della loro figlia si .che vuol dire? E strano che sua figlia e corrisponde ha me e uno dei due non corrisponde ha me .ho e privato? Grazie

Try Ancestry or 23andme and you will be a way more dutch than you think.

From modern DNA analyses,In the eary Bronze Age (around 2400BC) the Bell Beaker Folk of the Single Grave sub-group left the land that is now The Netherlands for Scotland, Ireland and Northern England. The Beaker Folk wiped out the Neolithic Farmers who were living in the lands before them such that they made up 93% of the population. Some of the Beaker folk would have stayed behind in the Netherlands and it could be which ties your DNA to Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

You look very Swedish and Balkan you look extremely Swedish but also Balkan so you got the best of both Hey from Sweden 🇸🇪 I’m gonna do dna test but only to find relatives so doing dna heritage and ancestry so hoping to find my sister who doesn’t know about me I’m her half sister would be nice to find her

You is Dutch man

I think you are france

It is not very common to receive Balkan as a Dutch. Do you any Ex-Yugoslavian/Hungarian/Romanian ancestor?

You have Balkan looks... you're actually really lucky with that Balkan % 😉

Waarschijnlijk is Balkan bij Myheritage ook Duitsland. Mijn stiefoma had ook meer dan 15% Balkan en ze is gewoon Nederlands wel heeft ze deels roots in Duitsland mishien jij ook. Wat zijn je genetische groepen die zijm best accuraat

Most of dutch have scandinavian on him

im guessing french, greek and italian.. maybe some iberian?

Scandinavian the Vikings conquered Friesland quickly due to the flat countryside and easy access to the ocean and used Friesland as a base to raid that entire area. My mother's DNA test showed 5 percent of the Balkans, she believes it to come from a great grandfather who was from Germany before Germany they likely came from the area of the Balkans. Some Dutch people show up as British in DNA because like England some areas of the southern Netherlands / Belguim had Celtic settlement which later mixed with Germanic angles/Saxons like in England. That's the best answer I can give you mate.

I'm from Balkan.

I’m 7 percent Scandinavian and my DUTCH and a little bit Swiss grandpa got a dna test and his came back 18 percent Scandinavian I’ve also had a weird coincidence type thing where I’ve always liked Viking type stuff all the way down to the mythology obviously a lot of people like Vikings but I felt a little more connected since I have blonde hair and blue eyes Nordic traits

Open een geschiedenisboek en je zal het gauw genoeg begrijpen ;)

Thought you had an English look to you

You are very similar to my cousin.😂

I expect Danish or French.. I'm just not sure, it's really kinda interesting. 😁 Wow, I'm not that wrong.🤓

You are Georgian

I think the Balkan side you are from Croatia or Slovenië

balkan it's not Romania

Before hearing your results I would say, apart from the Dutch, possibly some German, some Scandinavian, Russian and British Isles. After getting your results I see I was more or less spot on. Hurrah!

You really look norwegian not gonna lie😅

At least you don't have strong Dutch accent

By the way It doesn't matter where you're from. The important thing is what kind of person you are. And you're the most friendly I've ever met. Finally, your eyes look like balkan people, but you don't look like Greece, you look Bulgarian or Bosnian shoves.

Allochtoon :)

Scandinavian and British are common mistakes MyHeritage makes as it comes to determine Dutch origins.

1:13 naaah not like all Germanics actually originate (proto germanic) from Scandinavia and Jutland right. lmfao

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Ahahhahha 😂

maybe you must test DNA again... I think you have some Indonesian dna or Austroasiaitic from Java or Austronesian from Molucas ??

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You are not dutch:))

MyHeritage is the most innacurate DNA testing company out there.

Croatian and Slovenian most likely due to the Catholic.

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