AncestryDNA Results: South African (Revised)

[@AnalediAfrika]

Hi Matthew, you're still the most informative person on KZbin when it comes to ancestry DNA. Thanks for the update, most interesting!

[@MichaelBurkePhotography]

Thank you for sharing Matthew.

[@GenericUsername1388]

Nice results! I'm a South African of Portuguese origin but my girlfriend is Afrikaans and she has an incredible mix of things we weren't expecting 😂

[@user-vz9lp5br6r]

Very interesting - thanks for posting this.

[@hambosambo21]

Wowey!!!! Ur so mixed!!! 💙

[@chaostheoryrulz6080]

Wow! Pretty cool!

[@cumaniathocomeriusturkcode596]

Very good results.you re citizen of world.

[@Jordan84172]

Hi Matt, very interesting video. I want to just briefly address the ethnicity estimates and get your opinion. As an archaeologist and armchair historian, I know that people were constantly mixing and creating new ethnicity and genetic admixtures. Considering Europe in particular, I find it difficult to understand how these companies gets an 'English' vs 'Germanic European' signature. This is because since antiquity, the people of the Continent and the British Isles have been mixing. If you look at Roman Britain for explain, there were people from all over the Empire living in Britain. Perhaps a more productive way of understanding these ethnicity estimates is to think of them as representing particular unique admixtures instead of a single ethnic group like Anglo-Saxons. Your English result therefore might be understood as closely aligned to current communities in Southern England who themselves are a unique mixture of various ethnicity that come together in that specific location. For example, the 'Cape Coloured' communities are product of the specific admixtures that only occurred in the Cape Colony. I read somewhere that these tests do not compare you to historical communities but to present ones. I think to get a historical perceptive, you would have to test your DNA against ancient DNA or DNA from people a couple hundred years ago. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

[@MatthewBode]

Hi Jordan, spot on analysis! AncestryDNA (and similar companies) through autosomal DNA testing can only provide a somewhat accurate estimate for the last ~500 years of one’s family tree. In this regard, I’ve found their estimates to be remarkably accurate when compared to the paper trail (in the case of my own family, at least). I’d speculate that the Germanic inhabitants of Great Britain Britain (descendants of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians et al.) have lived and coalesced with one another for long enough (~1000 years) to form their own unique genetic footprint, in much the same way as the Cape Coloured community of South Africa has for the last ~350 years. From a historical perspective, to get a more accurate gauge of ancient ethnicity, LivingDNA would be the most suitable company to test at, as their estimates are determined using their own algorithms in conjunction with the People of the British Isles (PoBI) genetic database, highly revered by geneticists the world over.

[@siyashilla6885]

Some south africans may come from the transatlantic slave trade like myself mainly from Angola , Congo, Ghana and Benin

[@geneticnomad8720]

I didnt know that. I was wondering why he said slave ancestry and not native.

[@zeeqq105]

@@geneticnomad8720 many people don’t know that chattel slavery happened in South Africa. I’m African American and many of us have Khoisan, Mubti(sp) dna.

[@amanb8698]

As far as say Germany goes, basically Northern/Northwestern Germans, Dutch, and English share their DNA with each other, Central Germans, Southwestern Germans, Southern Germans/Western Austrians, and Eastern French share their DNA with each other, East Germans and Eastern Austrians share their DNA with Czechs, and Silesian Poles.

[@salzebrahim9527]

Im from indian (from Durban). Which DNA test is most suitable for me to do?

[@mornevisagie7268]

How did you receive the DNA kit? I tried to purchase AncestryDNA but they do not cover South Africa?

[@MatthewBode]

Hi Morné, apologies, I've only just seen your comment. Unfortunately, Ancestry do not ship directly to South Africa; however, an alternative company called FamilyTreeDNA does. If you are unable to source an Ancestry kit from a relative returning from overseas, FamilyTreeDNA is your next best option.

[@JuiceJ443]

Try 23 and me. I don’t know if they ship there but you can try it

[@siyamanci2596]

stop lying; congo, cameroon and southern bantu consist of Bantu peoples like Xhosa, Twana and Zulu

[@andremarais2706]

Ansella van Timoor?

[@rakimd5461]

North western Europe also includes The Netherlands which ik a lot of white South Africans descend from

[@jason-gf8dg]

welsh DNA is the most indigineous to the British Isles.

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

It’s actually Irish. Followed by Scottish, Welsh, then English.

[@Angsta1000]

Bantu and Khoisan are not the same thing

[@lati182]

TRUE

[@MatthewBode]

Being South African, I am acutely aware of this.

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Correct. Bantu aren’t native. They are LARPers.

[@mafumanelephoto4730]

Msunu​@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905

[@tankirafutho3218]

Barolong have existed in Southern Africa for more than 90,000years . They are Bantu they have the oldest ruins in Southern Africa . I am of San descent and think Barolong were the first ​@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905