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[@rachaeldiviney712]

So the confusion about the percentages is really common, basically just because your grandparent was half Russian (for exmple) doesn't mean their child will have exactly 1/4 russian DNA. Since 1 parent only supplies half their dna to a kid it probably won't be an even split. It's totally random so it's possible they don't pass down any Russian dna at all. But dna is only a small part of the wonderful and complex tapestry that is ancestry and heritage!

[@gariden]

i was going to leave a comment like this so i'm glad somebody already did, lol. it's so interesting!

[@SilentMeteorite]

There's also the fact that "Russian DNA" is, in itself, not an objective measure but rather a collection of statiscal averages based on Russia's population. Ethnicity is messy and we'veve socially defined the borders we use to categorize ethnicities and we've decided what measures we deem reasonable for scientifically testing it, and these things are subjective and variable. So using a test is never going to give you objective answers because ethnicity is not objective/perfectly definable

[@WhiteToothedRat]

@@SilentMeteorite said so well!

[@carly6107]

Yes! It also has to do with how the company interprets the data. Basically, they use a set of variable points in the DNA sequence, and look at your unique combination of variations. Depending on which variations (called SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphism) they look at, they may be seeing more from one side than the other.

[@laurenconrad1799]

Also, if 1 parent is, say, 1/32 of something, that might or might not show up in their children. And 1 child might have that show up while another child doesn’t.

[@lynn2574]

Being adopted, the dna tests were a way to gain information- heredity, ethnicity, etc. I also gained 10 half siblings!!

[@jennifers5560]

That is pretty cool!

[@Rose-jz6sx]

Ten! Wow!

[@dees3179]

Wow. Hope some of them are good people to know.

[@SevCaswell]

That's kinda frightening, 10 siblings, imagine if you had met one of your half-siblings and fallen in love with them, not knowing you were so closely related. It is unfortunatly a lot more common that people want to beleive.

[@teacupglitterinfested1525]

That’s so many damn kids

[@scilines]

Jessica’s DNA: 33% Sunshine ☀️33% Rainbows🌈, 34% Diet Coke

[@julie_uk_]

You're not wrong

[@jennifers5560]

Nice!!

[@sooooooooooooooo]

I regularly go back to the anti nausea video and drinking Diet Coke when I’m feeling badly

[@resourceress7]

Spot on!

[@HOHNancy]

You are right! 😊

[@13myrrh]

As a former lab technician in a genetics lab - if there's an abnormality in any test we would repeat the DNA extraction on the original sample and run the test again for any test with abnormal results using an additional testing method. This typically took about an extra week so that would explain the delay in Jessica's results.

[@SilentMeteorite]

Ancestry is also interesting because there's no objective genetic marker that makes you a certain ethnicity. What they compare your DNA against is the averages of certain genentic traits possesed by people tested in each region, but even within the same area there's so much diversity and overlap and it all reflects diverse histories and migrations and it's really neat! But it also means that when you see something like 15% French or whatever, it doesn't necessarily mean you had French ancestry proportional to 15% of your bloodline, because humans are all just a random genetic mess and these are all pulling from statiscal averages!

[@akiyamada2306]

Yeah, such tests are not an accurate representation on historical familial ethnicity/culture. Adverts by the companies make it seems more precise than it is.

[@ameliavelasco8602]

That’s why it slightly changes as more DNA is added to the pool :)

[@radiomedusa]

Actually 15 persent might be a good indicator of having french grandparent or previous generations french ancestors if this result repeats itself when you reupload your raw data to other services. But its important to know where to genetic base of services you use lean. For example i did dna test in Russian company and it showed me east slavs ancestry mainly, but MyHeritage for example do not recognize east slavs very well and put it to baltic region. Another fun part that my russian based company found 5 percent of finnish ancestry. Reuploading showed me that it can be relevant because of scandinavian matches. And after i tried to learn my genealogical ancestry MyHeritage found me a person from my tree who might move to Denmark. And probably she had desendants there who mixed in with danish population and thats why this matches and markers are showing in my results.

[@chocolatewolf3914]

And actually there’s a high chance you won’t have any French because DNA testing isn’t legal there so a lot of websites like ancestry don’t actually test for it

[@personone1382]

ye, race is a social construct because it's categorized by the separations of our societies or whatever. although ethnicity does depend on genetics, there's no actual concrete marker for it and all of our individual genomes are different

[@NitemareMoon]

My Dad always believed he was a full blooded Italian so he was shocked when our ancestry test showed some significant middle eastern heritage. I mean it makes sense it’s a big ass peninsula in the mediterranean 😂

[@zarazabara]

Italy and especially Sicily have a lot of genetic input from many other cultures. My mother's family is 100% Sicilian for several centuries that I've traced so far, and her DNA shows Middle Eastern, Turkish, and Greek along with Italian. Of course, Sicily was an Arab emirate before it was invaded by the Normans in 1061. When you stick that far out into the Mediterranean everyone's going to stop by and most will try to invade.

[@lunacouer]

@@zarazabara My dad's family is from Italy, and yup, he has a smidge of Middle Eastern in there. But it also depends on the company too. You can upload your DNA results from one company to another for a much smaller fee, and then see how they compare. Ancestry didn't show any at all, but MyHeritage showed some Middle Eastern for him. The lesson? No one's got it 100% correct, lol.

[@tompw3141]

Plus the Romans went round the Middle East, and I'm sure more than few brought a bride back with them...

[@kh628]

@@tompw3141 More than that, if you were a Roman citizen, and successful, you were Roman. So plenty of diverse people (men and women) from all around the Mediterranean could have moved to the central part of the empire for social/financial/political reasons and their descendants would likely consider themselves only Roman, and 10+ generations later I can't blame them for having no memory that they'd ever been anything but Italian, no matter what their genetics were.

[@Lynsey17]

It's also not surprising when you consider how many places in Italy primarily relied on commerce. There would be a lot of non-natives traveling to and from Italy and settling there as part of their business.

[@laurenconrad1799]

When I took a DNA test, I was a 100% Ashkanazi Jewish. I didn’t even know these sites would allow you to be 100% of anything. I thought they’d made me 99.9% Jewish and .1% other. But nope. 100% for me. Lol

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

my sister and I had 2% Ashkanazi Jewish, no recollection in the family so we think it was a long time ago. Pleased to have mysteries !

[@brucheweinberger6863]

I would get that too unless they went back about 500 years when the Jews were expelled from Spain.

[@ArgusStrav]

Conan O'Brien had a bit about being 100% Irish. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5Lcen2bmZeXpJY

[@jenrosejenrose7417]

I'm 50% Ashkenazi and 50% Western European, mostly British, mostly London, to the point where they though I had a recent British ancestor. Nope, my mom's family came over in the 1600s and mostly married within the Episcopal church for centuries. But it's really 50/50.

[@valerianaranjocruz25]

Just like the Conan bit: "It means you're inbred"

[@rebeccacuthbertson1271]

I wonder if Claudia's heritage details would vary or be more specific if she took one of the genetic tests aimed/marketed in Asia. The @Geneavlogger has a couple videos on this and his reaction channel has reactions to other youtubers doing those.

[@pansprayers]

Eh, I'm in Vietnam, and Ancestry and 23 are both marketed here heavily. The results aren't going to change much though. Ancestry has been doing this for a long time (I worked there when they rolled out the Beta tests to employees) and genetics aren't going to change just because you're using a different company (unless, of course the company just sucks).

[@cockathiel5319]

@@pansprayers The databases they use to determine the ethnic origin aspect are always growing. Since that whole bit of the analysis is based on comparing your DNA with the DNA of people from a specific area, the results get more precise depending on how much data they have for that area. The companies based in Europe and North America tend to have a lot of data from Europe and people of European descent, but not so much for people from other regions. That’s why Europeans will get results down to the specific country or even a certain region in a country, but other people might literally just get the continent. If there are any testing services focusing on Asia and with lots of samples of Asian DNA, they’d probably be much more precise when determining ethnic origins for Asians than services whose data is skewed heavily European.

[@pansprayers]

@@cockathiel5319 thanks for writing an entire novel that tells me you're trying to make my point without realising it. Ancestry literally has one of the largest Asian continent sampling sizes out of all of the consumer companies that offer the service. They were literally handing them out for free in China during Alpha phase, almost twenty years ago, in part because they were trying to help connect the parents and children who were victims of the One Child Policy, and also in part because it's profitable as hell for them. Why? The Mormon Church literally buys that data off of them (with your permission in the TOS for the kit and the website) to add to the LDS Church's temple ceremonies. Yes, that's right, when you spit in that tube, you're giving your information to the Mormon Church for them to do baptisms, plural 'celestial' marriages, and to count you among their numbers. If you want a test at low/no cost in the Philippines, all you have to do is ask the local Bishop after the missionaries when they come around to try to convert you. Applies pretty much anywhere the Mormons are recognised as a legal religion, and they particularly like to target developing Asian countries. They aren't lacking in sample size. But thanks for playing.

[@ianimal36]

@@pansprayers LDS also maintains the largest genealogy library in the U.S., so that could have something to do with their involvement. You don't have to be involved with the church to conduct research at their facilities.

[@rachelf5466]

@@pansprayers You don't seem to understand how names are submitted for temple ordinances (baptism, marriage, endowment, etc.) in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church). I am a member and have done extensive family history and temple work, as well as served as a full-time missionary, so I feel I understand the topic well enough to explain. First of all, vicarious temple ceremonies are conducted *ONLY* for those who have been deceased for over 110 years, unless the deceased's immediate family or direct descendants submit their name; even then, the family has to have proof that they are the deceased's relative. So no, the "Mormon Church" is NOT baptizing any living people in the temple. They are not "adding you to their numbers" just because you took a DNA test. You are not added to the Church's "numbers" unless you are baptized. End of story. Baptism is essential to membership. Second, we haven't practiced plural marriage for over a century. *If* plural marriages are performed in the temple, they are *ONLY* performed if the deceased person had more than one spouse during his or her lifetime. Basically, if the deceased practiced plural marriage during their lifetime, they can be sealed (a term we use for marriage in the temple) to all of their spouses. A person who did not practice plural marriage during his or her lifetime will not be vicariously sealed to more than one person. For example, my great-grandpa was not a Latter-day Saint. When we brought his name to the temple, we vicariously sealed him to my great-grandma, his one wife. Only her. We don't seal random people together in the temple. And again, we don't seal living people unless it's their wedding ceremony. If you do hear of plural/polygamous marriages in modern times, it's usually members of the Fundamentalist Mormon Church, an offshoot of our church that split off when we stopped practicing polygamy. They are a completely separate entity now with different teachings and a series of different prophets. Even when we do work for the deceased, we aren't forcing the ordinances (baptism, marriage/sealing, etc.) on them. We believe that we're presenting them with the option to accept or reject the ordinances in the afterlife. Hopefully this clears up any misunderstanding. I'm happy to answer clarifying questions if you have them.

[@miippi]

My ancestory DNA would be really boring. We can trace our family back over 1000 years, and apparently our stubborness reaches all the way back there, cause my grandpa was the first person to MOVE. They all lived in the same house until 1640's when christianity came into Karelia, and since my family didn't convert they lost their land and became like token village homeless, and we're put up in each house one by one, cause they didn't have a place to stay. They were listed as "parasites" in the records, cause they lived off-of other families, but still didn't leave the village. This kept going until the war when my grandpa's family had to leave Karelia and move to Finland. That piece of land we got then is still in our family's possession and the house my great-grandfather built there with his family.

[@mmmmmmmmaria]

i think it’s really cool you can trace your family history so far back and live in a heritage house

[@toni5543]

That's not boring! That's so interesting :)

[@ZebraGirl97]

You might think so, but you could be surprised haha. We have pretty good family records in my family, but when I did my DNA test, we found out one of my "Armenian" ancestors was actually Italian. My family was 100% Armenian for a long time and up until recently marrying a non-Armenian was absolutely unthinkable. Heck, when my mom married my (non-Armenian) dad in the 80's, some of her older relatives would not speak to her for a year or more. Now me and my mom have fun debating the scandal and whether the couple knew he was Italian and intentionally lied, or if he genuinely believed he was Armenian and was maybe adopted or something. Anyone who would know is long gone, but it sure was a surprise to my family haha.

[@SadbhW]

Wow, I would never have thought Christianity was only arriving somewhere in Europe in 1640 😲

[@miippi]

@@ZebraGirl97 quite possibly. Although in Finland its not that uncommon to be just 100% Finnish, soni don't think my mom's side is gonna have any surprises there. 100 % Karelian, and that's it. But my grandma's grandma moved to Finland from Hungary during one of the biggest conflicts in Austria-Hungary's recent history, and she was pregnant, out of wedlock to a Austrian Jewish soldier .. there might be some surprises on that side, as we know nothing of her family, or his for that matter, since my dad's grandma was born.

[@vanman4923]

Always good to see you both interact so lovingly together. Yes, Guandong is the new name for Canton.

[@joth165]

This was so interesting! Swedish pronunciation note: in Swedish, if the letter "k" is followed by any of the vowels e i y ä ö then the k is most commonly pronounced as a "sh" sound. So Jönköping (as well as any other place names with in "-köping" in it) is sort of pronounced "Jönshöping". This would also be true for your last name Kellgren = "Shellgren"!

[@thespankmyfrank]

I was just gonna say this! I guess it wouldn't make sense in most other languages, but the K is basically a "sh" in Jönköping.

[@cheskaarana6097]

Ooh! As someone who likes learning different writing systems (but too adhd to actually study it to fluency), this might be my gateway curiosity to diving into Swedish! Korean is fairly easy because it's phonetically a bit similar to my native tongue (Filipino). Russian/Cyrillic is quite a challenge to pronounce but fun to write, especially cursive. Japanese, I keep putting off because so many to memorize even just with katakana.

[@chapplepeach29]

Omg!!! Jessica needs to see this!!!

[@jontell726]

Exakt! Tack för att du förklarade innan jag görde det XD

[@robinviden9148]

It’s not. The sh is a voiceless palato-alveolar fricative, while the sound in Swedish köping or källa is a voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative. However, it would probably be the best approximation for a native English speaker.

[@Richelle_Davenport]

You guys have brought me a lot of comfort in stressful times (facing disability based discrimination at work). Thank you both so much for sharing yourselves with the world!

[@amyt3949]

Hang in there hope you have support to help you through. ♿✊

[@lillithcollins5192]

Half the fun of watching your videos is appreciate just how completely adorable you are as a couple.

[@sooooooooooooooo]

100% for me 🥹

[@bobthebuilderday6leader]

Their interactions and love for each other bring me so much joy!

[@siobhanmacandrew7068]

so pleased to catch you early! I took a DNA test for Ancestry ... My mum was an ‘unwed mother’. I always knew that. Anyhoo, my DNA revealed so much about my ‘lost family’ I found lovely people and at last a photograph of my biological father. great thing to do. ps you two are such a happy contented pair of parents! x

[@thamertanner5448]

I'm trying to find my bio father too and I think I've got a name of someone who may or may not be a father or uncle, not sure what to do about reaching out. I've tried messaging cousin matches on Ancestry but get no response. I may have located a phone number and address... Do you have any advice about how to proceed? Pretty sure my bio dad doesn't know I exist.

[@siobhanmacandrew7068]

@@thamertanner5448 well I am no expert but it all kicked off with the Ancestry DNA test plus I joined Ancestry too. The test tell you about DNA matches, then you can follow the leads into people’s family trees (if they have made them public). I was contacted by a third cousin, who is expert at Ancestry. He had traced a first cousin and he put us both in contact. The first cousin remembered her uncle (my biological father) very well and was still in contact with her cousins - who are my half siblings. So the person who started the process wasnt even closely related to me! But Ive hit lucky I think. I too have messaged people and got no reply - it is disappointing. But hang on in there. When I contacted my half sister she had started looking for me in Ancestry in 2006! I had originally looked for my biological father in 1993! Try not to get discouraged. It will happen.

[@Mothromance]

My grandfather was also from guangdong - this is the province in which guangzhou (canton) is! And I had extremely similar ancestry mixture to you (small bit of Vietnamese, small bit of thai/khmer/Indonesian). I think this is probably just typical admixture for this region due to historical trade routes/colonization/similar factors. Sorta like how most Koreans have some amount of Japanese in their DNA, or many English people have a bit of French!

[@NikkiDoesStufff]

I’ve never seen any of Jessica’s videos before.. this video just randomly appeared as a suggestion, and I’ve got to say on first impression… Jessica has the most dazzling smile I’ve ever seen before 💛

[@ianimal36]

I highly recommend her vlog about Claudia getting pregnant, it's one of the best videos I've seen (several times!) on KZbin, so sweet, it's a rollercoaster of emotions!

[@erinmcgrathejm4985]

DNA testing led me to find out that my cousin is actually my second cousin! Further testing by her, and we found out that grandma wasn’t exactly faithful with grandpa. 😵

[@jennifers5560]

How bout it? My wife found out a cousin was a half sibling and that another sibling was a half sibling. In her case the Mom and Dad both stepped out on each other. Those were tense holiday gatherings right after they found out.

[@lynb87]

Same for me. Whether my grandma knew another man had made her pregnant or thought it was 50/50, we'll never know (she won't talk about it). The pregnancy led to them getting married and having my aunt who ancestry identified as my "first cousin". I'm kinda relieved my grandpa didn't live to find out.

[@elspethfougere9683]

Um i hate to say this, but its important to remember that sexual assault victims in the past didnt have any options.. I wish this was included more in the information about ancestry to be respectful to the many women who suffered.

[@jakemarie828]

Completely agree with Claudia about "the more the better." It's so interesting to be connected to different places in the world through ancestry. 💫🌏

[@AndersWatches]

Yeah, as someone with no variety at all, I agree 😭

[@roising.3221]

I don't really agree, your results give you no claim to be part of any culture you weren't already part off.

[@AndersWatches]

@@roising.3221 genetic and cultural diversity is good, regardless of what you feel people are or aren’t entitled to

[@Lidwien1997]

I find this an odd sentiment. No one can choose their ancestors, so both the claim "the more the better" and the opposite "only 1 ethnicity is best" seem equally misplaced to me. It just is what it is for all of us.

[@julial.r.5383]

Genetic diversity helps maintain the health of a population, by including alleles that may be valuable in resisting diseases, pests and other stresses. Maintaining diversity gives the population a buffer against change, providing the flexibility to adapt. In short, genetic diversity gives species a better chance at survival. (Yeah I just copy pasted, I'm too sleepy to think atm but still wanted to add this important bit to the discussion...)

[@irishleigh86]

My father is half french and half Italian. So technically ide be 25% each. Yet I inherited 40% Italian dna from my father. It just depends on what half of the blend you inherited in your piece of gamete 🤔

[@neckbackcripplinganxietyattack]

Rupert’s DNA: 100% Pure love from his mothers

[@boredgrass]

You two are the most lovely LGBTQ+ Neanderthal moms I know! 🥰🌳🦚

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

You have a point. lol

[@bobthebuilderday6leader]

I’m a Malaysian subscriber and I always feel a little pride when Jessica or Claudia mentions us! So what I understand about Baba Nyonyas is that they’re ethnically the same as any other Malaysian Chinese, it’s just that they live with ethnic Malay customs! Things like dressing in Kebayas, speaking Malay and even their foods have a Malay flair to them. Some of them may have married Malays but from what I understand, it’s not necessary. They just have adopted the culture. States like Penang and Malacca are known for their Peranakan people.

[@dylan4142]

yess same i always love the shoutout but when they go holiday to msia i a bit scared for them actly 😭😭

[@kittyandrews27]

I found my dad’s bio-family through ancestry testing. We have since met his bio mother and 9 siblings! Full siblings, he is the oldest of 10! We have been on family vacations and they are fantastic. It was such a gift. 😊

[@francescathomas3502]

Yes My mother and I also did DNA tests in order to find her bio family as well. She had been adopted as a child after being born out of wedlock. We found them, but dont exactly have a lot in common with them. Religion is one of the non-commonalities. They were Irish and very catholic. My mother was raised as a protestant.

[@kittyandrews27]

@@francescathomas3502 we were lucky they found a very similar family. Catholic, from around the same area, though my dad’s adopted family moved across the country for work when dad was five. They even found parents with similar ancestry, his mom Irish and dad German. Plus it seems my dad’s generally laid back and affable nature was genetic, the family pretty much all seems to be that way. Unexpected but very cool. I am sorry you have not had the same opportunity, I hope that is able to change. 💕

[@lenaevess]

Hitchhikers thumb is when your last segment of your thumb bends more so the last two segments of your thumb make kind of an inverted "L" shape. It still is one of my favourite party tricks because people go really fast from "yeah, it is a thumb, and?" to "what ON EARTH is wrong with your THUMB???? HOW does that not hurt???"

[@elspethfougere9683]

Oh! I didnt know that and apparently I have a hitchhikers thumb too! 😂🙏 Thanks!

[@Pfpfpfpfpf2020]

Oh yeah I have pretty extreme hitchhiker thumbs. People are pretty weirded out when they first see them lol

[@kyupin1075]

neither of them have a hitchhiker's thumb lol, I was kinda surprised that they didn't know what it was

[@nicoles2159]

Mine were overall pretty expected, but I found out that my family is most likely Okinawan Japanese which no one knew! But it explains the tanner skin and wavier hair. It also pinpointed the region in Mexico my family comes from which is so wild.

[@erjinson]

what Claudia said about “just adding one to the list” actually applies to me because when i got (mis)diagnosed with hypothyroidism and prescribed two pills a day for the rest of my life it really wasn’t a big deal bc i already take daily pills and have a bunch of other chronic conditions- it ended up not being hypothyroidism in the end but the diagnosis definitely wasn’t as earth shattering as i imagine it might have been for healthy/able people

[@AWindy94]

I need to get one of these done, we found out through birth records that my maternal great grandma was not Irish like we thought, but was born in Scotland to Scottish parents and then moved to Ireland as a baby. Family history can be so cool 🥰

[@roising.3221]

Lol my grandfather learnt the exact opposite about this grandfather! (Ie he moved to Scotland as an adult for 10 years but moved back to Ireland 😂) I would say your great grandma can claim to be Irish though, where you are raised is most important.

[@ignatique]

Such a shame Jessica didn't click to explore more in depths about her Eastern European heritage. I was really looking forward to know about it. Because there are so many different Eastern Europeans, and even Russia is not just one consistent ethnicity, there are tons of different ethnicities live in there, it would be really interesting.

[@scenichick]

“That is NOT what this intro is going to be about” haha Your smiles and laughs really help me to see life from a brighter perspective when I need it the most. So thank YOU lovely people! 🤘🌅🌻

[@scenichick]

🤟* whoops 😅 I mean yeah rock on! but ya know 😂🤣

[@bluester7177]

I'm Brazilian and I always think about taking one of those tests just because I'm curious about how many ethnicities I'm mixed with, I know there is African, indigenous and Italian from my mother side, my father is a mystery because I didn't meet anyone in his family.

[@bellagsilva762]

I'm Brazilian too and I would love doing one of those! Idk much about my genetics, I just know that there is a strong indigenous ethnicity (both from my mum and from my dad's side), some random European which I'm not sure where it's from and some African that I also don't know where is from! I think that would be such an interesting test to do as a Brazilian because of the many immigrants and the colonization, would love to take one!

[@gnostic268]

Almost all indigenous DNA results on those tests are from South and Central Americans. A lot of North American people get results and incorrectly assume that they're connected, through distant branches on their family trees, to modern Native tribes in the U.S. but not enough U.S. tribes have been tested to be able to form a large enough gene pool for results to show up. You'd be one of the few people who would probably have an accurate test result.

[@jennifers5560]

The results are interesting to look at.

[@bluester7177]

@@gnostic268 I imagined that it would be the opposite, I assumed most of the data would be coming from North American tribes and I would know only the percentage of indigenous DNA I have but not possibly from where it came from because I don't think my family has any connections to North America.

[@michellecavalcante5883]

Brazilian here as well... I have no idea where my family came from before my grandparents, so I hope to do one of those one day. I know that Iberian (most likely Portuguese) and Native it's probably going to show up (one of my greatgramothers was one).

[@vivalamew]

I got a dna test for my birthday a few years ago. I always thought my family was 100% Dutch for many generations. Turns out I'm 49% swedish/norwegian and neither of my parents had a clue 😅 The regions where my swedisch/dutch dna starts to mix in 1400/1500 are at key places where the vikings raided the Netherlands, which might mean I have viking heritage. Thats more fascinating to me than just plain pure Germanic genes lol. Now I'm off to braid my hair like Largatha LOL.

[@wendyhere7204]

That's awesome! May I ask which DNA test you got?

[@vivalamew]

@@wendyhere7204 MyHeritage, but I hear there are more detailed tests out there so I wouldn't really recommend that one. It doesn't give health information for example.

[@AnnaKaunitz]

@@vivalamew The Swedish viking age took place years 800-1050, there were zero Swedish Vikings in the 15th century. Millions of people across Europe have Swedish ancestry at one point, many hundreds of years - 1000 years ago because of migration, trade, changed borders (Sweden was an empire at one point). But the Viking era was a short period that only included some inhabitants of present day Sweden and it ended pretty abruptly (Hastings 1066 the final straw) Most people with these vague geographic DNA are often the results of diluted DNA from the standard migration people have made during history. And somewhat dodgy tests. It’s pretty dishonest lumping Norway together with Sweden as Sweden is a massive country and Sweden, Norway and Denmark were in the Kalmar Union between 1397 and 1523 when Sweden broke off and founded its own independent country.

[@vivalamew]

@@AnnaKaunitz I know that the viking raiding took place at that time. But 1400 is how far back the test would go. It's still plausible since MyHeritage shows me many Swedish dna relations who also took the test.

[@AnnaKaunitz]

@@vivalamew Ok but again, there were no Vikings left after the Viking period ended. Gone means gone. A non professional DNA test claiming to give accurate results from the 14-15th century, is just an expensive non professional test. It’s just a fancy way of making money for a company, you understand that? Did the Vikings mix and settle in lots of locations? Yes. Like many other people throughout history. There is this romantic idea of having Viking ancestry among some people outside of Norway Sweden and Denmark.

[@alydamarincovich5704]

This is so cool! My grandma got myself, my sister, my dad, and my uncle these types of tests for christmas one year and it's definitely interesting to see the differences between siblings as to what got inherited and what didn't.

[@thamertanner5448]

I'm trying so hard to get other family members to take tests but no one is willing. My sister is only my half sister and I really want to see how we compare. My mom and aunt are both against taking the test. It makes me really sad cuz I want more info and their tests would give us what they inherited from my grandparents which I'm really interested in. My grandmother was Dutch Irish but no one knew about the Irish until I started doing work on Ancestry.

[@resplendentclarity2188]

You're not boring Jessica.....mine is ALL in the United Kingdom. I kid you not. London, Merseyside, Welsh, Ireland and a smidge of Scottish. I was so gutted. :'D

[@neitan6891]

That’s so cool though! You have such a strong connection to the land :)

[@resplendentclarity2188]

@@neitan6891 That's a nice way of looking at it. Xx

[@miunya]

Ireland isn't in the UK at least

[@resplendentclarity2188]

@@miunya Northern Ireland is. Xx

[@miunya]

@@resplendentclarity2188 Yeah then say that :P ! Big difference

[@Nalanzazu]

My family did genetic testing and we learned that 1. My great great great grandparents didn't just /travel/ to Malaysia for a bit, as it was described but assimilated at least one person into the family. And 2. My mom has 3 younger half siblings (she kind forgot she didn't know her biological father when we did the testing so that was a big surprise) but I now have 2 aunts and an uncle who are so awesome and happy to have more family too!

[@JeanPAnimeAppraisal]

@5:58 IN CLAUDIA'S DEFENSE: she is a dentist... if she can hold a drill and create ARTISTRY inside of a mouth, she can do just about damn anything with a sharp object xoxo Love,- an American dental assistant

[@bookishdaydreams4993]

I’m born and raised in Jönköping - how cool that you could trace your ancestry there too, Jessica! 😊 My mum actually found a relative living in the US through a DNA test, which was really interesting. My great great grandmother emigrated to America, left her two year-old daughter behind and was basically never heard from again, but apparently she had children there. This relative could tell us a little bit more about her, and for example sent us a picture of her grave and told us where it was. It’s so cool that old mysteries can be uncovered like this by modern technology!

[@kailichen2735]

Claudia, I just wanted you to know that Canton is the algo version of the word Guangzhou, which is a city in Guangdong province, so your mom was correct and you are Cantonese! 😊

[@Hailevaranex]

This is so interesting. I had been told that these types of tests aren't so good for East Asians because there isn't enough data but that was a couple of years ago. Hopefully it has changed, because my mom's family is just Japanese (rare these days for someone to be one thing) but I have always wondered (and hoped) there'd be some Ainu in there. But also my dad's family is from Indonesia and are Dutch Indonesian, but we don't really know what's what. Also, people of Asian and European ancestry have Neanderthal DNA because the Neanderthal species came about after we left Africa. In Anthropology, particularly in the newer generations of Anthropologists, we are being taught that Neanderthals are a subspecies of homo sapiens, so where we're Homo sapiens sapiens, Neanderthals are Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (but if any other Anthropologists or students of Anthropology can correct me or provide more information, that would be appreciated). Thanks for sharing your results! Genetics are so fascinating!

[@farahh.964]

claudia, your initial theory that your mother might have been Peranakan seems to make sense with your 7% Indonesian, thai, khmer ancestry! the Indonesian part might have been Javanese (theoretically) :-)

[@OriginalCosmicBabe]

I also have a predisposition toward hereditary hemochromatosis. And my DNA results actually resulted in finding a half-brother I did not know about!! (He lives about 100 miles from me and we’re friends now. It’s the oddest thing, meeting someone as an adult and actually feeling a sibling bond!)

[@neulasia]

i have a 12th cousin 3 times removed called dr. j.h. kellgren, so if that's jessica's relative we share finnish ancestry in the distant past. according to geni the common forefather is lars mattsson teit in the 1500s.

[@nextupnow]

Jessica, I have hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) you are only a carrier (you need two copies to develop the condition), but you might want to mention to family members that you are a carrier so they can mention it to their doctors and keep it on their radar. The prognosis is FAR better if HH is caught early. I was lucky to catch it early on a blood test, but that was totally by chance because we did not know of any HH family history. If left untreated HH causes major organ damage pretty much throughout your body (it can lead to cancer, diabetes, infertility, and a number of other conditions). Anyways, all of that is to say, good to let your family members know that they may be at risk if they aren’t already aware. If caught before organ damage occurs, it is super easy to treat and can be essential symptomless (luckily I fall into this camp). Great video by the way!

[@kelsiemcveety999]

Just fyi, the health aspects of direct to consumer testing are not the same as clinical genetic testing. If you really want to know about your genetic health, especially predisposition to cancer or heart issues, you should see a genetics professional. I'm a cancer genetic counselor and happy to answer any questions

[@perplexingquestion1154]

Hi! I am actually applying for genetic counseling programs this upcoming winter. Any advice? Things you wish you would have known before attending? I'm super nervous about not being a competitive applicant.

[@dlaity107]

If only that were easier to do! 18 out of 23 near relatives affected, downline over 8 generations (gens are off kilter in parts of our family) from a specific 2GGM indicate a broken BRACA1 (including, sadly, an infant relative with a related genetic illness). Took my big file into my first appt with the breast clinic, inc the tree I drew out (I'm a genealogist), they referred me on the spot. A year later, still chasing, they discovered the nurse who'd handled my file had been fired, and mine was one of a handful of files "either emptied or missing". We insisted on being re-referred, and in the meantime, had a result from one of these commercial companies that indicated a broken BRACA1, "but not in any of the 29 most usually searched for positions" and a note on it to pass to a clinician that would help them find it. Finally attended, only to find the geneticist was on "his usual Friday afternoon golf appointment" (!), and the nurse who eventually saw us because we insisted (having crossed the country for that appointment), being shocked by my tree: Her: I've never seen a patient draw this out so correctly. Who was your previous doctor? Me: I'm a genealogist. Preparing these is part of my job. Her: But patients can never do it like this. Who was your previous doctor? Eventually we managed to make them agree to take blood, which is in their freezer some 10 years later, but in the meantime they've said they wouldn't test until: 1) I'm positive for cancer (and we have argued the toss with them that pre-diagnosis testing feels like it should come pre-diagnosis!); 2) I produce the case files from the previous doctor who doesn't exist, but that nurse decided must do, or I couldn't have drawn a simple health tree. We're back in next week for the next in the annual round of breast clinic and boot up the backside to try to get genetics moving. We've even offered the raw file and the GEDMatch, but they claim they're not using any of the 7 existing chips so couldn't read either. We offered to just find the money and test privately with their own lab, but they say they "wouldn't have the technology to read it if our lab tests it privately" even though they conceded that would be the same chip. All this to say, I love that there are warm, open, approachable professionals like you creeping into the field. We need far more of you!

[@kelsiemcveety999]

@@perplexingquestion1154 I thought I already responded to this but I definitely have a lot of advice, basically apply to a lot of schools, have an interesting and unique personal statement/reason you pursued GC, and talk to as many gcs as possible.

[@harmonicaveronica]

I don't really want to do a DNA test for privacy reasons, but my brother and his wife did one before having kids and it came back basically exactly as expected lol. Lots of eastern European ancestry because my mom's side of the family was fully Polish until my generation. My grandma was born in the US but as a child of immigrants her first language was Polish

[@elieli2893]

Yeah I mean the test probably wouldn't show me anything unexpected or especially varied. Probably mostly if not completely Finnish heritage, with maybe a bit of Russian since I've got grandparents from Karelia. Then again, the folk from grandpa's side seem to have gone to Karelia from western Finland, but I have no idea where my grandpa's mom was from, most likely Karelia anyway. Then there's our family name that looks German and is rare in Finland, and no one knows where that came from, so that's a mystery. But it's not that rare for Finnish people to have changed their name from Finnish to another language and the other way around. So... There are some mysteries that I'm a bit curious about, but I'm pretty convinced the test would just tell me the boring "100% Finnish lol" :'D

[@thamertanner5448]

First of all with DNA tests you can choose to keep your results private so only you may see them. Secondly privacy is an illusion. There is no such thing as true privacy in modern society. Your medical records are on Google for crying out loud. My aunt wont take a DNA test due to privacy concerns and it's so frustrating. She has gotten upset over the things I have found on Ancestry and I've tried to explain that it is all public records that anyone can look up. She was unhappy that I found her marriage records like... How do you not understand that is public information? Along with any address you have lived at and how long you lived there. In some cases there is even records of what jobs a person has held. Birth/death/education/marriage/divorce/travel/military records are all public.

[@harmonicaveronica]

@@thamertanner5448 just because a lot of privacy is an illusion doesn't mean I shouldn't protect what I can. There's some stuff that's public record and always has been because they're vital records held by the state. But anything other than that, I do try to remove, and not deliberately put out there in the first place. Which includes DNA testing that hasn't been requested by my doctor. Companies that do genetic testing for fun can choose to protect their consumer's privacy, but they aren't covered under HIPAA in the US, which is where I'm from. (And I mean I assume there are contract laws that apply that hold them to respecting your choice, but I haven't checked that their ToS doesn't state that the company can change their policies at any time) At least in the US, your medical records absolutely should not be easily accessible on Google and if they are, the medical provider or insurance company that leaked it is in for a whole lot of very hefty fines, assuming they were involved in billing for those services. Which they almost always are. This does have exceptions like free clinics and subcontracted medical lab testing, unfortunately, which also means that doctor-requested genetic testing might not actually be private. But at that point I see the risk as a necessary evil

[@thamertanner5448]

@@harmonicaveronica I'm in the US as well and most medical companies, hospitals, doctors offices etc, outsource their databases to third company parties and oftentimes use cloud storage or Google Drive, all things which are easily hackable and have been hacked many times. Medical record privacy/vulnerability is a huge issue. I was literally just talking to someone in IT the other day about what a problem it is. If you think your medical records are secure think again.

[@I.m-Me]

If I remember correctly, there's a history of other people claiming to be Han because when the Han took over they became the privileged/protected group.

[@ameliavelasco8602]

My main ethnicities that I know of historically are Mexican, Portuguese, and English/Irish. My actual DNA ancestry list goes off the page 🥲

[@SailorMya]

Nothing like watching Claudia make Jessica laugh!

[@PhoebeFayRuthLouise]

Claudia hijacking the intro was hysterical! I always love the two of you laughing together! You both make the world a better place!

[@Rhaifha]

This is one of those things where I'm like; I should probably be part of a reference population because I can trace my family back to the 1600s and *every single one* of my ancestors are from like a 20 kilometer radius from where I live.

[@Alalea17]

That must have been a lot of… marrying in the same families I guess ^^•

[@macalauresmuse]

Would you do a DNA test to see if and how that is backed up? Or if there were any unexpected results?

[@julia.md2b707]

We found out my mom has a cousin that was adopted without anyone knowing my uncle had gotten someone pregnant. We’re Mexican-American and she was adopted into a white family from Idaho who never told her that her birth parents were Mexican. She’s lovely and we’re so glad to have her in our family. However, she was sure in for a shock when she realized she had 40+ first cousins.

[@orangentage]

"wow, it's been lovely darling but I don't really want to sit here whilst you're just gathering spit for the next 30 minutes" I want aunties like you omg

[@lanwiseman]

I work for the company that manufactures 23andme kits! That's so cool! I might have even inspected that lot!

[@roxannlegg750]

Mine was so spookily accurate - I wondered if they knew me personally. I gave my middle name only as my surname, so they did not have the ability to track my maiden surname, as it is German but a tiny single family line only in Australia of. They identified me as not only being 75% German, but they shaded the areas of the world these genes are found is Germany and 2 tiny locations in Australia, - Adelaide and a few in Melbourne. No where else in the world was this genetic line found. I was shocked. Living in Australia, Adelaide ot be precise, and of German Ancestry on both sides of the family, i had 75% German of ONE specific area, a tiny amount of English, and some more Polish. Which is so specific becasue our ancestors migrated out of Posen (Posnan today) in 1846), which was German/Polish, in the day was still part of German lands. ANd of all the genes they identified - again accurate. I have the medical records and know what many of my family died of going back nearly 100 years (I have a pathology degree and knowing what we all die of has been a macarbe hobby of mine) - and they were bang on for the early onset high cardiac disease risk factors on one line of the family , but also longevity on the other line o fhte family. So being hit by a truck not withstanding, at least im pretty sure I know what I will die of! LOL

[@therealJamieJoy]

May I ask which DNA service you used? I am curious to maaayyyyybbbeeeee try it. :)

[@roxannlegg750]

@@therealJamieJoy Ancestry - which is what theirs looks like - im guessing as the picture of the results looks the same. Altho some have said its all bollocks, I found it accurate, as has everyone else Ive known to use it. Remember tho, the resullts are only as good as the DNA reference data bank they currently have.

[@therealJamieJoy]

@@roxannlegg750 thank you so much for your response. :)

[@stormRed]

"Took a DNA test turns out, I'm 100% _that bitch"_

[@gidgetgetscrafty]

Lab technician, Claudia. 🤣

[@TransTess]

Some of the results sound more like genetic astrology than science! But that does make for a fun video! Have a lovely week lovely people!

[@Blue-pb7kz]

Wait isn't Canton just an older romanisation of Guangdong? Anyways I'm always fascinated by these tests, though I'm not sure I feel comfortable about doing one myself! Oh wait there's a genetic variant for getting hangry? Ok now I need to do this with my partner. Wow!

[@Mel_Bat]

As an Eastern European it's quite interesting that when I first stumbled across your chanel one of my first thoughts was "Does she have Russian ancestors?"

[@zhenia2511]

As a Ukrainian, Jessica has small Slavic eyes. Western eyes tend to be somewhat wider.

[@KALENDROS]

💙💙 That’s so cool! Like Claudia’s, mine was similar in being many colors seeing that my grandfather was mixed race. So outside of being very European (obviously haha) I was of indigenous American, African, and South East Asian decent, then tiny 1%s here and there like Middle East etc. But like Claudia I also have Thai, Indonesian, Myanmar! Here in the Southern US a lot of us have mixed ancestry though.

[@audreyd859]

Omg.. not even a minute in and Claud has Jessica laughing. I just love it!! It's my favorite part of the videos they do ❤

[@stariadreamtea]

This was good except for the part where Jessica said her European ancestry was "boring" and I'm so utterly tired of hearing this even as a joke. Europe is so varied and rich in culture, art, music and history...there is nothing boring about the land of the Celts, the Vikings and let's not forget Arthurian legends that formed the backbone of so many modern Fantasy genres. It's FASCINATING and exciting - just like any other human race. If you dive into any culture and history the depths are fathomless.

[@Ruby.D]

Such a surprise to find out that Jessica is, indeed, white 😂

[@owenwilliams3975]

I always find discussion of ancestry percentages problematic - especially as a Celt, who the English tried to eliminate - it also feeds into the blood quantum racism arguments… :(

[@welcometonecropolis]

Me and my mum are planning on doing tests eventually, it’s so interesting!

[@mcwjes]

Pretty sure I'm half polar bear and half corn dog. Pretty sure.

[@melissasaint3283]

My grandmother did one of these.... 100% French Canadian. She laughed so hard.

[@kb3827-q5s]

I’m adopted and I did mine a few years ago. I’m half and half of Northwest Europe and Southeast Asia. It was fascinating!

[@wrenkiestler]

I have one of the indicators for hereditary hemochromatosis (with really high serum ferritin but no other real symptoms for that) and it turned out I have hyperferritinemia cataract syndrome instead! So, if you have high serum ferritin, but don't appear to be storing it in your organs on an MRI, it might be this!

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

Jessica didn't say much about any medical info in her report. Her call, but I wondered if it would be answered.

[@DigiSparqMedia]

I just graduated yesterday and was so surprised when your beautiful face appeared on the big screen congratulating everyone! Thank you for being such a vibrant part of Brighton life xx 🙂😘

[@lunacouer]

Ancestry (the company) is constantly updating their results to hone in on geographical regions and new traits discovered. Which is cool, but the traits part sometimes feels like it's a horoscope 😅 For example, they just came out with the genetic likelihood of being an introvert or extrovert. They got mine right - introvert. But then they had one about being able to remember your dreams, where they said I was unlikely to be able to remember them. I laughed because from childhood until the last few years, I've always remembered them. Annoyingly so, lol. So I take all of it with a grain of salt. They're discovering more and more each day about new genes and how they work together with other ones, as well as getting more data from different areas for ancestry. What it tells you in 5 years will definitely be more precise than it is today.

[@aShadeBolder]

Claudia's east end grandparent could have any ancestry. the east end was an immigrant melting pot for centuries, so the French/German could just as easily come from there.

[@shayelea]

When you’re more Scandinavian than Jessie and more English than Claud…😂

[@samanthatheminimalist]

Neither of you have hitch hikers thumb! Or if you do it’s very very understated. It’s when your thumb actually bends back at the top joint like an upside down j.

[@paulasmith7803]

Genetics can be awesome. My mother had no pain with labor. Both my sisters did. I had no pain with labor, just like Mom.

[@JessPlays]

you two are freaking adorable in love, your happiness is contagious

[@judebrown4103]

This was great fun. The comments I've managed to read are absolutely fascinating too, run out of energy to check out any more now. So interesting though, best wishes to you both and Rupert.

[@rnbspowa7of69]

When your ancestors donate you DNA they don’t actually donate in equal parts. Some jeans are stronger. Also grandma’s lie. 😎

[@scilines]

Omg so true about grandmas. 😂

[@sayurimei]

I think that for me it would be completely normal to be a mix since I am a latinamerican gal born from a Nicaraguan dad and a Costa Rican mom, with my Nicaraguan grandparents being a mix of black Caribbean and native central American and Sweden- latino ancestors and on my mum's side I know I have Chinese, Spanish (Galicia), German ancestry, and I am completely OK being mix. I mean almost all Latinos know we are stray mix 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ I do wish to have my DNA tested but to see if my European genes are more present since most my food allergies and genetic illnesses are more present on European countries 🤷🏻‍♀️ Edit: Jessica I want to thank you since you spike my interest in knowing from where the last names of my parents came from and I actually researched them on the page you look for your last names and I was able to find my grandma's original birth certificate 💙 this is going to be the perfect gift for her upcoming 95th birthday next month thank you for this video

[@CristinaGonzalez-hv2ek]

Hi, sorry to bother you. Could you please tell me what page is it? I mean the one to look for the surnames :)

[@LGski964]

cute! Im actually afraid to take that test. One, my fathers "Irish pride" has played a big part in how I see myself as a person, and what if hes not truly Irish afterall? eek. Funny thing, my Mother has always thought herself of French ancestry and found out she isnt french one bit, but has a lot of medeterianian decent she cant even explain and is a complete mystery. Very curious indeed, as they say.

[@macalauresmuse]

My Dad is Scottish for several generations but they were Irish originally. You might find some interesting mixes in there if you do one - I think based on Irelands location and historical migration routes - but it won't make your Dad any less Irish, it will just add some more 'strands' to your family tapestry ;) I'd love to do one and see who/where/what is in my DNA.

[@AntoniaMorris]

I just found out the name of my weird bendy thumbs - Hitchhiker's thumb! Who knew it was genetic, I thought they were just hypermobile :D

[@jlzombiecat]

Though neither of them have it. The end bones of my thumbs bend backwards at 90 degrees, theirs were both straight.

[@AntoniaMorris]

@@jlzombiecat mine go back 90 degrees as well! I just looked up the name when they read it out and saw pictures of hypermobile thumbs. Apparently it's a scale of how straight/bendy your thumbs are.

[@jwb52z9]

I wonder if Eastern European descent could explain Jessica's scoliosis. A lot of women of Eastern European descent get what's called a "dowager's hump" on their back. It makes me wonder if having several genetic conditions works together to cause the scoliosis instead with the same genetics otherwise.

[@laurenconrad1799]

I don’t know if that contributed to Jessica’s scoliosis, but I can confirm that it is common amongst Eastern European women. My grandmother had a mild case and so did I. My mother had a severe case and so did a girl from my hometown with a similar ethnic background.

[@Noel.Chmielowiec]

My great-grandma, grandma, mum and I have scoliosis and lordosis. All Eastern European, from Poland. We don't know anything about great-grandma's ancestors, but I assume that they were Eastern European as well.

[@Sam-nf5gy]

Claudia’s hair looks so beautiful!

[@francescathomas3502]

I am curious to ask Jessica - Your surname at one point used to be Kellgren Hayes. Is Hayes an irish name? Because if so, I have family relatives named Hayes who came from County Wexford in Ireland. I was wondering if they might possibly be related to you. Would you be interested in uploading your DNA to GEDMATCH? It is free to use - although there is also a paid tier - but it allows your DNA to be matched to those people whose DNA tests were done with different companies. Mine was done with Family Tree DNA for example. But my Hayes family emigrated to New Zealand back in the late 1800s. My own DNA is very similar to Jessica's in that I have mostly British and Irish ancestry (At least 70%) with some Scandinavian and Northern European. But my ancestors - great grandparents mostly - emigrated to New Zealand. It would be wonderful if you both would consider uploading your DNA tests to Gedmatch. Thank you.

[@liranpiade4499]

I really need to test my DNA! Firstly, to see how detailed their coverage of Jews is, and is there going to be anything non-Jewish in there? Plus from my understanding of my ancestral tree it should be all over the place, so yeah, I'm pretty curious.

[@francescathomas3502]

If you look for and find the DNA test video for Mayim Bialik, (Big Bang Theory & Blossom) her DNA shows her to 99% jewish which she is very proud of!! So yes Jewish ancestry can be tested!!

[@charlenechan8189]

i recently discovered your channel and your videos have really brought me joy these past few days. thank you so much for the wholesome content 💗

[@malougraf2705]

You know, Jönköping is only 1,5 hours away from Ryssby, a small place in Sweden where many russians lived, it’s possible that some of your russian haritage comes from there 🤓

[@simplymedieval]

Sweden have a long history of taking in skilled craftmen from other countries. And also, Sweden "owned" a lot of other countries back in the day. I don't think that anyone here is more then perhaps 50% Swedish 😇 I have bits from all over europe and if I remember correctly - even some from the arab/egypt area... // The Swede

[@random23287]

Claudia is very mixed. Much like Jessie, I come from one specific region, but even more so (99.9% eastern european and like 0.1% north Asian)

[@cynhanrahan4012]

Mine, from 2 different testing companies, produced unsurprising results. When compared, I had to take into account that they called different areas by different names. But bottom line I'm mostly Irish/English and "germanic" which included Norway for some reason. More than a little French/Spanish/Portuguese. The tiny surprises were I had multiple 1+% East Asian and South Asian bits, and multiple 1+% Caribbean and South American bits that totaled up to around 10% of my ethnicity. The tiny bits were surprising but untraceable because 500 year old records or no records at all, but does line up with the timing of colonization.

[@Ulthar_Cat]

This was very funny XD keep in mind though that neanderthal people weren't humans. They were a different species. Your ancestors mingled with them though XD 💜💜💜

[@virginiawu3177]

I wouldn't take any Asian ancestry on these things very reliable. MY husband is Mongolian and Chinese. This test only said Chinese but he knows he is Mongolian. He uploaded to a Chinese version and it was much more accurate

[@toni5543]

Sad to hear Claudia say there's nothing to be proud of about being English. I'm not English but I just feel sad hearing that. I get it, really I do. Just didn't feel right.

[@LilyAlcee]

I've been following you for years and this is the first video I've watched with the two of you that wasn't just like a cameo of Claudia and I think you guys might be the cutest couple I've ever seen

[@annajackson9001]

This was very interesting, especially the neanderthal section. One question does this mean Claudia is going to improve her English school girl French 🤣(sorry could not resist)

[@TheClosingDreams]

Love you guys but please don't promote that being 100% is boring. Far from that. Europe has a ton of interesting stories ✨

[@AL-cg4vb]

Most people have an increased risk of diabetes type 2 because they consume animal products. One serving massively raises the risks and is known to be potentially reversed by a whole foods plant based diet.

[@xXcrimsonxroseXx]

I've always been hesitant to take tests like this because of their tendency to cooperate with law enforcement--and as an American, I don't need to be giving the police access to anything like this! But I always love seeing other peoples', and I would hope one day to feel comfortable to take one myself! It's so special to get in touch with your heritage!

[@mcwjes]

That's always my first thought. Are they going to give my dna results to the police before or after they give it to healthcare companies and make medical care even more expensive?

[@SoulShines4Music]

Yeah the whole idea of handing over your DNA to a for profit corporation doesn't sit well with me at all. I'm always surprised to see just how many people willingly give up their DNA so easily when really, it could be used and given to anyone (law enforcement, governments, scientists etc.) and you wouldn't be any the wiser.

[@francescathomas3502]

You should always have the option of allowing or not allowing your DNA to be matched against Criminals DNA. I know that GEDmatch gives you the option. You are NOT giving your DNA to LEOs. Your DNA is being tested against a criminals DNA to find out if they are members of your distant family or not. That is all.

[@SoulShines4Music]

@@francescathomas3502 - "That's all" as far as *you* know. Let's face it, once you hand over your DNA you can't take it back and it's now totally out of your hands what it might ultimately get used for somewhere down the line, regardless of what you were told or what authorization you may have given them. Personally I wouldn't trust those companies as far as I could throw them but that's just me, obviously everyone is entitled to make their own decision on the matter.

[@AludraEltaninAltair]

I have this fear as well. I even asked my mother not to do a test because I worried her DNA could be used to find me. I just had this paranoia that someone might use it to try to find genetic predisposition for LGBTQ+ identity and subsequently round people up to put them in camps. It felt simultaneously like ludicrous paranoia and a realistic understanding of how some people use ancestral information to harm people.

[@tillybrown8754]

I love you guys haha. When Claudia says “It’s why I love ‘foe’, it’s in my DNA” 😂❤️ it’s pronounced ‘fuh’ for future reference! You should know since you’re Vietnamese now hehe x

[@kindacalled777]

I got 100% from one region and it said probably no one had immigrated for 7+ generations. I guessed that already 😆

[@SewlockHolmes]

In the beginning, when you were both gathering saliva for the test, I found myself trying to generate some myself and it's oddly difficult under pressure!