Only Found On MyHeritage (2024 Update)

[@ProgRockKeys]

My Heritage does show us DNA relationship in cM between any two matches! Ancestry is not capable of that. Biggest reason for me to use it, because some of my matches match both parents. But, beware of annual renewal at full $500 price which happens without email warning, with no chance to reverse. Ancestry is much more polite about that, with both a heads up email and a grace period.

[@sl5311]

I could never cancel Ancestry. They kept putting it thru. The only way I finally cancelled them was to cancel my cc.

[@LanceHall]

The next step in DNA is the automatic reconstruction of ancestor's DNA. I think eventually you'll have the option of seeing your grandparent's DNA matches from their reconstructed DNA kit.

[@GenealogyTV]

Wouldn't that be fun.

[@tomask1436]

You can already do the reconstruction on GedMatch or with Borland Genetics Tools.

[@redhen689]

I know GEDMATCH has a feature that reconstructs an ancestors DNA. You have to upload the DNA of many descendants though.

[@TruthSerum101]

@@redhen689 Wow! It makes sense that it would require many descendants.

[@marygrether1]

ok slow but sure, watched your 400th episode, I learned a lot there. so I got one of my ancestor's names, got the whole line, up to the 15'oos. I see what you mean now! so one ancestor at a time, and I got a trouble some one, three guys named the same thing! I also mixed their spouses up. but not getting overwhelmed, I stopped, checked my closest ancestor with that name and that is what I am working on now. Connie I can't thank you enough for this, and breaking a brick wall, at least a crack, again thank you!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks. Yes... do a full work up on that one ancestor to learn the FAN Club of that ancestor. That will help you start to tease out the different people by the same name.

[@anyawenzel5163]

N .

[@DanSolo871]

The next feature MyHeritage should add is a "triangulation label" (time stamp <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1028">17:08</a>) Using the chromosome browser, when you review and confirm triangulated segments, you should be able to label that segment with that ancestral couple. Then, when you view only YOUR chromosome segments, when you hover over strands of DNA, it'll tell you which branch you inherited that DNA from.

[@GenealogyTV]

Interesting idea. I'm sure they are reading these comments.

[@sl5311]

Do you know if you are able to match by chromosome segment by itself -in reverse- and get the names from that?

[@scotbotvideos]

I prefer the tree functionality of Ancestry than that of MyH, but the latter's DNA matching is superior. MyH shows us the relationship between matches, not just how we relate to our matches, and this IMO enables us to work out how some of those matches may match us even if they don't match our parents who we've also tested. I do have some complaints, though. Oftentimes the Theory of Family Relativity on MyH is wildly inaccurate. That is to say it doesn't match one's own paper-trail. Users should be leery of this and not automatically assume the theory is correct. With respect to ethnic composition, I've heard from Redditors that some people get ethnicities they weren't expecting. For instance, Poles getting "Irish, Scottish and Welsh" when they don't believe they've got any ancestry from these nations. Well, in this case, there are two possibilities: 1) Scots settled in Prussia during the latter Middle Ages; 2) Scottish mercenary soldiers fighting for the Kingdom of Sweden likely ended up settling in the places in which Sweden was fighting. Hence why I get matches in the Baltics and Russia.

[@Hamuel]

I have 2% Greek and Italian on MyHeritage but no where else and nowhere near those regions are mentioned in my pedigree paper trails so I immediately dismissed my MyHeritage estimate upon seeing it

[@scotbotvideos]

@@Hamuel So my MyH gives me Andean and Mesoamerican as well as Finnish results. My other kits from ADNA and 23Me uploaded to MyH don't give me the Andean but do maintain the Finnish. The prevailing theory is that the A&M is really Ancient North Eurasian DNA being picked up and that this is also prevalent in Finnish DNA; why I've got Finnish DNA I'm putting down to the Vikings, after all MyH claims to go back about a 1000 years. Now with respect to other family members, my mother gets some Italian, but nowhere on our tree (at time of writing anyway) does it indicate any Italian ancestry whatsoever. However, I've only yet managed to explore my maternal Scottish side, which is really about all of it, apart from one man from Ireland about 200 years ago. So my theory in regards to the Italian is that this Irish gentleman had some Italian DNA on account of soldiers from the Papal States being in Ireland during the 16th to 17th century in southern Ireland to help local petty kings fight against the English during the Desmond Rebellions. Their DNA eventually came to Scotland via our man William, but that's just a hunch and can't be proven (perhaps never will be) at this point in time. I do get a lot of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish matches, as of course do both my parents. I ascribe that to the aforementioned info in my first comment on the video, i.e. Scottish soldiers going to Scandinavia (either as volunteers or deported there) and thence settling there after their service had been fulfilled. Another reason is I may have ancestry from Scotland's Northern Isles, i.e. Shetland and Orkney, which at one time were leased to Norway, and would have some settlement by Danes and Norse alike, never mind the Viking aspect. My Dad gets about 16 matches with people on the Faroes, and on MyTrueAncestry shares approximately 60cM with the Sandoy Church dig cadaver, implying he had an ancestor who was perhaps a 3rd cousin with the person buried there. And this is the point I'm trying to make: just because it's not apparent why we have certain ethnicities in our heritage doesn't mean the results are faked. It just means that some of us aren't quite as aware of our familial and national histories as perhaps we'd normally claim. Ancestry research is a marathon, not a sprint, especially if you want accuracy and not just to full it up with names.

[@tonyvancampen-noaafederal2640]

As a sailor and genealogist, I think channel markers might actually be a better fit. Love listening to your show, and especially love your 'sailing directions,' sailing directions are written instructions about a port or region. I've been on the fence with My Heritage, but I'll take another look.

[@scottblackwell1215]

Thank you for doing this video. Your video is going to take thousands of people to the next level. A TRUE ACT OF SERVICE!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thank you.

[@karmagal78]

A friend had been searching for the cause of death for her great grandfather for a long time. No one living back then was still around and her grandmother had never heard how her father had died when she was a baby (he had been in his twenties). MyHeritage was the only site where I was able to find the information. Tragic railroad accident.

[@debbiedemeester5990]

I had the same issue with the 1920 census in Detroit when it was first released (of course it was a while ago LOL). I could not find my husbands grandfather, Julius Demeulemeester. It was next to impossible to go page by page with the extent of the Detroit census and he wasn't here in 1910. Sooooo, I decided to think "laterally". Long story short... I found him in the Detroit directory and wrote down his neighbors names and looked THEM up. Bingo. I found him listed but the transcriber mistook the "u" in Demeulemeester as an "n" messing up the whole soundex search. I've noticed since then that it is often transcribed that way so that was an educational moment. So, if you have a lost family member in a city that has Directories... they may be your "friend"!

[@GenealogyTV]

Nice! Hey thanks for joining the channel membership.

[@maryladisich420]

Oh my gosh. I've been wanting this timeline view for so long. Thanks for sharing.

[@GenealogyTV]

You are so welcome

[@Buddhavibez]

I think the paper trail method is easier less complicated and certainly less expensive. This just seems like a company that makes a lot of money harvests info and makes up matches

[@karmagal78]

I tried the animated with my maternal grandmother’s picture. Won’t do that again.

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

I am European and on MyHeritage as well and making my family tree there. I already have 1969 people so far. It did cost quite some time though haha. I am happy that my grandmothers and my grandfathers families already did some research of their family lineage. We also added pictures and did DNA testing with myself, grandmother (mothers side), father and my sister. Also the son of my fathers half-brother did the DNA test and he was indeed related to us. My fathers lineage goes back to 1400s and then I can not find it anymore hahah.

[@katherineheinecke5230]

You mention looking and belonging to as many resources as possible. My question is how much is the average a person should expect to pay per month for all these resources? I mean tons of people complain on ancestry about the monthly cost. You have your fees, Heritage has their fees, everyone seems to have fees. I was curious as to what I should expect going forward on my journey as a genealogist as far as month expense to all these resources.

[@josephbohme7917]

So much info overwhelming to digest I have been at my trees since age 17, no one ever had and now many are still waiting for them to catch up and even replace old wrong trees.

[@scottdobson1276]

I have always wondered if part of my Scandinavian DNA ancestry is through the Norse occupation of much of Britain 1000 years ago.

[@derekjohnston5163]

Very interesting. Just a hint, too many repeated adjectives can be distracting.

[@aprilwicker6611]

I thought the colorize feature would be great, but I cannot find any way to make all my blue-eyed people have blue-eyed photos. I look extremely weird with brown eyes. Am I missing something that can fix this?????

[@ebmayes]

Does MyHeritage allow Y-DNA & mT-DNA results to be added to their database? Or will they accept only autosomal test results? I would LOVE to be able to apply their system to a number of Y-DNA results we have in our family history group! Thanks for keeping us so well informed, Connie!

[@GenealogyTV]

I believe MH only does atDNA.

[@jeffrumage3282]

Hi, I recently inherited numerous boxes of old family photos. Many have hand written descriptions on the back. Can you recommend a geneolgy or scanning tool that will help organize the photos while maintaning the notes with the original photo?

[@GenealogyTV]

Hi Jeff. This is the scanner I use. I love it. It is super fast. amzn.to/4bnyVyn Sometimes I use TurboScan on my cell phone. It's super cheap, but the quality is not as good as the physical scanner.

[@Elke_KB]

I am going to try that AI feature. My dad was from East Prussia (Poland/Russia) and it's been a real struggle finding records especially for my grandmother's side.

[@Idellphany]

Thank you!

[@GenealogyTV]

You bet!

[@wendygen]

Is there a list of the newspapers & date ranges that My Heritage / Old News offers?

[@jos9569]

I think Connie covers this around 26:00..

[@wendygen]

I asked Drew Smith from Genealogy Guys. He said that MyHeritage doesn’t have a list of the newspapers they carry YET. So hopefully MyHeritage will post a list in the future.

[@deborahtanner354]

Great information. I haven’t gone beyond Ancestry yet.

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks Deborah. And thanks for you support of the channel.

[@larrymcclain8874]

I wish some of the large groups like Ancestry or My Heritage would start doing DNA from envelopes, stamps, etc. of deceased relatives. I know there are some companies that already do this, but at a much greater cost. Ancestry could make it affordable, and imagine boosting your family's DNA one or two generations ahead and much closer to brick-wall ancestors.

[@GenealogyTV]

Even though specialty companies sometimes have problems with reliability. For example, hair is very difficult to get DNA off of.

[@larrymcclain8874]

@GenealogyTV I did look into one of those companies a few years ago about an envelope and stamp from my grandmother, and through emailed pics, they said that there is probably enough to get a good DNA sample. Unfortunately, the price was beyond my budget. Last year, I found an elderly cousin to take the Ancestry autosmal test, and he was generationally closer to our brick-wall ancestor than anyone, but unfortunately, he passed away about three months after taking the test. His results have been amazing, solidifying several lineages, but we still do not have knowledge yet of the parents of our brick-wall.

[@redhen689]

I’ve heard that it is unlikely for artifact testing to come down in price significantly because it requires very tedious techniques and can’t be automated the way that saliva testing can be.

[@lordmosthigh]

Where is my ethnicity update 2024 ?I’ve been waiting for 3 months now

[@TheOneAndOnlyMichelleAngelique]

For someone born just in "Prussia", where do you recommend me to look? My paternal haplogroup only has 53 ppl registered to it, R-A241. I think it'll wind up in Jerusalem, personally.

[@kimba341]

Can you merge a GEDCOM with an existing tree? Like you, my primary is ancestry but if I upload a gedcom, at least in the past, it created a whole new tree. I just want to update my existing one

[@GenealogyTV]

No. You need to upload the Gedcom again. Remove any DNA connections from the old tree and reattach to the new tree. Lastly, delete the old tree if you choose.

[@JoAnnaHolsman]

Is it possible to upload my Ancestry tree without going thru Gedmatch?

[@GenealogyTV]

You need to upload a Gedcom file not Gedmatch.

[@ElsaFernandez-qf7yq]

I love my heritage Reimage photo program is a little expensive and is a separate subscription from my heritage

[@lucybarron1963]

I uploaded a tree from Ancestry to My Heritage years ago and have done a lot more in Ancestry since. Can I merge an updated tree to the pre-existing tree? If not, should I delete the old one and add a new one or just add a dupe and rename it?

[@GenealogyTV]

I'm checking for you.

[@leanneprescott9664]

I have the same question - also if I work on my Ancestry Tree and I have a MyH tree how do I keep them both up to date?

[@GenealogyTV]

Answer from MyHeritage... Unfortunately MyHeritage does not allow merging trees, so the best action will be to first upload a new tree, and once you see the tree there, go to FAMILY TREE menu -> Manage Trees, and delete the old (smaller) one.

[@stevepetersen7697]

Family Search has virtually all these features for free. Why would you pay Blackrock for this?

[@canadianspring5417]

The triangulation of DNA matches on My Heritage is worth paying for. I've been importing my triangulated matched to dna painter.

[@sl5311]

Can't you get it free?

[@VincenzoCapodivento-kl1ek]

Ciao ho corrispondenze sul cromosoma 16 sconosciuto che adiacente ha una corrispondenza che e paterno da parte di mia nonna che significa?

[@GenealogyTV]

Se triangolano allora provengono tutti dallo stesso ramo familiare. Cerca anche corrispondenze condivise del tuo antenato più noto del ramo della famiglia che stai ricercando.

[@VincenzoCapodivento-kl1ek]

Kevin.si questo gruppo sconosciuto triangolano tra loro.pero si sovrappongono con un gruppo che so di certo che e da mio nonno paterno ma non triangolano.pero hanno qualcuno di quel gruppo sconosciuto hanno numeri rsid iniziale e finale con alcuni di questo gruppo che so che e mio nonno paterno.poi questo gruppo sconosciuto e adiacente ha una corrispondenza che so che e sempre paterna ma di mia nonna paterna.spero che mi sno spiegato bene grazie vedo sempre io touoi video e fra poco faro labbonamento grazie.

[@paulkoza8652]

Too much information for the novice. I hope there is another KZbin site that does a better job of explaining the pros and cons and how to use this site than this video.

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks for the feedback.