My own DNA test results - Family Tree DNA and MyHeritage DNA - Professional Genealogist Reacts

[@robertwalshjr3967]

Hi, I am your 5th cousin 1 removed through Abraham and Sara Lopez Dias. I know we come from Spain or Portugal and have roots in Northern Italy. Cool video!

[@GeneaVlogger]

Are your grandparents John and Judy Bueno de Mesquita?

[@robertwalshjr3967]

@@GeneaVlogger yeah

[@GeneaVlogger]

@@robertwalshjr3967 Be sure to join the family group on facebook! Your great-aunt Mireille (who lives near me in NC) is already a member. facebook.com/groups/107050151103

[@robertwalshjr3967]

@@GeneaVlogger sure 👍🏻

[@infora789]

@@GeneaVlogger can you tell about professions of ancestors of your family?

[@AmalDuthe]

I'm a nursing student and love genealogy and your channel is a gem. Thank you.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

[@TheFlameBladeWielder]

Do you think that it might be possible that the Italian that comes up for your family's results might be to do with the Sephardi? Because, lots of Sephardic Jews ended up Italy after they were expelled from Spain, and so the sites' reference populations might have some of that heritage too

[@GeneaVlogger]

Yes, that is certainly one of the possible explanations!

[@abbad707]

HR TheFlameBladesWielder true

[@ade910]

Although the majority of Jews in Spain converted before their expulsion or left for Portugal for a few months before returning and converting, those who left definitively overwhelmingly went to the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Some families went to Italy but it was a tiny minority, particularly since much of Italy was part of Spain at the time.

[@catalina6]

That was my first thought, as well. Weren't Ladino speakers found both in Italy and Turkey in the not too distant past?

[@catalina6]

@@ade910 And of course many Sephardi ended up in the Netherlands and then some were among the early immigrants to America. (My relation Isaac Miranda was the first Jew in Philadelphia).Also I've read that many of the first 'Spaniards' in the new world were actually Jews, converted or not. Many Hispanic families in the American South West who go back to when the region still belonged to Spain have family traditions they think come from the 'Conversos'. Our families' histories are much more diverse, varied and peripatetic than most people realize!

[@AnaSantos-px4pi]

When you say you don't know if they came from Portugal or Spain just looking at their last names I would say portugal. Lopes is Portuguese while in Spanish you write it as Lopez. Same goes with Dias/Diaz. Lima and Vaz are also pretty Portuguese names mostly found in the northern regions.

[@araf633]

Yep. Your sephardic family is portuguese.

[@blueblaze9862]

I have "Sanchez" name in my family but no Spanish dna. My dna test revealed Portuguese

[@Adventurepee]

Not sure exactly, but the spelling could also differ based on Ladino, which is the historic language of Sepharadi Jews

[@maninedoow5895]

CORRECT!!!

[@CDPF5]

@@blueblaze9862 Well, it can happen. The surname can pass through multiple generations but, for some reason, your DNA test only tells you about your portuguese lineage. At the same time, you gotta take into consideration that, if you come from a family that migrated to a different country, you might have your surname misspelled. It happened all the time to people who went to live abroad, same thing happened to a part of my family that now lives in Brazil, and the surname "Sanches" is, in fact, portuguese, so you might want to check that out as well.

[@lauraleecreations3217]

I love this stuff- DNA and Genealogy

[@rosealexander9007]

Me too. I did my results a year ago. I’m still a little bummed 🙁 that the test didn’t show any Native American. Considering all of my moms family says we have Native American. Otherwise I wasn’t surprised about the rest except for the 2.5 percent Finnish. I didn’t know about that but the rest I knew about.

[@rodrigofpteixeira]

For sure that is Portuguese ancestry because Lopes and Dias are portuguese surnames (in spanish is Lopez and Diaz).

[@jorge6207]

Not to mention that Brandão up there.

[@OstblockLatina]

Yes and no. I mean, that is the most obvious conclusion, but Jewish people who were known for taking occupations related to trade that caused them to travel a lot very often (and who also had to flee from numerous persecution waves many times), would probably adapt their surnames to the language of the new places they settled in. So it could be either one or the other.

[@yanf525]

But there are certain land territories that were once belonged to either one Spain and Portugal. Ancestry doesn’t pick up on territorial changes back in time.

[@TheKelJacob]

I think it's much more difficult with such an endogenous population. There was one person on Ancestry who came up as a 4th or 5th cousin, but was related to both of my parents! I have never seen that before.

[@TheKelJacob]

PS: 99% Ashkenazi here. 🤣

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

I see that a lot on Ancestry and I'm African American.

[@caraziegel7652]

Yeah, i'd seen before that jewish people will look like a closer relative than they are 'just because' but no one ever stated what I assume - which is that such a small community ended up intermarrying to varying degrees throughout the centuries.

[@zara2442]

@@caraziegel7652 Unfortunately, it developed like this because of anti-Judaism and later anti-Semitism. Ashkenazi Jews were completely discriminated against by the rest of society, especially since AD ​​1100

[@nikgeorgio]

I've also come across dna matches which appear to be somehow ŕelated to both my mother's family and my father's family

[@robzombiefan100]

I did my DNA test on Ancestry, my sister already did hers a few years before I did and it changes a-lot but for now it said I'm 22% Swedish, 18% Norwegian, 17% Eastern European, which I know that's Polish because my Great-Grandmother/my paternal grandpa's mother was full blooded Polish, 15% Germanic European with traces to Northern and Central Germany, 14% English, and then something I didn't expected, Baltic with being 7%, 4% Irish, 2% Welsh and another surprising news from this for me! 1% French, which I know from learning through Ancestry through other people family trees that has names from relatives from family trees from each relative of mine I found through Ancestry, were from Quebec, Canada. That was my crazy results!

[@lautarofarnos835]

You are the most european person ever

[@goncaloaraujo6644]

I can say that "Nunes Vaz" and "Dias" are definitely portuguese

[@heraldomedrano1417]

@@goncaloaraujo6644 Diaz

[@heraldomedrano1417]

Nunez

[@jackwn1405]

Before I knew any of your background I’d of had you as a Celt... fascinating

[@blahblahblahblah2837]

Red hair yes, but Jewish eyes.

[@sykes2698]

@@blahblahblahblah2837 what are Jewish eyes...

[@lil_weasel219]

same hah

[@Mungo658]

shape shifting

[@adrianalainez8499]

Why? He looks very Jewish.

[@sykes2698]

Huge fan from an Italian/Palestinian! love your work!

[@khal0037]

Your father is Palestinian?

[@katismith]

I just discovered your channel a couple of days ago. I've watched a few of your videos and I plan to watch more.

[@rivkyb7840]

Thank you for this amazing video. I really enjoyed it

[@Larrypint]

12:48 lol that map is already weird cause it's totally missing Germany, but the germans settle there for over 2000 years.

[@mariumaish]

Hi there!! I've being interested in genetics and geneology for many years. One thing that I still don't understand is how is it that there are so many redheads amongst ashkenazi jews, (like in my own family, with my paternal grandfader, my father, some of his cousins, one of my sisters and one of my sons shering this treat). Where and when in history did we get it?

[@rodriguez7198]

This is so fascinating. King David, from the Bible, was also described as a redhead! 🧑‍🦰

[@nextlifetimebrendan3940]

Also i noticed you have your great grandparents stories videos and i watched those videos !! ❤️

[@mcuvsdceu3121]

Fascinating results! I want to take the Living Dna test that doesn’t have a Jewish category. It’s supposed to break down the admixture instead of giving people simply “ashkenazi”. I took AncestryDNA and it gave me 25% European Jewish. Wish it was more specific. Thanks for sharing!

[@DrThomas18]

Avoid Living DNA!!! It is very unspecific and politicized. My own small piece of Jewish (Sephardi) first came back as North Italian (and possibly West-Balkan). Since the last update also that vanished completely, probably it's not included in South Germanic?! But the worst thing of Living DNA is that they deny a separate Jewish heritage, either Ashkenazi or Sephardi, that's a very bad and politicized view! On the other hand they included "Kleurlinge" which is a very recent mixture of European and African, and doubtfully more ethnical than Ashkenazi! I would avoid Living DNA!!!

[@aliner1546]

@@DrThomas18 The fact that living dna doesn't have a Jewish category is a good thing because a lot of ashkenazi Jews are tired of getting 90-100% Ashkenazi/European Jewish. They want to see their actual ancient ancestry from Southern Europe & the Middle East. However Living dna is not THAT good, maybe taking the Adntro DNA test would be better.

[@lisalovett1638]

I tested on AncestryDNA and 23&me. I downloaded my raw DNA to the sites that let you do that. When I first did my AncestryDNA test it said "European Jewish". However, they update periodically. It's been years now. Now my Jewish Ancestry as well as the rest of my "Heinz 57 Variety" ancestry (That's what my late Maternal Granny calls us. She and My late maternal Grandpa pretty much didn't think I would ever find anything out because "Our family has been here too long.") gets more specific and detailed with every update. AncestryDNA has been the best for me. It really has to do with what you want to know and what you are looking for. Ancestry has the largest database. i have actually found way more matches on my Paternal side which is close to 100% Jewish AncestryDNA. When one looks at my tree it is a small gene pool. Nobody has married their 1st cousin (that I know about), but many families have married into the same families. It makes untangling the families a challenge, especially when everybody names their kids the same names. I have that problem on my Mom's side, too. Her side began coming here in 1600. Dad's side (My Jewish side)started coming here in the mid 1800s and settled in New England...say what? It's true .

[@Bk-yl1yt]

I'm from Ethiopia I'm so interesting to do this thing

[@buntingy]

Myheritage.com is best and download kit into Gedmatch.com

[@FireRupee]

@@buntingy MyHeritage is a really good choice. You can also use another company's kit first, then upload the data to MyHeritage and to GEDmatch both, and that way you'll be getting three different analyses of your DNA, DNA relatives, etc, while only using one DNA kit. But, definitely GEDmatch is a good follow-up to whatever kit you use.

[@robertmeyer7836]

I’m registered in my heritage and have been debating about the DNA testing I will order a kit and find out what I am. I’m really looking forward to it I’ve been tested before and discovered that in addition to Mainely European I have a little Ashkenazi from the Portland area in my heritage. Thank you so much.

[@northstar2621]

MyHeritage doesn't recognize and separate indigenous DNAs for shit.

[@devineballer3009]

One of the most beautiful countries on earth Greetings from Germany

[@AznagPT]

Those are portuguese names 100% (and the last name Castro is more common in the nothern region such as Porto)

[@TheBayzent]

They could be Galician too, but that is basically Portuguese though.

[@franciscasilva8406]

@@lomenestral33 The way they are written are clearly Portuguese, especially Nunes Vaz

[@franciscasilva8406]

I found it weird that it picked up Northern African Sephardic ancestry when the names are clearly Portuguese and I also think Jarrett's Sephardic branches come from the Netherlands which is known for its community of Portuguese Sephardic Jews.

[@supersuperwendy]

I should make a results video and let you react, I am a mega mixed bag lol

[@sitcomsTV]

For me is simple: Family Tree DNA DOES NOT SELL YOUR DNA with 3rd parties. So for me there is only ONE company that provides this service.

[@housemartin56]

I did my husband's DNA on Ancestry and then uploaded it to the other main sites. MyHeritage's ethnicity values are completely different to Ancestry and FTDNA. Living DNA showed 100% English.... Ancestry: 85% Eng & NW Euro, 6% Wales, 4% Norw/Scandi, 3% Scot and 2% Ire. FTDNA: 54% Eng/Wal/Scot, 29% Central Euro, 16% Norw/Scandi and 1% Sth Euro. However, MyHeritage shows: 6.2% Ir/Sc/Wal, 72.3% Norw/Scandi and 21.5% Ital. Very interesting!

[@PodcastCentral333]

Please do a video with illustrative dna for your dna results, It's a great website! it breaks down the ashkenazi into its near east and European ancient components

[@havardrivansson7902]

"Italian Jews, also known as Italkim (Hebrew for Italians), have a long history on the Italian Peninsula and Sicily dating back to Roman times. The Italkim are historically a mix of the Jews from Judea, who were either brought to Rome as slaves during the Roman-Jewish Wars or as merchants and traders in the Mediterranean Diaspora, and Greco-Roman converts, mostly due to intermarriage. The early Ashkenazim in the Rhineland descended from Italkim in Lucca and Rome who migrated north to Germany and Frankish lands." --- Joshua Robbin Marks, "Seed of Israel: The DNA Guide to Tracing Your Jewish Ancestry."

[@ernestocalderon3453]

This is a lie there is no proof of this

[@JaviAnt7747]

@@ernestocalderon3453 He is pretty much correct. The Ashkenazi are a little bit more European than Italkim or Sephardic because of extra 5% to 15% Northern European.

[@lynleflore4332]

Fascinating

[@abdelhakwinston6200]

@@ernestocalderon3453 lol there is a proof of that most of the christian saints that were jews peter for exemple were romans jews or italkim

[@brucebanner5354]

Super interesting and informative. I just got my grandma’s results back from FTDNA. She knows she is English and Dutch. She got back 15% Iberian and 2% Mizrahi. No known ancestors from the Middle East. Could the Mizrahi indicate some Dutch Sephardic heritage (although she got 0% Sephardic) or just noise? Great video!

[@CDPF5]

2% can definitely be statistical noise, especially if your grandma's test was taken with MyHeritage, since they just love throwing random % of jewish or nigerian ancestry on a lot of results. Since you've taken it on FTDNA, I wouldn't rule it out but you should check other platforms such as GEDmatch. If GEDmatch gives you some indication of possible mizrahi or just generalized jewish ancestry, then those 2% might really be there.

[@euphratessful]

thanks for that precious information

[@honeyjazz4147]

Can you answer a question for me? I'm a African American female from the Southern United States I have documented English ancestry as most Southern African Americans will have English/Irish ancestry, what I would like to know why Familytree DNA 3.0 shows my only European as Eastern European Slavic Russian? All the other tests companies do show English and Irish.

[@GeneaVlogger]

It could be a mix of things but is most likely due to different studies each website uses and different ways they define each population group. The best way to figure it out is to do the actual genealogy, although for someone with African American ancestry that will be very difficult to name your European ancestor.

[@honeyjazz4147]

@@GeneaVlogger On one branch of my family I have been able to trace my great grandfather father who was a slave owner then his family back to 1620 England. I just think it's very odd that FTNA 3.0 reports my European is entirely Russian. Ancestrydna says English Northwest European, Norway, Ireland and Northern Italy. 23andme is similar English & Irish, Broadly Northwestern Europe and a tiny percent Southern European no Eastern European on either the other sites.

[@mariajosemartinez5135]

I find FamilyTreeDNA to have wierd results. It's the only company in which I have a British part (10% which is quite high). I have 0% British in any other company. However I don't have a Scandinavian percentage in FamilyTreeDNA, when I have around 6% in MyHeritage and other test.

[@AndySaenz]

I want to do this! But my concern is where does my DNA end up? Who has access to my DNA? What if my DNA ends up in the wrong hands?

[@mobigsly9595]

@@AndySaenz Family Tree sells your DNA

[@mykulpierce]

How do they distinguish splits in migration where members of a haplogroup move to another region? Would DNA tests trigger these other regions even if your direct line was never there?

[@soolleigh4442]

I would love to watch the video on how you figured out those people that turned out to be cousins, but when I looked at all your videos, I couldn't figure out what video you may have been referring to.

[@GeneaVlogger]

I have a few of them, so I'll just list them here. Word of warning...they include some of my early videos that are a bit different. Confirming Cousins through DNA - kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn62aKZorrqqgZo Kiev Genealogy Research using DNA - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGTGopafipZnp9U Using DNA and Immigration Records to Break Down Brick Walls - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJmZq6Oih9p3aJo

[@soolleigh4442]

@@GeneaVlogger Thanks so much!

[@angeloantonio5483]

I took 3. Ancestry and 23 and me were almost the same. Family tree wasn't even close, completely different. I found bio family thru the 1st two and they were right on, down to the cities bio families came from

[@TheRemnant8]

What were your results?

[@carolannsuniga3766]

I did my first test with Family Tree 2 yrs ago and found a first cousin I never knew I had. I finally decided to communicate last year. I retested with Ancestry too last year, and my cousin was there too as a close family match.

[@jjbud3124]

I took one look at you and figured you were Scottish. My husband is not Jewish but he has a bit of Ashkenazi blood from Poland.

[@mogbaba]

As the DNA tests with some years apart from each other differ greatly, we can conclude that the DNA tests are not very reliable. DNA testers refer to their database and compare your DNA to what they already have there. It may work with most Western DNAs, but I don't think they can give a reliable result for people like me who come from Iran.

[@sarawiener9326]

My first thought was Irish or Jewish. By the way, great family tree. I'm still working on it.

[@Sal.K--BC]

I just read that famous American singer, Harry Belafonte's, "father was the child of an Afro-Jamaican mother and a Dutch-Jewish father of Sephardic Jewish descent." So, I'm guessing Jarrett may very well be related to him.

[@lizzie7999]

I'm of partial Ashkenazi descent so I find this really interesting because when I was younger I didn't understand why my mom said that we are Jewish, not Russian. Now I understand what my ethnicity is and how Judaism is more than just a religion. I found it interesting that DNA tests can pick up that whether Jews are ashkenazi, sephardi, or mizrahi etc. I like how you said in one test for Balkan you got actual Eastern European DNA not just DNA from Jews who lived in Eastern Europe because most people don't understand that we are different than non-Jews from the same countries.

[@maestrosavage1359]

I’m a black American and recently did a few DNA tests. On 23&Me , my results came back 78% Sub-Saharan African, 20% European, and less than 1% Native American. I uploaded my DNA composition to GedMatch, LivingDNA, and MyHeritage. Specifically on LivingDNA and MyHeritage, I’m 5-6% more European and 4-5% less African. I’m around 75% African on most of the tests on GedMatch with European and even Asian percentages. Do the contrasting ethnic percentages of these companies have to do with most of their databases being predominantly of white customers, or is it because each service has their unique way of analyzing DNA?

[@GeneaVlogger]

It really has to just do with each service having multiple differences in analyzing DNA. Each company tests different amounts of SNPS, they have different defined population groups, and have some different studies for the basis of their results. Having only a 5-6% difference either way really is much less of a difference than many others receive through testing with different companies.

[@maestrosavage1359]

@@GeneaVlogger ok that makes sense. Also, I noticed that many people that took this test, especially black Americans, received 1.2% South Asian Indian in their results. Could this be a flaw? I’ve heard of Native American ancestry in my family, but not South Asian Indian.

[@weslh4305]

Is it possible that the southern Italian in the first test is actually southern Italian Sephardic? Especially for your mom?

[@cococovers1333]

i took a dna test a year ago. Its interesting to see where you come from. I'm from sweden and am half dutch so unsurprisigly most of my dna showed up as scandinavian and north-west european but i did not know that i had eastern european dna aswell and have distant relatives in the US!

[@gubjorggisladottir3525]

Ok, we know for sure that both your parents have at least one copy of a gene that codes for red hair (Red hair is only possible when a person inherits "a red haired gene" from both parents) I was told it came from Ireland and in a video from UK was stated that the red hair come from Norway. "Dark hair gene" is dominant.

[@sukie584]

Doesn’t always mean there’s Irish. It’s from a mutation in the MC1R gene.

[@MrNebelschatten]

@@sukie584 Yes. Red hair seems to be connected to Celtic heritage so there is some in other parts of Europe as well.

[@yasminporat6194]

how do you have so much knowledge on your jewish family? im jewish too and trey to build my family tree but i keep getting stuck from lack of documents.

[@GeneaVlogger]

A lot of research over many years. For many Jewish families the documents do exist, it's just extremely difficult to obtain the documents but it has been getting much easier as things are being digitized, translated, and indexed. Based on the many current digitization and indexing projects I know about for Jewish records, I imagine in 5 years many Jewish family trees will expand greatly. Not even to mention how DNA has been helping to link disconnected branches.

[@yasminporat6194]

@@GeneaVlogger I hope so!for most of my families the documents are in small distant villages in europe written in Russian or polish😂😭

[@catalina6]

@@yasminporat6194 Someone gave me a photo postcard of my grandmother and her friend fishing from an Ohio railroad bridge in their big veiled hats and early 1900s garb. I was surprised to see the post card had Russian cursive writing. I'm trying to learn Russian and bought a handwriting book, so hopefully I'll be able to decipher it! Interestingly, til I was given the card I had no idea there were any Russians or Russian speakers in our rural Southern Ohio family. Families are often mysterious.

[@Humanophage]

Can you make one where you look at your admixture analysis on Gedmatch? "Ashkenazi" is interesting, but it's a bit unclear what exactly does it mean in terms of the combination of Western Asian, Baltic, etc. Since you're almost wholly Ashkenazi, it would be especially interesting to see how you compare to Ashkenazim in their samples.

[@AliShah-er7iu]

Sorry, I've read that generally speaking Ashkenazi DNA breaks down like this: "Several studies estimate that between 50% to 80% of Ashkenazic Y-chromosomal (paternal) lineages originate in the Near East, with some estimating that at least 80% of their maternal lineages originated in Europe." I see that in the study they are considered European but isn't the average Ashkenazi more like half Middle Eastern half European?

[@DanSolo871]

I'd love to see you do a review of the new FTDNA match list, now that they conformed to the minimum 6 cM segment size.

[@sandrajohnson2489]

I think it's interesting how our ancestors got to various areas. I sometimes wonder what they were doing in their lives for them to roam around. I would imagine a LOT of reasons why they did.

[@am3liaaaaaa]

Well for Americans it’s mainly because loads of Europeans moved there from each country and were suddenly all together so mixed a lot more

[@Odo55]

Famines, wars, persecution, then and now main reasons for relocating.

[@melissagerber7231]

@@Odo55 pretty sure that my Irish ancestors came over because of the Irish Revolution, @1865.

[@thuggie1]

i used to do a lot of genealogy been raised in the Mormon church everyone is obsessed with it it also means i get free access to site like ancestry and a few others as they pay a subscription the Churches genealogical library so i know my family tree very well the man groups in my family tree are from al over the UK, eastern Europe, Jewish and Indian sub continent. but this DNA test thing sounds interesting maybe i should do one.

[@ade910]

Little known fact historically in Spain Jews were commonly associated with red hair. It was considered a Jewish trait.

[@carm7518]

Judas was always portayed as a redhead. So it became a thing for gentiles to think that Jews often had red hair. It was considered a negative thing

[@marianneluban3347]

I find the results of you and your parents very interesting. Just to remind that the first stop on the road of the Jewish Diaspora was Italy, as the Romans were the ones who took the Jews from their own land. Of course, those same slaves were ultimately able to find homes in several other European countries but many remained in Italy and are there to this day. That a few mixed with the Italian population is probable--and then can have migrated elsewhere. Do you and your father by some chance belong to the E y-DNA haplogroup, one of its subgroups? That group is supposed to have begun in North Africa and about 30% of Jewish males are said to be part of that group, including Albert Einstein and the Wright Brothers [who both look Jewish to me and can have been at some point in their family history]. Ramesses III, pharaoh of Egypt, also belongs to the E haplogroup. Going back to the Roman Empire, one can expect Jewish captives to have shown up there, as well, including Spain and Germany. We know what became of Spanish Jewry after the Decree of Alhambra in the 15th Century--and these went to Greece, Turkey and Egypt [again] and perhaps other places in North Africa. Greek Jewry was decimated by the Nazis, about Turkey I'm not sure, and the Jews of Egypt were forced to leave in the 1950's due to the Nasser regime. In the 14th Century the Jews of Germany had a very bad time of it on account of the Black Plague but afterwards King Casimir the Great of Poland allowed them to settle in his country with some moving eastward to Russia and elsewhere. You may know this information but not everyone will, Great eyes, Mr. Ross.

[@you-know-who9023]

@marianne Very comprehensive and interesting. Before the Roman destruction of the temple in Jerusalem there were also Hellenic (Greek) Jews and very many of them were Roman citizens there fore free to move around the Roman empire and a small population lived in Italy and Rome as free people However occasionally they may be exiled from Rome for a few years depending on which madman was empire. Generally they were safe enough as Roman citizens the further they were from Rome although there was a pattern of leaving Rome (or living quietly in the city) and then returning. Therefore it would be safe to presume that in addition to slaves there were also free Jews. Many free Jewish people and free Jewish Roman citizens may have moved to other parts of the Roman empire in western Europe such as Gaul (modern day France) and the lands which are now Holland Belgium and even the Roman province of Brittania modern day England and Wales. With the collapse of the Roman empire many could still have lived in western Europe until the middle ages when expulsions and oppression became more widespread when in fact the overwhelming majority were expelled from Britain and most of western Europe. However it does appear that Jewish communities continuously continued living in the various Italian states into the 20th century. As far as I know the Mussolini fascists were not to willing to irritate the Italian population beyond passing anti Jewish laws and attesting prominent Jews for political reasons. Deportation of Jews from Italy to the death camps after Mussolini was overthrown and the put back on power after the Nazis invaded Italy. By that time allied troops had also landed in southern Italy so perhaps the deportations were not as numerous as they could have been so many Jewish communities in Italy may have been able to remain in Italy I am not really well informed about the Jewish history of Italy but I hope these are informed speculations.🙋😀

[@simonwupperl9643]

MH quite often wrongly assigns Italian or Balkan heritage to Ashkenazi Jews. My grandmother has 19% Italian DNA, which is absolutely hilarious. My grandfather shares 1.0% of his DNA with you and 0.8% with each of your parents, classifying him as a 5th cousin to each of them. Seems quite unlikely. The relationship estimates are utterly useless for endogamic ethnicities.

[@peterhiggins2928]

Im British. I had mine done as my father is adopted and has no father listed on his birth certificate. I've always had slightly olive skin so I suspect some Iberian or Greek or Turkish in there. Nope, turns out I'm practically a poster boy for the BNP (British National Party) - 100% British Isles DNA (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh - in that order). Not actually that surprising as my mine family tree is almost entirely focused in 1 area of North Staffordshire / South Cheshire bar for 1 Irish great grandparent. Whilst I would have liked to find something 'exotic' or more interesting, it is quite nice that I have an entirely rooted DNA to one place.

[@nura9098]

This is interesting. On myHeritage I tested 8.9% Sephardic, the rest Ashkenazi. It was a bit surprising because for all I know my entire family is Ashkenazi (mostly Central Europe, some Eastern Europe). Does it make sense?

[@abuhado-verbigraciaramirez8682]

Intermarriage between ancient Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities?

[@WolfRoss]

The Italian peninsula could be a Roman connection. In my Swiss Anabaptist line we have been tracing a male ancestor with a J ydna. And recently they found a Roman Arena in Switzerland just outside of Italy. J-M172 FTDNA notation. I show up with a small amount of Italian Peninsula also and have no known Italian ancestors.

[@bekdarmurat8532]

Hi Jarret! so what is your ''Haplogroup", did you do that test?

[@suleimanthemagnificent7404]

Wasn't there a study showing Ashkenazi maternal origins being in Italy during ancient roman times with Jewish traders and italic native woman in particular?

[@braaron77ify]

I wish I can go so far back… I only can go as far as my greatgrand-maternal.. on my dad’s side just the grandparents. However, my ancestry shows Im mostly Portuguese, Spanish, Italian & Greek (in that order, Which was a surprise to me. I thought I was just Spanish & African. Im also 14.8% Native American, so that was really surprising to me also. Wish I had access to more ancestral info 😕 Thanks for sharing.. Very interesting.

[@dominiqueblagojevic9447]

My mom got 12 percent sephardic jew on Family Tree but Myheritage doesn't show that. Why?

[@ameliainva]

Another great video!

[@Simonjose7258]

Sephardic Jewish basically means "Hispanic" from Spain and Portugal. Ashkenazi is Germanic, Central European. Mizrahi means "Eastern" or non-European, Middle Eastern Jewish people. Some define Mizrahi Jews as the ones who never left the Middle East. There are also smaller groups including the Georgian Jews, Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews, the Romaniotes of Greece, the ancient Italian Jewish community, Yemen and African Jews, etc... The divisions between all these groups and their boundaries aren't solid. Some of these categories include communities which are often as unrelated to each other as they are to any of the earlier mentioned Jewish groups. It's really quite amazing. All these different people and different groups that sometimes cam seem unrelated are actually all descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population according to Genetics which suggests that most Jewish communities have remained relatively isolated form neighboring non-Jewish communities during and after the diaspora. It's really quite fascinating.

[@ken05777]

The Ashkenazi Jewish genetic Marker is actually Middle Eastern/Levantine.

[@arabianphoenix5805]

J1 haplogroup

[@joruan1033]

I have a question I hope someone can help me, in our family we also did DNA tests and the results says that my parents have 0% Sephardic Jews but I have 11%, how is that possible?

[@joruan1033]

And no, I'm not adopted 😁

[@abuhado-verbigraciaramirez8682]

Many Latinos have Sephardic ancestry because in Spain most of those who converted to Christianity that weren't kicked out left to the Americas (Conversos) .... Up to 25% of the latino population can have Sephardic ancestry. I know have as well but don't know the percentage since my families history is much more recent but I know I also have a large amounts of Native American blood and West African ancestry.

[@talkshortlong50]

That could be possible that they are carriers and it skipped a generation, but it is odd that it is that high. Did every test at the same time? Did everyone test at the same company? Testing companies are always making new discoveries and do updates at least once every couple of years could it be possible one or more of the kits have not been updated yet? If different companies they may be interpreting the data differently or have different panels.

[@catalina6]

@@abuhado-verbigraciaramirez8682 That's been my understanding, as well. I've come across some good lists of Sephardic surnames online. Some genealogical brick walls can be breached by realizing that some odd surnames in the US can be Anglicized mis-spellings of Portuguese or Spanish Sephardic names. (This is true of other suname origins, as well).

[@vitriol18]

יהודי 100% כל הכבוד! 💪🏻

[@AsimoTan]

זה לא כזה קשה. יהודים די התבדלו משאר האוכולוסיה. זו אחת הסיבות שחוקרים הרבה פעמים יהודים אשכנזים: קבוצה גנטית גדולה מאוד שדי התבדלה לאורך השנים ושקרובה יחסית למקומות עם מחקר מדעי. מתנה סטטיסטית.

[@claraontheroad3049]

Rewatching this video and I realized that with how much you like the relatives aspect of DNA testing over Admixture, maybe you would enjoy reacting to Melanie Murphy's video on her DNA testing? She really focuses on the aspect of connecting with people and family over ad mixture (don't know how to spell that haha)

[@GeneaVlogger]

Thank you for the suggestion! Never heard of her before, but I found the video and added it to the list!

[@claraontheroad3049]

@@GeneaVlogger you're very welcome! She doesn't do a genealogical tree, but she actually looks through cousins etc

[@AmalDuthe]

Hello, I was led to your video watching an Ethiopian Vlogger's DNA result which she shared on YT, and where you gave your input about the subscriber's probable Jewish ancestry to your subscribers. I am of Somali/Yemeni Hadrami descent and I would love to hear your thoughts and perhaps you can research and educate us about the Somali Jewish community noted in Somali history called Yibir in Somalia. They have been persecuted throughout Somalia's history. Please, consider researching The Yibir of Somalia. Salaam.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Thank you for the suggestion, I will look into it.

[@AdoptedCats]

What is your genetic code from Family Tree DNA? MyHeritage do not gives it, but family Tree does.

[@sergii2945]

What about the haplogroup? Is it present in the MyHeritage DNA results?

[@MerryShai]

As I've been trying to build my family tree, I've continued to be stuck on certain family members & there seems to be either a lack in documents (1870-ish) or name spelling issues. Would it be best to just get a dna test to figure this out?

[@Vakira]

It could definitely help especially because you could find relatives that know more info than you about family members

[@JPo.404]

It's amazing how some families kept true to DNA such as Jewish ancestry which is understandable because usually married Jewish counterparts. My family kept true to Scots-irish families hence why I show so much Scottish and Irish Ancestry. Really cool stuff having known peeps moved around so much in the day ❤️ people flocked to their own culture which shouldn't be viewed as a bad thing. Should be viewed as preservation

[@MartinaValla]

wait, is Corsica within the italian peninsula area on purpose (and Sardinia is itself a different area) or did they mistake it for Sardinia??

[@blackeneddove]

I got an ad for CRI genetics on your video. Have you ever heard of/used them? I am researching which dna test I should take to research my ancestors.

[@chanaheszter168]

Are you related to De Haan the painter? Pont Aven school, painted with Gauguin!

[@Ron_Sov]

Have you broken down your Ashkenazi DNA in more detail? What was there?

[@AstroMartine]

Hi, I haven't watched the whole video yet, but did you have to sign away the rights to what they can do with your DNA? And if yes, what are your thoughts on that?

[@sarahbethpotter6654]

Just because someone has red hair that doesn't mean that they are Irish or Scottish.. Some Germans have red hair some Scandinavian people are redheads some Eastern Europeans are redheads .. The Celts traveled everywhere even in Italy and Eastern Europe

[@GuitaristDanH]

Interesting. My Sephardic ancestry seems to come through as about 15 - 20% Greek/Southern Italian - depending on the testing company - Ancestry also assigns Iberian along with about 1% Middle Eastern. Does any DNA company know how to assign Sephardic DNA consistently?

[@Doai55]

interesting! i did family tree dna back in 2019 but i cant get the map like you in 7:00 can you help me? thanks edit: i did the big Y test

[@Larrypint]

Which haplogroup is here named as "Ashkenazi"? Is this even a maternal test mtdna test or just autosomal test?

[@angyliv8040]

Ross can mean red head in Galician for example. Do you know that a great part of Italy was under Spanish rule for centuries?

[@lazartamas1433]

About your great-grandmother. Fanni was and is an extremely popular name in Hungary.

[@carolannsuniga3766]

This was interesting, I'm waiting for my Heritage DNA kit. I'm curious to see what my results will be. I did Family Tree a couple of years ago, and then Ancestry last year. My results from Ancestry had a little more results, and were a little different.

[@888biblestudy]

Do you know what the database size is for Family Tree DNA? Apparently they do not give that number out (?)

[@M3RT27]

I have Uploaded my Ancestry DNA to FamilytreeDNA and got 20% Italian peninsula but ancestry DNA showed me nothing on Italian which one is more correct?

[@shaolindreams]

When you say "it wont show much German" when you was referring to Ashkenazi Jewish.. is that because they or some groups predominately only mixed with other Ashkenazi?

[@davidlear7927]

Research by Martin Gershowitz indicates that a lot of Ashkenazi DNA along female lines, comes from Italy and southern France, so I wonder if that's where the Italian comes from.

[@ginagaladriel]

HAHAHAHA you read my mind, I was like, hmmm this video is almost over, he has not touched the DNA matches... I wished you had gone a bit more in depth on the shared cM aspect tho lol ;)

[@melaninqueen2413]

In you're opinion, which DNA company is more accurate when it comes to results?

[@rebeccacuthbertson1271]

I wonder how significant the genetical variance is between Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews. Because post Inquisition a lot of them migrated to places like Morocco, Lebanon, Syria etc. Granted Jewish populations existed there prior to the Inquisition as well (and others migrated to places like Italy, Germany etc.). But it is curious.

[@joyful]

years ago i took the ftdna and ancestry tests, but only recently have become interested in learning more. the results from the two tests are very different. very different. and i don't understand why...

[@greenbeauties]

With my results I’m Italian by the way but don’t understand where I get the 1% Indian which is obviously very low but I I have always had a love for India, Indian food, culture etc. so that’s so funny to find out somewhere down the line I had an ancestor from there! I don’t know anything about this subject either but it’s fascinating

[@lf1496]

Indian ancestry in Southern and Eastern Europe is a marker from Roma gypsy populations. Roma people are from Rajistan India👍🏾

[@AmalDuthe]

What do you think about blood type as it relates to human variation-racially- of course?

[@GeneaVlogger]

This is a question that is outside of my expertise, especially since I have never studied anything about blood-type outside of science class in high school.

[@DJArmando77]

The Mizrahi Jewish comes through Spain, people on my family tree came to Spain and southern France from Iraq between the 8th and 12th centeries. I also have found three Italian family trees on my dad's side back in the northern area but he didn't test out any Italian? would that be the Ashkenazi side?

[@annache250]

To be fair, lived a 1000 years ago and most presidents how ancestry from the British isles, so it’s inevitable that if you go far back enough, every president has a common ancestor. This also applies to a lot of ordinary Americans with British/Irish ancestry

[@marybayram5779]

Did you do a video when you uploaded your raw dna to Gedmatch? 🙂

[@adriamensah6312]

I'm so interested in doing this for myself. Both of my parents are African American but my entire life I have always been asked what I am mixed with.

[@Susanc06]

I showed Sephardic about 8 percent on family tree Dna now they took it away! Than before the new change my father did not show Sephardic but now he does and mine is gone!! This really frustrates me!!

[@cmur078]

Out of curiosity, why does your father go by 'Ross'? That switch looked interesting.

[@GeneaVlogger]

He worked as an actor and comedian in LA for many decades, so he changed his last name to Ross (which is his mother's maiden name).

[@l0uisanthony991]

I personally think MyHeritage is quite off. From my point of view 23andme is the most accurate when it comes to the ethnicity estimates

[@sykes2698]

I agree. MyHeritage is such a scam in my opinion. They group so many populations into one ethnicity, and usually add so many marketing trace results to throw you off. 23andme and Familytreedna are currently the most accurate in terms of ethnic breakdown.

[@philippekrieger7256]

Various of the names : nunes vaz, dias, pimentel, lopes, lima come from Portugal. You find vaz and dias families in Algarve, south of Portugal.

[@Babe01D]

Magnifique l’Algarve vivement la fin du covid que je puisse y aller! 😉

[@KahnuKahnPlay]

I like to study archaeogenetics, the problem with the "Italian" in both your parent's autosmal DNA is that Ashkenazis are most genetically similar to Southern Italians. Although, this is misleading. Bronze Age Greeks colonized southern Italy and continued to do so for many years, and mainland Greeks received a Slavic invasion which changed around 10-40% of their DNA in some cases. When breaking down Ashkenazi ancestry it seems to be a complete mix of Bronze Age Greek and other variety peoples, such as North African, Middle Eastern, and even a small single digit Turkic (central asian) ancestry depending on the Ashkenazi location. The average Ashkenazi in reality is about 30-50% Ancient Greek, 10-30% Iron Age Levant and 5-10% North African. The rest is a mix of the local area. I hope that helped!

[@AsimoTan]

Sounds logical.

[@MattStMarie-bm5sq]

did they mix the results such as giving your results as your mom ... or an error on their part.

[@carolannsuniga3766]

Hi my My Heritage DNA results said I was 80.1 % indigenous, 12% Scandinavian,and 2.9% Balkan with a medium confidence level with Germany. Ancestry said I had 54% indigenous, 11% France, 10% Spain, 8% England, 2% Norway, Basque and Portugal 4 and 5%, 3% from Africa, and 1% Jewish. Family Tree said Scandinavian was in my ancient orgins, along with France, Germany.. I had 40% Indigenous, Iberian 14% I think, with Slavic & Magyar at 6 and 10% , plus Ethiopian and Armenian in the end. So now I'm wondering who was correct. Is Ancestry more correct? Or is Family Tree more correct or My Heritage? Should I try another DNA test?