I Took 5 DNA Tests and Compared Them - UsefulCharts - Professional Genealogist Reacts

[@UsefulCharts]

Actually, no French Canadian that I know of. Mostly German, English and Irish with that tiny bit of Ashkenazi Jewish that you mentioned. Did you notice that tiny bit of Druze that FamilyTreeDNA picked up? Could that be related to the Jewish ancestor? Also, any thoughts on why FamilyTreeDNA shows Eastern European but Ancestry, 23andme, and MyHeritage do not?

[@GeneaVlogger]

Huh, I don't know why I thought you had French Canadian ancestry. It has been a while since I saw the video about your family tree, so I must have mixed it up! I didn't notice the Druze but it certainly could be related to that Jewish ancestry, although at less than 1% I imagine it may just be a misread. The Eastern European on FTDNA might just be how they are reading some of your German ancestry, especially since that Eastern European reading seems concentrated in present-day Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland. You'll notice as well that the only 'German' in the FTDNA reading is 4% Central Europe, so that makes it seem even more likely that it's just how they are defining your German ancestry.

[@UsefulCharts]

@@GeneaVlogger Makes sense. Thanks!

[@patrickm3981]

@@UsefulCharts In addition it needs to be noted that just because someone came from Germany or identified as German by no means needed to be from German descent. In the eastern provinces of the German Empire a lot of the inhabitants were slavs that were culturally assimilated over the centuries. In addition a lot of people moved from the mostly rural and poor eastern provinces to the industrial centers in the west. Therefore a lot of people with a for example polish background at a DNA level would end up identify as German. Similar things happened within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but within an Empire that was ethnically a lot more diverse then the German Empire.

[@MercyAlwyz23]

@@GeneaVlogger speaking of the German. How is it that I have 4% German but neither of my parents nor my mother’s mother have German?! I will note that when I first tested my dad some Jewish was picked up. I think it was changed to Sweden though.

[@QuiltinRI]

I tested with Ancestry, uploaded wherever I could. FTDNA gave me the most accurate admixture according to my family tree (100% Italian, all my great grandparents emigrated to the US from southern Italy, and I can trace most lines to the 1700s). I also got trace results for Druze and Yemenite Jewish,which from what I have read are genetically quite similar.

[@EllaBee90]

French Canadian here - yep, everybody's related to everybody in my town. It's ridiculous. The settlers came from Gaspé to New Brunswick in 1910 and a hundred years of mariages later we're now all cousins or something. I've found my ex very far away from here just to make sure there wasn't any relations in our ancestry. LOL

[@DolceSuono9]

Same with French Canadians coming down into northern New England/ New York to farm. I am related to so many people on both sides of the border, some of my family has been here since the 1700s. I’ve found out I was related to a few random people I’d gone to high school with through these tests and I had no idea. My brother became good friends with this one guy and my mother says, oh he’s your cousin, but the families are so extended they’d never met. No one here for me!

[@karenm7346]

Ancestry showed from my grandmother’s side, Acadian. They were from New Brunswick Canada. It goes back over 200 years. Found all these people related to me. I never knew about this either. It’s fascinating, seems like they married within families?

[@cdmarshall7448]

Iceland is just as bad I've heard, you have to check an app and make sure you are not related before you date or you know, if you care...😘

[@DolceSuono9]

@@karenm7346 it’s been known to happen. My mom had an aunt in Quebec who married her cousin.

[@FeatherstoneApothecary]

Conan O'Brien is 100% Irish. He definitely came from inbreeding lol. He was shocked to learn it. You should watch that episode for a good laugh.

[@lisahawkins6824]

We love Useful Charts!!!

[@nextlifetimebrendan3940]

Also both of your commentary is sooo informative!

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

I have a recommendation, can you do a reaction to "The Swede who fought Brits in Africa and Later Joined them to fight Germans"? It a short biography of a Swedish person journey where he joined the second Boer war for Sweden and later WW1 for Australia. The description has scources and great resources for those with Swedish or Australian genealogy.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Interesting! Will put in my watch later list.

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

@@GeneaVlogger Thanks

[@MercyAlwyz23]

Definitely interested 👍

[@abbad707]

Mhmm interesting.

[@dyread]

I saw the Useful charts one at the time he put it up and wondered why he said mainly American for Ancestry, and I'm wondering if he knows that Ancestry UK exists for us on this side of the Atlantic, which also has many records on it. I'm glad to hear you say that it isn't mainly North American.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Part of why I even know they are split into 4 main websites is because I am an affiliate, so I had to sign up for each affiliate program separately! The UK records are quite strong as well.

[@DominicanStud101]

I took the Ancestry DNA test in 2016 and so has my half-sister. My aunts and cousin took the 23&Me which makes me sad :(

[@cefcat5733]

Ahh, Useful Charts is cool!

[@ChaoticBad]

Which DNA testing do you recommend for Asian heritage?

[@laurie-lionessnotaewe5902]

I used MyHeritage out of just plain curiosity. I appreciate your explanation of how DNA is trickier than most people know. I’d love to have my genealogy done, too. I’m a descendant of Alexander Hamilton and would LOVE to have verified to some naysayers. I just haven’t looked into it as of yet. I did learn that I’m 89% English, 9.6% Irish and 1.4% Scandinavian. Kinda boring, I know. 😂

[@barbaramcewen]

23 and me actually gave me a mt DNA group of X2A1 so I thought that was somewhat detailed. I haven't done another test though since the results I got matched quite well with my family history that I know of

[@maninedoow5895]

You’ve cut your hair 😭✨👏🏼😂

[@ameliainva]

First thing I noticed, Looking sharp!

[@peterblahut5106]

You were looking for the NAME of the Jews that became Christians. I am ONE. The actual full proper name is A Messianic Jewish Christian OR a “Messianic Jew” both we use here in Canada.

[@ajalicea1091]

Whenever someone asks me about tracing their families; i tell them; ARE YOU READY TO FIND FAMILY SKELETONS, who are hiding in the closet?

[@truthhurts5158]

Maybe you can answer this question for me. If I order a DNA kit and put a hair in the solution from the kits, Could they get the DNA

[@PuntaCanagirl]

Great video once again! I wonder if you could dive into French Canadian genealogy/genetic heritage in one of your future videos. I'm not sure what that could look like concretely, but I think that would be very interesting!

[@David-zc6wq]

I was searching my wife's French Canadian ancestry. 1600's the Fillies, Kings Daughters/Founding Mothers, it seems 3/4 of all French Canadians are related to one or more of the Fillies. Fantastic story..waiting on Netflix

[@JasonDavid9]

Can you do a Raw Data comparison from before and after? Let's say a person took a Raw data DNA test in 2018 and a Raw DNA test in 2020.

[@nickdamon2721]

I think people get the Jewish Faith and Jewish Ancestry confused and think it is the same thing, when in fact the two are not connected at all.

[@roberthayes6708]

@GeneaVlogger, I've watched a couple of your videos and found them to be very interesting. I have not done a DNA test as yet but know that on my father's side of the family, my grandmother is half German and half Cherokee Indian. My grandfather has some Sioux Indian in his line but I haven't been able to figure out exactly where the Sioux Indian comes in, when there's a lot of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch there. Short of doing the DNA test, how do I find out where each individual part comes from (Sioux Indian as an example)? On my mother's side, my grandfather was Irish and grandmother was English, Welsh and I believe Swedish or Netherlands. As I work on my family tree, I've noticed that there is some ancestors from Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark.

[@rubynibs]

Ancestry DU (Down Under). That's just a tip for Ancestry to cover that entire upside-down part of the world.

[@terrayjos]

South America, Indigenous America and the Caribbean are well represented well with Ancestry DNA. Plus their digital records are the best.

[@JollyGoodJewWitch]

Ancestry stinks for me and my family is from Barbados and my great grandmother was Arawak and ancestry never picked k up at all but myheritage did.

[@honeyjazz4147]

Ancestrydna doesn't pick up my South Asian ancestry 23andme does so does Myheritage.

[@susettesoja1482]

I've been watching a lot of your videos. They are very interesting and educational. I really enjoy them. But I have?,what do they do with our DNA? Do they make clones of us? Or sell it, or use it for research, Henrietta Lacks?

[@Gaibreel]

Can you help me? 23 and me said im 57 Russian/ukrainian 41 romanian 1.1 south Indian 0.5 anatolian Then i did heritage and it said 2 results that 23 and me didnt have! Baltic and middle eastern. Is heritage wrong? Why didnt 23 and me add middle eastern and baltic? Why is the middle eastern so high? My Heritage said 47.4 romanian 40.5 ukranian/Russian 6.0 baltic?? 3.3 middle eastern 2.8 west asian Which is more accurate?? Is my heritage wrong?

[@wendykelly8551]

Always wonder which is best one to take for uk.....

[@DrThomas18]

Before anyone would recommend Living DNA, think twice. At least I know is that they are *NOT* good for outside UK but they claim to be the best for UK only ancestry.

[@jihaneberr215]

Im a moroccan girl i took a dna test from familytreedna bc thats the only company that ships to my country and i got too many jewish in my result i was shocked I mean no one of my family has ever mentionned jewish ancestry..i even got a 3rd to 5th cousin who happens to be a jewish! Wow. I got: 16% sephardic jewish 3% ashkenazi jewish 2% mizrahi jewish I also got 7% north levant I downloaded my data to my heritage and got 8% ashkenazi jewish Can u help me mr please? Does that mean i have clise jewish ancestors? Or my ancestors were jewish?

[@kinglisco1379]

Probably spanish jews

[@danielleColeman18]

I noticed that in my DNA chart my cousins on my paternal side are not correct, my 1st cousin registers as my 2nd cousin. On my maternal side the relationships are correct. I’m wondering is it because I’m more closely related to my maternal family?

[@kathleenhuff3059]

My mother's father's side of my family is listed in the book called Wharton's of Wharton Hall..and our lineage on that side goes back thru Sir Thomas Wharton to King Edward the second..would be great to find the rest of my family..I know my mother's mother's maiden name is Patton..lol..so either Scot or Irish..lol..my dad on the other hand settled in Appalachian Mountains in eastern Ky and West Virginia..that's as far as I know..I did do Ancestry..but some of it doesn't look right as according to my dad's sister we are supposed to have a small bit of Shawnee in us..my Great Grandfather I think...took my great grandmother's last name..not going to be easy to prove..as some tribes were known to purge data on their tribe's people marrying White folks. (I heard this from a Native American friend of mine.

[@brandonnefra_tt]

I’ve done both MyHeritage and Ancestry the results are similar but yet not I’m still very confused on what to believe. I do want to take the African Ancestry but when it comes to the other things that have come up from ancestry and MyHeritage it’s hard to figure out who’s right or even close.

[@Whit3Br3ad]

Are you related to PayMoneyWubby? You guys have many similar features and same voice.

[@adamarycurtis7016]

I wonder if any of genome sequencing one's can tell me if I have CCR5-delta32

[@marcihaught1840]

I did the ancestry test. It shown I was 3-5% Nigerian. No where in my tree (both maternal and paternal) within the 500bc to present does it show any one from Nigeria. Can you give any suggestions to me how to trace who came from Nigeria? I’m mostly English, German, Scotland, and Ireland. Also my dad just got his results and he does not have the Nigerian dna.

[@loveyoualltheway]

For an Asian, is there a good one you could help recommend. Thank you so much in advance

[@murdoch6738]

I done a dna test in ftdna ....can I give you my kit number + the password in pravite...and you make an episode about it. So I can understand better????

[@bj7057]

You kind of look like Doug from King of Queens.

[@AntonioDellElceUK]

23andme is much better than you think on ydna... No need for basic ydna test on ftdna... Better wgs (like I did)

[@TheHamburglarHelpster]

My herritage was the most accurate for me

[@FoxyStealth]

Did you see Oprah's where she is almost 100% Liberian?

[@maureendonnelly3873]

Just goes to show were all mixed. there isent racism, its a made up term because were all connected 😉 i wish more people could understand that

[@MrLoobu]

Its important to remember they aren't actually reading your ancestry, they are comparing your genetics to other people with known family trees. This works pretty well with Europeans, or any group with migration records to the new world, but realistically most of the ethnicities from even 200 years ago were not even identified before they were lost, let alone recorded. If you are from the Americas or Africa or even much of Asia the detailed information to place your ancestors on the map just arent there.

[@anaz5918]

I did Ancestry and my grandma was mostly Native American grew up on a Indigenous community until her teenager years and spoke the language, when I did the test it show %30 + Native Americans and the region was from up north of Mexico places like Texas . My grandma always told us she was Yaqui which is a tribe recognized by the USA and Mexico it cover parts of North Mexico and South West USA also my European ancestors came from the Basque Country, Portugal and Asturias, Spain , I started a family tree and found my ancestors the left Europe and settled on Mexico in 1836 from one side of the family I haven’t work the far on my moms side .

[@shaunsteele8244]

@@anaz5918 yeah they'll identify Native American DNA, but that's all it will say... "Native American". It'd be like telling a white person they're "European", which most people would already know. The problem is Native tribes aren't offering up their DNA to be tested, so there isn't much reference data for people with Native American heritage who want to DNA test. Maybe that'll change in the future

[@MercyAlwyz23]

I really like his content and the trees he puts together!

[@sweettart130]

Funny thing is, I sub to UsefulCharts so I saw their video the day it was posted...and now I get to watch it again. xD

[@VenomHalos]

Me too! 😂

[@WhackaWhacka]

I saw the original video and then this and I haven't seen anybody mention the part where he says you have 16 great-grandparents. 😮 10:14

[@GeneaVlogger]

😮 I didn't even notice!!! 👻

[@AmongRocks]

Useful Charts are one of my favourite channels 😄

[@thuggie1]

i been delving deep into where my ancestral groups came from and looking at the migration of the millennia the interesting one was my mother is welsh north wales to be precise when they looked at the mitochondrial DNA according of a large amount of the Welsh population thee is Levantine DNA and also commonly fond with Ashkenazi Jews of Europe but like way back in history with the DNA marker appear with very high frequency in Wales - at around 11%. which sort of makes sense that Welsh has more connection to the Semitic language chain than it does European. so ye i am having fun

[@Hippopotalust]

I would love for you to do a Q&A on getting help with your "roadblocks" from professional genealogists.

[@GeneaVlogger]

I thought about possibly doing twitch streams where I can help people with questions directly. Only issue is I have no time for it! 😂😜 I like this idea though!

[@Hippopotalust]

@@GeneaVlogger I have been watching some of your videos this evening and was thinking about this comment. It might be cool to do a stream that was "how far can we get in 3 (?) hours" tracking a person's genetic history. I have no idea if that is reasonable or 3 (?) hours gets you nowhere and would just be frustrating. But if it was a reasonable concept I would totally watch that, and also volunteer as a guinea pig for that (all I really know about my father is from my DNA). I would also pay for such a thing, knowing that it would be equivalent to going to costco and trying on the samples - far from buying the entire product, but a nice little taste of what is possible with DNA & genealogy tracking.

[@crazedsecy]

I did Ancestry and am matching to more than 162k people. I had my father do a dna test in order to see which side of my family was my mother’s (she’s deceased) and which was my father’s side. It didn’t help much. It’s like 90% match to my dad. This includes relatives that I know are on my mother’s side. It seems like my parents are distantly related, but I have not found a common ancestor. I’m Puerto Rican and have multiple countries mated to me. I matched up to someone who is clearly non-hispanic through my 2% Irish. I am 62 and my father was 93 and I never expected to have so many people be related to me.

[@alexandracruz5243]

That's normal on the Caribbean islands. My parents are from Dominican Republic, I tested them and they're not related but I found out some distant great-grandaunts and uncles of my mother and father married and that's why I get matches from the both sides. It could happen to you, especially if they come from the same region in Puerto Rico.

[@maryfrump7937]

I found if any ancestor goes back in Europe to the Royals, say Edward the third, you are cousins to most all of them . Everyone married cousins be it distant or second cousins.

[@aspieatheist6040]

I've never heard of Circle. I thought the fifth DNA test would be Living DNA.

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

I'm H1h on my maternal haplogroup. Since it says H1 dates to 10,000 and H1h to 7,500 years ago... this means we're clearly related some point between 10,000 - 7,500 years ago 👍. How goes it, Cuz? 😆 (I call all my cousins Cuz, there's a lot of them lol)

[@jlpack62]

It's funny that you used the example of one grandparent giving you 27% of your DNA profile, because that is exactly what happened to me. I have a Croatian grandparent and my DNA came out with 27% Balkan.

[@kylesummers1565]

I feel like you avoid talking about CRI Genetics. Do you get some kind of kickbacks from the other companies, or do you have a real doubt about the CRI processes? CRI doesn't have a big marketing footprint, and genealogy is not their primary goal, but they have been rated at or near the top by actual geneticists for at least 2 years now. They are the ones that determined that the guy from the northern Midwest had North American DNA that dated back like 17000 years when your mainstream companies only went back 5 or 6 generations. Big article in USA Today a year or two ago. Most of the companies discussed here have corporate ownership that is questionable as far as DNA security. Open up Bro.

[@reneestuckyneale1599]

I found this very interesting. I live in California, my family has been here since between 1900 and 1930. I have done DNA testing on Ancestry, FTDNA and 23andMe. I have been doing genealogy for about 3 years. On Ancestry I started finding a lot of cousin matches which seemed to match on both my mother’s lines and my father’s. Well, it turns out that because both of the families had large portions of the families that go way back in American history and there looks to be quite a bit of Endogamy. My mother’s lines include ancestors from Jamestown(early Virginia/Kentucky), Mayflower(early Massachusetts ), and early New York and New Jersey. mtDNA chromosome seems to be H1u1 and may lead to the Netherlands. For my father’s Y-chromosome DNA, I have recently tested my brother, but haven’t received the results yet, but I have traced most of that family back to the 1500s in Switzerland (went to Switzerland in 2019 and hired genealogists to help there), they are the most recent emigrants. The other side of his family can trace most of it’s roots back to early Virginia/Kentucky, and Mayflower(early Massachusetts). Both sides followed the general early migrations through upstate New York, then to Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri then on to Minnesota and the Dakotas and finally to California. It seems that a lot of the Mayflower descendant families tended to settle in the same communities. Both sides are predominantly British, Irish, Scottish, Germanic, French, and general Western European. This helps clear up why I was finding so many distant cousins who matched both sides. I have downloaded my DNA kits to GEDMatch and am doing most of this research on my own. BTW…my daughter-in-law is Chinese, from Beijing, your Chinese wife video was of interest to me as well.

[@chuckandrews5339]

How long did it take results to come back from Ancestry? It been over 4 months for me..

[@shaunsteele8244]

same... my family has been in California for 100 years. My ancestry tests show most of my family lines have been in America since the 1700s

[@peninnahkrumbholz4118]

I love UsefulCharts!! He was my first introduction into family trees now I got my husband to watch and I found your channel

[@wenwijk9832]

I always watch your video's and know you are always hoping they will dive into the genealogy stuff. Puts a giant smile on my face to see your excitement, finally someone showing some matches, Yeah!! Thanks for the great video.

[@magnusE7]

I live in Sweden and have really unique y-chromosomal DNA. On 23andme it says J-L26. Have done big Y on familytreeDNA on my dad.

[@robertprice5039]

Yes that is pretty rare. I have a Y-DNA Haplogroup of N-L550 that might be a bit more common in Sweden (10% of the population or so), but there was a grave the was found in Sweden from about 1050 AD, and the skeleton’s Y-DNA Haplogroup was J2a1a1b2a1b1. The code is VK42 for that find.

[@dianapulido1807]

I saw the original video when he first posted. I loved seeing your reaction to it. I have tested with both Ancestry and 23 and me. I am interested in other DNA testing companies because I'm adopted. I actually found out I was adopted because my son took an Ancestry DNA test. Basically I'm looking my family. My family tree right now would start with me and it would have my children and my two grandsons all connected to me. So far I have only found a half-brother who was also adopted and his son. There is a little more to the story but it just gets weirder and weirder and is too long for here. I would love to be able to make a family tree that links me to parents and grandparents etc...

[@vallayton1843]

Go to family search which is the mormons

[@robertprice5039]

I did notice that Ancestry seems to be most accurate in the details of my ethnicity. 1/4 of my ancestry is East Prussian (Baltic Prussian, Lithuanian, Masurian Polish, and Salzburger Exulanten/Austrian), and the other 3/4 was a mixture of British Isles and its surrounding shores and islands. Ancestry gets it pretty spot on, while FTDNA says I am roughly 2/3 Irish, 1/3 Polish, with traces of Finnish (My Y-DNA Haplogroup is N) and the Caucuses Region (Unsure what’s that’s from).

[@stedgar369]

"Unless you're a Hapsburg..." LOL

[@ayishas4385]

🤣😂🤣 Yup!

[@nikvalentincic9764]

Nice job getting a sponsor 😀. I really like your videos, keep them comming

[@StaK_1980]

Just one question remains for me: which test does the genealogists takes? Because I'll take THAT ONE! :)

[@sirippotis17750]

All of them/Ancestry/Nebula full genome sequencing

[@shaunsteele8244]

I would start with Ancestry if you're going to do just one

[@nextlifetimebrendan3940]

Ooo nice haircut!!!

[@rosamwen2267]

So Jewish is a dna now…and here I am always thought Jewish was a believe System…I should go and test and see if I can miraculously find some 7th day Adventist in my dna 👍🏽

[@GeneaVlogger]

Looks like someone has never heard the term Ethnoreligion.

[@rosamwen2267]

@@GeneaVlogger if it makes sense to you more power to you ;)

[@princerose233]

@@GeneaVlogger lemba of south Africa?

[@lelandsmith2320]

MH picked up my Mormon ancestry, Not so hard to do as the century leading up to my birth it was a mix of British and Scandinavians living in a specific area.

[@Ceelle2]

I've done three and found Ancestry the most useful. My heritage did a big push in the UK and Europe a few years back but I didn't know they also are big in South America.

[@cbpaperie]

23andMe seems to be more accurate for both my husband and I than Ancestry, where we have traced our ancestors from anyway. My husband has also done MyHeritage and that seems to be even further off for him. His grandmother was from Italy and both Ancestry and 23andMe show that but MyHeritage shows Iberian Peninsula instead of Italian.

[@ChildofYAH_33]

I have a rather silly question, at the risk of sounding very uneducated, can our DNA be altered in anyway?

[@ryanboomer7781]

It's interesting to hear this guy in the video mention his connection with Ireland and Nova Scotia... I am first born Canadian from Irish lineage and live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. I have a 23 and me kit here but have not sent in or set up yet, but it will be very soon. I am adopted, however, so I only have maternal lineage data of mother having left Ireland to come to Canada with her parents out of Cork Co. I understand that is kinda like the drain they pop the cork on as far as any westerly travelling ships. Super interesting to peek into the paternal Y chromosome data. I have done a considerable amount of etymological surname researching. Having its profound effect, not to mention the X marks the spot of the centromeres and telomeres, cromatid, and associated mythical and etymological parallels. Mind your P's and Q's as meaning many things, not the least of which referring to measuring the q arm and p arm of the chromosomes to determine length of the fuse or whick to calculate age on DNA level, but more importantly how many more times it will be able to replicate without degradation. The effect of entropy on the micro as is on all things in the macro. The Holy fire within, guardian spirit some say, others Djinn "that which is concealed". From first till last breathe "ruach" they support our walk. To the degree we can tap in and mollify "appease, become calm, still" our guardian within Djinn or angelsized Genie in the bottle clay pot or vessel Adam atom ⚛️ This inner creator spirit is the spirit of genius as to the treasure being accessed within the X Geni of Loci!

[@alcaparrajpg]

What would you make of around an 8% italian reading in Myheritage but not significant amount of matches in today's Italy? That showed up on my grandfather's test and it was a complete surprise. He's from northern Spain.

[@GeneaVlogger]

If you have a single ancestor of Italian ancestry where that is coming from, it would be the equivalent of a Great Grandparent to 2nd-Great to your Grandfather - so a 3rd-great or 4th-great grandparent to you. That would be someone born in about the late 18th century or early 19th century. If this is the case, he may not see many Italian matches because he is of an older generation and the living Italian cousins are so distant that they share little to no dna. It is also possible that none of his close Italian relatives have tested (or at least in the database(s) with your Grandfather's DNA).

[@alcaparrajpg]

@@GeneaVlogger Thank you very much! I was thinking something like that might be the case, but it's nice to have the opinion of a professional. I've started the research and I've found 3 generations (1700s) on his grandmother's branch. Looks like I might be able to find that italian ancestor at this rate if they exist. I mostly need time haha. It's quite exciting to have an specific goal.

[@shaunsteele8244]

Spain and Italy are pretty close geographically and have a shared history, so that's not too surprising. In a similar way, a lot of Irish people test as "Scottish" due to mass immigration about 400 years ago

[@rodrikforrester8489]

What do you mean shared history? And pretty close? There’s france in between them.

[@allenmurgondy5221]

Trace it back to the hotel toilet seat or bathroom towel or the unchanged bed sheets because she said, "I ain't ever cheated... on you, I love you Daryl." I said, 'I know baby, you're my little NASCAR road trip' and just cause that lil' baby don't look like me or even the same color as us my ancestry proves my path out of Africa at one time, LOOOOOONG AGOOOO. 😂 😂

[@sonnyp7638]

I will try again on my nephews account. Maybe it won't be deleted. You mentioned you are Jewish with ancestors tracing back to the middle east. You also have fair skin. People get mad about the pictures of Jesus with Caucasian features but isn't that possible he looked that way since he was also Jewish and from the middle east???

[@leena8206]

So if I understand correctly you are Jewish and have ancestors who trace back to the middle east? You are also fair skinned. So when people get upset about depictions of Jesus looking Caucasian, those depictions might actually be accurate, correct?

[@histatimaniples]

Ancestry dna says I’m 53% native while my mother is 23% and father is 30% aren’t I supposed to get half of each? Wouldn’t I be 26% ?

[@DolceSuono9]

My father’s haplogroup via 23andme comes through J-M172, but ends with J-Z631. My mother is U5b1d. So it does show more detail.

[@FoxyStealth]

Trying to figure out what the weird picture is behind you. Looks like a deformed foot...? Whatever it is, it's a CRIME.

[@2darknight]

Loved Matts video and found this one critequeing his, and glad I did. Thank you, the additional insight was greatly appreciated.

[@WolfRoss]

For ethnicity my paper trail matched the archaic DNA. This is because of the movement of populations where using current populations now residing in the same areas is irrelevant if your ancestors left a long time ago.

[@maryfrederickson9400]

I HATED the fact that you did not let him finish a sentence! Damn, damn, damn! You did have important things to say but he did too! You came off as a verbose smart aleck. Why couldn't you make the comments ay the end of what he had to say? It would have been more polite.

[@kamelhaj6850]

Even though I knew I was almost 100% Polish, both of my parents' families are quite different with neither one looking Polish. My mom's side looked German while my dad's family looked Romani. My results were predictable (and boring) with the map locations of ancestry being almost 100% of what was once greater Poland. There was a bit of a DNA breakdown between Eastern Europe/Russia 59% and Baltic at 39%, with 1% Swedish and 1% Jewish. The strangest was my original result being listed as Nigerian and Irish!!

[@DeadlySpecies]

Hi I am curious as a non European what would be the main distinguishing features between poles and Germans?

[@lptechCT]

I got Myheritage DNA know what? Can I export the results and import in another sites? Can you make a video talking about it? Thanks

[@briansmith9439]

Interesting but it should be stressed that geneticists maintain that, geographically, all DNA type testing can only locate a person's ancestors to a continent, not a country. Each of the genealogy DNA companies tells you that fact in the fine print but you have to search for it. What they feature prominently is not much more than an educated guess based on the frequency of incidents in a particular area. This is problematic when you factor in the migration of populations over the centuries.

[@JA050209]

I have a question. After my mother and father married and had me, my dad's sister ended up marrying my mom's brother and had my cousin. Would me and my cousin's DNA be comparable to brother and sister?

[@stephanieyee9784]

Probably as you share the same DNA. It won't be identical of course but you are genetically siblings.

[@rubynibs]

How do you get Jewish? There's no Jewish gene, only collections of people who converted at one point in history. How is it determined that someone is, say, part Ashkenazi? They don't have their own genetic pool, do they?

[@denisenilsson1366]

Matt Baker converted to Judaism.

[@AutonyB]

Men do however have x chromosome Dna from dads genome thru mitochondrial uptake cousins thru parents I have some figure out thru close relation cross over and race, some detail is on google

[@Maigodseki]

Ancestry showed me jewish ancestry, but my heritage not. They showed me Central Asia instead. I am as German as you can gwt

[@1106gary]

What doesn't get said is that the first thing Y dna can tell you if you are male is " Who is NOT your father."

[@AStarIsBornThisWay]

@geneavlogger Why didn’t you use CRI Genetics? What do you think of them?

[@Ash-bn5bn]

Has anyone checked the best for African Americans? I have done ancestry and african ancestry. I found after i did african ancestry, the ancestry updated their database and they matched more

[@XxxclusiveReviews]

I did African Ancestry.. not happy both my maternal and paternal is Spain. But I'm definitely black.. next Ancestry to find out what part of Africa my ancestors are from

[@TaushaTW]

I took tests via ancestry, CRI Genetics, & 23 and Me. The results are confusing af.

[@7h698]

What were the results?

[@richardjordan7936]

I did my first test with CRI Genetics, and the results where baffling. They were 53.6% European, and 44.4%. I petitioned for a refund, and I got all of my money back because the results were false. I recently got results from my hertiage. They seem accurate. 74.4% African, and 25.4% European. Who knows.

[@kayroot4543]

I have taken 5 DNA tests and have no idea of how to use them,I want to do my Family History research

[@christopherjefferson3561]

Lmao…I know he said “endogamy” but I heard “dogmeat”…rofl

[@Jessrox2138]

Do you know any companies in particular with high data for Asia? I want to find out about my ancestry, I am Aramean and would like as much info as possible! :)

[@VisibleMRJ]

I think I only have 8 great grand parents. How do you get 16 great grand parents.

[@UriyahMommy]

I love Useful Charts, lol I was wondering when you were going to review this video.

[@lisasternenkind6467]

Why would anybody want estimates when having a DNA test made?

[@danielsullivan9271]

I would like to share my results for 2 and now I am getting another one. Just to see your perspective on this. Is that possible? It might be fun but you may not have the time. You seem so fascinating. I love history and dna. It would be wonderful to see your take on mine.

[@mybackHurtzz]

Hi I did 2 actually dna test kits that I swab but I uploaded my data ftdna and living dna but I wanna do the actual test but I don't know which one

[@reginaromsey]

The fact that the Mitocondrial DNA doesn’t help with building a Family Tree.

[@maryfrump7937]

I got the European chart. Going to get the updated one now.

[@taidoram8411]

What about Native Americans? We know that in the 1700’s our male relative was Tuscarora Indian. However, none of us that has taken Ancestry has no percentages of Indian. Which test should we take?

[@native1181]

Upload your raw dna results to GEDmatch and you can find tribes. I found my African tribes and Native American tribes.

[@JollyGoodJewWitch]

Something so interesting is my uploads are different from the purchased kits with my results. And I purposefully didn't add under my own purchased accounts on purpose using an alias. While they had some major similarities, this equally had major differences. Very interesting for me because even the DNA matches changes too.

[@GeneaVlogger]

The reason for that is because each DNA testing company have SNPs which they test for that the others don't. So if you upload your Ancestry results to FTDNA but also take a test through FTDNA, they will be different because some SNPs read by Ancestry won't be included in FTDNA's algorithm but at the same time FTDNA is looking to read SNPs which Ancestry did not include in their reading. They all still test mostly the same SNPs though, but even a small 1% change can make a big difference with these complicated algorithms.

[@nycsue]

@@GeneaVlogger This makes sense which is why when I uploaded my Ancestry to My Heritage and received 0.9% West Asian I decided to upload my 23andme to My Heritage. I figured it would confirm the 1st result or debunk it. I wound up even more confused because I received 1.4% Central Asian. The only reason I bothered with the 2nd upload to My Heritage was because I never received anywhere outside of Europe on Ancestry or 23andme from the first time I tested through updates. I can confirm the change in matches as well.

[@djthfc6045]

I’ve only done my heritage and ancestry and they are very, very different. I don’t know why