I took a My Heritage Ancestry DNA Test (SURPRISE!)

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[@JLP3191]

Can I ask where your father ethnicity is?

[@KAH-7]

Italian 🇮🇹, born and raised American 🇺🇸.

[@TheSimmpleTruth]

Puerto Rican are a mixed of many ethnicities. I am, for example, part Italian (Naples & Sicily), part Ashkenazi Jew, part Irish and Welsh, but mostly Iberian, followed by Central/West African, North African, Indigenous and Middle Eastern. So, you shouldn’t be surprised if you do have blood shared with many Puerto Ricans like me.

[@TdT2211]

Yes, for real. I don't think the test is wrong, it just needs to explain better what the box is for.

[@gloriathomas3245]

That would depend on when their ancestors arrived on the Island and the same applies to Cuba. With the exception of some Germans and conversos i.e Jews and Muslims who became Catholic who were allowed to settle on Puerto Rico and Cuba, most other European immigrants didn't come to either island until after 1815. For those that don't know, in 1815 the restoration Spanish crown issued an edict that allowed peoples of other European nationalities to settle on Puerto Rico and Cuba for the express reason of populating both colonies. It's for this reason why you have Puerto Ricans who can trace their ancestries as far as Russia and other Nordic states.

[@letsgetdoing]

@@TdT2211 If the test says someone is Puerto Rican it's bullshit.

[@kdugg]

I’m melungeon, from the Appalachian mountains. WV. My admixture is 96% identical to that of a Puerto Rican. My ethnicities are almost identical to yours

[@TheSimmpleTruth]

@@letsgetdoing That’s not what is says. It wouldn’t say you are American either. It says your genetic composition matches thar of most people on the island, or elsewhere regarding who you are or where you were born. Your genetic makeup has nothing to do with your nationality.

[@stephanienwadieiiamhybasia]

The more I know, the more I recognize that there is more to learn. My Ancestors were survivors. They were “storytellers “. Who knows how much of the story was “enhanced “ for a greater effect or minimized or “forgotten “. I love DNA 🧬 for the “crumbs it contains to untold stories and genetic diversity. Your results are amazing. Thank you for sharing.

[@stevencarr4002]

If you read Adam Rutherford's wonderful book 'How to Argue with a Racist', he explains very clearly and simply the concept of the 'genetic isopoint', which means that all Black people alive today are descended from Chinese people living about 5000 BC. Astonishing, but true!

[@davidowaniak4306]

Now the company has all informations about your organs.

[@akasmokey9908]

The beautiful thing about being of mixed race/culture, as I am as well, is that you feel at home almost anywhere in the world! It's a wonderful feeling!! I have physically traveled to Nigeria 38.9%, British Isles 27%, Sierra Leone 7.6%, North Africa 7.6%, Scandinavia & German 7%, Kenya 4.5%, Spain 4.5%, Italy & Greece 1.1%, and Southeast Asia 1.8% to know that I have heritage there. I currently reside in Germany, but I have made an effort to visit every genetic region of my heritage so far, except the Philippines, which I will do sometime within the next year. 🙏

[@lateiro6845]

Do you really believe those so called DNA tests can really break down each admixture like that in specific numbers? LOL…. Idk about all that..

[@rettawhinnery]

The original intent of ethnicity estimates was to tell where your ancestors lived 500 to 1000 years ago, before inter-continental travel. Since there are no living people that old, each of the DNA companies create reference panels of living users who claim that all four grandparents were born in a specific location. Each of the DNA companies identify different groups and break up the geographic areas differently. Each of the DNA companies test different SNPs and use different algorithms, so they cannot be compared across sites. MyHeritage keeps saying they will be updating their ethnicity estimates soon. The other companies (23andMe and AncestryDNA) typically push updates about once a year. Some of the DNA companies provide white papers on their methodology, but MyHeritage does not. Remember that ethnicity is not the same as nationality. Country borders are political not ethnic. Some countries did not exist 500 to 1000 years ago or borders have changed several times over that period. Estimates, by definition, cannot be precise. These are not genealogical helpful. The only way to know where your ancestors lived is to build a well-documented tree.

[@TheAdriB]

The Mesoamerican DNA comes from the Andean mountains. All indigenous Americans are closely related, regardless if their locations are North American or Latin America. A lot of those tribes moved around.

[@culturalobserver8721]

I was just going to write that. Excellent answer!

[@MarvinOrtiz-gm1mh]

MyHeritage does not distinguish between different Indigenous American populations and lumps them all together as Mesoamerican and Andean. I'm Puerto Rican and have near 30% readings of Mesoamerican and Andean on my DNA with MyHeritage.

[@TheAdriB]

@@MarvinOrtiz-gm1mh Yes, Taino DNA is Mesoamerican DNA. Sholars contends that the ancestors of the Taíno were Arawak speakers who came from the center of the Amazon Basin.

[@TheAdriB]

@@culturalobserver8721 Thank you 🥹

[@verlan3293]

Before the importation of enslaved people, the Spanish forcibly moved indigenous people from one part of the continent to another to make up for deaths due to overworking or disease. So you can have an indigenous ancestor with roots in modern-day Colombia have descendants in modern-day Cuba

[@CT-uv8os]

Thank you for doing this. It is fascinating. Mixed race Americans have always had to be kept silent. Its nice to hear a voice. Keep up the good work! CJ.

[@dwaynejones1146]

We are generations of Americans ,and mixed with those who were here, and those who came here...we have become a new people called Americans and we are a beautiful people and have our own distinct culture.

[@TedSinclair]

Thats only the bull shit” black peoples spew” you will never here white peoples talking such foolery”. Reeducate your self. Smfh” at your lack awareness, with a la k of awareness like thus History can repeat itself

[@foreverspartan1]

That's not a good thing you lose your families customs if you marry from outside race or even outside your ethnicity. The Jews keep their customs because they marry within their own.

[@TdT2211]

True. But Jews who live a secular life are also part of what @dwaynejones1146 is writing about. We are a new culture. It is a human experience that has never existed before and the culture is soooooo young too. ​@@foreverspartan1I don't know if it is good or bad but at this point, we should all be aware that the United States has and will continue to be a cultural place.

[@That_one_introvert.]

@@foreverspartan1The Jews are scattered so they are mixed they just keep the customs.

[@baldscott9191]

You can have a relative in the distance past that settled in PR. Italians also are known to be in PR. Spaniards and Italians mingled. I have connections inPR also but I have no trail of it . But Sephardic Jews settled all over the Caribbean and the US

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

A important statement from 23 and me about DNA testing and finding ancestral haplogroup: "Most of your genetic relatives will actually fall outside of your haplogroup, because your haplogroup only tells you about direct paternal-line or maternal-line". I'll add that the direct paternal and maternal line can go back 100,000 years ago. But those who branched of into 3rd cousins, great uncle or auntie, may have differing haplogroups.

[@flyfishing1776]

Yep, and male DNA most accurate and can tell more

[@sunspots6077]

Through DNA Richard Pryor was shown to be a very distant cousin through common native american ancestry... that is so cool!

[@KAH-7]

What Nation?

[@stevencarr4002]

Another cool fact is that we have all drunk some of the very same water that Jesus once drank!

[@KAH-7]

And how is that? At least one time in our lives, while we were 😴, we Had a Dream💭 like Dr. Martin Luther King that we were living across the road from him off of the Sea of Galilee❓

[@stevencarr4002]

@@KAH-7 There is only so much water in the world, and it all eventually gets mixed. So there will be a few molecules of the water that Jesus drank in every litre of liquid that we drink.

[@KAH-7]

Balderdash

[@michaeltaylor8501]

Re: Your lower-than-expected French ethnicity result... Not everyone inherits a known & specific percentage of each ethnicity a parent might have inherited due to what's called recombination. Both myself & my first cousin share a grandmother whose parents were born in Scandinavia: one in Norway with centuries-old roots there & the other from Sweden. I apparently inherited a high percentage of Norwegian & Swedish - including the possibility of some Danish - and a much-lower percenrage of Western European, whereas my first cousin inherited a very high percentage of Western European - including the possibility of some Danish - but absolutely no Norwegian or Sweedish, per our respective MyHeritageDNA tests [which bummed my cousin out a bit - even though we equally share Norwegian & Swedish heritage regardless of our differences in inherited DNA snips (SNP's)]. This recombination process of DNA snips that takes place within each individual is why syblings - & even identical twins - have some differences in their respective inherited DNA; &, it's why an Ethnicity Result report might be missing some fairly-recent ethnicities (let alone perhaps many distant ethnicities).* * = Paternal-line Y-DNA testing & Maternal-line mtDNA testing can help someone discover some of their more ancient ethnicities, but not likely every ethnicity that went into their eventually being born. We've been gaining much knowledge over the years, but we still fall far short of being able to figure out everything.

[@annatomasso5226]

Wanted to let you know, Jarret Ross from Genevlogger and Professional Genealogist Reacts talked about you in his recent live on Professional Genealogist Reacts. It sounded like he would like to collab with you.

[@MagnaMater2]

Yes, Danielle, please, do work with Jarret. I recently saw a very interesting documentary about Sephardic and Ashkenaz girls being sold by their own families as 'white-slaves' to Brazil, and due to their job getting kicked out of their religious communities, and therefore organizing their own cemetaries, and a high northern african & middle eastern score could hint on sephardic ancestry in your case from Brazil. I have two Romeros from Spain (one called Lola) as my matches, and the only thing we in our family know is that my mum had some Danube Sephardic (and Sinti) ancestry due to the church baptizing orphans in the mid 18th century. In the early 1930's (before the mass-emigrations) a greatount of mine caused a scandal divorcing her freshly-wed husband, finding out he was involved in a girl-trading network after finding some poor 'orphaned' girls in their barn about to be shipped.

[@nytn]

@@MagnaMater2 we have e-mailed once or twice ! I would love to do that

[@lazarushernandez5827]

The thing you need to remember with the various DNA websites, is that they do not have the same database to draw from. They can only compare your DNA to what is in their database. It doesn't make it necessarily wrong or inaccurate, it just means they don't have the same database as another company. If Puerto Rico showed up here, it reflects the results in their database. As you have seen upon revisiting you other results, the percentages can change. That is because as more people have their DNA examined, the results can be refined.

[@pirate55hitinc.26]

The thing to alwayz remember is it's for entertainment purposes only, and none of the database is based off of past Ancestors! It's only based off of the living people that submitted DNA today, and the labels that governments want you to be today! Do your geno, and Learn THY HISTORY! 🏴‍☠️

[@tomdee6819]

In Puerto Rico the original people there were the Taino which I think would be considered Meso American .

[@hannahneira2846]

Yes they would because the Tainos (Arawak people) originally came from the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela.

[@hannahneira2846]

Or Arawak Tribe*

[@alvarojosedossantosferreir5351]

@@hannahneira2846 Venezuela is not located in Mesoamerica but actually in South America. Taínos descend from Arawak people and here in Brazil we still have some Arawak tribes who are full-blooded Native Americans and still maintain their own languages and customs. Well, I hope I have helped. Greetings.

[@batya7]

So glad you tested with MyHeritage and shared the results.

[@nytn]

It was not as scary as i expected! haha

[@mitchellwong1247]

As my wife says I have an artist's eye and can often guess where someone is from (provided they aren't too mixed). Since I first stumbled on you Danielle, I initially guessed Sicilian.

[@KAH-7]

I have that gift as well, even if someone is mixed.

[@theinsideoutlife1508]

I have that gift and artist's eye as well

[@Bresh66]

You guys can’t guess where I’m from

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

Sicilians like Danielle exist only in American films and comedies: they are mixed Sicilian-Americans (as is normal in America, which is populated by so many different people). They exist in the American bias too. Sicily is in Europe. Americans like to think of it as much more exotic than it actually is. Also, Sicilians in Sicily like to think of themselves as exotic beings. The reality is something else. Much more boring and less rainbow-like.

[@obabas80]

I believe regular Italian is northerm Italian, and then they group south italian and Greek together because Southern Italy was heavily colonized at one time by the Greeks. Its cool to think thay all those thousands of years laterz Arcimedes may have some descendants left there in southern italy and Sicily.

[@5Antvin]

Greco -Roman world .Is all that area and throughout the balkans and north into other parts of Europe 2000 plus yrs ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world

[@melinda6921]

Southern Italy was the ancient Magna Graecia, it was a sparsely inhabited place that was heavily colonized by the Greeks and therefore is still inhabited by people who had Greek ancestors. Archimedes was a Sicilian mathematician from Ragusa in a time when Sicily was Greek, for this reason he is considered Greek, but no one knows for sure whether he was genetically Greek, Sicilian or both. All Italians from southern Italy know that they have a high chance of having Greek ancestors, and many are proud of it. In some areas of southern Italy, dialects of Greek origin are still spoken and there are millenary festivals, songs and dances in honor of the Greco-Roman past of those regions.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

Well, it is not as simple as you make it out to be. Italy and Greece not only had relations during the ancient world, but also later. 1) Many present-day Greeks are descendants of Italians from the Middle Ages and later. Italians were present in Greece after 1204 (Latin Empire of the East). Italian soldiers defended Constantinople in 1453. Italian cities called “Maritime Republics” had trading bases in Greece and also in present-day Turkey. Not to mention Venice's rule over many islands 2) Many present-day Italians are descendants of Medieval Greeks and more recent ones . Just as in Italy there are Italianized Greek surnames (e.g., Cuzzocrea or Gangemi), in Greece there are Italianized Italian surnames (such as Kapodistrias). Thus, it is also difficult to distinguish between Italians and Greeks for such more recent reasons.

[@obabas80]

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590absolutely agree. I am one of those Greeks with an Italianized surname from the island of Crete. Most likely have Venetian ancestors as I have a northern y haplogroup from paternal side that is not common in Greece and also 17% northern Italian northern Italian genes according to 23&me. We’ve been mingling with each other for a very long time up til recently. Lol

[@MarvinOrtiz-gm1mh]

MyHeritage does not distinguish between different Indigenous American populations and lumps them all together as Mesoamerican and Andean. I'm Puerto Rican and have near 30% readings of Mesoamerican and Andean on my DNA with MyHeritage.

[@maureendelzer]

I noticed that MyHeritage groups me as Mesoamerican/Andean, but I am Choctaw. It appears they categorize all indigenous peoples together.

[@fanis4093]

Yes, this is the way DNA works. It can easily check for very close relatives and very broad categories. Anything in between is harder :-)

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

​@@fanis4093Siberian isn't the same as meso

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

It's even crazier because andean tribes aren't very similar to Eastern tribes... My grandma is 44% NA on ancestry which makes sense because I think her dad was only 3/4s native if that his mom was full but my grandma doesn't know his dad

[@philipponte5643]

Same with Spanish and Portuguese. They use Iberian, which can be either Spain or Portugal, but I’m 1st generations Portuguese American

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

@@philipponte5643 Iberian can be French also

[@JustMe-no8el]

The North African middle eastern is probably connected to your Italian heritage. There were Egyptians who moved to Italy at some points. Always exchange between Middle East and Italy as well

[@ScarabChronicles]

That's pretty cool, I was also told that the man that found the city of Cairo after the Arab invasion was a Sicilian of Muslim faith. Haven't looked into it too much but so interesting 😊

[@JustMe-no8el]

@@ScarabChronicles I saw a documentary about Egyptians who lived in Pompeii as well… it seems there was lots of exchange both ways

[@KAH-7]

An Egyptian Arab from the conquerors of Sicily descent. A Fatimite Shi'ite. 😉

[@JustMe-no8el]

@@KAH-7 oh I don’t know about Arab Egyptian. The ones I’m aware of were og Egyptians who worshipped Osiris and Isis or whatever. In their villa they had murals to the gods

[@JustMe-no8el]

@VitorCorrea-lc1gy I’ve never seen 40% in any Sicilian dna tests. I have only seen Sicilians have mostly European with traces of North African and middle eastern. But the ancient Egyptians in Italy is real. For Greeks though every one I have seen do a test came back with traces of Ethiopian Somali or other East African.

[@Richard-gp5tg]

Greeks colonized Sicily and Southern Italy.

[@thumbstruck]

Naples comes from the Greek "Neapolis". "Pizza" came from the Greek word "pita".

[@Domingo12754]

You may not have Puerto Rican per say, but many Taino indians were taken by Cortes during the colonization of Mexico so possibly some Taino or Taino meztizo genes may have been transferred to Mexico and Central America. On Heritage they blend indigenous and mestizos into one group.

[@TheAdriB]

The circum-Caribbean theory, contends that the ancestors of the Taíno diffused from the Colombian Andes. Julian H. Steward, who originated this concept, suggests a migration from the Andes to the Caribbean and a parallel migration into Central America and the Guianas, Venezuela, and the Amazon Basin of South America.

[@TheAdriB]

The Tainos weren’t taken to Mexico. All native tribes branch off from one another.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

My taino comes from Haiti and / Dr and I never heard anything in my family about having indigenous from that part of the Caribbean. It doesn't link me any African, not Spanish, in those countries but Indigenous

[@lulumoon6942]

Great point, OP.

[@carlosm.3426]

tainos are genetically more Mesoamerican and minor south american native, she doesnt have any Taino ancestry at all since the Puerto Rico group doesnt mean 100% indigenous lol what might be connecting her to Puerto Ricans is the NIGERIAN

[@Nunya_Bisnach]

I took the myheritage test and I am Puerto Rican and good thing that my mom taught me about my culture because I was not surprised when I saw my DNA but it's pretty much just like yours from biggest percentage to small I am Iberian, Scottish Irish Welsh, Ashkenazi Jew, Italian, Mesoamerican and Andeans North African Nigerian Sierra Leonean. And it accurately describes all of my genetic groups as Puerto Rican and nothing else. But if you have a little bit of African European and any kind of Native American then you'll probably look Puerto Rican or at least some kind of Caribbean.😅

[@masterdelrap]

This is how i expected your dna test

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

Fun fact puerto rican soldiers were stationed in Louisiana during when it was under Spanish authority.

[@pirate55hitinc.26]

You mean in New Orleans not Louisiana! Big Difference! ✌🏾

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

@pirate55hitinc.26 He was governor of Louisiana when New Orleans was still the capital and before the mass inmigration of Anglos to the region. In other words, the culture of greater Louisiana was the same. I know that in the present, both areas are different, and that Cajun, Creole, French, Spanish, Native, and Afro cultures were heavily represed after the Louisiana purchase. Apologies if my first comment was insensitive to the cultural struggles of New Orleans. Some additional information. Founded in 1718 by French colonists, New Orleans was once the territorial capital of French Louisiana before becoming part of the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. O'Reilly was appointed Governor and Captain-General of colonial Louisiana while in Spain in April 1769.

[@pirate55hitinc.26]

Not over the hold state! He just had Troops in New Orleans! 🏴‍☠️

[@pirate55hitinc.26]

@@luisa.acevedo3326 he just had Troops in New Orleans! Not the whole State, territory!

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

@@pirate55hitinc.26 i understand now. Thank for the clarification.

[@cristobalvalladares973]

Enjoyed it. Your channel is a blessing.

[@nytn]

Thank you so much for being here! I am honored to be learning with such a wonderful community of people.

[@KAH-7]

People gravitate to nice people. 🙂

[@michelleg7]

Actually if you understood migration of Mexico and its ancestry I could tell you that there were many people who came from various places to settle in Mexico including Puerto Rico and other places. So the fact that you have have a tiny bit is not a surprise. Mexico was a hub of cultural movement especially in the colonial period of Mexico.

[@vijaybrown7489]

Appreciate your videos. I’ve studied as a historian the western hemisphere and Caribbean and Latin America exclusively. Brazil has the highest number of people of Italian descent and it goes quite a ways back. Argentina has the highest concentration outside of Italy but Brazil’s population is filled with immigrants children from Italy as a whole.

[@stephaniek4298]

I appreciate the Christian application of having varied ancestry.

[@Buddhavibez]

You can upload your dna from my heritage to Gedmatch, genomelink, ftdna, and living dna to expand your matches.

[@KAH-7]

For some reasone, Genomelink freezes up when I tried to register?

[@meatwad1]

I had my DNA analyzed by My Heritage and they told me I have some Finnish DNA. It was the only DNA testing service to say this. I once heard one of my maternal aunts say my maternal grandmother had some Finnish ancestry, so this didn't surprise me. A year or so later, I uploaded my raw data to Genomelink. One of their reports said 12% of my DNA was from Northeast Europe. I sent an email to the head of Genomelink and asked him if this meant that 12% of my DNA was Eastern Slav or Russian DNA. He wrote back and said it referred to Finnish or Estonian ancestry, which refers to Finno-Ugric people. Then about a year later, I uploaded my raw data to My True Ancestry. They compare your DNA to DNA taken from ancient remains found in various archaeological sites. They show your DNA matches to dots on a map. My DNA was matched to about 10 people in Estonia and 1 in Finland and about 30 in Hungary, which is also a country where Finno-Ugric people migrated to besides Finland and Estonia. In short, My Heritage is one of the few DNA testing companies to spot my Finno-Ugric DNA.

[@AmyMedd]

Throughout centuries of history groups of people have migrated looking for a better life. Your DNA reflects that. We as Americans have global roots.

[@MarvinOrtiz-gm1mh]

I'm waiting for results of my Big Y and full sequence mitochondrial DNA test. I'm very excited to have finally taken this test. You shouldn't be too surprised to get a DNA coincidence with populations of Eastern Puerto Rico. The canarios who went to Louisiana and the Portuguese who got there very early on are likely of the same people who came here. The connection could even be due to some the Black ancestors who mixed with Europeans at some point over there were related to those who underwent the same mixing process here. Many of the slaves from the Caribbean areas ended up along the Atlantic seaboard and beyond. There's a period throughout the 1600's where not much is known for sure.

[@AlexThunderwolve]

This is very interesting Greetings from NY

[@nytn]

Did you see that NY community I got? LOL

[@oddindian1]

It makes sense that there is a lot of overlap in the Greek and Italian. Historically southern Italy was first inhabited by Greeks. For long periods of time Sicily and southern Italy was inhabited and Conquered by North African Muslims. This could explain the north African and Middle Eastern heritage. Frank Zappa was of Sicilian heritage and he was Greek as well as Arabic.

[@giorgosstamatopoulos8115]

Yep , ZAPPA =ΖΑΠΠΑ = ΤΣΑΠΠΑ = ΗΟΕ ⛏⛏🏛🏛🎸🎸 ha ha , ZAΠΠΕΙΟΝ ΜΕΓΑΡΟΝ IN ATHENS !!!!

[@Mister006]

You look like my sister. We're Irish, African American and Lenni Lenape

[@CT-uv8os]

She also looks like a picture of a gggreat aunt from the1860s with the same heritage. It don't die baby! Peace.

[@nytn]

@@CT-uv8os thats soooo cool

[@dominthem]

I would like to add that when it says "greek and southern italian" it could be also reffered to the albanian comunity, mistakenly included into the greek ADN. It's just a sugestion, due to the large albanian comunity living on southern parts of Italy since centuries. They're called "greci" due to the orthodox faith or because when they left Albanian lands they went to Italy passing by today greek territories.

[@michaeltaylor8501]

I've had some similar experiences with MyHeritage. Both myself & a 1st Cousin of mine took autosomal MyHeritage DNA tests under nick-names via a 3rd party that was managing the MyHeritage account; & then Covid brought everything to a halt: the 3rd party let the account lapse; so, when MyHeritage recently asked folk to transfer their results from other companies for perpetual free but limited use of their site, I uploaded my Ancestory data to MyHeritage using my given name & got a report like you did. What's interesting is that MyHeritage's analysis of my data from Ancestry's DNA testing did show me as either identical to - or a twin of - myself via the test I took using a nick-name; but, they stated only 99.8% Shared DNA (one would think it would be 100%, eh? 🤔). MyHeritage initially had me at 2.4% Greek & South Italian via that nick-name test result (in May 2022); but, in reviewing the data from Ancestry, MyHeritage now has me at 4.8% Greek & South Italian (as of Nov 2023). Ancestry never has mentioned Greece or Italy, but has instead a 1% North Africa result that they've stuck to (so far; & yet MyHeritage doesn't mention any African ancestry). Ancestry has updated/changed most of their guesstimations for me (showing area, old guess -> new guess): • Sweden & Denmark - 29% -to-> 26% • Norway - 24% -to-> 27% • England & NW Europe - 21% -to-> 25% • Scotland - 16% -to-> 12% • Ireland - 7% -to-> 9% • Wales - N/A -to-> 2% • North Africa - 1% -remaining-> 1% This shows that companies periodically change their alogrythms (& each DNA testing company uses their own algorythms & have their own databases). MyHeritage results (ethnicity, initial "nick-name" test results, & latest results analyzing the data sent via Ancestry): • Scandinavian - 48.0% -to-> 53.7% • English - 24.5% -remaining-> 24.5% • Irish, Scottish, & Welch - 16.3% -to-> 15.6% • Greek & South Italian - 2.4% -to-> 4.8% • North & West European - 8.8% -to-> 1.4% Also of (quite frustrating) interest is how Ancestry put me into various communities in the U.S.A. & Canada - & then took me out of some of them (What the heck? 🤔). I noticed that currently CRIgenetics & FamilyTreeDNA are having Mother's Day Sales (& other companies might be doing likewise). CRI Genetics has some features like 23&Me has, but they claim that their timeline is better because it goes back 50 generations (about 1,000 years, rather than 200-300 years).

[@KAH-7]

Welch-es 😂

[@michaeltaylor8501]

@@KAH-7 Well, isn't that grape? 😁

[@michaeltaylor8501]

Well Folks, I took advantage of those Mother's Day sales & got all of my CRI Genetics DNA test results now plus some of my FamilyTree DNA test results back (I'm still awaiting the results for my Y-DNA, using FamilyTreeDNA's Big-Y test; nevertheless, I've already been given my complete mtDNA & Autosomal results from FamilyTree; and, I had already been told a Y-DNA haplogroup for me by that afore-mentioned 3rd party that was once managing my initial Big-Y test & I was given some papers, but not much, & nothing on those papers indicated that the results were my results; so, I re-tested & I'm now awaiting results that I'll receive directly & in full). So far the results from both CRI Genetics & FamilyTreeDNA are very interesting - & I intend to share all on this thread once I get the results for my Big-Y re-test. With CRI Genetics I got their: Recent Ancestry Analysis which is like a typical Autosomal DNA analysis; Advanced Ancestry Analysis which generally goes back about 1,000 years [because more is examined & one's older ethnic markers are compared with DNA analyses steming from various digs worldwide (& only those ethnic results that CRI Genetics considers 80% or better accuracy-wise are named & information regarding segment number & the position that the ethnic marker was found on that segment are also provided along with how many generations back that ancestor came into one's family tree with a guesstimation of the year that took place based upon 25 years per generation, otherwise an ethnicity found is merely named but not placed in any particular generation; plus percentage guesstimates are given)]; & their mtDNA test results giving a female-line haplogroup & migration-path theory (but the result isn't as complete an "address" as FamilyTreeDNA's complete mtDNA analysis gives) - oh, & I also got the famous relatives deal which included some famous female & male relations (although none may be direct relatives of mine as statistically they're most likely distant aunts & uncles, each sharing a common ancestor with me from tens of thousands of years or more back).* * = We're all biologically related to one another, though mostly distantly.

[@deltonlomatai2309]

Eastern Port Rican. Port Rican has a spanish dna mixed in. Someone may have made a stop on their way to Louisiana or some family settled in port rico and some went on to Louisiana or new york.

[@abuhannah07]

I would say the Melanesian is connected to the "Mesoamerican and Andean". Graham Hancock's book "America Before" he says that in certain South American tribes there is a certain amount of Pacific Islander dna, which hints that some of the peoples who were populating the Pacific Islands made it to the western coast of south America and left a genetic footprint.

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

Grahm Hancock is pseudo Eurocentric historian, who is not a expert in genetics and DNA studies, he uses superficial similarities and old outdated craniometry and other pseudo sources as his evidence. We Native Americans are OUR own PEOPLE, leave it alone.

[@jgibbs6159]

The maps used in the ethnicity estimates are just estimates - based on the cumulative results of all other tests in their database. As the database grows, the estimates/map will change - which is why you see your Ancestry profile periodically change - more data refines the estimates/maps.

[@marthamurphy7940]

The people in southern Puerto Rico probably have ancestry very similar to yours. Some mezo-American, some African, some white. We have to remember that people moved around a lot in the Old World, too. ALL of the DNA companies are comparing present-day groups.

[@awalker916]

Danielle, fun fact: In the 1800s Italian migrant workers traveled back & forth to Argentina & southern Brazil to take advantage of harvest work in the northern & southern hemispheres. They were called golondrinas "little swallows". This may explain your indigenous lineage.

[@nytn]

Wow! This is new to me, thanks

[@awalker916]

@nytn as soon as you mentioned S. America & Italians I felt that was the answer. I love, love your channel ❤️. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@nytn]

ahhh thank you so much for being here! i am learning so much, appreciate you taking the time to comment :)

[@stephanienwadieiiamhybasia]

Yes, I have done Myheritage

[@JollyGoodJewWitch]

All my DNA uploaded is very different from the actual test with MyHeritage. Taking their test will be very different from Ancestry. I find ancestry to be the least reliable for my areas but I did find value in all the results, except for ancestry. Ancestry I use for family tree purposes only. The indigenous is just very general but it’s does cover your indigenous side.

[@franciscamarquez1310]

El apellido Romero, viene siendo como Rosemary like the plant! Also remember that in 1492 the Sephardic jews were expelled from Spain. The Sephardic jews,changed their last names to animals names: Wolf became Lobo; to plants name, etc.

[@tatumergo3931]

Not only animals and plants, but also minerals and places. And sometimes even titles like Conde, Marquez etc.etc.

[@mistersomerton]

Myheritage needs to improve on the native american and african section

[@Gift-ll4nv]

DNA tests are not very reliable when tracing distance ancestry and the results very wildly between sites.

[@ShaniOnSinai]

Also old Louisiana brought indigenous people from the canary island called the guanche people which were a subgroup of Berber/amazigh people. The people are now called Los islenos and they have settled in their own areas. Could be a possibility

[@nytn]

i have canary islander connections!

[@kfelix2934]

These same Canary people went to PR and Cuba also.

[@ShaniOnSinai]

@@kfelix2934yes we know. I’m Puerto Rican.

[@judithgockel1001]

It is finally being recognized that the Pacific Islanders including probable Melanesian’s and South Americans (at least), had contact in pre-colonial times. The contact sites are thought to be the Andean and coastal indigenous peoples. As an example of DNA admixtures, check out the mixes in Patagonia!

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

@nytn While under Spanish rule, Puerto Rico fought alongside the American colonists in the Revolutionary War. Bernardo de Galvez, the governor of Louisiana in 1779, was named general of the Spanish colonial army and led his troop -- consisting primarily of Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics -- to capture the cities of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Pensacola, Florida; and St. Louis, Missouri, from the British.

[@annatomasso5226]

Can't wait for MyHeritage first ever update in June, now I just hope they release a white paper like the other DNA companies do

[@LaurenOliviArt]

What does the update entail?

[@annatomasso5226]

@@LaurenOliviArt Hopefully more accurate estimates as MyHeritage is only really great if you are specifically looking for living distant relatives still in the native homelands of Europe. Also all I heard was that it was happening end of June 2024. MyHeritage also needs to produce a white paper, which is outlines the science of DNA. Both AncestryDNA and 23 and Me have white papers.

[@alexandracruz5243]

I'm also looking for the white paper!

[@LostNFoundASMR]

Our test are so similar, except Instead of Nigerian, and PR, I have Armenian and Spanish. But every other breakdown you have for your test I have too. So neat.

[@Seahorse20]

I took a MyHeritage test and the ethnicity mix and genetic groups were accurate. My matches are spot on too. I loved your video.

[@1789Henrique]

Looks like MyHeritage will update its results in the summer of this year. They announced in a Family Search event months ago. I think it's the first time MyHeritage will update its results, so I'm looking foward to it.

[@amb7412]

This is phenomenal info! Thanks for sharing it.

[@acebutterfly2725]

I find it interesting when YT ppl learn of their ancestry and find out that they have a Blk ancestor. Their Blk ancestor is not part of their family stories, and is widely hidden or unknown. Whereas Blk ppl (descend. of slav) are generally NOT surprised to find out their ancestry and non-Blk ancestor because there has been family stories about the past and this ancestry is not kept as a family secret. The hidden history of YT ppl is consistent with and reflective of history and the many ppl who tried to ‘pass’ to achieve upward social mobility and better lives.

[@zeppelin_7245]

Also, many black families would pass down stories of a white ancestor due to pride, whereas white families would hide stories of a black ancestor because of shame. And black families can't hide these stories when they're carrying European features. Whereas, the average white American doesn't have a high enough percentage of African DNA for it to reflect on their appearance. So it's easier for them.

[@nytn]

100%! I’m glad I was able to reconnect to that side. It was almost successfully hidden

[@kevingillard5474]

In New Orleans it was common to honor commitment while they are passing for/as white by casually ignoring them upon approach with or without a side gesture or expression. My aunt would sit in the front of the bus and I was expected to not acknowledge her as I went to the back being not Yt enough to passant blanc. Her kids and husband, who were significantly darker than her and not passant blanc were not with her at those times.

[@acebutterfly2725]

​@@nytnAfter learning about your ancestor, I’m glad you’re open about this part of your family because you could have kept it hidden. Hopefully more ppl will speak up about this part of their past rather than keep it a secret. It confirms what Blk ppl have always known.

[@acebutterfly2725]

@@kevingillard5474 Yes, I understand. This is in part, why Blk ppl take great issue to the idea of being ‘color blind’ or not wanting to acknowledge ‘race’. We did not have the privilege of being color blind and we are proud that despite all the barriers and obstacles our ancestors had to go through, they were strong enough to make it through. Our color, who we are, shouldn’t be hidden.

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

Your DNA test revealed 7-8% Native American C1c? Native American subclad C1c goes back 15,000 years in the Americas. It is said by peer-reviewed genetic studies that C1c began to mutate away from the other C Haplogroups when a founding migration population moved into Mesoamerica and down to the Andes. I remember that you mentioned a relative from over 100 years ago who was a Choctaw citizen, so I would say that the C1c lineage that is found in some of your family tree, may come from a cousin of your 1st cousin who is Choctaw (meaning it may not be a direct maternal/paternal line/lineage), so you may not have direct inherited Southeastern or Choctaw ancestry, or a C1 or other C Subclad found in the Southeast, although C1c is closely related to C1, as it is a offshoot mutation, so who knows it could be found in the Southeast too. Ancestry tests can sometimes be wrong about putting a specific haplotype/subclad to a specific region, and they change the origins over the years. But most likely you probably have distant traces of C1c admixture from a Mexican, Central American or Andean Mestizo or Indigenous immigrant relative, some of those People immigrated to the Southeast and Louisiana over 100 years ago.

[@azborderlands]

I’m C1c1 but I’m 47% indigenous/Meso American.

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

@@azborderlands Interesting, I'm Haplogroup A found among the Choctaw and Lakota.

[@magureveeru]

Hello, The paper trail only has the las 150 years. Your genes records how people before history made you. if you consider that 10 generation is 300 years approximately 1024 individuals, they could be from all different kinds of places. Side note; there is a Rio in Greece too, if the paper just says Rio in could be from there. Riios avenitian village in Greece. Much of Grece was conquered by Venice for a time.

[@rosemaryrowlands6705]

I did my heritage. I'm not worried about the results. 200 years of English history and not a jot of English DNA for my brother or me. According to my Ghanaian partner, my Great grandmother was mixed race, he sees West African features in photos. I uploaded the raw data to ged match and it all seems pretty legit broadly speaking.

[@PrincessPink-x]

This is cool 😃 You have a beautiful background

[@markaxworthy2508]

Southern Italy was heavily settled by Greek colonies from the 8th Century BCE, to the point it was known as Magna Graecia to the Romans.

[@rroadmap]

I know there were some people from in Caribbean islands mixed in with the Creoles. Maybe that is where the Puerto Rico connection is coming in. It might not be very recent. Many Puerto Ricans are very mixed.

[@watchwarrior8597]

The south Italian is the Sicilian which were Greeks from 2600 years ago up to 600 years ago when Greeks left Asia Minor and the mainland of Greece and the islands , they went to Italy , Spain , France , Sicily as well as to Arabia and North Africa ( Egypt, Libya, Tunisia , Algeria and the Levant ) This was during the Ottoman Empire from 1453-1923. Eastern European may also be Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian.

[@miaperezarroyo1939]

Hey Cousin, I also have Andean DNA but don’t have a paper trail for it.

[@TruthisEternal17]

alot of southern Italians also get caucasian(georgia,armenia, azerbaijan area and north of that area bordering the black sea), eastern european, jewish and middle eastern. Remember the Italian states were enslaving people from Eastern Europe and bringing them back to Italy. The first major slave market was eastern Europeans before the Portuguese started the African slave trade or adopted it. I believe Leonard Da Vinci's mother was a slave woman from the transcaucasian region for example.

[@omggiiirl2077]

There are a two ways i know you could have ties to puerto rico. One is through Mexico by way of taino being taken to Mexico, another us by way if the trans Carribean slave trade that started as the transatlantic skave trade was ending and many Africans were transported into the deep south and many slave owners also relicated and immigrated to the us as their former countries began to ban slavery, so they took their slaves and housholds to the usa and set up shoo in places like new Orleans. Many people of Yoruba ancestry came to the USA from haiti this way, and many people from soanish speaking islands relocated to florida and texas as well.

[@e.urbach7780]

Interesting results! I know that a lot of Italians settled in South America at about the same time that they started immigrating to the U.S., and also that some of the early Spanish conquistadors who came to Mexico, Central, and South America, were really northern Italians. I wonder if that's where some of your South American DNA comes from? Also, I was talking with my mom a few weeks ago, and discovered that she would like to do a DNA test, but she doesn't know which one would give the most accurate, complete, results. Do you have a recommendation? Her parents are from two different parts of Sicily, and they met and married in the U.S., but not much is known about the family before their parents' time.

[@TdT2211]

Hi Danielle, an artist, musician Robert Mirabal, (you gotta look him up) who is from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico knows an old story about his ancestors migration. And he says something like there were always people moving along that path. And so there's relation. Obviously the last 500 years have changed routes for some people but the migration was so common, our highway systems today are still based on the routes. Anyway, l love that you are a built in rainbow coalition. Peace.

[@nytn]

This comment has me laughing!! I actually made my then-boyfriend (now husband) come to his concert with me in Albany! Robert took my husbands hat and wore it for a whole song. I was having my best life.

[@TdT2211]

@@nytn that is pretty cool. LOL guess you know who I'm talking about.

[@michaeltaylor8501]

With little diversity one can concentrate on learning much about the area one's ancestors spent much time in - & not miss much. With much diversity one can't possibly dive deep into each & every ethnicity (especially when much is news to one's self - as in cases where an adoption took place). It's all cool in its own way. Just knowing - or even having some clues - is cool & interesting; & such can spark study &/or appreciation.

[@thomaswright220]

God has given you this platform to make a difference. Thank you for bringing awareness.

[@nytn]

I believe that, too. I always pray for direction

[@thomaswright220]

@@nytn Remain faithful on this platform and Jesus will bring a greater opportunity door. Appreciate your episodes.

[@SoluneMoreau]

Hi Danielle! I've seen that this year MyHeritage is rolling out an update of their ancestry results, with new and updated ethnic categories. It would be interesting to see if you get any more precise results pointing to Southern Italy and Ireland specifically rather than those broader areas, and whether your Indigenous ancestry gets detailed in a little more accurate way!

[@nytn]

I check every week for my update 😪

[@SoluneMoreau]

@nytn I still haven't had my update either, I'm a bit impatient but really excited! Let's hope it comes soon 😊

[@rocketreindeer]

Hmm.. the Melanesian is like Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and New Guinea. I have a friend who got Melanesian in her DNA report, but her mom is Indo-Guyanese, so I could see how people travelled from India to Southeast Asia and the Pacific. But the thing is, it seems people did move around a lot more than Western history texts may acknowledge. I've been to Fiji twice and have friends there and from there. My friends and I went to the Fiji Museum and a display said all kinds of ethnicities crossed paths there over the centuries including Indigenous North Americans, Africans, and lots of others I forgot.. it mentioned stuff like American seafarers too which would've been more recent. It could be that one of your ethnicities travelled there. It's very weird, the connections we all have. Your mind would be blown looking at some of the stuff in that museum, there was a large outrigger that people would've travelled the Pacific on, reading the stars and currents as they had their babies and pigs and everything. In North America we aren't taught a lot about the massive explorations and travels of Pacific people.

[@KAH-7]

My now old web friend, YT creator Makalesi is Admixed, Fijian American.

[@Me2Lancer]

Comment on Melanesians: While in the Navy my ship patrolled remote locations and islands in the Pacific Ocean. We came across Melanesians around New Guinea and New Britain north of Australia.

[@Pablo-ig7tx]

How interesting it is 😊 , i am fairly new to your channel and acknowledge its existent 2 weeks ago because of an Elvis Presley video and your work is extremely interesting in order to mirror the complexity of the Human being genetic. I have myself wanted to do a Dna test for almost a decade and never did it because i always forgot 😅 even though i have a pretty good idea of what i might be based on Family members features, History of the countries i am descent from and curiosity .. I am basically French as well as Argentine, i have family and ancestors from both of those countries : My Mom is litterally > Argentine and French as My maternal Grandma Was Argentine from the Andes Region, from the Northwest of Argentina ; and My Maternal Grandpa Is French .. My Grandma had obvious Native American features from the Andes region of the country, but had the peculiarity if i may say, to have curly hair because her own Grandma ( My Great, Great Grandma was Argentine of Spaniard descent ) meanwhile her Grandpa ( My Great, Great Grandpa ) was fully Native American from the Andes of Argentina and they used to call him > as it is a slang in Argentina which refers to Native American people [ but also Black People, Poor people, Arab people, Mestizos/Castizos and can also be used with affection ]. My Grandma was typically > from an Argentine point of view, which is Mestiza. To comeback to her curly Hair, My Grandma inheritated it from her own Grandma, and i do believe we must have North African blood, because as one can see from my profile picture, its is very curly, more than simple waves. If i am not mistaken, North African/Moor did invade the Iberic peninsula for 800 years .. My Maternal Grandpa is French but looks more German to be honest, he is from la Champagne in the Great East of the country. And my Paternal side is French and Dutch .. One of my brothers looks 100% white and has curly ( not as much as i do ) he has green eyes, pale skin and european features .. crazy how genetic works 🙂 My mom also does have curly hair like my Grandma, and Great Great Grandma. Once i do 23andme test, i will post it on my channel if anyone is interested by it , as Argentina is much more complex than its stereotypes .. Sorry for my english, i wrote a lot.

[@KAH-7]

The fact that you're about half Argentine, you're going to get some Sub Saharan African there.

[@Pablo-ig7tx]

@@KAH-7 Well, thank you for answering, but African Dna in the southest point of South America ( Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and South of Brazil ) is not an important component of our Dna generally, and definitely not in Argentina because if its History with Black Population among others .. however, countries such as Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela and Colombia in South America are far more likely to have African Dna 😊 But we never know ! Although i would be surprised, as Argentina is Sterotipically more European [ yet, it is more complex, because Chile and Brazil, Uruguay, and part of Paraguay and Bolivia, South of Brazil did recieve as well European migrations ]. As for me, i am sûre however to have Native American and Spaniard 100% because of My Family Features, as well as the History of Argentina's NorthWest as opposed to the majority of the rest of the country [ Argentina's Northwest revieved few European immigration, Arab however were an important migration ; you do have Mestizos, Castizos, Criollos [ Spaniard descents ] and à large number of Native American groups, mostly in Salta province where my Argentine Family comes from 😉 Coming back to an African component, it is more than likely it is linked to our Spaniard ancestors as in the North part of Argentina, it is not rare to see people with Native American features and Curly hair ( because of the Moor Invasion of Spain , because even though white people have Curly hair, it is not the exact same curls as North African for example ).

[@KAH-7]

Research had been done and discovered that over half of Argentina's population have "intentionally disappeared" sub Saharan African genes from the spanish name (I can't remember it?) cowboys.

[@fornesus]

I read somewhere on Reddit that MyHeritage was going to update its results some time soon, it's been years in the making and anyone who took a test in 2019 or later will get the update for free. At this point, any results you get from there will be inaccurate to some degree. Mine currently has small percentages of Mesoamerica and Scandinavian when 23andMe and AncestryDNA both state that I'm basically 100% Asian (80-90% Filipino, 6-12% Chinese, 2-3% Southern Indian, 0.5-1% Mainland Southeast Asian) after numerous updates.

[@Parakeetfriend4215]

See Dr Nathan Jeanson of Answers in Genesis concerning Native Americans. Many if not all came from Central Asia originally.

[@miriam-aurora]

MH are doing a big update to their admixture analysis right now :) My kits are still waiting for the update, and I'm looking forward to seeing what changes it will bring.

[@nytn]

Can't wait!

[@michaeltaylor8501]

These shaded regions represent areas where your Genotype(s) can be found & aren't necessarily where your direct ancestors all came from; so, you might have folk related to you in Agentina in that they are indirect relations that share a Genotype with you, but none of your direct ancestors ever set foot in Argentina (but were most likely from at least one place somewhere within the shaded region you're looking at).

[@margaretalmodovar8401]

These tests provide great surprises. I came out with 47% Italian and i have NO idea where that's from and have a total 87% European. My parents are Puerto Rican.

[@Parakeetfriend4215]

Since Puerto Rican is usually Spainish mix. It might just as well be Italian as the two people groups are closely related linguistically, so it's possible.

[@carlosm.3426]

myheritage isnt accurate, try ancestrydna or 23andme

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

Possibly Corsican like me.

[@michaeltaylor8501]

Some DNA-testing companies have an accuracy adjustment feature & some have theirs set in the middle/median as a default; so, there's a good chance that any initially-given percentage is merely a figure somewhere in the midst of a range of probable percentages (based upon information in that company's database at the time of calculation). A 7.7% might have a range of 0% to 15% - or even much higher (depending upon various factors). I have known, documented ancestry from Norway & Sweden on my mom's maternal side, yet one country was listed as a bit stronger/more-accurate ethnic guesstimate than the other (go figure: it really boils down to a company's current database); for, I know far more about my centuries-old, heavily-documented Norwegian heritage than my barely-documented Swedish heritage, yet the Norwegian guesstimate was given a 3% less accurate guess rating than the Swedish guesstimate. In my trace ancestry results, there was disagreement between AncestryDNA & MyHeritageDNA (these companies agreed on all other ethnicities if not exactly on their respective percentages): AncestryDNA showed North Africa as trace (1% - & remaining at 1% after update: the range being from 0% -to- 2%). MyHeritageDNA showed Greek & Southern Italian as trace (4.8% - initially 2.4% before update: no percentage range given). Well, since getting these varying results I've learned that folk from Greece, southern Italy, & Cyprus introduced some agriculture into North Africa - & then much later on folk from North Africa invaded & controlled all or parts of Greece & southern Italy; so, there's likely some DNA lines that can be guesstimated as being from any one of these places or a combination of these places & not necessarily be wrong or completely right even. I'm currently awaiting my DNA-test results from CRI Genetics as they too give guesstimations on ethnic timelines like 23&Me does, but they go back much further than 23&Me does.

[@virginiamorales1591]

My parents are from Puerto Rico. I’m from New York.

[@nytn]

Heyy! My husbands grandma/family were from PR and moved to NYC

[@TexasIndian]

Danielle. Mines shows up as MesoAmerican and Andean as well on Myheritage. I

[@nytn]

Ahh! I love that. Okay so it’s definitely from my mom’s side then .

[@TexasIndian]

@@nytn I just uploaded the pic on your FB page cuz

[@azborderlands]

@@TexasIndianwhat percentage?

[@donnatate6327]

It would be interesting to see the changes to the maps and the movements and relocations of peoples through out history.

[@gmz1997]

The more people test the more accurate the algorithm will get in estimating ethnicity and locations. So percentages will change and locations get more accurate.

[@Raymond_Petit]

I'm not surprised by the Native American estimate. Seems to me that MyHeritage doesn't have a good representative group of persons in their database. My Ancestry Native American used to cover all of north, central and South America then changed iver time to a focus in the Panama area. In time MyHeritage will catch up.

[@dagnolia6004]

as a Louisiana native i relate

[@MrsMac3099]

Myheritage has been the most inaccurate of all the DNA sites I have used. Ancestry, 23andme, FTDNA, myheritage are the main ones. As an example my father who is on paper 50% southern Italian came out as 67 percent in that test. They completely wiped out some of his mom's DNA lol. My other 4 family DNA kits are not as bad as my dads. But Ancestry and 23andme are better for my kits. Plus so far Ancestry's genetic communities have helped with research and were spot on. I do have on exception with an update, idk if that was is noise a misread or a NPE lol.

[@deltonlomatai2309]

Your ancestor is isolated to a specific place. The genome is not. What it shows is that the distribution of the meso-american dna over a large over. As the meso-american people spreed out from some centeral location they carried that DNA to the andes.

[@LindaGoings]

I have a small amount 1-3% native american that I know on my paper trail is from Southeast North America. Ancestry stated my community was Yucatan peninsula for about a year which I knew was incorrect. On a recent update on Ancesty it changed to SouthEast North America and no longer shows Yucatan. Your community could change as they update testing.

[@azborderlands]

I have 3 % west African

[@NONANTI]

Have you researched the Maya Georgia connection? People of One Fire has an interesting channel.

[@stephenborunda]

I wouldn't stress too much about the "Andean" label--it sounds like they have a very generic label for Indigenous ancestry from Latin America. There have been longstanding connections between Louisiana Creole communities and the Caribbean very broadly, including some French people moving from Haiti to Puerto Rico. I suggest looking more into this family history to get insight into Puerto Rican ancestry. The other option is that your mother also has both Mexican and Puerto Rican ancestry...certainly not an impossibility (enslaved Indigenous people were shipped from Mexico to the Caribbean and I imagine vice verse) but perhaps not as likely.

[@bladehoner3185]

I didn't think my heritage was as accurate as other dna tests I have done.

[@KAH-7]

It is. People don't pay attention when the company explains how they group ethnicties. They put various individual ancestors into blocks/groups. They just don't get detail specific with we people of color.

[@MamaLulu-z2b]

what is the origin of your last name? Romero is a very common last name in South American countries such as, Colombia, Venezuela.and Brasil

[@nytn]

my husband :)

[@MadameDegen]

It’s also common in Uruguay though not in Brazil

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

Now we gonna have to make a mini doc FINDING DANIEL!😆

[@KAH-7]

I saw your comments on X-Tina's videos! I ain't gonna lie, we are attracted to the eye candy creators! 😂

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

@@KAH-7 It's a coincidence. I miss Tina's channel. The weirdos and haters got to be too much for her.

[@KAH-7]

At first, she just didn't want to believe that some Dominicans Are Foul much like my own demographic and others.

[@KAH-7]

YT deleted my Honest to God reply

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

@@KAH-7 I can still see it. You commented on Tina.

[@dantesabatino5429]

Yeah the specificity of these tests are faulty but generally correct. One test gave my Italian side more Greek, Middle Eastern, and Jewish, while another listed it as just South Italian, though it’s all Mediterranean so probably easy to conflate somewhat.

[@KAH-7]

Sounds like the first one you spoke of gave you more specificity of small percentages than the other even acknowledged?

[@dantesabatino5429]

Yep, these tests all give different results but generally in the right area, like for me mostly around Italy with diverging traces of other Mediterranean people that may or may not be right.

[@ak5659]

Agreed. Personally, I'm very interested in how they could fail to conflate because most of the Med Sea has been mixing for thousands of years.

[@KAH-7]

But DNA is So EXACTING that even with that Admixture happening, specifics can be determined.

[@Joshua.David02]

I believe southern Italy especially Sicily had a steady Sephardic Jewish population

[@lulumoon6942]

And the more we do this work, the more it should show how far our ancestors have roamed for peace, and that sometimes we're up, or down, and should love one another as miracles of survival! 🙏🕊️🪶

[@SarahGilmore-o8q]

Here's a possible explanation for the Puerto Rico attachment on your DNA test. It was the first thing that popped up in my mind when you were discussing it: "the event that a pregnancy does develop, the infant inherits the man’s DNA permanently. Certain infant cells can cross across and enter the bloodstream of their mothers even after delivery. This is called microchimerism, leaving the woman with some fetal DNA for the rest of her life. Fetal cells also pass through the membrane of the placenta and reach the womb during pregnancy. Male fetal cells have been found in women’s blood up to 27 years after delivering a son. Thus, a lady may retain her baby’s father’s DNA for several decades following childbirth." I don't know if that would alter a woman's genetic testing but it might be worth looking into.

[@haroldjow1897]

Hey, I'm from New Orleans; my results are similar to yours, but they are inverted in comparison to yours. My Nigerian is 60%. I also have Mesoamerican and Andean, .9 %, and Native American, 1%.

[@BonnieDragonKat]

Remember that My Heritage is mostly focused on European DNA. They announced it Roots tech this past winter that there is a major update coming to the DNA and the ethnicity this summer. So things could change in regards to your ethnicity estimate. They've been very tight-lived about what's actually going to happen just that it's going to happen this summer. My myheritage test actually came out with a totally different ethnicity than my ancestry. Ancestries actually a little bit more nuanced and picked up on ethnicity that my heritage did not. (Very likely because my heritage, even by the owners own words, does a shotty job when it comes down to ethnicity).

[@michaeltaylor8501]

Due to recombination & other stuff, it's possible to not inherit some ethnic markers, or to inherit more ethnic markers than some others in your family, or even have a die-hard ethnic marker that stays in a family - or some part of a family - for an extended period of time; so, your Melanasia (sp?) result could be from a more distant relationship whose ethnic marker has just hung in there. And it could be associated with your Amerindian ancestry as it's considered within the realm of Asian ancestry which is present in Amerindian ancestry (whether or not such DNA was inherited by an individual). DNA is proof of ancestry, but having ancestry isn't proof of having certain DNA (due to recombination). My cousin & I share a maternal grandmother whose parents were each born in Scandinavia: one in Sweden & one in Norway. We each have our DNA at MyHeritageDNA & I got a high percentage of Scandinavian while my cousin didn't get that label at all: the closest she got was North & West European (which included Denmark - which is closely associated with Sweden, but there was no mention of Norwegian for her). She'll likely test with a different company sometime in the not too distant future - & then we can compare results. She got more German than I did (but later with a different company I got less Scandinavian & more German). Methinks that even using the same company & re-testing under a different name will yield some similar & perhaps even some different results (MyHeritageDNA had a direct test of my DNA & also an upload of my DNA from AncestryDNA & MyHeritageDNA did match the two together - but not at 100% certainty... it was around 98% certainty if I recall correctly).

[@susandevinenapoli7649]

I have super small percentages in south America...I'm looking into the Pan American highway. Yes! I've taken the test.