MyHeritage DNA Test Results Lebanese Girl Shocking True Ethnicity - Professional Genealogist Reacts

[@holisticmaya]

I had no idea this reaction video existed until now! I was a bit nervous to see your thoughts as a professional genealogist :) I'd like to try another DNA test to have a different perspective on my heritage, I've heard 23andme is a good one? My raw reaction showed me as being very surprised at a few of these, but of course it's logical that I have the Italian side (probably my grandfather from Argentina since a lot of Italians came to Argentina, but who knows, it could be from somewhere else!) and definitely some of that Iraqi-Iranian and North African. It was interesting to hear what you had to say:) I feel like my video was forever ago. Already 4 years have gone by! I think a new one is due! It would definitely be interesting to know my parents' and sister's results!

[@GeneaVlogger]

Definitely let me know if you do an update video. I also suggest looking into your family tree and see what you can find, you might even be able to use your genetic matches from the DNA test to help expand your family tree! If you do another DNA test, I would lean towards Ancestry DNA personally but that's because I like Ancestry DNA better for the actual genealogy. If you decide to work on a family tree, for your Argentina branch you might be able to find records online. Here is a list of what is available, some of which is free to access - www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Argentina_Online_Genealogy_Records

[@TheAstilesus]

Good luck in your research. Ancestry DNA can help more, IMO. It can actually tie to family trees and also help others connect missing links.

[@Ronen_Uriel]

Total ignorance of 41%Jewish bloodline, even in her comment, she wrought about her ancestors were from Persia,Iraq and north Africa, and no one word that they were jews. Typical arabian judofob.Sad😔

[@_Painted]

Are you Lebanese Christian? I've seen autosomal DNA charts where Lebanese Christian populations clustered extremely closely with certain Jewish populations (which makes sense historically, since the first Christians were predominantly native converts from the Levant), so that could explain a lot of your DNA results. It could even explain the Italian DNA, going back to either Romans or the crusader states. I'm not Lebanese, but on some DNA tests, I have a trace of Oceanic/Southern-Asian too, and I think it is probably a Romani ancestor but I'm not entirely sure.

[@conniead5206]

You forgot the Romans (Italians) ruled over that part of the Mediterranean for centuries. The coasts were trading meccas. Goods from the known world, and the merchants and men who brought them running around all over the place. Then the wars fought for control of the region since dirt. Egypt versus whoever in Southwest Asia. Persians (mainly Iranian), Assyrians, etc.. More men from outside of the region with some either choosing or forced to stay. Busy place.

[@DougWinfield]

I always love how Arab people freak out about having sizable Jewish ancestry and then start raving about how they've always felt drawn to some 2% trace ethnicity like South Asian.

[@benlassu1880]

True lol

[@zombieat]

"Arab" the levant is arab only in language.

[@MyTima123]

Who wants to be a Jew 😭🤮

[@danyetmaybe9169]

@@MyTima123 better than being you

[@faisalalkhedhrawi7311]

@@danyetmaybe9169 no , the worst thing is being ignorant like you.

[@suricato151]

The Italian part might be from the Argentinian great-grandparent too

[@Jadkhachab]

no the lebanese were colonized by the romans

[@valeriasaade2535]

@@Jadkhachab its true

[@d.s3980]

​@@Jadkhachab She said she has an Argentine great grandpa. Ofc she must have inherited DNA from him as a close ancestor and the Italian is the only one there that could be Argentinian dna. 62,5% of the argentine population has at least 1 italian ancestor, also the percentage is accurate. Argentinians are mostly descendants of Italians and European immigrants since natives were killed during the famous "Conquest of the Desert". You need to have family from the countries of the borders (north) for that. And that comes from recent immigration. Argentine natives have always been isolated and protected communities just like natives from Canada, USA, South Africa or Australia. But there’s also a possibility that his great grandpa was from her country and community since Argentinians are very conservative when it comes to origins, culture and family traditions. Inside the country they keep it brand new, claim citizenships and travel just to marry someone of its same background. I know Israel has a big argie community that are of Israeli origins, there is also a very popular video here in KZbin of a guy “Speaking 5+ different languages with my polyglot grandma” and their story is about immigration between Argentina, Italy and Israel, similar to this girl’s case.

[@AH-ps3uv]

@@Jadkhachab Also vice-versa, actually vice-versa is more logical, the lebanese were trading and made a trade colony out of south-italy and south-spain , north-morocco way before any big european empire even had existed

[@DougWinfield]

@@Jadkhachab The Phoenicians colonized the entire Mediterranean, including Sicily and other parts of the Italic peninsula. The Romans much, much later returned the favor.

[@TheHCGTube]

The Italian part is the Argentinian grandfather. I've been to Argentina and a lot of them are Italian and have Italian names. They emigrated there early 20th century for the most part.

[@sarahpiaggio2693]

She says in the video that he went there to work. Plenty of lebanese emigrated there too. Most of the italian emigration happened in the early part of the 20thc but since we're talking about her great grandparent, he would have been alive around that time so the timing doesn't match up unless he emigrated there, immediately stopped thinking of himself as being italian and started referring to himself as being argentinian. My money's on intermarriage along mediterranean trading routes

[@iskinder008]

@@sarahpiaggio2693 Yes, lots of Lebanese in Argentina (and everywhere else in LATAM).

[@amirakelani9857]

Most Lebanese and Syrian people have Italian DNA!

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@amirakelani9857 Not necessarily. It could be a Greek DNA similar to some southern italian people of the coastal part of the territory. It's yet difficult for the firms distinguish between Greeks and Southern Italians (who could have a Minoan base and some more recent Greek colonial ancestors).

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@amirakelani9857, Not “most” but rather some do. It’s usually a small admixture of 2-5%. Having something like 14-16% as in her case is an outlier for a Lebanese person. Typical Lebanese DNA is around 90% Levantine (Canaanite/Phoenician origin), 7% Eurasian steppe ancestry, 3% trace admixture.

[@DanielHerrera-rl1vw]

Argentina had massive waves of Italian immigration so it's probably from that.

[@friederikemuller3890]

my thought as well

[@gparsr]

Argentina also had several waves of Dalmatian (Croatia now) immigration, one notable example being associated with merchant marine shipping magnate Nicolás Mihanovich and others. According to Wikipedia "By 1918, he employed 5,000 people, mostly from his native Dalmatia." Dalmatia / Istria of course being significantly Italian speaking & influenced by the many families having Slavic & Mediterranean (including Italian) roots. I once came across an old advertisement example from the period that was targeting Adriatic sailors and their families to join the various shipping companies in Argentina. Another or possibly related migration wave to Argentina took place at a time when there were diseases spreading and hampering the grape harvests in the Adriatic. And now roughly 1 in 10 or so Argentinians can link back to one of these waves of migration from the Adriatic to Croatian / Dalmatian region.

[@katstephens6571]

She is not overly excited about the sizable Jewish ancestry. Lol

[@Karen-dk1ec]

I have noticed that Arabs are not pleased and surprised they have Jewish blood even if it's Mizrachi or Sephardic. Worse is Ashkenazi. DNA studies since the 1980s have shown that even "European" Jews have more in common w/ Arab DNA than Europeans. Most Jews who grandparents were from Europe have Semitic features, olive skinned, etc. The German Jews may have blonde hair and blue eyes, but their nose and other features are Semitic. Of course, they are more mixed. Arabs and Jews are interrelated on a genetic level. DNA doesn't lie.

[@zjzr08]

Sadly there is anti-Jewish bias due to history (and I'm talking about even before the Arab-Israeli war) even though they're Semitic peoples...Jews also lived in the Lebanese area especially after the Romans sacked Jerusalem I assume.

[@IAC83]

Agreed. They are legit cousins. However, neither side wants to acknowledge/accept the truth

[@razalihusain]

I think DNAs of Palestine Arabs and Jews are similar.

[@valeral92]

The fact is - the Lebanese people are the direct descendants of the ancient Phoenicians, which were the closest non-Jewish relatives to the Jewish people. So it is completely expected for a native Lebanese girl to have a very high percent of "Jewish" ancestry, because of how related Phoenicians and Jewish people were. What is sad is how the Lebanese people react when they see the Jewish reading in their ancestry... Unfortunately, I know what Arabs think of Jewish people since I lived in the Middle East for quite a lomg time

[@dalilabendedouch4877]

Sionisme/Israel caused this

[@MrLeemurman]

Phoenicians and Jews are not related, they are THE SAME, and they are called CANAANITES. That is what it should be called.

[@ryanmarlin2974]

Oh yea? How about you look up what jews think about arabs? You're not a Saint, you live in an apartheid state, lmao.

[@mattpotter8725]

Not all of the Lebanese are Arabs, obviously there will have been mixing but the Levante is a mixture of many different ethnic groups, despite there being a push to homogenise the country to believe they completely Arab to reduce conflict across communities.

[@igorjee]

Jewish IS Middle Eastern. At the same time, Lebanese are mostly of Phoenician stock which is Canaanite and therefore hard to distinguish from Jewish. Would be nice to somehow create a separate Phoenician or Levantine category and see how much Jewish remains. That said, all Muslims outside the Arabian peninsula were Jews, Christians, Samaritans, Mandeans, Zoroastrians before their conversion. But of course, in her case, the Jewish percentage wouldn't really change much since it is not Levantine, but from Iraq and Maghreb which is easier to distinguish than Levantine Phoenician from Levantine Jew, I guess.

[@mikedem755]

She looks completely Mizrahi Jewish and she seems shocked??

[@skylar0628]

I thought she was Jewish at first… and I was right 😂

[@Starrypaws64]

Levant arabs and jews look very similar

[@Ambrosia-]

​@@user-B476Mizrahi jews are levantine

[@RussianWithKon]

@@Starrypaws64well middle eastern Jews yes but not ashkenazi or eastern Asian jews

[@secondexodus9105]

She looks like a descendant of Japheth

[@maxglendale7614]

Wow. Her 14% Italian is from her Argentinian grandfather.

[@senantiasa]

If you combine her Mizrahi (27.3%) and Sephardic (15.3%) percentages then she's more Jewish 42.6% than Middle Eastern/Lebanese. heheheehee

[@m.jacobi6276]

Being Jewish itself is middle eastern

[@hotlanta35]

Nerds

[@Alfred-ut4rn]

Jewish is middle eastern🤡🤡

[@jpdj2715]

"Genes" are less than 1% of our DNA and these test companies use less than 1% of genes, looking for mutations that can be attributed to a geography in a specific era. With increasing amounts of test results and family relation data, today's percentages will change in the future. Your percentages then refer to a tiny fraction of the 1% of 1%: the gene mutations that now are considered to define geographic ethnicity. Small amounts may change and new genetic group attributions may pop up. Remember, in our genes, we are 70% identical to fruit flies or over 95% identical to the great apes. Most of us have genes attributed to Neanderthals - now what are we? A high fraction of a small ethnic group may indicate inbreeding, a very low fraction probably is due to a woman having been momentarily attracted by a travelling salesman. We are obsessed by "genes" that code for protein synthesis and forget DNA between the genes (epigenes) that define why genes express and when (how much/often). While biochemists may claim "we" understand epigenes, I would argue we don't and while epigenes change a lot continuously, we also have no clue how they are passed on, or how to break them down into parts that predict the way they influence gene expression.

[@SarahBelal-ro1jm]

Why are yall talking about jewish as if it's a race/ethnicity. It's literally a religion

[@ArmoredGauntlet]

Some Jewish people in Syria and Palestine converted to Christianity and Islam hundreds of years ago.

[@csx3180]

she's like half jewish,wow

[@farisfuad1150]

My foreign eyes can't tell mizrahi jews and Arabs apart if they wear the same clothing.

[@RaffaelloLorenzusSayde]

I mean she looks very Jewish.

[@chakir348]

@@farisfuad1150 because they are mostly the same population with different religions the difference is the eastern European ashkenazi jews that are mostly European and more European than south Europeans genetically

[@verysmoky3605]

@@chakir348 They are not more European than South Europeans. Ashkenazim cluster with Sicilians, Maltese, and (Western) Sephardim, and not far from Cypriots.

[@cyssoK]

Im also Lebanese and my results were very similar. And people always tell me i look jewish or persian, but never Lebanese lol

[@BlackSeedOil20]

Plug your results into a family dna tree or 23andme. There could be some politics involved. I think you need tests not made in the ME.

[@ardapezerukian4641]

I doubt you know what Persians look like since most people in Iran think or introduce themselves as Persians. Iran is a big country with a lot of ethnicities.

[@Abouezili]

Israel and Lebanon are literally a walk away...middlle east, Jewish and north African is definitely nearby and their history has the moving through the ottoman empire

[@chakir348]

The populations of Israel is not native to that only the Palestinians are and the jewish Palestinians that was there before the eastern European Zionists who created Israel came Israel jewish population is made up of white Europeans mostly eastern European and morth Africans then middle eastern so no she doesn't share that much with most of them specially the eastern European whites its a settlement colonial country like the us and Australia

[@yahudi9936]

@@chakir348 Majority of Israelis are Mizrahi and Sephardic you dumbass and Ashkenazim are Levantine (especially Y-DNA) anyway.

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

the closest 3 people to Jewish are Samaritans, Palestinians and Lebanese. the Lebanese and Israeli show the same Y-DNA distribution as well.

[@richardtargett4128]

Most Israelis moved to Israel from Middle Eastern /North African countries.

[@javnok9266]

@@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458 True, but Palestinians like to deny that, and Lebanese really like to ignore and deny that

[@popularfrontforliberationo8917]

She is 41% Jewish

[@anon-iraq2655]

Jewish isnt an ethnicity buddy

[@StinkyCop1]

@@anon-iraq2655 Jewish is ethnicity and a religion... 12 tribes of jews.

[@abee4138]

​@@anon-iraq2655yes it is tatas,get an education

[@johnnyxmusic]

@@anon-iraq2655 it’s complicated

[@HaiderAlZubaidi]

I am Iraqi, and I got 3% southern Italian Jewish 😊

[@harrysalt5277]

Shalomjourno

[@DaveDoom]

Seeing middle easterner Muslims devastated/disgusted with finding out they have Jewish heritage is my new hobby

[@sarahpiaggio2693]

Well she didn't precisely say that, but one might suppose she would be less than impressed

[@yahudi9936]

I am more ashamed to be related to them than the other way around that is for sure considering how ever single country of theirs are complete shitholes.

[@Cc-rx6rf]

Same here😂💙🇮🇱

[@AmethystEyes]

It’s like when the clan leaders find out they have an African ancestor. 😂

[@AntonioDellElceUK]

there was a strong Iralian immigration to Argentina; Google tells me over 60% of Argentinians have Italian ancestor; now it is an half failed state but it isn't our fault...

[@Channel-ml4qv]

Keep in mind, that doesn’t mean hypocritically 60% of Argentinians are full Italian, that’s could mean between the 60% some people could have anywhere from 1% to 100%. It’s doesn’t mean the 60% is full Italian

[@topmog]

Well my friend, considering Italy has had 65 prime ministers since 1946, it's currently facing its 4th recession in a decade, and it's perpetually bankrupt, I wouldn't be so sure 😂

[@Alex-fv2qs]

Argentina also received a lot of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants, up to 10% of Argentineans have Arab ancestry So, I wouldn't be surprised if her Argentinean grandfather was married to a woman of Lebanese descent and immigrated to Lebanon for that reason

[@dariomitrovich9938]

Como italia xd, un país horrible

[@joeyjoey7972]

I’m Lebanese , my DNA is showing 43% Jewish, so I’m more Jewish then my European Jewish friends… LOL!

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

LOL but Lebanese are 90% the same since the BRonze Age, these tests dont tell your ancestrals, just with which people you share genes.

[@winxclubstellamusa]

Wow!! What was their reaction to that? Did you tell them?

[@zjzr08]

You're defined as Mizrahi Jew genetically but Ashkenazi Jews are also technically just 1/2 "European" (with a lot of "cousin marriages") so you're same half-Jews (whatever that means) hehe.

[@javnok9266]

You can always convert back and become a Jew religiously and join your ancestors ethnicity

[@helenavis]

My husband is arab, his dad is born in Palestine and his mom native Jordanian, he got 96% middle eastern, the rest close by countries in Africa (egypt and some non-arab countries). I thought he would get something more similar to this but it seems his result is quite unique. No Europe at all and no Jewish...

[@georgekech4903]

It just happened that the people in the company's database who said that they are of middle eastern origin matched with the DNA of your husband in a bigger degree. It depends from how many people from that region the company has (the more the bigger chances of getting a match) and also if they were from a region close to Palestine or closer to Palestine.

[@radioog6945]

Jewish isn’t a race and the dna tests go back 5 generations so the migrations will reflect that. For example I have Kenyan in my dna test but the Kenyans that I’m mixed with are Somali who migrated to Kenya some hundred years ago.

[@liztime3999]

Agreed with the previous comment. I’m Jewish and we did check how many other people my DNA was compatible with, and they basically said there are not enough samples from that area. I was expecting that, because I know there are very very few survivors In the region and that added it is a non English speaking country, the chances of increasing the samples is pretty low. Just to put it in perspective, we are all writing in English and got to these DNA videos because we all speak more than one language. But in your ethnicity, how many Arab speaking people do speak English at this level? What about the Hebrew speakers, Spanish speakers, and so on. So strongly suggest you to check another test that has more samples from the Middle East to compare. So you might get a better map of your family history and genealogy. You might be born in Lebanon like the girl from video, or any other country but also does not necessarily mean you carry a “Lebanese DNA”. In Comparison to this girl’s great grandpa was Argentinian, many people equally talk about Latin America as equally genetically influenced like Africa, when it’s not. So her grandpa might be 100% Argentinian born, but have a European DNA since most of LatinAm are vastly descendants from Europe.

[@msbrickcity_900]

How can anyone be middle eastern in dna when that area didn't become known as Middle East in the 1900 do to colonization of Africa which that part was north east Africa so wouldn't that part have no dna of its own being its colonize land

[@רחלשטיינר-צ5ת]

Gosh … what a relief for him…

[@Nehamah92205]

I was just as shocked as her when I had my test come in!My moms side is from a Mountain Jewish family in Azerbaijan, and my Dad was descended from Northern Africa. My results were: 43.2% Mizrahi Jewish 26.9% Western Asian 23.4% North African 5.3% Middle Eastern 1.2% Yemenite Jewish I was shocked by the Yemenite Jewish percentage! Must be that my dad has ancestors who are of Yemenite Jewish descent🤷‍♂️

[@sammymahjoubpour3537]

This is so cool, are you religiously jewish by any chance? My results identified as : 37% west asian 29 % mizrahi jewish 15 % south asian 10% baltic Although both my parents are from iran, i’m very surprised to have a sizable amount of jewish ancestry.

[@rosemcginnis914]

My dad is supposed to be 100% Armenian from Iran and he got about 40% Mizrahi Jewish and I have 30%. It is from our paternal line.

[@wisdom.research1051]

Jews intermarry w/ other Jews when they live close and want to make a Jewish family. Here it is common.

[@grecsoto]

@@sammymahjoubpour3537 remember that there were a huge Jewish and Israelite diaspora in Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires. All these three empires did massive deportations in order to break nationalist attachment of Jews and Israelites, that historically were a harsh nation to subjugate (they revolted many times). The main explanation why Jewish tend to conserve their DNA group is because they religious marriages, although they have mixed with a lot of ethnicities and converted to many religions. These people were never allowed to return to their homeland after Christian and Muslim rule (until now).

[@gregoryludkovsky5185]

RIGHT ON THE DOT !!

[@Bronxguyanese]

She is part Levantine. During the middle ages. Plenty of Italians, French and byzantine Greeks settled in Lebanon which was a crusader state.

[@georgekech4903]

The problem is that people take those results too literal and think that those are "types of DNA". 14% Italian doesn't mean that she's by 14% Italian. If she didn't have recent Italian ancestors (most likely she didn't) it just means that she's 14% similar to people who stated that their grandparents were born in Italy. All people are related with each other and people of the near by regions are more recently related. Ethnic groups and cultures didn't pop out of nowhere from the ground. DNA results like that always will show you where your recent ancestors were from (beyond ethnic groups, cultures and languages) and the nearby regions because the ancestors of your culture more recently were closer related to the people of nearby regions. To come to Lebanon you have to be first in Anatolia, or the surrounding Levant and Middle East, North Africa, Southern Europe etc. So the closer the people are to your region the closer related they are to you because people were always mixing. Take into consideration that you're 50% similar to each of your parents. 25% your grandparents. 12.5% your great grand parents. So further you go back in time the less related you are with people back in time even if you're directly related. So by default you'd be closer related to people of closer regions because with people of further geographic regions you'd be more distantly related back in history because of distance your in common ancestors would have been really back in time. So her results make 100% sense.

[@sheckartze]

9:05 he referred to the iraqi and Persian jewish communitys as being their for "long periods" this isn't precis. We were there for 2500 years uninterrupted

[@skylar0628]

She looks very Jewish, so I’m not surprised.

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

nah, its cause jewish and lebanese are very similar and... the MH proxy for levantine is awful.

[@sykes2698]

Hey GeneaVlogger, what is your Haplogroup? and can you do a video explaining what Y-dna haplogroups are and the different migration routes, and populations that belong to certain branches, etc.

[@GeneaVlogger]

I actually did a Nebula Genomics Whole Genome Sequencing test and am working on a video of the results. I will include an in-depth look into my Y-Haplogroup using the phylogenetic tree on Yfull. For now I'll just leave it at J-M172.

[@sykes2698]

@@GeneaVlogger that’s very interesting, J2 is a very expected Haplogroup branch for Jewish people.

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

@@sykes2698 yeah, but there are hundreds of people and ethnic groups it can be, why this fetish for Jewish? 🙄

[@lillimango51]

the only reason for me to send in a DNA test so far was getting registered for BM donations, but you make this subject so interesting, I want do do more research on my family tree now

[@MrWhit30]

I did a DNA test a few yrs back w CRI. I have a very English surname and my paper traced paternal ancestry(done by a great aunt) goes back to 50-100 yrs post Jamestown. No surprises really as Im just a basic a North Alabama hillbilly. Results showed me a mutt mixture of around 90% Northern European, mostly Germanic, but some Scandinavian, British Isles, even a bit of Spain and Italy. Get down to the under 10% level and its 0.5-2% of various exotic stuff from Sri Lanka to Peru. I did a tree on Ancestry and it all pretty much goes back to Virginia>Carolinas(1750s)>Tenn&GA(1800-1850)>my local area of North Alabama/Tenn Valley(1850-70). I just ordered an Ancestry DNA test to see if I can true it up more and break the 1700s wall back to the continent. Im also curious about the Central American and South Asian connection.

[@davec5153]

Her Argentinian grandparent will likely have been Italian. She's basically Arab/semitic with an Italian Grand parent from Argentina, like most Arabs, except for the Italian.

[@rosemcginnis914]

I have 30% Mizrahi Jewish, my dad is close to 40%Inam supposed to be Armenian but looks like one of my grandpas is Jewish, we lived in Iran for centuries.

[@snakey319]

as soon as she said Argentinian was where pops moved, I knew she was Italian too.

[@EdMcF1]

Great-grandad passing thru Argentina, he might have been an Italian emigrant who kept going.

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

I'm surprised that people are so surprised by the results. Especially in the Middle East and North and South America.

[@IS-lc9oh]

Yeah.. like just follow the migrations, trades, slave trades, occupations and you have the answer. Feels like they haven't studied History. Her italian acestry could from the argentinian grandfather or from the romans (italians) that invaded all of the mediterranean and Libanon..

[@titifatal]

From the little I know about Argentina, there is a large Italian population there. So, I'm with the people who are guessing Argentina, more than some migration from Italy. In part, my reasoning comes from the fact that she has no other signs of Argentina in the profile (like native, Spanish etc.). Anyway ... I am sure she could track that down with a little effort.

[@VinyZikss]

Yup. Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay received massive amounts of Italian immigrants. So much so that there's a Venitian languague that is still preserved in Brazil that italians from Venice can even understand. Pretty Cool

[@benebolencia]

I think the Argentinian ancestor was an Italian who migrated to Argentina. There have big large migrations of Italians to Argentina, particularly during, and shortly after WW1 and WW2.

[@SereneHaddad]

I had my results from myheritage, and there was something counterintuitive in the genetic groups they started recently. My ethnicity estimate included me in two genetic groups: jordan and syria(arabs) which is not surprising.. and another broader group including germany, poland, czechia and hunagry. So in the full estimate i dont have any percentage from these countries and the more counterintuitive is that on confidence level myheritage puts the central european group on high confidence and the arab genetic group on the low confidence.. thats unexcpected for me ! Looking at my surname its middle eastern... so why jordan and syria group was listed at the low confidence scale.. ??

[@izzaldeenalkurdi8806]

Yh haddad means Christian and most of the Christians in Jordan are ghassanids who ruled over Jordan and Syria

[@liztime3999]

Because of the region, I believe. Middle East people speak Arab and Hebrew, mostly, and these tests are mostly thought for English speaking people. Imagine if the targeted audience switched to the Arab community? Their samples would get richer and would be easy to narrow down to which specific ancient tribes you might have in your dna. What about Punjabi and chinese speaking countries ? Just to set an example. So there’s lot yet to do and hence not a final wording on your genetics’.

[@succatash]

You most likely descend from someone who stayed in the Middle East during the crusades. People don't realize the ME was Arabized but most people see a huge mix of people

[@r.thomassen6285]

How do they find gypsy in those tests? The gypsys are originally from northern India, but from there spread all over. So I guess it is difficult to assign them to other countries than India in the DNA tests. So, could her northern India match just as well be gypsy ancestors from Europe or other regions where gypsys live today?

[@srfrg9707]

54% Mikey Mouse for the voice.

[@rachelnakasaki319]

Lots of people with Jewish heritage in Argentina, I think ...

[@Chaotic_Pixie]

I hope she decides to do her family tree, being inspired by the Jewish representation.

[@a1ihussein313]

The romans colonised Lebanon that’s probably how she got Italian or by Phoenicians how they went to italy or by greeks how he said.

[@travelwithrayan7505]

I have done my DNA am gonna get my results next week

[@fatimasaksouk]

شاركنا ياهن بس يطلعوا

[@sarahpeters5187]

I just sent in my DNA test. My father is Lebanese. Excited to see what comes up!

[@dmitrishostakovich5209]

what were the results?

[@mkodyglobalsouthsoldier]

Update needed please!!!!!

[@shardanette1]

First, I knew there would be some Jewish blood there. But the mix of the two groups was interesting. And once she mentioned the Argentinian connection, I knew there would be Italian. And I'm shocked that you didn't make that obvious connection.

[@BORN-to-Run]

She's a JEWESS!

[@asdrubalanibal6853]

Argentina’s largest National minority is Italian, there’s also a very important Syrian/Lebanese minority.. All Mediterranean peoples have been interacting, and mixing, with each other at one time or another through their whole shared history. And Lebanon is right smack in the middle of the Mediterranean World, The Muslim World, and in the direct area of trade, influence, and contact, of the Silk Road. So there.

[@lorriemiller6750]

Lebanon was not part of the Silk Road because that is more associated with Central Asian not the Middle Eastern

[@wisdom.research1051]

No surprise, a Lebanese girl half Jewish.

[@steveboy7302]

They just added the Oceania just to mess with her

[@ThorNado24]

Italian could be ancient Romans who ruled that region for so long.

[@kenhutch7727]

Does anyone remember the Greek and roman empires. All of the wars of ancient times and slaves being transported everywhere.

[@tonynordlander9626]

wonderful mix!

[@jamillx]

she got exactly what she looked like and her origins, no idea what she thought her heritage was.

[@farisfuad1150]

Yeah. She seems oblivious to a lot of things.

[@RaffaelloLorenzusSayde]

She looks very Jewish tbh..

[@zilch2653]

Bc not all Lebanese people get Jewish on their DNA test let alone that high of a %?

[@abee4138]

Also one thing to remember is the Romans(Italians) destroyed the city of Carthage in phoenicia so some ancestry could come from there as well

[@mattpotter8725]

I know this is a video from 2 years ago but I'm a little confused, especially your comments about ancient people groups. So for autosomal DNA in terms of matches it can only go back a certain number of generations, but in terms of ethnicity it can match you, I'm guessing against some control groups, back even further? It's this the case? Is this possible? Or is there another explanation? If this is the case then it's not surprising that a lot of Lebanese share Italian ethnicity as the Phoenicians that were from the Levante also had trading posts in Italy and so there would be mixing throughout all the Mediterranean.

[@anthonyproffitt5341]

A very Mediterranean young woman with a diverse genetic background.

[@zeenasworld]

She had me crying.

[@jacenath8197]

Hi! I just wanted to make a small correction. Indian isn’t located in Southwest Asia (Middle East); it’s located in South Asia. The genetics of the people are unique and diverse, and generally have significant admixture from southeast and east Asia. North Indians have higher percentages of ANI (ancestry from central Asian Indo-Iranian speaking immigrants) and Tibeto-Burman. South Indians have higher levels of ASI (Dravidian dna, related to the Harappa civilisation and migrants into Southeast Asia), and Tibeto Burman dna. The genetics are very far from Semitic middle easterners. This is especially the case in south and eastern India (which is where my maternal lineage is from). The cultures are more akin to those of Southeast Asia because of history. Southwest, and West Asia are, on the other hand, parts of the Middle East- not India. Aside from that, I loved your video! A great reaction to her test!

[@nenoschamany616]

My ethnicity estimates: West Asian: 44.7% Mizrahi Jewish - Iranian/Iraqi: 26.4% Middle Eastern: 22.0% Greek and South Italian: 4.9% Ashkenazi Jewish: 2.0% I suspected to have Jews in my DNA results because Jews and Assyrians lived together in Iraq (I’m Assyrian from Iraq) which both shared same language (both spoke Neo Aramaic) and names plus there were known intermarriages between them

[@shelayashawn8790]

Whats west asian??? Original iraqian? I got 46 % west asian in mine.

[@ardapezerukian4641]

@@shelayashawn8790 Caucasus, Iran and Turkey.

[@glendathegoodwitch6987]

She basically has a set of Jewish grandparents so why did they intermarry and walk away from their heritage and religion?

[@TS-fe7sb]

Some of the jews had to hide there origins in order to survive.

[@MrLeemurman]

Because she is not Jewish, but Canaanite

[@edwardkantowicz4707]

Easy answer as to explain intermarriage or mixed-marriage is that the people in question fell in love with an "outsider" to their group. Love conquers all, including those religious and or cultural prohibitions on marriage prospects. Many have converted to make a marriage. Perhaps in such cases, defying all odds, and making sacrifices we find the cases of true love.

[@javnok9266]

@@MrLeemurman Or her great grandparents were Jewish

[@nextlifetimebrendan3940]

My my heritage results were definitely less accurate than my 23&me + didn’t add up in comparison to my family / didn’t update after i connected to my grandma and father. For example i got 9%baltic and my father got 5% Baltic even though i only could have gotten it from him LOL.

[@hoponpop3330]

A lot of Italians emigrated to Argentina the modern Argentinian language has a distinct Italian influence. My landscaper was from there and his workers were Mexican American They only conversed in English . The Spanish was two confusing.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

If they chose to speak English it wasn’t because they couldn’t understand each other in Spanish. I speak Rioplatense (Argentine Spanish) and understanding a Mexican Spanish speaker is no problem at all. A lot of TV shows that are dubbed in Spanish shown on Argentine TV are dubbed in Mexican dialect (The Simpsons for example, which is wildly popular in Argentina). You are correct that the rhythm and some of the slang of Argentine Spanish have significant Italian influence though.

[@iskinder008]

I agree with you. I have family in both countries. When my Mexican or Argentine friends socialize with my Argentine or Mexican family, in general, they don't have any problem understanding one another. In fact, Argentines are more familiar with Mexican Spanish due to a TV program known as "El Chavo del Ocho". This program was so popular in Argentina that it seems to me every Argentine grew up watching this program.

[@5Gazto]

Not true. Argentinians and Mexicans can speak mutually intelligible Spanish.

[@joma5508]

I did the test and I went from believing I was only arab from the middle east to finding out I'm only 1% Arab while I'm almost 90% north african the rest being Mali and Ethiopian which I think they confused Ethiopian and Sudanese. Sudanese makes more sense. Led me to think my ancestors must have been tuaregs of you are familiar with that term.

[@mhmdkhaledabla7512]

Habibi arab are from arabian peninsula not levantine cuz it's in middle east

[@yoniwolf6008]

@@mhmdkhaledabla7512 LOL and Arabian peninsula is Middle East too you reta..

[@25Soupy]

There are many videos on KZbin showing how much country boundaries change year over year. I asked a neighbor friend what his wife's ethnic descent was and he said, South African. I said South Africa is a country but not an ethnic descent. I have a coworker who's parents are South African but they're both Chinese. Turns out his wife is a mix of black and European. Most people think she's East Indian.

[@lorriemiller6750]

Originally the Ancestors of the Jews namely the Patriarch Abraham and his family were originally from Southern Iraq so that is totally normal actually because that was the original home of the Ancestors of the Jewish people.

[@michaelshubr4084]

I love it when a Lebanese, or a Jordanian, or Palestinian finds out they are actually Jewish--from her mom to no less!

[@Brentford704]

@@michaelshubr4084 which means the original Jews never left Palestine and that they are in fact natives to the region. Should be an eye opener for the Israelis.

[@ginagaladriel]

My Heritage hasn't done any updates yet (well... they are claiming that now in this month new testers will receive an updated version automatically, the rest of the users will receive the update later this month, supposedly to 2000+ "regions")... but yes, it would be really interesting to see an update

[@jackcommonman1381]

SHALOM!!

[@sassygrammy1258]

Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah and took many residents to Babylon including Daniel, the prophet. (2 Kings 25)

[@visulino]

I have a Mexican-born friend whose father is from Barcelona and his mother is from Guipuzcoa (Basque) his 23 and Me came back as 30% Indigenous American, Mexico. That's impossible. Probably 23 and Me's results are influenced by the number of his DNA matches living in Mexico because a caravan of his family members moved there during the Civil War. So since many people sharing his DNA live in the region of Mexico, the results came back as 30% indigenous Mexican. Impossible, you look at his parents and siblings, none of them looks slightly indigenous Mexican. There is something fishy with some of these companies.

[@katniss4670]

I agree . My family members got results linking them to Puerto Rican indigenous peoples , probably due to their Canarian ancestry .

[@shelayashawn8790]

Yes thats right, i did a dna test and it wasnt clear, west asian, they didnt specify, which country?

[@guichec3786]

As I can see is impossible to tell the difference between Mizrahi jews and other Arabs neighbors or Sephardic jews from north Africans. As it would be impossible to differentiate a Phoenician from Canaanite or ancient jew. These are tests for entertainment, they aren't so accurate, and some differences perhaps don't even exist or they are really hard to tell, as the example, I've just given or, for instance, the difference in England between Anglo-Saxon/Viking ancestry.

[@deanamodeo4072]

A lot of Italians in Argentina too. I don't know how long her family was there

[@EPA18]

According to the results, she is 43% Jewish. She should ascertain whether that is on her mother's side or her father's side (or both?).

[@zjzr08]

Aren't grandparents that are Jewish still able to make a person eligible to aliyah?

[@86upsmaya]

Her ancestors must have been sea farers.

[@TheBetty66653]

Hi geneavlogger. Interesting video how you analyse it. Recently did a dna test and made a video and they did a update and so much more info and places.(that didnt surprise me at all but its like ancestors everywhere even israel). See you say 27 close to.a grandparent and the other to a great grandparent. Interesting to watch how you analyse it. Learn from it from my own results. Thank you for your videos.

[@Ray-sq9rk]

What I learnt from these videos most people feel shocked but very happy for finding out they are HUMANS and belong to Earth rather their Narrow (presumed) tribes and countries.. bty levantines are the most racially diverse group on the planet and that is very understood coz of the geography location among 3 continents and rich history . Almost every one in Levant has little percent of everywhere ..

[@mikebriggs1234]

She’s so happy she found %14 Italian

[@ssrmy1782]

Argentinian blood? what's that? Italian, Spanish, and now only a small % Amerindian.

[@gerardcote8391]

Actually no surprise there, modern Lebanon was part of the Roman Empire for hundreds of years and only the Druze and Jewish sects prohibited intermarriage. So Italian should be expected. Also note Carthage was a colony of people that came from Lebanon so they mixed in with the local Berber population of North Africa. And the Sephardic Jews were ethnicity mixed with the same populations of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. Also note as always these are based on markers that are disproportionately associated with modern groups based on a modern DNA database. So when they say some small percentage of some non regional group that doesn't necessarily mean you have ancestors from there just that some large number of the people there today and you share a common ancestors and that common ancestors may not be from either your or their region.

[@curleddoughnuts6857]

I’m from Kosovo… and I may have Lebanese, Palestinian and Jordanian ancestry… lol I did a DNA test… apparently my ancestors lived in Lebanon once…

[@dariusrezai8319]

People have been mixing for Millenia so it’s really not surprising to find different genes in your DNA test especially if your born in the Middle East

[@nidaroon858]

What’s so surprising here. Mizrahi Jews are also middle eastern So she’s basically 70% middle eastern. The Italian is not surprising giving the Levantine trade routes with Italy/Greece Plus the Argentinian side. Which is also most likely to have some Italian background Nothing shocking here

[@toofastforyall8590]

Being Lebanese means nothing. My mum identifies as being Lebanese and she got significant Roman/Italian along with Greek Cypriot, Caucasus/Anatolian and East Med Levantine.

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

Lebanese are 90% the same since the BRonze Age, these tests dont tell your ancestrals, just with which people you share genes.

[@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273]

Lebanese means you are the indigenous people of levent

[@robertoglencoco7861]

A lot of Argentinians are actually of italian descent.

[@msartlit]

I opened Google maps and eyeballed the map while she listed her background. Lebanon being on the Mediterranean Sea and nearly all of her ancestry comes from areas surround the Mediterranean, it's not a stretch to see how her ancestors would have come together. Her India ancestry may also come from a seafaring group across the Arabian Sea, up the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf and across through Iraq. I'd love to hear how much she's learned since her video was published/

[@mattpotter8725]

I think nearly all the areas, apart from the Southern Asia/India reading, and Persia/Iran (and obviously Italy) was part of the Ottoman Empire (and earlier Islamic Empires, such as the Abbysid), which also has Jewish populations within it and so it's not unexpected to get these readings. Nothing about her results are unexpected to me (the Oceania one I expect being a misread/misallocation).

[@davidduke5000]

She has zero Lebanese, her accent shows, she was born in Syria to a Syria and Palestinian parents.

[@anthonykamel172]

Why is this a shock for this girl? We are lebanese in the middle east. Having common ancestors with Jewish is a shock? Did she think she was Scandinavian? 😂.

[@ManiyaVinas]

just google garqad tree

[@privateprivate4315]

My father is Mizrahi I’m not sure why people are saying she looks “Jewish “ etc. Levantine people all look extremely similar.

[@javnok9266]

Because so many people want to erase all Jews connection to the Middle East

[@Elibeli19]

All Jews are Middle Eastern- Sephardic Mizrahi and Ashkenazi- we all descend from modern day Israel! So yes- you are in fact majority Middle Eastern :*

[@Cc-rx6rf]

Yes! We decend from Levantine dna💙🇮🇱

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

yeah and the earth is flat.

[@javnok9266]

@@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458 We found the Jew Hater. Jews originated in Judea.

[@antondavidoff150]

She is not Italian .. her ancestors relatives moved to Italy and become Italians and now she is somehow considered Italian..

[@philmccluskey2063]

hey, you sai it amounted to quarter.....but no, it's 42% Jewish

[@oscarwalton1188]

Lebanon had a lot of contact with the Roman and creek empires and traded a great deal with multiple cultures in Africa Asia and the Middle East so nothing really surprising there.

[@RememberMeYeah]

The Argentinian could have been and Italian who moved there for mining or shipping

[@benlassu1880]

Hey Geneavlogger, what is your opinion on myTrueAncestry and dnaPortal? Enjoy watching you!!

[@noyc1394]

Myheritage says I have Iraqi (Baghdad) genes but really small. So now I have a lot relative connection with middle eastern people. But I’m southeast Asian

[@RWebster325]

This is another reason to do a family tree prior to taking a DNA test.

[@arejayheix]

1400 years ago you would’ve been mostly European or Jewish. The world is not a static place.

[@emanuelyasheav1040]

I made a small test by asking how long does DNA tests trace back and it is about 300 years. To know the origin, we need more than 300 years...

[@depressedcat2561]

South west Asian is the Arabian peninsula not India and Pakistan. Indians and Pakistanis are called south asians

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

arabian peninsula and levant.

[@dimitriosales]

When she said Argentinean but possible not native form there, right away I though Italian.

[@natashka1982]

Half Argentina are Italians

[@TheConspirateWarrior]

Interesting that there do not appear Iberian traces, but not surprising as jewish communities used to be rather endogamic (remote Jewish ancestry here) And they could be related to Aragon rather than Castille (Aragon dominated a great deal of the Mediterranean so one could be "Spanish" subject and the family never set a foot in the Iberian peninsula) Or the admixture take on during the long diaspora along the Mediterranean via the Ottoman routes. Many ended up in Russia and Ukraine. She looks very Iberian too... Regarding the surprise, I've been to Lebanon and is amazing tje political polarization how it taints every aspect of social life. Most people do not know that Jewish, Ancient Egyptian, Arab, Syriac and Phoenician languages and people come from the same Semite roots. Goverments individuals and ideologies who fish on division and "otherness" are obviously uninterested in promoting arguments for fraternity ... This is why these videos are so positive

[@blackaplha]

So basically your 10th great grand father was a Indian solider from ancient Hindu civilisation who was taken prisoners by irani kings or persian empire