Professional Genealogist Reacts -

This is the first of my new video series Professional Genealogist Reacts, where I react to genealogy videos and DNA test results videos. In this video I react to the BuzzFeedVideo "The Try Guys Take An Ancestry DNA Test" where The Try Guys - Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang - get their DNA tested at 23andMe and then review it with Jhulianna Cintron.
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[@XFactorGlory]

I'm not surprised Eugene was shocked - many Korean families have kept family records for hundreds of years. He even mentions that he's been told his ancestry all the way back to the founding of Korea itself. And if that's the case, then the Japanese and Chinese likely wasn't a consensual addition to the family DNA.

[@XRaykaX]

But what he's forgetting is, just because an ancestor of his proclaimed they were Korean, who knows how many either lied or didn't know themselves? I know most people are expecting something dark, like violence, when it comes to the impurity of their bloodline, but I have a great grandmother myself, who lies about being one race, to escape the oppression of her actual race, and my grandfather (her son) only just realized they weren't the race she was hiding as until distant relatives immigrated over to our country to fact check it. It can very well be that the Korean's conflict with the Chinese/Japanese (or the other way around) being why their Chinese/Japanese relative is posing as a Korean. (Outside of the other dark possibility)

[@MikkiManson13]

@@XRaykaX Ok but the chances are, based on the country's recent history (wars, colonization/imperialism) and the scale of atrocities committed such as comfort women and the fact that the Chinese/Japanese addition to his family coincides within that time frame (his grandparents and great grandparents), slim for that

[@Ψυχήμίασμα]

Korea was a vassal state of Ancient China for centuries. There were historically documented intermarriages, mutual migrations, and the border was porous since people were free to move in and out of it. There were times when Chinese princesses were married to Korean nobility, and vice versa, etc. Same thing with Japan. A huge chunk of the Japanese population's formation was Yayoi tribes from the Korean Peninsula thousands of years ago. The identity of what is distinctly Chinese, Korean, or Japan, were very much not even that stringent thousands of years ago. They were simply: those folks from that place over there. Especially with China, which was like Rome, and conquered/annexed/colonized many places in East Asia and Southeast Asia. I would be very surprised if there is a population in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia with zero Chinese DNA. It was an ancient Eastern colonial power, kinda like Hellenistic Greeks and the Romans.

[@hikaru-live]

The Chinese blood may have been there for a long time, as Northern China and Korean peninsula do share a land border and people there has intermixed for a long time. Those Japanese blood screams WWII.

[@kevabelle3462]

An important part of genealogy is knowing history. In Eugene's case, the oppression of the Korean people by both the Japanese and the Chinese in the last 100 years would explain his results...Many unpleasant events in history influence our DNA.

[@UranusRising]

I was about to comment on this. The Japanese imperialized Korea in the early 20th century. Occupied the peninsula from 1910-1945. Easy to explain based on history.

[@isabeldixon2611]

Additionally, the Chinese border of Korea during the Choson period was pretty pourous - intermarriage along the Korean peninsula and the Manchurian region was likely pretty common

[@a.j.3383]

But Chinese, Korean, and Japanese aren't just firmly solely DNA from China, Korea or Japan. There's been intermixing, but having DNA from samples who have identified as Korean to 23andme doesn't mean you're Korean or have Korean ancestors, same for Japanese or China. This is because all east Asians are related, so they have very similar gene pools/DNA.

[@nathanliteroy9835]

Similar thing happened to race studies as a whole actually, after World War II whole field of science basically died out because it was partially used to fuel racism. So now genetics acts as kind of replacement of race studies, but as often happens people who do genetic research mostly gather samples while asking for people self-identification without researching the history of a population, and then can mark it as some kind of pure population of that kind. I know this because I've listened to anthropologists from Russia talking about this topic (there are handful race studies researchers there, it was a big field during Soviet times since Russia is very diverse), there are several studies in Siberia where samples were taken by geneticists. One of the samples was taken in a big city mostly in clinics and population was marked as native one. Meanwhile during colonization of Siberia and after Russians have mixed with people who lived there, and there are waves of Russians and other ethnicities who came there since the beginning of the XX century since it's a big city. It basically wasn't counted upon. And those kinds of big and small waves of happened all the time, you need to know the history of a population, and results in cities are mostly worthless since there's a lot of mix up there due to urbanization. Anthropologists might know it if it was researched and those anthropologists exist at all to know that this research was done, but they are largely not used in geneticists research. So information about some areas of the world is faulty, and it's also faulty when it comes to smaller populations.

[@brett8460]

I was just about to say this. My mom is also Korean and she has 7% Japanese and 8% Chinese ancestry according to a DNA test she had done a few years ago.

[@nickymd1]

The fact that Eugene was shocked is crazy to me. Anyone who has even a basic knowledge of Korean history will understand why there is so much Japanese or Chinese genetic material in his DNA. Many Koreans have a burning hatred of the Japanese because of their invasions over the last few centuries, the Chinese have invaded a few times themselves and Koreans in the north are very well mixed with their Chinese neighbours. It's not more shocking than France and Germany being grouped together.

[@magicrat74]

American education and parents in denial, seems like an easy way to explain that to me.. And I'm not trying to start a flame war over the US education, I don't know asian history that well myself

[@queenjh7147]

@@magicrat74 ..in america theyre really only responsible for teaching american history and other big key events from all over the world sooo sorry the vast majority doesnt know about other countries and their issues and problems not to mention not everyones curriculum is the same(didnt learn something all together or learned it earlier than other resulting in easily forgetting it) nor does everyone even remember what they were taught(in eugene's case many years ago)

[@allier1867]

his parents probably said a different thing to him

[@kathilisi3019]

Many of these trace results are passed down over generations. If several members of his great-grandparents' generation have mixed ancestors from a few more generations ago, that would lead to the same sort of percentages as if one of his great-grandparents was fully Japanese or Chinese. I'm from Austria and did one of these tests, and I got 2% East Asian. I'm not even surprised because the area my known ancestors are from got invaded by Mongolians and Huns a few times, several centuries ago. I guess a few of my very distant ancestors were born in those troubled times.

[@lunacouer]

If you watch this and their follow-up video, it turned out there was a family secret that explained why he wasn't 100% Korean and why he thought he was. They never reveal the secret, but it turned out to be a big airing of laundry for their family. It makes me wonder if his great grandmother was a "comfort" woman during the Japanese occupation, and then one of his grand-parents was a product of that rape. Not exactly something you bring up at the dinner table.

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

Gotta remember that wives didn't count much in 'recorded' family histories. Like names, it was sometimes "All hail the mighty sperm!"

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Yup. I lose a lot of the women's names around 1300 or so. Go back any further and it is "son of John Smith and no name Smith"

[@j.pnewcomer1069]

On my mother's side of the family we've only really followed down the Maternal parents genealogy mostly because the furthest back that we know of is my 4th great grandmother (my great grandmother's mother) mostly because she is the only known person in our family to have left Czech-Slovakia(back when they were one country) and move to the United States. She had never talked about family "back home" never told anyone names, or where in Czech-Slovakia she came from; most of us think something bad had happened to her and she had to run away or something.

[@Meg13Crossheart]

yeah, in my case either some white colonizer did atrocities at a woman up my family tree, or a white woman married into my family tree, i have no written documentation, no proof other than how i look. frustrating

[@1MarkKeller]

And even then, the "man of the house" doesn't necessarily have to be the "father of the child" so the hailing of the mighty sperm could be wrong.

[@lizhutchinson6978]

@@1MarkKeller it's baffling isn't it. Paternity was never certain and yet most societies are patrilineal.

[@cya1064]

My phone screen is cracked and I thought it said professional gynecologist I was very confused lol

[@VashtiPerry]

😆

[@mikhailbraggs3822]

LOL. Now that's funny!

[@Chronicallywitty]

Nope, not mama dr Jones 😂

[@tormu5189]

my screen in not cracked and i thought the same lol

[@cafekkon]

My exact situation at this moment

[@GeorgiaGrown90]

Considering Japan colonized Korea from 1910-1945 and how brutal Japan was to the Korean people, Eugene having Japanese ancestry at roughly the equivalent of a grandparent being full Japanese isn't surprising. I highly doubt it came about because of "true love". Japanese soldiers took Korean women as "comfort women" if you catch my drift.

[@googane7755]

He's gonna have to take a long talk with his parents about their grandpa

[@ginagaladriel]

I can trace my paternal grandfather (who was Chinese) to

[@kindnessfirst9670]

But you can't trace yourself back to your grandmother?

[@hectorsmommy1717]

The furthest back I got was ~25 BCE in Wales. My ancestor was a tribal king but shares the same name as a Welsh mythical hero so he has been conflated with the mythology in most histories of Wales. Lots of oral history, very little written history. There is some from Roman historians about his son.

[@ihavementalissues7489]

@@kindnessfirst9670 most women werent accounted for. During the qing dynasty(latest imperial family),few empress,consorts and concubines have their names recorded in history. All most no legal wives,aka their actual wife/empress/lady of the house are buried with their given title. Example: Lets say we find a tomb. We find out it belongs to empress xialiang. But her real name is chunhua. We would never know because they where simply never included anywhere.

[@jrjr648]

Ok

[@Rose-jz6sx]

That's amazing

[@onlythegracee]

ahh for Eugene he was so sure about being fully Korean because korean families have a registry of all names and birth dates of their family tree. so it can be easy tracing back your family’s history. if everyone was korean in the registry but eugene is not fully korean, then that means someone was lying 🤧

[@86upsmaya]

Korea was invaded bythe Japanese, and the Chinese, so its possible that the mix heritage was not even consual, and Koreans preffered to forget that piece of history

[@about50pyros55]

@@86upsmaya or just general trade and migration between various peopel througho ut history

[@MrsAlways394]

"To be honest, most people woudn't even now the names of their ancestors who were alive 150-200 years ago" Well, in that case, I'm clearly not most people ;)

[@captainduck3421]

I know names dating back to 1700 (320 years ago)

[@ccss9827]

Wow you're very lucky! I barely know who my grandparents were Lol :/

[@DDM_08]

damn I only traced back to the early 1900’s

[@kindnessfirst9670]

I don't even know the first names of 3 of my 4 grand parents.

[@rjmurphyo0]

@rottiefan on my mom's side I'm a descendant of Tristram Coffin along with most Nantucket Islander surnames during that time. On dad's side I'm a descendant of French settler Zacharie Cloutier. So my ancestry has been more than surprising to me!

[@jiayiisconfused3103]

i personally dont know names of ancestor all that well, but in china specifically ur hometown, as in your like blood hometown, the entire lineage of your surname would have a single book that records all the names of every generation possible i think me knowing how my great-great grandfather looks like bc of photo evidence is already a big flex in my book lol

[@NickKzig]

I'm jealous of that level of cultural record keeping. I went into my DNA test only knowing that I had Norwegian in my blood, and it turned out to be Swedish lmao My family didn't really keep records, so I've had a very difficult time tracking my genealogy even so far as second cousins.

[@PaulsGarage]

Korea has similar things. My wifes father (korean) has a genealogy book, multiple volumes going back very far, but its only his family line and only follows the men. So there is a very long detailed record of only *part* of the lineage. Just think, if a foreign man marries a korean woman (which would not be recorded as he has no korean lineage records), they have a girl, and that girl marries a korean man, she is recorded in that man's family tree book, but there would be no record at all of her having a foreign father in ANY of the genealogy records. Even his foreign sounding name wouldn't appear anywhere.

[@AntonioDellElceUK]

Not always trace results are junk... I tested on 23andMe and initially I didn't have any Ashkenazi at all but a particular area on chromosome 11 was showing hundreds of ashkenazi matches, when 23andMe updated the ancestry results in October 2019 that segment was recognized as Ashkenazi, and now I have 0.2% of Ashkenazi in my results. I was able to trace the segment to my paternal grandmother but not much further...

[@GeneaVlogger]

That is true - trace results can sometimes be truthful and verifiable, but not always. When you are dealing with a population group that has very high precision and recall then it is a bit more believable (23andMe's white paper - page 16 for numbers permalinks.23andme.com/pdf/23-16_ancestry_composition.pdf ). I just find it unfortunate that so many people often pay more attention to their unverified trace results.

[@hfriedman]

GeneaVlogger Thank you! P.S. - this link works: permalinks.23andme.com/pdf/23-16_ancestry_composition.pdf

[@anawkwardsweetpotato4728]

@@GeneaVlogger What would you say about Gedmatch indicating Ashkenazi DNA, but 23andMe never detects it? Ancestry DNA picked it up once, too, but every update afterwards it got lost.

[@carm7518]

Its too low to be detected. O.2% is not even worth to mention.

[@frosty58]

​​@@GeneaVlogger Hello GeneaVlogger! I have a question that i've been asking ne for quite some time. The question is if when I get a trace result, and I find out that it's true, could I call myself a part of that ethnicity? Thank you!

[@WiseDelilah]

I tracked my family back to the 13th century on ancestry and found out my 19x grandfather was the speaker for the house of commons in England.

[@melissagenard4638]

I was born in Seoul, South Korea, and did the 23&me test 3 years ago. I got 98.4% Korean, 0.2% Japanese and 1.4% broadly Eastern Asia. I checked it again at the beginning of this year and the results changed to 100% Korean. I’m really interested in seeing how Korean my kids are since they have a Korean mom and a Caucasian dad.

[@JSN723]

I had the same experience... was telling me I was 92% Korean with Japanese, Chinese, and Mongolian mixed in but then it updated to 100% Korean later on.

[@jynim]

Yea, they. really didn't have the data to any real specificity for Asians till more recenlty. I had a similar experience with Korean percentage increasing and Japanese decreasing in recent years.

[@EterPuralis]

I wonder how my Roma heritage would show up on a test, considering "we" didn't really get to stay anywhere for long, historically

[@rahowherox1177]

Quite high I'd imagine as gypsies rarely accepted non gypsies into the family unit... though they did buy kids so some non gypsy blood is possible

[@EterPuralis]

Buying kids? 😅 wtf dude

[@EterPuralis]

Where the hell did you even hear that?

[@EterPuralis]

Why would we buy kids??

[@LovelyAngel.]

@@EterPuralis because of lack of kids? I remember a case from my country (Poland) where a little girl went missing and was found in Italy in a Roma family doing field work with them - they bought her because they needed extra pair of hands to work. But Italians got suspected how can this child be theirs if she has bright hair and blue eyes, so they investigated

[@gracehurd8206]

I saw this posted on the Try Guys subreddit. Thank you so much for covering this!

[@soshiangel90]

I forgot how big the numbers were for Eugene and now I'm back to wondering what the phone call was like with his parents. Lol. (though in reality it was probably a whole bunch of "i don't know!" and momentary confusion before the thought about history)

[@Alex-fv2qs]

They showed that phonecall in a later episode

[@yukifoxscales]

He's Korean-American - if he knows Korean history, the Japanese and Chinese shouldn't be a shock....

[@oumaimamessaoudi7498]

he is shocked exactly because of the dramatic history of Korea with Japan and China.. This can be the worst nightmare for any Korean I guess just because it refers to some sad events Koreans went through during the war... so I definitely understand his surprise and "shock"

[@kimberlyh.1090]

True, but most people don't like the idea of being the end result of a grandparent having been raped/impregnated.

[@jenniferhiemstra5228]

I'm sure he knew that history...but he was told otherwise by his parents for so long. THAT is probably what led to shock.

[@sarah-sandres]

I got 85% African 14% European and 1% Native American

[@andre1987eph]

That's the average African/European ratio for African Americans.

[@walaloo1845]

I’m from Ethiopia and I got 45% Arab

[@anayalator_221]

My test was 95% African and 5% European and my whole family is African American.

[@icannotcomeupwithanything4609]

Cool. I am currently waiting for DNA test results.

[@aperry4489]

I got a half sister noone knew about..lol

[@karenglenn6707]

I discovered a few years ago that we are Plantagenets who ruled England for many centuries. The family goes from Kemp’s to Courtenay [originally de Courtenay from France) and out ancestral home is Powderham Castle in Devon, so we are related to the current Earl of Devon. The other paternal grandfather’s side were paupers from Rutland so many centuries later my grandmother married someone who her ancestors would not have spat on and was so beneath her in social standing originally. Wish my Nana had known this when she was alive, she would have been tickled pink.

[@friesxnxcoke]

My results came in more than I expected. I was always told me I was 1/4th indigenous mexican. I came in at 45% and my dad came in exactly as expected. He is half indigenous mexican.

[@toomanyopinions8353]

I get SO annoyed when they’re like “oh you have one great grandparent that’s 100% Chinese”. Like I feel like not only is it an over simplification it’s also just incredibly misleading?? The Chinese and Japanese have been invading Korea for thousands of years. All of that stuff likely is a huge sum of tiny little parts from different relatives.

[@Goiriath]

Actually, you can usually tell someone who has one grandparent or great-grandparent from somewhat apart from someone who has a quarter of their ancestors from there like, 300-500 years ago. But it's not by the percentage, but by how *long* the stretches of genes from one region are, a longer stretch indicates more recent ancestry. If that doesn't make sense, imagine sorting decks in order, then cutting and shuffling them different amounts of shuffles. Each generation is a shuffle. You might still end up with the same amount of spades, but if you get say a of 3,4,5,6,7 of spades in a row, that suggests they haven't been 'shuffled' very well, aka it's recent ancestry...

[@ember1794]

I loved your true joy at the video and how respectful you were! I was a little afraid that you would bash my favorite Try-Guy-video, but I needn't have worried!! And your predictions were also pretty spot-on!!

[@helenetrstrup4817]

I have grown up believing I couldn't be anything but Scandinavian. A few years ago I learned that my maternal grandmother's father was Dutch, one of my cousins has a wife who is very interested in geneaology and began tracing back our family tree on her husbands maternal side, which is my aunt. Another of my cousins got her genes tested and it turned out she was a whole 17% Dutch. It has made me wonder how Dutch I could potentially be and if anything interesting could be hidden on my father's side of the family.

[@McCammalot]

Didn't the Swedish empire it up over a bit of the Netherlands and Poland for a bit? I think that was mentioned when I went to the Vasa museum, but that was in the late 90s... (I love this stuff, it's so fascinating. it gets somewhat confusing as some companies will tell you not so much what you are as where your ancestors lived/passed through.)

[@AmbiCahira]

I'm Swedish living in the US and did the 23 and me out of sheer curiosity and found out that I'm 25% Finnish and my family never told me we had Finnish relatives, I have some Norwegian which I did know but what set off an interesting story was that it said 0.1% Korean and I happen to know that the Sami in Scandinavia, Finland and a bit of Russia has some relation to Asian ancestry once upon a time so I asked my dad if he knew if he had some Sami blood in the family and the answer was "I'm pretty sure we both have Finnish Sami and Norwegian Sami yes" and I never would've known if the test didn't spark me to ask the question. What is even better is I admitted to my dad that I always wondered since early school age why my cheekbones were different from my classmates and he showed me old photos of relatives I had never seen before which had those exact Sami looking cheekbones. I'm so glad I did 23 and me ^^

[@MsTomas086]

Neat. Perhaps now Northern Europeans can stop making fun of Southern Europeans for having Arab and African ancestry since they're not as pure as they thought.

[@rareoddish]

My mother's side is swedish going back about 300 years or so we thought, but as I found out through dna testing she was about half finnish from her mom. Skogsfinnar or Forest Finns moved to sweden hundreds of years ago to start a new life, and though thy integrated almost completely into swedish society by 100 years ago the finnish genes are still very much there. As far as the trace korean goes, however, my half sister comes up as .2% korean. While I'm sure there might be some distant sami in the family I'm not sure that sami come up as east asian at all, because their genes are more in common with siberian populations and other scandinavian peoples. I checked the dna results for my extended family on that side and there are relatives with traces of japanese and even filipino in their dna.

[@guadalupeaccareddu3239]

This content is fun, hope you can do a video explrining how thos test work more in depht

[@heatherboyer9516]

This was interesting, but the audio was so quiet that it was hard to hear without cranking up my audio.

[@fairycat23]

Yeah, I had my volume all the way up, too.

[@blackandpurple7090]

My maternal grandmother was adopted as a child, she never knew her birth parents. My maternal grandfather is from India and we have zero contact with his family members so there’s no way of tracing anyone. My paternal grandfather is also from India and we don’t know his family either and my maternal grandmother is from Malaysia (I am too). Her ancestors are the only ones we can trace. Soooo yeah. Would love to do a DNA test like this one day 😂😂

[@tikujess1880]

I am 99% Norwegian and 1% Native South American, and this 1% just happens to be from the area the vikings visited…

[@iron-thorne]

*cough*bullshit*cough*

[@exoticcats6119]

I don’t know a lot about my family history because both of my parents didn’t have good relationships with their parents, bad relationships with family in general, or my grandparents died before I was old enough to talk. My parents don’t talk about their family a lot because of this and it leads to me only knowing basic knowledge about my ancestry.

[@anayalator_221]

I’m African American and on my ancestryDNA test I got 95% African dna and 5% European. I thought the 95% was SUPER high considering my last name is English af🥲🥲🥲

[@tyrealmal2004]

I obviously don't know your families history, but a lot of freed slaves took on the names of the plantations they came from, some local landmark/location (often named after white settlers or people of import), or simply something they had heard as they were unaware of what their family name _had_ been and could only work from what they knew; "This is the oppressor's language, yet I need it to talk to you" and all that. Clearly I can't say definitively that that was the case for you, someone in your family tree might have changed their name for some reason or gotten their name assigned by white folk after being left as a ward of the state/crown, but I would say it's not _improbable._

[@emilylewis5373]

@@tyrealmal2004 adding on, plus a lot of freed slaves took on famous american's last names. Part of the reason why you see more black washingtons, then white. Same with jackson etc.

[@cutina5640]

Be proud of your African ancestry!! It’s beautiful hun❤️

[@fist-of-doom487]

I was genuinely surprised to find out that I had a Black Ancestor who was also an Irish Doctor. It’s fun not just to see your genetic makeup but to research your history. My family are some of the whitest people I know but we also got Native American and African ancestry and you’d never guess by looking at them. Some of the best information about my history besides the Black Irish Doctor, was one of my ancestors had over 10 kids but was described as being “very ugly but had beautiful eyes” and that’s almost inspirational. If anyone feels like they’re too ugly and will never get a family going just remember that their was a man so ugly that it was worthy of historical documentation and yet had a huge family.

[@tovarusperkins3955]

@@cutina5640 absolutely

[@randmorf]

The "Korean Guy" is quite tall for a Korean or Japanese person. Perhaps his tallness comes from his 1/8 (Northern) Chinese genes. Northern Chinese are usually taller than Chinese from other parts of the county, especially as compared to Southern Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

[@sandhya1303]

it could also be from being raised in america because from what ive noticed lots of first gen kids of asian (like the whole continent) descent grow significantly taller than their parents....maybe its the vit d in the milk, but thats just me speculating

[@pyrrhicvictoly]

Diet is a more likely reason. North Koreans and South Koreans are genetically the same, and the populations were the same height before the split. Now there's a 3 inch difference in average height. A lot of Asian countries are still developing, and many of them went through periods of famine through the various wars of the 19th and 20th century, so it can be hard to tell which segments of the population are short because of genetics vs. diet.

[@LovelyAngel.]

I think you're overthinking this. Just because their average height is short doesn't mean that individuals cannot be tall unless having a DNA from somewhere else. It simply doesn't work that way and he's also not THAT tall

[@CheerUp2]

Koreans are actually now the tallest Asian and the average korean height is growing

[@Zaeabun]

this is quite the racist and ignorant comment...

[@solitarelee6200]

If I was Korean I would be shocked about that level of Japanese blood too. Considering the timing that percentage could imply and the, ah, activities of the Japanese that would probably be automatically censored were I to say them in a youtube comment, uh. Let's just say there are some not fun implications for Eugene to think about there.

[@karmagal78]

A relative found a connection to a great granduncle of the family and had never heard of him. Turned out that her grandmother had cheated with... the milkman, which was my great granduncle.

[@lucybrown8902]

Sorry Brit here, what’s a grand uncle? As in a great uncle? So do you mean great great uncle?

[@cathou-quebec8544]

Let's not forget how much war has a huge impact on genetic pools. Especially in Europe. Korea was invaded by Japan and China. I understand why Eugene was so sure about his results : Each Korean family tree is very precise and has been written down for generations. They also can trace back remote relatives through it and their family names.

[@laurenvlala]

I got 77% West African (which was ofc Nigerian and Cameroonian mostly) 22% European with most of it being from Scotland and 1% Indian which was interesting to say the least lol

[@lisaquigley-moon9583]

I tested my nephew & he is 50/50. (Yes, he’s very handsome 😊) his bio father was from Laos. He’s 29% Scotland, 18% England Northwestern Europe, 11% Southeast Asia, 11% Southern China, 10% Dai (China), 9% Vietnam, 9% Central & Eastern China, 1% Wales, & 1% Germanic Europe. Very good looking combo & smart.

[@nikolatovar9884]

Thanks for this! My relatives 30 years ago took it upon themselves to extensively interview every living member of their families that they could and record their stories. I'm lucky to have such a thing in my family. It's a rich mix of family trees, folk medicine, recipes, advice, and ancestral lore. Reading it was where I found a couple of hard stops in my ancestry. One example was a great-great-grandfather that refused to ever speak of his past. He was what he said he was and that's all they had to go on. It's all made me very curious to have one of these DNA tests done.

[@ld8178]

I am Native American, Portuguese and African( mixed with north, Nigerian, and Congo). Not surprised because my family is from Puerto Rico and Mexico 😂

[@kelleydawne5137]

I'm quite curious about how new research can change previous results. Since getting my test done about 3 years ago, I've had my ancestry composition on 23andMe change multiple times. The British/Irish side of my DNA has remained fairly consistent (although the percentage fluctuates), but my 1/4 Italian heritage has completely disappeared to be replaced by Dutch for a short while, and now about 20% French/German heritage and 0.1% unassigned.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

I have done my DNA, as has one of my brothers. I also have been working on my genealogy for 40 years. The paper trail actually fills in gaps the info we have from DNA has. I have a lot of lines traced to the UK. DNA tells me I am 34% Scottish, 20% German, 34% "English and broadly Northwester European" (lumped into one category). That part is explained by the paper trail. Several of the English lines can be traced to Normans who invaded England with William (as well as non Norman French) and other lines can be traced to what is now The Netherlands and Belgium. One DNA result that would have been surprising if I hadn't done research is the Scandinavian. My brother had 7% and I had 3%. Our male line emigrated from Scotland but the originals in the clan were Scandinavian mercenary soldiers who fought with some chieftain around 11OO AD and were given lands for their service. Makes sense that the "Y" chromosome has a lot of Scandinavian and my 2 "X" do not have as much.

[@shalom5978]

I haven’t done these ancestry test mainly because I don’t want to spend money only to find out information I am pretty confident I already know. I am 99% sure the results are just going to show 99% Nigerian and then maybe 1% other west African country/ethnicity.

[@hfriedman]

Zach's Iberian/Italian could be displaced Sephardi (diaspora).

[@lil_weasel219]

Ashkenazim roamed the Holy Roman Empire, including Rome itself. A large chunk of Ashkenazim ancestry derives from Italy

[@natashaa43]

Yeah, bit annoying that he assumed they were not Jewish. Dude, don't you know Jews come from other countries besides Russia?

[@dehro]

Every time i watch those dna reveals I'm always baffled by how many people don't know the basics of how genetics work, or have the simplest notions of history, migration patterns and just over how many centuries one's DNA is spread.. Also, most of these commercial dna tests give very questionable results because they want to give interesting results

[@gothnb2309]

i love the try guys and i really enjoyed your professional explanation of this video! thanks :)

[@vastikaladelbarrio]

Very curious about doing one of these, but could never imagine results being anything other than Indigenous and Spanish.

[@nicholas045]

Do it! It won’t take anything away from you. You will still be you.

[@pennyw2226]

Nicholas Nul except money. (It’s still a good idea I just like to poke fun ;P)

[@geovannicastillo574]

If your latino your gonna have hella different things

[@VashtiPerry]

We almost have the same name.

[@mikhailbraggs3822]

You will probably have a little sub saharan African mixed in.

[@projectreracccty4764]

The mythologies of China, Korea and Japan that I have been researching show a direct connection to the biblical Japheth as the ancestor of most if not all Asian people. The Sinites of Ham's line are the ancestors of many of the Asian people too. The Japanese writing system combines Chinese characters and prior to the year 200 AD didn't have their own written language. Sino-Korean is the term for Korean words that originated from the Chinese language and 60% of the Korean vocabulary is Sino-Korean. One of the ancestors of the Chinese is Siniah "Sineo" "Sini" "Sin" King of Sennaar "Shinar" the son of Canaan whose father is the biblical Ham. Siang-Fu "Father Sin" Siang-Fu is the capital of Shaanxi Provence, and the Chinese believe their civilization originated from there. The Tsin dynasty called by the Malays “Tchina” is where the name China derives from. The name for the Tsin dynasty derives from Chín Tutan "Tchin" a direct descendant of Gomer the son of Japheth. Based on my research Japheth-Nese "Japanese" is the founder of Japan and the Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language family. Try adding and removing letters from Japheth's son Javan ancestor of the Greeks and Romans remove the "n" and you get Java Island in Indonesia and add "nese" you get the Javanese language of the Austronesian languages. Gomer married Go-yong "TǔTán" and they are said to be the ancestors of the Tu people also known as the Monguor people of China. Gomer had a son named Ash-Tubal Tuobal? Taobao? Tubal is the name of a town in Indonesia. A brother of Gomer was Tubal and said to be the ancestor of the Basques, and the Iberians. Tubal's son Iber was King of Iberia "Hiberia" and the ancestor of the Caucasian Iberians. Another son of Tubal is Tarraho King of Tarrahon "Aragon" and is probably the ancestor of many people in Spain. The Miautso people of China called Japheth by the names Jah-jbku and Jahphu. The Ishikawa/Chikuzene, Satsuma and the Okayama are believed to descend from Japheth. The Tuoba variation of Tubal Tuobal? also known as the Taugast or Tabgach was a Xianbei clan in Imperial China. Togarmah son of Gomer was the ancestor of the Scythian Avars of Central Asia "Kaganates" who descend from King Avar the son of Togarmah and are most likely the ancestors of Genghis Khan. King Ganges and King Indus are direct descendants of Ham and rivers were named after them. Japheth and Ham are the ancestors of the Dravidian people including the Tamil Indians through Qarnabil and Cush. Qarnabil is the daughter of Batawil the son of Tyras and grandson of Japheth. Thank you for reading my post even if you disagree with the information.

[@janetgraham-russell4476]

American dna reveals are really interesting. Lots of mixtures. I did mine. It more of less said 'Your family moved about 200 miles.'

[@edmason9359]

I can't hear the video your reacting to unless I risk blowing my speakers on the first commercial.

[@toomanyopinions8353]

I am only 1/8 Ashkenazi but because the efforts to trace Ashkenazi DNA are so good I can trace that part of my heritage back many centuries farther than anything else. Oldest thing we know of is some Rabbi in Rome in 1280AD.

[@MinnieMouse8270262]

How would these tests deal with displaced communities? Like maybe specifically Hmong people? I’ve also heard these kinds of tests are biased towards white populations whereas people of color often get very broad results that don’t tell them a whole lot.

[@makeuptroll]

From what I understand this test led to Eugene finding out about some kind of dark family secret he was not aware of prior. I don't believe that he's given any details on this but it has been referenced in at least one other Try Guys video. Edited to remove: I suggested something I then immediately found he'd already done

[@coutureleotards]

The first time I took the DNA I had a lot of trace %. Then a year later I went back to show a friend the company I used and all those traces had been cleaned up. For instance the first test had traces of the balkins like Albania, Kosovo etc. Then a year later all that disappeared and a very pinpointed village in Hungaria appeared. So I guess I would suggest everyone to keep an eye on the DNA results as they keep getting new DNA kits. Those trace % will probably get cleaned up over time.

[@heidimarie1198]

I'd love you to help me - My Dads mothers side disowned them due to my grandmother * german * marrying and English Soldier.

[@mercedesbrown2558]

After I watched one of his video, I subscribed immediately. I love his knowledge and love for genetics.

[@salud1541]

Zach’s Iberian ancestry makes sense due to the Sephardic immigration eastward during the Spanish Inquisition. And like everyone else in the comment section, I’m surprised Eugene didn’t realize he was Japanese-Chinese Korean.

[@MannyBrum]

I think people confuse the number of their ancestors that are a certain ancestry with a percentage of their DNA. You can have 99.99% of your ancestors be Korean but if there's one Japanese person in the last several generations, a significant portion of your DNA will be Japanese.

[@SobrietyandSolace]

More often the opposite is true but there's a huge amount of variance which is why siblings with the same parent seven can inherit vastly different proportions of DNA from each parent/

[@ShiningSakura]

Iis it just me or is this extremely quiet video. I had to put it on full blast and still could barely hear it, and everytime an advertisement came on it made me jump because of the noise difference.

[@Ascertain20]

You need to react the Backstreet Boys MyHeritage results video.

[@CrystalHickerson]

You know what's funny I had a co-worker whose family always thought they were Irish but found out they were mainly English. And for me being a Black American woman I am 15% Irish which I thought was HILARIOUS!! I told her I'm more Irish than you are!! LMAO we had a great laugh about that!!

[@Nehmi]

The Iberian in the Ashkenazi Jewish guy is probably Sephardic Jewish. In 1492, some Spanish Jews were received in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, which was open to Jews at the time.

[@ruzdaniellegarcia4774]

I'm very sure i have a mix of Spanish and other European ancestry mixed in my Filipino blood (with the history of being colonized for 300 years and my great-something-grandmother in the maternal side being a doña) and add some pre-colonial ancestors from neighboring countries in my dna.

[@transponderful]

It must be difficult to watch these first then come out with your amazing intuitive skills....

[@vme6892]

Some members from the boy band The Backstreet Boys have some African/Black ancestry. They uploaded a reaction video to their boy band page. I would love to see your reaction to that!

[@jessess6810]

I can trace my lineage back to 1700’s Britain 🙂 I’m Australian and my X2 Great Granddad was sent to Tasmania for participating in riots. His UK wife didn’t want to go to Australia once he was free but he had 3 kids with her. He married a Nurse from Ireland who moved to Tasmania to populate e colony and that’s the line I come from. So I have a whole other side of the family in the UK I can’t trace because I can’t afford Ancestry DNA membership 😂

[@fist-of-doom487]

My family history is riddled with history of nearly being wiped out but then repopulating back again. My family ancestors was almost destroyed entirely during the Jamestown massacre, where in the middle of an riot in the UK and did not end well for them, the Dutch part of my family had a rough time in general and one of my ancestors was an Earl that lost all his power and received his last name as an insult that he wore the rest of his life. So really my family can be summarized as stubborn and hard to kill. If their was a nuclear apocalypse at least one family member would live to spread our bloodline once more my families last name might as well have been Roach.

[@ghetorange9604]

This is sad no companies want to do that for me in South Africa XC I wanted to check my mixed blood family tree

[@lithuiwenart2955]

I am considering doing a test like this actually. My grandfather (who was from Barcelona) suspected that he wasn't fully Spanish because he thought his surname wasn't of Spanish origin. And on top of that, my grandmother's father was Adopted...but he only found out when he was 60. So basically, anything before my great Grandparents a mystery, so maybe something like this will help me figure it out.

[@omegazerotg17]

Genetic DNA testing is always surprising. I always thought that I was a European-decent white boy, and that's mostly true. But I also found Iranian (2%) and Northern African/Nigerian (.2%), both of which are from my father's side.....does that mean I'm an Nigerian prince? Lol

[@shalom5978]

Sorry, it’s a known fact you need to be at least 1% Nigerian to qualify as a Nigerian prince. I can verify this because I am Nigerian.

[@dawudj2286]

You are still European and white. More like a European prince . Nothing wrong with being white.

[@Blessings.429]

Dude I am 66 and my great grand daughter will be here Feb 2022, I was born 1955.

[@ingupin]

Such traces like 0.4 Italian are not very meaningful. I made a test with 23andme and had some Iberian traces as well which was pretty far-fetched, couldn't actually be possible. I checked my results again some time later after some updates (they are constantly re-evaluating the results) and now it's gone.

[@Wilsonspen]

I know one branch back to the 1600's and one to the 1700's (both on my father's side) and two on his side I know nothing past 1840's....my mom's side I only know mid 1800's.

[@kdk4872]

So would you recommend one of these dna services over the others? x

[@GeneaVlogger]

Depends on what you are looking to get out of it. For genetic matches Ancestry is the best because they have the biggest database, for health reports it would be 23andMe, but for ethnicity admixture it doesn't really matter.

[@mariemiel]

@@GeneaVlogger I'm not entirely sure, but I think that because of the differences in databases that you would still see possible differences in ethnicity admixture, but it would be moreso a difference in percentage than a difference in actual results. I've been thinking about doing another test (I've already done Ancestry) after figuring out which website is most popular in France just because I'm showing a connection to the Hauts-de-France and Cotentin peninsula regions of France. In particular, I suspect that the Cotentin tie likely stems from some sort of Norman connection, but I have certainly not got my family back that far (I think the earliest I can go is the late 1400s to early 1500s) and so it'd be interesting to see if I can find DNA connections in France to help me narrow that down.

[@florastewart7920]

I found out I’m half Black and Filipino, Chinese, Southeast Asian. Yep. People moved around.

[@marioluquin6380]

Yes, just by the photo I do have to say that those "try guys" have had a little black in them. ....But what's important it's not the size that matters.

[@nekotaemin2983]

So I took this test to see how much I was Spaniard and Indigenous and in there I had a total of 3% African America 1% from three different tribes in total 3% it just makes you wonder.

[@rebekahpressler]

French and German people don't necessarily look alike... they can do in the border regions (and yes regionally there are some variants).. but a lot of French are dark/petite where Germans tend to be taller/fairer

[@bo8jk]

Where did you get this information? Dont get me wrong i dont think you are lying Its just that i am from south germany and made an exchange with north western france and i dont remember pickying up on significant differneces between us germans and the french

[@Fernandanatac]

I’m Brazilian and I’m considered white. But we’re in overall somewhat mixed here and I know I have a distant African descent from my maternal grandfather and a distant native indigenous descent from my paternal grandmother. The white part would be probably mixed between Portuguese, Italian and Greek. But I’m curious if I would find any surprises in a test like this. Unfortunately, Idk if we have these DNA tests here :\

[@satsuki4646]

Yeah I'm half Japanese and half Black and I took DNA tests with Ancestry and MyHeritage and Ancestry said I was 48% Korean and 3% Northern Japanese which I am assuming is Ainu but I know Ancestry isn't the most trustworthy when it comes t Asia. MyHeritage said I am 25.1% Chinese and Vietnamese (they're grouped together) and 22.4% Japanese and Korean (also grouped together) but my biological father has said he is Japanese and is from Japan so I'm actually very confused now

[@dianal4455]

23 and me and myheritage are not very accurate and specific for east asians. A video about a guy from China taking DNA test showed northern and southern Han as different categories, vietnam a different category, Dai, Hmong and other ethnic minorities could also be identified. Pre historically, Koreans are a northern asian tribe that migrated to Korea, and mixed with Siberians. Japan used to be Jomon, the Jōmon people predominantly descended from Basal-East Asians (East-Eurasians) from Mainland Southeast Asia and the southeastern Himalayan region. Then Yayois who are from China and Korea went and conquered Japan with new technology and agriculture. Due to trade and porous borders in the past, conquering, and inter-marriage Northern Han chinese have a good amount of Mongolian/Manchurian DNA, some Koreans have some Han Chinese, Mongolian, and Siberian DNA, and Japanese are closest to Koreans in DNA with 90% yayoi, 10% jomon. Some Japanese look very typically northeast asian, and others have a tall aquiline nose, thicker body/facial hair and looks mixed who have more jomon ancestry. So east asians are all related to some degree.

[@jenat82]

Haha not a small trace that as a Dane I ended up with 33% British Isles (17.5% Welsh/scot/irish and the rest English). All on my damn mother's side. I know her father is my grandfather cos I got a blood clotting disorder from there and my mum's brother also has the clotting disorder. A fling with someone for both kids 7 years apart?! Unlikely. And apparently Factor V Leiden is pretty rare. There's absolutely nothing to suggest a connection with it. lol I know how it works though, my dad has Spanish and German in him of which I got none. Dad has brown eyes which was rare in Denmark not 100 years ago. So rare on the small island my grandma grew up on that brown eyes was called by their family name. So much is lost from every generation really, well, half. lol It's a shame my mum is dead, she would have loved this stuff. She would go to the churches and read all the old texts to find her ancestors. So on both sides things are pretty fleshed out. On my mum's side I am related to the founder of Carlsberg and on my dad side royalty and the family name Troelsgaard. Some Americans made books about all that. I am the fucking first son direct line. Dad only had me. So it pains me to not have had kids to give the name. It's a burden you find silly until you sit in it. lol Well, I still find it silly.

[@meggo329]

My brother got one of the highest grades in his class(can't remember the exact title of the class it was 10 years ago) in university which meant they were going to take the top marks and as a reward send their dna to be tested for our matriarchal line which we found out originated in Syria and the suddan. I'm Canadian and white as heck but it's nice to know where my mother's mother's mother's ect line came from. This test is really really expensive which is why the top 10%of the class got to be tested

[@dotdotdot...176]

"Most people don't know the names of their ancestors 150+ years ago. Most people, at best, would maybe know the names of a great-granparent(s)." So true. I only know my mom's grandmother's names, I don't know my father's grandparents' names or my mother's grandfathers' names. To be fair though, I don't even know my own father's parents names. I didn't even know my father's name until I was about 17 because he left before I was born and it was hard for my mom and I to talk about because of our culture and because I didn't want to bring him up when she worked so hard to raise me as a single mom. But yes, other than that, it's also difficult to trace any further than those two great-grandmothers because we are people of colour and live in a country with a history of hundreds of years of colonisation, systemic racism and oppression of people who weren't white. Also, that probably had an effect on record keeping

[@sarahplaza5257]

I'm curious to see what you think about the recalculations that 23&me did. I had 16% German in mine and completely lost that in the updated algorithm. It seems to have gotten absorbed into my British and Irish. I was very confused when they updated the algorithm. I'm not surprised that my trace ancestry "changed" (for lack of a better term), but there was a pretty big chunk that changed. It can be a little confusing that I have no German now because I believed that I was at LEAST 25 (up to 50%) German based on my family tree.

[@drufranks7534]

Iam a hodgepodge, Irish, ,english, Croatian, arab, Pakistanis, , nigerian. Lol

[@thatbooklover]

Wanting to try one of these tests but also trusting your grandma’s research into finding ancestors back to the year 1000 and her finding ppl from the same region of Sweden through and through... 100% Scandinavian result incoming

[@jimmiweiland]

Good cover of this. In 23andme I have 0,3 central Asian and 0,1 unassigned. The rest is Scandinavian. In MyHeritage I have 0,9 English and the rest is Scandinavian. In Ancestry I have 67% Swedish, 30 Norwegian and 3 Skottland. This is the least ackurate: In FamilyTreeDNA I get 36 Scandinavian, 32 England Wales and Scotland, 31 central Europe and trace from Finland.

[@MissBTarot]

My results were 100% European with 88.2% French/German which includes Belgium and the Netherlands. The rest was Scandinavia (8.5%), British/Irish (1.6%) and 'Broadly Northwestern European. My ancestors didn't get around much 😅

[@cait812]

My family traces back to the first recording of our super old village. I'm 98% British & 2% Vaguely Scandinavian. Super boring.

[@historyfreak6591]

My question is about Ned's results. He said that he was 50% Italian but then said that his mom's family is half Italian. Wouldn't that make her 50% Italian and make Ned 25% ish Italian or am I just confused about how percentages of genealogy work?

[@cait812]

I think that's just Americans always saying their a super high percentage of Italian.

[@Idiocy_w_an_S]

I don't know the history of ned's family but it is really difficult for his mother to be perfectly 50% Italian. I think it's just a simplification to say that he has Italian blood.

[@Idiocy_w_an_S]

Also because we Italians are a mess genetically speaking: over the centuries we have mixed with Egyptians, Greeks, French, Germans, Spaniards, etc. and even these populations aren't "pure" (we really can't talk about pureness, especially if we are talking about the human species). In short, elementary mathematical calculations cannot be used in genetics 😂

[@kilianalexander2736]

I'd be really curious to see my own results on one of these, especially because my dad's really into tracing our family's genealogy (Like, he's got a huge binder filled with our lineage lmao) and I'd be curious how close my estimates would be.

[@marymohr2799]

Similar situation for me. My family (especially my mom's side, but my dad's side too) are really into genealogy. Even though I probably already know the rough percentages, it'd be interesting to see how close it is

[@tyrongkojy]

About the African ancestry part, I mean, just how far do these things go back? By definition wouldn't EVERYONE have SOME trace? I legit don't know how far the tracings go.

[@EloquentlyEse]

They don't go back thousands of years. That's why everyone doesn't have African in them.

[@cynthiazanabria5789]

I am 46.7% native; 46.4% European; 2.9% Sub-Saharan African and 1.7% western Asian and northern Africa.

[@mamashiraz]

I just don’t get why Ashkenazi is lumped in with European when they are not. Makes no sense when AJs are largely of middle eastern origin and mixed very little with their host countries. I appreciate GedMatches’ breakdown of AJ ancestry.

[@LednacekZ]

Anyone who thinks he is 100% Korean is completely oblivious about history. Korea is not a secluded island. There have been many wars in the area which promote population migration. Japan swept through Korea so many times in the last 200 years that I would be surprised if he wasnt part Japanese.

[@annhatchet3799]

You were talking about the uncertainty of trace amounts of genealogy... I'm doing a DNA test as my grandfather was born in a "Polish Village" in Estonia which I suspect may have been a shtetl, and I want to see if I have ashkenazi ancestry. Is there a minimum percentage you would consider valid of certain ancestry with these tests?

[@artygunnar]

Eugene being a complete ditz about his country's history. Remember China ruled over Korea for a long time, and Japan ruled over for korea for a good portion of recent history...

[@lolawaara9132]

My mother is Icelandic and they kept very good records..

[@Sabrinasways]

The Korean was mad he didn’t hold anybody hands

[@maxiculture]

The default confidence level of the reported admixture is 50 percent. Upping that to just 60 made my trace disappear. A lot of what they report and discuss may not be real.

[@lil_weasel219]

French and German group together because the founding Germanic tribes were almost identical genetically. It's not quite mixing, but rather common origin. That is of course the germanic portion of French ancestry. The predominant ones are Iberian and Italian, and then Celtic and Germanic.

[@GeneaVlogger]

That's a simplified version of it, yes, but there were constant swings of migration back and forth for thousands of years which have caused differences in genetics between different people of the same country. So someone with known German ancestry from the Rhineland would be more genetically similar to someone with French ancestry than a German with ancestry from eastern Saxony. For the best in-depth explanation about this you can read this article by Razib Khan - www.razib.com/wordpress/2017/03/23/your-ancestry-inference-is-precise-and-accurateish/

[@lil_weasel219]

@@GeneaVlogger Yes, I am aware (but I will read), same with Finns from the Southwest and Swedes, eastern germans being extremely similar to western poles, etc EDIT: missed a word

[@lrose1310]

I think also some of these dna test's for French ancestry are slightly inaccurate, because it is illegal to collect DNA in France. So the "French" ancestry samples usually come from French Canadians.

[@aprilblenk]

So what percentage would you consider a trace result? At what point can you consider a percentage a likely indicator of an ancestor with that ethnicity?

[@richiezed]

I have trace amount of East Asian .2% and always wondered why they were so consistently sure I had this bit of still undefined Asian blood. I did some GEDmatch tests and it showed In addition to Neanderthal I also have Denisovan DNA. My mother is part Hungarian so not a total surprise. The ancestry reports have always consistently through all the updates insisted I have some Asian blood, what they are now calling - "Indonesian, Thai, Khmer & Myanma" My mother has trace West Asian and North African, many in my family have trace Ashkenazi.

[@basementdwellercosplay]

I remember joking with my sister "you know have most white people have one percent something not white, I think we're 100%". We have that story that we have native American ancestors, but I highly highly doubt that