Reacting to YOUR DNA Results - Professional Genealogist Reacts

[@joshualester5154]

I recently did this for my mother. Turns out her father wasn’t her actual father. And then again, his dad wasn’t his real father. Crazy. My mom went through three maiden names in like one month, lol. I plan on making a video about it soon.

[@adevans20]

That’s crazy! I just think I found a half-sibling of my grandma on AncestryDNA. My grandma was like, “who is this close relative” on my DNA matches. I did some Facebook stalking and they even look alike!

[@KentPetersonmoney]

So your grandfather found out his daughter and his dad weren't even his blood. That suck.

[@MichelleLuvn25]

Please do I would love to watch it !!!

[@bm1554]

I haven't watched this yet but the thumbnail made me laugh

[@tdmccoy1211]

Me too!!

[@CaptchaNeon]

That’s the only bad thing about DNA testing, you’ll sometimes find that a lot of what you knew was a lie and that can be devastating.

[@michaelrochester48]

Actually the DNA and the genetic cousins I have confirmed everything I had done with my genealogy research. It actually amplified all my research

[@user-si7ig6ul7l]

Luckily my oral tradition was quite accurate

[@21_f_aus]

That's why I chose to DNA testing to confirm whether I was truly related to my family and turned out to be true unfortunately... the DNA results match accurately with what I know from my genealogy research... none of my family have lied... unfortunately...

[@Siansonea]

It's important to remember that it isn't the truth that is devastating, but the lie. We should always welcome the truth, even if it isn't what we were taught to believe.

[@krcmaine]

And sometimes relatives just didn't know too. Or had a false impression because they were kids and used child logic. My Gram thought she was part Native American...turns out her Great-Grandfather's 2nd wife was Native...she didn't know any other Great-Gram...so just assumed. But yes, you have to be prepared for surprises.

[@mikel.9312]

Great vid, man! This is honestly a really cool series, I can’t wait to see more in the future! Also, I appreciate you answering my question about those DNA matches at the end there, I didn't expect mine to be done for a while. So thank you so much for taking the time to look it over. My grandma’s grandfather, Frank Stasiulis, has always been a huge mystery, and I’ve found that DNA has really helped with pushing my research further, it’s just an amazing tool for genealogists. You never know what you will uncover. It allowed my grandmother to find her lost close family back in Lithuania, and even my grandfather shockingly discovered a brother he never knew he had and they were able to form a really close bond together. Really powerful stuff. Anyway, keep being awesome!

[@mompofelski4191]

THIS is what is addictive!!! Thanks for helping your fan base!!! I hope that you make more because I have a few questions myself!!!

[@Guy-cb1oh]

I love the thumbnail on this video. LOL!

[@Siansonea]

I had the most underwhelming DNA ethnicity results, literally all of my DNA is from the British Isles and Northwestern Europe (I am European American, going back many generations). Luckily, I didn't actually care about that aspect of the DNA test, I already knew I wasn't likely to find that legendary Native American ancestor in my genome as I had already failed to produce them in my paper research. But I was able to use my cousin matches to slowly and methodically verify all of my paper research on almost all my lines. I've managed to identify all of my 2-great grandparents, most of my 3-greats, and only have brick walls from that point backward in time on a few lines. The cousin matches were always the most compelling aspect of the testing for me. I was even able to help a couple of adoptee cousins discover the identity of their birth parent using my research, which was really satisfying.

[@nickmiller76]

My experience exactly.

[@craigistheman101]

Boring genomes are the glue to help those that have mysteries in our tree

[@agresticumbra]

My results, and family mythology, are very, very similar.

[@bayareableepers]

Jewish Ancestry - I have Jewish ancestry and have been able to track down some information but it was a shock to my maternal grandmother especially when she found out that she was 50% Ashkenazi according to her DNA test. I have inherited more than an 1/8th of the Ashkenazi DNA and I'm really proud of that but the question remains, why didn't my grandmother know that her father and his family were Jewish? She honestly believed that they were French, which oddly, gave her an elevated sense of self that turns out was all false. From what I have sussed out they moved to the US from Germany in the late 1890s. They lived in NYC, presumably as Jews and then changed their name when they moved up to Connecticut some time between the 1905 and 1910 census. Knowing VERY little German I guessed at their original last name based on what my grandmother's maiden name was - Beaumont. In a half asleep state it came to me - they could have done a direct translation from German to the name Beaumont so their name originally was Shamberg, Shoenberg, etc. something along those lines. I was able to locate supporting documentation for this and thus was able to find them listed as living in NYC prior to moving to CT. My grandmother's grandparents are even buried in a Jewish cemetery on Long Island, under the name Beaumont actually. I have always felt a strange affinity for Judaism. My parents didn't raise us with religion. Our experiences with religion actually were solely through my maternal grandmother who attended a protestant church. My question is why? Why did they change their names? Why did they convert their religion? Why was this secret kept from my grandmother and her brother? There are so many questions, none of which you can probably answer but I'm hoping that perhaps you could help provide me with some insight based on your experiences as a genealogist. I know they might have face prejudice but is that really reason enough? I don't know if my 2x great grandfather's siblings kept the name Beaumont or if they were practicing any particular religion but I do know, based on the dates I have found, all of the children must have known their last name was changing, they were old enough when the change was made to realize it. It makes me wonder.....

[@marcelmantic8930]

It's fascinating when you find out about someone in your family who lived a hundred or more years ago 👍👍👍 Greetings from Slovakia alias Slovensko 🙂

[@GeneaVlogger]

Sounds like you have done some pretty good legwork! I'll be answering questions only through the subreddit, so be sure to post there to be included! 😀 Plus I think this would be a good one to answer in a video!

[@bookmouse2719]

My Maternal Grandparents 1890s, moved to San Francisco (Bay Area), were German Jews, they were "Reform Jews" and eventually they intermarried, changed names to assimilate to being "American", name changed to Mary and Morris.....kids all had American names. They first married only Jews but by the 50s had intermarried, weren't particularly religious at all. I'm lucky that my Mom married someone Jewish and didn't hide anything. Your story does not surprise me at all since so much anti Semitism and pressure to assimilate presides in our world.

[@Pirrata123]

The name could have been originally Schönberg. Greetings from Germany.

[@thetenderheartedjournaler7438]

Well, I love your regular videos and didn't even realise what I was in for when clicking on it, but WOW. This is even better! IT was fun to have several different questions and I definitly look forward to more of this!

[@gopherlyn]

I found this really interesting, if you would like to do more, I would be interested in listening to them.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Deal.

[@DawaLhamo]

Woohoo, this is the content I was waiting for. So cool. Your videos have prompted me to get my own DNA tested (I've been doing my family tree on Ancestry for years) so maybe when my results get back I'll have a question to post on your subreddit.

[@ArcGG]

definitely make this a series! so cool and insightful

[@virre1981]

You are right about Scandinavia being all mixed up in the first post. Scotland is a bit surprising but I found sources that say there where significant immigration from Scotland to Sweden between 1569 and 1654 from a quick glance mostly for work in Industry and Military fields. Also the regions mentioned in the two images has all been part of Denmark or Norway at one point (or at some points Norway was Denmark or Norway was Sweden, its complicated but basically the nation-states are not really good ways to measure populations, and extra much not in border areas). I should probably post this to the subreddit thread too I guess.

[@mariajosemartinez5135]

I have some Scandinavian and Finnish in MyHeritage. In Family Tree DNA this DNA is labeled as British, Scottish and Irish. Finally, the genetic groups from MyHeritage gave me one from The Netherlands 😂 It's quite a mess, really 😅😅

[@veriahl]

And those Scots who settled in Sweden ended up mostly in the region of Småland. Which is in the southern parts of Sweden.

[@tinplategeek1058]

And don't forget that in the 9/10th Century, the Danes/Swedes/Norwegians invaded and settled in Ireland/Scotland/Northern England so their DNA was left behind at that time. And due to the sea going nature of the Scottish/English, they has always been migration and trade between these countries. It is a very intermixed population.

[@theresamnsota3925]

With Norwegian, Swedish, and Icelandic ancestry (not sure about Danish), if you can trace before Norway and Sweden abandoned patrynomic naming, it’s relatively easy to trace further back. And even when the patrynomic system was abandoned, you often find remnants of it. In the case of my great-great grandfather who came from Norway, his middle name was the patrynomic name referring to being the son of his father. Iceland still uses the old school patrynomic naming system.

[@honeyjazz4147]

Mine is similar too the African American dma you showed from 23andme, I also have nearly 2% Native American ( Indigenous) , I traced my tree but I hit a brick wall when it comes to the exact Native American, but I have several cousin matches from 23andme and Ancestrydna who or either members of the Cherokee nation or connected to them, I was told growing up that my Native American is Cherokee. One of my cousin matches sent me a picture of her 2nd Cherokee great grandmother she looks very similar to my grandmother.

[@you-know-who9023]

One or two inhabited islands in the North sea have a large Scandinavian but English speaking population belong to Scotland. Also from 1700s Scottish and in subsequent centuries Irish people married into native north American tribes/families Emigration to Latin America from Ireland and who may be picked up as Scottish and quite possibly marriage with native Mexicans could easily have happened During the 18th and 19th centuries Spanish emigrants to Latin America also often contained Irish genes. For example the last Spanish emperor of Mexico' had the Spanish spelling of a very Irish name.

[@magnusE7]

Those/that island(s) belonged to Norway long time ago.

[@NiamhCreates]

Loved this. I just joined your subreddit (I am mom-genes).

[@julilla1]

Oooh, I liked that. My grandmother lied to me, too. 😂

[@sweethibiscus2514]

Please do more of these videos!!! Very interesting and fun to watch. I love this new content 😄

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

The first post is made by me, and yes you are correct what I meant. I sometimes dont check before posting. First is of me and sec is of grandma. I have all of my grandmothers great grandparents and have been able to go further back on all except for one, which I am trying to investigate at the moment

[@magnusE7]

Where do your ancestors go born and stay?

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

@@magnusE7 Everyone past my grandparents lived and where born in south-west of Sweden from Gothenburg to Skåne up to 1700s, except for the couple Danish and Finnish ancestors

[@cefcat5733]

Oh wow! Audience participation. Thanks for the 'warning.' 😄

[@fernandocolunga9177]

Definitely want more and. . . I will be posting my DNA results and questions.

[@dianapulido1807]

I found this very interesting. It's funny how DNA gets passed down especially if it is from a long time ago. I was messaged by the daughter of a lady who matched me as a DNA relative(I don't remember the relationship). She wanted to know how we were related. I lucky knew the history of my maternal family that we are ethical Albanians from Sicily. When I checked our common matches and she did not match any of my mother's other children and she didn't match my son. What I did next to test my theory I checked the DNA relatives of the person we both had in common. Bingo there my siblings and son appeared. Knowing the migration of the Albanians who fled the Turkish invasion I concluded that our common ancestor or some of their descendants must have been part of that migration and that some of that person's defendants settled in Greece forming her mother's branch and the other(s) continued to Sicily to form my branch. What amazes me is that if I had never tested or if I didn't know the history of the Albanian migration the connection might never have been known.

[@andreasfroby]

Thanks for the Answer of my post. Some day I will try to do more research see if I can find more further back

[@mattpotter8725]

Great video. This really helps how to go about finding what might be some difficult DNA matches to place where they fit on your family tree, especially the last part using the DNA Painter tool. One question I do have is that if you go through that process and the common ancestor is further back than you can find evidence for should you add it to your family tree with an unnamed (or rather only the surname) ancestor? Also the Southern Bantu from your Brazilian person's DNA likely came from the Portuguese having African slaves, I think most came from Angola, which was another Portuguese colony, which could explain this.

[@shaffy856]

Brazil received the most African slaves, they were from Angola due to their rice growing abilities.

[@tylerhammond234]

I was the OP for the post about my cousin sharing 3.59%. Just answering questions, 1. My grandpa had no living brothers, the only one he ever had died in 1939 at the age of two. 2. All of my grandpa's male cousins were significantly older than he was and lived far away from my grandpa and grandma. 3. Both myself and my cousin share all the DNA matches we should have on both my grandpa and grandma's family. 4. My mom shares a similarly low amount of Dna with my cousin, like around 9 percent.

[@koobie83]

Sounds like the gene pool has just distributed the genes very differently between your mother and her sibling, which has in turn made you and your cousin match less again. I match my cousin quite well, yet ironically my sister doesn’t match him as strongly at all. Even though we are closer genetically to each other than my mum does with any of her siblings, she hasn’t inherited the same chunk of genes as me and my cousin obviously has.

[@anetzband1383]

This is super! Now I need to watch all the DNA Painter videos and see if I can find a couple of mystery relationships! THANK you for taking time to do this. I can hardly wait for the second episode.

[@LindaSchreiber]

Excellent! I think these are a great addition to your channel. Just be careful that you are not flooded ;)

[@juliehenthorne590]

I love these videoas. It's cool that you use your viewers' input to create videos.

[@godisloveireland]

Yes i love this idea!

[@Chaotic_Pixie]

My family is from Southwest Germany... we're ethnically German with a French surname. It's super fun to explain to people. I'm hoping to snag a DNA kit for Christmas. My mom already did it and I REALLY want to. I'll be able to see pretty clearly what came from my dad's side then.

[@GeneaVlogger]

After doing Mr. Beat's family tree and diving into his Volga German ancestry, I've become quite familiar with the back-and-forth use of French/German names in East France/Southwest Germany. Quite an interesting area and such a great example of difficulty in deciphering between two peoples with such a strong shared ancestry.

[@grunge_hippie]

My grandma has some ancestry from southwestern Germany too! My grandma had always said that she had Swiss and French, but I'm starting to believe that her ancestors who lived in Germany may have been Jewish. When I uploaded by Ancestry DNA raw file to MyHeritage it showed that my mom and I have some European Jewish. It was really cool to compare my results to my parent's so I hope that you get to do so!

[@jimstergaming877]

On the first example, Under Sweden and Denmark, there is a match on "Västra Bohuslän", that area of Sweden belonged to Norway until 1658. And on Halland, that area belonged to Denmark until 1658.

[@jacquelinebaker8879]

Your video is very helpful. Thank you! I am hoping osmosis is occurring in my brain by listening. Lol. Yes to more of this type of videos. 😎

[@andyed.]

Great vid, more would be awesome thanks

[@mrogers2345]

This was awesome!! I learn so much when we have examples and break them down.

[@CallHerCassie]

Awesome!

[@phillipmoore9012]

As virre1981 mentioned below, there is definitely something going on with judging Scandinavian and Scotland. I have taken four auto-DNA tests. The results vary from 100% British Isles to 21% Scandinavia. At least in my case that appears to be the Scandinavian Settlements. I have also tested at 49% Scotland, which also depends on whether Scotland is included with UK, or Northern Ireland is included with Scotland. I also have all 16 2nd-GGP and none are from Scandinavia. I mapped most-distant-known ancestors of all my zero-distance mitochondrial-DNA matches and my maternal ancestors are a match with the Scandinavian Settlements. Encouraged, I found six anthropological "Viking" graves in my mito-DNA haplogroup.

[@glendaleecartagenabarreto4094]

I can't wait for you to read mine!!

[@GMAMEC]

I love your content! People have so many questions regarding their DNA results.

[@Damiana_Dimock]

Yes, the video was good and I’d like to see more. The DNA Painter tools were especially interesting.

[@alexandracruz5243]

Please, do more of these videos😊

[@dideelala4794]

This was a really good video. It was really interesting.

[@margaretjanec8484]

Love this video concept! Super interesting!!

[@GooseReadsBooks]

My dad was adamant that we were part Native American, my oldest brother took an ancestry DNA test and none of it said Native American. At all. Which makes sense from some red flags my dad gave me like saying I have a “Native American Card” but then when I would ask about it he would ask why I wanted it and I’d never get it. I’m going to take an ancestry DNA test myself after Christmas and I’m interested to see everything broken down. (My brother didn’t show me his broken down) Its also interesting to know I’ve been lied too my whole life. Weird that I’m not related to Chief Dragon Canoe like my dad said. 😂😅

[@celeste5607]

yes this is good to keep doing. Thanks.

[@user-si7ig6ul7l]

Very helpful

[@phillipmoore9012]

Yep, do more of your analytical side.

[@carmelkeogh8917]

I enjoyed this form of video. Thanks!

[@NataliaNNS]

This is a really cool style of video!

[@dalekloss4682]

more of these yes!

[@gwyn8258]

Good video. I'd definitely watch more.

[@AutoReport1]

The one with North African and West Asian also had a high East African. Swahili has historically Omani links, with Omani traders marrying East African matriarchs. That would account for the West Asian input.

[@rapturesoon6567]

Because of my dad's unusual English SURNAME...after he retired he went on a family treasure hunt, and quickly traced our ancestors to the British DOOMS DAY BOOK, because of our ancient ANGLO-SAXON name. Like most Americans...my direct ancestors go back to the original founding USA folk in the early 1600s...NY, Pennsylvania, Virginia and N. Carolina...they all go back to England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, etc. For some families the search is easy, for some more difficult.

[@williamanderson238]

The Scottish / IRish / Welsh can be from traders/fishing but also from slaves brought to Scandinavia during Viking era. I ran into such a case in my family.

[@effbee56]

It's a wise man who knows his own father.. as sometimes even the mother does not know!

[@LSuschena]

DNA doesn’t necessarily show where your genes came from, but fathers it shows where ancient genes spread. So the DNA tests show you are genetically related to populations in those countries, but that doesn’t mean that is where your heritage came from.

[@shaffy856]

Thank you, I think people miss this crucial point.

[@Chainsnroses]

Im 26% swedish and danish but a 3rd grand father of mine was from vestfold norway so it makes sense im 26% swedish 23% english 20% irish However i also have 4% scottish and 2% French an like 13% germanic europe.

[@lindas.patton7552]

I did enjoy this video, but oh man the air above my head is spinning lol I am still learning about Dna.

[@emmacallahan9380]

I just recently got my maternal grandfathers DNA results. There were three surprises and my grandpa does not know how that happened.

[@Bazk01]

The Orkney and Shetland Island isles were given to Scotland by Denmark as a dowry for Princess Margaret in the 1470's. Our languages have a lot of Norse influences, but the islanders it's even more prominent. There was the Danelaw in England and most of the coast of Ireland closest to Scotland was under Norse control for centuries. I'm just along the west coast from Largs, where they have Viking reenactments each year and they have the Vikingar Centre that's a museum about the Vikings in Scotland. If you add to that the amount of Scot's who emigrated willingly or were transported unwillingly - our DNA turns up in the weirdest of places.

[@karenandersen9385]

Love this

[@ginagaladriel]

Yes please, do more of these. I can't wait until you review mine lol...

[@Reborn2h2o]

Please continue!!!!

[@magnusE7]

On the first with Swedish and Scottish. I saw that it say Västra bohuslän and Halland and Södra Västergötland (not that they have lived there all time). Gothenburg is in Västergötland and 1600-1800 there where alot of Scottish imigrants that came to Gothenburg, alot of Gothenburg was built and many company got started by Scottish people. Like Göteborgs Kex, and Chalmers (university). And yes what you say it is hard do separate Swedish and norwegians. On some companys Danish people is in category Central/North Europe.

[@cynhanrahan4012]

Yes, do more!

[@ettinakitten5047]

Regarding the Swedish grandmother with Scottish ancestry, my first thought was Viking raids, and how they'd sometimes capture and bring back people (usually women) from the British Isles. Many sagas mention characters who have a Celtic mother (often relevant because this person speaks a Celtic language) which provides historical evidence for admixture. Given that the Viking raids started in 793, it's not surprising that such a connection would be too far back to show up in this person's genealogy records.

[@michaeltaylor8501]

My cousin & I each share a maternal grandmother: the mother of each of our respective mothers, presumably by the same father; but, that's immaterial for this situation; for, this shared grandmother has a known Scandinavian heritage of Norwegian & Swedish (her maiden name Lindahl - was changed from Lindquist - & Thorstenson being her mother's maiden name: both quite Scandinavian, eh? 🤔). My cousin & I both took a MyHeritage DNA Test & the results were a bit surprising for my cousin who's test didn't pick up any Scandinavian while I got 48% Scandinavian. My thought upon seeing this unexpected result is that every individual of mixed background may have DNA that only reflects a sampling of some of that individual's total heritage background. My cousin & I each certainly share our common maternal grandma's heritage, but apparently not all of her DNA. This grandma & my mom have both passed away, & my cousin's mom didn't want to take a DNA test, so my cousin volunteered (as I'm trying to find out about my late dad's biological heritage, as he was adopted, & a lady who was helping me suggested I get a relative of my mother tested to help figure out which was my father's heritage by elimination). I sent an Ancestry DNA Test in, but got no response (apparently it was somehow 'lost'). I was just recently told that my results from a Big-Y test via FamilyTree came in; the lady helping me with all of this handed me a couple of sheets of paper: printer copies of: 1 Haplogroup map; & a list of "fun facts" of "notable haplogroup connections."* Then, this lady who suggested I take these tests (all info on her PC using her passwords because I don't yet have a working PC of my own) told me that it looks too complicated & she doesn't have time to help me. I'm trying to get a PC set up & an Internet account (& then the needed access info) so I can try & crash-course this Y-Chromosome stuff. 🙄 (Oy! Not much of anything is clear cut & easy, eh?) I may need to pick your brains once I get my hands on all of the needed equipment & information to start looking into things 'on my own' (& I'm disabled with some memory issues, so it's going to be an interesting 'adventure' - or ship-wreck 😄). * = The lady that was helping me is convinced that I'm directly related to all of the folks listed, but I question that - here's the list as presented (apparently in no particular order for R-BY4114): • Bob McLaren • Neil Armstrong • Rory Calhoun • Joseph Smith • Zachary Macaulay • Daniel Boone • Edward Doty • Thomas Rogers • Clan Maxwell • Clan Campbell • Clan McClaren • House of Stuart • Irish Mystery Ancestor • Copernicus • Francis Crick • Tsar Nicholas II Romanov • Charles Darwin • Patrick Henry • Tutankhamun** • Albert Perry** ** = Note: These last two on the list aren't White, but my dad & I look(ed) White & knew of no non-White relatives.

[@marshaverduzco2859]

I have questions about Mulungeons. My family seems to have been in Kentucky ( Hardin) Tennessee, North Carolina. Would ancestry be able to identify Mulungeon DNA and determine how many different families they are.

[@vincents5187]

Liked video, do more like them. Thanks!

[@victoriacarter6467]

Love this!

[@karmagal78]

I should send one to you via your subreddit because I’ve got one about my dad’s side.

[@karmagal78]

Similar to this question

[@sgjoni]

I want to add another possibility to the NPE... if the NPE was the husband's brother or cousin then that could mess up using shared matches to rule out an NPE ;-) ... some families have more interesting skeletons in the closet than others ;-) I suspect one of those up my tree... where I'm more related to the descendants of a great uncle than off my more closely related cousins.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Very good point!

[@rivkyb7840]

By 9:54 my first cousin is 1083 cm related me. My parents are genetically cousins 😂 so that's why she's higher than 900 cm. I am Ashkenazi so it explains it all. Happy Chanuka 🕎🔯✡️

[@koobie83]

A lot of people with Scottish ancestry also pick up Scandinavian DNA in these tests because they can’t differentiate those genetic markers because of the shared DNA history with Vikings.

[@dideelala4794]

Hi I am trying to understand the maternal haplogroup mine is T2b. So I know my mom and my siblings should have the same group. But does this mean that anyone with the same Haplogroup is also related to me through my mother's maternal line? How would I use this in ancestry research.

[@DEVINKNOWSITALL]

i got my dna back but i cant desypher which parent fits which dna my dads adopted and iit only says parent 1 parent 2

[@Gwenhwyfar7]

I'm wondering how it's possible that I have 26% Scottish DNA, but my nephew only has 1%... Also, my mother is 24% Swedish/Denmark(we know her mother's ENTIRE family was from southern Denmark/Northern Germany), but I'm only 4%.

[@peterfrancis3865]

How do a personon get this dna set to test my DNA

[@rosemarycollins4682]

I like it the new format is awesome but I have a question I have a DNA match which says it's a second cousin mother's side he was adopted in 53 or 54 but I can't find anybody who will admit to having children more than who were adopted out because he also has two brothers that were adopted at the same time and one that stayed with the grandmother how can I find out how this person is related if no one will tell me about children that were adopted out from my aunts and uncles I assume that's who it's from or my grandparents I have no clue I need some input

[@GeneaVlogger]

I'll be answering questions only through the subreddit, so be sure to post there to be included! 😀

[@vincentperry1453]

Off your topic but my curiosity beckons...what DNA Testing company is one of the best currently?

[@Gwenhwyfar7]

I have seen a lot of Scandinavian people get low amounts of Scottish, just like Scottish and English get small amounts of Scandinavian. I blame the Vikings for this one.

[@tkrc1888]

I did this and found out a granduncle who we thought was childless actually did have one! Sad he never got to know his daughter but I have another cousin!

[@brandonallen2369]

Earlier last year I took an ancestry test and I was expecting mexican American results and was shocked that I turned out to be african , due to familial issues my mother has told me my father is one of two people, one is dead and the other I share no matches with that surname even though they have been tested . I don't know how to do the triangulation ordeal but I have also done a 23 and me . I can't figure this genealogy stuff out and I would like to know who my biological father is . It's been very upsetting.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Check out www.SearchAngels.org. This is an organization of volunteer genetic genealogists who help people discover their biological families. Costs no money, although they have options to pay to basically put you further ahead in the line of people. Definitely don't get your hopes up...but don't let yours hope down either, it may be possible. Before I worked on solving cold cases, I worked with Search Angels and helped people discover the biological ancestry they thought they would never know.

[@brandonallen2369]

@@GeneaVlogger cheers man , thank you for this

[@brandonallen2369]

@@GeneaVlogger I've got a search angel on the case now , I'll update you on the progress

[@brandonallen2369]

@@GeneaVlogger were up to my great grandparents, sifting through to find one grandparent out of 18 . We're very close.

[@soraya.e5482]

Lmmaoo how did you not know you were black. Mexicans and black people don’t exactly look alike

[@ahem....bullsheet3720]

I got 9% Papuan and can't find any relatives from anywhere even close to that so I'm confused. I'm for sure my father's daughter so only thing I can figure is that some of the native American family had less native and more Papuan? I did also have native American to about 10 %. Idk hardly any of my close family have tested so it makes it hard.

[@toddklumb7855]

My DNA on Ancestry is 70% Scandinavian. I have only one set of great grandparents from Norway with no other family tree with ancestors from Scandinavia. . What's confusing is that none of my close relatives (cousins and aunts on my mother's and father's side) who had their DNA done by Ancestry, have anywhere near that amount. I know some DNA does not show up and averages vary, The oddity is that my cousins, aunts etc on both parents' sides all show up within the percentage that you would, expect but my Scandinavian DNA (70% as mentioned) is 40% more than what would be expected. I should be around 30% based on my relatives on Ancestry and Family tree. Why is that?

[@soraya.e5482]

How come DNA tests report don’t get the trait report right is it because their data base isn’t large enough if so ? Why don’t they make special exceptions to people who aren’t the majority of their customers because it’s almost a rip off.

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Norway and Denmark were 1 country until 200 years ago

[@bambam5130]

Anybody have an idea how to break it to 89 year old woman her son she gave up for adoption in 1954 wants to get up with her? Just found out I have a half uncle nobody knows about.

[@TheDanEdwards]

Consumers of these products all too often want simple answers to questions that themselves may be poorly formed. The "ethnicity" calculators can be very misleading. There is no "Danish" DNA, no such thing as "Scottish" DNA, and so on. All the ethnicity calculators can do is tell you how _similar_ you are to groups of other testers. One then has to decide what this similarity may imply. In the example given, if one knows something about the history of Scotland then it is clear that many people who may identify as "Scottish" have ancestors that are related to people in Norway (and thus also Denmark and so on.) Contrast this with the Communities that AncestryDNA can give - these are formed from actual matches you have in the database. This capability of AncestryDNA can be very useful.

[@LAtheYoung61]

L O V I N G this series idea...

[@Jennifer-qv8rq]

This is a great video. Love the questions people are presenting. I have a question. My deceased mother is an identical twin. Her twin sister's daughter (my 1st cousin) and I did ancestry dna tests. We share 25% DNA (over 1697Cm). Ancestry wants me to "label her" as a half sister. (Makes sense with identical twin moms) but I want to show that unique cousin relationship. Do you know how to do that? Interestingly enough, I do have a half sister (through my father) who I share much less DNA with (she also did ancestry). We only share 20%. How common is it for "identical twin cousins" to share that much DNA? My cousin and I are very close in age (4months to the exact date) and have always been super close so we loved learning how "related" we are.

[@GeneaVlogger]

I'll be answering questions only through the subreddit, so be sure to post there to be included! 😀

[@jamesvejvoda2659]

Oh wow, what a great new way to do these vids but, holy cow, did you ever open the flood gates!

[@koobie83]

I have a lot of German ancestors, yet my DNA tests do not pick this up. I keep being told I’ve got Balkan, Greek, Italian or Hungarian. I also pick up NW European sometimes but that’s hard to distinguish between the German and the British. My Grandfather (who I inherit my olive skin from) has a grandfather who had the surname Ferdinando and his ancestry was British. It’s all a mystery really. I want my grandad to do a DNA test to see what he gets.

[@laura-jaynerelaxandmeditat7105]

Ferdinando and various spellings were somewhat fashionable especially at the time of queen Elizabeth I for somereason I have found no Spanish or Italian emigration responsible for this in my cases in Cornwall, it often became a family name handed down, maybe because it sounded like a continental Catholic name at the time of the reformation, 🤔

[@1fault]

LOL the thumbnail

[@GXG420]

the one asking about his Mexican grandfather looks like he is almost all Indian and less than a quarter of everything else. id say he had one grandparent that was half Indian half the rest of that DNA. cause the Indian is very strong in that one there was hardly no foreign DNA mixed.. for example. Most Mexicans are half Indian and half Spanish/Portugal. with small amounts of various islands and a few percent of African.. but that DNA shows no Spanish. looks like he had a white European guy mixed in his family a few generation ago

[@oldlifter530]

Adoption or taking another family member into family

[@Maigodseki]

Nice. Hopefully I‘ll see mine :D

[@nextlifetimebrendan3940]

Omg sooooo cool

[@jchow5966]

The vikings invaded the united kingdom. My 4 of my grandparents were from norway. My ancestry dna showed notway sweden united kingdom iberian peninsula and central asia.

[@fartemisfartmallow8647]

“I am Utred, son of Utred!”

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Mine DNA is so boring. 99pct northern Denmark.

[@cefcat5733]

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