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[@Dan-B]

DNA results from literally right next to Scandinavia: “That’s exotic” 😆

[@gabrieleguerrisi4335]

500 km away EXXXOTIC

[@diamondsarenotforever8542]

A swed saying 1% Finnish is exotic. Next to Sweden for heaven's sake. They look similar. Finns are even blondier than swedes. I am a finn living in other countries and a lot of ppl thought I am swedish, norwagian etc. Don't Swedish ppl know that Sweden and Finland were once the same country. Finland was directly a part of Sweden almost 700 years.

[@AMD627]

Finland was part of Sweden for 600 years and there were several waves of Finns settling in Sweden during that time. She seems ignorant.

[@vladimirmartinvictoriohuar2826]

@@diamondsarenotforever8542 lol

[@freefalling6960]

@@diamondsarenotforever8542 eastern finns have a distinct look and look more asian

[@dt6822]

The best part is how Finnish is "exotic."

[@Scandinavian92]

Yea lol

[@thomashernandez8700]

It was a *joke*. They were being sarcastic.

[@coole6825]

Finland was a part of Sweden for about 600 years so its very common to have Finnish DNA in Sweden...

[@Rikard_A]

There is always and issue which parameters are inputed.

[@annicaesplund6613]

Not that usual. I've got 0,01%. One person from Savolax from 1600-something.

[@johnnorthtribe]

@@annicaesplund6613 Just because you are not does not mean that others aren't. And it should be more common on the east coast or north of Sweden to have some few procent of finish DNA.

[@Jonsson474]

Finland actually was Sweden. It was the eastern half of sweden.

[@dirreeN]

Yeah and Swedish Vikings did alot of trading etc with the people in Finland even back then, wouldn't be surprised since Vikings were horndogs that they even picked women from Finland as wifes etc!

[@its-amestarlord]

The kid from North Macedonia 🇲🇰 found out that he is a real Macedonian after all (61% 🇬🇷 DNA), congrats mate 😁

[@user-vo5mf3ly9s]

You mean vardaska

[@sornok3534]

Yeah a dude who speaks slavic, thinks he is the "true" macedonian and not a Greek, ends up being a Greek. The irony of this.

[@blastulae]

Maybe his Finnish is actually Hungarian.

[@danijelandroid]

​@@blastulae - I think the Finnish part probably came with his Askenazi Jew ancestor.

[@jenhall5718]

I'm adopted, grew up thinking I was Polish/French. After DNA test turns out I'm 22% Scandinavian and also Slovenian, Scottish, Irish and English lol

[@iowastate358]

Exotic

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

these tests are not reliable at all, don't mean anything.

[@jlugoholt]

They all seem to be really nice. Jens was kind of shocked with the results because he was the nordic who has the most variety in his DNA, that's nice. He is actually very open so maybe his ancestry is still on, he is still a viking since has travelled the world like their previous relatives. Johanna has Normand Ancestry too. Very nice people, I envy that environment, nice work mates.

[@annklonl5207]

Norman means "man from the north", so most likely one of her ancestors was related to those north-men who settled in the north of France.

[@bobeczek01]

Normandy was conquered by Vikings back before the Norman conquest of England. people in the video were very nice, especially the one guy who was super polite and thankful, but I think with all due respect they don't know that much about history of Europe. Europeans are all mixed down the line as the idea of a" country " is really quite fresh and especially after the II WW some regions become extremely homogenous. UK is as divers as it could be and Vikings brought home slaves from all over. Also something to consider is that marriages between kingdoms were very popular as a power move so for example someone would think he is 100% Swedish where actually part of his heritage comes from a line of a mother-grandmother who came from a completely different country. Also Vikings conquered a lot of land, ruled there for some time and new generations came back - look to Kievan Rus, Danelaw England and Normandy in France. And as others already pointed out Finland was part of Sweden . Also Sweden and Poland had a dynasty together for a while and people moved around back there too ....and less talked about subject.....way back in the day.....a lot of slavery and rapes happend during the sieges ...soooo. I guess the most surprising would be the 💯 %Swedish but , even that wasn't the case for them as most had "mostly Scandinavian" that means Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland I guess.

[@liss2503]

I am adopted. My twin sister took the test and we are English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish with a wee bit of Swedish. Our adopted parents come from Germany (dads family) and Sweden (moms family). It’s fascinating to find we’re we come from not knowing any blood relatives.

[@cannabislife1688]

You’d be surprised, I found out I have a lot of middle eastern blood 🩸

[@triplexlegends5845]

Moro always inviting Europe... normal..

[@triplexlegends5845]

In Ireland have babies single were very wrong... so it was commom give the children for the people abroad ( offaly babies)

[@maudeboggins9834]

@@triplexlegends5845 In Ireland there were places for unwed mothers run by nuns & a lot of American couples adopted from them.

[@Chaotic_Pixie]

If you're interested, there are folks known as search angels who are amateur genealogists who help adoptees and DCPs find their birth families. It can be really helpful to know for medical reasons and for a sense of identity (the wow, I look like these people sensation), even if a relationship isn't desired. Just something to consider if you weren't aware. It's also recommended that adoptees & DCPs join as many databases as applicable to help. Ancestry/23&Me/MyHeritage/GedMatch being the big four. (Don't worry. You don't have to pay at all places. Several allow you to upload the raw data from Ancestry)

[@kenster8270]

Regarding those single-digit percentages, that shouldn't come as a huge surprise. So for instance, the Macedonian guy with distant Finnish (= proto-Finnic) ancestors, that could easily be explained by merchants, mercenaries, itinerants, soldiers, adventurers, slaves, concubines, pilgrims, POWs, runaways, renegades, settlers etc who migrated or were transported away from their ancestral homeland located between the Ural Mountains and the Baltic Sea at some point. The Vikings traveling to Constantinople (Miklagard, now Istanbul) brought Finns/Karelians/Ingrians with them as warriors or slaves. These people may have passed on their genes locally to Byzantine and later Ottoman subjects. Likewise, the Russian Imperial Army conscipted soldiers from the Finnish/Finnic subjects in what is now Finland and northwestern Russia and sent them to fight in the Russo-Turkish Wars, and some of these soldiers may have impregnated local women, with or without their consent. And for centuries the Ottoman slave markets were full of captives from eastern Europe that had been captured by the Tatars in modern-day southern Ukraine, with the descendants of these captives eventually becoming absorbed into the general Turkish population who settled as traders or government officials in various parts of the Empire, including the Balkans.

[@dianeknight4839]

The young man who had the English and Celtic bloodline, probably had Viking descendents who travelled here and settled for a while. I know from history that many Vikings settled here and mixed with the local population. The most evidence for this is in the North of England and Scotland. In Scotland we have the most people with red or blonde hair, particularly the Shetland Isles.

[@annicaesplund6613]

Not "viking", norse.

[@yesplatinum7956]

@@annicaesplund6613 what’s the difference?

[@Oishionna]

Yes! My ancestors are predominantly from northern England, Scotland and Ireland. However my DNA results showed that I am 18% Swedish and 2% Norwegian. I have no Swedish or Norwegian ancestors that I can find and I have traced my family tree back into the 1700s.

[@dinkster1729]

@@Oishionna You may have a distant relative who was not recorded correctly or a child was not the child of the father or even the couple recorded. Adopted child? Extramarital affair?

[@juliaforsyth8332]

@@yesplatinum7956 Viking is a job description. To go a-vikingr is to go off to raid. The people who went on raids were mainly Scandinavian. Norse from Norway, Danes from Denmark, etc.

[@mcburcke]

The people in this video are exceptionally personable and fun to watch/listen to...thank you for sharing with everyone!

[@queenieevergreen]

My partner is Swedish and I just ordered his kit! Cannot wait for him to find out! 😊❤ This was so fun. These people sure act Swedish! Even if their dna isn’t 100% 😂

[@jimanast3593]

10:13 Aleksandar wasn't surprised for being so much descended from Greeks & Italians (ie Roman/Byzantine origin). Like many of his co-patriots (Northmacedonians) he is a bulgarianized Greek.

[@coribird5177]

I love watching these videos. Those old family stories about "where we come from" so often get blown out of the water with these tests. And the reality vs the stories & assumed ethnicities is always fascinating.

[@marcusfridh8489]

Viking was an occupation, not an ethnicity. You were a norse or Scandinavian but you went on Viking. Meaning raiding or trading from the sea . However being a Scandinavian means of being mixed with all the migrating people from the last 15000 years

[@acke-]

Not true 😂

[@veronicajensen7690]

actually there are a Rune stone with the text "he was a great Viking" so it could be a person and since they were Scandinavians it was an ethnicity although they did mix with other people 97% of the remains found in Viking graves have Scandinavian dna

[@LordVessel21]

The word "viking" has a more nuanced origin than just being a profession. The etymology and historical context give us a broader understanding. The word "vík" in Old Norse means "bay" or "inlet," referring to an indented coastline or a sheltered area by the sea. "Vikingr" is a person who came from or operated in these bays or inlets. Many Viking settlements and operational bases were located in natural harbors and inlets, providing protection and easy access to the sea. Bays were strategically important for the Vikings, both for defense and as a starting point for their sea voyages. Scandinavia, especially Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, has many fjords and inlets that were ideal for shipbuilding and maritime activities. These areas were often the starting points for the Vikings' journeys and raids. In old texts and sagas, the word "víkingr" is often used in connection with seafaring and expeditions. The Vikings themselves may have identified with these geographical features, which could have contributed to the origin and use of the word. In this way, the "vík" theory provides not only a linguistic but also a geographical and cultural understanding of why the word "viking" was used to describe these seafaring Norsemen. It is not just a profession, but a term deeply connected to their geographical and cultural identity. You say it doesn't have anything to do with ethnicity. Well, yes and no. At the end of the day, it wouldn't make sense to call a warrior in Somalia, a "samurai" just because samurai means warrior in Japanese would it? Its the same with the word "Viking". It is a word, from a language, connected to a specific ethnicities in the Scandinavian area.

[@ytu77]

That's exciting!!!!!! I always thought I'm Polish thru and thru... I'm 20 % Swedish and 10% Danish....love IT!!!!!

[@linajurgensen4698]

It would be cool if this is done for other European countries as well.😊

[@JudittiK]

Everybody can order an my heritage test kit. My family already already made their tests and I am from Austria.

[@auntyjo1792]

​​@@JudittiKI'm in UK and we all seem to have a few percent Scandinavian - vikings.

[@lucianaromulus1408]

​@@auntyjo1792im American (my dad is Scot-Irish) and sure enough, 2% of Swedish popped up. Both people's overall got along and eventually intermingled a bit.

[@auntyjo1792]

@@lucianaromulus1408 my Scandinavian DNA comes from all sides of my family who lived around the Irish sea. That was a main road in Viking days! Part of my heritage is Scots Irish and I get a lot of "hits" in USA , Virginia and Tennessee roots predominate. In USA you will have more recent mixing too but suffice it to say UK DNA has a chunk of Scandi from way back!

[@The1ByTheSea]

They would be much more mixed .Scandinavians are like the purest just Scandinavian

[@crazyknitter22]

When I got my results back I was like, Wow what!?! 25.3% North and West European, 22.6% Scandinavian, 20% Baltic, 10.4% Irish, Scottish and Welsh, 8.1% Balkan, 7.9% Iberian and 5.7% East European. I was literally expecting it to be mainly Eastern European because of my families history. I was totally wrong. Since then when someone asks where I was from, I say Europe. 😆

[@andreyansimov5442]

the places your ancestors where from were very busy 😂😂😂😂 not some quiet distant village

[@ilonabw2967]

You say - all over the place :D The Baltic it is more Latvian or Lithuanian maybe?

[@magscovers8924]

1 word: Vikings. All places they visited

[@philipmcluskey6805]

its bull

[@eVill420]

I'd guess your ancestors were sailors or traders, the viking theory doesn't work because that happened neatly 1 000 years ago. The thing I'm actually thinking of is the Hanseatic league, the city states and Novgorod that traded using those routes would have tons of genetic mixing

[@citizenkane4831]

Did a Myheratige dna test. And got confirmed what my mother and grandmother have told me. Our origin is from the region of belgium and france. It´s called the Valon region, what´s typical for valon´s are that they have dark hair, brown eyes. They moved to sweden in ythe early 1700 because of their work skills in the mining and iron industry at that time, they worked as blacksmiths among other thing. On my fathers side they have always been farmers.

[@uvisquatty]

In French it is called Wallonie or Région wallonne. So you can do a Google research ... Around the 1950 a large Italian community settled there to work in the coal mines which are now all closed.

[@hnorrstrom]

Half of my mum's heritage is vallonian the family tree is full of french names. Almost everyone worked either in mines or as blacksmiths for 500 years. However her DNA didn't actually show it at all. It was 75 % Swedish and 22% eastern European. If you don't count 3% West African as it... That pretty much says that these kind of tests isn't accurate.

[@freefalling6960]

there is no way that all of your ancestors going back to 1700 only had children with other "valons". I dont believe that for one second.

[@freefalling6960]

@@hnorrstrom the test are more accurate than your moms stories.

[@hnorrstrom]

@@freefalling6960Well my mom don't care, it's just her side of the family. Facts are from my sisters research in Swedish church records. They are known to be the most substantial in the world. Swedish priests kept book over everyone living in the country. So it's fairly easy to find all your relatives forthe last 300 years at least and where they lived, died, worked and so forth. If you just have enough time to search archives. But for the Vallonians the trails usually stops in Liege or Antwerp.

[@nancyrinkers9723]

I had always described my heritage, (I’m American), as Irish and English with a little bit of German. But I did a DNA test and learned I’m Irish, English, Welsh, Scottish, German and Finnish. The Finland connection shocked me! As well as the Scottish and Welsh. DNA tests are very interesting to do.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

I’m English and I had a tiny bit of finish in me as well as well as Scottish and Welsh. My brother is 6 foot with very blonde hair and blue eyes. He must’ve got a bit more of the finish bit. I’m a redhead with green eyes 😂

[@Stevehboy]

Love from scotland my man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@amanb8698]

The Irish and Scottish share the majority of their DNA, there are differences however, in terms of admixture with others, but mainly they are Gaels (Irish Celts) in DNA with Scandinavian (Norwegian/Norman), and Anglo-Saxon, input. Scottish also have some Pictish in them whom are Britons (also Celts but different in language from Gaels). The English also have most of that in them, but are more Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian (Dane/Norman), and Briton in DNA. Welsh are related to Irish and Scottish as well but aren't Gaels they are Britons, but many have English (Anglo-Saxon) and Scandinavian) in them too.

[@josephinetracy1485]

Scandinavians, north Germans, and Normans settled or invaded those lands. There's no "reset" button that gets pressed.

[@janice506]

I’m a Scot & I ain’t No Irish Gael or Irish Celtic . How dare you insult my people.

[@MissGroves]

I did a 23andMe, imalways thought id be 100% british, (all the countries) but i have norwegian links, finland links, coptic egyptian in the mix. Its so fascinating how those invisible bits of cells carry our ancestors with us

[@tuttuttut7758]

Vikings frequented the English coasts quite often. Nothing strange in that tbh

[@MissGroves]

@@tuttuttut7758 he wasn't a viking, his ancestors may have been, he was from Larvik. The other norse dna matches ones from Iceland and Greenland and who could be from either of my DNA lines

[@tuttuttut7758]

@@MissGroves I get that

[@MissGroves]

@@tuttuttut7758 was a surprise the Greenland/Iceland matches, but mytrueancestry Pointed me in a direction in Scotland that I ended up confirming a few months later, I'm such a family tree geek

[@lolsaXx]

My brother did this and got 100% British and Irish. I was very suprised. My mum is Scottish with some heritage going back to Ireland and my dad is English.

[@margaretford1011]

Re: finding English, Scottish, and Irish DNA in a Scandinavian sample - the Vikings spread their DNA far and wide, especially in the British archipelago and Germany. The test may just be picking up patterns of Swedish DNA that are still in the population of the lands the Vikings went. It does not mean that you have, say, English ancestors. It could more easily mean that the sample population that MyHeritage has tagged as “English” has remnant Viking DNA in it.

[@margaretford1011]

@@toomuchjam These DNA analyses are more complicated than I think you are thinking. The computers are identifying ethnicities by comparing to sample “index” populations. No sample population derived from a land that historically was repeatedly invaded by other cultures or had a influx of other cultures settling there (like England, Ireland, Scotland) is going to be as homogeneous as that from a land with no such historical admixing. The sample populations for countries like Sweden and Iceland are likely to be more uniform. Yet, individuals in Sweden are not going carry the same DNA strands as one another. The patterns would be more like how minerals of different colors create veins in marble, and no two pieces of marble are the same. And when we think about DNA injected by Swedes into the English 600 years ago, we also have to consider how that DNA was injected into some families but not others, mutated in some of those carriers but not others; and was displaced and thus disappeared in subsequent generations but not others - but is still present - unlabeled as Swedish - in some people whose DNA makes up the “index” population. On the Swedish side, the families of those ancient mariners who shared that injected-into-the-English DNA back then went on to have children; some of that shared DNA was not passed on; some mutated; and some is still found in threads in the current population - again, like marble veins. One can’t say, then, that if one Swede has a DNA strand that 600 years ago was shared with the English and is still in the English index population today, that all the other Swedes taking DNA tests should show the same thing. There are just way too many random factors influencing DNA distribution and retention. Let me give you an example from the other side to illustrate how this can work. My sister and I have the exact same parents and thus same ancestors. Our mother has ancestors who immigrated from County Antrim Ireland in 1850. That quarter of our ancestry was identified in my sister’s DNA test as 12% Irish and 13% Scottish. But my DNA test came back 12% Swedish, 5% Scottish, 2% Irish, and 6% English. This indicates that I inherited -from the exact same ancestors - a sizable chunk of DNA that is found in the “presumably pure” Swedish index population, while my sister did not. The only explanation I have for this is that this DNA comes from an ancestor from Sweden hundreds of years ago who sired one or more children in that geographic area; maybe a whole bunch of related Swedes with that DNA strand mixed with the population and through intermarriages over the subsequent hundreds of years, it did not fall away before my 1850 ancestor got it. Yet, in today’s index populations it is only still commonly found in the Swedish one, and is thus identified by the computer algorithms as “Swedish”. So, you see, the “if one, then all” logic doesn’t work. The man in question could simply have inherited a strain of Swedish DNA that is no longer showing up with frequency in the index Swedish population, but has been retained with frequency in the so-called “English” group. There are alternatives, of course. Captured English women taken as wives. English orphans brought home to Sweden, etc. way too many possibilities. That is why we can’t treat these results as anything more evidentiary than educated guesses. Apologies for the length. Cheers!

[@margaretford1011]

@@toomuchjam The index groups are made up of present-day people who claim to have, insofar as they know, only ancestors from the region being studied. It would not be all that unusual for a DNA strand that came from “area A” to “Area B” 500 years ago, to take root and become common in the new place while becoming rare in the place it came from. It would not arrive with a label that a computer can see, and would now look to the computer as an attribute of the new place but not the old. The computer cannot tell the difference. Geneticists are telling us to be very cautious about these ethnicity reports. They say it is no more valid than a parlor game, that one cannot scientifically tell where DNA strands originated from ethnicity-wise. They will swear by the science that establishes the cousin matches, though, which I have found to be exceptionally useful. So, try not to think of these ethnicity reports as uber valid, OK? Every company gives a different report for the same DNA, and that should be remembered else we’ll find ourselves disappearing into a rabbit hole.

[@jannevellamo]

The Vikings brought back a lot of slaves and wives from Celtic and Anglo Saxon lands and there's always been a lot of trade between Sweden and Britain, so sailors were spreading their genes all over the place. Sweden also employed a lot of Scottish mercenaries, many of whom married Swedish girls.

[@margaretford1011]

@@jannevellamo Good addition. This thread is now kind of hilarious, as the person I was talking to has, in the six months that have passed, deleted his remarks. So now it looks like I had been talking ad nauseam to a ghost, lol…

[@jannevellamo]

I wonder why he deleted his comments, that's kinda strange. @@margaretford1011

[@victorrock1997]

That was super cool and very interesting to watch! I did a MyHeritage DNA test as well earlier this year and was very surprised to get to know the results. It turned out I am a bit Finnish as well (circa 2%). But I am also related to Scandinavians in MyHeritage, particularly Swedes. I can see on the historical genetic timeline for one ethnicity that there is a small genetic cluster from Sweden with which my ancestors (and me, by extension) are related. The MyHeritage DNA test was a very fun and wonderful experience! Well worth it! All the best and take care! Best regards from Romania!

[@jhayOfficial]

Nice hearing from you again

[@Scandinavianman9]

Excellent video & results. Very nice people also. I tested with my heritage & received a result of over 50 per cent Scandinavian 💙💎 Thankyou for sharing & best wishes for all🏆

[@Chaotic_Pixie]

It would mean so much more if folks in the video built out their family tree to see if they can actually identify where the smaller results come from.

[@kathilisi3019]

Sometimes it's difficult to find out. I'm doing genealogy at the moment, and in most of Europe the earliest written documentation for "commoners" started in the 1600s. I've traced a few family lines back that far and have tracked down a Bavarian connection that showed up in my ancestry result, but I still have no idea where the 5% English came from. I have about 2.5% central Asian DNA which is probably a leftover from way back when the Huns invaded Europe, and impossible to track via building a family tree.

[@robertab929]

According to MyHeritage East Europe is in Central Europe (south of Baltic See). I guess people in the company needs to get geography classes :)

[@coole6825]

So does 99% of the people in USA😉😉

[@aisl6190]

I really enjoyed watching this. I'm Irish and lived in Sweden for 12 years and was often envious of how well Swedes knew their family history and had heirlooms and photographs going way back. I know it will be hard to believe but I was almost right with my "predictions" .... I know a little of the history of the country, and Southern Sweden - Gothenburg, Malmo has a huge seafaring/ trading history with Scotland... so I knew there would be a touch of Celtic.. or even English/Celt.... When I was living there I found them either much more 'homogenous" than the Irish or if not, aware of the heritage, i.e. an Italian great grandfather who came to work as a glass blower in Sweden... I took one look at Aleksandar and said "Finnish".... thought "oh maybe I'm wrong" when he mentioned the Balkans... but yes... I see the Finn in him. I also knew Jens would not come back 100%, and not surprised that it was Celtic/British Isles... If anyone was going to be 100% Swedish, thought it would be Jenny. In 2020 I did an Ancestry test, and was staggered to find myself 100% Irish as my father's parentage was unknown... as the years have gone by, that has reduced to 98, with 2% Scottish... I was certain before hand I would find Spanish, North African in there... I really do think these DNA tests should mostly be for 'entertainment' and that if they throw up non medical surprises you should look closer at what markers the tests are looking at, and if interested, build up a family tree as best you can... some traits just seem so much stronger than others. Thank you guys, for taking the test and sharing it.

[@katherineremes4053]

This was great!!!! I really loved the idea of doing this. So interesting and a great group of people!😊

[@grazihenke]

what a fun video! and your colleagues are all so nice and good looking!

[@KimberlySorce]

Glad you enjoyed it Grazi! They’re awesome! 🫶🏼

[@anouk6644]

I’m Dutch and as far as I know all my ancestors were born here as well. When I took the DNA test it can back almost 50% Scandinavian, over 30% English and about 15% north-west European (plus 4% Greek). It was quite a shock! A few months ago I learned that there is no typical Dutch DNA because of all the ‘foreign’ influences over the centuries. Actually a lot of Dutch from the northern half and coastal areas have Scandinavian DNA. I jokingly consider myself of Viking descent who invaded/settled in the UK and then migrated to the Netherlands.

[@hirsch4155]

I had 35 percent scandi and the rest north west European except for 5 English . My mom is Frisian and my Dad Central Netherlands. Only non Dutch ancestor is onr great great grandfather from Lower Saxony. I got my Scandi from my Frisian side because my dads percentage was much lower but the funny thing is that my moms side has darker hair. Frisians are not all blonde, my Frisian aunt has green eyes dark brown hair and olive skin in fact .

[@anouk6644]

@@hirsch4155 These things are so interesting. My dads family is from the west and originated generations ago from the area between the rivers (around former Dorestad with its Viking ruler). Like me they all have fair skin, reddish hair, blue eyes and are quite tall. My moms side of the family is from the north-east of the country and all have dark hair, dark eyes and olive skin like my sister. I assumed the Greek is from that side of the family and the English from my dads (and Scandi from both), but after reading your comment I’m not so sure. I wish my parents had still been around when we did the tests.

[@hirsch4155]

@@anouk6644 Sure is. My dads mother is from the Veluwe region and her side going back is all from there. My grandmother was very short, very fair skinned and blonde. My dad is very short for a Dutchmen but actually when I go to that region there’s lots of (relatively) short blonde people too. The Netherlands has so much variation. Go to eastern Drenthe for example and the people look a lot different. At least my experience. I think certain rural parts of the country had people that were quite isolated for centuries and you can still see that in the people. Lots of variation for a small country! Even within the regions.

[@anouk6644]

@@hirsch4155 Being from the west I don’t see a typical triad here with people coming from all over the place to study or for work. I must admit I do have the stereotypical view of most Frisians being tall and blond 😅 There are always exceptions of course. Although we have these variations between regions you can almost always recognize the Dutch when abroad (and we are everywhere!). The way we dress and carry ourselves might help with that as well.

[@scrabbymcscrotus7481]

You are a victim of anti germanic propaganda. The ethnicities you listed are all germanoc thats why the test mixes them up. There is a pure dutch DNA and most dutch also ARE PURE DUTCH

[@donquixote1502]

Great fun to watch. 👍

[@digitsandfidgets]

Love this video!

[@BenjaminGentile-zl1qz]

It always amazing to me how people can't understand the difference between their Heritage DNA and a Nationality.....I come from a mix background .my paternal background is Italian/Sicilian ..while my maternal is a mix of Scotch, Irish and German....When I did my DNA I have 4% Swed and 2% Danish....I already figured I'd have the Greek co to being southern Italian.. and also Middle Eastern because of the Sicilian connection...Its is really interesting and shows how people have migrated and inter married .....or, at least mated with other ethics groups...

[@francoisdaureville323]

Scandinavians are very homogéneus in general tho, thry Will mostly have scandinavian and finnish in their etcnity anything else Will be very minor

[@Sirinxa]

​​​@@francoisdaureville323I think it's normal, until the 19th century it was a poor country, people did not converge there or emigrate en masse and its ancient history is "simpler" than in other european countries. If you give a genetic test to a German or a Frenchman or a Greek or an Italian, you are unlikely to find 99.9% of his/her DNA originating in the country of his/her birth, because their ancient history was more eventful. A German/Italian/French person will have a much higher chance of having a diverse genetic mix than a Scandinavian. (Who knows what DNA Europeans will have in 2300... all European countries will be a genetic mix. Never as in the last 50 years have we Europeans, but also non-Europeans, mixed so much, not even during the Roman Empire!).

[@veronicajensen7690]

@@Sirinxa sounds like you need to learn Scandinavian history, the Scandinavians have had quite large Empires ruling over several countries diff. times in history Denmark ruled part of England, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Estonia, the Virgin Islands, a little part of Africa, Orkney Islands ect. so they weren't' poor until 19th century and they have traded with other countries the past 4000 years, during the Viking age they sailed to the middle east, Russia, France and other places, Swedish Vikings founded Russia, Vikings found women in many countries like the UK, Baltic countries, Slavic countries and among Sami people married them and took them back to Scandinavia, we also know Southern Sweden (former Denmark) was a major trade area and people came from Southern Europe to trade there

[@mariemoulton6413]

I took the test and I was 58%Norwegian west coast,33% Swedish south and west coast, and the rest western Europe. My great great grandfather was gypsy (roma) and I did have 2% from India. I was born in Göteborg Sweden with lots of family in that area.

[@ilqar887]

Its only autosomal dna goes back only 1000 years maximum.if your fore father is gyps u have plenty of gypsy in you cause y dna gets passes through thousands of years ..

[@user-ul1py4in7j]

Oh, my great great grandfather is also gypsy

[@dina113east]

The gypsy population has roots in India. Originally when they migrated to Romania, Hungary, they were thought to be from Egypt. That is where the name gypsy comes from. In actuality they were from India. Over time they developed a combined language of their own and did not assimilate, but remained a separate people of the countries they migrated to.

[@user-zg5lf8qw3s]

You will get more than 2% love from the Subcontinent, take care visit us if possible. 🖐✌️See if you can tolerate spicy food by eating a green chilli 🌶 🤪🙃

[@jeanneknight4791]

Thank you for doing this.

[@erenjaeger1738]

First time seeing a man with 100%. I would be happy 🎉

[@datadrivendev]

People when they discover their population genetic analysis: - Rest of the world: Oh my god! I'm so surprised! My ancestors come from so many places! - Native Swedes: 99% Scandinavian, period Amazing video btw

[@zoom5024]

It's because the borders almost never moved in Scandinavia throughout history. In most other places on earth they did.

[@freefalling6960]

@@zoom5024 also because we have not been invaded by other people like we have been for the last 50 years.

[@ThereseDavidson]

Our country is too cold, nobody wanted to mix with us

[@Isratheal]

Well. Finland was part of the Swedish Kingdom from the 12th century until the early 19th century, during which time there was a significant amount of interaction and migration between the two regions. Swedish settlers, traders, and military personnel migrated to Finland, while Finnish peasants were brought to Sweden to work on farms and in other industries migrated to Finland, while Finnish peasants were brought to Sweden to work on farms and in other industries. Additionally, there were periods of conflict and war between Sweden and Russia, during which some Finns may have migrated to Sweden for safety or economic reasons. Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire in 1809, and during this time, there was increased migration of Finns to Sweden. So it is no surprise that they have finnish genes.

[@carriebryan1211]

My Swedish grandmother's grandfather(?), a Gibson of clan Buchanan, was exiled to Sweden (obviously) during the Suppression of the Clans. He settled near Uppsala, and in the 1970's my father visited his cousins there.

[@liridonbalaj5105]

So fun video! 😍😍😀😀

[@divra_]

Sweden was one of the most isolated countries in terms of the ethnic population distribution for a long time. It was only recently (1960s and forward) that Sweden became more ethnically diverse.

[@AskTheRealDrBrown]

Very true.

[@lindsayslifecafe7569]

This is why it’s frustrating when people in America want to apply Scandinavia’s political systems to America’s. There aren’t a lot of similarities. Just because it works for the Scandinavians doesn’t mean it will work everywhere.

[@RonCecchetti]

I think Japan is as well

[@AnnaKaunitz]

Not accurate.

[@AceOfBased]

@@RonCecchetti Yes Japan too, and they are trying to do the same there, ruining it with diversity, but the japanese are not as keen on it. I'd say just look at what they've done to Europe so far...

[@TheNyteScrybe]

My DNA test showed 96% various brands of Scandinavian/northern European, 1% Iberian, 3% French. I spent $100 to find out I glow in the dark.

[@rockeee]

11:35 'Separating England from the rest of the U.K' (Lumps Ireland in) Ouch!

[@lindakillian3667]

I am from the USA. After doing my DNA, I found out that my supposed German grandparents were actually Swedish. I felt stupid because they are all giant blondes, it made perfect sense that they were Swedish even though they migrated from Germany, spoke German, etc. I still need to work my family tree to see when they moved to Germany. I lovingly call them my Secret Swedes now.

[@frans8160]

A lot of germans have Scandinavian roots anyway , they were literally the same people for years until Charlemagne came , there was the swedish empire and a lot of german states were part of it ( mind you germany didn't even exist as a country that time ) , those two countries have a lot more history together than you think

[@scrabbymcscrotus7481]

Stupid man they are both germanic so obviously the tests mix that up

[@mimamo]

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein directly borders and leads as a peninsula into Scandinavia and had hundreds of years ago also been part of Sweden and Denmark, so it makes total sense that even though your grandparents and their relatives were born and lived in Germany that they also have Scandinavian DNA. Borders and whole people traveled a lot in Europe. You mustn't think in today's strict borders. ;)

[@lindakillian3667]

@@mimamo thank you for this information. This does make perfect sense. My ancestors did stay in northern Germany before emigrating to the USA. I hope to trace them back to Sweden someday.

[@simonbannow3905]

Maybe they walked over the ice from Sweden to Germany like one of my ancestors did(he fell through the ice before reaching land but his children made it), not all decided to go to America 😃

[@catz609]

I found it amusing that most of the participants hoped for something a little bit more exotic than being just Scandinavian. I on the other hand being second generation Australian knew that most of my family were Scots,Irish with some English. Also having a great grandfather who I knew was Swedish on my mother’s side it was to be expected that my DNA would show some Scandinavian. To find out that her father through DNA who I knew to be a mix of Scottish/ English had both Swedish and Danish also, gave me my exotic connection.

[@kennethmacalpin7655]

I don't understand the "hope" for something else, what's wrong with being Scandinavian. It's like everyone wants to be something else than what they are.

[@veronicajensen7690]

@@kennethmacalpin7655 I don't get it either no ethnicity is better than the other, what I do get is if people in generations have lived in the USA, Australia, Canada ect. and have been told stories about where they originated I'm sure it is nice to get the stories confirmed, although sometimes people get confused because Europe is also very mixed in dna so it might not fit the stories

[@arthurmiller9103]

Incredible👍

[@Gwenhwyfar7]

Too funny Finish is considered exotic to a Swede. 🤣

[@jadeh2699]

Well, Finland is a Nordic country but not Scandinavian. Finish also has Asian influence, so it would be considered rather exotic.

[@s66s46]

​@@jadeh2699 it has like 5% asian max

[@JangoBlader]

They speak a totally different language

[@dinkster1729]

@@JangoBlader Language spoken has nothing to do with your genetic make-up. Look at all the languages in the Americas that nobody speaks any more. People around Rome are probably largely descended from the Romans. How many of these modern day Romans speak Latin?

[@timoterava7108]

​@@jadeh2699 Practically all Europeans have some "Asian" genetic admixture - some a little bit more, some less. We are all genetic cocktails with dozens of different "ingredients". Those commercial DNA results are VERY unreliable and vary from one company to another.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Viking is not a race, it's a verb. To go a-vikingr. That is to go out raiding.

[@erdossuitcase7667]

One of my grandfathers was from Sweden. Torhamn, Blekinge. My test showed zero Scandinavian but 5 % Finnish. The rest was UK. All of my grandfather’s family came from Blekinge, Kalmar or Kronoberg.

[@lindat7525]

So that would mean that while he may have been from Sweden, he wasn't ethnically Swedish.

[@erdossuitcase7667]

@@lindat7525 My results from Ancestry and 23andme both show Swedish. I don’t know why MyHeritage doesn’t.

[@Visse90]

​​​@@lindat7525That's unlikely. Torhamn is a small village. And back in those days, immigration to Sweden was very small. DNA tests can't show your ethnicity, just guess it. And sometimes its guesses are off.

[@roddbroward9876]

MyHeritage often messes up like that

[@arpa9009]

cause we don't heritage 50%, 25%, 12.5% and so on from each. it's a pool of genes, an example a greatgrandmothers German, Russian (mom), Spanish, Greek (dad's side), then child can have onle German-Greek dna... even siblings can have different results. I hope I helped you

[@SteamboatW]

I'm quite Swedish and can only find Swedes for generations. I would guess a majority scandinavian, and propably Finnish since that was very common, it was the same country for a long time, and in my heritage, a Finn regardless of language spoken would just have been labeled as Swedish anyway. I wouldn't be surprised to find German and/or slavic. Anything else would be a bonus surprise!

[@RobertClaeson]

During the middle ages about 50% of the people in cities were German, so people shouldn't be surprised to find some German ancestry. Personally, I've got ancestry from Sweden, Finland and Vallonia in Belgium. Perhaps that explains why I like Belgian beer.

[@maudeboggins9834]

Ingrid Bergmann the famous Swedish actress 1915-1982 her mother was fully German.

[@SteamboatW]

@@maudeboggins9834 If she spelled her last name "Bergmann" and not "Bergman" I conject that she was fully German since "Bergmann" isn't a Swedish name at all. .. or perhaps she took her name from her mother?

[@maudeboggins9834]

@@SteamboatW Her father was Swedish

[@SteamboatW]

@@maudeboggins9834 Not with a name like that he wasn't.

[@cococovers1333]

i took a DNA test a while ago. What i knew before was that my moms side of the family is dutch from hillegom in holland and my dads side of the family is from sweden dating back to like the 1600s. What i found out is that im not as much dutch as i thought, im mostly swedish scandinavian (not surprised about that) but what surprised me is that im like 10% south-east european. I know that the south east european part is from my moms side since we can trace my dads family back to 1600s sweden.

[@Iflie]

I did the same test and also got surprise England, bit of wales etc. But my great grandfather was Frisian, the dutch province, they used to have a viking king and apparently did some repopulating in england so that DNA shows up as brittish. It could make sense that some frisian got into the scandinavian mix.

[@lindat7525]

My Swedish grandfather's family seems totally Swedish for hundreds of years. But somewhere, a Dane, a Norwegian and a Finn crept in, lol. The Ancestry test specifically can track my DNA Norra Värmland and Sunne, which is cool.

[@themetricsystem7967]

Don’t people think it is scary to give their dna to a huge company? If in the future, a buyer who wants to merge a dna company with an AI company…. Anyone ever thought of what that could turn out to be?

[@user-ut4zw6so6o]

That has crossed my mind…

[@erin6945]

The U. S is such a diverse country and doesn't really make sense that he would say we don't have a wide world view of what people look like.

[@b.7265]

this 100% guy is a legend

[@laurasopalca8433]

They were so nice and cute ❤

[@venturaine]

they keep it in the family, for sure !!

[@Dennan]

is these not normal results?

[@aloysiushettiarachchi4523]

Knowledge about DNA keeps growing, and the latest is that it can change somewhat even after a person is born. In my experience with my family members, it can change due to the environment in which one lives. One of them was born in West Africa, and that person got darker skin colour, curly hair, and some other features while retaining the appearance of both parents. Who knows what else would affect!.

[@loremipsum7ac]

This is called epigenetics. The DNA doesn't actually change, just some kind of molecular on/off gene switch.

[@user-qj9ob1jp4c]

Да, саха (якуты) когда переезжают южнее лицо меняется. Подкожный жир на лице за ненадобностью рассасывается. Это не свойственно всем северным азиатам или вообще к азиатам. Это просто так приспособился наш организм. Ведь раньше в Якутии росли персики.

[@teresayeates3437]

I liked that the one chap thanked Kim.

[@frostynerd24]

My 4x great-grandfather was from Sweden. I took AncestryDNA, and it has me at 2% Norway. That's probably from my Swedish 4x great-grandfather.

[@yahyahussein425]

How could that be so precise? Meaning that the test couldn’t possibly tell between Norwegian or Swedish; the DNA results would have them as a homogeneous group like presented here. Also if you know anything of Norwegian/Swedish history, it was one kingdom from 1814-1905 so I doubt that the DNA could be so surgically specific.

[@nj1639]

Yeah, AncestryDNA shows Norwegian seperate from Swedish/Dane but combines Swede and Dane. How would I know? I'm a descendant of the Swedish Colony on the Delaware River, USA, add some Finn from the colony too. Over the centuries we mixed with the other immigrants- English, Scot, Irish and Welsh.

[@yahyahussein425]

@@nj1639 Interesting. I’m glad you were able to find this very detailed information on Ancestry DNA though I am skeptical it could or would split Norwegian/Swedish into two such distinctions. If let’s say were discussing the UK only and that you just had ancestry there in itself, yes Angles, Picts, Norse, Norman and Celtic distinctions would appear. By comparison most DNA results would not appear amongst the Danes, Norwegian or Swedes and treat your findings like here as a big blob. Your North American background returns are very typical.

[@jlpack62]

As an American, most of my DNA is Slavic from the Carpathians and the Balkans, though my latest update did assign 4% Swedish from my father's Polish side of the family.

[@mcburcke]

I am continually amazed at the facility that Swedes have with speaking English...its remarkable that the two languages are so compatible. I was stationed in Europe for a long time with the USAF, and the very best English speakers were Swedes and Nederlanders. Better than a lot of native Engilsh speakers!

[@cecileroy557]

I just looked into this and was surprised to find that English and Swedish are very similar with both having a Germanic origins. Thanks for your comment - I had no idea. Just remembered, as an example, that the Saxons were of Germanic origin.

[@viagra5207]

dutch is no surprise there

[@mcburcke]

@@viagra5207 It is remarkably close to modern English...I can very easily read an article in "Dutch" and understand at least 90% of the text. Listening to it is somewhat more difficult, but it is SO close you can really hear the origin of English in the northwest Germanic soundscape. Frisian is another very close relative...at a bit of a distance, modern Frisian gives the distinct impression of English being spoken.

[@janice506]

That’s quite an insult yank.

[@Furienna]

It is well-known that the Dutch and us Scandinavians are the best at learning English.

[@Nehmi]

So the really hot guy Jens with the beard and the UK/Ireland DNA more than likely had Viking ancestors who raided the British Isles and took back Celtic wives back to Scandinavia. The Macedonian, Aleksandr, is a good mix of Greek and Jewish (both Sephardic and Ashkenazi) with some Viking blood that ended up south through the Volga (probably).

[@jadeh2699]

This was a great video! Very interesting! Surprising to people from North America to hear so few regions represented in the participant's DNA. Many people, in the US for instance, may have fourteen or more different countries and races represented in their DNA. Facinating!

[@kd8199]

North American here. Thus far only 6 ethnicities in my DNA results. German, English/Scottish, Swedish, French, and Sardinian per Ancestry. That could change as more people get tested and are added to the database.

[@davehoward22]

Same with people from uk...60% native is high.

[@zoom5024]

Pretty sure i read somewhere that Scandinavians are the most homogeneous group on earth.

[@jadeh2699]

@@zoom5024 Oh, I haven't heard that before. Thanks. I think I'll look into it.

[@nicolad8822]

I’ve found with my own US matches that if they are from states like Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia going way back they actually have less variety in their DNA than I do, a British person with Scottish and English ancestry I can trace in records going back up to 300 years. Edit Thinking about it, I bet plenty of Minnesotans and Dakotans (?) would have very high Scandi DNA?

[@kelvinlambert4249]

Your English is superb. There is no such thing as perfect English - we English have so many regional accents.

[@gwynbetts29]

Yes, that’s true and some of those “regional accents” are a direct result of our Scandinavian ancestors. I’m 80% Briton and 20% Swedish. 🇬🇧 🇸🇪

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Nah mate, Aussie english is perfect!

[@peteymax]

True, his comment shows that his English is imperfect, which is fine. To think that a whole country of native English speakers are not quite speaking correctly and not being able articulate nuance is typical of people who speak English well as a second language but don’t have the subtlety of a native. People probably thought he was Irish because of his eyes and fair hair a common combination seen in Irish people of Viking/Nordic origin.

[@thoroku4463]

I'm late to the party, but these are the types of videos I like to see. I'm American, but my great-grandmother came over from Sweden in the early 1900s, so it's nice to get an idea of my MyHeritage result (70.3% Scandinavian) compared to people actually living in Sweden.

[@georgiosa.9893]

I am Greek (both my parents) and i took MyHeritage DNA test. 5% of my DNA is Scandinavian and 6% Baltic

[@ostracized666ther2]

Same here 80% Greek and South Italy 15% Scandi 5% Baltic i look really southern european black hair, olive skin etc. my sister looks like a nord and my whole family has that dichotomy. Who knows what happened when nordic people came to the south hahah

[@claimhsolais3466]

Most likely due to Varangian heritage. Lots of western and eastern Europeans settled in Greece back in Byzantine times where they eventually assimilated. So less than 800 years later, here we go

[@ThePunkers20]

I did test too, it was nice I am Polish and i have 79% East German and Polish, 11% Scandinavian and 9% Baltic. Scandinavian and Baltic was shock to me xD

[@brainwashed1232]

Haha yeah it's always interesting 🙂 i live and was born in Southern Germany and had: 29,3% Eastern Europe 25,3% Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian and Danish) 23,7% English/Saxon 19,3% Balcan 2,2% North and West European

[@os4108]

Im also from south germany and my results are simliar 27,3 % scandinavia 23,6% Eastern Europe 8,4% England and the rest is Iberian Pensula, Italy and also West Asia

[@EnverPasa-ib9px]

10:00 woooooooww 100percent thats crazy clean

[@harlowesadventuresinwonder1564]

Honestly, many of the findings make sense because England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Baltic, Finland, Northern Germany and France, and Eastern Europe were all places heavily trafficked by Vikings both in trade and warfare which included individuals that married into Viking communities and had children.

[@johnnorthtribe]

To have 5% finish DNA is not surprising at all. Specially if you are from east or north of Sweden. Finland was after all a part of the Swedish Kingdom for 6-700 years. 5% is also many many generations back like 5-6 generations at least. It means that ONE of your 64/128 great great great great great grand parent were of finish blood. And when it is some few % we are talking about 10-20 generations back. Or even more.

[@Furienna]

But he was Macedonian though?

[@dina113east]

Well Jens thought he may have some Italian ancestry and he didn't. In my case I am an American of Italian heritage and when I took a DNA test I found I have Scandinavian ancestry (Norwegian), as well as Scottish . Kind of surprised, even though I know Italians have ancestry from many European nations. So it is interesting to find surprises in our ancestry.

[@its-amestarlord]

North Italians are closer to Germans and French…south Italians are preety much of Greek stock.

[@dina113east]

@@its-amestarlord My ancestors were Neapolitan, which is in southern Italy. Sicilians and the people from the region of Puglia have more Greek ancestry. Neapolitans may have a small percentage of Greek ancestry, but have ancestry from many countries. I am a perfect example of that. I also have French ancestry and a small percentage of Swiss heritage.

[@Sylvia-Storm]

I’m just waiting for my results, and as I’m from England they could be anything. We’re such a mixed up lot.

[@wewenang5167]

WELL ITS EASIER FOR YOU GUYS CUZ YOU CAN EASILY TRACE YOUR ANCESTOR FROM YOUR FAMILY NAMES...ENGLISH ARE GOOD AT THAT LOL

[@francoisdaureville323]

Not really it probably Will be british and irish and scandinavian

[@Lindgrenoz1]

I got super dark brown hair (basically black) and most people think I’m asian or something, but I got about 55 % Swedish and 45 % Finnish. 😂 Weird! I would at least expect 1-5 % of something more exotic which could then explain the dark hair, even though our own knowledge of our family tree doesn’t show that.

[@SteamboatW]

I think that sounds about right... Finnish genes have been common in Sweden for hundreds of years.

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

Kanske är resande/romano? Du får förhöra släkten lite 😀

[@user-wd8de9tg3p]

"Finnish" basically means a mix of Scandinavian and Asian, as Fins came from Ural mountains in Siberia (that´s where their language originates, too). So if people see something Asian on you, it´s not that far fatched.

[@Lindgrenoz1]

@@user-wd8de9tg3psounds reasonable. However, in my case, the Finnish side (my mother) happens to be blonde with blue eyes (but the eyes do have little of an asian shape), so the dark hair is coming from the Swedish side in my case. Maybe it’s some Sami thing from way back or something. Interesting!

[@user-wd8de9tg3p]

@@Lindgrenoz1 Yes, Sami people are there, too. In some way or the other there is a not neglectable Asian influence through Siberian people in Scandinavia that alot of people aren't really aware of.

[@you-know-who9023]

North European, English, Scottish , Welsh and Irish DNA can be explained by Swedish History in 17th and 18th century, not Viking history. Apart from some Slaves most of those countries tend to reveal Nordic DNA as a result of Viking raiding, trading and settling down. Slaves from those countries were probably brought back home by Vikings but not very many.bIt was mainly the other direction For example Dublin was a Viking city and was allowed to remain a Norse city after the Irish defeated viking forces in 1014. The Swedish hired many mercenaries from Ireland and Scotland (who may easily have had some English DNA ) to fight in their armies. during the 17:th and 18th century and many of them settled down bringing wives from their home places after , or even during, their military careers. Many of their children would also have married people either from their home countries , which was particularly important to the Irish because of Roman Catholicism even if the pretended to be Lutherans for career reasons. Scottish and Welsh DNA because they are Celts would also be likely to be part of some Irish Mercenaries DNA , which Ironically would include some Scandinavian DNA passed down through centuries within Ireland .😊

[@kathyastrom1315]

My mom’s family is completely Irish, my dad’s mother was English and Dutch with a dash of French (and in doing the genealogy, I also found individual inclusions way back in the 1600s of people from Spain, Italy, and Northern Africa). But dad’s dad emigrated from Luleå to Chicago in 1924, so we have Swedish dna and a little bit of Finnish. When my sister and her husband had their dna done, her stepdaughter said that Sis was the whitest person she’d ever met, her results were so overwhelmingly Northern European. BIL was from Cuba, so his results were from four different continents.

[@kk-xi8li]

The, "how white are you test" Also, the first guy is cuuuuuteee

[@timolol6268]

For me, Jens's result looks the most Viking. His ancestors went to all those places then came back to Scandinavia.

[@charlotteillustration5778]

I had 60.8%, Scandinavian, 29.3% North and West European, 4.6% Ashkenazi Jewish, 3.9% North African, 1.4% Nigerian. I am blonde haired and blue eyed and English, with only the Northern European element not being a surprise. Wonderful to learn that I am such a mix!

[@MisoCloudy4880]

Nigeria?

[@MisoCloudy4880]

Lol

[@dejantodorovski5222]

Do not lie haha troll

[@suspiciouscat267]

The guy who had 100% wooooow is it even possible?

[@jadeh2699]

This is surprising. It makes me wonder how many people in the world have 100% of a given DNA. That's more amazing to me than a widely varied mix.

[@jackieblue1267]

People don't realise these tests are just going back 6 generations. The people that get mixed results are because they either don't have accurate panels to compare them to or those areas are just not distinctive enough and have had continuous mixture. Places like Scandinavia, Ireland, Finland etc have enough distinctive results so that they match well the panels for those populations. The panels are made up of people with long term ancestry in that population. Even then the results aren't always to be taken too literally as there is cross over with populations. MyHeritage is also likely to give people some unusual ethic mix than the other dna testing companies. They need to update their Ancestry algorithm. So yes people do get 100% results.

[@lucianaromulus1408]

Yes England is separate from Ireland, Scotland and Wales given one is primarily Anglo Saxon and the others primarily Celtic.

[@teelurizzo8542]

i say if one really wanted to perhaps some less obvious results besides autosomal (globals admixture) DNA results, would be for them to also take uniparental marker tests, that is for them to also test for their mtDNA and Y DNA haplotypes. Those sometimes offer interesting and rather unexpected results.

[@user-lz9oi5ye7b]

A lot of my guesses for them were accurate. I guessed Finnish for the guy that was surprised to have Finnish.

[@zmileyy]

Interesting! I also took the test a while ago (I live in Sweden and have a Finnish mother and a Swedish father) and I got 56,8% Finnish, 12,9% Baltic, 12,4% Eastern Europe, 10,4% Irish, Scottish and wales and 3,4% Scandinavian 😂 got two more but they had such a low % so I doesn’t count them in. (3,0% Central Asia, 1% Native American) 😅 My father on the other hand had 70,3% Scandinavian. So I’m not sure how to read the results exactly 😅

[@0wly]

All that proves is that finnish genes are stronger than weak scandinavian genes :D

[@sarasvensson6026]

Anything below 2% shouldn't be trusted, but the 3% Central Asia probably has some truth to it.

[@liksomkjeks183]

Your trace percentages (the low ones) may indicate Sami 😊

[@enjoyslearningandtravel7957]

I don’t Count anything below about four or 5% because I guess it could be a mistake ??

[@arpa9009]

cause we don't heritage 50% from each. an example a greatgrandmothers German, Russian (mom), Spanish, Greek (dad's side), then child can have onle German-Greek dna... I hope I helped you

[@jhayOfficial]

In Africa Watching you Kim...

[@rabbitazteca23]

that's cool!

[@otterlyfree8469]

That guy with Finnish DNA, probably is related to Vikings that were in the court of the Byzantium emperor.

[@oskarihastbacka6593]

Dude 50% of swedes have finnish dna, and thats becouse they were the same nation for 700 years😂

[@you-know-who9023]

Otterley I think you are correct. Of course the Byzantines were defeated by the Ottomans an North Macedonia was within the Ottoman Empire at times so descendants of those working within the Byzantine Empire would look for work within the Ottoman Empire. Networking and marriage among Finnish descendants would mean that substantial DNA would pass through the generations

[@SIG442]

Born in the Netherlands, but I know my family tree points to Scandinavia as do my looks. Danish, German and probably Norwegian from what the family tree tells me so far. No DNA test done yet

[@ericdpeerik3928]

You're saying you look to Germanic to live in a Germanic land?

[@lebanonlouise]

More Jens, please!

[@yahccs1]

Are there more Scandinavians testing on MyHeritage than on Ancestry? I'm English... expected to be 90-95% English, 3-5% Welsh & no idea what else, Ancestry said I'm 12% from Sweden/Denmark! Perhaps that dates back to the Vikings...! Then I uploaded the same DNA test results onto MyHeritage and it said I'm just over 18% Scandinavian, and have a few matches from Sweden, Denmark and FInland that could be as close as 4th cousins!! So either there are just a lot more Scandinavians on My Heritage, or perhaps a Scandinavian person is one of those fairly recent unknown ancestors on my family tree, or some of the siblings and cousins of my ancestors went abroad and brought some English DNA into those countries. But these are just Estimates... and who knows how I could really relate to those possible Scandinavian cousins that are probably more distant thatn 4th cousins? They may have English ancestors they don't know about, but I'm suspecting it is more likely I have a Swedish or Danish ancestor not too far back.

[@fdcreis]

I guess I'm just a bit more exotic ahahah: 48.6% Iberian; 14.3% English; 6.4% Italian; 6.1% East European; 5% Irish, Scottish and Welsh; 4,2% Balcanic; 14.5% North African; 0.9% Nigerian - Those were my surprising DNA results

[@dejantodorovski5222]

Brasilian with less ethnicities obviously 🙂👍

[@Bigburma]

I would love to see people from the Aosta region in Italy. My mother's father's parents come from that area. It would be interesting to see if people from there are from Italy or France

[@user-vc8on7fm2o]

France.

[@Bigburma]

@@user-vc8on7fm2o Aosta is a region in Italy that borders on both France and Switzerland.

[@Ocidad]

love you scandinavia people ❤ many beautiful people

[@pieterjan29]

Belguim here I am 65% Scandinavian. Never heard of any relatives comming from over there. But I think I can feel that my horns are growing

[@missalyxlouise]

I am 2% Scandinavian....thanks to have taken a test recently myself. Most of me was English, (Cornish specifically), German, mainly old what was Prussia and Austria, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and a little Balkan. The Scandinavian was Swedish and Danish.

[@johnsmith_1942]

Vikings often are a very mixed breed, indeed.

[@sounsure9108]

So a Viking landed in Cornwall…

[@susanf1566]

I'm 2% as well. 48% Scot/Irish.

[@Behemot_]

I'm spanish and in this test i have 5,4 % scandinavian... I think is because the visigoths.

[@RS-ln3ns]

VISIGOTHS WERE GERMANIC AND NOT SCANDINAVIAN.

[@Behemot_]

@@RS-ln3ns "The Visigoths emerged from the Gothic tribes, probably a derivative name for the Gutones, a people believed to have their origins in Scandinavia and who migrated southeastwards into eastern Europe."

[@RS-ln3ns]

@@Behemot_ IT'S BELIEVED THAT THE VISIGOTHS WERE A GERMANIC TRIBE, FROM GERMANY. DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT THEORIES OF WHERE THEY REALLY CAME FROM, ORIGINALLY BUT MOST SAY THAT THEY ARE A GERMANIC TRIBE.

[@mikaelnilsson7313]

You had a lot of scandinavian volounters fighting in the spanish civil war, and all the sailors over the years. The swedish east India company used to stop in Cadiz and traded their goods for silver before setting sails for China and so on.

[@RS-ln3ns]

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WAS FROM 1936-1939. THIS WAS NOT LONG AGO SO IF SOMEONE IN SPAIN HAS SCANDINAVIAN DNA, BECAUSE OF THOSE SCANDINAVIAN VOLUNTEERS, FIGHTING DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, THEY WILL KNOW ABOUT IT. FROM THE 1930'S, ANYBODY WOULD KNOW WHO THEIR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS WERE AND MANY SPANISH PEOPLE WHO HAVE SCANDINAVIAN DNA, KNOWS THAT THEIR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS WERE SPANISH, FROM THAT PERIOD AND NOT SCANDINAVIAN SO THE SCANDINAVIAN DNA MUST HAVE BEEN FROM FURTHER BACK, IN HISTORY, WELL BEFORE THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, POSSIBLY SEVERAL DECADES OR EVEN CENTURIES BEFORE.

[@matthewknobel6954]

As an american I am mixed. I am 53% England, 23% Sweden/Demark, 11% German, 8% Scotland, 5% Wales

[@HeatherRenee2017]

I did mine through MyHeritage as well, I live in Texas, I have Scandinavian, North and West European, East European, English, Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish Scottish and Welsh. My Viking ancestors moved around a lot 😂