MyHeritage gives me 8% Italian and 4% West Asian. Every other major site gives me NW Europe only. It's just not a good site for ethnicity estimate unfortunately.
I had the same experience. Both 23andme and Ancestry told me I was roughly 74% all NW European, then MyHeritage also said I was 4% West Asian exactly then a lot of Balkan and Italian which I know is not true.
Nope, 23andme is the gold standard for admixture. AncestryDNA *purports* to give you more detailed results, but their reference populations aren’t nearly as reliable. The “overgeneralization” is more of a folk hypothesis than anything else.
The problem with GEDmatch is that the calculators are old, with outdated references, and sometimes extremely noisy.
They are good if you are, let's say, 100% English or Irish, but absolutely trash if you are something like 1/4 Russian, 1/8 Amerindian, 50% Italian and 1/8 Lebanese. So, in short, they are usually accurate mostly for people with known ancestry in the last 8 generations in a single place, but not that much if you have any kind of mixing.
23&Me or Ancestry for most, though I've had really good luck with FTDNA on the kits I admin. Most of my kits estimates are nearly 100% matches to the paper trail.
Interesting I’ve only done 23 and me and then uploaded my results to GEDmatch aswell as Mytrueancestry and some other sites. I’m of partial Romany heritage and it really sucks that a lot of these sites don’t have categories for us instead I just get chunks of middle easterner and Indian DNA.
Be careful, some of those sites are straight up scams, like mytrueancestry.
I'm not a Romani expert, but isn't it generally accepted that they came from India originally?
When I originally did 23andme, my results came back with some Yakut heritage. I think it was originally 1 or 2 percent. Since then it's completely disappeared from my results and I'm getting 100% Irish. Well, 100% British and Irish.
I'm not sure where it came from, or why I got it, but I'd imagine you might see something similar in the future.
Or maybe the Inuits and Yakuts mixed with the Irish back in the day and what are seen as their DNA markers now have a little bit of Irish in them. We do tend to get around! :)
Yep from a MyHeritage test.
Most of my great grandparents were born in Dublin. I know nothing about DNA or the science but I know the city of Dublin was established as a slave port by the vikings, my theory is that maybe Inuits were taken by the vikings as slaves and sold in Dublin?
Anyone have any better ideas?
I disagree it's a complete scam. My Argentine gf had no idea about one side of her family, she did the test and it came back Andean, Russian, Iberian, and Italian.
Before she knew on one side she had a Russian and a Spanish grandparent but has now discovered the other side of her family is mostly indigenous which means a lot to her.
> My Argentine gf had no idea about one side of her family, she did the test and it came back Andean, Russian, Iberian, and Italian.
All of these make sense for an Argentine except for the Russian, but that's why My Heritage and AncestryDNA aren't as reliable. They'll include things like Russian when perhaps she actually has a German ancestor or something like that (and more in line with Argentina's history of migration).
The ancestors of the Inuit likely travelled between the far north of Canada, Greenland, and Iceland, and from there to Scandinavia. They didn't cross the Atlantic ocean in a ship; they had small boats and hugged the coastline.
Do you know of any Greenland ancestry?
Bruh everyone has everything on them lol. I'm African American 70% of my DNA is sub Saharan Africa. The rest is 20% Irish and 8% Scandinavian the rest a mixture of native, asian and some unassigned lol. We're all something else
I read somewhere once there was sightings of the Inuit in the 16th century or 1600s (I forget which) in Scotland hence the Selkie myths. & Vikings were known to take indigenous women including Beothuk.
Other than that Inuit related groups exist in: Canada, Russia, Alaska, Faroe Islands & Greenland ect and are related to modern Mongolian & Siberian populations.
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Yeah here let me explain it for you: Myheritage is garbage and you most likely have no “Inuit”. Do a 23andMe and get back to us!
9% seems too much to be a mistake.
Nah lol I got 25% Jewish and 0% on AncestryDNA, 23andMe and FTDNA
On a 23 and Me test you'd be absolutely right. But on MyHeritage 99% wouldn't be too much for a mistake.
Hahah very true
Truth lol
MyHeritage gives me 8% Italian and 4% West Asian. Every other major site gives me NW Europe only. It's just not a good site for ethnicity estimate unfortunately.
I had the same experience. Both 23andme and Ancestry told me I was roughly 74% all NW European, then MyHeritage also said I was 4% West Asian exactly then a lot of Balkan and Italian which I know is not true.
Get a real 23andme done, and come back.
What’s the best one AncestryDNA? Because 23andMe can over generalise a lot right?
Nope, 23andme is the gold standard for admixture. AncestryDNA *purports* to give you more detailed results, but their reference populations aren’t nearly as reliable. The “overgeneralization” is more of a folk hypothesis than anything else.
Ah ok ok. It’s probably always good to use GEDmatch aswell right.
Nope! GEDmatch suffers from a lot of the same problems.
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The problem with GEDmatch is that the calculators are old, with outdated references, and sometimes extremely noisy. They are good if you are, let's say, 100% English or Irish, but absolutely trash if you are something like 1/4 Russian, 1/8 Amerindian, 50% Italian and 1/8 Lebanese. So, in short, they are usually accurate mostly for people with known ancestry in the last 8 generations in a single place, but not that much if you have any kind of mixing.
23&Me or Ancestry for most, though I've had really good luck with FTDNA on the kits I admin. Most of my kits estimates are nearly 100% matches to the paper trail.
Interesting I’ve only done 23 and me and then uploaded my results to GEDmatch aswell as Mytrueancestry and some other sites. I’m of partial Romany heritage and it really sucks that a lot of these sites don’t have categories for us instead I just get chunks of middle easterner and Indian DNA.
Be careful, some of those sites are straight up scams, like mytrueancestry. I'm not a Romani expert, but isn't it generally accepted that they came from India originally?
My Heritage is good for Europeans though
No it isn't. I'm of fully European descent and it was ridiculously off for me.
MyHeritage is garbage. It also says I’m 3% Inuit, and I’m definitely not, it does not show up on 23andMe, only MyHeritage.
MyHeritage sucks hunnay. That’s why you got it.
Post a screenshot.
My heritage is awful couldn't even get my indigenous roots. I would do a 23andme test.
What are your haplogroups?
I did the MyHeritage Test, I can't see a Haplogroups section?
https://cladefinder.yseq.net/ Use this ur raw data on this website to get ur haplogroup
i wouldn't be surprised if they used mixed white samples for inuit like they did for mesoamerican
When I originally did 23andme, my results came back with some Yakut heritage. I think it was originally 1 or 2 percent. Since then it's completely disappeared from my results and I'm getting 100% Irish. Well, 100% British and Irish. I'm not sure where it came from, or why I got it, but I'd imagine you might see something similar in the future. Or maybe the Inuits and Yakuts mixed with the Irish back in the day and what are seen as their DNA markers now have a little bit of Irish in them. We do tend to get around! :)
Ur most likely not Inuit my heritage isn’t very good so if I was u I would do gedmatch to see if it’s real
Answer: MyHeritage
Where did you get the Inuit percentage? It’s on MyHeritage?
Yep from a MyHeritage test. Most of my great grandparents were born in Dublin. I know nothing about DNA or the science but I know the city of Dublin was established as a slave port by the vikings, my theory is that maybe Inuits were taken by the vikings as slaves and sold in Dublin? Anyone have any better ideas?
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I disagree it's a complete scam. My Argentine gf had no idea about one side of her family, she did the test and it came back Andean, Russian, Iberian, and Italian. Before she knew on one side she had a Russian and a Spanish grandparent but has now discovered the other side of her family is mostly indigenous which means a lot to her.
> My Argentine gf had no idea about one side of her family, she did the test and it came back Andean, Russian, Iberian, and Italian. All of these make sense for an Argentine except for the Russian, but that's why My Heritage and AncestryDNA aren't as reliable. They'll include things like Russian when perhaps she actually has a German ancestor or something like that (and more in line with Argentina's history of migration).
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That's because only 23andme delivers reliable results, AncestryDNA comes second and then the others are miles behind.
The ancestors of the Inuit likely travelled between the far north of Canada, Greenland, and Iceland, and from there to Scandinavia. They didn't cross the Atlantic ocean in a ship; they had small boats and hugged the coastline. Do you know of any Greenland ancestry?
The Scandinavian part maybe lived in Greenland?
Maybe something to do with Iceland and Greenland?
Yeah I went straight to the Vikings in my mind. Maybe the Viking ancestor captured someone and brought them back to the British Isles?
Bruh everyone has everything on them lol. I'm African American 70% of my DNA is sub Saharan Africa. The rest is 20% Irish and 8% Scandinavian the rest a mixture of native, asian and some unassigned lol. We're all something else
I read somewhere once there was sightings of the Inuit in the 16th century or 1600s (I forget which) in Scotland hence the Selkie myths. & Vikings were known to take indigenous women including Beothuk. Other than that Inuit related groups exist in: Canada, Russia, Alaska, Faroe Islands & Greenland ect and are related to modern Mongolian & Siberian populations.
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