My heritage DNA matches

[Celestia]

How reliable and accurate would you say Myheritage dna matches are?
I have a decent amount of “cousins” from Finland and I have never received Finnish on any results I’ve gotten back.

[Mortimer]

Im not sure. But I think 23andme matches are more reliable.

[Ljubic]

How reliable and accurate would you say Myheritage dna matches are?
I have a decent amount of “cousins” from Finland and I have never received Finnish on any results I’ve gotten back.

Same with me. I think that there are many Finns testing which results in matching with a high amount of them if you have any Germanic (Scandinavian) ancestry.

[Matty74]

Europeans use myheritiage.com far more than the other standardized testing companies. How many matches in Finland?

[Celestia]

Europeans use myheritiage.com far more than the other standardized testing companies. How many matches in Finland?

115 which is higher than some of the countries of my known ancestry

[Celestia]

Same with me. I think that there are many Finns testing which results in matching with a high amount of them if you have any Germanic (Scandinavian) ancestry.


I have Norwegian ancestry so that might be why

[Matty74]

Yea, same here. I have 30 Finnish matches, but 899 Norwegian matches but 9/10 of my "spanish" matches are actually Norwegian expatriates. Maybe your northern Norwegian ancestors had some distant contact with Saami Finns. Idk

[firemonkey]

My matches with Ancestry data (10 or more matches )


USA
3,354
Great Britain
927
Australia
284
Canada
218
New Zealand
146
Norway
130
Germany
83
Netherlands
79
Sweden
72
France
68
Ireland
54
Denmark
44
Spain
20
Switzerland
17
Finland
15
Italy
10

[firemonkey]

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[Pine]

Just because they're form Finland, doesn't mean they're fully Finnish.

[Celestia]

Just because they're form Finland, doesn't mean they're fully Finnish.

Of course. I look at their ethnicity though and it says Finnish and none for Scandinavian.
But my heritage ethnicity admixture is a joke compared to others.

[21993]

How reliable and accurate would you say Myheritage dna matches are?
I have a decent amount of “cousins” from Finland and I have never received Finnish on any results I’ve gotten back.

Finns have some Scandinavian DNA