My LivingDNA Test Results Are Here

[RyoHazuki]

https://i.imgur.com/ViIMgTm_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

It faired somewhat better than I anticipated. Granted, I'm only really disappointed that the French element is very low and not specific, but it's a step in the right direction.

[RyoHazuki]

My K15 map after uploading to Gedmatch
https://i.imgur.com/1lbRzLs_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[Rædwald]

I kind of want to do this test, what are your full results?

[RyoHazuki]

I kind of want to do this test, what are your full results?

It's kind of hard to capture the full result on a phone, the mobile site isn't very well designed.
https://i.imgur.com/zmvPRy6_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[J. Ketch]

Do you know where your British ancestry is from or is it just long-term Anglo-American?

[Graham]

I'd expect quite a few Americans to score around South West Scotland & Norn Ireland. That is where a lot of our emigrants came from who crossed the Atlantic.

[RyoHazuki]

Do you know where your British ancestry is from or is it just long-term Anglo-American?

Broadly speaking, London area, Southwest, and the Northeast. Most of my ancestry is from the American south and is where both Anglo and French sides appear.

[RyoHazuki]

I'd expect quite a few Americans to score around South West Scotland & Norn Ireland. That is where a lot of our emigrants came from who crossed the Atlantic.

Hillbillies :D

[JamesBond007]

I kind of want to do this test, what are your full results?

I'm sorry to say, old chum, they are all bullshit it is not worth your money. One the whole I I suspect these tests give me more 'Irish' results simply because I have an hiberno-norman 'Irish sounding' name but the Olde English , of Ireland, are Anglo-Norman.

This is what MyTrueAncestry says about all these commercial tests such as AncestryDNA, 23andme, and livingDNA etc... :


How can MyTrueAncestry categorize yp to 250+ modern groups ?

Unlike other companies which try to cater to target audiences pre-conceptions about their identity, MyTrueAncestry focuses in accurately determing one's closest match based on tens of thousands of data samples.

This is what I say :

Truth has no manners. It is no respecter of persons. It wounds kings as deeply as commoners. It cuts down the high, and confirms the lowness of the low. It may dress up for formal occasions, but it does so only in order that it may more shockingly expose itself in front of the assembled company. And just as it respects no one, likewise there are few who respect it. But those who do are granted many favors -- power, understanding, dominion, and of course the honor of the unswerving hatred of the ignorant millions.

Not that I think MTA is the holy grail or something but they have a point. Unless the service you are using can be done anonymously such as these :


http://genetics.cs.ucla.edu/spa/

https://gen3553.pagesperso-orange.fr/ADN/Europe.htm

^ Those both put me in England and they don't know I have an 'Irish sounding' name because it is anonymous so more 'scientific' but not all anymous services are 'scientific' if that makes sense.

Meanwhile here are my LivingDNA results :


https://i.postimg.cc/25n732D4/livingdna.png


Not all people want to know the truth and yes these results are more 'boring' but I regard them as the truth :

SPA results from the college of UCLA :

https://i.postimg.cc/7689HjJ1/spa.png


From Tolan a 'genius' Frenchman (both links given above or see above) :


https://i.postimg.cc/SKDQkbv3/memap2.png

[J. Ketch]

Broadly speaking, London area, Southwest, and the Northeast. Most of my ancestry is from the American south and is where both Anglo and French sides appear.
So you have pretty mixed British ancestry, makes sense. I assume that is mostly from centuries ago.

LivingDNA used to have a confidence bar, so you wouldn't get as many small percentages from around Britain, but more broad results. It's a shame they got rid of it. Despite that, LDNA is pretty broadly accurate for me in identifying my main regions, the smaller ones can mostly be ignored. The small regions are a bit of a gimmick, as I don't think most English ancestry can be easily separated.

I get little Southern percentages, but all my English ancestry comes from the North Midlands, bordering the Northwest. Adding the English regions together though, it's accurate. And at least it doesn't give 30% fake Scottish like Ancestry. The Scottish percentages you got are more likely to be legit.
https://i.postimg.cc/0Nww8gtB/Opera-Snapshot-2020-02-03-055038-my-livingdna-com.png

They've always been known to assign or exaggerate British ancestry that isn't there for people with continental ancestry though, which screws things up.