MyHeritage Update Confirmed late June 2024

[ScandinavianCelt]

Has anyone found that uploading a merged file to MH works better than an individual data set?

Also, why was Beowulf banned?

[R1b-L51]

Has anyone found that uploading a merged file to MH works better than an individual data set?

Also, why was Beowulf banned?

Beowulf has banned himself many times, I think they do it to study or undertake projects without getting distracted

[Celestia]

Much more accurate than before:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=137105&d=1738421334
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=137106&d=1738421357

[Purple Panther]

Much more accurate than before:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=137105&d=1738421334

Do you know why they grouped Scottish with Welsh? It seems like nothing makes sense.

[JerryS.]

Such a dichotomy. I don't expect them to get it right for me.

No Irish at all, but I have new French ancestry?

This was an Ancestry file sent to them. I have a G25 and raw data from 23/me also on an old computer.

[ScandinavianCelt]

Such a dichotomy. I don't expect them to get it right for me.

No Irish at all, but I have new French ancestry?

This was an Ancestry file sent to them. I have a G25 and raw data from 23/me also on an old computer.

what's the % for each though??

[Impaler]

Updated for my father:

https://i.ibb.co/NgpvSt6D/Screenshot-20250201-215914.png (https://ibb.co/Kc7Pwbj4)

[Eurafricanid]

It's worse for mixed-race people

https://i.imgur.com/rT9SwJm.jpeg

[hazmatnik]

Didn't get this new update and i hope i never will, based on what i see.

[digital_noise]

My Heritage was always correct for me, if you looked at the. IG picture. Things got messy in the fine details. Some things are better, some less so with the update.
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[Feiichy]

https://i.imgur.com/KklOjk6.png

[Feiichy]

Update is a mess, one before summer was much better but people complained because they were not "diverse enough" and got boring results :picard2:

What this update improved incredible is a Jewish thing. Before the update MH assigned Jewish randomly, often just like a modeling random southern component. Now you only score it if you really have such ancestry, just like on 23andme and AncestryDNA.

[Figaro]

Mom:

East European: 32%
Baltic: 26.8% (Group: Lithuania and Poland)
Danish: 18.8% (Denmark, Skane, Sleswig-Holstein)
Germanic: 8.7%
Dutch: 4.5%
Ashkenazi: 3.1% (Germany, France, Netherlands)
Balkan: 2.7%
Ashkenazi (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechia): 2.4%
Norwegian: 1.0%

My mother doesn’t get Lithuania as a region on 23andme but has Polish/Belarusian relatives who do. Makes me wonder if the “Lithuanians in Lithuania and some in Poland” just might be legit.

[Figaro]

My father’s updated result:

Danish:27% (Gene group: Funen)
Germanic: 14.2%
Scottish+Welsh: 11.5%
English: 11.4%
Irish: 11.% (Cork group)
Dutch: 10.4%
East European: 8.2%
Baltic: 2.5%
Swedish: 1.5%
Breton: 1.3%
Balkan: 1.0%

[Mortimer]

I still have no update it just says coming soon like since a year now?

[Gannicus]

Just checked this morning. I’m now able to upgrade to V2.5 results will be ready tomorrow.

[Mortimer]

Just checked this morning. I’m now able to upgrade to V2.5 results will be ready tomorrow.

Me too now it says tomorrow it will be ready

[Beowulf]

Beowulf has banned himself many times, I think they do it to study or undertake projects without getting distracted


Yeah! I had a quite busy week and i was feeling a bit stressed! But it's finally over and i'm here again :)

[ScandinavianCelt]

Does anyone here have a merged file result from Ancestry and 23andMe to compare their own result with a direct MyHeritage DNA test result? Or just Ancestry or 23andMe separate from MyHeritage?

[Beowulf]

My results were quite bad, i feel dissapointed and upset with them, i have sent them an email asking how did they made my eastern european and northwestern european recent ancestry dissapear!!


Spanish, Catalan and Basque 75.6%
French 8.8%
South Italian 6.3%
Breton 2.7%
Sardinian 2.7%
Portuguese 2.0%
North Italian 1.9%


Additional genetic group:
Suriname, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium
Suriname (Paramaribo) and Netherlands #1

[Grace O'Malley]

Do you think my French genetics are that diverse that I would only end up 7% French? I mean how deep is this ancestry going 800 years it's definitely not three four or five hundred years. Also both companies can't be correct meaning ancestry giving me 38% French or this company giving me 7%, so which one should we trust? As far as I know the sample database for ancestry is so much greater than this company that they would be able to more accurately do identity by descent connections.

DNA testing companies only go back about 6 generations. It will depend on how you match their sample panels. MyHeritage has increased their samples but I'm not sure whether companies can really give good fine scale results. 23&Me appears the most accurate but that is because they haven't gone too finescale. Also countries like France are very varied in genetics and that is why French people will get a very varied result. It's obvious a lot of countries have a lot of overlap. How much French ancestry do you have and where is it from?

[ScandinavianCelt]

DNA testing companies only go back about 6 generations. It will depend on how you match their sample panels. MyHeritage has increased their samples but I'm not sure whether companies can really give good fine scale results. 23&Me appears the most accurate but that is because they haven't gone too finescale. Also countries like France are very varied in genetics and that is why French people will get a very varied result. It's obvious a lot of countries have a lot of overlap. How much French ancestry do you have and where is it from?

My father's father (Gerard) is French(Canadian), and that paternal line left Normandy, Rouen, to Canada in 1636. The autosomal DNA on that side is varied though, I'm sure, with 569 original French immigrants to Canada that I have record of, almost all from mid 1600's. 23andMe links me to their samples as primarily from Aquitaine, however, which is SW France into Basque territories. I'm the first generation born from France without a French first name. My Dad said he gave me an English name in memory of his mother. Mom, being Swedish, wanted to name me Erik. Oh well. English first name, French surname, and I'm mostly Swedish. Go figure. I should change my name to Bjorn Rogerson, since my dad's name is Roger? :)

I'm now the 12th generation on my male bloodline, born in North America. My dad is at least half French, genetically, so I'm not sure how I get such a mix with MH. My Dad's Mom has an English surname, but it went to England from France with William the Conqueror. It was Pinel at that time, a Biblical name from Penuel, which meant "from the peak"-- apparently the family guarded the southern border of France from the Roman Empire a long time back, according to an in-depth family report I found online of the name, which became in England such as Pinnel, Pernell, Parnell, and Pannell. Is is probably my most prestigious line genealogically, with lots of royal roots in England.

[RyoHazuki]

On the left side of the page go to the Ethnicity Version and select v2.5

Its the same as the one from 2024

[RyoHazuki]

They said my update will be ready tomorrow

[Beowulf]

https://i.redd.it/cv9lb7sxhqge1.jpeg


https://www.reddit.com/r/MyHeritage/comments/1ify2k7/myheritage_blog_what_could_the_third_pillar_be/#lightbox


I wonder what do they mean by " a third pillar" ?!!

[Dušan]

https://i.imgur.com/G8mjjtB.png


From what I have seen on Reddit and Poreklo forum, all Serbs got similar results +-5%.

[RyoHazuki]

Not impressed, its basically the same as before but feels like they tack on a ton of trace Northern European ethnicities without actually being more accurate. Not even a new genetic group from my saliva sample, lame!

Your ethnicity results
Updated
Ethnicity version: v2.5
Europe
English
31.8%
Scottish and Welsh
26.7%
Dutch
11.7%
French
8.1%
Germanic
7.8%
Irish
5.7%
Danish
3.5%
Breton
3.1%
Swedish
1.6%

[RyoHazuki]

My results were quite bad, i feel dissapointed and upset with them, i have sent them an email asking how did they made my eastern european and northwestern european recent ancestry dissapear!!


Spanish, Catalan and Basque 75.6%
French 8.8%
South Italian 6.3%
Breton 2.7%
Sardinian 2.7%
Portuguese 2.0%
North Italian 1.9%


Additional genetic group:
Suriname, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium
Suriname (Paramaribo) and Netherlands #1

It is about the same for me. I feel like I am not looking at my ancestry but my closest G25 distances next to percentages.

[vlrs-2]

Balkan 46,2%

Greek and Albanian 40,1%

East European 8,6%

Baltic 3,2%

South Italian 1,9%


This is their best version so far because they finally managed to provide a stable model producing similar results between people from the same nation. Previously, there were vast differences in the percentages and the regions - one scored Balkan, another Eastern Euro. Now from other's people results, I see very similar situation.

[djipon]

Balkan 46,2%

Greek and Albanian 40,1%

East European 8,6%

Baltic 3,2%

South Italian 1,9%


This is their best version so far because they finally managed to provide a stable model producing similar results between people from the same nation. Previously, there were vast differences in the percentages and the regions - one scored Balkan, another Eastern Euro. Now from other's people results, I see very similar situation.

They made it so good that my whole family is identical triplets now.

[Grace O'Malley]

Not impressed, its basically the same as before but feels like they tack on a ton of trace Northern European ethnicities without actually being more accurate. Not even a new genetic group from my saliva sample, lame!

Your ethnicity results
Updated
Ethnicity version: v2.5
Europe
English
31.8%
Scottish and Welsh
26.7%
Dutch
11.7%
French
8.1%
Germanic
7.8%
Irish
5.7%
Danish
3.5%
Breton
3.1%
Swedish
1.6%

They haven't updated the genetic groups only the ethnicity.

[Gannicus]

Updated 2.5 results with the saliva/cheek swab sample I sent MyHeritage:

Europe

English
33.6%

French
17.4%

Scottish and Welsh
15.2%

Germanic
13.0%

Breton
7.6%

Dutch
5.9%

Danish
4.7%

Irish
1.6%

Sardinian
1.0%

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23&Me V5:


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Ancestry.com:

71%
England & Northwestern Europe

19%
Scotland

3%
Germanic Europe

3%
The Netherlands

2%
Denmark

2%
Wales

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[hazmatnik]

https://i.postimg.cc/L4QR1wtG/1.jpg (https://postimg.cc/RqtjrPbT)

[Mortimer]

https://i.ibb.co/4Zn8QWzZ/Screenshot-2025-02-03-00-02-46-475-com-android-chrome.jpg (https://ibb.co/MDxcXnrD)
https://i.ibb.co/fVpHjbYt/Screenshot-2025-02-03-00-03-15-849-com-android-chrome.jpg (https://ibb.co/PshgqRZ4)

[vlrs-2]

All kits are upgraded as of today:

Me:

Balkan 46,2%

Greek and Albanian 40,1%

East European 8,6%

Baltic 3,2%

South Italian 1,9%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Serbia, BiH, Croatia
- Poland, Slovakia, Czech, Hungary

***

Brother:

Balkan 48.6%

Greek and Albanian 29.5%

East European 12.7%

Baltic 1.1%

South Italian 8.1%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Romania

***

Grandfather:

Balkan 49.9%

Greek and Albanian 39.0%

East European 6.3%

North Italian 1%

South Italian 3.8%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Romania

***


A friend:

Balkan 50.8%

Greek and Albanian 35.2%

East European 10.2%

South Italian 3.8%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Romania

[djipon]

All kits are upgraded as of today:

Me:

Balkan 46,2%

Greek and Albanian 40,1%

East European 8,6%

Baltic 3,2%

South Italian 1,9%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Serbia, BiH, Croatia
- Poland, Slovakia, Czech, Hungary

***

Brother:

Balkan 48.6%

Greek and Albanian 29.5%

East European 12.7%

Baltic 1.1%

South Italian 8.1%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Romania

***

Grandfather:

Balkan 49.9%

Greek and Albanian 39.0%

East European 6.3%

North Italian 1%

South Italian 3.8%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Romania

***


A friend:

Balkan 50.8%

Greek and Albanian 35.2%

East European 10.2%

South Italian 3.8%

Groups:

- Bulgaria
- Romania

DM me, I'm working on a project to make a big database with Bulgarian samples and a calculator. I want to test you on it if you are interested.

[Cernunnos]

With the recent update a few things have changed! :)

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1124094378554699826/1334652609381793792/Screenshot_2025-01-30-17-02-16-828_air.com.myheritage.mobile.jpg?ex=67a1ecda&is=67a09b5a&hm=b2d73289fe4eea76f2615e7d74579800599dbc143133d4a ccbd988df5ba792a4&=&format=webp&width=269&height=597

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1124094378554699826/1334652609692176425/Screenshot_2025-01-30-17-02-23-944_air.com.myheritage.mobile.jpg?ex=67a1ecda&is=67a09b5a&hm=2a93073e64614786eba0faa1a87e52a78e932ecf5bb16ba 38546b17373f65406&=&format=webp&width=269&height=597

77,6% Portuguese
7,3% Spanish, Catalan and Basque
3,1% Sardinian
1,7% French,
1,6% Breton
1,4% South Italian
5,7% Algerian
1,6% Tunisian

[Dušan]

Little Serbian collection

https://i.imgur.com/9XYbflx.jpeg

[Scandal]

My new results make much more sense. No more mysterious Welsh, Ashkenazi Jewish and Finnish percentages.

New result:

East European 64.4%

Balkan 18.7%

Baltic 7.3%

Germanic 6.4%

Greek and Albanian 1.8%

North Italian 1.4%

old result:

East European 57.2%

Balkan 28.7%

Irish, Scottish, and Welsh 7.5%

Ashkenazi Jewish 5.5%

Finnish 1.1%

[Rhegion]

Finally received the updates! This is the comparison from the MyHeritage kits. However, definitely improved compared to v0.95.

https://i.postimg.cc/CwFRKCNV/My-Heritage-Family-2-5-vs-0-95-vertical.png

[Kaspias]

https://i.ibb.co/LXy9Ft4t/newsresults.png

[Luke35]

No more Eskimo

Well my old friend, after all these years, the Eskimo finally is gone :)

What are your thoughts on your updated estimate?

[Gannicus]

v2.5 results with my 23&Me and Ancestry DNA files.

23&Me:

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Ancestry:

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Both Ancestry and 23&Me assign more British Isles derived ancestry than the result from the cheek swab sample I sent to MyHeritage.

[Leto]

Mine
https://i.ibb.co/JFz5qX3G/MH-mine.png
Dad's
https://i.ibb.co/qFVZyVmN/MH-dad.png

Mom's
https://i.ibb.co/DHQ2v7Zt/MH-mom.png

Brother-in-law's
https://i.ibb.co/20B8SyfR/MH-VSh.png

The Balkan thing looks pretty random as we're not supposed to have a drop of Southern European blood.

[Coastal Elite]

https://i.imgur.com/x8pMGVr.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/5cSFcD1.jpeg

The last update seemed more accurate for me

[hazmatnik]

My family (grandparents, aunts) results:

https://i.postimg.cc/2SPZGH0r/Untitled-1-1.jpg (https://postimg.cc/bZ9rNRXB)

Interestingly, only my paternal gradma didn't get Romania.

[MCMXCV]

Is there a particular reason why the only previous ethnicity estimate version that can be accessed is v0.95?

My initial estimate with three ethnic groups was later updated into 100% of just one, and now I have five of them with this latest update…

[Dardanos]

Old
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New
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[Solitude]

they need to refine it better to mixed people , i got almost 35 percent ssa and amerindian did overlap with mexico

[Vojnik]

I've gained Georgian which I'm happy about.

https://i.postimg.cc/vmbVkm6L/VFVBGD.png (https://postimg.cc/G4gtsdKH)

[Christine Eckard]

Finally got my update. It still thinks I'm Mexican. Guessing that must be a small bit of Amerindian.


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[Kaspias]

Well my old friend, after all these years, the Eskimo finally is gone :)

What are your thoughts on your updated estimate?

Similar to AncestryDNA - they are top two now. I liked it that it is not conservative in terms of genetic communities, as well as they are listening their customer feedback.

[Ritz06]

https://i.imgur.com/4fXmcFG.png?1

[#Oda#]

https://i.postimg.cc/C5pnWXDx/mh.png (https://postimages.org/)

This is a quantum jump in consistency compared with the estimations before (below).
And the results also fit perfectly with the genealogy research - father totally Lower Saxon, mother‘s ancestry a small part further East.
Even Ancestry did not find my EE components, but astonishingly MyH did.

We are all estimated more Dutch than German, well, prob. due to lack of references.