FTDNA - MyOrigins update

West Middle Eastern 41%
Asia Minor 30%
North Africa 3%
Sephardic Jew 22%
South east Asia 2%
South central asia 2%
eastern Europe 2%

jewish is a proxy for ancient levantine ancestry

For me, and some friends, few Trace Results changed from <2% to <1%, It looks a bit even now and "better".

Check yours;

I got the same update. it looks better for now.

Asia Minor 70%
Central Asia 16%
Sephardic 8%
West Middle East 4%
East Middle East < 2%

https://s20.postimg.org/k87vbdlrh/IM...620_101406.png

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Originally Posted by Potentia

I'm not all too sure that this is accurate.

As, I really don't think I have Eastern European Ancestry. Besides Iberian, I have German, British, and Norwegian ancestry.... Where did my British and German go?

Also, Asia Minor? I wonder if that could be my Sephardic Ancestry.

https://i.gyazo.com/d979836297fb0d6f...10ca460613.png

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cool results :)
maybe your german ancestors where from eastern germany ?
because eastern germans do score this eastern european component ...
regards
adam

FTDNA is rubbish compared to other major companies. For example, my girlfriend's 23andme pretty accurately represented her (1/4 British, 1/8 German (South Tyrol), 1/8 Italian, 1/2 Chinese). FTDNA gives her 40% SE Asia, 10% NE Asia, 28% Eastern Europe (?), 15% West Euro, only 6% British, trace Scando and SE Euro.

It's just an anecdote but we all know dozens of similarly barmy results.

did you try my heritage ?
if you do can you share your results in the forum
regards
adam

p.s
they{ ftdna my origins 2.0} notice your sefhardi
and also my sefhardi

maybe they read her german as eastern european and also west central euro

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Originally Posted by Longbowman

FTDNA is rubbish compared to other major companies. For example, my girlfriend's 23andme pretty accurately represented her (1/4 British, 1/8 German (South Tyrol), 1/8 Italian, 1/2 Chinese). FTDNA gives her 40% SE Asia, 10% NE Asia, 28% Eastern Europe (?), 15% West Euro, only 6% British, trace Scando and SE Euro.

It's just an anecdote but we all know dozens of similarly barmy results.

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The update is inexact on many points ...

Already, some Europeans get 1 to 5 (or even more) percent of Asia Minor origin (and this is not a "Moorish" origin); Finnish origin is not recognized as European and "Eastern Europe" also (although it depends on people?).

No sense...