MyHeritage DNA thread

[Sikeliot]

My family members are flattered to find out that we are of Jewish ancestry to a point that my big brother and mother keep listening to the traditional Jewish song(It's called Lava-something. I forgot the name).

West Bank Palestinians are mostly Hebrew/Jewish/Canaanite by genes, no?

[Longbowman]

My family members are flattered to find out that we are of Jewish ancestry to a point that my big brother and mother keep listening to the traditional Jewish song(It's called Lava-something. I forgot the name).

There's only one traditional Jewish song.

[kingjohn]

for me they{my heritage} were not that bad
the gave me the same Ashkenazi %
they notice my Sephardi

they gave me eastern Europe + Baltic =9% probably from my Bulgarian grandmother close to the 11% my origins 2.0 gave ...
for me the results were logic
I think there greek cluster eating my asia minor of my origins 2.0
other than that I think it is good
but each case is on it's own ...

[FilhoV]

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[Sikeliot]

Northern coast of Sicily, in Messina province (Naso and Milazzo):

[Catkin]

Probably yeah.

Just wondered, because I noticed most people I've seen who are in Scotland, Ireland, and now Wales, or in places where there is a high diaspora from these areas such as NZ and Australia, generally seem to get high Ireland/Scotland/Wales and low English.

I signed up in England and on this I score mostly English and some Scandinavian, with no Irish/Scottish/Welsh at all, though I have an Irish grandad and other Irish, Welsh and Scottish lines. However I noticed in the English description, it says:

"the dominant “original” British ethnic group is dominated by the English, of course, and includes the Celtic heirs, as some of Welsh, Scottish, and Irish descent respectively have settled in modern-day England."

Which kind of suggests the English category may allow for genes from the rest of British isles, and I wondered if they partly go on IP location in calculating your results. Because technically they are right, I am English with ancestors who settled from Ireland etc.

I saw some users weren't able to do the test because it recognised their IP was from countries where it wasn't allowed, so they obviously are looking at IP addresses.

Anyway, long story short, I wondered if they included Wales because you were there, so it was likely you might have some. I may be wrong, just a possibility from looking at my results.

Btw, I uploaded mine twice and got slightly different results each time too.

[Rethel]

Another proof that au testing is senseless...

btw, 93% aschkenazi - do you want yet
say something about your sephardness??

[Dibran]

They gave me Balkan 43% and the rest Greek. I tried it twice, 2nd time my Greek increased and Balkan lowered by few percentage lol... I think they are essentially same thing.

Dna land i uploaded hundreds of times, always the same, 100% Balkan.

Any autosomal test that has Greek as a component is obv bullshit.

As I understand it( based on albanian results on other forums) a general 50/50 balkan and greek is common for malesor albanians, albanians from montenegro, and albanians from Kosova. Albanians from central southern albania and macedonia, get predominantly Greek.

For example:

Me -
Greek 76%
Balkan 16%
Italian 8%

Father:

Greek 98%
Italian 2%

My mother is from Malesia, from Puka, and she increased the Balkan percentage for me.

If you look at the regions encompassed by the reference, Greek tapers out at central albania, whereas balkan tapers off at northern Albania. They just label it greek and balkan so it can be confusing.

The Balkan component also has higher slavic admixture as Greek is supposed to represent classical era I guess.

Greeks dont even score 100 percent Greek. So I think its representative of some neolithic component, where balkan has more steppe admixture? Idk

My family is from Diber Vogel in Okshtun, very isolated. My mom increased the balkan on myheritage, whereas my father had none.

[Jana]

My results in English


I like this test, it detected my Askhenazi admixture as well as Germanic one.

[Dibran]

My results in English


I like this test, it detected my Askhenazi admixture as well as Germanic one.

I am surprised it did not classify your east euro into Balkan. Being Croatian. I have seen some Croatians on Anthro score as high as 76 percent Balkan.