MyHeritage Service in South America

[Rafael Passoni]

Does anyone from South America having problem with MyHeritage import? I imported my kit September 10th and it hasn't arrived in my house yet. Does it have best before date?

[Ethel]

Mine also took some time to arrive there. You should've ordered Genera instead imo, its cheaper, faster and you could discover both your Y-dna and mtDNA.

[Rafael Passoni]

Is Genera Family Tree?

[Ethel]

Is Genera Family Tree?

Not anymore

[Chaos One]

Unique problem about Genera are their results at all, which are even more messy than FTDNA if you're too mixed like me.

But nowadays it's the best one for brazilians by far, price and everything.

[Rafael Passoni]

I looked for a DNA test that well diferencies the diferent people from Europe/West Asia, because my roots are from there, but are very messy (only in America there is a guy with Scotish, Catalan, Baskid, Syrian, Lombardian, Calabrian, Sicilian, Andalusian admixture). I saw that Genera is good for native blood and analise Y-DNA and Mitocondrial DNA. In addition, autossonal DNA,Y-DNA and MT-DNA in the same package sounds interesting. I will do this test in the future.

[Ethel]

I looked for a DNA test that well diferencies the diferent people from Europe/West Asia, because my roots are from there, but are very messy (only in America there is a guy with Scotish, Catalan, Baskid, Syrian, Lombardian, Calabrian, Sicilian, Andalusian admixture). I saw that Genera is good for native blood and analise Y-DNA and Mitocondrial DNA. In addition, autossonal DNA,Y-DNA and MT-DNA in the same package sounds interesting. I will do this test in the future.

Now that you've done MyHeritage, I wouldn't advise you buying Genera. Save a bit more money and buy 23andme instead, it's the only one that has an ethnicity estimate report that is really worthwhile and consistent, especially for us mutts.

I recommend Genera to Brazilians who don't have acquaintances abroad to send a 23andme test or ancestryDNA for them (they don't ship to BR), since Genera's raw data is better than MyHeritage's and gives you a deeper Y-dna, in addition to mtdna (without having to buy their most expensive test, you can find out with the basics plan raw data through third party tools), because, in fact, both have horrible ethnicity estimate reports.

[Rafael Passoni]

Is MyHeritage so bad? Oh my god, I saw they don't cover Syria. I wasted my money.

[Chaos One]

Likewise doing Genera when they don't have Central Asia lol

[gixajo]

Is MyHeritage so bad? Oh my god, I saw they don't cover Syria. I wasted my money.

You have an offer until November 26 at 23andme, 20 dollars less, 79 instead of 99.

MyHeritage's ethnic estimation is as good as any other. The important thing, which is the raw data, is also similar.

Even though I would have done 23andme directly, mostly because of the paternal and maternal haplotypes, but with the raw data from MH, you will be able to know at least the general paternal haplogroup. (thorugh Cladefinder and Morley´s predictor).