How Viking Are You? Genomelink

[Grace O'Malley]

Has anyone had this done? Like all these it is not to be taken too seriously and similar to things like Mytrueancestry. This cost $19 so not too expensive. They compare your dna to ancient genomes. I used My Heritage raw data.







If anyone has had it done post your info.

[TheMaestro]

0%

[Jon96]

MyTrueAncestry is rather accurate tbh and it's free.

Would you recommend genomelink? (I'm not sure if I should do it since it's paid).

[Rædwald]

Enough

[Creoda]

5-10%.

[JamesBond007]

MyTrueAncestry is rather accurate tbh and it's free.

Would you recommend genomelink? (I'm not sure if I should do it since it's paid).

There is a sucker born every minute. I'm not paying for that crap. Americans are obsessed with being Irish and Viking but not me I'm not sucker chump !

It's funny how people take G25, in general, here, so seriously when it was made by an amateur blogger but they don't take MyTrueAncestry seriously. Personally, I won't do it because it is like a death by a thousand cuts paying for all these DNA tests even if individually they are inexpensive it adds up.

I think people , if they want to do it, should compare it to MTA and G25 etc...

I'm not going to do it but I'll start the partial process to get a possible thing going here :

G25 ancient sheet top 4 matches :

Distance to: Kevin_scaled
0.02307901 VK2020_DNK_Sealand_EVA:VK70 (viking Denmark )
0.02335702 VK2020_England_Dorset_VA:VK256
0.02437411 VK2020_England_Dorset_VA:VK260
0.02509043 VK2020_DNK_Langeland_VA:VK285

Distance to: VK2020_DNK_Sealand_EVA:VK70
0.02917877 Norwegian
0.03128580 Danish
0.03217823 Icelandic
0.03294285 Dutch

MyTrueAncestry for the win :

Viking Norwegian + Celt (2.724)
Celt + Saxon (3.374)
Celt + Frank (3.492)
Saxon + Frank (3.692)
Viking Danish + Celt (4.03)
Saxon (4.112)
Viking Danish (5.587)
Celt (6.501)
Frank (6.603)
Viking Norwegian (7.237)

1. Southwest_English (4.205) (England as in Angleland or Angland or Angle vikings from Denmark)
2. Southeast_English (4.275)
3. North_Dutch (4.390)
4. Danish (4.722)
5. West_Scottish (4.930)

[Flashball]

0%, because my Northern French ancestors are not English or whatever "Anglo-saxon" population.

[Grace O'Malley]

MyTrueAncestry is rather accurate tbh and it's free.

Would you recommend genomelink? (I'm not sure if I should do it since it's paid).

MyTrueAncestry is not free if you want to see all your matches or have a higher amount of matches etc. These are all on the novelty scale. Not really to be taken seriously.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think some of the companies should offer deep ancestry for people. For people of just one ethnicity it means not a lot now to get a dna test. Tests might be informative for people that have not much idea of their ancestry or are from multiple ancestries but for people that are of one ethnicity they are not worth doing. The best thing about the tests is having your raw data.

[Davystayn]

Mytrueancestry isn't free it is about £20 or so then once in you have upgrade to see deeper and more matches.

It is interesting when you get a 96% match to a grave in Iceland from 980, or discovering I was related to Bishop Peder Winstrup, Philip Calvert, someone from a silver mine in Sweden and one of Erik's settlers in Greenland.....

According to Mytrueancestry I'm a Norwegian Viking, Celt, Alemmani, Saxon, Longobard...

Knowing this stuff from here you take it all with a pinch of salt but some people must take this almost literally, emphasising one particular ancedent against thousands of others from 1000 years ago. I can imagine reinactment societies starting up in rural Missouri with people dressing up based on matches from Mytrueancestry and other websites.

Dna stuff is a big business now it seems