My Ancestry results - I can't recommend it!

**Universe** · 02-17-2022, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Stearsolina

Yup. Especially if his Germani is Polish/eastern German. Germans like rothaer score like 40% eastern european on commercial tests.

What is rothaer's paper trail ancestry?

**Mr.G** · 02-17-2022, 06:50 PM

I can understand your disappointment, but I'd like to add that this result in no way invalidates your German ancestry. Eastern Germans can score notable Eastern European on AncestryDNA - so perhaps the dna you have inherited from your ancestor is just not distinguishable from your other heritage, especially with such distance (4 gen), recombination, and so on and so forth.

**Jana** · 02-17-2022, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Universe

What is rothaer's paper trail ancestry?

He is around half central German (ex DDR) half German from Poland, something close to that. He can explain more in detail ofc but something along these lines.

**mariusz99** · 02-17-2022, 07:16 PM

My German ancestors were from Hannover but lived in East Prussia.
Ok, I merged my 2 kits. I thought it's difficult but no, I did it simply first time.

When I compare my results and my family and friends results I can say that Gedmatch and YDP is more accurate. But I wonder why, because huge companies like MyHeritage and Ancestry have laboratories, describe on sites how accurate they can be but after that I check Gedmatch for me or another person and results are better.
What should I do if I have merged kit ?

**rothaer** · 02-17-2022, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Universe

What is rothaer's paper trail ancestry?

Here are the birth or residence places (white dots) from all 64 ancestors from 6 generations ago (only these). It's about 1800 AD. From these in Central Poland all are Germans, but four, which are Poles. With white arrows I indicated where the respective individuals hailed from earlier. So you can imagine them to belong there. Hope it makes sense. It's more complicated than this, but it maybe gives a sufficientl overview.

**rothaer** · 02-17-2022, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by mariusz99

My German ancestors were from Hannover but lived in East Prussia. (...)

Well, what does a German at all look like in terms of AncestryDNA?

Here you have 3 results that are fully from former provinz Hannover = Niedersachsen = Lower Saxony:

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But if you have a German that is 2/4 from East Pruissia, 1/4 from Silesia and 1/4 from (Upper) Saxony, the result looks like this (note that the first one has just 13% "Germanic Europe"!):

**Russki** · 02-17-2022, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by rothaer

AncestryDNA is weird.

On your pic it says "Baltic States" and then lists Lithuania under "Eastern Europe and Russia".

And here it occupies Russia and Belarus as "Baltic States", but not Estonia.

**mariusz99** · 02-17-2022, 09:24 PM

Rothaer, with updated K13 my grandma scores more than 20% Lower Saxony North, so I think especially for my grandma is K13 better than her MyHeritage.... according to MH 100% East European.

**mariusz99** · 02-18-2022, 07:47 PM

Ok, my dear forum friends,

What should I do? I'm aware that my German ancetors who lived in East Prussia could be found by Ancestry as Eastern Slavic, or maybe not...
From my experience (based on my knowledge of ancestry of my grandma and friends) K13 and Advanced Analysis made by Yourdnaportal is great and very accurate.

I have already my merged file from MH and Ancestry files.

Should I try YDP or some K13 calculators to get more accurate results? My purpose was always to know in which % am I Slavic, Germanic, Baltic, probably Celtic and 1% from Caucasus.

What can you advise me?

I will be very thankful for every advice.

**rothaer** · 02-19-2022, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by mariusz99

Ok, my dear forum friends,
What should I do? I'm aware that my German ancetors who lived in East Prussia could be found by Ancestry as Eastern Slavic, or maybe not...
From my experience (based on my knowledge of ancestry of my grandma and friends) K13 and Advanced Analysis made by Yourdnaportal is great and very accurate.
I have already my merged file from MH and Ancestry files.
Should I try YDP or some K13 calculators to get more accurate results? My purpose was always to know in which % am I Slavic, Germanic, Baltic, probably Celtic and 1% from Caucasus.
What can you advise me?
I will be very thankful for every advice.

If I got it right you have 1/16 German ancestry from Hannover area, but you are not sure about that they were fully from Hannover area. And what exactly are your other 15/16 of ancestry? It could be relevant for what to do.