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A lot of threads pop up with people showing their ancestry by percentages through autosomal DNA, and I can't understand how they don't do their research first.
A lot of these companies are blatant scams, autosomal DNA is in no way accurately traceable and this is common knowledge to people in the scientific community. It is a blatant cash grab.
If you want to know your ancestry the only way is through Y DNA and mtDNA.
EDIT: After some of the replies, it's important to clarify that there are branches within the same name of Y DNA and mtDNA which differ greatly. An African with "European" haplgroups, will have the monolithic, unevoled versions - these are not European.
Both Y and mtDNA are extremely specific to a region when expressed in their full versions. An example of haplogroup R1b:
Screenshot_2019-12-20 Haplogroup R1b (Y-DNA).jpg
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