How Viking Are You? Genomelink

**Davystayn** · 02-16-2021, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Rædwald

Enough

This is exactly what I mean, a lot of people will believe this and start creating their own history/mythos, declaring it excitedly at dinner parties.

The film Braveheart all started when Randall Wallace researched his surname thinking he could be related to the great Scottish hero. Of course he wasn't and it is not an uncommon name at all,

**Grace O'Malley** · 02-16-2021, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by 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 very interesting - very exciting 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...and my modern populations are:

1. Orcadian (8.043)
2. West_Norwegian (8.182)
3. Welsh (8.473)
4. Norwegian (8.493)
5. North_Dutch (8.909)
6. Danish (9.102)
7. Southwest_English (9.163)
8. West_German (9.316)

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 is a big business now it seems and people keep taking more tests, upgrading existing data etc almost seems addictive. Might try this one too..

Yes I have MyTrueAncestry as well and can see my top 150 matches because I've paid for it. I don't take it as gospel but just find the ancient genomes interesting. My interest now is with the ancient stuff. I wish there was more genomes from Ireland. Would love to have some Gaels pre-Viking etc. I'd love if they had a Norman for example. Hopefully more studies will hit the press this year. Anyway it's all harmless and if people are interested it is their money and their choice. I think the commercial companies should offer something when more genomes are available. There is a lot of Viking genomes now but still missing genomes especially from Ireland. That most probably is because Trinity College, Dublin have all the genomes and aren't releasing much of them to the public until studies are published.

**Davystayn** · 02-16-2021, 01:27 PM

Is Mytrueancestry worth the upgrades? I'm on Footman level at the moment, guess it gives you enough of a carrot to keeping wanting to upgrade,

**J. Ketch** · 02-16-2021, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by Davystayn

Is Mytrueancestry worth the upgrades? I'm on Footman level at the moment, guess it gives you enough of a carrot to keeping wanting to upgrade,

NO. Don't waste your money. It's all nonsense.

**Gallop** · 02-16-2021, 02:46 PM

This company currently does not accept the FTDNA file which is mine. In MTA I do get tons of match with viking and at the moment 2 Deep Dives.

As a kid I was crazy about this series, I imagined it was me and my father; although maybe it was more about how I would have liked my father to have been in terms of relationships and also in those childhood years in the village both my girlfriend and my lover were blue-eyed blonde girls like viky's friend. For that reason the Vikings is a singular theme for me, I never imagined I would get them of course.

That's what I can tell you so far.

**Token** · 02-16-2021, 02:48 PM

Another scam.

**InfamousAngel99** · 02-16-2021, 03:10 PM

Almost everyone in one of the FB groups I'm in scored the same viking score, so I wouldn't take it seriously, lol.

**Grace O'Malley** · 02-16-2021, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Gallop

This company currently does not accept the FTDNA file which is mine. In MTA I do get tons of match with viking and at the moment 2 Deep Dives.

As a kid I was crazy about this series, I imagined it was me and my father; although maybe it was more about how I would have liked my father to have been in terms of relationships and also in those childhood years in the village both my girlfriend and my lover were blue-eyed blonde girls like viky's friend. For that reason the Vikings is a singular theme for me, I never imagined I would get them of course.

That's what I can tell you so far.

I have 32 deepdives with different Vikings so 2 is quite low.

**Grace O'Malley** · 02-16-2021, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by InfamousAngel99

Almost everyone in one of the FB groups I'm in scored the same viking score, so I wouldn't take it seriously, lol.

It's not meant to be taken seriously. Most people appear to get a percentage in the 60s from what I've seen. I've only seen two that were on Anthrogenica one was 65 and the other 67%. It would be interesting to see what other's get.

**InfamousAngel99** · 02-16-2021, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Grace O'Malley

It's not meant to be taken seriously. Most people appear to get a percentage in the 60s from what I've seen. I've only seen two that were on Anthrogenica one was 65 and the other 67%. It would be interesting to see what other's get.

Tell that to the people who are taking it seriously...lol. A lot of people are mad and asking for a refund because everyone is getting the same results.