Thread: Finding my roots

I've been managing my mother's results/sample, and today it came up that there is an update available for free. That updates the Ethnicity Estimate.

v.95 to v2.5 or sum'in like that.

https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/02/...hnicity-model/

Googled to make sure me credit card wasn't going to be billed $299 or some shiz for it. And it appears not.

Selected to update both me kid's and me mum's, and it says that it takes a day and should be available tomorrow. Will be interesting to see if there are any differences from the initial EE.

Do you have to keep paying for this service after initial results, to see potential DNA matches?

Nope.

You literally get around 1000 emails per week from them about such things. I'll unsubscribe soon.

The first page of matches is a bit interesting, then there are around 2500 pages of Great Grand Parent's Uncle's 5th cousin's step-brother.

Not that many Asian matches (for my kid's sample) as not many use this company outside of Europe and America, but a few based in Europe that are cousins of Edith.


More interesting for mixed-race kids, really. My mum's one is a bit boring as it's pretty much what we already knew. The kid has some Melanesian, presumably from the human migration 1000s of years ago, and some of her ancestors stayed here, and some kept traveling south, so that DNA path still connects, and 4% from an area of Sweden, which must come from my dad's side. Either Swedish traders traveled to Italy to sell seal skins or Italian dodgy-fookers went to Sweden to run numbers rackets.


It was only something like $70-80 for 2 kits and a bit of fun for them to do and have.

Aye sounds alright, that was Ancestry dot com?

^ myheritage.com

Originally Posted by Edmond

I've been managing my mother's results/sample, and today it came up that there is an update available for free. That updates the Ethnicity Estimate.

v.95 to v2.5 or sum'in like that.

Some pretty big changes in their Ethnicity Estimate between the 2.

The mother has picked up 3.3% Breton, 1%+ of French, plus the same of another region not to be proud of.


The kid has picked up 3.8% Bengali.

Smelly, head-wobbly, Bengali. :/


So presumably Edith is somehow 7%+ Bengali. I doubt she'll be mentioning it socially.

Originally Posted by Edmond

So presumably Edith is somehow 7%+ Bengali. I doubt she'll be mentioning it socially.

She'll shake her head in denial.

Test kit on the way.

Playing with fire here.

Originally Posted by Molle

She'll shake her head in denial.

Denial is a river in Egypt.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Weird that,my revised results have just come back after you mentioned it and my youngest is showing 2% Bengali, I'll keep that secret from him.

He's also showing 8% welsh/Scottish now.

He still.has a high Danish percentage of DNA similar to me now and nothing like my 76% before.
I'm down to 25% Danish which is more realistic.

Also English is coming up as DNA ethnicity unlike before.

The ethnicities are constantly changing and evolving with more people signing up.

Holy fcuk - chitty's disappeared down a rabbit hole.

' The ethnicities are constantly changing and evolving'



Twisting and evolving my melon man!



Have you gone off bacon at all?

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Youngest sons map and percentages came through later today.

Strange as its very similar without the Iberian connection and a higher South Italian percentage than me. His Asia heritage is coming in at 46% Thai and Cambodian and 8% Chinese/ Vietnamese. Also 1% Mongol [ must be the Genghis Khan connection],go figure?
I don't think this dna heritage is an exact science.

Also my high Danish heritage is showing as Scandinavian for him.

The revised map for my youngest that came today compared to the old one from December..

Originally Posted by cyrille

Holy fcuk - chitty's disappeared down a rabbit hole.

' The ethnicities are constantly changing and evolving'



Twisting and evolving my melon man!



Have you gone off bacon at all?

Trying to derail a decent thread with trolling.

May I humbly suggest you change your bed sheets and go back to bed.

Originally Posted by Edmond

The mother has picked up 3.3% Breton, 1%+ of French, plus the same of another region not to be proud of.

The kid has picked up 3.8% Bengali.

^^ The lad has also been Bretonized, Franced, and Bengalied.

Your boy lost China, the kid lost Melanesia but gained Indonesia Malay.

FFS I've lost my 5% Jewish blood and gone full Celtic/Viking..

Originally Posted by cyrille

The ethnicities are constantly changing and evolving'

Yet yours stay the same..

Originally Posted by Joe 90

FFS I've lost my 5% Jewish blood and gone full Celtic/Viking..

Either that or you’ve just been ripped off and paid for the 21st Century equivalent of a tarot reading.

It turns out my maternal grandfather was a Czech diplomat who came to the UK via Marseilles after the German invasion in 1938. He was in the Czech air-force in some capacity during WW2. Apparently I have relatives in Kysak, in East Slovakia. He fathered my mother with an Irish Catholic girl whilst still married to a Czech woman. His mother was Prussian, which explains the DNA. I am most disturbed by the 2% Scottish bit. Hopefully that was my appendix, now removed.

it not all bad having some Scottish DNA like myself.
Means your canny with money!

Originally Posted by Lostandfound

I am most disturbed by the 2% Scottish bit. Hopefully that was my appendix, now removed.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Either that or you’ve just been ripped off and paid for the 21st Century equivalent of a tarot reading.

While I'm starting to be a bit suspicious, and wouldn't mind the geographical groups to be a bit more precise than some wide ranging 'England & North Western Europe' claim, they obviously do it with some level of precision.

In the DNA matches it immediately lists my mother and daughter as grand daughter/grandmother, my uncle as the kid's grand uncle etc. Mendo mentioned his kid did hers whilst in the UK, with a fully western name, which gave no clue to a SEA ancestry and it came back with the info as should.


But.... Bengali.... maybe there was some randy migrant servant that got his way with Edith's great grandmother after too much sake or spiked sushi back in imperial times. The lil fooker.

Yeah, it's not an exact science.

Best ways is to take it all as a bit of light hearted fun.

It may get more precise in the future, who knows.

Originally Posted by Edmond

But.... Bengali.... maybe there was some randy migrant servant that got his way with Edith's great grandmother after too much sake or spiked sushi back in imperial times. The lil fooker.

Must have been plenty of shenanigans going on in Imperial times

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Yeah, it's not an exact science.

.

of course it’s not.

Do you wanna buy 1 square foot of Mars?

One born every minute.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

of course it’s not.

Do you wanna buy 1 square foot of Mars?

How much?