If you took the MyHeritage autosomal DNA test, you can transfer the results to Family Tree DNA and get their analysis of your ethnic ancestry. You can also transfer to GEDMATCH.com and see what ethnicity they find for you.
Ethnicity estimates beyond continental origins, Africa, Europe, Asia, depend on the people in the databases you are being compared to. Each company uses a different set of people for comparison purposes. If your ancestors were in the US before the Civil War, European Americans can have up to 5% African ancestry; African American males can have up to 30% European ancestry; African American females have up to 5% European ancestry. See reports from 23andMe about the ethic composition of the US population. After about 6 generations back, it is unusual to find evidence of Native American ancestry in the autosomal tests. Y DNA and mtDNA can show that you have Native American, or African, ancestry in your direct paternal or direct maternal line due to the way Y DNA and mtDNA are inherited. I hope this helps explain some of the unexpected results. Steven On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Edward Fenn <edwardf...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > This little flurry of erroneous DNA results reinforces my view that the > current obsession with DNA as a genealogy tool serves more the commercial > profiting from a quite recent and important scientific discovery, than > adding any certainty to our family tree. > > Edward > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On > Behalf Of *Ward Walker > *Sent:* Monday, 22 January 2018 10:19 a.m. > *To:* Legacy User Group > > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] MyHeritage DNA test > > > > Agree, and you can create events or notes to document specific matches or > triangulations that you might find (as you could with Y-DNA matches). > > > > I think that the broad ethnic background tests are still a bit of a black > art. Different companies produce different results. And how far back do you > go? If a British ancestor has ancestors that originally came from Normandy > in the 11th century, is that British or NW Europe? My Italian ancestry is > partly shown as Iberian and Greek, even though those people came to Italy > several hundred years ago. > > > > Ward > > > > > -- Steven C. Perkins scperk...@gmail.com http://stevencperkins.com/ Indigenous Peoples' Rights http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html Indigenous & Ethnic Minority Legal News http://iemlnews.blogspot.com/ Online Journal of Genetics and Genealogy http://jgg-online.blogspot.com/ S.C. Perkins' Genealogy Page http://stevencperkins.com/genealogy.html S.C. Perkins' Genealogy Blog http://scpgen.blogspot.com/
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