DNA results MyTrueAncestry vs. MyHeritage

Started by Joanna Vadenbring on Sunday, August 23, 2020
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8/23/2020 at 12:47 AM

My mum received her DNA results from MyHeritage a few days ago and they were 88% Scandinavian, 6%Italian and 6% British Isles - now, when I downloaded the results to MyTrueAncestry it said she only had Mediterranean hits and her haplogroups were all typically Mediterranean - then I removed the results and downloaded them again and now we got a totally different result: all Norse Viking and British bronze age fellows, not a single person from the Med.
Has anybody had the same happen to them?

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8/23/2020 at 1:17 AM

When doing DNA tests you should totally ignore looking at the ethnic results. They are just for fun (i.e. not exact science), and as you have observed it can give different results every time, - even identical twins can give different results. The reason is that just a very small random part of your DNA is tested for that and is anyhow just estimates based on a selection of DNA tests around the world.

8/24/2020 at 5:53 AM

Private User I see, that's good to know - thanks!! Actually the MyTrueAncestry results as a whole (first and second time) correspond to the MyHeritageResults...and genealogically she's all Scandinavian back to the 1500s so I trust that she really is 88% Scandie. I just think people aren't aware enough that DNA tests might give you totally crazy results. If we hadn't had a family tree based on records, mum might have though wow I'm all Italian and Turkish wow! And a lot of people probably do that... :(

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