Hello there!
I just did a DNA test via MyHeritage. I'm from Germany, my family has been living at the French border for generations. While I know that my maternal family is basically German, French and Italian, I have zero knowledge about my father's ancestry. All I know is that he was very dark in general - I inherited this - so that most people thought he wasn't German and they guessed not even European.
These are my MyHeritage results:
92,2 % North- and West-Europe
6,2 % Iberia
1,6 % Balkan
I found this very general to be frank. Of course I assume I'm basically French and German but I see no Italy and I thought there might be a bit North African in me because one maternal great-grandmother was Sicilian and rumored to have ancestry from Egypt. I tried Gedmatch but I don't think I really get it as the results vary. For example, I often see British or Orcadian, is this because the Germans and the British share Scandi DNA? And in some tests I'm just as much Mediterranean as North Sea but MyHeritage didn't spot that. It's a bit confusing for a newbie, but also fascinating, I would so appreciate it if members here could help me to learn more. Again, I know I'm mostly German and French, no surprises here but what else could be in me?
Eurogenes K13
1 North_Atlantic 42.78
2 Baltic 22.12
3 West_Med 17.79
4 East_Med 7.59
5 West_Asian 7.45
Using 1 population approximation:
1 West_German 3.569111
2 South_Dutch 3.684786
3 French 6.945207
4 Southeast_English 9.658606
5 Austrian 10.290296
6 North_German 10.848091
7 Southwest_English 11.159930
8 Orcadian 11.784442
9 North_Dutch 12.112777
10 East_German 12.183277
11 Danish 12.250175
12 Irish 12.850261
13 West_Scottish 13.447500
14 Norwegian 14.629032
15 Spanish_Cataluna 14.806787
16 Swedish 15.234374
17 Hungarian 15.339787
18 Spanish_Galicia 16.190298
19 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon 16.354990
20 Portuguese 16.364393
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% South_Dutch +50% West_German 3.402544
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Irish +25% Romanian +25% Southwest_French 2.343771
EUtest
1 ATLANTIC 24.23
2NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO 23.72
3 WEST_MED 16.12
4 SOUTH_BALTIC 13.49
5 EAST_EURO 9.06
6 WEST_ASIAN 7.17
7 EAST_MED 5.81
8 SIBERIAN 0.24
9 WEST_AFRICAN 0.12
10 EAST_AFRICAN 0.02
11 MIDDLE_EASTERN 0.01
1 FR 7.354996
2 West_&_Central_German 7.400390
3 NL 7.697181
4 Cornish 8.436759
5 English 9.058424
6 AT 9.850832
7 Orcadian 10.625271
8 IE 10.967661
9 DK 12.453604
10 Scottish 12.606228
11 NO 13.791229
12 South_&_Central_Swedish 14.186061
13 HU 15.301321
14 PT 15.513967
15 ES 16.034159
16 North_Swedish 17.482002
17 Serbian 17.740297
18 North_Italian 17.956528
19 RO 20.040545
20 Tuscan 23.746965
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% FR +50% West_&_Central_German 4.497833
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% FR +25% HU +25% IE 3.866747
Eurogenes K36
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Population[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Amerindian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Arabian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Armenian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Basque[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]1.70[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Central_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Central_Euro[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]4.97[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]0.11[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Balkan[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]1.65[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Central_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Central_Euro[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]7.04[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Med[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Eastern_Euro[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]4.34[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Fennoscandian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]5.86[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]French[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]5.79[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Iberian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]19.07[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Indo-Chinese[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Italian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]10.82[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Malayan[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Near_Eastern[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_Atlantic[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]12.67[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_Caucasian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]3.08[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_Sea[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]17.26[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Northeast_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Oceanian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Omotic[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Pygmy[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Siberian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]South_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]South_Central_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]South_Chinese[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Volga-Ural[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]0.24[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]West_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]West_Caucasian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]1.98[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]West_Med[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]3.43[/TD]
Dodecad World9
1 Atlantic_Baltic 68.07
2 Southern 16.48
3 Caucasus_Gedrosia 14.14
4 Siberian 1.11
5 Australasian 0.17
6 African 0.04
1 Hungarians 2.844795
2 French 4.228495
3 French 5.804971
4 Mixed_Germanic 7.084623
5 Dutch 8.116822
6 German 8.760642
7 CEU30 9.455003
8 Cornwall 9.654213
9 Kent 9.772484
10 British 9.985276
11 Ukranians 10.751496
12 British_Isles 11.079452
13 Cataluna 11.456964
14 Argyll 11.718327
15 Irish 12.021599
16 Orcadian 12.282753
17 Orkney 12.708617
18 Valencia 13.308808
19 Polish 13.487617
20 Spaniards 13.495358
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% N_Italian +50% Belorussian 0.758120
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% North_Italian +25% Lithuanians +25% Ukranians 0.274950
I just did a DNA test via MyHeritage. I'm from Germany, my family has been living at the French border for generations. While I know that my maternal family is basically German, French and Italian, I have zero knowledge about my father's ancestry. All I know is that he was very dark in general - I inherited this - so that most people thought he wasn't German and they guessed not even European.
These are my MyHeritage results:
92,2 % North- and West-Europe
6,2 % Iberia
1,6 % Balkan
I found this very general to be frank. Of course I assume I'm basically French and German but I see no Italy and I thought there might be a bit North African in me because one maternal great-grandmother was Sicilian and rumored to have ancestry from Egypt. I tried Gedmatch but I don't think I really get it as the results vary. For example, I often see British or Orcadian, is this because the Germans and the British share Scandi DNA? And in some tests I'm just as much Mediterranean as North Sea but MyHeritage didn't spot that. It's a bit confusing for a newbie, but also fascinating, I would so appreciate it if members here could help me to learn more. Again, I know I'm mostly German and French, no surprises here but what else could be in me?
Eurogenes K13
1 North_Atlantic 42.78
2 Baltic 22.12
3 West_Med 17.79
4 East_Med 7.59
5 West_Asian 7.45
Using 1 population approximation:
1 West_German 3.569111
2 South_Dutch 3.684786
3 French 6.945207
4 Southeast_English 9.658606
5 Austrian 10.290296
6 North_German 10.848091
7 Southwest_English 11.159930
8 Orcadian 11.784442
9 North_Dutch 12.112777
10 East_German 12.183277
11 Danish 12.250175
12 Irish 12.850261
13 West_Scottish 13.447500
14 Norwegian 14.629032
15 Spanish_Cataluna 14.806787
16 Swedish 15.234374
17 Hungarian 15.339787
18 Spanish_Galicia 16.190298
19 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon 16.354990
20 Portuguese 16.364393
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% South_Dutch +50% West_German 3.402544
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Irish +25% Romanian +25% Southwest_French 2.343771
EUtest
1 ATLANTIC 24.23
2NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO 23.72
3 WEST_MED 16.12
4 SOUTH_BALTIC 13.49
5 EAST_EURO 9.06
6 WEST_ASIAN 7.17
7 EAST_MED 5.81
8 SIBERIAN 0.24
9 WEST_AFRICAN 0.12
10 EAST_AFRICAN 0.02
11 MIDDLE_EASTERN 0.01
1 FR 7.354996
2 West_&_Central_German 7.400390
3 NL 7.697181
4 Cornish 8.436759
5 English 9.058424
6 AT 9.850832
7 Orcadian 10.625271
8 IE 10.967661
9 DK 12.453604
10 Scottish 12.606228
11 NO 13.791229
12 South_&_Central_Swedish 14.186061
13 HU 15.301321
14 PT 15.513967
15 ES 16.034159
16 North_Swedish 17.482002
17 Serbian 17.740297
18 North_Italian 17.956528
19 RO 20.040545
20 Tuscan 23.746965
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% FR +50% West_&_Central_German 4.497833
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% FR +25% HU +25% IE 3.866747
Eurogenes K36
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Population[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Amerindian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Arabian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Armenian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Basque[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]1.70[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Central_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Central_Euro[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]4.97[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]0.11[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Balkan[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]1.65[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Central_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Central_Euro[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]7.04[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]East_Med[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Eastern_Euro[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]4.34[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Fennoscandian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]5.86[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]French[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]5.79[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Iberian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]19.07[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Indo-Chinese[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Italian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]10.82[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Malayan[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Near_Eastern[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_Atlantic[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]12.67[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_Caucasian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]3.08[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]North_Sea[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]17.26[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Northeast_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Oceanian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Omotic[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Pygmy[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Siberian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]South_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]South_Central_Asian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]South_Chinese[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]Volga-Ural[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]0.24[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]West_African[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff, align: right"]-[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]West_Caucasian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]1.98[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #ffffff"]West_Med[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFFFF, align: right"]3.43[/TD]
Dodecad World9
1 Atlantic_Baltic 68.07
2 Southern 16.48
3 Caucasus_Gedrosia 14.14
4 Siberian 1.11
5 Australasian 0.17
6 African 0.04
1 Hungarians 2.844795
2 French 4.228495
3 French 5.804971
4 Mixed_Germanic 7.084623
5 Dutch 8.116822
6 German 8.760642
7 CEU30 9.455003
8 Cornwall 9.654213
9 Kent 9.772484
10 British 9.985276
11 Ukranians 10.751496
12 British_Isles 11.079452
13 Cataluna 11.456964
14 Argyll 11.718327
15 Irish 12.021599
16 Orcadian 12.282753
17 Orkney 12.708617
18 Valencia 13.308808
19 Polish 13.487617
20 Spaniards 13.495358
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% N_Italian +50% Belorussian 0.758120
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% North_Italian +25% Lithuanians +25% Ukranians 0.274950