My Ethnic Analyses - AncestryDNA, 23andme, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, LivingDNA, Gene2me, and DNALand
This is post of my Ethnic Analyses from AncestryDNA, 23andme, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, LivingDNA, Gene2me (Sequencing.com).
I did testing at 23andme and AncestryDNA.
I uploaded my 23andme genome to FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, and LivingDNA.
I uploaded my Dante Labs full sequence genome bam file to Sequencing.com
AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate
53% Africa
12% Benin & Togo
12% Cameroon Congo & Western Bantu Peoples
12% Nigeria
8% Senegal
6% Ivory Coast & Ghana
2% Mali
1% Nigeria - East Central
45% Europe
15% England & Northwestern Europe
14% Jewish Peoples of Europe
6% Portugal
5% France
3% Spain
2% Wales
2% Americas
1% Indigenous Puerto Rico
1% Indigenous Americas - Ecuador
23andme Ancestry Composition
49.7% Sub Saharan African
44.3% West African (20.2% Nigerian, 12.9% Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean, 8.9% Senegambian & Guinean, 2.3% Broadly West African)
5.4% Congolese & Southern East African (3.4% Angolan & Congolese, 1.3% Southern East African, 0.7% Broadly Congolese & Southern East African)
47.5% European
18.5% Southern European (18.3% Spanish & Portuguese, 0.2% Broadly Southern European)
17.7% Northwestern European (15.7% French & German, 0.1% British & Irish, 1.9% Broadly Northwestern European)
9.3% Ashkenazi Jewish
2.0% Broadly European
2.0% East Asian & Indigenous American
1.7% Indigenous American
0.3% Chinese & Southeast Asian (0.1% Filipino & Austronesian, 0.2% Broadly Chinese & Southeast Asian)
0.6% Western Asian & North African
0.6% Northern West Asian (0.6% Anatolian)
0.2% Unassigned
23andme Split Inheritance
Inheritance from Father: 43.4% Sub Saharan African, 4.3% European, 1.0% East Asian & Indigenous American, 0.0% Western Asian & North African, 0.0% Unassigned
Inheritance from Mother: 6.3% Sub Saharan African, 43.2% European, 1.0% East Asian & Indigenous American, 0.6% Western Asian & North African, 0.2% Unassigned
MyHeritage
50.1% Africa
44.0% West Africa (27.9% Nigerian, 12.1% West African, 4.0% Sierra Leonean)
5.2% East Africa (5.2% Maasai)
0.9% North Africa (0.9% North African)
46.3% Europe
43.2% South Europe (26.9% Italian, 16.3% Iberian)
3.1% North and West Europe (3.1 Finnish)
3.6% America
3.6% Central and South America (3.6% Mesoamerican and Andean)
FamilyTreeDNA MyOrigins
51% Africa
West Africa (19% Senegal, Gambia & Guinea-Bissau, 12% Ghana, Togo & Benin, 9% Liberia & Ivory Coast, 3% Nigeria)
Horn of Africa (3% Eritrea, Northern Ethiopia & Somalia)
East Africa (3% Western Lake Victoria Basin)
Central Africa (<2% Southern Congo Basin)
32% Europe
Western Europe (10% Ireland, 6% Scandinavia)
Eastern Europe (9% East Slavic)
Finnish (3% Finland)
Southern Europe (3% Malta)
17% Middle East & North Africa
North Africa (17% Maghreb & Egypt)
LivingDNA
55.4% Africa
45.2% West Africa (10.6% Yoruba, 7.1% Ivory Coast - Ghana, 5% Kassena, 4.2% Esan, 4% Benin, 3.4% Mende, 2.7% Mandinka, 2.2% Soninke, 2.1% Igbo, 2.1% Ajamat, 1.7% Bamum)
5.5% South and Central Africa (3.7% Kleuringe, 1.8% Mbukushu)
2.8% East Africa (2.8% Amhara-Tigray)
1.9% North Africa (1.9% Northern Morocco)
40.6% Europe
40.6% South Europe (40.6% East Iberia)
4% Near East
4% Arabia
Sequencing Gene2Me
51.07% Africa
51.07% Sub-Saharan African (29.02% Ethiopia, 9.27 Gambia, 5.88% Nigeria, 2.64% Kenya, 2.27% Central African Republic, 1.99% Senegal)
28.34% Europe
12.21% Eastern European (4.9% Russia, 2.15% Hungary, 1.26% Slovenia, 1.16% Ukraine, 0.96% Slovakia, 0.67% Belarus, 0.66% Poland, 0.45% Estonia)
6.49% Iberian (6.49% Spain)
5.01% Balkan (1.27% Greece, 0.87% Romania, 0.59% Moldavia, 0.46% Bulgaria, 0.43% Bosnia, 0.4% Croatia, 0.29% Macedonia, 0.27% Serbia, 0.21% Montenegro, 0.21% Kosovo)
4.63% Ashkenazi Jewish (4.63% Countries in Europe)
15.42% Middle East
14.41% Northern African & Arabian (4.34% Algeria, 3.1% Morocco, 2.42% Yemen, 2.19% Egypt, 1.45% Tunisia, 0.91% UAE)
1.01% Western Asian (0.39% Lebanon, 0.28% Iran, 0.2% Syria, 0.07% Azerbaijan, 0.06% Turkey)
5.17% America
5.17% Native American (2.38% Haiti, 1.61% Puerto Rico, 0.77% Dominica, 0.41% Colombia)
DNALand
53% African
47% West African (26% Lower Niger Valley, 20% Senegal River Valley, 1.7% Mende/Akan)
4.3% East African
1.4% Aka
45% West Eurasian
19% Southwestern European
8.7% Northwest European
8.7% South European (5% South/Central European, 3.7% Balkan)
6.6% Finnish
1.3% Ambiguous
1.1% Ashkenazi/Levantine (1.1% Ambiguous)
1.1% Nganasan
1% Amazonian
My Genealogical Ancestry
I am a 4th generation Californian on my mother's side, and my father was a 7th generation Southern Louisianan.
paternal grandfather's father: African American born in Southern Louisiana
paternal grandfather's mother: African American born in Southern Louisiana
other roots in Missouri, Alabama
paternal grandmother's father: African American born in Southern Louisiana
other roots in Virginia, South Carolina, and Kentucky
paternal grandmother's mother: African American with English and Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia) born in Southern Louisiana
colonial roots in Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina
maternal grandfather's father: American born in California and son of immigrants from Cape Verde (Portuguese and Sub Saharan African)
maternal grandfather's mother: American born in California with a father from Puerto Rico (Spanish, Sub Saharan African, and Taino) and mother that was Hawaiian born daughter of immigrants from Madeira (Portuguese with Sub Saharan African)
maternal grandmother's father: European American born in Oregon of mainly English ancestry with German, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and Frisian
colonial roots in Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island
other roots in Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana
maternal grandmother's mother: Ashkenazi Jewish American born in Nebraska with father immigrated from Romania and mother immigrated from Courland (in what is now known as Latvia) in Russian Empire
Conclusion
AncestryDNA is the only one that acknowledges that my non-African ancestry is a mix of Iberian (Portuguese, Spanish), Jewish, English, French, and Indigenous American.
It doesn't acknowledge my maternal grandmother's father's German, Swiss, Dutch, Frisian which would be in AncestryDNA's Germanic Europe category. It also doesn't acknowledge the Scottish and Irish ancestry on my maternal grandmother's father's side.
23andme gave me only 0.1% British & Irish
MyHeritage gave me no Jewish, no British, no Irish, no Germanic, no French
MyFamilyTreeDNA gave me no Iberian, no Jewish, no British, no French, no Germanic, no Indigenous American
LivingDNA gave me no Jewish, no British, no French, no Germanic, no Indigenous American
Sequencing Gene2me gave me no British, no Irish, no French, no Germanic
DNAland gave me only 1.1% Ashkenazi/Levantine
AncestryDNA seems to be the most accurate for myself, but it doesn't provide chromosome painting to see how my ethnic makeup is distributed on the chromosomes.
It doesn't do DNA phasing between parent and child for Ethnic Analysis which helps determines the split parental inheritance.
FamilyTreeDNA provide chromosome painting but doesn't do DNA phasing between parent and child for Ethnic Analysis. The Ethnic Analysis is so inaccurate for myself that I didn't include chromosome painting.
23andme is the only one that includes X Chromosome in Ethnic Analysis. It is also the only one that provides both chromosome painting and DNA phasing between parent and child for Ethnic Analysis.
DNA Phasing and Inheritance
Ancestry Composition is even more powerful if you have a biological parent who is also in the 23andMe database and sharing with you. By comparing your parents' DNA to your own, Ancestry Composition can determine how your DNA was inherited, and display which portions of your ancestry came from which parent.
Connecting with a parent may also increase the resolution of your assignments. That translates into better Ancestry Composition results, in the sense that you might see more assignment to the fine-resolution ancestries: for example, more Scandinavian and less Broadly Northern European.
I take Ethnic Analyses with a strong grain of salt.
I find a lot of value in the DNA relative matches.
Most of my DNA relative matches are matches through shared Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry followed by matches through shared Colonial European American ancestry that is mainly British. In 2013, I found my mother's long lost mother's side of the family by matching a man who turned out to be my maternal grandmother's father's maternal first cousin Thomas at 23andme. He was a son of a brother of my European American 2nd great grandmother Floy Mae Kasinger who was a daughter of Thomas Eugene Kasinger and Sophronia Caroline Hartle. I also have DNA matches that are descendants of siblings of my European American maternal 2nd great grandfather John Franklin Walker who was a son of Elias Andrew Walker and Josephine Evans.
My matches with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry include a descendant of a sister of my maternal great grandmother Ruth Rosenthal who was daughter of Max Rosenthal (born in Romania) and Rachel 'Irene' Hosias (born in Courland in Russian Empire). I also have DNA matches that are descendants of siblings of Max who was son of Samuel Rosenthal and Mary Josephs.
I also get a lot of matches through shared Puerto Rican ancestry and shared Portuguese Islander ancestry (Cape Verde and Madeira). Some include descendants of my Cape Verdean maternal 2nd great grandfather Denis Andrade as well as descendants of siblings of my maternal great grandmother Marian Isabelle Ocacio who was the daughter of Jose Ocacio (Puerto Rican) and Maria Pereira de Jesus (Madeiran). Some include descendants of my maternal grandfather's maternal half sister.
I get a lot of matches through shared African American ancestry.
I get some matches through shared Acadian ancestry, and they make up the vast majority of my paternal European DNA segment matches, and they are mainly matches on my European segments on paternal Chromosomes 5, 15, and 20.
They're matching on the sides of my 3/4 Acadian paternal 4th great grandmother Anastasia Bourgeois' full Acadian father Michel Bourgeois and full Acadian maternal grandmother Marie Babin. Some of my matches are descendants of Anastasia's brothers. I do have some matches that are related to me on just the side of Anastasia's husband/my paternal 4th great grandfather Benjamin Cross who was an English American plantation/slaveowner. I have a couple of matches that are descendants of Benjamin and Anastasia.
I did DNA testing because I knew very little about my family history. I grew up knowing only my maternal grandfather's side of the family. I grew up not knowing my father nor his side of the family. I grew up being told that my father was an African American from New Orleans and that his mother had French Creole ancestry and his father had roots in Jamaica.
My mother grew up not knowing her mother nor her side of the family. My maternal grandmother's ancestry was thought to be English, German, French, and Italian.
I started my Genetic Genealogical journey with FamilyTreeDNA's Mitochondrial DNA test back in 2009, and I found out that my Mitochondrial Haplogroup is J and was referred to as European Traveler.
In 2011, I did 23andme test and started working on my family tree at ancestry.com
in late 2012, I did AncestryDNA test out of curiosity about their African breakdown and wanting to get a lot more DNA relative matches.
In 2013, I connected with my maternal grandmother's side of the family through my mother and I being 23andme match to a maternal first cousin of my maternal grandmother's father.
In 2014, I connected with my paternal grandmother's side of the family. The daughter of my father's maternal half sister saw my ancestry.com post about searching for my late father's side of the family, and she emailed me. AncestryDNA confirmed that her mother and I are half aunt and half nephew. My paternal aunt and cousins know nothing about my paternal grandfather and his side of the family, and so I am still searching for my paternal grandfather's side of the family.
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