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My MyHeritage Ethnicity Estimate

  My MyHeritage's Ethnicity Estimate updated their ethnic analyses.  They claim to improve them.  Well....There was no improvement in mine. My old ethnic analysis was woefully inaccurate.  My new one is even worse.  During over a decade, I have learned to take ethnic analyses with a strong grain of salt and focus mainly on DNA relative matches. Here is a blog post that I did on ethnic analyses from 7 DNA companies/sites.  They're all significantly different from each other. Only AncestryDNA and 23andme were reasonably accurate, but both have significant flaws. https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2021/09/my-ethnic-analyses-ancestrydna-23andme.html Blog post from my ethnic analyses from the company Sequencing.  I did whole genome testing from that company.  It was woefully inaccurate.  https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-genetic-ancestry-with-haplogroups.html Ethnicity Estimates are calculated based on founder populations that can trace their roots to a specific place or e