MyHeritage trolls Germans and Austrians.

[real expert]

MyHeritage trolls Germans and Austrians by randomly assigning them 1% "Massai", "Somali", or other SSA admixture. Nevertheless, many people use this as an opportunity to make fun of Germans by using the One Drop Rule and claiming that Hitler would never have accepted them as White. I mean, if people didn't believe MyHeritage DNA results were gospel truth, I'd take this1% as satirical and laugh about it. What's more, I recall that Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Finns, and nearly all Europeans, particularly Northern Europeans as well as Japanese, scored 1% "Nigerian" on MyHeritage some years ago. It became so obvious that people created a parody of it.
Generally, the 1% SSA is went away after an update.

So, this German scored 99% Northern and Western European and 1% "Massai".

And Austrian with the 1,2% "Somali" and nearly 1% "Amerindian".

He scored a lot of Balkan and Scandinavian, with the rest slightly more than half Western Northern European.

But this MyHeritiage DNA result of a Northern German seems to be legit. Interesting, she's basically half Scandinavian and half Baltic with no Western European ancestry.

 

[Maciamo]

MyHeritage is the worst DNA company for ancestry reports. It has consistently ranked last it may comparison of genetic testing companies.

 

[norbert]

MyHeritage is the epitome of commercial BS. That stupid music alone exposes them as a clown show. When they use such categories as Balkan, Baltic, Greek, Italian, West Asian, Nigerian etc., that should put you on an alert to save your money. I have seen a number of these MyHeritage "results" on Youtube and always knew that the 1% Nigerian or Massai or whatever among Northern Europeans was horse manure. Someone should tell Mr. Japhet (even his name is a joke) that he's not paid to troll people or to lie to them.

 

[real expert]

MyHeritage is the worst DNA company for ancestry reports. It has consistently ranked last it may comparison of genetic testing companies.

MyHeritage is the epitome of commercial BS. That stupid music alone exposes them as a clown show. When they use such categories as Balkan, Baltic, Greek, Italian, West Asian, Nigerian etc., that should put you on an alert to save your money. I have seen a number of these MyHeritage "results" on Youtube and always knew that the 1% Nigerian or Massai or whatever among Northern Europeans was horse manure. Someone should tell Mr. Japhet (even his name is a joke) that he's not paid to troll people or to lie to them.

Yeah, MyHeritage doesn't have the best reputation, but many DNA testers are unaware of it. With that being said, their matches for European ancestry are okay, but they are not particularly reliable for ethnicity estimates. Besides, I looked up other European results; Northern Italians, for example, basically never score SSA and rarely West Asian; their matches are entirely European.

Even Southern Italians, who used to get a little SSA, now only get some West Asian and the occasional small North African. Thus, the 1% that MyHeritage assigns to Germans or Austrians is unquestionably a deliberative error and a fabricated result designed
to keep Germans or Austrians from "realizing" that they are 100% European or so-called "white." It's a clear Shtik of MyHeritage which is probably a liberal company.

It may make me appear paranoid, but I assume MyHeritage wants to tell Germans that because they have some African ancestry, they must accept diversity and endless migration from Africa or the Near East into their country in perpetuity.

 

[norbert]

I don't know what their agenda is, apart from generating profits. They are an Israeli company. Being liberal in Israel is the same as being a follower of the AfD ideology in Germany. MyHeritage relies heavily on its database which is rather limited. So if you get a 100% European result, you have to bear in mind that it's in relation to the people from the same database and who are from Europe today.

Data and "evidence" can be easily manipulated and misinterpreted. That's why criminal convictions are not simply based on police evidence. They have to go through the process of trials and even in that case mistakes are made. What we have here are commercial DNA companies acting like police and a rather politically motivated police at that. Reminds you of a totalitarian state.

Serious genetics doesn't deal in categories like British, Balkans, Northern Europeans etc. That is left to genealogy, archives, historical sources and family tradition. Genetics uses terms like WHG, EHG, EEF, ANF, CHG and perhaps Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, Paleo-Balkanic etc. for early MA migrations. Large-scale genetic research should be left to domestic universities. That doesn't guarantee a higher degree of objectivity but I'd rather send my saliva sample to a university lab in my country than to some for-profit company in Texas, California or Israel that will sell around my personal data to the first buyer.

 

[Duarte]

 

[norbert]

Of course, everyone who questions a heavily politicised and commercialised science must be a racist. But the racist label applies only to white people. Even if you distort scientific data (in other words: lie) for a "good cause", you're still committing fraud and going against everything that science should stand for: integrity and the pursuit of truth. When people pay for a DNA test, they expect credible results. The last thing they want is to be "trolled." Most people are appalled by propagandists who weaponise prejudice against ethnic groups, sexual minorities etc. not just because they're ethically/morally wrong but because they are false, at least in most cases. But positive prejudice is just a side of the same coin and equally dishonest and deceiving. Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

 

[torzio]

when you see any site using white or black people, you will know it is a BS site

white = Caucasian

black = Negroid

what will pacific islands, south american indigenous people, mongols, north Africans etc etc be classified as ?............hope it is not black

 

[qh777]

MyHeritage is the worst DNA company for ancestry reports. It has consistently ranked last it may comparison of genetic testing companies.

I think CRI genetics is worse in my opinion.

 

[MikeOwl]

I have a small segment (0.3%) attributed to West African ancestry that first appeared when I did my first DNA test with 23andMe.
It hasn't disappeared through many years and updates.
It shows up on every Gedmatch ethnicity test.
It originally showed up on AncestryDNA as less than 1% Nigerian (this was when you could click on 0% regions to see if there were less than amounts- this was a real thing)- now it shows up as an unassigned segment in the same place where 23andMe originally placed it.

So, long story short, I showed up with 1% Nigerian when I first uploaded my 23andMe results to MyHeritage.

The thing is, a DNA cousin showed up on 23andMe with 0.3% West African on the same segment (I shared with her so I made certain the 0.3% West African was from the same segment) and she showed up with 1% Nigerian on MyHeritage.

Another interesting thing is that a small cousin match from 23andMe who showed 0.8% West African there showed zero West African on her MyHeritage upload before the updates.

 

[MikeOwl]

I'm really glad I came across this thread because I had no idea that people were receiving 1% Nigerian results out of the blue. I had received a 0.3% West African result at 23andMe that I had been chasing for years, so I was surprised when my upload to MyHeritage was suddenly 1% (a chromosome browser/painter would've been useful to compare).

I should add that this side of the family is colonial English from New England, so that goes back far enough for some kind of mixing to have taken place.

I personally feel that this West African segment is somehow connected to the small amount of Iberian ancestry that 23andMe gives me.

Then again, wasn't there a thread on these forums about ancient Germanic DNA showing signs of small amounts of African DNA.

It doesn't explain why my small cousin match (she's also of colonial New England ancestry) with 0.8% West African DNA didn't get any: I had expected hers to become 2% Nigerian because I thought that MyHeritage was simply inflating existing percentages for some reason.