Has anyone taken a DNA test via Ancestry, My Heritage, etc? If so, were you surprised by your results?

I’m waiting my test to get ready.
In about two weeks, it should be done.
Very curious as to read where my ancestry lies.
MyHeritage I used.

I did. Utterly boring. White, white, white. And also, white.

I found it interesting. My father’s side is mostly French Acadian. They settled in Nova Scotia. Many of the French married First Nations – Mi’kmaq. I often wondered if I had some Native Canadian ancestry. I was told that I did. It showed up in My Heritage. A small percentage, but it was there.

My daughter is into history and we just did this, got results a couple weeks ago. We were a little surprised, but not too much, really.

My last name is Irish origin. But my DVA indicates I’m 86% German, 10% indigenous American and 4% Asian. That is consistent with the a story that my Mother told a few times about how my great grandmother got pregnant from a “Mexican” while visiting California. Her father offered my my supposed great grandfather 2 farms to marry my great grand mother. This made my grand mother about half American Indian and my Father about one fourth American Indian and me about one eighth American Indian.

I took 23&me and Ancestry. I’m English, Irish and German. Those tales mom and grandma told about us being part Cherokee indian… was bullshit.

I wish that the price was more affordable in my currency. It would be great to know where I came from.

I found 2 first cousins who were unknown to my family.

I was surprised when I read the fine print, which, if you order the kit, you will not have access to until you have paid for and received it. When I read the fine print, I sent it all back to Amazon for a full refund.

My results confirmed what I knew already apart from 8% Norwegian and 6% Northern European. What surprised me most was how accurate it was. It identified a number of family members I already knew of purely from our DNA results.

Europe 98%
Western Europe 47%
Central Europe
28% ( France, Denmark, Germany,Poland,Austria)
England, Wales, and Scotland 19% ( United Kingdom, Ireland)

Eastern Europe 42%

West Slavic 35%
Magyar 5%( Slovakia,Hungary,Roumania,Slovenia)
East Slavic 2% ( Finland,Belarus,Ukraine,Malta(Italy)

Baltic 8% ( Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania)

Finnish 1%

Southern Europe

Malta info 1% ( small percentage)

Americas 2%

Amerindian – North America 2%
Amerindian – Amazon info 1% ( small percentage)

The European Continent has been witness to many episodes of human migration, some of which have spanned over thousands of years.

The most up-to-date research into these ancient migrations on the European Continent suggests that there were three major groups of people that have had a lasting effect on present day peoples of European descent:
Hunter-Gatherers,
Early Farmers,
and Metal Age Invaders.
The graphics below display the percentages of autosomal DNA that you still carry from these ancient European groups.

Ancient origins Results:

Metal Age Invader 12%
Farmer 41%
Hunter Gatherer 45%
Non European 2%
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Mitochrondal Dna and Family autosomnal tests.
% of both M Dna and % Paternal lines included

Children of parents regardless of gender have some of both parents Dna the differrence is in the % carried by each child which can be different.
Note : this was completed in 2015 by Family tree Dna company
Wish that my older gaing brother would get his Y-700 Dna done to confirm research on French Ancestor.
Others on that site have research Dna going back to early Roman times etc

Cost perhibative especially when converted into $CDN is almost doubled.

I haven’t, still a little paranoid to do it. My sister did and pretty much no surprise. It was something like 92% European Jewish.

My husband’s sister did it and no surprise about 50% West Asian and 50% Southern European.

Neither of them found a long lost relative.

The parents of a close friend did it, and no surprise on what part of the world they were from, but VERY surprised to find out her parents are distant cousins! Also, her mom’s best friend is a distant cousin on her mom’s side. They had no idea that any of them were related.

It may sound icky but distant cousins share practically no DNA