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Puerto Rican are a mixed of many ethnicities. I am, for example, part Italian (Naples & Sicily), part Ashkenazi Jew, part Irish and Welsh, but mostly Iberian, followed by Central/West African, North African, Indigenous and Middle Eastern. So, you shouldn’t be surprised if you do have blood shared with many Puerto Ricans like me.

The Mesoamerican DNA comes from the Andean mountains. All indigenous Americans are closely related, regardless if their locations are North American or Latin America. A lot of those tribes moved around.

Wanted to let you know, Jarret Ross from Genevlogger and Professional Genealogist Reacts talked about you in his recent live on Professional Genealogist Reacts. It sounded like he would like to collab with you.

The more I know, the more I recognize that there is more to learn. My Ancestors were survivors. They were “storytellers “. Who knows how much of the story was “enhanced “ for a greater effect or minimized or “forgotten “. I love DNA 🧬 for the “crumbs it contains to untold stories and genetic diversity. Your results are amazing. Thank you for sharing.

We are generations of Americans ,and mixed with those who were here, and those who came here...we have become a new people called Americans and we are a beautiful people and have our own distinct culture.

I noticed that MyHeritage groups me as Mesoamerican/Andean, but I am Choctaw. It appears they categorize all indigenous peoples together.

Through DNA Richard Pryor was shown to be a very distant cousin through common native american ancestry... that is so cool!

As my wife says I have an artist's eye and can often guess where someone is from (provided they aren't too mixed). Since I first stumbled on you Danielle, I initially guessed Sicilian.

In Puerto Rico the original people there were the Taino which I think would be considered Meso American .

Fun fact puerto rican soldiers were stationed in Louisiana during when it was under Spanish authority.

The beautiful thing about being of mixed race/culture, as I am as well, is that you feel at home almost anywhere in the world! It's a wonderful feeling!! I have physically traveled to Nigeria 38.9%, British Isles 27%, Sierra Leone 7.6%, North Africa 7.6%, Scandinavia & German 7%, Kenya 4.5%, Spain 4.5%, Italy & Greece 1.1%, and Southeast Asia 1.8% to know that I have heritage there. I currently reside in Germany, but I have made an effort to visit every genetic region of my heritage so far, except the Philippines, which I will do sometime within the next year. 🙏

The original intent of ethnicity estimates was to tell where your ancestors lived 500 to 1000 years ago, before inter-continental travel. Since there are no living people that old, each of the DNA companies create reference panels of living users who claim that all four grandparents were born in a specific location. Each of the DNA companies identify different groups and break up the geographic areas differently. Each of the DNA companies test different SNPs and use different algorithms, so they cannot be compared across sites. MyHeritage keeps saying they will be updating their ethnicity estimates soon. The other companies (23andMe and AncestryDNA) typically push updates about once a year. Some of the DNA companies provide white papers on their methodology, but MyHeritage does not. Remember that ethnicity is not the same as nationality. Country borders are political not ethnic. Some countries did not exist 500 to 1000 years ago or borders have changed several times over that period. Estimates, by definition, cannot be precise. These are not genealogical helpful. The only way to know where your ancestors lived is to build a well-documented tree.

You can have a relative in the distance past that settled in PR. Italians also are known to be in PR. Spaniards and Italians mingled. I have connections inPR also but I have no trail of it . But Sephardic Jews settled all over the Caribbean and the US

I believe regular Italian is northerm Italian, and then they group south italian and Greek together because Southern Italy was heavily colonized at one time by the Greeks. Its cool to think thay all those thousands of years laterz Arcimedes may have some descendants left there in southern italy and Sicily.

Thank you for doing this. It is fascinating. Mixed race Americans have always had to be kept silent. Its nice to hear a voice. Keep up the good work! CJ.

A important statement from 23 and me about DNA testing and finding ancestral haplogroup: "Most of your genetic relatives will actually fall outside of your haplogroup, because your haplogroup only tells you about direct paternal-line or maternal-line". I'll add that the direct paternal and maternal line can go back 100,000 years ago. But those who branched of into 3rd cousins, great uncle or auntie, may have differing haplogroups.

This is how i expected your dna test

You may not have Puerto Rican per say, but many Taino indians were taken by Cortes during the colonization of Mexico so possibly some Taino or Taino meztizo genes may have been transferred to Mexico and Central America. On Heritage they blend indigenous and mestizos into one group.

I appreciate the Christian application of having varied ancestry.

Throughout centuries of history groups of people have migrated looking for a better life. Your DNA reflects that. We as Americans have global roots.

Enjoyed it. Your channel is a blessing.

You can upload your dna from my heritage to Gedmatch, genomelink, ftdna, and living dna to expand your matches.

This is phenomenal info! Thanks for sharing it.

MyHeritage does not distinguish between different Indigenous American populations and lumps them all together as Mesoamerican and Andean. I'm Puerto Rican and have near 30% readings of Mesoamerican and Andean on my DNA with MyHeritage.

The North African middle eastern is probably connected to your Italian heritage. There were Egyptians who moved to Italy at some points. Always exchange between Middle East and Italy as well

The thing you need to remember with the various DNA websites, is that they do not have the same database to draw from. They can only compare your DNA to what is in their database. It doesn't make it necessarily wrong or inaccurate, it just means they don't have the same database as another company. If Puerto Rico showed up here, it reflects the results in their database. As you have seen upon revisiting you other results, the percentages can change. That is because as more people have their DNA examined, the results can be refined.

Greeks colonized Sicily and Southern Italy.

The people in southern Puerto Rico probably have ancestry very similar to yours. Some mezo-American, some African, some white. We have to remember that people moved around a lot in the Old World, too. ALL of the DNA companies are comparing present-day groups.

Thanks again for this.

This is very interesting Greetings from NY

So glad you tested with MyHeritage and shared the results.

You look like my sister. We're Irish, African American and Lenni Lenape

Most interesting. Keep making videos!

I took a MyHeritage test and the ethnicity mix and genetic groups were accurate. My matches are spot on too. I loved your video.

I would say the Melanesian is connected to the "Mesoamerican and Andean". Graham Hancock's book "America Before" he says that in certain South American tribes there is a certain amount of Pacific Islander dna, which hints that some of the peoples who were populating the Pacific Islands made it to the western coast of south America and left a genetic footprint.

Our test are so similar, except Instead of Nigerian, and PR, I have Armenian and Spanish. But every other breakdown you have for your test I have too. So neat.

Great adn congratulation

Yes, I have done Myheritage

It makes sense that there is a lot of overlap in the Greek and Italian. Historically southern Italy was first inhabited by Greeks. For long periods of time Sicily and southern Italy was inhabited and Conquered by North African Muslims. This could explain the north African and Middle Eastern heritage. Frank Zappa was of Sicilian heritage and he was Greek as well as Arabic.

The maps used in the ethnicity estimates are just estimates - based on the cumulative results of all other tests in their database. As the database grows, the estimates/map will change - which is why you see your Ancestry profile periodically change - more data refines the estimates/maps.

Good afternoon from Copperhill Tn. 😊

I would like to add that when it says "greek and southern italian" it could be also reffered to the albanian comunity, mistakenly included into the greek ADN. It's just a sugestion, due to the large albanian comunity living on southern parts of Italy since centuries. They're called "greci" due to the orthodox faith or because when they left Albanian lands they went to Italy passing by today greek territories.

Can't wait for MyHeritage first ever update in June, now I just hope they release a white paper like the other DNA companies do

Actually if you understood migration of Mexico and its ancestry I could tell you that there were many people who came from various places to settle in Mexico including Puerto Rico and other places. So the fact that you have have a tiny bit is not a surprise. Mexico was a hub of cultural movement especially in the colonial period of Mexico.

I've had some similar experiences with MyHeritage. Both myself & a 1st Cousin of mine took autosomal MyHeritage DNA tests under nick-names via a 3rd party that was managing the MyHeritage account; & then Covid brought everything to a halt: the 3rd party let the account lapse; so, when MyHeritage recently asked folk to transfer their results from other companies for perpetual free but limited use of their site, I uploaded my Ancestory data to MyHeritage using my given name & got a report like you did. What's interesting is that MyHeritage's analysis of my data from Ancestry's DNA testing did show me as either identical to - or a twin of - myself via the test I took using a nick-name; but, they stated only 99.8% Shared DNA (one would think it would be 100%, eh? 🤔). MyHeritage initially had me at 2.4% Greek & South Italian via that nick-name test result (in May 2022); but, in reviewing the data from Ancestry, MyHeritage now has me at 4.8% Greek & South Italian (as of Nov 2023). Ancestry never has mentioned Greece or Italy, but has instead a 1% North Africa result that they've stuck to (so far; & yet MyHeritage doesn't mention any African ancestry). Ancestry has updated/changed most of their guesstimations for me (showing area, old guess -> new guess): • Sweden & Denmark - 29% -to-> 26% • Norway - 24% -to-> 27% • England & NW Europe - 21% -to-> 25% • Scotland - 16% -to-> 12% • Ireland - 7% -to-> 9% • Wales - N/A -to-> 2% • North Africa - 1% -remaining-> 1% This shows that companies periodically change their alogrythms (& each DNA testing company uses their own algorythms & have their own databases). MyHeritage results (ethnicity, initial "nick-name" test results, & latest results analyzing the data sent via Ancestry): • Scandinavian - 48.0% -to-> 53.7% • English - 24.5% -remaining-> 24.5% • Irish, Scottish, & Welch - 16.3% -to-> 15.6% • Greek & South Italian - 2.4% -to-> 4.8% • North & West European - 8.8% -to-> 1.4% Also of (quite frustrating) interest is how Ancestry put me into various communities in the U.S.A. & Canada - & then took me out of some of them (What the heck? 🤔). I noticed that currently CRIgenetics & FamilyTreeDNA are having Mother's Day Sales (& other companies might be doing likewise). CRI Genetics has some features like 23&Me has, but they claim that their timeline is better because it goes back 50 generations (about 1,000 years, rather than 200-300 years).

I love this field of study, and your videos are always amazing. I’m a longtime fan. Can you clarify and speak more about these DNA test being more of a shared, genetic material and migratory patterns versus people claiming to be a certain race because people often say, for example I’m Irish or Puerto Rican or Dominican but these are places, not races ! I’m saying this with all due respect to everyone I just believe a lot of people are under the wrong impression when speaking of race or ethnic origin.

I'm waiting for results of my Big Y and full sequence mitochondrial DNA test. I'm very excited to have finally taken this test. You shouldn't be too surprised to get a DNA coincidence with populations of Eastern Puerto Rico. The canarios who went to Louisiana and the Portuguese who got there very early on are likely of the same people who came here. The connection could even be due to some the Black ancestors who mixed with Europeans at some point over there were related to those who underwent the same mixing process here. Many of the slaves from the Caribbean areas ended up along the Atlantic seaboard and beyond. There's a period throughout the 1600's where not much is known for sure.

I had my DNA analyzed by My Heritage and they told me I have some Finnish DNA. It was the only DNA testing service to say this. I once heard one of my maternal aunts say my maternal grandmother had some Finnish ancestry, so this didn't surprise me. A year or so later, I uploaded my raw data to Genomelink. One of their reports said 12% of my DNA was from Northeast Europe. I sent an email to the head of Genomelink and asked him if this meant that 12% of my DNA was Eastern Slav or Russian DNA. He wrote back and said it referred to Finnish or Estonian ancestry, which refers to Finno-Ugric people. Then about a year later, I uploaded my raw data to My True Ancestry. They compare your DNA to DNA taken from ancient remains found in various archaeological sites. They show your DNA matches to dots on a map. My DNA was matched to about 10 people in Estonia and 1 in Finland and about 30 in Hungary, which is also a country where Finno-Ugric people migrated to besides Finland and Estonia. In short, My Heritage is one of the few DNA testing companies to spot my Finno-Ugric DNA.

Eastern Port Rican. Port Rican has a spanish dna mixed in. Someone may have made a stop on their way to Louisiana or some family settled in port rico and some went on to Louisiana or new york.

Many Italians fled to Brazil and Argentina durning the late 1800’s , this would be due to gold and also cattle ranchers and many Italians immigrated to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile . Italy did not become a country until mid 1840’s . I would start looking at who your 3,4,5 cousins are and study how much similarity you have to them . This is where you will start to get patterns . On the Southern Italian ( Sicilian) you have at least strong Greek background , what you have to really think of is which side because if you are showing 19-20% and then also Italian that means your father most likely has at least 40% Greek Italian . That would mean your Great Grand parents would be your key link on the southern European ( Greek- Italian ) The Irish believe it or not , just like the Italians and Greeks left their homelands in the 19th Century and many Irish went to Mexico and South America . There also is another possibility that you may want to look into and that is that the Irish were also slaves along with the African slaves in the 1600-1700’s that were brought to America as well. The slave owners used the Irish slaves along with African slaves. It could very well be that your ancestors in Louisiana could have been Irish and African as the ex slaves were able to go to other areas of the States. The Meso American could have been a mix of the Italian and Greek that could have been in South America. There may have been Italian and Greeks marrying local people of Brazil . Generally the lower numbers you see doesn’t mean that it was your lowest percentage but these are your ancestors that went farther generations back . If you have any questions on Greek DNA and finding the Greek Diaspora we have many Greeks in the US that can help you with every diaspora of Greeks through out the world .

It would be interesting to see the changes to the maps and the movements and relocations of peoples through out history.

I find it interesting when YT ppl learn of their ancestry and find out that they have a Blk ancestor. Their Blk ancestor is not part of their family stories, and is widely hidden or unknown. Whereas Blk ppl (descend. of slav) are generally NOT surprised to find out their ancestry and non-Blk ancestor because there has been family stories about the past and this ancestry is not kept as a family secret. The hidden history of YT ppl is consistent with and reflective of history and the many ppl who tried to ‘pass’ to achieve upward social mobility and better lives.

Interesting results! I know that a lot of Italians settled in South America at about the same time that they started immigrating to the U.S., and also that some of the early Spanish conquistadors who came to Mexico, Central, and South America, were really northern Italians. I wonder if that's where some of your South American DNA comes from? Also, I was talking with my mom a few weeks ago, and discovered that she would like to do a DNA test, but she doesn't know which one would give the most accurate, complete, results. Do you have a recommendation? Her parents are from two different parts of Sicily, and they met and married in the U.S., but not much is known about the family before their parents' time.

I took the myheritage test and I am Puerto Rican and good thing that my mom taught me about my culture because I was not surprised when I saw my DNA but it's pretty much just like yours from biggest percentage to small I am Iberian, Scottish Irish Welsh, Ashkenazi Jew, Italian, Mesoamerican and Andeans North African Nigerian Sierra Leonean. And it accurately describes all of my genetic groups as Puerto Rican and nothing else. But if you have a little bit of African European and any kind of Native American then you'll probably look Puerto Rican or at least some kind of Caribbean.😅

The south Italian is the Sicilian which were Greeks from 2600 years ago up to 600 years ago when Greeks left Asia Minor and the mainland of Greece and the islands , they went to Italy , Spain , France , Sicily as well as to Arabia and North Africa ( Egypt, Libya, Tunisia , Algeria and the Levant ) This was during the Ottoman Empire from 1453-1923. Eastern European may also be Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian.

Hmm.. the Melanesian is like Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and New Guinea. I have a friend who got Melanesian in her DNA report, but her mom is Indo-Guyanese, so I could see how people travelled from India to Southeast Asia and the Pacific. But the thing is, it seems people did move around a lot more than Western history texts may acknowledge. I've been to Fiji twice and have friends there and from there. My friends and I went to the Fiji Museum and a display said all kinds of ethnicities crossed paths there over the centuries including Indigenous North Americans, Africans, and lots of others I forgot.. it mentioned stuff like American seafarers too which would've been more recent. It could be that one of your ethnicities travelled there. It's very weird, the connections we all have. Your mind would be blown looking at some of the stuff in that museum, there was a large outrigger that people would've travelled the Pacific on, reading the stars and currents as they had their babies and pigs and everything. In North America we aren't taught a lot about the massive explorations and travels of Pacific people.

Appreciate your videos. I’ve studied as a historian the western hemisphere and Caribbean and Latin America exclusively. Brazil has the highest number of people of Italian descent and it goes quite a ways back. Argentina has the highest concentration outside of Italy but Brazil’s population is filled with immigrants children from Italy as a whole.

I did my heritage. I'm not worried about the results. 200 years of English history and not a jot of English DNA for my brother or me. According to my Ghanaian partner, my Great grandmother was mixed race, he sees West African features in photos. I uploaded the raw data to ged match and it all seems pretty legit broadly speaking.

Southern Italy was heavily settled by Greek colonies from the 8th Century BCE, to the point it was known as Magna Graecia to the Romans.

I uploaded my 23andMe and my Ancestry Data to that site, the results was close, but not the same, one left off my native American %, they had me listed as brothers🤔 uploaded to GedMatch same thing 😁

Just beautiful.

I'm 66 now and my friends called me Cochise when I was in high school 😂. I had long hair in the 1970's and a Rock and Roll fan. 52% American Indian and 48% Spanish. Mom from Mexico and Dad from Texas. I was born in Torrance California

Myheritage needs to improve on the native american and african section

@nytn While under Spanish rule, Puerto Rico fought alongside the American colonists in the Revolutionary War. Bernardo de Galvez, the governor of Louisiana in 1779, was named general of the Spanish colonial army and led his troop -- consisting primarily of Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics -- to capture the cities of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Pensacola, Florida; and St. Louis, Missouri, from the British.

Looks like MyHeritage will update its results in the summer of this year. They announced in a Family Search event months ago. I think it's the first time MyHeritage will update its results, so I'm looking foward to it.

Pretty cool 😎 Have you tried uploading to genome link and my true ancestry? They show more derailed admixture results, it was very interesting in my opinion.

It is finally being recognized that the Pacific Islanders including probable Melanesian’s and South Americans (at least), had contact in pre-colonial times. The contact sites are thought to be the Andean and coastal indigenous peoples. As an example of DNA admixtures, check out the mixes in Patagonia!

alot of southern Italians also get caucasian(georgia,armenia, azerbaijan area and north of that area bordering the black sea), eastern european, jewish and middle eastern. Remember the Italian states were enslaving people from Eastern Europe and bringing them back to Italy. The first major slave market was eastern Europeans before the Portuguese started the African slave trade or adopted it. I believe Leonard Da Vinci's mother was a slave woman from the transcaucasian region for example.

Here's a possible explanation for the Puerto Rico attachment on your DNA test. It was the first thing that popped up in my mind when you were discussing it: "the event that a pregnancy does develop, the infant inherits the man’s DNA permanently. Certain infant cells can cross across and enter the bloodstream of their mothers even after delivery. This is called microchimerism, leaving the woman with some fetal DNA for the rest of her life. Fetal cells also pass through the membrane of the placenta and reach the womb during pregnancy. Male fetal cells have been found in women’s blood up to 27 years after delivering a son. Thus, a lady may retain her baby’s father’s DNA for several decades following childbirth." I don't know if that would alter a woman's genetic testing but it might be worth looking into.

All my DNA uploaded is very different from the actual test with MyHeritage. Taking their test will be very different from Ancestry. I find ancestry to be the least reliable for my areas but I did find value in all the results, except for ancestry. Ancestry I use for family tree purposes only. The indigenous is just very general but it’s does cover your indigenous side.

Your ancestor is isolated to a specific place. The genome is not. What it shows is that the distribution of the meso-american dna over a large over. As the meso-american people spreed out from some centeral location they carried that DNA to the andes.

Danielle. Mines shows up as MesoAmerican and Andean as well on Myheritage. I

Hey Cousin, I also have Andean DNA but don’t have a paper trail for it.

I read somewhere on Reddit that MyHeritage was going to update its results some time soon, it's been years in the making and anyone who took a test in 2019 or later will get the update for free. At this point, any results you get from there will be inaccurate to some degree. Mine currently has small percentages of Mesoamerica and Scandinavian when 23andMe and AncestryDNA both state that I'm basically 100% Asian (80-90% Filipino, 6-12% Chinese, 2-3% Southern Indian, 0.5-1% Mainland Southeast Asian) after numerous updates.

The more people test the more accurate the algorithm will get in estimating ethnicity and locations. So percentages will change and locations get more accurate.

How interesting it is 😊 , i am fairly new to your channel and acknowledge its existent 2 weeks ago because of an Elvis Presley video and your work is extremely interesting in order to mirror the complexity of the Human being genetic. I have myself wanted to do a Dna test for almost a decade and never did it because i always forgot 😅 even though i have a pretty good idea of what i might be based on Family members features, History of the countries i am descent from and curiosity .. I am basically French as well as Argentine, i have family and ancestors from both of those countries : My Mom is litterally > Argentine and French as My maternal Grandma Was Argentine from the Andes Region, from the Northwest of Argentina ; and My Maternal Grandpa Is French .. My Grandma had obvious Native American features from the Andes region of the country, but had the peculiarity if i may say, to have curly hair because her own Grandma ( My Great, Great Grandma was Argentine of Spaniard descent ) meanwhile her Grandpa ( My Great, Great Grandpa ) was fully Native American from the Andes of Argentina and they used to call him > as it is a slang in Argentina which refers to Native American people [ but also Black People, Poor people, Arab people, Mestizos/Castizos and can also be used with affection ]. My Grandma was typically > from an Argentine point of view, which is Mestiza. To comeback to her curly Hair, My Grandma inheritated it from her own Grandma, and i do believe we must have North African blood, because as one can see from my profile picture, its is very curly, more than simple waves. If i am not mistaken, North African/Moor did invade the Iberic peninsula for 800 years .. My Maternal Grandpa is French but looks more German to be honest, he is from la Champagne in the Great East of the country. And my Paternal side is French and Dutch .. One of my brothers looks 100% white and has curly ( not as much as i do ) he has green eyes, pale skin and european features .. crazy how genetic works 🙂 My mom also does have curly hair like my Grandma, and Great Great Grandma. Once i do 23andme test, i will post it on my channel if anyone is interested by it , as Argentina is much more complex than its stereotypes .. Sorry for my english, i wrote a lot.

Your DNA test revealed 7-8% Native American C1c? Native American subclad C1c goes back 15,000 years in the Americas. It is said by peer-reviewed genetic studies that C1c began to mutate away from the other C Haplogroups when a founding migration population moved into Mesoamerica and down to the Andes. I remember that you mentioned a relative from over 100 years ago who was a Choctaw citizen, so I would say that the C1c lineage that is found in some of your family tree, may come from a cousin of your 1st cousin who is Choctaw (meaning it may not be a direct maternal/paternal line/lineage), so you may not have direct inherited Southeastern or Choctaw ancestry, or a C1 or other C Subclad found in the Southeast, although C1c is closely related to C1, as it is a offshoot mutation, so who knows it could be found in the Southeast too. Ancestry tests can sometimes be wrong about putting a specific haplotype/subclad to a specific region, and they change the origins over the years. But most likely you probably have distant traces of C1c admixture from a Mexican, Central American or Andean Mestizo or Indigenous immigrant relative, some of those People immigrated to the Southeast and Louisiana over 100 years ago.

I have a small amount 1-3% native american that I know on my paper trail is from Southeast North America. Ancestry stated my community was Yucatan peninsula for about a year which I knew was incorrect. On a recent update on Ancesty it changed to SouthEast North America and no longer shows Yucatan. Your community could change as they update testing.

Belfast is in the UK so you are part British and the people of northern Irish were largely Scottish immigrants

I have super small percentages in south America...I'm looking into the Pan American highway. Yes! I've taken the test.

You look very Puerto Rican 😊 to me.

Good Heavens Mr. Kamoto, She's Beautiful!!

Remember that My Heritage is mostly focused on European DNA. They announced it Roots tech this past winter that there is a major update coming to the DNA and the ethnicity this summer. So things could change in regards to your ethnicity estimate. They've been very tight-lived about what's actually going to happen just that it's going to happen this summer. My myheritage test actually came out with a totally different ethnicity than my ancestry. Ancestries actually a little bit more nuanced and picked up on ethnicity that my heritage did not. (Very likely because my heritage, even by the owners own words, does a shotty job when it comes down to ethnicity).

what is the origin of your last name? Romero is a very common last name in South American countries such as, Colombia, Venezuela.and Brasil

Hi Danielle, an artist, musician Robert Mirabal, (you gotta look him up) who is from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico knows an old story about his ancestors migration. And he says something like there were always people moving along that path. And so there's relation. Obviously the last 500 years have changed routes for some people but the migration was so common, our highway systems today are still based on the routes. Anyway, l love that you are a built in rainbow coalition. Peace.

as a Louisiana native i relate

I think the Southern Italian and Greek category is referring to the Early European Farmer genetics, which is the main group who inhabited Southern and Western Europe before being assimilated into the Indo-Europeans who speak the languages spoken in Europe today. There were larger numbers of them on the southern (and to a lesser degree western) coast of Europe, so it's thought that Sicilians are some of the closest genetically to that original EEF population with some of the least Indo-European admixture, despite of course speaking Italian like the rest of Italy who have higher percentages of Indo-European admixture (but still less than further north pasts of Europe who have the most)..

Now we gonna have to make a mini doc FINDING DANIEL!😆

Myheritage has been the most inaccurate of all the DNA sites I have used. Ancestry, 23andme, FTDNA, myheritage are the main ones. As an example my father who is on paper 50% southern Italian came out as 67 percent in that test. They completely wiped out some of his mom's DNA lol. My other 4 family DNA kits are not as bad as my dads. But Ancestry and 23andme are better for my kits. Plus so far Ancestry's genetic communities have helped with research and were spot on. I do have on exception with an update, idk if that was is noise a misread or a NPE lol.

Yeah the specificity of these tests are faulty but generally correct. One test gave my Italian side more Greek, Middle Eastern, and Jewish, while another listed it as just South Italian, though it’s all Mediterranean so probably easy to conflate somewhat.

Also old Louisiana brought indigenous people from the canary island called the guanche people which were a subgroup of Berber/amazigh people. The people are now called Los islenos and they have settled in their own areas. Could be a possibility

The MyHeritage test generally costs $89, but it is on sale for Mother's Day for $39. If you upload your raw DNA data file from another site, the upload is free and you can see your matches for free. If you want to unlock the DNA analysis tools, so you can see the ethnicity estimates, there is a one-time unlock fee of $29, which you mentioned. This is not the cost of taking the test there. Nonetheless, I enjoyed your video.

Greek and South Italian are the same DNA because for 1000 years and more South Italy was full of Greek colonies. So basically about 40% of your DNA comes from Italy. In South Italy most people have a bit of Middle East , North African and subsaharan African DNA, so these 3 DNAs could be from your South Italian ancestors. The rest are obvious. So mostly your DNA is Italian/Greek and Celtic. Cool.

We American are a mix bag of heritage 😂

Hello, The paper trail only has the las 150 years. Your genes records how people before history made you. if you consider that 10 generation is 300 years approximately 1024 individuals, they could be from all different kinds of places. Side note; there is a Rio in Greece too, if the paper just says Rio in could be from there. Riios avenitian village in Greece. Much of Grece was conquered by Venice for a time.

I think the genetics companies are constantly changing their assumptions about the movement of people. Race is the result of distillation over thousands of years. Countries are meaningless because political borders have no bearing on race. Since 1500 the pace of globalization has accelerated due to technological advancement and mixing is more widespread than it ever could have been before. The mirror is a good metric of origin but recessive genes and mixing can produce surprises in later generations. Identity matters and thank you Danielle for this fascinating investigation

My parents are from Puerto Rico. I’m from New York.

Hi Danielle I loved this video. I did my dna test three years ago, and it was quite interesting. I also have Irish and British to, plus I have Eastern European shockingly and Egyptian and Nigerian blood. That's just the surface, I asked to my myself how did Eastern European and Egyptian get in my family even though my background is Jamaican and Guyanese. But hey it was cool nevertheless. These dna kits are fun, but next time I want to try out my true ancestry that one goes into more depth. One more thing Danielle I would love to have a conversation with you about West Indian and Creole connections would you be ok if I spoke with you on that ?

Danielle, fun fact: In the 1800s Italian migrant workers traveled back & forth to Argentina & southern Brazil to take advantage of harvest work in the northern & southern hemispheres. They were called golondrinas "little swallows". This may explain your indigenous lineage.