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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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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. 🙏

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

El apellido Romero, viene siendo como Rosemary like the plant! Also remember that in 1492 the Sephardic jews were expelled from Spain. The Sephardic jews,changed their last names to animals names: Wolf became Lobo; to plants name, etc.

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.

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 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.😅

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

This is phenomenal info! Thanks for sharing it.

Greeks colonized Sicily and Southern Italy.

I appreciate the Christian application of having varied ancestry.

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.

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.

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

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.

Enjoyed it. Your channel is a blessing.

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.

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

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

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.

So glad you tested with MyHeritage and shared the results.

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.

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.

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.

This is very interesting Greetings from NY

Myheritage needs to improve on the native american and african section

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.

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).

Most interesting. Keep making videos!

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

This is cool 😃 You have a beautiful background

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.

Great adn congratulation

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

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 didn't think my heritage was as accurate as other dna tests I have done.

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

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.

Good afternoon from Copperhill Tn. 😊

Re: Your lower-than-expected French ethnicity result... Not everyone inherits a known & specific percentage of each ethnicity a parent might have inherited due to what's called recombination. Both myself & my first cousin share a grandmother whose parents were born in Scandinavia: one in Norway with centuries-old roots there & the other from Sweden. I apparently inherited a high percentage of Norwegian & Swedish - including the possibility of some Danish - and a much-lower percenrage of Western European, whereas my first cousin inherited a very high percentage of Western European - including the possibility of some Danish - but absolutely no Norwegian or Sweedish, per our respective MyHeritageDNA tests [which bummed my cousin out a bit - even though we equally share Norwegian & Swedish heritage regardless of our differences in inherited DNA snips (SNP's)]. This recombination process of DNA snips that takes place within each individual is why syblings - & even identical twins - have some differences in their respective inherited DNA; &, it's why an Ethnicity Result report might be missing some fairly-recent ethnicities (let alone perhaps many distant ethnicities).* * = Paternal-line Y-DNA testing & Maternal-line mtDNA testing can help someone discover some of their more ancient ethnicities, but not likely every ethnicity that went into their eventually being born. We've been gaining much knowledge over the years, but we still fall far short of being able to figure out everything.

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

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.

God has given you this platform to make a difference. Thank you for bringing awareness.

@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.

With little diversity one can concentrate on learning much about the area one's ancestors spent much time in - & not miss much. With much diversity one can't possibly dive deep into each & every ethnicity (especially when much is news to one's self - as in cases where an adoption took place). It's all cool in its own way. Just knowing - or even having some clues - is cool & interesting; & such can spark study &/or appreciation.

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.

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

MH are doing a big update to their admixture analysis right now :) My kits are still waiting for the update, and I'm looking forward to seeing what changes it will bring.

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

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.

Comment on Melanesians: While in the Navy my ship patrolled remote locations and islands in the Pacific Ocean. We came across Melanesians around New Guinea and New Britain north of Australia.

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.

as a Louisiana native i relate

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 😁

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.

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.

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.

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

These shaded regions represent areas where your Genotype(s) can be found & aren't necessarily where your direct ancestors all came from; so, you might have folk related to you in Agentina in that they are indirect relations that share a Genotype with you, but none of your direct ancestors ever set foot in Argentina (but were most likely from at least one place somewhere within the shaded region you're looking at).

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Question..What's the difference between eber, hebrew and Iberian and nigerian regarding geneology.. ? And then what are the simularities?

You look very Puerto Rican 😊 to me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Western and Northern European doesn't mean necessarily French. Could be Northern Italian. Sicily was colonized by many communities of Northern Italians after the Norman reconquest.

Americans are almost always mixed. I’m 62% Scandinavian, 28% Irish, and 10% German.

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 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.

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.

Just beautiful.

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