Me | Ancestry | MyHeritage |
Engl/Scot/Welsh | 69 | |
Irish | 10 | |
Irish/Scot/Welsh | | 49.1 |
English | | 5.5 |
Scandinavian | 10 | 32.1 |
Finnish/N. Russ | 3 | |
Iberian | 3 | 12.1 |
Euro Jew | 1 | |
Middle East | | 1.2 |
Italian/Greek | 3 | |
W or NW Euro | 1 | |
| | |
Bro | Ancestry | MyHeritage |
Engl/Scot/Welsh | 61 | |
Irish | 14 | |
Irish/Scot/Welsh | | 21.2 |
English | | 68.2 |
Scandinavian | 10 | |
Iberian | 2 | 6.4 |
Greek | | 1.6 |
W or NW Euro | 13 | |
Balkan | | 2.6 |
| | |
Mom | Ancestry | MyHeritage |
Engl/Scot/Welsh | 61 | |
Irish | 13 | |
Irish/Scot/Welsh | | 2.6 |
English | | 35.2 |
Scandinavian | 3 | |
Finnish/N. Russ | 1 | |
Iberian | 1 | 4.2 |
Italian/Greek | 1 | |
Greek | | |
W or NW Euro | 19 | 58 |
N. Africa | 1 | |
| | |
Dad | Ancestry | MyHeritage |
Engl/Scot/Welsh | 8 | |
Irish | 30 | |
Irish/Scot/Welsh | | 14.7 |
English | | 57.8 |
Scandinavian | 9 | |
Finnish/N. Russ | 1 | |
Iberian | 2 | 15.2 |
Euro Jew | 2 | |
Italian/Greek | 3 | |
Greek | | 6.9 |
W or NW Euro | 43 | |
Balkan | | 5.4 |
Caucus | 1 | |
East Euro | 1 | |
| | |
| | |
Mom's mom | Ancestry | MyHeritage |
Engl/Scot/Welsh | 78 | |
Irish | 1 | |
Irish/Scot/Welsh | | 3 |
English | | 36.8 |
Scandinavian | 2 | |
Finnish/N. Russ | 2 | |
Iberian | 1 | 9.2 |
Italian/Greek | 2 | |
Italian | | 3.5 |
W or NW Euro | 14 | 42.8 |
Wow! There are massive inconsistencies!
I find Ancestry.com to be far more accurate based on paper trails. MyHeritage massively inflates Iberian, Green, or Italian. MyHeritage has huge fluctuation of Scandinavian.
My Father's Great Grandmother was Norwegian. Ancestry shows him at 9% and my brother and I at 10% (normal British folks range 1%-9% on Ancestry). MyHeritage gives me a whopping 32.1% Scandi yet my mother shows 0 and my father shows 0. (Yes, MyHeritage can tell by the DNA match that my parents are my bio parents). That is interesting though because I'm very tall in a family of normal sized people and everyone always wonders how the heck that happened.
The breakdowns of English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish and W or NW Euro are also inconsistent and all over the place. Grouping Irish, Scottish, and Welsh together is folly. Scottish and English are closer genetically than north and south Wales. I think MyHeritage is grouping the highlander (more celtic) Scots in with the Irish and Celtic Welsh and Cornish. They must be counting lowland Scots as English. Even so, you can see the wild variations within one family.
I also think Ancestry's old test (my father's) incorrectly attributed some Anglo-Saxon as West European. I'm very close to my father on Eurogenes and other GEDmatch calculators but Ancestry has us scored very differently. I believe the new version of the test is more accurate for discerning the difference.
Interesting but I'm not convinced of their estimate accuracy. I also base this opinion on the many GEDmatch calculators.