MyHeritage

[sugarfizzle]

Have you changed your password recently?

I got what sounds similar to you, Harry. I changed my password, as myheritageDNA locked people out of their accounts until they had done so, after a recent security breech, including leaked passwords.

Try it and see if you can get in afterwards, otherwise contact myheritage, you should still be able to access all your matches.

Regards Margaret

[Gadget]

I'm not sure what the problem can be 

Can you get to the Help -> Contact us section (Top right ). They might be able to help.

Added - totally forgot about the password change, Margaret. It could well be that.

[hdw]

Yes, that sounds plausible, thanks. I do have a password for MyHeritage but never need to use it as just Googling MyHeritage brings up my cousin's page and until recently I could go into my DNA matches that way.

Harry

[Mart 'n' Al]

I just downloaded my data today after my results arrived last night. All seems in order, apart from the unexpected 8% Greek!

Martin

[DavidG02]

I just downloaded my data today after my results arrived last night. All seems in order, apart from the unexpected 8% Greek!

Martin

Must be the eyebrows

[Mart 'n' Al]

David, you're not the first. They are very useful. If I comb them upwards with my hand I look very scary, and I often play it to my advantage.

I know these things are supposed to be taken with a pinch of salt, but it is weird that I found no trace of anything remotely non English nor Scottish in my paper based research.

Amusingly, an hour before I got my results I had been in a Greek restaurant.

Martin

[Old Bristolian]

I take all the ethnicity results with a large pinch of salt, but the ones from MyHeritage are the most bizarre. They don't appear to have a "British" element at all. You are either Celtic, Scandanavian, Iberian or "North West Europe". The latter seems to include only the extreme south east of England and Iberian includes the whole of southern England,

Steve

[Gadget]

They say I'm  100% North & West Europe - English, Irish/Scottish/Welsh, Scandinavian, which is similar to Ancestry and FTdna.  In total, they say I'm 78% UK & Eire cf Ancestry which has me as 86%.

Agree about the pinch salt.

Gadget

Added - FTdna gives me as 77% British Isles & West/Central Europe 19%. It's all a bit of fun really!

[Mart 'n' Al]

I know this ethnicity science is in early stages compared to autosomal matching of relatives, but the Greek did surprise me.  I do not look like Nana Mouskouri, nor Demis Roussos.  With most of my ancestors coming from Durham and Northumberland, with Irish-Scots connections, I was surprised that my Scandavian DNA was only 4%.

The test did, however, confirm that a half cousin who found me (via searching for names on my own web site) is definitely related.  His grandfather's first wife was my grandmother's first husband, leading to my father.  We have become good friends, half a world apart, over the last 18 months, and I'd have hated to have lost him.

Largest segment = 78.1 cM
Total of segments > 7 cM = 463.2 cM
12 matching segments
Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 2.5

Martin