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Do you understand what that means and if you do could you give me an idiots guide. Thank you.
I think you need to take a deep breath and calm down.
I doubt all those individuals have used the Admixture Tools available, or understood them correctly. Clusters overlap and it can be easy to receive the erroneous results.
For instance, I have 4% Ashkenazi Jewish in my FTDNA results, I don't have any Jewish ancestors, but with a little research I learned Ashkenazi Jews overlap with Italians and Greeks. This is because they all share East Med DNA.
Most likely that element of my DNA is from the Romans.
So, in summary, most results aren't totally wrong, it's the tools used and the
interpretation of the data.
Well I assume you have not read my 200 plus posts that I referred to in my last post or else you would not have posted what you just did.
I am no expert on DNA testing, don't claim to be and never have, however I do recognise when someone is being disingenuous in my opinion. I have invited you to read more widely then you might understand where my criticism comes from, until then there is no point in discussing this with you as you appear to have a closed mind.
Oh and being patronising doesn't advance your argument so perhaps you would like to leave it out next time, should there be one.
If you have used the analytical tools available, and understand the interpretation, the results you get are pretty accurate. I use the various Admixture Tools on Gedmatch.
Personally, I don't rely on the interpretation by FTDNA, Ancestry, or others.
You are of course entitled to your opinion.
I have over 200 posts on the Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing board. Perhaps if you read them you would not be so quick to criticise me, and incidentally would not have made some of the assumptions you have about me. Still there you go each to their own.
Personally I found mine to be very accurate, .......
Of course some people will get results that they think are accurate, and in some cases they may well be. However, there are an awful lot of people who dispute the results they get and with good reasons. They detail their tails of woe on message boards all over the place. Of course if people get what they wanted to see they will think they are the best thing since sliced bread and that is their entitlement. Still the point is these tests are a pseudo science that trap the gullible and unaware.
Many reputable genetic scientists dispute the wilder claims of these ethnicity DNA tests why not have a good read around I am sure that will be more informative than anything I can say to you here.
Good luck.
Hi there.
Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. Quite relieved to be honest as I didn't fancy all my research being invalidated by a rogue recent Indian ancestor!
In truth these autosomnal DNA tests do NOT tell you your ethnic ancestry. What they do is tell you what you have in common with their sample populations. As all the companies have different sample populations it would be possible for you to test with the three leading companies and get three very different results.
They've given some of your Scandinavian genes to me, for I now have 33% Scandinavian, whereas before I just had 5% Finland and Northern Siberia. I have 11% Iberia, and most interesting of all, 3% Sephardic Jewish. Not bad for a boy from an east-coast Scottish fishing village. I would like to see how they work out these results.
Harry