Reasons for DNA test - which kit?

[HughC]

I don't trust MyHeritage one bit.  It claimed to find many more matches than Ancestry had, but I recognized none of them as relatives although I have extensive trees on all sides of the family.  Most of them were in the USA; very few were in the UK or Ireland where I would expect to find the majority.  And a fair number of the names looked Jewish to me, which is suspicious.

Don't rush to subscribe to Ancestry; a few weeks after the test results I think they'll offer you four months at a special price.

[guest189040]

I don't trust MyHeritage one bit.  It claimed to find many more matches than Ancestry had, but I recognized none of them as relatives although I have extensive trees on all sides of the family.  Most of them were in the USA; very few were in the UK or Ireland where I would expect to find the majority.  And a fair number of the names looked Jewish to me, which is suspicious.

Don't rush to subscribe to Ancestry; a few weeks after the test results I think they'll offer you four months at a special price.

That sounds like Sage advice to me.

[davidft]

I don't trust MyHeritage one bit.  It claimed to find many more matches than Ancestry had, but I recognized none of them as relatives although I have extensive trees on all sides of the family.  Most of them were in the USA; very few were in the UK or Ireland where I would expect to find the majority.  And a fair number of the names looked Jewish to me, which is suspicious.

Conversely I have found MyHeritage to be far more useful than Ancestry from a DNA point of view.

You pays your money and you make your choice. No one can tell you which will be best for your personal circumstances.

[Ruskie]

I don't trust MyHeritage one bit.  It claimed to find many more matches than Ancestry had, but I recognized none of them as relatives although I have extensive trees on all sides of the family.  Most of them were in the USA; very few were in the UK or Ireland where I would expect to find the majority.  And a fair number of the names looked Jewish to me, which is suspicious.

Conversely I have found MyHeritage to be far more useful than Ancestry from a DNA point of view.

You pays your money and you make your choice. No one can tell you which will be best for your personal circumstances.

I don't have any experience with Ancestry DNA testing or results, but I agree with David that MyHeritage has been very useful and I find it very user friendly. I believe MyHeritage is an Israeli company which may account for the results and the popularity in certain parts of the world. I have had decent matches through My Heritage for 6 kits I have access to.

[CelticMom]

always always test with ancestry, it's where you get the most results and you can upload your results to other sites, but you can't upload other tests to ancestry

[brigidmac]

 Wee Hugh

Regarding more american and jewish matches that is not necessarily wrong or suspicious

Your ancestors may have siblings who emigrated and married people of jewish origin

More Americans take dna tests because they dont  know their origins .

None of my close Smith and Jones relatves have tested
but descendants of  siblibngs of 3 great grandfathers, and one of my mothers cousins who emigrated have tested.




I have many jewish matches ...my grandmother s birth father was Jewish but we woldnt have known that from her surname

Also for some reason the Jewish ethnicity seems to show up strongly ie even if a very distant match at around 7cm  ..shared matches show up which doesnt happen with my scottish relatives even at 22cm.