My Heritage estimates are terrible!. I've turned my ethnic bit off ages ago on my heritage ( ie I've hidden my ethnic bit from my matches view , so they can't see my break down)
My Heritage has me as 47.9 Scandinavian! lol and 15.1 Iberian and 37% Irish , Scottish and Welsh.
The reason I've hidden mine from my matches view is that my matches would probably think that they are related to a half Swedish person, with Iberian ancestors or something ,and go chasing up the wrong garden path.
And to top it all off my son hasn't inherited any of my whopping 47. 9 % Scandinavian at all lol .
How on earth did he get away with not inheriting my lovely massive bit of Scandanavian
They say he's 49.9 welsh Scottish Irish and 47% North West Europe. And 0% Iberian , 0 % Scandanavian lol
Perhaps he was swapped at birth . I must have been totally off with the fairies when someone came in by my bedside and swapped my child.
I think my heritage have mixed up all of my Irish and Scottish with being Scandinavian , and goodness knows what they've done to my son's lol- gawd help my mother if she took a test and uploaded it to my heritage lol , they'd have her as a full on 100% a swede ( my mother is Northern Irish and my father is welsh ) , or perhaps they'd have her as 100% Iberian lol.
I find that ancestry's estimate is far closer to the truth
Ancestry have got it almost being correct with both myself and son. On there I am over 59% Irish and Scottish ,which is a little high , I should be 50% ( but they have my father having a bit of Irish in him , which I haven't found to be true) The rest they have as Welsh from my Welsh father , and a bit of English
Also a tiny bit of Sweden and Denmark ( 2%) which is to be expected of course.
Did you upload an ancestry test to My Heritage or use a my heritage kit? I uploaded both our ancestry tests to them.
I have noticed that my full first cousin who took a my heritage test and didn't upload another company's to them - his estimates are pretty correct ( 50% Scottish and Irish), unlike mine and my child's uploaded tests to them ,which are way, way off.
I think it may be a problem with My Heritage reading uploaded ancestry test results differently, or incorrectly.
How on earth they have me at almost 50% Scandinavian and my son a big fat zilch of that ethnic, it is utter rubbish . You'd think at the very, very least he'd have 1 % of my almost 50% lol .
Kind regards