Totally usual with My Heritage especially -with Ancestry uploaded kits. I am a half Scandinavian on my heritage Lol.
( I have zero Scandinavian ancestors, except probably for the usual- back in the very long, long, long lost mists of time somewhere,)
Is this the same person ?
Ancestry:
Scotland 37%
Ireland 15%
Wales 34%
England and north-western Europe 12%
Sweden and Denmark 2%
And
My heritage :
Scandinavian 47%
Irish , Scottish and welsh 37%
Iberian 15 %
Lol
... And It gets worse lol
My heritage and child of the above
49.9 % Irish, Scottish and Welsh
47% North and West European
3% Finnish
And a big fat zilch Scandinavian .
how did I not pass my almost 50% Scandinavian onto my child ?? Lol it's a miracle.
Way way off too - the welsh Scottish Irish should be almost 100% on my child- minus a Finnish ggg grandfather on my hubby's ( who almost.100 welsh) side and an English gg grandfather on my paternal side.
Ancestry has it almost correct with both myself and my child , whilst My heritage is totally laughable and you'd think they were two different people.
My father is Welsh and go back centuries in Wales ( except for one line English) and mother is Northern Irish , and all her lines for generations were born in Ireland too. Then many of them go back into Scotland at some point in time ,that I can't back to as it is too far back to trace with lack of records in Ireland . But all 100% backed up by factual dna and also paper trails.(Add the Scottish and Irish together for my Northern Irish mother which is 53% on ancestry, a bit high but almost correct - It should be 50%)
And what's with the Iberian ? lol
My first cousin tested with My heritage and didn't use an uploaded Ancestey kit . They have his correct .( his father is my mother's full brother)
They have him as 50% Scottish and Irish, unlike my break down of being Scandinavian lol, and the other half of him is 50% English (my cousin's mother is fully English, so that's correct too).
My heritage have obviously mixed up my mothers side with being Scandnavian , and goodness how I've got Iberian lol , perhaps that's my long lost English bit lol. I should have a small percentage of English in me, which my heritage haven't got me as at all., but Ancestry has at 12% -.my welsh father, on his maternal side , the grandfather was English, and they go back for centuries in a little village in Gloustershire- it's actually my very longest line as the church in the village kept good records and have proven it with dna too . Which ancestry has picked up on it now. They didn't pick up on it when I first did the test, I did have zero English according to them lol , now they have given me 12% (ancestry updated the ethnicity months ago)
I have noticed with many many other peoples tests ,the ones that are uploaded ancestry tests to My Heritage are totally way off. They don't seem too bad with the ones that have actually tested with My Heritage.
Anyway I am expecting to become something different again when they finished tweaking things. I am a changeling lol .
The ethnicty part of both sites is really not worth the ( virtual) paper it is written on, and is not to be taken seriously. Treat it with a pinch of salt There is definitely a massive difference between using an uploaded Ancestry kit to My Heritage than testing with a my heritage kit. I don't think it has anything to do with more British people being on Ancestry - as it isn't in all the cases I have seen with my close relatives, it's the uploaded tests to my heritage that are a problem . My Heritage kits seem to be OK to me with all my close relatives/ matches that have tested with their kits , but like myself, are are way off on all of all my other close/matches who are using an uploaded Ancestry test to their site.
Kind regards
