MyOrigins - MANY Discrepancies - please list yours here

[CWF]

HAHAHAHAHA! That's the most hilarious thing I've heard all night! I thank you for that! ........Native American is now Turkish... I'm with u on that one.....this better be a serious Beta.....unfortunately, FF was in Beta from the day it's inception, until last Tuesday when it changed over, and unfortunately, the data sets never changed...

LOL! I think we all have to laugh at some of these results. Hopefully, FTDNA is listening as well.

[Ftdnauser]

LOL! I think we all have to laugh at some of these results. Hopefully, FTDNA is listening as well.

Yeah, I hope they listen too......that's why I started the thread......I just seen to many possible errors in MyOrigins on day one......

[Inge]

But VERY few Europeans are from isolated populations.

Doug McDonald

How long must a population have been in isolation for it to be regarded as isolated?

[grahcom]

Yeah, I hope they listen too......that's why I started the thread......I just seen to many possible errors in MyOrigins on day one......

In my view we should take admixture results with a grain of salt no matter which company we test with and remember that each company uses different reference populations so will usually end up with different results.

[1798]

How long must a population have been in isolation for it to be regarded as isolated?

Where in the world today are you going to find an isolated population? You certainly aren't going to find one in western Europe.

[hdubnick]

Trans-Ural Peneplane vs. European Northlands

I have had testing done for my parents as well as for myself. I am supposedly 1% Trans-Ural Peneplane, while each of my parents is 2% European Northlands (which seems odd to me---I was expecting them to be European Coastlands) and neither has any Trans-Ural Peneplane at all. I have no other European results (ie, no European Northlands). Shouldn't my European background be the same as that of my parents? Granted,the percentage is quite small in any case, but it seems odd that I would have results that neither of them have.

[Zaru]

It has to be a NEW algorithm that he used.

Note:
The creator of MyOrigins is the same creator of Dodecad ancestry formulas used in Gedmatch etc.

Logically, he must be using these types of Dodecad ideas

My DODECAD results are waaayy off from my MyO. I mean waaaayy off.

[Inge]

Where in the world today are you going to find an isolated population? You certainly aren't going to find one in western Europe.

That doesn´t really answer my question. Certainly there must be various degrees of isolation, ortherwise the whole exercise is pointless. How does one define it?

[1798]

That doesn´t really answer my question. Certainly there must be various degrees of isolation, ortherwise the whole exercise is pointless. How does one define it?

The movement of people between Ireland and Britain has been going on for 10,000 years so how can their autosomal dna be so different.

[Tenn4ever]

NO GERMAN showing??

I have no German showing at all when 1/8th of my family line came straight from the Palantine in Germany. This line has been documented for several decades and goes back over 300 years in the same area of Germany.

Plus, I match genetically with many from this line.

The only thing I can figure out is FT must have a low data base on that area.

On the old Population Finder the Germanic area showed up plus it's on Ancestry and Gedmatch using my raw data from the Family Tree test and uploaded to Gedmatch.

The same thing happened with my Native American but in a way that's somewhat understandable because the percentage is low around 3% and FT probably doesn't have the data base.

However, the German not showing doesn't make any sense when it showed before and is on two other sites.

[Germanica]

I have no German showing at all when 1/8th of my family line came straight from the Palantine in Germany. This line has been documented for several decades and goes back over 300 years in the same area of Germany.

Plus, I match genetically with many from this line.

The only thing I can figure out is FT must have a low data base on that area.

On the old Population Finder the Germanic area showed up plus it's on Ancestry and Gedmatch using my raw data from the Family Tree test and uploaded to Gedmatch.

The same thing happened with my Native American but in a way that's somewhat understandable because the percentage is low around 3% and FT probably doesn't have the data base.

However, the German not showing doesn't make any sense when it showed before and is on two other sites.

Are you getting higher than normal results for European Coastal Islands (aka, British)? Lots of people are seeing their British heritage being misrepresented in European Coastal Plain (German) or European Northlands (Scandinavian) or vice versa, German or Scandinavian heritage being misrepresented as British instead.

[mamoahina]

No Oceania

My only issue was how they previously had Oceania and now they don't. For many of my Polynesian matches (I have quite a bit), they now all show East Asian when previously for Polynesians it was a combination of East Asia and Oceania, two components that make up many Micronesians and Polynesians.

My main question was how do they decide whatever was covered under "Oceania" is divided up, because it seems that whatever was previously under Oceania went under East Asian. In fact, my European increased, so it seems that some of my Oceania became European, but how do they decide such a thing?

My mother's European decreased but I get my European from my mother, not my father. It made no sense.

[Tenn4ever]

Are you getting higher than normal results for European Coastal Islands (aka, British)? Lots of people are seeing their British heritage being misrepresented in European Coastal Plain (German) or European Northlands (Scandinavian) or vice versa, German or Scandinavian heritage being misrepresented as British instead.

Yes, my highest percentage is in European Northlands and European Coastal Plain. It's my understanding that the Northlands fed into the European Coastal Plain (Great Britain). I have two lines which are Scottish so I can understand that.

Are you saying the German is actually being represented by the European Coastal Plain also?

[thetick]

Are you saying the German is actually being represented by the European Coastal Plain also?

The results for French, Germans and Brits are a messy combination of all the European components. MyOrigins is also not good at all for Native American or Polynesian ancestry since very few of those samples were used.

Gedmatch and even 23andme ancestry results are clearly more useful than MyOrigins.

[Táltos]

Gedmatch and even 23andme ancestry results are clearly more useful than MyOrigins.

I agree 110%!!!