highly inaccurate results from MyOrigins version 3.0

[Leo76]

I think FTDNA really dropped the ball on the rollout of this Version 3.

I've been in this hobby a long time, have tested with multiple companies, and I'm well aware of all the caveats and admonitions to "take this with a big grain of salt." I know these are "just estimates",...

[Leo76]

Absolutely agreed.

It's still a very newborn project though, and it's free, so I didn't really care. I have better info from the original testing companies anyway....

[Leo76]

Sometimes you also have to do a little mind-reading to get at exactly what they mean by their varying terminology.

For example, when I ran my kit through DNA.Land, it said that I had a significant ITALIAN (Tuscan/Bergamo) admixture. That was completely unexpected. Way out of left field....

[Leo76]

No need to test with Geno. You have almost all your bases covered, except perhaps a deep y-subclade assignment based on terminal SNP (67 STRs will only give you broad haplogroup). But you might not even care about that; it's not really necessary for genealogy in modern time frames.

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[Leo76]

I did the original Geno 2.0 back in 2013. Sometime between then and 2015, IIRC, they refined and updated my mtDNA haplogroup to be more precise, bringing it up from K1a to K1a15.

So I think they've been working behind the scenes off and on to keep things fresh and accurate.
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[Leo76]

The vast majority of my identified ancestors are English. (Not just "British", but English, proper.) I do have French and German ancestors, but they all left the Continent between 1750 and 1800, and it's only single lines here and there. So I'd reckon my ancestral breakdown would be something...

[Leo76]

I'm wrong. D'oh!

Actually, you know what? You responded before I was able to come along and eat crow and take back pretty much everything I said, LOL.

I went in and read in much more detail the regional population descriptions in Geno 2.0+ in combination with what you...

[Leo76]

Where exactly do they say this? Could you please point me to the specific web page and section? Or perhaps copy and paste the exact language they use? I've scoured the NG site, and haven't found anything like this.

Not doubting you, I'd just really like to read it for myself. Tha...

[Leo76]

Respectfully, wombat, I genuinely don't think you're comprehending the problem. "Subsuming" does not explain anything.

The first test said that a massive amount of a typical European's DNA is of near-Eastern origin. [1]

The second test says that nearly none of a...

[Leo76]

Yeah, I was just giving wombat's hypothesis the fairest possible shake. It doesn't make much sense, does it.

In my case, the first version of the test (Geno 2.0) had me at 38% Mediterranean and 17% SW Asian, for a total of 55% vaguely "near Eastern" origin. (The rest--the...

[Leo76]

Glad this thread was in some way a help in you not feeling so alone, Georgeanna.

I'm sure there's some logical explanation for why the company made the Mediterranean and Southwest Asian admixtures "disappear" with the new test (perhaps, as wombat suggests, they just proportionally...

[Leo76]

Emailed them on the 8th of this month and again on the 18th, inquiring about the reference population question I raised here.

On neither occasion did they respond with anything more than an auto-generated, ticket-number "we will look into this" canned reply. (Well, on the first...

[Leo76]

All my family has been in America a looong time (since before 1770, on all branches), but yes, mainly UK, with some French and German.

My Geno 2.0+ breakdown is:

Britain and Ireland: 52%
Western and Central Europe: 31%
Scandinavia: 14%
Arabia: 2%...

[Leo76]

Hmm, thanks for mentioning that. Will have to go back and look at those, because I didn't look at any Euro pops. that aren't far NW European....

[Leo76]

Sounds like you're basically starting at square one. So you're asking a mouthful! You might want to start with a couple of these pages first. I don't mean to be a shill for a company, but I think before long you'll find--if you're really digging deep into records that old--that a paid subscription...