Has anyone uploaded to Gencove?

[Frank Kelch]

jotunn, I once called you a troll. Well, if the bridge fits......

[Frank Kelch]

For your sake, I hope you're trolling. The alternative is just too frightening for words....

[Frank Kelch]

There's nothing to worry about. In fact, I'd say that the results are quite consistent overall....

[Frank Kelch]

If you're determined to get the best ethnicity report available, you should probably test with 23&me.

[Frank Kelch]

First, all of these companies change their results every 2 or three years, as their hardware, software and database improves.
Second, none of these tests results will match 100%, but they should get more consistent with time.
Third, My Heritage is expected to update their results with...

[Frank Kelch]

These days, My Heritage has a considerably larger database than FTDNA, and it's growing fast....

[Frank Kelch]

Where were your ancestors from?...

[Frank Kelch]

I just uploaded my parent's data... slightly disappointing, too much scandinavian. Basically no better or worse than FTDNA, DNAland or My Heritage. Still not bad at all for a new company.

I should point out that I also tested with Ancestry, which is easily the worst of the bunch at predicting...

[Frank Kelch]

I didn't know it existed until a couple of days ago... I uploaded my Ancestry results (it doesn't currently accept FTDNA) and was surprised to see how accurate it was. True, it could be more specific (british isles and west europe are lumped together). I'd say that it has the most accurate ethnicity...

[Frank Kelch]

Odd, because there doesn't seem to be a problem shipping FTDNA or My Heritage kits to Germany. I have german distant cousin matches from both of those countries....

[Frank Kelch]

I have a few russian distant cousin matches with FTDNA....

[Frank Kelch]

And when you get your results, be sure to upload your data to My Heritage (no cost). They now have more people in their database than FTDNA, and they let you sort your matches by country. They also seem to have at least as many europeans in their database as FTDNA.

[Frank Kelch]

I believe that I once read that 70% of FTDNA's users are from the USA. I know there are a lot of british, irish, scandinavian and finnish people in the database. And there are very few germans.

[Frank Kelch]

My FTDNA and My Heritage results are fairly similar to each other (my Ancestry results are the problem). My Heritage has a update to their ethnicity calculator due for later this year.

[Frank Kelch]

Yeah, but he seems to think that My Heritage kits also go into the FTDNA database. They do not....