Tag: ethnicity

  • A Refreshed Look at My Ethnic Heritage

    A Refreshed Look at My Ethnic Heritage

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    Brendan Barry
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    Late last week I received an update on my ethnic breakdown from My Heritage, a competitor of Ancestry.com and other genealogy/family history/genetic ancestry companies. For many years, the genealogical community had been waiting for this long-promised update. And it has finally arrived. For my money, My Heritage’s older analysis, v0.95, did not align with my…

  • Updated DNA Ethnicity Estimates

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    Brendan Barry
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    Earlier this year I posted a short piece that compared my DNA ethnicity estimates provided by a few different companies to each other. Ethnicity estimates are great cocktail party conversations, but not terribly useful to people doing serious genealogy research. They are highly dependent upon the available data from reference populations. To put it another…