Had to re-upload due to issues with youtube. Decided to add some extra information to the video. Black American family with world wide ancestry. My updated results from Both 23andme and AncestryDNA plus I go into great detail about how to navigate DNA relatives. I also give information on how females can find their YDNA not only on their paternal side, but their maternal side, which works for men seeking their YDNA on their maternal side as well. If you do not want to watch the video as always the results will be below. I still recommend 23andme over AncestryDNA..however, if you have the extra money, it doesn't hurt to test with both companies. _______________________ Judging from my results overall from both companies my Ancestry is at the very least is exclusively 46-50% West African..The rest is spread all over. I am not sure how accurate the percentages are so I just take from it that my ancestry is basically global. 23andme did an update back on December 17, 2014. Some changes were made to my results. Sub-Saharan Africa went up from 73.5 to 75.5 2.3% increase and East African was added to the subgroup. I wasn't really surprised with the update because I could see it in my Raw DNA results already via GEDMATCH So for a recap of my updated 23andme results from Dec. 2014 to current Spring 2015. (standard view). Sub Saharan Africa 75.5% (50.2% West African, 4.1% East African, 3.9% Central/South African, 17.3% Broadly Sub-Saharan African. ) Europe 10.2% (Southern European Iberian 4.1% Italian 2.1% Broadly Southern European 0.6% Northern European British and Irish 2.1% Broadly Northern European 1% Broadly European 0.3%) Asian/Native American 8.1% ( Native American 5% Southeast Asian 2.1% Broadly East Asian & Native American 1%) Middle eastern/North African 3.0% ( North African 1.6% Broadly Middle Eastern & North African 1.4%) Oceanian 1.5% 1.7% Unassigned. Overall pretty cool, 23andme now kind of matches up with my raw DNA on GEDMATCH a little more. Not sure when AncestryDNA did their update I just know that they are always sending me annoying emails that I never check! They finally fixed where they had Native American under a trace region..now it's just by its self and still the same 5%. I noticed a few other differences as well, as they took away some of the things that were once there, like central Asia, My less than 1% Mali, Ireland, and changed a few other things. North African went down from 13% to 8% and SouthEastern African changed from 18% to a lovely 24%! They still refuse to admit that they made a mistake with my initial results, they just said that results can change or stay the same as their database updates. Overall my Africa percentage changed from 76 to 78 and Europe went down 1 percent which is pretty cool...feel free to compare with the old results in my description box on my older videos. I haven't checked to see if anything changed with GEDMatch. Updated AncestryDNA results breakdown as of spring 2015 Africa 78% ( Africa Southeastern Bantu 24% Ivory Coast/Ghana 17% Benin/Togo 11% Nigeria 9% Africa North 8% Cameroon/Congo 8% Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers less than 1%) America 5% (Native American) Asia 3% ( Asia South 2% Asia East 1% ) Europe 10% (Iberian Peninsula 4% Europe West 2% Italy/Greece 2% Great Britain 2%) Pacific Islander 2% (Melanesia) West Asia 2% ( Middle East) ______________________________ My first maternal cousins tested with 23andme as well as my first paternal cousin. Paternal cousin is YDNA E1b1a Maternal cousins YDNA Q1a3a (native american) All of them had higher percentages of Native American, but lower percentage of Asian and European than me. My paternal cousin (father is my uncle) was marked 15.9% N.A 1% East Asian. My maternal cousins (Father is my uncle) are brothers and one had lower than the other 12.5% and 14.1% N.A. One was 2.3% SouthEast Asian the other 1.7%. They all were less than 10% European. Around 80% African, and about 65-70% of that being West African. Population percentages are just that percentages. They can very and are not 100% accurate, so not sure why people take them so much to heart. It's just numbers, nothing to be upset (or) excited over. The best thing to find out is your haplotypes which really tell you what your bloodline is, no matter your race (or) mixture. I really want to get my mother and grandmother (maternal) tested. I want to see what my split view will be on 23andme. Split view tells you what part of your ancestry comes from each parent. You only need one parent to test.

• published: 09 Sep 2015
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