- Baltic! Greek! What?
- I don't believe this?
- Hi everyone from Odessa! Welcome to another video with me Conor Clyne this
is the Tsar Experience and today's video I am really excited about because we're gonna
be exploring in this video whether that secret to that famous Ukrainian beauty
is something in the DNA that famous Slavic beauty that you I guess a lot of
you have watched on video read about in the internet or maybe actually been here
in the former Soviet Union in particular here in Ukraine I'm
speaking to you from Odessa which is located in the south of Ukraine on the
shores of the Black Sea and I'm actually in Greek Park and
this is a new park and the statue back there where everyone's come to try and
take I guess take an Instagram photo beside over there is Istanbul Park and
that gives you an indication that this region has had a lot of different
ethnicities come here then we have Greek, Turkish also this region Odessa has
Bulgarians, Gagauz, Roma never mind all the people who came from the other parts
of the former Soviet Union so with that said let's get into today's video and
discover ... see what ... or see what we can discover about the DNA roots of this
famous beauty of the Ukrainian women here!
So to do these DNA tests, I've partnered up with MyHeritage DNA and in order to do these swabs
you don't have to do anything crazy like give blood or anything too dramatic you just have to
basically like brushing your teeth you basically take a little sample from the
inside of the cheek and that then gets sent off to a laboratory we take two of
those just to make sure that you know we have a second one in case
something happens to the first one if you're also really really curious in
learning about your family history I've done it myself and I've got a
special discount code for you guys it's TsarExperience gonna put the link below
in the description to my heritage DNA
All samples taken, ready to send them off so I'm
super excited let's go and find out where these 10 Ukrainian beauties where
they're from well we know where they were born I've already given you that but let's
see where their family origins are what their ethnic mix is maybe there are some
secrets to be revealed in the DNA family ancestry of these girls I'm super
excited to find out I know you guys are as well let's go and post these off to the
laboratory in the US.
So I just got some interesting and exciting news: the DNA tests they have arrived
and just am on my way to pick them up right
now let's go and see what the tests all about.
35% in East Europe 33% Balkans 27%
Baltic oh my god and 3% of Finland all my family was from Europe I feel that my
parents my old old old family didn't travel a lot about Oh
- Let's go! - What is Toma?
- Eastern European .... - Look, look, look - I could understand and Baltic 20% okay
Asian! Oh that's because of my father - Yeah, you see it goes from Turkey all the way to Georgia
- Scandinavian ... who knows?
Evgenia is ... is ... is ....
Really? Really?
Okay. Really?
okay maybe I'm coming from some kind of travelers family
I thought that I am just simply from Ukraine but it turned out to be that I am 43 percent Baltic
28% East European then 22% Balkan tiny tiny bits Finnish and kind of
Central Asian - Yes, exactly!
Maybe that's Kazakh or something like this?
Balkan? What is this?
okay Baltic and
Irish, Scottish and Welsh. What?
So having looked at the DNA results and the ethnicities of our models what can we
say what can I say about the origins of Ukrainian beauty? Now there were some big
outliers ...we did have some Central American DNA
like that was crazy also we had Southwest Asia and also
Central Asia in a few of our models even a tiny bit of Ashkenazi Jew as well but
in general that wasn't typical of the results we got there was actually a
pretty clear kind of trend through it which I found very interesting because
it was different to what I expected now I had expected that most of the
models would be overwhelmingly Slavic right so they would be basically Russian,
Ukrainian, Belarusian in general we see that in the the kind of general Eastern
European DNA marker for ethnicity but in reality they were between about 30 to 80
percent of that 80 being the highest but typically they were like 30 to 40
percent and then they were 20 to 30 percent from the Baltics which is of
course means that people came from further north to the south where they
met obviously the Slavs who were there in Ukraine and they mixed on top of that
you had about twenty to thirty percent coming from the Balkans so they were men
moving to the north east and then mixing the people have come from the further
north people who are there and it's that kind of mix that appears to be the
strongest correlation in terms of what we found in the DNA DNA samples now of
course there was others some other things thrown in like Finnish actually
came up surprisingly regularly and it was a smaller percentage than Baltics so
I guess they actually there were people coming from further north maybe even
probably via the Baltics and then down again that was typically like 1 to 5
percent around that that was also very interesting because I hadn't expected to see
Finnish and it came up pretty frequently if you're interested to find out exactly
how Irish I am you can go and check my video how Irish is Conor? Gonna link that up
in a card, down below in the description and if you're also interested in doing
your own DNA results then I encourage you to go do it
I have a special discount code TsarExperience I have the link below you get
free shipping with that with myheritage DNA I found a super fascinating for myself
and obviously this video trying to figure out the origins of Ukrainian
beauty that's the end of today's video до побачення! До свидания and I will
see all your enthusiastic smiling faces for Eastern Europe and traveling around
this amazing region in the very next video. Ciao!