- Hey, everyone!
I'm Hannah, and I love personality tests.
You know, they just really get me going.
You know, woo!
So good!
I can get quite obsessed with them,
I love finding out about my own personality type,
and, you know, just feeling like, oh, my god, that's so me.
And then I also love learning
about other people's personality types,
and trying to understand people better
according to what frickin' letters
or numbers they are, or colours, even.
Ooh!
It's a good time.
So I am bringing it to you this miniseries,
Who Am I?
There are seven videos in this series
and they're going to come out every Friday,
this being episode one.
And in each episode I'm going to do a different kind of quiz
or activity and learn about myself
through these different things.
You may have seen from the title
that this first episode is DNA testing.
So I did 23andMe.
But then, in the future, we've got some Myers-Briggs,
we've got some Enneagram, we've got some Colour Code,
and we even have some zodiac.
Yes, we went to astrology.
Ooh!
A couple of these videos will be just me,
but most of them will be collabs with other YouTubers,
so I really hope that you enjoy them,
just nerd out with me.
It's just fun and silliness.
None of these videos are meant
to be taken seriously at all,
so let's just enjoy the ride, okay?
We're just gonna enjoy the ride.
It's gonna be a great time.
So, every Friday, for the next month and a half,
you get a bonus video, an episode of this miniseries,
and I hope you enjoy the first episode.
(funky music)
(laughs) Oh my god, I just hit myself in the face with it!
This is a good start.
Right. (laughs)
So this is my 23andMe saliva collection kit.
I have been planning to do this for so long
that the address on this box was my old flat.
Oh, this is a lot more like
fancy than I expected.
Wait, no food or drink for 30 minutes.
Ooh-hoo.
When did I have those biscuits?
I feel like it was a while ago.
I have been drinking water, though.
Does water count as a drink?
Oh my god, do I have to, like, wait 30 minutes from now?
I really should have read the instructions
before I started filming.
Let's be on the same side.
(funky music)
I'm back.
Whilst I waited, I registered my kit online,
and so, now we're all ready to go.
So it comes in this little thing.
I'm getting flashbacks, it just looks so medical,
this is just, like, reminding me of hospital times.
This is not fun.
But I never had to do any spitting in hospitals.
We spit to fill the line and then we close the funnel.
And then we detach the funnel and screw on the cap.
Here's our cap.
But this little bit here has got, like, liquid in it,
so I think when you close it, it like pierces it
and then it dilutes your spit?
I dunno, are you ready to watch me spit?
Do some people have spit phobias?
If you do, look away now.
I'm gonna miss, I feel like I'm gonna miss,
it's quite big, but um--
(snorts)
I'm getting performance anxiety.
(spits)
I knew it would go everywhere.
We're just gonna have to let it, like, dribble in.
This is the most attractive thing I've ever seen, right?
We've got a line to fill to,
so we've got quite a way to go.
I feel like we need to censor all of this,
I feel really exposed, why am I doing this on camera?
Why is it cute when Jack and Rose do it?
And then it's like, actually disgusting when I do it?
Why is it pink?
I think it just got attached to all my lipstick
as I'm spitting it out.
I mean, if food is gonna contaminate it,
surely lipstick would contaminate it.
Oh my god, I don't know.
I think we're good.
Right, so now what?
We've closed the funnel.
So, is it gonna pierce it?
(snaps) Ooh, yeah it did.
And then we detach the funnel.
(snaps) Ooh, yeah.
Screw that top on.
(laughs) It's so pink,
it's the colour of my lipstick.
Oh dear.
They're gonna send it back,
just like, sorry, we couldn't do your results.
Right, now we shove it in this bag.
It has a seal on the box, there we go.
Right!
Can you see it?
Can ya see it?
I don't know how long it takes.
We'll find out.
(funky music)
It has been a while since I filmed that little intro
spitting in a tube there for you.
I'm so sorry, that was disgusting.
I regret filming it. (laughs)
Genuinely regret that.
But the results have come in.
And they've been sitting in my inbox for weeks,
'cause I haven't had a chance to film this.
And I have been very disciplined,
I have not looked at them in advance.
So, here we are.
I've got my laptop down here,
so if you, my eyes, that's what's happening.
I feel like I should get, like, a stool,
a stand, be like, so I could, haa--
But, no.
I didn't think this through.
Let's do this!
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
Okay, quick disclaimer before we look into this.
I am white. (laughs)
Is that a disclaimer?
I am expecting this to come back, like, super European.
The only thing about my ancestry that I already know,
that I think will be interesting to see if this gets it.
Hopefully, otherwise, I'd be like, hmm, confused.
So, my granddad did an ancestry test,
not on 23andMe, I think he did it with Ancestry.
My granddad, this is my mum's dad,
we don't know where his family comes from, really,
because they're all Jewish, we think like,
Eastern European, North Asian, kind of moved
because, you know, the history of everyone
trying to kill Jews.
Surname has been anglicised,
Witton, my surname, is an anglicised version of Wittonburg,
which what they said it used to be,
but we think it might have been German aside.
Oh my god, we don't know.
We have no idea what the original surname is,
and we don't really know where he's from.
My granddad is like, dark.
He looks kind of Arab, North Asian,
but he's got, like, bright blue eyes,
super dark skin, super, super dark,
but he also travels a lot,
so I'm like, how much is that topped up by a tan?
So, we always assumed that he was like,
maybe from one of the stans.
Not him, he grew up in Birmingham,
his ancestors, his family.
So we thought, maybe, like North Asian, Eastern European.
He did the ancestry test,
turns out it's all coming from, like, Lithuania.
Was it Lithuania or Latvia?
It was one of the Ls, I think Lithuania.
Anyway, they're white there,
so we were very confused as to why he's so dark.
It's a mystery, it's a mystery.
Wow, Lithuania or Latvia?
Which one, which one was it?
I can't remember.
Right, whatever, maybe this thing will tell us.
Okay, let's go.
Let's do this.
(laughs)
I mean, it got one thing right!
"Your DNA suggests your ancestry is 50% Ashkenazi Jewish."
Hello!
That 50%?
That's my mum!
My dad is not Jewish, so, literally, (hums)
50% Jew, Ashkenazi Jew.
Try as I wasn't expecting it to, like,
tell me that I'm Jewish, but yeah, it's true.
Ashkenazi Jew and then, (laughs)
99.9% European.
This is exactly what I expected.
Oh yeah, and then my dad's side of the family
is British slash Irish.
So, his mum is Scottish and his dad is Northern Irish.
Aw, I said is, was.
I never met him.
We've got 50% Ashkenazi Jew.
Let's have a look, like, where this side
of my family come from.
Wow, this broad bit over here.
"Ashkenazi Jewish people settled in Eastern Europe
in the late Middle Ages, and are genetically
more similar to other Jewish populations
than to most Europeans."
50%!
Right.
And then, 48.4% Northwestern European.
This is this, this little, the blue bit,
the blue bit here.
"Northwestern Europeans are represented
by people from as far west as Ireland
and as far north as Norway."
Well, we know that that's not gonna be me.
"As far south as France," cool cool cool.
So, British and Irish, yep,
we expected that.
Why is it is specifying London and Cork?
How does it know, like, specific cities?
"We predict you had ancestors in Greater London,
Cork, and 11 more regions." (laughs)
Am I even in Manchester?
And then 4.5% French and German.
See, that's interesting
'cause my grandma is German.
So I am, I'm, like, I'm, even if I may be not
ethnically German, like, in terms of like,
my nationalities, I am a quarter German.
'Cause my great grandparents were born
and raised in Germany, came to the UK, Holocaust.
Had my grandma, so my grandma,
even though born and raised in the UK,
is like, ethnically German.
How do you do use the word ethnic, like, correctly?
I don't know.
So, she's like, German, and she actually recently
got her German citizenship.
But apparently, I'm 4.5% French and German.
Hesse, where's Hesse?
Hesse, Germany.
Let's find Hesse, Germany.
Okay, this is a very broad region.
But is this where, I wonder?
'Cause I know the name of the town
that my great grandmother grew up in,
and I wonder, I wonder if it's in this region.
But it's a very tiny little town.
It's called Suhl.
Suhl, Suhl, Suhl.
Where is Suhl?
Suhl, Germany.
Ooh!
Over there.
Was that in Hesse?
Where did Hesse go to?
I don't know if that means anything.
But that's a thing.
"Broadly Northwestern European."
Okay, that's all of that stuff.
Naught point six Southern European?
That bit, I mean, that's so tiny.
And then, naught point nine broadly European.
Just, just broadly all of that area.
And then I've got an unassigned naught point one percent.
I mean, no surprises here, really.
But I'm like, I don't know,
I'm just like, exactly 50% Ashkenazi Jew?
I'm like, correct!
That is my mother's side!
So, I didn't do the finger, it gives you like,
medical stuff, 'cause I've (groans).
That kind of freaked me out a little.
Oh, this interesting!
This is showing, like, how far back, what?
"How many generations ago were your most recent
ancestor for each population?"
I do have a grandparent and great grandparents
who are 100% British and Irish.
And I have a parent, my dad is 100% British and Irish.
And then Ashkenazi Jew, "You most likely had a parent
or a grandparent who is 100% Ashkenazi Jewish.
And this person was likely to be born
between 1930 and 1960."
Wrong, my mum was born in 1963.
But my grandparents were born not then,
in the 1930s and '40s.
My mum, if she did this, she would come out
as like, 100% Ashkenazi Jew.
French and German.
So, I "most likely had a second great, great grandparent,
third great grandparent, fourth great grandparent,
or fifth gr--"
So, I've got some family member way back when
who is 100% French and German.
Wait, they're 100% French and German?
Well, technically, during this time period,
Germany didn't exist.
Germany didn't become a nation state until, like, what?
18, is it 1891?
Ooh, there's my history knowledge, I bet it's wrong.
Unification of Germany.
Oh, 1871!
I knew it was a one.
1871, I mean, yeah, still, but, you know,
this is goin' up to 1870,
and it's obviously super precise.
I mean, there's lots of other things telling me, like,
links to click to interpret the results.
Oh, okay, so this is the bit where it's like,
(laughs) we're not confident.
Oh, these are all my different genes.
These are my different genes.
Change confidence level.
Okay, so this is (laughs)
speculative, so if we change it all the way
to conservative estimates.
Okay, so even (laughs)
even with conservative estimations,
I'm still 97.5% European,
and then I'm 49.4% Ashkenazi Jew.
(laughing)
Is there anything else that we can do here?
Oh, wow, okay.
So, Ashkenazi Jewish DNA today
is like, they're givin' me a map of the United States
because they're all over there now.
This is where we come from.
Wait, here we go, it says Lithuania!
So maybe it was Lithuania, not Latvia.
Super uneducated here, me.
Li, Jesus Christ, Lithuania.
Where is that?
Okay, they're next door neighbours, Lithuania and Latvia.
Cool cool cool.
We all knew that this is flawed.
There are lots of caveats with this.
So we're not taking it very seriously.
Let's go back to, like, my overview.
(giggling) I just love it!
Look at this, 50% Jew, 50% British Irish.
That's what we've learnt.
Little bit of French and German sprinkled in there,
oui oui, bonjour.
I don't know any German.
Eins, zwei, drei, vier--
Okay, well, my laptop is overheating.
Do give the video a thumbs-up if you enjoyed it.
I would love to hear about your ancestry,
your heritage, have you done one of these
spit in a tube, pay someone loads of money
to tell you your DNA is?
Have you done that?
If you haven't, where are your parents
and your grandparents from?
I wanna find out, I think it's really interesting.
Thanks for watching, again,
and I'll see you in my next video, bye!