well hello friends i am here with a very
special video
with my lovely mom liana
and today we will actually be uh
doing my mom's birthday present to me
which
is dna tests uh which will actually
tell us what percentage of
our heritage is what which nationalities
yeah we have in our blood i think if you
guys have been watching my channel for
quite some time you'll know that
i was born in ukraine my mom was born
in russia and just from
your knowledge of our heritage is there
any other countries that you know
our relatives spent a lot of time in or
were
i know i know exactly my mom's
father was polish mom
mom's mom was ukrainian
that's all what i know but so basically
we're slavic but there are russian
heritage fathers line yeah
yeah so i've never used one of these
things i've never done it before but
just
like reading the instructions of this
thing
i guess you use these swabs to like
i don't know get the dna from the inside
of your cheek you put it in a vial
and then we have to send it out to texas
i guess and in four to six
weeks is when we're going to get the
results oh there's
water inside here what
why is there water
okay so this is interesting so yeah
obviously we swab the inside
of our cheek rotating for 30 to 60
seconds so you have to
really get up in there and then it says
open one vial and insert
insert the swab inside swab and down
once the swab touches the bottom of the
vial break the swab against the inside
edge
of the vial at the marked black line
leaving the swab end inside the liquid
in the vial
close the vial cap tightly okay
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so yeah now we have to take these two
vials and there's like a special way
that you have to like put it in
to the envelope so we'll do that off
camera
but what made you want to get this for
me for my birthday because this isn't
sponsored by the way we
probably actually should have sponsored
this but my mom did buy this
i didn't read
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i don't know when these like came out on
the market and
i don't know you know like if they are
100 accurate or how all this works but
i think it will be interesting to just
see
what kind of results we get and uh it's
just
information for future generations yeah
yeah
all right well we will see you guys and
i guess four to six weeks when our
results will be done third to six weeks
later
all right friends it has been four weeks
and we just got an email that our
results
are in and i'm super excited to see
uh what this even is because i don't
even know what all goes into
you know a dna test what kind of
information they give you
but mom if you had to make a prediction
of
what kind of countries might come up
that are unexpected
for you and me what what do you think
they would be nick
okay like norway
denmark
finland finland okay i guess it's close
to russia finland's close to russia so
that's not too
far off it would be very surprising if
we got something that's just like
way out there okay so on the count of
three
uh you're gonna look at your computer
with your results and i'm gonna look at
my computer with
my results so are you ready
yes one two three
oh well that
is interesting
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actually yeah that's interesting because
i guess yeah like from my birth dad's
side obviously that would bring in
some unexpected uh qualities that you
wouldn't have my mom is 41.6 percent
bulk tick and the regions are lithium
yeah so that that's pretty interesting
and then my top one is just
eastern european which i guess uh
sums up everything it says people of
eastern europe descent trace their roots
to russia ukraine poland and hungary
the early common era saw the region
largely populated by slavic and baltic
tribes
with later roman mongol and ottoman
invasion okay that's interesting your
next one
is balkan at 26.8 and my
next one is bulk tick so that would be
like estonia latvia lithuania
would be my second one with almost 30
percent
and then your third
is eastern european
yes 23 and next scandinavian
and i'm 12 scandinavian so
i guess we did have a little bit of that
region in here
mix that is
so there's another option in these tests
where you can actually
say that you're okay with sharing your
information with the whole
i guess like pool of people who sign up
for these sort of things
i don't know if it's just this one
website or if
all the different websites kind of share
information
so let's see if there's actually anybody
who will come up as my dna match on here
age 40s cousin
second to fifth cousin
your relative that would be interesting
yeah so it's giving me actually some
people on here that are like
your dna matches basically this feature
is giving me some
estimated sort of relationships but the
shared dna is only like
0.9 percent there's nobody that's like
super super strong
but it's funny because yeah there's uh a
couple people from the us that are my
like
third or fifth cousin cousin and then
uh there's somebody from finland here
who's like also a cousin
so many people are my cousin apparently
there's like up to 263 pages so
obviously these aren't like
super close but it is cool to know that
i am
so very much uh eastern european because
i always
get people who are like well are you
ukrainian or are you russian
and i am literally both like i'm
literally both russian and ukrainian
that is the answer they are so
interesting yeah that's my highest
category
and then obviously at some point now i'm
gonna have to go to the baltic
country since i'm technically from there
i'm technically from
the baltic countries and i've never been
able to
die and scandinavia i always have wanted
to
uh go to those countries as well but
definitely in the summer
so that is it guys that brings the
conclusion
to what our genetic makeup
is this was a really fun thing to do
thank you mom for this birthday present
this was a
very cool sort of experiment and thank
you guys so much for tuning in
i hope you enjoyed the video and let me
know in the comments if you've ever done
a dna test
and what your results were what your
experience was because this is
a pretty interesting thing to do so
thank you guys so much hope you're
having a great day
keeping your own kind of beautiful and
we are off
to have some other fantastic adventures
so we'll see you later
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