ethnicity results or if you have a time where it was used
that you won't miss another episode of Family History
understand what it can do and what it can't do and make sure
because Ethnicity results are not as useful as the DNA
can't use them for specific problems. You need to
been African American or had African American heritage well
Mary's mom died the day after she was born. So, we know who
information to help support it. So, let me give you an example
that is a significant amount and it's usually indicative of
percentages things that are 10 or 20 or 30, 40, 50% because
you to narrow down where their ancestors or at least a portion
if you are adopted or if you have a relative that's adopted
that you have their DNA results it may be useful for helping
well, yeah, you can just look in the mirror and if you're
useful is in cases where you don't know what your ancestry
And we can talk about that. Don't forget to subscribe so
doesn't completely rule out any African American heritage
matching as far as genealogical problems does not mean that you
we did DNA testing one of the first things actually that we
white, you're from Europe and if you're black, you're from
useful in discounting one of the family legends so just
Africa except that it's not always that clear cut. Humans
looked for is we looked for any Sub-Saharan African heritage in
as Mary's father having a significant I'm talking here
is. So for instance, adoption cases. Now, so people say,
to solve a genealogy problem, put it in the comments below.
who are one generation closer it should also show up so when
are actually telling you. If you have questions about your
one of them in particular was that Mary's father might have
particularly if it's back several generations but as far
25% or more African American heritage it just is not
my wife and my wife's aunt's DNA we found none now that
connection based off a 2 or 3% reporting of ancestry is going
genetically possible so in that case DNA ethnicity results were
and generations removed from Mary's father if there was a
from now there were a lot of different family legends but
since my wife is only two generations removed from Mary
there's a lot of question as far as where this heritage was
removed from you and from a paper trail standpoint, you're
up in DNA even in my wife more importantly in my wife's aunts
though of how ethnicity results could help in genealogy. My
you're looking at things that are below 10% and particularly
to be near impossible unless you have a lot of other
shares that in common. However, when you're getting down and
her was but she was a single woman and it wasn't reported
significant African American heritage that should be showing
wife's grandmother was adopted. We'll call her Mary. Now,
at least an ancestor or ancestry that's somewhat recent
you're staying within the realm of what the ethnicity results
analysis that goes into it, trying to figure out a
you everything and because there's a lot statistical
who her parents were and we don't know who the dad was so
things that are below 2 or 3%, well, even if the DNA was
colors, eye colors, facial features that we've generalized
doing this one thing to keep in mind is stick with the larger
you've created. Where ethnicity and administer results are most
accurate in telling you what the ancestry was 2 or 3% is
getting on the fringes of what is genealogically possible.
Now, since ethnicity and administer results can't tell
going to tell you something that is several generations
across the world have a wide variety of skin tones, hair
sure just by looking at somebody and so in this case,
of their ancestors might have been from so whenever you're
story of what you already know from the paper trail that
to be big surprise or they may not be telling you the full
generations, then probably the ethnicity results are not going
world but there is so much overlap that you can't be 100%
what most of them are for different places around the
where they all were from. Now, for most people if you already
your ancestors are from in the last four, five, or six
have been doing genealogy and you already know a lot of where
reflective necessarily of what all of your ancestors are,
from all of your ancestors, any kind of calculation of your
ethnicity results based on your DNA are not going to be
ethnicity results, those admixture results and how they
understand is because you haven't received all of the DNA
can be useful for genealogy. Now, the first thing to
segment of DNA. Today, I want to talk about those
genealogy?
Howdy, I'm Andy Lee with Family History Fanatics and this is a
you reasons of why but can we use those results for some
aren't as accurate as you may think they are and I've given Fanatics.
In lots of videos, I've told you that the ethnicity results