Hello! So one of the things that I've always been really interested about in
my life is my heritage. I have an idea of kind of my background,
obviously I'm Canadian, but before my dad's family is from Scotland, so I'm
half Scottish, and from my mom's side of the family, they're all French-Canadian
that originally came from France. And that's always been pretty you know part
of me. I felt proud of being both those different things. But, you know,
I kind of really want to get into the details about it. And maybe it's because
I've just seen too many MyHeritage commercials or whatever, but I
really wanted to kind of do that whole DNA thing, submit my stuff and
really see where do I come from. What is my heritage? So for this video I
want to see whether it really was worth the money to buy this kind of
MyHeritage DNA thing and give them my DNA. I think it's mainly just
like saliva and stuff and you mail it back to them and they mail you your
results. It wasn't super cheap, but this was actually probably one of the cheaper
ones around. I know there's one called 23andme and I think that's by Google,
that was a bit more expensive. This one was only 160 bucks or something
like that. I could be wrong, but it was probably one of the cheapest options cuz
at the end of the day, I'm still pretty frugal when it comes to buying things.
And I also I had a friend who tried it out she liked it so I thought I'd try it out.
And so no this isn't sponsored by MyHeritage, I bought this myself. I thought
I would check it out do a little review and see what happens.
Alright, so if you do buy it you get this fancy looking box that like opens like
this and you're like "Whoa, that's fun!" And in the box, let's see what we got in here.
So, in the box we've got, I don't know, let's see what we got here, okay some
papers, probably important. This little package thing that I'll mail.
A hazard bag, that's fun, and then some vials. So, I'm gonna read the
instructions and see what I'm supposed to do. How do I open this?
Use the swab head to scrape the inside of one of your cheeks while rotating the
swab. Okay, ah, okay. Good. Oh my god, I drooled on myself. That's
okay. I think that makes sense.
What the hell?
Ah! I did it! And then I mail it and we wait. Alright it has been six weeks since
I submitted my DNA samples and I just got my email from MyHeritage with my
results, so all I have to do is basically click this button in the email and it'll
reveal my heritage. I have a fair idea of what it'll say, I just, I mean, I'm pretty
pale. Like there's only so many options. I'm from a cold place clearly, but
you know, you never know. I'm kind of excited to see what the results are so
let's take a look. All right, let's find out what my heritage is. Oh my god.
62% Irish, Scottish & Welsh. Not surprising. Iberian, never heard of that one.
Have to look that up. Scandinavian, yeah that makes sense.
Really? Okay, 1.3 percent Nigerian, and then 0.8. 0.8 percent North African. Okay.
So, I now have the results. I have an idea what my heritage is as pe
MyHeritage. It may defer if I tried a different kit, I will never know because
I probably will never spend more money to do another kit or whatever, but the
only question that still remains is "Was this worth it?" Was this worth the money?
Um, I'm gonna say yeah. I'm gonna say it was worth the money to me because I
really loved learning about my heritage and my background and the cool thing was
because I have two sisters, I was able to share the results with them and
so now they also know what their heritage is. And fun money tip, I just
thought of, if you do have siblings, you can just do one kit, submit it, and
you can share the same results. So really you could just like split the cost so
there you go! But for me, yes this was worth it. This was worth the money. I've
always been curious about this, it was a lot of fun. Now I've kind of created this
really fun conversation with my sisters and my mom who's pretty ticked
off that we're not French, and we really really thought we were French. So for
us it was a bit of fun. It's kind of an entertainment thing. Same as like I don't
know going to the movies as a family basically. Probably about the same price.
So I'm gonna, say yes this was worth it. It may not be worth it to you because of
the price tag and the, you know, suspect results. I don't know if I am actually
any part Nigerian, but it is what it is. Thank you for watching my video on my
experience doing DNA test to find out what my heritage is.
Let me know in the comments if you've ever done anything like this, and what
the results were. Were they totally spot-on, were they totally out of left
field? And make sure to like and comment and subscribe! I will be back next
Tuesday with a brand new video, so I will see you then!