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Why do I look Asian? Mexican DNA test results reveal (Original Post) YoshidaYui Jul 2021 OP
my upstairs neigbor is Vietnamese, and she looks a lot like her Skittles Jul 2021 #1
I would've recommended Ancestry or 23andMe to her... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2021 #2

Skittles

(159,976 posts)
1. my upstairs neigbor is Vietnamese, and she looks a lot like her
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 02:22 AM
Jul 2021

skin not that dark though

pretty girl

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,058 posts)
2. I would've recommended Ancestry or 23andMe to her...
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 02:47 AM
Jul 2021

... instead, unless MyHeritage has improved their reference populations dramatically.

MyHeritage wrongly declared that my ethnicity is mostly Scandinavian a few years ago.

A niece and nephew was tested by them first, and then they questioned my diligent and careful work tracing our family tree years earlier. They both showed a plurality of Scandinavian ethnicity.

So I took my first DNA test through them too, since I figured their deceased father might've had some Scandinavian roots or something. Nope, it instead indicated that I was even more strongly Scandinavian than them! Absolutely wrong.

Then I learned that MyHeritageDNA's reference populations to estimate ethnicities were ridiculously small compared to other testing companies.

Later tested by 23andMe and Ancestry, with both showing ethnicity estimates overwhelmingly from the British Isles as my genealogical research had already shown.

Never would've bothered with any of them, if not for my niece and nephew suddenly claiming to be Vikings!

Maybe MyHeritage has improved since then, though?

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