MyHeritage Update June 2024

[Punkii]

My DNA upload from 2018 just got the new update! My newer uploads are still the same. 

I posted my new results on Reddit. 

Here is the link:  I Got The Update!! (Uploaded DNA) : r/MyHeritage (reddit.com) 

English: 46.6%
Scottish and Welsh: 44.9%
Dutch: 6.5%
Breton: 2.0 %

[boiler20100203]

Interesting but still pretty far fetched for me:

EE 53.5%
Germanic 32.5%
Baltic 5%
Danish 5%
English 1.5%
French 1.5%
Breton 1%

Actuality is I’m about 25% French, 32% % EE.

But the components seem correct, glad to see the picked up some Danish - a bit low but better than no Scandinavian. They eliminated the Irish I had as well - way too much at 18%.

It’s a work in progress, we’ll see what my other kits end up with. My grandma should be 100% French similar to LDNA. I’ll be sure to post when the others are updated.

[Rober_tce]

I still haven’t received the update.

[23abc]

New categories used in MyHeritage 2.0:

Code:

Africa
    Central Africa
        Central African
    East Africa
        Ethiopian and Eritrean
        Sudanese
        Somali
        East African
    West Africa
        West African
        Nigerian
    North Africa
        Tunisian
        Algerian
        Moroccan
    North Africa Jewish
        Algerian Jewish
        Moroccan Jewish
        Tunisian Jewish
        Libyan Jewish
America
    Central America
        Indigenous in South Central America
        Indigenous in North Central America
        Indigenous in Mexico
    South America
        Indigenous in Ecuador
        Indigenous in Peru and Bolivia
        Indigenous in Chile
    Native American
        Inuit
        Indigenous in Southwest US
Asia
    East Asia
        Japanese
        Filipino
        Chinese
    South Asia
        Bengali
        Pakistani and Punjabi
        South Asian
        Pashtun
    Southeast Asia
        Indonesian and Malay
        Mainland South East Asian
    West Asia
        Persian and Kurdish
        Circassian
        Turkish
        Armenian
        Georgian
    Central Asia
        Central Asian
    South Asia Jewish
        Cochin Jewish
        Bene Israel Jewish
    Asia Mizrahi Jewish
        Persian Jewish and Kurdish Jewish
        Caucasus Jewish
        Bukharan Jewish
Europe
    East Europe
        East European
        Baltic
    South Europe
        Balkan
        Greek and Albanian
        North Italian
        South Italian
        Maltese
        Sardinian
    Ashkenazi Jewish
        Ashkenazi Jewish (Germany, France, Netherlands)
        Ashkenazi Jewish (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechia)
        Ashkenazi Jewish (USSR)
    North Europe
        Finnish
        Swedish
        Norwegian
        Danish
    West Europe
        English
        Scottish and Welsh
        Irish
        Germanic
        French
        Breton
        Dutch
    Iberian
        Portuguese
        Spanish, Catalan and Basque
Middle East
    Arabia
        Iraqi
        Peninsular Arab
    Levant
        Egyptian
        Middle Eastern
        Syrian
        Lebanese
    Mizrahi Jewish
        Syrian Jewish
        Iraqi Jewish
        Yemenite Jewish
Oceania
    Oceania
        Eastern Polynesian
        Māori
        Western Polynesian
        Melanesian

[Rober_tce]

Very bad update for me. The results are so bad that it’s absurd to publish them. No sense.

I will wait the other charges…

[Traveler]

Out of the 4 kits I manage, only my dad's has updated so far. Previously he had a very generic result, which was more or less 50/50 "England" and "NW Europe", with an odd 1% Middle Eastern. Now he has a much more satisfying: 44.1% English, 33.4% Dutch, 15.1% Danish, 5.4% French and 2.0% Germanic.

I have to say that's pretty a good fit. His paper trail is approx. 47% English, 26% Dutch, 12.5% Danish, 11% German + minor Irish, Scottish and French.

[Tomesq]

My new results are just in. Very accurate, actually. Paper trail, I'm 7/8 Scottish 1/8 English.

MyHeritage 2.0

Scottish and Welsh 87.6%
English 11.2%
Dutch 1.2 %

[boiler20100203]

Interesting but still pretty far fetched for me:

EE 53.5%
Germanic 32.5%
Baltic 5%
Danish 5%
English 1.5%
French 1.5%
Breton 1%

Actuality is I’m about 25% French, 32% % EE.

But the components seem correct, glad to see the picked up some Danish - a bit low but better than no Scandinavian. They eliminated the Irish I had as well - way too much at 18%.

It’s a work in progress, we’ll see what my other kits end up with. My grandma should be 100% French similar to LDNA. I’ll be sure to post when the others are updated.

My 23andMe kit updated, still waiting on my swab test.

Germanic 39.4%
EE 37.8%
Baltic 12.9%
Danish 5.5%
French 2.3%
Breton 2.1%

Better than my Ancestry kit. Seems like they have issues between French German and Scandinavian. Maybe my swab kit will be best ?

Still waiting for my mom and grandparents to update.

[Jalisciense]

I haven't received the update nor my family yet, I did the swab test with them at the end in 2021.

[Jalisciense]

Very bad update for me. The results are so bad that it’s absurd to publish them. No sense.

I will wait the other charges…

We want to see them bro! Jaja

[Beowulf]

Still waiting for the update

[Tomesq]

Going by what they're saying on the MyHeritage Subreddit, it looks like those who tested on the old chip before April 2019 are getting updated first. The Myheritage CEO had said only testers on the new chip were going to receive the update, but it seems they've had a change of mind. I tested in 2018, so I'm happy about that.

[Nqp15hhu]

Still waiting will be interesting to see what my British Isles split is compared to ancestry.

[ph2ter]

They have all Eastern Europe in one group:

[Rober_tce]

In my humble opinion, a genetic DNA test that tells you the region where your parents and grandparents come from is meaningless, unless you don't know who your closest relatives were. To me it comes out practically Iberian, almost all spanish, also gives me 5% Portuguese (refered to this, is an ancestry that according to my paper trail I do not have).

Before they gave you very random and meaningless ethnicities, and now they soften too much so as not to make mistakes... I think this company was not a reference in ethnic estimation and with this new update it still is not.