Comparing DNA Ethnicity Results with MyHeritage

After seeing the latest AncestryDNA update, I thought I'd do a comparison with the results from MyHeritage. I downloaded my raw data from the AncestryDNA test, and uploaded them to MyHeritage. It took about a week. This morning I received a message from MyHeritage that the results had been processed. There are some curious differences in the percentages between Ancestry and MyHeritage.

MyHeritage DNA ethnicity estimates, 2022.

MyHeritage has me at:

- 28.5% English

- 22% Scandinavian

- 20.9% Irish, Scottish, Welsh

- 11.3% Italian

- 7% Mesoamerican & Andean

- 6.5% Middle Eastern

- 3.8% Greek & South Italian

The percentages for Scotland, Ireland and Wales are similar to the results from Ancestry. The high percentage for Scandinavian is a bit off from Ancestry, which has England & NW Europe much higher. The result for Mesoamerican & Andean is comforting, and close to my Indigenous Americas - Mexico result on Ancestry. I like that MyHeritage also shows a high confidence for the genetic groups Mexicans in Sonora and Arizona and California, as well as Chile, which matches up with AncestryDNA and my own research.

The high concentration for Italian and Greek/South Italian is a little weird. I wonder why Spain doesn't show up, but Middle Eastern does.

The results are interesting, but not substantially different from the past few years of reports from Ancestry. I do like some of the other tools offered by MyHeritage, including the Chromosome Browser and the AutoClusters tool. Ancestry's Thrulines may better than MyHeritage's features. I'll continue checking out the differences and the research offerings with MyHeritage.

In the meantime, there are some new-to-me records for Chile on FamilySearch.