My Heritage Updated Results 2025

[albion0209]

It seems like anyone with some semblance of Germanic ancestry is getting Dutch, Danish, French, and Breton. To me, I feel like all of my tiny percentage regions like French, Danish and Breton could all be lumped into my Germanic to give me a more realistic percentage and something more in line with my 16% from AncestryDNA. Even the 1.1% North Italian I got I feel is probably Germanic. I have never gotten Italian on any other result that I can recall.

[Riverman]

It seems like anyone with some semblance of Germanic ancestry is getting Dutch, Danish, French, and Breton. To me, I feel like all of my tiny percentage regions like French, Danish and Breton could all be lumped into my Germanic to give me a more realistic percentage and something more in line with my 16% from AncestryDNA. Even the 1.1% North Italian I got I feel is probably Germanic. I have never gotten Italian on any other result that I can recall.

I have a couple of kits with German ancestry and at best miniscule percentages of Dutch and French from very remote ancestors and they all get significant amounts of all kinds of Northern, North Western and Western European ancestry (including Scottish & Welsh), so it can all be subsumed under German if you have no knowledge of recent other ancestry from those regions.

[Mythbuster General]

I also have some issue with the term Germanic used by both Ancestry and MyHeritage because this term in the broad sense, technically also includes English and Scandinavians, but they have their own categories. I believe German would be the more appropriate name for this category but I know it would be very contentious for Swiss Germans and Austrians. Even this German category would be preferable to be divided into several regions, since there are quite larger distances between German speakers, like North & West German, East German, South German & Austrian categories perhaps.

[Chatzianastasoglou]

My updated results. They are much better than the old results which showed no Balkan but additionally Eastern European Sardinian and ashkenazi Jewish

[Garimund]

I’m late to the party but here’s mine:

• English
39.0%
• Scottish and Welsh
35.1%
• Irish
8.9%
• Dutch
7.5%
• Breton
6.1%
• Danish
1.9%
• French
1.5%

Mid-Confidence regions:
• Southern USA #5
• Texas
• Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina
and Tennessee
• North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and South
Carolina
• Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia
• UK and Ireland
• Southern USA #10

[trelvern]

Much,much more accurate!
Bye bye the Scandinavians ( 29%!) and the big chunk of Iberians ( more than 20)….


   

[Mulay 'Abdullah]

Much,much more accurate!
Bye bye the Scandinavians ( 29%!) and the big chunk of Iberians ( more than 20)….

And me for the salivar test the big chunk of Italian! (more than 28%....), I have with current version much less. For iberian I have now more than previous version (around 21% in previous). As for the scandinavian I've never had it.

[Sephesakueu]

Mine is much more accurate now too.
63% Portuguese
12,3% Spanish, catalan and basque
5,3% South italian
3% North italian
2% French
1,8% Breton

6,2%Tunisian
2,7% Central African
2,2% Nigerian
1,6 % Egyptian

Only it did not give me the 6,25 % Lebanese I surely have, instead lowering my SSA (6% on avg) and coming up with a tunisian egyptian component. 6,25% lebanon muslim + 1% SSA?

[Mulay 'Abdullah]

Yes, the same for me, their estimates for me are much better, moreover it is similar to those given by 23andMe and Ancestry

[okarinaofsteiner]

I checked my MyHeritageDNA results today when I heard that 23andMe was going bankrupt. (Uploaded my 23andMe raw file to MyHeritage as soon as I first got my 23andMe results, crazy to think that was over 7 years ago now...)

https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/02/intr...ity-model/
The MyHeritageDNA v2.5 updated "Chinese category" (no longer "Chinese and Vietnamese") has 31 genetic clusters.

31 Genetic Groups in this ethnicity:
- Central Japan, USA (Hawaii) and Brazil
- China (Guangdong), Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeastern Asia
- China (Shanghai) and Hong Kong
- China (Shanghai), Hong Kong and Macau
- China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Laos and Malaysia
- China, Taiwan and Vietnam
- China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia
- China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Netherlands
- China, Vietnam and Japan
- China, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Hong Kong
- Chinese in Eastern Asia
- Chinese in Eastern and in Southeastern Asia
- Chinese in Indonesia
- Chinese in Japan and in Southeastern Asia
- Chinese in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Myanmar and in Cambodia
- Chinese in Malaysia, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam and in Taiwan
- Chinese in Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Netherlands) and in USA
- Chinese in Singapore
- Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia and in Vietnam
- Chinese in Southeastern Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam)
- Chinese in Suriname (Paramaribo), Netherlands, Belgium and in France
- Chinese in Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and in Singapore
- Eastern Asia
- England and Australia
- Indonesia, Singapore and Turkey
- Japan and South Korea #1
- Northeastern China and Taiwan
- South Korea and China
- South Korea and Switzerland
- South Korea and Vietnam
- Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and China

This is roughly what I think the different clusters correspond to:

1. Mixed Chinese-Japanese ancestry Asian Americans in Hawaii. Chinese ancestry here should be from Zhongshan in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta
2. Generalized Guangdong Han; should be some combination of Guangfu Yue, Hakka, and Teochew speakers given the cluster's inclusion of Taiwan (Minnan + Hakka) and SE Asia
3. Shanghainese/Jiangnan Chinese who emigrated to Hong Kong at the end of the Chinese Civil War
4. Shanghainese/Jiangnan Chinese who emigrated to Hong Kong and Macau at the end of the Chinese Civil War
5. Generalized Guangdong (Guangfu Yue + Hakka + Minnan) cluster including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Chinese Laotians
6. Hoa (Chinese Vietnamese), probably mostly Teochew / Minnan given that this cluster includes Taiwan
7. Teochew / Minnan diaspora including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam
8. Probably mostly Hokkien / general Minnan diaspora including Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and the Netherlands (so Chinese Indonesians)
9. Probably mostly Hokkien /general Minnan cluster that includes Hoa and Chinese Japanese
10. Probably mostly Teochew and Cantonese cluster that includes Hoa and 2 different Hong Kong labels
11. Circle on the map is centered around the South China Sea. May correspond to Mississippi Delta Chinese in the 19th-20th century Southern US?
12. Circle on the map is centered on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Guangdong, Vietnam, Philippines. Clusters seem to correspond to mixed-race (19th century White American + Chinese) family with known Taiwanese heritage?
13. Cluster includes the Indonesian islands of Java, Borneo, and Sulawesi but not Sumatra
14. Cluster includes early 20th-century Japan and later 20th-century Vietnam/Cambodia
15. Malaysian Chinese with some Myanmar Chinese, Hong Kongers, and Cambodian Chinese. Probably mixed Guangdong + Fujian ancestry
16. Malaysia + Philippines + Cambodia + Vietnam + Taiwan cluster, I'm guessing this is mostly Teochew and/or Hakka
17. Chinese immigrants to certain Northern European countries. There are specific clusters in Chengdu, Wuhan, and Tokyo [Japan]
18. Chinese Singaporeans, possibly with some mixed-race ancestors in Sweden?
19. Hoa-related group with clusters in Taiwan, Malaysia/Singapore, and Southern California [USA]
20. Strong circles in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand- but also includes Vietnam and the Philippines. Probably Cantonese and Minnan cluster
21. Suriname Chinese were mostly of Guangdong Hakka ancestry. Cluster also includes Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
22. Cluster corresponds to Pearl River Delta (Cantonese/Hakka), Chaoshan region (Teochew), and Taiwan. The pre-20th century locations in North America and Europe imply some Caucasian + Chinese intermarriage somewhere on the family tree; North America locations include the Salish Sea, Great Plains, Great Lakes, and NYC
23. China cluster includes Shanghai but the other clusters in North America, Norway, and Central Europe suggest some interracial marriage at some point
24. Asia locations include Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore. Non-Asia locations include England, Vancouver BC [Canada], Midwestern US, Brisbane + Sydney [Australia]
25. Chinese Malaysians, Singaporeans, and Indonesians of Guangdong/Fujian ancestry. Clusters specifically include Medan, Padang, Borneo, and Jakarta in Indonesia.
26. "Japan and South Korea #1" cluster includes Tokyo and the Kansai region, as well as Batangas in the Philippines and southernmost Sweden.
27. China clusters include Changchun, Liaoning province, Jinan and Jining in Shandong, Linfen in Shanxi, Gansu, Nanjing, and Shanghai. Probably a prominent KMT-aligned family (or cluster of families) that emigrated to Taiwan and then various places in the US and the Netherlands.
28. I assume the East Asian side of the family (that doesn't include pre-20th century US) are Chinese immigrants to now-South Korea? Present-day members seem to live in South Korea and in WA state of the US.
29. Chinese and some South Koreans who may be of (partial) Chinese ancestry, plus family members in Switzerland
30. Interracial family with connections to French Canadians in Quebec, South Korea, and then-South Vietnam. Chinese ancestry is probably from Hoa in then-South Vietnam?
31. Guangdong/Fujian ancestry family scattered throughout Thailand, Hue Vietnam, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

[Fshatar]

My results. Edited those other places out as I don't have an Albanian origin from there  

   

[okshtunas]

My results. Edited those other places out as I don't have an Albanian origin from there  

Nice. I just submitted for update. Curious to see how it changes

[kanadenagisa]

My v2.5 results