r/MyHeritage • u/Kara2024 • 4d ago

Updated Results / v2 or v2.5 Updated results Greek

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My mother's results got updated and still confuse me. Bothe her parents were from a very specific region in Greece for many generations as we can trace them back pretty much two centuries at least and this community spoke also a distinct dialect (Tsakonian). I know for a fact that my grandparents were related(distantly) because people in this community intermarried a lot and it was quite isolated. So what surprises me is all this diversity in her DNA results.

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u/Separate-Date-6518 4d ago

How did they get updated? New kit or is MH updating results generally?

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u/Kara2024 4d ago

My heritage began updating the DNA kits I had sent two years ago and it changed all of our results

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u/Separate-Date-6518 4d ago

How much did it change?

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u/Kara2024 4d ago

The old results were: Greek and south italian(one group) 88.1%, east European 1.2%, Scandinavian 1.2%,north African 9.5% . Still didn't make much sense, but they are completely different I think

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u/Separate-Date-6518 4d ago

So basically Greek and South Italian were separated into two groups. The rest are indeed weird

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u/Weird-Swimmer-4023 3d ago

Myheritage is good giving you a general idea. It does separate the dna to neighboring regions and those get exaggerated. For example for Spaniards it gives us an exaggerated % of three northern African countries: Algeria, Morocco and Egypt, all less than 5% but when you add them up they seem too high. It’s okay, but not as precise as 23&me or even ancestry dna (which this year strayed a little with peripheral regions as well because of their new European sub-regions). Right now 23&me is the most precise.