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Questioning DNA results

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Nicola

Nicola Report 20 Jan 2020 19:36

The DNA was from My Heritage, I have researched my family for many years and I can say with absolute certainty that there is no Balkan ( apologies for miss spelling) in the past 200 years. What bothers me is that the DNA results gave a 20.5% ethnicity to Balkan. In the graph of this area is does include Hungry.

Rambling

Rambling Report 20 Jan 2020 11:22

Balkan states
https://www.thoughtco.com/where-are-the-balkan-states-4070249

The result wouldn't nec' show where in the Balkans, but showing 5 to 6 generations back so maybe someone before her gt grandfather? Have you worked back that far with records without missing anyone out?

Researching:

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 20 Jan 2020 11:22

I received an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas. Sent my sample in, didn't have to answer any questions.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 20 Jan 2020 11:20

Balkan, perhaps?

Though that doesn't include Hungary.

Wikipedia:
Historians state the Balkans comprise Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo[a], Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 20 Jan 2020 09:05

One has to question such results - there is no such thing as BULKAN

Seems like a total con to me

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 20 Jan 2020 07:46

Was this actually Ancestry as I did their test and wasn’t asked for any information at all

Just supplied the sample and later got the results

They did amend the results though some time later saying they had upgraded their way of looking at the dna

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Nicola

Nicola Report 19 Jan 2020 23:41

I purchased a ancestry DNA kit before christmas for my daughter, she has just had results back, which I can say with absolute certainty are wrong. She was asked to give at least 2 generations of family history before she could activate the test ? ( which was strange) I have a family tree on the site that supplied DNA kit with some wrong ethnicity info regarding a grandparent . Her results said she was 20.5% Bulkan ( the rest was English, Irish,Welsh and Scottish which is correct) There is absolutely no Bulkan in her ancestry but my tree on the site said that her gt grandfather was from Hungary(Bulkan), he is not a blood relative at all but a step father. I am certain that they used my tree for her DNA results, which are completely false. they have blocked me from even asking about it and have been unable to find anyone else with a query like this.

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