MyHeritage DNA Test Results Lebanese Girl Shocking True Ethnicity - Professional Genealogist Reacts

In this professional genealogist reacts I watch "MyHeritage DNA Test Results! Lebanese Girl learns Shocking True Ethnicity" by holisticmaya.

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[holisticmaya]

I had no idea this reaction video existed until now! I was a bit nervous to see your thoughts as a professional genealogist :) I'd like to try another DNA test to have a different perspective on my heritage, I've heard 23andme is a good one? My raw reaction showed me as being very surprised at a few of these, but of course it's logical that I have the Italian side (probably my grandfather from Argentina since a lot of Italians came to Argentina, but who knows, it could be from somewhere else!) and definitely some of that Iraqi-Iranian and North African. It was interesting to hear what you had to say:) I feel like my video was forever ago. Already 4 years have gone by! I think a new one is due! It would definitely be interesting to know my parents' and sister's results!

[suricato]

The Italian part might be from the Argentinian great-grandparent too

[DanielHerrera-rlvw]

Argentina had massive waves of Italian immigration so it's probably from that.

[TheHCGTube]

The Italian part is the Argentinian grandfather. I've been to Argentina and a lot of them are Italian and have Italian names. They emigrated there early 20th century for the most part.

[DougWinfield]

I always love how Arab people freak out about having sizable Jewish ancestry and then start raving about how they've always felt drawn to some 2% trace ethnicity like South Asian.

[katstephens]

She is not overly excited about the sizable Jewish ancestry. Lol

[senantiasa]

If you combine her Mizrahi (27.3%) and Sephardic (15.3%) percentages then she's more Jewish 42.6% than Middle Eastern/Lebanese. heheheehee

[maxglendale]

Wow. Her 14% Italian is from her Argentinian grandfather.

[cyssoK]

Im also Lebanese and my results were very similar. And people always tell me i look jewish or persian, but never Lebanese lol

[Nehamah]

I was just as shocked as her when I had my test come in!My moms side is from a Mountain Jewish family in Azerbaijan, and my Dad was descended from Northern Africa. My results were:

43.2% Mizrahi Jewish
26.9% Western Asian
23.4% North African
5.3% Middle Eastern
1.2% Yemenite Jewish

I was shocked by the Yemenite Jewish percentage! Must be that my dad has ancestors who are of Yemenite Jewish descent🤷‍♂️

[valeral]

The fact is - the Lebanese people are the direct descendants of the ancient Phoenicians, which were the closest non-Jewish relatives to the Jewish people. So it is completely expected for a native Lebanese girl to have a very high percent of "Jewish" ancestry, because of how related Phoenicians and Jewish people were. What is sad is how the Lebanese people react when they see the Jewish reading in their ancestry... Unfortunately, I know what Arabs think of Jewish people since I lived in the Middle East for quite a lomg time

[Abouezili]

Israel and Lebanon are literally a walk away...middlle east, Jewish and north African is definitely nearby and their history has the moving through the ottoman empire

[helenavis]

My husband is arab, his dad is born in Palestine and his mom native Jordanian, he got 96% middle eastern, the rest close by countries in Africa (egypt and some non-arab countries). I thought he would get something more similar to this but it seems his result is quite unique. No Europe at all and no Jewish...

[mikedem]

She looks completely Mizrahi Jewish and she seems shocked??

[georgekech]

The problem is that people take those results too literal and think that those are "types of DNA". 14% Italian doesn't mean that she's by 14% Italian. If she didn't have recent Italian ancestors (most likely she didn't) it just means that she's 14% similar to people who stated that their grandparents were born in Italy. All people are related with each other and people of the near by regions are more recently related. Ethnic groups and cultures didn't pop out of nowhere from the ground. DNA results like that always will show you where your recent ancestors were from (beyond ethnic groups, cultures and languages) and the nearby regions because the ancestors of your culture more recently were closer related to the people of nearby regions. To come to Lebanon you have to be first in Anatolia, or the surrounding Levant and Middle East, North Africa, Southern Europe etc. So the closer the people are to your region the closer related they are to you because people were always mixing. Take into consideration that you're 50% similar to each of your parents. 25% your grandparents. 12.5% your great grand parents. So further you go back in time the less related you are with people back in time even if you're directly related. So by default you'd be closer related to people of closer regions because with people of further geographic regions you'd be more distantly related back in history because of distance your in common ancestors would have been really back in time. So her results make 100% sense.

[HaiderAlZubaidi]

I am Iraqi, and I got 3% southern Italian Jewish 😊

[ArmoredGauntlet]

Some Jewish people in Syria and Palestine converted to Christianity and Islam hundreds of years ago.

[Bronxguyanese]

She is part Levantine. During the middle ages. Plenty of Italians, French and byzantine Greeks settled in Lebanon which was a crusader state.

[AntonioDellElceUK]

there was a strong Iralian immigration to Argentina; Google tells me over 60% of Argentinians have Italian ancestor; now it is an half failed state but it isn't our fault...

[sykes]

Hey GeneaVlogger, what is your Haplogroup? and can you do a video explaining what Y-dna haplogroups are and the different migration routes, and populations that belong to certain branches, etc.