We Tried A DNA Test

"Adopted in the '70s. I have some questions." Big thanks to MyHeritage DNA!

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Zeta

Sohan

Hameda

Xander

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[ddgbooks]

Some day in the future, Zeta's descendants will take the test and be shows BuzzfeedOz clips of their great great great grand-something Zeta saying "I hate chocolate. Maccies hash browns ... yum!" That's kind of cool, actually.

[zeta]

Filming this video was a whole rollercoaster. Staying tuned for Xan's family discovery journey.

[jadenlatiwa]

“The gay crisis wasn’t enough. The gender crisis wasn’t enough. Let’s go for… your cultural crisis” 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Xan’s a mood

[Carly]

It’s so cute they have like 2% DNA matches, cause I ended up with a 14% DNA match and it caused ✨problems✨

[Asseify]

Xan I will tell you that adoption from south korean is so common than you think. My husband is one of them from 1986, last year we found his birth mother and no one in the family knew he existed only his bio grandparents because they forced her to send my husband to adoption for they dont want to bring shame in the family for having a teenage daughter getting pregnant out of wedlock. She told the whole family after recieving the call from the adoption agency that her lost son was looking for her, so we have a big family now. But I will tell you that there are atleast 60.000 korean adoptees in Sweden and they may be related to you, never knows.

[missruthie]

I found 4 of my half brothers that i didnt know existed that were apparently looking for me all my life when i did ancestry dna. I am forever grateful.

[maryavatar]

For Zeta - almost all Scottish people have Irish and Scandinavian DNA. Western Scotland was part of the Irish Kingdom of Dalriada, which eventually took over most of what’s now Scotland, South East Scotland was part of the Danelaw, and the North of Scotland was occupied by the Norse - the Northern Isles were a Norwegian Yarldom until the end of the 15th century. So Irish & Scandinavian DNA aren’t a surprise in someone with Scottish ancestry.

[imaan]

I would love to do this in a south African context, bc we really are a mixture of multiple cultures and ethnicities

[melissahenry]

"I can't believe it's someone's . . .to open packets of spit!" LMAO 🤣

[marquismason]

Hameda’s distant relative made me tear up WHEW

[lindsayoneill]

Absolutely loved this! I look forward to hearing about the chaos Xander causes!

[TheCarlScharnberg]

I'm Norwegian, and didn't expect to see another Norwegian in this vid. Hope she gets to meet her bio family, because it's obvious that she wants to find out more about her origins. Best of luck to her.

[rachelyy]

Wow I loved this, especially that pleasant surprise for Hameda! And what a crazy revelation for Xander. I hope everyone gets the feeling of closure they do and embrace the parts of themselves they didn't know were in their blood.

[mirandapontarelli]

People really don't understand that anything less than 25% probably is beyond the scope of your grandparents. The "cousin" in Norway probably shared a 4x great-grandparent in Korea, so the family lost touch with that branch long before she was adopted. The dramatics for the video just come across as a serious misunderstanding of maths.

[easyalpha]

Sami were the eskimos of Europe……which are basically Asian….Fins and most Nordics eventually mixed for centuries .
And apparently some Finnish people traveled to Asia…and mixed there too….for centuries…

[erkkinho]

Finnish genes can be explained with history as Finnish dominant haplogroup N comes from East and somehow there is shared genetics with Koreans/Japanese that regularly appear in Finns' test results. There is some overlap that the laboratory interprets one way or the other.

[yotrader]

Finland is a little different in Europe, to say the least. The language is originally from Ural Mountains or Siberia.

[happysolitudetv]

Always wondering why Finnish is always popping out unexpectedly. Perhaps because long time ago Finns have ancestors from Asia that added to their admixture and now we share some of our genes with them (some of us).

[axusis]

There's a slight difference between the genomes of eastern and western Finns, with eastern Finns sharing more genes with Asian, especially Siberian populations. Finnish is also one of the Uralian languages and some of the other languages belonging in the same family are spoken in Northern Asia, so there's that too.

[djm]

Wow, that picture of Zeta's grandparents was amazing and it looked unbelievably just like her!!! It made me teary-eyed. What an amazing gift MyHeritage provides ppl. <3