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What was the answer about whether you have a lot of ancestors from northern England or islands

Some particular towns have higher than usual Scandinavian ethnicity.

It's not all from identifiable ancestors but could be several ancestors who had Scandinavian ancestors themselves .

I remember Turi King mentioning this in one of her DNA talks .
I suppose it was from coastal towns where vikings would disembark

More recently there may have been another Scandinavian exodus for whatever reason.
In USA there are also particular Scandinavian " hot spots "

I don't know about "my heritage " but
Am currently working on a project about African heritage and Ancestry is very accurate in that field and with Jewish & Scottish ethnicity.
( I manage /co manage 15 DNA kits
Just learning about gedmatch tho )

Only a couple of matches are showing in Ancestry for North england - majority of matches are southern. - curiouser & curiouser! - Noticed also MyHeritage has me at 7% North African and 1% Nigerian! - Ancestry does not concur with those estimates either.

Quote from: histbak on Friday 31 May 24 03:47 BST (UK)

Both my Daughters MyHeritage results just came back! there is something very wrong with MyHeritage and their Scandinavian Algorithms! One daughter according to them is 40% Scandinavian and the other has come back with 80% Scandinavian!!! yes checked double checked - same parents lol.

So now I'm asking myself and the forum - Which DNA testing is the most accurate for Scandinavian Heritage?
We def have a fair amount of Scandinavian DNA - yet Ancestry gives us Zero DNA matches - is there a company that can give us both an accurate Ethnicity result and provide some accurate DNA matches ?

Is that based on family knowledge i.e. a fairly recent Danish/Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish ancestor? Ancestry gives 5-15% Scandinavian DNA for many Brits, which is within the normal range. Being on the higher side may indicate ancestry from areas of higher Scandinavian settlement i.e. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, particularly the coastal areas, and even more so Orkney and Shetland.

Im 20% according to Ancestry - my daughters 40% and 80% according to MyHeritage. Have not found a direct link as yet to the 3 & 4th Scandinavian cousin matches that MyHeritage provided. Thanks for your insight into the higher Scandinavian concentration settlements that existed in the British Isles, I believe that could go to helping understand this.

I’ve got Norwegian and Swedish heritage on both sides of my parents found by Ancestry and My heritage DNA results - MyHeritage shows me many DNA matches from Sweden and Norway no closer than 3rd cousins - however in spite of all these matches I cannot see any connection to my extended Scandinavian family - MyHeritage suggests that the common ancestor of these matches would be 3rd Great Grandparent - but all branches have been explored and no link found - is there any other way to finally discover the links?

Hello melba thankyou for your reply
I think I should have mentioned the differences I noticed in the matches between Ancestry and MyHeritage  in my first post, as I indeed have many Scandinavian DNA Matches on MyHeritage and exactly ZERO on Ancestry!,  both MyHeritage and Ancestry also differ in the percentage of Ethnicity they calculated - where MyHeritage suggests 15% more for us as Scandinavian V Ancestry.

Both Agree that both parents have Scandinavian Ancestors - thus I can only assume your right that MyHeritage Scandinavian DNA Matches cannot be relied upon, what a shame that is of course!  We know we have it in our genes, but from whence it came remains a mystery!

Noting: Ancestry DNA Matches, for us,  no matches from any countries other than UK, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Canada - Whereas with MyHeritage the matches cover many more Countries.

I've worked out some of the MyHeritage DNA Matches links and so some matches proven correct, but none of the Scandinavian!

I'm having the same problem, I can download the Grant but not the Will. Also the 'Contact Us' tab doesn't work for me so I have no way of contacting them. Can someone please give me the email address so I can contact them?

sending you a PM - I got my similar problem fixed today after about a week.

Just to update this -

I was recently able to obtain the record from Devon Heritage Centre research service - it is back up and running !