My father -- Several Genetic Perspectives -- 1. Eurogenes -- EU & J tests

This is my dad according to Eurogenes, the EU test on GEDmatch.  It is supposed to be the best test for Europeans, as it is uses more European samples (I think that's why).  More about Davidski and his EU test (for Europeans) and J-Test (for Jews) can be found on his blog.

There is a feature called Mixed Mode populations that I love dearly, but I think I overuse it.  I think you are not supposed to over-believe in the secondary populations.  Basically what it does as I understand it, is it takes all of your ancestors, via your SNPs that have been tested, and makes them separate into two camps on the globe.  And it does that 30 times, since there are many different poles that can be found within a person's genetic story -- to give you many different perspectives.  It cannot pin down specific ancestors and tell you who they are and where they came from.  I believe it is theoretically possible to do that, but you'd need lots of people providing samples, who also happen to have really thorough paper-based pedigrees. (Ancestry.com, anyone?)



I'm going to now show the pie chart for my dad on the J-test, and then get to mixed-mode populations after that.  Then I'll show you some other charts of  different tools by different geneticists.  (Dodecad & Harappa World.)

Just so you know, my dad's results look pretty standard for a British person.  The West African (which is definitely there, but isn't enough to make it onto the pie chart) may be the exception.

Also, my dad is 1/4 recently British (Lancashire, Nottingham, etc), 1/4 colonial American (British, Scots Irish, others), one more fourth recently British (Chedworth), and 1/4 Danish.

The Oracle-4 feature is nice -- it goes from 1 set of possibilities to 4.  I am going to just show the four grandparents presented in each test, to see how it compares to what we know about his grandparents through their paper trail.

Here are the 4 grandparents through the EU test.  Seems pretty close:

Here are the 4 grandparents through the J test.   Very similar results:

The Mixed Mode population on Eurogenes doesn't veer very much from our published family tree information.  We know he has 50% British, 25% Danish and 25% American which includes more British, Scots Irish, French Huguenot, Irish, Palatine German and possibly others, including African most likely.   However, as I shall show on other tools, other ethnicities do come up, although it could always be an average or composite of different kinds of people -- similarities, instead of actual descendency.

Here is the mixed mode population results for the EU test:

 Here is the mixed mode results for the J test:

NO means Norwegian. DK is Denmark.  IE is Irish.  EE is Estonian.  The other ethnicities with 0% are just placeholders, as you can tell from the fact that they are in alphabetical order, starting with A.