I thought I'd share as a Canadian of donor-conceived origins which sites have been most helpful for me for finding my siblings (27 and counting so far... likely around 150 total out there).
Ancestry: 5 (including 1 overlap with 23andMe)
23andMe: 5 (including 1 overlap with Ancestry)
FamilyTree (upload of my Ancestry kit): 1
MyHeritageDNA (upload of my Ancestry kit): 1
That uploading option is one I would flag as missing from your piece. It's free/cheap to get a lot of info by uploading your 23andMe or Ancestry kits to FamilyTree or MyHeritageDNA, but there is no option to upload from other companies into either Ancestry or 23andMe.
I will say that MyHeritage has been a bit better for "old country" (ie Europe) matches.
Re: looking at your own genetic ancestry directly, what tools are you using for that if you don't mind me asking? R and qpAdm?
The reason I ask is I get pretty widely divergent results for my grandfather (and to a lesser extent for myself) and I'd like to sus out the truth of matters. My grandfather comes back as anywhere between 0% and 10% non-European. Davidski suggested a minority mix of Roma, Tatar and New World Hispanic ancestry alongside a large dose of Central European. Roma and Tatar make sense geographically, but I would love to puzzle out how someone born in 1920s Czechoslovakia gets some Hispanic ancestry.
I thought I'd share as a Canadian of donor-conceived origins which sites have been most helpful for me for finding my siblings (27 and counting so far... likely around 150 total out there).
Ancestry: 5 (including 1 overlap with 23andMe)
23andMe: 5 (including 1 overlap with Ancestry)
FamilyTree (upload of my Ancestry kit): 1
MyHeritageDNA (upload of my Ancestry kit): 1
That uploading option is one I would flag as missing from your piece. It's free/cheap to get a lot of info by uploading your 23andMe or Ancestry kits to FamilyTree or MyHeritageDNA, but there is no option to upload from other companies into either Ancestry or 23andMe.
I will say that MyHeritage has been a bit better for "old country" (ie Europe) matches.
Re: looking at your own genetic ancestry directly, what tools are you using for that if you don't mind me asking? R and qpAdm?
The reason I ask is I get pretty widely divergent results for my grandfather (and to a lesser extent for myself) and I'd like to sus out the truth of matters. My grandfather comes back as anywhere between 0% and 10% non-European. Davidski suggested a minority mix of Roma, Tatar and New World Hispanic ancestry alongside a large dose of Central European. Roma and Tatar make sense geographically, but I would love to puzzle out how someone born in 1920s Czechoslovakia gets some Hispanic ancestry.