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Beginner's Guide to Family Tree DNA's Chromosome Painter
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Don't get overwhelmed by your family tree! I'll help you choose the perfect ancestor to kickstart your genealogy adventure. Let's begin this exciting quest! CONTINUE LEARNING 🌳After Starting Your Family Tree, Do This! ua-cam.com/users/shorts4PgzCDBJ6PM 📺 Analyze Your Genealogy Research Correctly - Ask These Questions ua-cam.com/video/etiwNftjzWg/v-deo.html 🌳3 Things to Do After Finding a Geneal...
Rescue Your Lost Memories: FamilySearch Media Recovery Tool!😟
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FamilySearch Tagging: Enhance Your Genealogy Research Effortlessly ❤😍
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FamilySearch quietly rolled out the ability to tag sources to events in your family tree. It is user-friendly and simple to navigate, so let's dive into it. CONTINUE LEARNING 📺 7 Ways to Clean Up Your FamilySearch Family Tree ua-cam.com/video/PNSYBkjdyEg/v-deo.html 📺 Climb Your Family Tree on FamilySearch - STEP BY STEP ua-cam.com/video/CBVzswpTSFs/v-deo.html 🌳FamilySearch Tree: Consolidate Cit...
❓Asking The Right Questions: The Key to Successful Genealogy Research
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❓Asking The Right Questions: The Key to Successful Genealogy Research
2 QUICK Ways to Download Visual Phasing Images for Genetic Genealogy
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2 QUICK Ways to Download Visual Phasing Images for Genetic Genealogy
🌳FamilySearch Tree: Consolidate Citations from Various Genealogy Sources!
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🌳FamilySearch Tree: Consolidate Citations from Various Genealogy Sources!
How to Download GEDMatch Tables To Your Computer | Genetic Genealogy
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How to Download GEDMatch Tables To Your Computer | Genetic Genealogy
Easy Tips for Researching in Genealogy Databases Everyone Should Know
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Easy Tips for Researching in Genealogy Databases Everyone Should Know
DNA Painter Library of Matches: A Powerful Tool to Decode Relationships
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DNA Painter Library of Matches: A Powerful Tool to Decode Relationships
Start Your Family Tree QUICKLY - Family Tree Maker: Beginner's Guide
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Start Your Family Tree QUICKLY - Family Tree Maker: Beginner's Guide
If Humans Share 100% DNA, How Do We Tell Each Other Apart Genetically?
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If Humans Share 100% DNA, How Do We Tell Each Other Apart Genetically?
RootsMagic's Associations Tool Revolutionizes Genealogy Organization
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RootsMagic's Associations Tool Revolutionizes Genealogy Organization
Why Ancestry and Living DNA are WRONG for Not Having a Chromosome Browser
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Why Ancestry and Living DNA are WRONG for Not Having a Chromosome Browser
Unleashing the Power of ArchiveGrid for Genealogy Research
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Unleashing the Power of ArchiveGrid for Genealogy Research
Stop Ignoring Chromosome Browsers If You're A Serious Genealogist | RANT WARNING
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Stop Ignoring Chromosome Browsers If You're A Serious Genealogist | RANT WARNING
This Will Change How You THINK About DNA Triangulation
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This Will Change How You THINK About DNA Triangulation
FamilySearch Computer-Generated Trees Will Revolutionize Genealogy
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FamilySearch Computer-Generated Trees Will Revolutionize Genealogy
How Likely Will You Find a DNA Match to 5th Great Grandfather?
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How Likely Will You Find a DNA Match to 5th Great Grandfather?
Best Family Tree COLOR-CODING Tool - Family Tree Maker Tutorial
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Best Family Tree COLOR-CODING Tool - Family Tree Maker Tutorial
Siblings Have Different Ethnicities! Are Recombinations to Blame?
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Siblings Have Different Ethnicities! Are Recombinations to Blame?
Genealogy Citations Made EASIER With This Tool - Cite-Builder
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Genealogy Citations Made EASIER With This Tool - Cite-Builder
Is the GENXT the future of genetic genealogy? (RootsTech Innovator)
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Is the GENXT the future of genetic genealogy? (RootsTech Innovator)
NEW Y-DNA Discovery Tool From Family Tree DNA (Review)
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NEW Y-DNA Discovery Tool From Family Tree DNA (Review)
Science You NEED to Know to Understand DNA Matches
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Science You NEED to Know to Understand DNA Matches
RootsMagic 9's ENHANCED Color Coding- Organize Your Family Tree
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RootsMagic 9's ENHANCED Color Coding- Organize Your Family Tree
Newest MyHeritage DNA Tool is NOT Something to Miss!
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Newest MyHeritage DNA Tool is NOT Something to Miss!
RootsTech News You Likely MISSED (Hint: Not Ancestry or FamilySearch)
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RootsTech News You Likely MISSED (Hint: Not Ancestry or FamilySearch)
SegcM vs Shared cM - Which is Better at Predicting Close DNA Relationships?
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SegcM vs Shared cM - Which is Better at Predicting Close DNA Relationships?

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  • @thonnaf
    @thonnaf Годину тому

    I matched both examples you gave that's pretty cool.❤ NE1 well hello cousin 🤗

  • @sharonturner1282
    @sharonturner1282 14 годин тому

    Hello. I’d like to know how much you may know about the Maternal H haplogroup? I enjoyed this video. Thank you.

  • @sylviabargas3340
    @sylviabargas3340 21 годину тому

    With Ancestry it's not just where they ship TO but where it's being shipped FROM. If you're an American in the U.S. you can only have it shipped to an address in the United States. For it to be shipped to an address in Germany, you'd need to purchase it from their German subsidiary, and that website only accepts German credit cards. In other words, your credit card would need to show that your home address is in Germany.

  • @rosomak8244
    @rosomak8244 21 годину тому

    It gets even more complicated when you take "good old" incest in to account. It's far from statistically insignificant in wide swaths of the world and history.

  • @annapetursdottir5326
    @annapetursdottir5326 22 години тому

    My maternal grandparents, both born before 1900 had 9 children who all had children. The total number of descendants today are: 461 (416 living, 45 deceased) .... My paternal grandparents, born before 1900 and in 1903 had 4 children. The total number of their descendants are: 80 (75 living, 5 deceased).

  •  23 години тому

    Largest segment = 22.2 cM Total of segments > 7 cM = 55.4 cM My grandmothers were half sisters Is this a normal range

  • @monilove90
    @monilove90 День тому

    Did he say Africans “left” Africa or were they stolen

  • @geraldbrefka1145
    @geraldbrefka1145 День тому

    I had become so confused by my Ancestry DNA test results i had to follow this rumor told by my dark age nobles. Then I found these busts that the Romans have 3000 years ago and my family look like twins of these guys still today and my last name means the eyebrow bridge of the Sarmatians. I am decended from the Sarmatian knights and the Amazon women. We were the very first horse people and the only tribe the Romans feared and forced us to be their cavalry. Which forced the daughters to be the warriors and defenders of the tribe. All Slavs have Sarmatian DNA but we Poles have the 50/50 Sarmatian/Slavic. I took an ancient DNA test and the results showed my DNA migration from the tower of Babel to Poland. But Bulgaria was where the Romans had the Sarmatian cavalry boot camp and ancient DNA shows someone in my ancient family left their DNA right at the area of that anciet boot camp

  • @geraldbrefka1145
    @geraldbrefka1145 День тому

    Actually i found something quite shocking because i became confused by my results. I took the ancestry DNA test looking for viking and found none. It took me 2 weeks to follow this rumor told by my dark age nobles and found these busts that the Romans have 3000 years ago and my family look like twins of these guys still today and my last name means the eyebrow bridge of the Sarmatians. It turns out that i am decended from the Sarmatian knights and the Amazon women. We were the very first horse people and the only tribe the Romans feared and forced us to be their cavalry. Which forced the daughters to be the warriors and defenders of the tribe. They didn't marry until the men would return to the tribe, they had arranged marriages. They didn't kill the boys but sent them away to hide from the Romans. They found their tombs 5 years ago and have the DNA of Slavs. All Slavs have Sarmatian DNA but we Poles have the most we are 50/50 Sarmatian/Slavic. I was able to take an ancient DNA test, which not only showed the migration of my tribe from the Tower of Babel to Poland, but Bulgaria was where the Roman boot camp for the Sarmatian cavalry was and someone in my family left their DNA in that ancient area.

  • @dorisjordan1959
    @dorisjordan1959 2 дні тому

    To me the exact percentage of DNA isn’t as important as the fact that whether it is 50% or 1% both ancestors were necessary for me to exist today.

  • @EpicDarkPanther
    @EpicDarkPanther 2 дні тому

    this is really interesting and useful information!

  • @steveniruthaya
    @steveniruthaya 2 дні тому

    Too bad if that uncle or cousin or brother is from cheater-rare but still chance that is not there DNA. how did we know that their real uncle or cusion or real brother? I am confused.

  • @shirleypaslay2019
    @shirleypaslay2019 3 дні тому

    I was hoping you would explain the analysis at the bottom of the page.

  • @cliftonwarren1693
    @cliftonwarren1693 3 дні тому

    My chart has 8 groups, I can see a common between the groups and how they are related to my 4 grandparents. Should add another row showing Great grandparents? What should I do with the other colors on my chart?

  • @kennethlivingstone2965
    @kennethlivingstone2965 3 дні тому

    In a Russian family, there was a woman who had 69 children, via multiple multiple births which is the record still in the Guinness book. Mrs Vasilyev? I will look it up and confirm (or anyone else can)

  • @stephen-mark-haroldtemple2363

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  • @donnamayle8623
    @donnamayle8623 3 дні тому

    Will a ancestry DNA test tell my kids if they have siblings they didn't know they had?

  • @rolo4945
    @rolo4945 4 дні тому

    So true I got my mum to test in her 80’s

  • @luketracey3269
    @luketracey3269 4 дні тому

    Lol 🍀

  • @Nordicroo
    @Nordicroo 4 дні тому

    Online ancestral DNA websites are a waste of money. I saw, for example, one guy who used 23andMe and was 75% German, then on ancestry 33% German, on CRIgenetics 4% German. So, the range of his so-called German ancestry was between 4% and up to 75% (with many other figures with none matching). Proper forensic research doesn't have these kinds of discrepancies. When they deal with needing to identify a deceased, they need it to be as close to 100% as possible. People are being scammed by these ancestral DNA websites. I remember my younger brother spending a lot of money on more than one of these websites only to have very different and conflicting results. Also, remember that a spit or swap sample is nowhere as good or as accurate as the results gained from using blood samples. This is what proper genetic labs use to study a person's DNA. And they are more likely to tell you what regions of the world you fall in rather than naming specific countries.

  • @Doing_Time
    @Doing_Time 4 дні тому

    nobody in my family tree going back through great grandparents had any children before mid 20s and all of them had at least one child in 30s or later... our oldest child was born when we were 39...

  • @pattythompson1739
    @pattythompson1739 4 дні тому

    I have researched a family line for twenty-five years and have nearly 25,000 linked names in my FTM. So you can say I have been down the rabbit hole a long time. At my age, definitely my winter years , I want to put all the information on Ancestry for all to share. I don't necessarily want all my notes in my Ancestry tree. Any advice?

  • @VincenzoCapodivento-kl1ek
    @VincenzoCapodivento-kl1ek 5 днів тому

    Ciao ho un gruppo sconosciuto che ho una triangolazione con loro ma non so da che parte sono.ho testato mia madre e non corrispondono ha lei.questo gruppo sconosciuto si sovrappone e hanno stessi numei qualcuno rsdi iniziali e finali con alcuni del gruppo che so che e mio nonno paterno.ma questo gruppo e adiacente alla corrispondenza che e di mia nonna paterna che significa?

  • @robertjpayne
    @robertjpayne 6 днів тому

    This guy is only capable of describing how the application works BUT NOT what you would use its functions for - completely useless!

  • @patriciamcpherson4667
    @patriciamcpherson4667 6 днів тому

    I'm not sure that you understand how CRI works. I know where my ancestors came from. I took four DNA tests and CRI was the closest. Ancestry is a joke. Also I wasn't able to print the report out and they won't let me go back in and look at my results. I printed CRI and you can go back in look anytime you want to because things change over time.

  • @txgirl4ever716
    @txgirl4ever716 6 днів тому

    Hi I am trying to use this feature on GedMatch and I am following your video. It appears that there must have been updates that your video has that is no longer available. Can you help me find my MCRA, please?

  • @danblair1591
    @danblair1591 6 днів тому

    I received 2% Germanic Region(I have distant ancestors from the Netherlands and Germany), 2% Norway(from both sides especially my maternal side), 47% Scotland, 32% Wales(my Hen Taid’s side), Scottish both sides, Iteland 8%(Itish and Scorch Itish on both sides more my dsd’s side), and 9% England and Northern Europe. Yet my Nana’s side was from Acadie. I am a bit disappointed I didn’t receive anything from from all my grandparents as my Nana’s side is Enhlish and Acadian French, my 5th GG from my papa’s side was Scottish and also his side was from UlsterIrelabd/Ireland, my 2nd GG on my mother’s side were Treaux related to Philippe Du Trieux(c is silent), my GG Ruth’s side was Scottish and possibly my grandpa’s fsther was Scottish:Wcotrish descent? I’m a bit disappointed thst my DNA isn’t that diverse yet O am surprised about the Norway and Germanic side. Hopefully it changes by the end of this year as I add more people into my tree. I would’ve thought I at least got 1-3% French because of the Doucets(my Nana’s Fsther’s side).

  • @beepbopboop3221
    @beepbopboop3221 6 днів тому

    The first page is very important if you are looking at papers that have cover sheets and aren't dated each page. For example, native american census.

  • @Yourmomanddadrbrotherandsister
    @Yourmomanddadrbrotherandsister 7 днів тому

    It’s unfortunate how incomprehensible this site is for most of us. It would be so good for so many more people if they could explain this in layman terms.

  • @smileyzed3843
    @smileyzed3843 7 днів тому

    Very informative Thankyou

  • @catherinecopp962
    @catherinecopp962 8 днів тому

    Brilliant. Thank you, Andy! You explain things so clearly. I was just at this point in a research project, where you saved me from a misunderstanding that would have wasted a lot of my time. I appreciate your clarity and insight. Great work!

  • @We-are-one1978
    @We-are-one1978 8 днів тому

    Please let me know where to find my Haplogroup at your site. I can't find it. Already uploaded my DNA.

  • @DonovanFamilyHistory
    @DonovanFamilyHistory 8 днів тому

    Could you do a video on comparing the difference between two different scenarios. Scenario 1: 2nd cousins with the MRCA being identical twins. Scenario 2: instead of being 2nd cousins, they are instead half 1st cousins? I have all the shared match data in a Wato tree, but there doesnt seem to be a way to designate identical twins.

  • @patriciamcpherson4667
    @patriciamcpherson4667 8 днів тому

    It's my understanding ancestry doesn't have a very large European database.

  • @patriciamcpherson4667
    @patriciamcpherson4667 8 днів тому

    They were the closest to my DNA ancestors than ancestry or heritage. I ran my family tree so I know where my family came from. None of the others I tested with came close CRI genetics did. Ancestry is a joke.

  • @rdpmackie
    @rdpmackie 8 днів тому

    My Neanderthal DNA is just under 2%. According to your chart, that means neanderthals were alive 150 years ago? Will watch the rest of the vid to see if it makes more sense...EDIT...Ok so you qualify it a bit into the video, but the range is still way off. Your chart goes to 320 years ago, but Neanderthals were basically extinct by 40,000 years ago. So if you're 2% of something, the range is maybe 320 years ago to 40,000 years ago? Not much of a point, if the the range is that massive.

  • @SusanAlsaran
    @SusanAlsaran 8 днів тому

    i have clovis and ust ishim and zero native american ancestry, BUT im paternal haplogroup Q which according to FTDNA has a south asian origin, so im probably related to the ancestors of the native americans

  • @harrynewiss4630
    @harrynewiss4630 8 днів тому

    This industry is largely fraudulent, preying on the naivety of its customers and the desperation of some of them to discover their supposed 'identities' - a problem especially prevalent in the USA,

  • @coramccarley5624
    @coramccarley5624 8 днів тому

    I've heard that if you are or have any Native American genes, it will not show this on a DNA test. Is this true?

  • @timothywalter9527
    @timothywalter9527 8 днів тому

    I love watching your videos. Thanks. My mother's maternal grandfather was 3 days old when his father died. Records are sparse. No known exact birthdate and conflicting information on his (mom's great grandfather) birthplace (England, NJ and PA), but other evidence shows it was most likely in Schuylkill County, PA. Using DNA. I was able to find records that show the mother, and apparently the father. However, the DNA suggests a name change/alternative father... both of which were rumored. I thought I had it solved through a family from Derbyshire, England, with dozens of matches in Ancestry's Thrulines once I put that in the tree. But, all the matches went up one line only. Using my great aunt's test (no possible Y testers), I noticed a subgroup of matches to a Virginia family. Upon further review, those matches had more matches up each line. The couple would be my great aunt's great great grandparents, and Thrulines shows multiple (mostly in the 8-10 range) up through all lines, including the German one. I am curious what you think of this? I have no information that suggests any family members from that lineage came to Pennsylvania in the 1850s or later. Some of the English matches share 78 cM, 100, 107, and 111. Largest segments being 46 and 58 cM. The Virginia cM levels are in the 30-40 cM level at the highest.

  • @oopsagain1surname
    @oopsagain1surname 9 днів тому

    Percentages: one thing you did not address is your 3% Ashkenazi could be because you have 2 or more ancestors further back that were each only part Ashkenazi themselves. This can compound such that the first “pure” Ashkenazi may be 20 generations back. Years: It is theoretically possible if you compare first born child of first born of first born etc. to last born of last etc. to have even wider date ranges than you give. But over generations these times normally average out. In my heavy researched lines 8 generations back(96 ancestors), the birth dates extremes range from 1644 to 1739. =227-322 years The extreme on one end was 4 generations in a row born to young mothers. The other extreme was 5 generations of late births at years of age 43, 44, 38, 52, 42.

  • @1arm_658
    @1arm_658 9 днів тому

    Do three DNA tests. Now you have three different set of percentages.

  • @angusmackaskill3035
    @angusmackaskill3035 9 днів тому

    Regardless of your ethnicity, your ancestry goes all the way back to either adam and eve or the primordial ooze depending on your faith. Duh!

  • @reginaldmassey3272
    @reginaldmassey3272 9 днів тому

    My mother passed in '96 and took her knowledge of my father with her, I've been lost my whole life.

  • @lordmosthigh
    @lordmosthigh 9 днів тому

    I doubt you have an answer to my question. Every STR base test I take shows 20% Native American every SNP based test(Ancestry, 23andme, myheritage dna)shows almost the same amount 23% as Scandinavian Finland Zero Native American and every SNP based test constantly updates their algorithms and changes every time.but every STR based test as in the ones used by the FBI on genetic material left at crime scenes is always consistent and shows approximately 20% Native American.

  • @alchemista2
    @alchemista2 9 днів тому

    I'm concerned about the increase in false matches that you mentioned (due to the mono/merged/single allele aspect of a Lazarus kit). Did you look into how much of an issue that is? It would be interesting to know whether that's more theoretical problem or practical.

  • @tamlamoore7962
    @tamlamoore7962 9 днів тому

    WE ARE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE 🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅

  • @guyeshel9316
    @guyeshel9316 10 днів тому

    Amazing simple explanation

  • @bierbuikje1604
    @bierbuikje1604 10 днів тому

    Ask a nazi jewish? Wtf ?

  • @mrewan6221
    @mrewan6221 10 днів тому

    I've always found the concept of ethnicity pretty slippery. How much do yet get from where you are born, and how much is inherited? I live in a multi-cultural society, where many people have immediate ancestors from other countries. How do you define your ethnicity if you were born in Canada, but your father was born in Poland (and his father in Sweden and his mother in Russia), and your mother in Spain (and her father in Portgual and her mother in France)? Your four grandparents were Swedish, Russian, Portuguese, and French. Can you claim any of these ethinicities? Your parents were Polish and Spanish. Can you claim either of these ethnicities? Can you parents claim the ethnicities of thier parents? Are you quarter Swedish, quarter Russian, quarter Portuguese, and quarter French, yet at the same time half Polish and half Spanish, yet also fully Canadian? I use the simple calculation of "you get half from where you're born, and the other half from your ancestors, with them applying the same rules". This calculation make a big assumption: that people at some time have gained their ethnicity from where they were born. But if this assumption isn't made, how far back do we have to go to determine ethinicity? How far back can we go? Genetic sequencing can give a good indication, but what's at the start? _When_ is the start? So, keeping the assumption that birth place provides ethnicity to all, I'd be: ½ Canadian + ½ ancestor ⇒ ½ Canadian + ¼ father + ¼ mother ⇒ ½ Candian + ⅛ father's birthplace + ⅛ father's ancestors + ⅛ mother's birthplace + ⅛ mothers's ancestors ⇒ ½ Candian + ⅛ Polish + ¹⁄₁₆ paternal grandfather + ¹⁄₁₆ paternal grandmother + ⅛ Spanish + ¹⁄₁₆ maternal grandfather + ¹⁄₁₆ maternal grandmother ⇒ ½ Candian + ⅛ Polish + ¹⁄₃₂ pat. gf's birthplace + ¹⁄₃₂ pat. gf's ancestors + ¹⁄₃₂ pat. gm's birthplace + ¹⁄₃₂ pat. gm's ancestors + ⅛ Spanish + ¹⁄₃₂ mat. gf's birthplace + ¹⁄₃₂ mat. gf's ancestors + ¹⁄₃₂ mat. gm's birthplace + ¹⁄₃₂ mat. gm's ancestors ⇒ ½ Candian + ⅛ Polish + ¹⁄₃₂ Swedish + ¹⁄₃₂ pat. gf's ancestors + ¹⁄₃₂ Russian + ¹⁄₃₂ pat.gm's ancestors + ⅛ Spanish + ¹⁄₃₂ Portuguese + ¹⁄₃₂ mat. gf's ancestors + ¹⁄₃₂ French + ¹⁄₃₂ mat. gm's ancestors Making this more readable: ½ Canadian, ⅛ each Polish and Spanish, ¹⁄₃₂ each Swedish, Russian, Portuguese, French, and ⁴⁄₃₂ (or ⅛) from earlier ancestors. But all this assumes you take on some ethnicity from where you're born. If you moved very early in life, you might have been exposed to very different cultures, so maybe you don't get half from where you were born, only a small part. For example, Johnny Galecki (Leonard on _The Big Bang Theory_) was born in Belgium. Your parents might have spent most of their lives away from their birthplace. Your grandparents might have spent most … Disclosure: I'm not Canadian, and my parents and grandparents were born in the same place I was. I have a total of 96.5% from my birthplace, tiny amounts from 20 other places, and 0.91% unknown. Like most people, my average genetic inheritance is negligible any earlier than 8 generations ago.