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[quote=Anonymous]I did ancestry a year or so ago and just recently did 23andme. For ancestry info I felt like ancestry.com was more accurate with regard to what I already knew based on where my great grandparents immigrated from. 23andme was a bit more generic. For example, ancestry said I’m 49% Scandinavian which is about what I expected. 23andme said I’m 29% Swedish. True that my Scandinavian ancestors mostly came from Sweden but some also came from Denmark. They allocated a larger share of my dna to generic northwestern European. I feel like the ancestry.com ancestry infor is more accurate. The advantage of 23andme is the health info. Since you’re black, you might feel bad some value in that because I think there are some traits and health issues more common among blacks than other groups. If finding out if you’re predisposed to any diseases or a carrier for certain diseases, then it might be useful to get 23andme.

23andme tells you about a lot of other traits too and is eerily accurate. For example it said I probably move around a lot in my sleep (very true), that I probably don’t sleep deeply (also true), tue test results knew I don’t have freckles, a unibrow, and that my pee smells after i eat asparagus. It also knows in predisposed to weigh more, consume more caffeine, and that my muscle composition is common in elite athletes.  It’s crazy the stuff they can find out with DNA.

I just logged in to see what else they check and see that they changed my ancestry percentage from 29% Swedish to 35.1%. Huh. Also they look at your maternal haplogroup which tells you when your early ancestors left Africa and where they generally migrated too. They also tell you about your Neanderthal ancestry...I share 4% of my DNA with Neanderthals which is 69% more than other 23andme users.

So, overall it’s very interesting and if I were you and curious about your ancestry I’d definitely do it. I don’t know which I’d recommend, I suppose it depends a lot on what you want to find out. 23 and ancestry both have ancestry only versions which are comparatively priced ($100ish but they have sales here and there) but the 23andme with health info is more expensive. I got mine on Amazon for $159 with free shipping. Their website charges shipping. It’s normally $199 but I got it on sale for mother’s day. I don’t know if it was on sale on amazon or if that’s always the price. I was going to order it on the 23 website until I saw the shipping fee then checked amazon to see if they had it and they do.

Let me know if you have questions. I’ve always been fascinated by ancestry, even though mine has never been a big mystery. It’s the historian in me, I guess.

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