Mytrueancestry Reviews 61

I advised people to not use this service at all they will take your money and not give you as they say! DO NOT PUT YOURSELF AT RISE. USE A DIFFERENT COMPANY WHAT CAN PROVIDE THE SAME SERVICE AND TRULY GIVE IT TO YOU! Had problems early on with the my purchase I paid for a service and they gave me something totally different at a lesser price I paid $99 for level 5 and they presented me with level 2 which is $21 in the sale they actually conned me out of $78 and refused to rectify the situation. When I initially paid no service came on my account AT ALL I had to contact them via email and ask what is going on then they gifted a service (as if I was lucky or getting something FREE) after seeing how much money I paid they gave me a service what cost $21. I was shocked and explained how can I be paying $99 for a service which is 21 now they will not reply. I would urge everyone do not use this service go to another service these people are CON men! Do put yourself in the same position I did it will not end well!

This site is awesome and designed for true connoisseurs. The price for full participation is around US$1450. First results from as little as $50. The results of their archaeological research may reveal your kinship with cousins from before our era. It shows what they ate, unique products found in a particular area, and their migration across continents. The most interesting and unique thing about this site is that it shows if your distant cousin is someone who was famous years ago, like Ludwig van Beethoven.

Mytrueancestry, great, very accurate. Told me everything I expected with my family history. Im Austro-Hungarian. Not boring at all. Showed that I had Celto- Scythian ancestry with the strongest Ostrogoth. Showed that my strongest ancestors the Ostrogoths plus Gepid were part of the Hunnic confederation in Hungary from the Black Sea Greuthungi! These guys rode with Attila the Hun and were an important part of Austrian and Hungarian history during the migration period. Awesome. Recommend it to anyone. Big problem is very expensive, the more you need to know, the more expensive it gets. Shame. However, lots you can do in there like Deep Dives, PCA plots, ancient and modern. See your ancestors in different time lines. E.g, in Roman times and at the battle of the Catalaunian plains most of my ancestors were there! Awesome to know. In the Iron Age, I was 70% Scythian. Cool! Attila Lukacs

I found that this site's Royal connection was very good as it showed an ancient relative by name which I had previously traced using another site. This confirmed that the information given was correct on both counts. It's a shame that you have to pay more and more to unlock further hidden information but I do trust the site due to the confirmations I mentioned earlier

Stop sending people your emails they don’t want. I already wrote you multiple times to stop that.

This company gives almost nothing for the money.
If you upgrade to the next level, all you get for your cash is a few maps and info which is redacted unless you upgrade further.
They also have a no refunds policy.
All the free info is general and some of it is nothing more than links to Wicki. Anything specific that reflects your own DNA remains hidden away unless you pay for the top-rated membership, but they don't tell you that before you part with cash.
I strongly advise not parting with that cash.

Did it last week . Level 6 . In many ways it's dope , but general . Something went wrong ( maybe because I uploaded the raw Autosomal data and not the x data ) but my haplos we're different than ftdna , r2 instead of g , and h instead of t2b …odd. Also I opened a new free page with the x data file and it did change some degree. 😐
My best friend and I both did it and his was off as well. R instead of I , and h instead of t2b …so. 😐
The readings are pretty cool but they're general they need to have the chat rooms for all HAPLO groups not just the ones you connect with.
Also they need to have the royal search engine not just general information but actually applicable to what you're reading is.
Spent a SHITLOADD …only to find out later I did not have to purchase separate test for me and my friend we could have uploaded both of ours on one page. I wrote the headquarters and ask for a refund they never replied back. 😕⚡☠️
Tony

This is a fun site especially in the beginning. I eventually paid for approximately 200 extra samples and learned very little. The website is tediously slow and the company is constantly playing with the graphics. They also reintroduce the same tools in various formats over and over. They concentrate mostly matching archaeological Europe and seem to be more focused on Scandinavian Vikings lately which must be the newest trend. I have family history from other places as well, so it got boring. Bottom line is while some of the results are historically reasonable, there is no evidence as to the accuracy.

Generally an interesting service, which is initially free, but you have to pay as you want to look deeper and that quite a lot. I can say now it wasn't worth the money, if they do not change to more serious analysis. You get some links to nobility, also scottish, which only makes sense, if you really know your own ancestry already. Otherwise the link to nobility is a bit exaggerated, because nobles had a lots of illegitimate children, which really doesn't count that much in the sense of giving you some title.

I did a lot of research and for example their "deep dive samples" are off. E.g. they match me with ancient hungarian samples I don't really match on GedMatch, but those few hungarian samples I do match on GedMatch (a scientific tool), they don't give me a match. I have a quite good match on GedMatch with the sample from the Rathlin1 man from Northern Ireland, which is one of the few stronger ancient matches there, but on MyTrueAncestry I do not match this one at all allegedly. These are just a few examples.

Then their ethnicities for the samples are very much off. They use later emerging cultural and national groups to classify more ancient samples, which shouldn't be done. Stay for ancient samples in one period and don't mix mash everything. For example some british iron age or "celtic" samples are ethnicity wise early slavs or kievan rus (the viking age is much later, hello...). To be fair here: People had a lot of trade and travelled and had married women often from far away, sometimes for diplomatic reasons and sometimes slaves, so even more "scientific" ethnic estimates are a difficult guess at best. It is known that the continental La Tène "celts" had connections to the British Isles, to Greece, the italian Etruscans and to the Baltics (e g. baltic amber trade goods). So it doesn't make the Rathlin1 man modern polish or kievan rus or early slav, if he seems to have some baltic or scandinavian admix (E.g. a lots of scots did in fact settle in the Polish Commonwealth, so did germans from e.g. Bavaria and others who cherished the relative liberty there. Look it up. So I will have some distant cousins in Poland, but that doesn't make me polish.).

Furthermore some founding legends of modern nations ("White Croats" - there are different theories who they really were, some Sarmatian tribe or rests from ostrogoths from the Carpats?) should be taken with some question marks, because invaders were often assimilating earlier inhabitants and a mixing of cultures often happened as result. Also in the migration era often different tribes made confederacies, but were named by the most dominant and leading tribe by the romans or bycantinians.

This is not good science and I myself have quite mixed ancestry because of merchants and soldiers in my family history, so I get quite one sided estimates too. ftDNA gets it so far the most right, because of better methods, but you have to take everything with some scepticism.

My experience is based now on some years of using the service until now. Your estimates will constantly change and new, partly more recent ethnicities will be added and the adding of new things is some marketing tool to keep your attention and urge your interest to pay to see more samples and use more features.

I dont use this website for see my % origins, for this i use other more professional and simple website, but i LOVE the project, i LOVE the work they produce, i think its a little expensive for see our informations in details, but i think all is almost true because without informations of me, just DNA files, they found where i come from.
So for me its very good, but i hope (i know its a big project) i hope you will developp more the concept for know ours ancestries tributes for have in the final, what everybody want see, all the history of our genetic (with map et where come from, how many time each time average, ...).
thank you

I observed that they constantly reduce some haplogroups they don't like (or I don't understand the reason but the reduced haplogroup is always R1a) and artificially reconstruct the noble families I am related to (they constantly reduce my relation with Árpád house - Turul dynasty - even if my 2 largest "timeline fingerprints" are "Avar Szólád Hungary" (SUR1) and "King Ladislaus I of Hungary" (better Saint Ladislaus I, SZL) which are larger than all the others shown, combined!
In fact, they don't even list possibly one of the most famous king of Árpád house as a member of Árpád dynasty).

I think I found out the reason:
If you check the "featured on" section, you will see BBC: a neoliberal media which is possibly the most hateful towards Hungary and our government.

Extraordinarily poor customer service (ie none at all) including double-charges and failure to make corrections when errors are identified (ie labelled German sample in Kazakhstan). Site NOT user-friendly. No legend or useful navigation info (the "FAQs" are basic in the extreme). I'd rather have responses to emails and links to specific scholarly papers that actually mention each sample accession number than more flashy pictures and animations.

The first 60 similar ancient matches seem to be mostly from my father side . Very few of my mother. She is Sicilian and colonial American.( Irish, British, French, dutch , German.) Few of what I believe to be from her is mingled in with the majority from my father, his appears to be every balkan and eastern country there is . He's mostly crotian and Slovenian.

The website is often down/inaccessible, doesn't support https and doesn't seem as secure as similar websites. It's also expensive over time.

I used MyTrueAncestry and they charged me twice for one upgrade. Furthermore, I have sent them three emails in four days and still have not heard from them. If you do use MyTrueAncestry and you get overcharged good luck getting a refund or even hearing from customer service. They have the worst customer service of any company on the web.

I am very pleased with my results. This site came highly recommended by Nebula Genomics. I was able to access deep genetic information about my ancestry that helped to confirm and validate my lineage.

The customer support seems to be non-existent at this company. That's a pity. They don't reply to emails and on Facebook Messenger they only send automatic replies that don't really answer your questions.
It doesn't make this company look very professional.

Intersting tool to compare your genome to ancient genomes from the Stone Age to the Renaissance. Unfortunately the samples are not always properly labelled when it comes to their association with ancient ethnic groups.