MyHeritage Update Confirmed late June 2024

[Eurafricanid]

Going by all my matches, there's tons of Scandinavians on MyHeritage. Have 327 Norwegians for example. They have plenty to play with and could have been done ages ago. But Ethnicity Estimate can be messy and all over the place for some, so i feel like it should be a tidier estimate mainly.

I get 23.9% false British Isles at LDNA and correctly 0% at 23andMe.

Very exciting! =) I am also curious how accurate they'll be at distinguishing the new European ethnicities.

The CEO said that it is going to be much better in correctly pinpointing the ethnicities (recall) and the correct proportions too (pecision), he showed this graph.

Keep in mind that this is a representation of a beta and isn't using the exact ethnicies in 2.0.

[Eurafricanid]

I wonder if they will be able to accurately separate Germany from the rest of northwestern Europe. I think 23andMe is the only company that does a good job at it right now

23andMe actually doesn't divide Germany that well from Northwestern Europe, they literally lump everything in Fernch & German.
According to to what was said, MyHeritage is going to divide the current North & West European into Germany, Lowlands, France, etc. That's what I understood by what was said. I don't know how they're going to do that, though.

[Eurafricanid]

Great. I'm curious if I won't have 100% England anymore then and my father 0%.

They said they're going to solve that too, apparently in this graph.

[rothaer]

23andMe actually doesn't divide Germany that well from Northwestern Europe, they literally lump everything in Fernch & German.

This is true and it's not satisfactory.

On the other hand as a customer I primarily want an applicable statement.

And this is exactly what 23andMe does with their "unsexy" "Broadly" categories. I've not seen any company making more applicable statements than 23andMe.

LivingDNA impressing clueless folks by assigning 3.4% (not applicable, ofc) "Devon" to me is another strategy.

[Eurafricanid]

this is the only photo i found about it

The writings on the bottom-left image are most likely just an inferrence based on the example image given and do not align with the descriptions given by the CEO.

[Eurafricanid]

This is true and it's not satisfactory.

On the other hand as a customer I primarily want an applicable statement.

And this is exactly what 23andMe does with their "unsexy" "Broadly" categories. I've not seen any company making more applicable statements than 23andMe.

LivingDNA impressing clueless folks by assigning 3.4% (not applicable, ofc) "Devon" to me is another strategy.

I agree with that, the unique way that 23andMe organizes it's ethnicities is genius, but the way ancestry shows how one ethnicity shifts into another with their respective overlaps is also pretty good, but not everybody understands it correctly, unfortunately.

[Dušan]

My result was already pretty accurate. I wonder what will get after update.

[vader]

Can't wait for my ethnicity report on MyHeritage to somehow get less accurate.