There were some initial doubts in my mind testing with
DNA Tribes. I'd seen it on the news, I'd heard some experiences from others on message forums, and generally the product had mixed reviews. It seems there was always someone getting bogus matches from far off regions of the world. However, my experiences weren't terribly unbelievable but they were surprising. The basic product is slightly over one hundred dollars but is worth every penny if this peaks your interest, My only recommendation would be to take your time providing the cheek swab and make sure everything is done correctly as per the instructions. I suspect that could be a reason why testers sometimes get inaccurate results.
With great anticipation, after only two weeks of waiting I received the DNA tribes results. Based on autosomal markers inherited from both parents, the computer program placed me into native populations based on the specific markers that were inherited. Siblings will generally share about 50% of their DNA on average so it's quite possible others in a family could have slightly different results. However, there are a couple shoe-ins for my ancestry, thus I expect no matter how the genes were distributed, we'd appear pretty strong for the first few populations.
There are a couple surprises in the Romanian match. After further inquiry, I noted the Szekeler are actually a Hungarian minority population who live in Romania. Thus, the connection would more appropriately be to the Magyars rather than the Romanians. That being said, I have no idea where in my family tree these people belong, but the connection is fairly strong. There is also a North East European connection in my matches. Perhaps the Finno-Ugric connection is only a coincidence, but maybe not.
The final analysis done by
DNA Tribes examines the global population for others around the world who have inherited the same genes as I have. I suppose this could be labeled 'admixture', but may also indicate a more ancient connection to a region. One of the more surprising things from my result is the very high Finnic association and the relatively low Mediterranean score considering most of my ancestors were from the British Isles. Whatever I inherited is apparently not present across the water in *most* of France, at least not in high quantity.
These results are again laid out in a neat bar graph representing the global regions. My results are the strongest with the North-West European category. Surprise surprise.... My personal results were in the 81st percentile of the entire population sampled from that region of the world, and I am apparently 99.22/82.68 = 1.2000 times more NW European than I am Finnish. (Even that is surprisingly low in my mind) Since when is my family Finnish...seriously. All in all a very cool exercise that I would recommend to anyone interested in their personal history. What's even cooler is that siblings will not have identical results, and of course your parents should resemble but be even more different from your brother or sister.
There were some initial doubts in my mind testing with DNA Tribes. I'd seen it on the news, I'd heard some experiences from others on message forums, and generally the product had mixed reviews. It seems there was always someone getting bogus matches from far off regions of the world. However, my experiences weren't terribly unbelievable but they were surprising. The basic product is slightly over one hundred dollars but is worth every penny if this peaks your interest, My only recommendation would be to take your time providing the cheek swab and make sure everything is done correctly as per the instructions. I suspect that could be a reason why testers sometimes get inaccurate results. 
With great anticipation, after only two weeks of waiting I received the DNA tribes results. Based on autosomal markers inherited from both parents, the computer program placed me into native populations based on the specific markers that were inherited. Siblings will generally share about 50% of their DNA on average so it's quite possible others in a family could have slightly different results. However, there are a couple shoe-ins for my ancestry, thus I expect no matter how the genes were distributed, we'd appear pretty strong for the first few populations.
There are a couple surprises in the Romanian match. After further inquiry, I noted the Szekeler are actually a Hungarian minority population who live in Romania. Thus, the connection would more appropriately be to the Magyars rather than the Romanians. That being said, I have no idea where in my family tree these people belong, but the connection is fairly strong. There is also a North East European connection in my matches. Perhaps the Finno-Ugric connection is only a coincidence, but maybe not. 
The final analysis done by DNA Tribes examines the global population for others around the world who have inherited the same genes as I have. I suppose this could be labeled 'admixture', but may also indicate a more ancient connection to a region. One of the more surprising things from my result is the very high Finnic association and the relatively low Mediterranean score considering most of my ancestors were from the British Isles. Whatever I inherited is apparently not present across the water in *most* of France, at least not in high quantity.
These results are again laid out in a neat bar graph representing the global regions. My results are the strongest with the North-West European category. Surprise surprise.... My personal results were in the 81st percentile of the entire population sampled from that region of the world, and I am apparently 99.22/82.68 = 1.2000 times more NW European than I am Finnish. (Even that is surprisingly low in my mind) Since when is my family Finnish...seriously. All in all a very cool exercise that I would recommend to anyone interested in their personal history. What's even cooler is that siblings will not have identical results, and of course your parents should resemble but be even more different from your brother or sister.