They just give you a percentage of supposedly your ethnicities based on today's modern map.
First of all, this does not make much sense, because humans always moved around the world and also, saying broadly you are partially European and partially Balkan - thank you Einsteins, that's nothing new to me. For example, I am 18% Balkan based on their "research"; Balkans is some huge messy mix of so many ethnicities, that this is the same thing as telling me that I am from planet Earth...
When I wrote to their support asking to at least provide me with the haplogroup of my DNA or provide me with my DNA code (they did research it, didn't they) - I got no response. I tried reaching out to them 3 more times - they are just quietly ignoring me.
So, if you just want to waste your money - go ahead and use them!
Dear Aleksandr,
I'm sorry to hear about your negative experience in receiving your Myheritage DNA ethnicity results and will do all I can to help.
While I agree it is indeed common knowledge that over the last thousand years, people in Europe moved around frequently but, In most regions of the world there is a unique set of genetic characteristics that are shared between the offspring of native populations. Therefore, if you find you share 18% of your DNA with those that trace their ethnicity in the Balkans, this will be showing in your ethnicity estimate.
To estimate your ancestral ethnicity, MyHeritage compares your DNA with the DNA of people around the globe whose genetic ethnicity is known. We call these people the Founder Populations. Currently our genetic models are based on 42 ethnic groups around the world. But this will improve thanks to our Founder Population project, the largest study of this kind ever conducted. More than 5000 participants have been handpicked to serve as references for this project by virtue of their family trees exemplifying consistent ancestry from the same region or ethnicity for many generations. The results of these tests will yield a rich DNA data set.
Determining one’s ethnicity based on DNA is a relatively new field in genetics. Great advancements have been made in the past years, but there is much more to discover. MyHeritage will continue to work on adding new ethnicities and improving the Ethnicity Estimate, based on new scientific research and discoveries.
I'd be more than happy to go over your ethnicity estimate and provide you with the haplogroup or DNA code of your lab results with you as you request, but, I have yet to locate the tickets you have sent us or your registered account.
Please e-mail me directly at rafael.vipsupport@myheritage.com from your registered e-mail address so I may assist you with your questions as soon as possible.
Looking forward to your reply.
Happy to help
Rafael
Myheritage