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- Technically I'm an US citizen and a Legal Resident of Ukraine, but that doesn't explain my culture, heritage, ethnicity, or DNA. However thanks to this video's sponsor MyHeritage I'll explain it all and how and why my Father is connection to Russia brought me here today. Buy a DNA kit here: bit.ly/JohnnyFDna Use the coupon code Johnny for free shipping. As an added bonus, you can start a 30-day free trial of MyHeritage’s best subscription for family history research - and enjoy a 50% discount if you decide to continue it.
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I think if you're more comfortable just telling everyone you are a Mongolian American that should make you happy. DNA can only inform so far, the rest is up to us and our people. Cheers!
I got my parents the dna kit and my dad was able to meet his half brother across the globe before he passed away. Since my grandparents are deceased and my biological grandfather died when my dad was 7, it answered a lot of questions for us and connected us to family who we otherwise would not have ever known! It's very cool!
I was adopted so this was of interest to me. Found out I’m 50% Polish and mix of other European stuff. Later I was told my father was German and mother was Swedish but I’m guessing my German father was way more Polish than he was German!
I'm so glad this technology exists, I often think of this for adopted people or people with ancestors who were forcibly moved, those with lost or never taken records.
awesome stuff !
Ghengis Khan 'came through' Ukraine too shall we say, he didn't get stopped until the Polish and their castles...
Found out my mother has a half sister from My Heritage DNA test. 😮 Grandpa was a player 😮😮😮
Great to see your heritage, I love this stuff. I did the MyHeritage DNA test and I came out as 63.5% Scottish & Irish and 36% Scandinavian/ European. Most of my direct ancestors going back a few hundred years are from Scotland and Northern Ireland, so thats not surprising. There are probably various Eastern and central European ancestors from even further back, looking at how migrations to Britain and Ireland happened.
Thanks for sharing!
I tried living in Berlin, i think similarly to how you are living in Ukraine, Bt without knowing my families story, And I was so confused. I do have German and Jewish heritage, And Berlin was a point of my life that was significant to me, but knowing the story of my family really absolved a lot of feelings I was unsure about in my life. Kn owing your family story gives context to your experiences and certain places have meaning, While others do not. I think I would have wasted much less time wondering had I known these details about myself in hindsight.
My ex sister in law’s father was in the Kuomintang Army originally from Shanghai, China, fled to Taiwan 🇹🇼 when the Communists unseated the Nationalist Government and they had to flee or be killed. I could encourage my nephew and niece to get DNA tests. The original Taiwan residents euphemistically called Aborigines locally are most closely related to the people of Hawaii, the Philippines and many thousands of years ago ago Hainan China. Those called Taiwanese back in the 1970s when I was last there, are largely descendants of fishermen who located in Taiwan from Fukien Province several hundred years ago and speak a Fukienese Chinese local dialect. The Northern Chinese refugees spoke the official language of Mandarin Chinese a Northern dialect.
What Johnny's explaining with having a lerger data base and group is exactly why I went with 23 & Me and An eatery they already have the largest groups to start. I submitted a sample in the early 2000's for the human genome project that started the first shared database. It could only provide haplo groups. Now companies do not share a full data set with each other. But the base set is established and the testing is so much better. Now you can get percentages. This stuff will blow your mind. I knew I was part native American. But after redoing my t are in 2019. I found out I was also part north African from a specific group called Mulengeons which is like Appalachian Creole if you will...It's really neat. I encourage everyone to go to d out what you are and realize how mixed each and everyone one of us really are. It really breaks down so many perceived barriers and can even unlock family secrets that where hidden because of societal pressure and racism etc. It freaking awesome. ❤
awesome stuff been wanting to do this test for a while thanks for sharing Johnny 💪
I married my best friends brother way back in the ‘70’s, their dad who was quite old had fled China in the 1930’s after losing his first family in some kind of rout where people were strafed by planes. He tried to make money abroad to find them went back but never located them, eventually went back to Sri Lanka in the 1940’s and married there. We have no idea where he was born. He told me he had lived in Shanghai, but there’s no way of knowing any details. He had a sister there in China he corresponded with but for the longest time no one was getting out or if dna tests are a thing in China, the family would really like to find out more but maybe it is lost forever.
Johnny, when you talked about your family it reminded me of that. What turbulent times all the diasporic Chinese of that era saw. There must be millions of people with Chinese ancestry who cannot go back further than a generation or two, who would love to know more, inside China and in the wider world.
post script: What do you feel you are the most, Johnny, that's what I would ask. Roots stay embedded and they run through time, reaching out and pulling us back to them... they are our instinct, our gut feelings, what we connect with the most. You can definitely see you have caring roots to *who* you are... what you are is just DNA - You'll home in and connect to what is important to you in life. We always go back to the very core of ourselves. Trust me on this.
According to my birth certificate, I was born in Poland. My parents brought me to the US when I was young. They claim to be 100% Polish.. People in the US tell me I look Italian or Puerto Rican. They don't believe me I'm Polish until I show them my green card. Even with the ID, they can't believe I'm Polish. I can speak fluent Polish, but they are still skeptical. They claim I speak better Spanish (just random stuff) than most Puerto Ricans. My friends of Mexican decent call me paisa. Maybe it's time to take this test and find the truth.
I think might have gypsy blood in you.
I have seen these DNA kits on sale and advertised over the last several years but had read that they were not terrible accurate.
My cousin in Australia did some research on the family tree and was able to trace it back into the 1700's using birth, death, census and marriage records.
Further than that would require searching through Parish Records held in churches.
This might be interesting but would be time consuming
Going through the records, I was struck by the number of infant mortalities and pauper's funerals.
Life was certainly hard back then and I take some comfort from the fact, that those of us alive today, are survivors in this race for life.
When I first saw you on B&B's channel I assumed you were Mongolian, as you looked like every photo or picture I had ever seen of Mongolians in my life.
It might make an interesting holiday for you to go there and make some videos of your impressions.
You'd be quite surprised if you took a DNA test. Plus, you can find and connect with distant family if you sign up to a service for a couple of years. My dad and I did that many years ago, back when Ancestry was getting started, just after both my grandfathers had died. I became interested because I lived in New Orleans, which has the national WW II museum - both grandads were in WW II and Band of Brothers had just been released.
In the beginning, we were lucky enough that my great grandmother had a rudimentary genealogy done because she came from a Mormon family - the LDS church own Ancestry and also has the largest genealogy database or did at the time. So, we had like 3 generations back and didn't get anywhere for a year or so, then boom, I did some digging and all of a sudden, another family tree popped up, done by a distant relative with much more info. Within 1 year, we were able to trace our family back to the 1st century BC. And that was through 1 of my grandparents. It took another 15 or more years get the rest of my grandparents' families done, though they can't be traced quite so far back.
I wish you luck.
You are absolutely right, 23andMe was able to pinpoint my Irish heritage to Dublin and my British heritage to London, my Portuguese and Spanish were not so precise!
If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend a 2011 film about Taiwan Aborigines and their war against the Japanese in the 1930s called Warriors of the Rainbow. It’s in Aboriginal, Chinese, and Japanese languages with English subtitles. I actually own a copy.
Interesting. You said your grandfather was fighting for China against Japan.
My grandfather with my grandmother (she was nurse) were fighting also there in Manchuria against Japan
I'll never forget that video with B/B and I thought I had to know more about you! You are a fascinating man, Johnny FD. :)
When I first saw you on Balds video straight away I thought you look very Mongolian. Слава нації 🇺🇦🇳🇿
I had done my dna a long time ago but the scores change a small bit because ancestry updates scores somehow i just noticed one of the last updates it said the majority of my english score was Channel Islands.
Im a whole hodgepodge of ethnicities! My family sure got around!😅 I'm mostly Italian & Native American but then there's German, Irish, Scottish, British, Hawaiian, Israeli, Dutch, Spanish, Alaskian, & Norwegian. My family didn’t know half of these until we did a DNA test. We were pretty shocked.
Well... I'm probably 99% Slav... My father is a Bosnian Croat 🇧🇦, my mother is Ukrainian born in Zaporizhia 🇺🇦, I was born and live in Croatia 🇭🇷... My mother's maiden name was Zielona which traces roots back to Poland 🇵🇱 ...But I do want to do a DNA test on my wife. Her great grandfather was an Austrian soldier (during times when Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire), while on the other side she has Bosnian blood but she looks Turkish altho she is a Catholic so someone was either naughty or converted at some point.
Sounds like you are 100% catholic Slav.
Do the DNA services link in to traditional family trees people have researched and put online? I have gone back 10 generations on some lines through research of census returns, birth certs, parish records etc.
Thanks for sharing your experience with DNA genealogy research. It was super interesting for me. I've done Family tree DNA & 23andme DNA tests. But I also have a pedigree tree on MyHeritage.
I've uploaded my raw DNA data from Family tree DNA to MyHeritage. There's such an option luckily. But, as a Ukrainian with Russian & Belarus roots, I find my result's breakdown on MyHeritage somewhat obscure. I got mostly Balkan and Baltic and no Eastern Slavic ancestry whatsoever. So it didn't help me much in understanding my heritage actually. Now I'm waiting for my results from 23andme so I can compare it to Family Tree DNA.
I've always wanted to search my ancestry since DNA testing became available. Unfortunately it is illegal to do so in France! Does that company send the kit out in a brown paper wrapper by any chance?
That is some cool info my guy, yeah I'm part asian but not a whole lot around 12% because it was halved with basque the asian part of my family are mixed filipino and spanish.
I am swedish, But found out a couple of month ago, that I have living relatives in Russia and Ukraine and Belarus. I have always liked the Eastern European countries. Been many times in Poland.
So that will explain that😂!
Slava Ukraini!
Scandinavians had a big influence on Kyiv Rus (pls don't confuse with ruzzia), our first kings were from Scandinavia
@@eugene8524 the rulers of Muscovia (then tsardom of Russia) were the same dinasty that ruled Rus'
Hello 👋🙋♂️from Los Angeles.
Loved this episode. You have an interesting background. My daughter did this in the UK, and it was very accurate because I know, on the most part, my relatives in Europe. Sidebar: You might want to take a quick break overseas. Best Regards..
Johnny, here's a question.... what is the ethnicity of the actor you used in your clip. I mean, I know the man must be Asian, but I have absolutely no way of knowing which country that might be. I grew up in the rural south. I know of 1 family with Asian ethnicity from my hometown, so my brain never learned how to process those features.
If I had to guess Nick's ethnicity, it would be Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish given his height and facial features. I say that because he looks similar to some of my relatives.
Johnny you look absolutely Mongolian, my first guess about you too. Most people from that region seem to be mixes.
Glad to see you finally trying out some new topic here.
Johnny's head is 100% Mongolian. The rest of him is Chinese.
I would say his build is Mongolian too lol, Chinese are usually thin
Super cool Johnny ! I’ve wanted to do this test as well. My last name is of a German decent but I’m not sure what I am. Hope to find some Spanish in there. You should do a test for your buddy!! Really interested to see what he is.
Bremer is your last name? It's a cute city in north/west of Germany. (Bremen is the city and Bremer means the person living in Bremen)
Yes. My dad never really allowed me to meet my real grandfather. He passed away before I could meet him. So I never got to hear about my last name or where it came from. But I would love to find out. I'll check that city out on my Quest in Wander@@justthecousinoftheguywitho2337
Its so nice to get to know u closer! ❤
Anyways, your kind soul is at home everywhere you are) i was hoping for a bit of pecheneg blood there so you could be even closer to Ukraine but i dont feel disappointed bcz u r right - dna is only a part of who we are❤
I think at this point you can proudly add the Ukrainian flag to the video's title 💪
Thank you Roman. =)
I wonder if you mother's mother has a birth certificate in Taiwan or when she got married to your grandfather there was any record which might show something. It might hard or impossible to find, they might not even have a birth certificate, 1895-1945 it was occupied by Japan, I'm not sure how well the records were then and depends if they were born in the city or a hospital etc. I guess start with the city/town your Mom was born then work your way back. It is all very interesting, thank you for sharing Johnny! peace from Thailand.
My heritage, without a test, is English from Devon, (Dumnonii and Saxon). My father's family were farmers for more than 4 centuries, from the Okehampton area of Devon. My mother's family were farmers for centuries, from the Osnabruck area of North West Germany (Saxon). My parents met immediately after WWII, as that part of Germany was controlled by the British. I also have Dutch relatives from near the German border. My mother's distant family also had a hotel in Moscow. But after the Russian Revolution before 1920, they were not heard from anymore. So we don't know what happened to them.
Nick looks like he is advertising those shorts with a string., great pose
Hm, the person in the upper left corner 9:45 into the video is my grandmother's twin. I don't know what my grandpa looked like since he was killed by the Japanese when my mother was a young child. They owned two houses. One was used as a guest house in Korea. I'm from the Yi Korean family which is pronounced Chinese Lee..But my grandmother's name with Khan.
Johnny we love you because of who you are not what you are. But it's always good to know your roots. Americans are the most ethnically diverse country in the world - hoping and proving that all cultures can live together in peace. If you're as good with horses as you are with dogs I'd say you're very connected to Ukraine. Horses were first domesticated in/around Ukraine. Google says - Horses, the scientists conclude, were first domesticated 6000 years ago in the western part of the Eurasian Steppe, modern-day Ukraine and West Kazakhstan. Time to check out a horse stable and see if you can ride. Be careful
Thanks for the thoughtful comment Steve.
Thank you Johnny
Howdy y'all from Oklahoma 🥰DNA is amazing ❤meow is a Halfbreed meaning Half Apache and Half Japanese ❤I am a Appajapap😉😘
Any relation to Jad Fair?
😂❤
Haven't done a DNA test, but what I know is that I'm Irish on my dad's side and Eastern European Jewish on my mum's side. Dad's family were originally from County Clare in southwestern Ireland, and then they emigrated to Liverpool during the Great Famine in the 1840s. I was born in Liverpool, moved to South Carolina with my parents when I was 11, then moved back to the UK at 24. My last name is Kennedy and I'm a distant cousin to JFK, I believe something like 4th cousin 4 times removed - I looked it up at the JFK presidential library in Boston when I was around 15 or so. Mum's family were originally from what is now Lithuania and Belarus, which at the time they emigrated to the UK was part of Imperial Russia. They fled during the 1890s after a series of pogroms in the region and settled first in London and then Liverpool.
Very interesting? When I originally did my DNA (with MyHeritage) I had a small percentage of Nepali?? That had actually gone away? And recently, it has been revised to include 2.3% "West Asian"!
I'm from Oklahoma, my ancestrage is English, Scottish,
Irish, Dutch and German with Choctaw Indian thrown in
and an American but mainly I'm just human.😁👋😆👍
Human!! Should be recognized more..... 🤣🤣🤣👃✌️🇨🇦 Thanks for posting!! 🥰🥰
That is a very American mixture :)
true...Our ancesters don't define us, but very interesting for conversation. Hubby and I are proud 'muts' Lol, but this *would* be interesting🌎🌍🌏🧬
I did My DNA , I am mostly from Scandinavia but Many ancestors came from Viking settled Countries England Normandy and Irland , I was surprised I am 3 % East Asian and 2 % North African , Slava Ukraine
Norwegian, Icelandic, and Portugise. Thats my blood. Thats a calm mix,
I like to call myself Celtic and Viking but I don’t know a longship from a Curragh 😂
25% British (probably mostly English but some Scottish, Irish, and Scots-Irish too)
25% German (likely from the Baden-Württemberg area)
50% Askenazi (from the areas known in the modern day as Lithuania and Belarus)
Possible trace Finnish and Native American ancestry.
Just signed up. I did it years ago and there might be more active people to narrow down the place I'm from
Last time I was 100% eastern European Slavic..
Good one
Very intersting. i think i am 100% Finnish. My family has been in America since the 1870s or so.
Kitos for sharing 🙏
I think you aren't 100% Finnish, because here in Finland, hardly anyone is 100% Finnish. For example I'm part Swedish, Scottish and whatnot. And all Finns have some Asian DNA from way back, but as it is standard here, it counts as Finnish in DNA tests, not Asian.
@@JohnnyFD Oh you know a bit of Finnish! BTW as your grandfathers were generals, then there's some truth to the "warlord" thing too, as far as your ancestry goes. And I thought the "Mongolian warlord" thing was a mere joke!
it would be interesting because mom's family came from Finland about the same time as dads family. we were part of a Finnish American club and co-op in a small area in Massachusetts. co-op was a community grocery store. we had Saima Park for summer activities and Kaleva Camp dances etc. I definitely could have Swedish from the Finnish roots, maybe Estonian.
Good vlog
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Greetings from Istanbul
Exactly, they dont get more Mongolian looking than you, bro
23andMe was breached. Curious what are your thoughts on that? Sad to hear because they have so much personal data.
Forty Nine Point Two indigenous American., 45.6% European. Southern European 44.2%. Spanish and Portuguese, 39.9%. Italian 3.1%. that’s a little bit of my DNA Johnny, I am the blind individual from the Bay Area I forgot to mention western Asia in north African 1.2%.
Lol Johnny You always throw curvballs and i nvr know what next vido will b. Ty I love it!
Me neither 😅
I was thinking he was Greek too!
Fascinating!! So great to hear about your family tree. Your results are what I expected based on staring at your face over the last several weeks😅 I wonder, maybe all of us in the "Fancy Asians" (Ali Wong's definition) category would have similar results more or less? But 100% agree, kinda sad how broad the groupings are compared to the very pinpoint results that Europeans get. Now I want to try this too, tho a bit scared!
9:45 one of your relatives is very similar to the popular rock artist in the USSR, Viktor Tsoi
I did my my DNA test from Ancestry about 10 years ago. There were no surprises except one tiny one. Found one Irish name a few generations back. I already knew that I was Scottish, English, French and German. It might be interesting to do the test again with another company to see if they detect anything else. Your video was very interesting. I learned a lot!
If your mother's family speaks Taiwanese, they are likely descended from settlers from China's Fujian province who immigrated to Taiwan over hundreds of years prior to 1945. These are the people who consider themselves to be "native" Taiwanese (even though the aboriginal Taiwanese were there before them) and make up the majority of the population of Taiwan.
Yes I think you’re right.
The Mongols where all the way in parts of Europe at one time.
Hi Johnny I am purbred😂😂😂98%Eastern European
I love to pair DNA with geneology research. As a kid I was told "you're Irish!" and then I did all the looking into it and I'm basically not Irish at all, I'm Scandinavian (including some from Finland) Swiss German, and Anglo-Saxon English with a bit of French. My family came to what is now USA in the mid 1600s, and some of them were lower nobility with excellent record keeping, so I can trace some of them to early Medieval times and even beyond. I love to see those ancient names from North Umbria or early kingdoms of Scandinavia.
My husband is Ukrainian, all we know is commies destroyed his family connections and records because they had a few cows...
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TAIWAN #1 !!!!
And when I spoke Russian, people assumed I was Caucasian.. Turns out my Russian teacher was Armenian :D :D :D
When I lived in Turkey, people from Black Sea region always ("recognized me") and approached me to ask me for directions (in dialect).. Turns out my Mama was also Ossetian)))
Nice video, Johnny.
Interesting background.
Hi Johnny, regardless of DNA or nationality, we love you!. You depict truth in your videos, real life experiences, and human needs. We need more videos, depicting the human factor from your channel. Thank you for all the years of videos. Nick, and your friends are good people!.
Thanks Denis!
So cool Johnny , that is when i first saw you on vids, he said you were his bodyguard, heck I did not know better, I laugh hard because your a laid back funny person.
Johnny i really like your all your vedios content. Interesting about u thanks for sharing your info i give u like 👍
So Johnny, my heritage consists of Ireland and Poland!. I have discovered that both countries have had challenges in a cultural way, are similar. I have not
done a DNA test. Continue the fight for freedom!. That is utmost within our DNA.
It’s interesting!
I've had a lot of fun with my DNA results, I am also .09% sub saharan african and I keep a copy of my results in my car so when I get pulled over and the cop asks me if I know why he pulled me over I can say "because I'm BLACK, ya'll jus tryin to keep a brutha down" and when the cop says "have you been drinking sir" I can just show them my DNA results!
I remember a great video Johnny shot about how he became an actor 1 crazy babushka insisted that Johnny is a Kazach
I am a creature:-)
Hello, could you add Ukrainian subtitles?
They already exist, just click “CC” then “auto-translate” Ukrainian.
A cool guy lol
@JohnnyFD I definitely would have chosen Central Asian⭐️ I’ve been to Kazakhstan & you would definitely be an ancestor of Genghis Khan from who I saw in Almaty👌 Legendary 💫
🇺🇸👍🙂
I woulda said you had heavy Mongolian heritage so I was already pretty spot on. Either way u a good dude. Keep doing well the good work u doing
sorry johnny send money to natasha in your llc acc...i am not a rich man i am a track driver..i got your last message...in youtube..has natasha got a an account i can pay in too... ok my family line is the spencer,s from england you can guess the rest..tall natasha love from Australia💙💛
Hallo from Germany ,NRW
In a few years Johnny's kids will start to show up in my heritage 😀
Johnny should take up falconry and wear that fur coat as he’s practicing.
i see the kazakh part, i see the mongolia part, but a bit suprised by the chinese part
Who cares who you are??? You are a great person!!! That's all that matters!!! Slava Ukraine!!! Slava Johnny FD!!!
I took a DNA test with Ancestry UK. No surprises. Mostly English from East Anglia, the Midlands and Greater London, with a little Scottish, Welsh, Scandinavian and both Northern and Germanic Europe. Some of my relatives emigrated to the USA and Australia in the 19th Century or early 20th.
Johnny, I assume you also have Taiwanese Citizenship. If so, or even if you don't based on your background you could get an "Overseas Chinese" card/visa which allows you to live in China and work also, I don't know if you ever thought about that but it might be interesting for you to have. peace from Thailand.
Johnny you are American-Taiwanian-Chinees-Mongolian- Ukrainian, we love you❤, but at the end of day we all humans and live on Earth so it's time to become Earth nation
I’m supposedly 50% Sicilian and 50% Lebanese, I would love to take one of these tests one day!
Johnny, you are definitely Ukrainian in spirit :)
Good one, Johnny. Nick might be surprised his DNA. High cheekbones, eyes, expressions, he could deffo pass for Ukrainian or thereabouts... 🔍🤔
Anna from Ukraine told me I was Ukrainian, in no uncertain terms. I'm not going to argue with my Sister... Have you seen her high kicks!?! 😁 That Uki DNA is unbreakable stuff 😉
imo he looks more like Scandinavian / Baltic
1:21 he is Polak! 100%
I thought that DNA stood for National Dyslexic Association.
Now that’s funny.
@@1CPickle At least one person in the world likes my jokes! 😂
You are a good man.
YOUR JUST TOUGH,MAN 💪😎
Nick looks like a sweed. Hes probably eating meatballs right now. Hes scandi for sure
Haha I wish we had access to swede meatballs here.