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I've always been open on this channel I know it's a tech channel but you guys have gotten to know me over the years I've shared big life news I shared when I got married when I had kids when techni Buffalo was launching you know when they launched failed and this is probably the most personal video I've ever done and then something just came from wanting to know who I am sort of where I come from my whole life I have always looked culturally ambiguous when I was younger and I was outside more often a little Tanner people were sure I was Puerto Rican or Italian or more recently that I was dude from grand theft auto 5 and I got older and saw less sunlight people just assumed I was I was Russian or somewhere some from somewhere in Europe and I always wanted to know who I was especially as I became a father and like kids start to ask questions you know who are they I wanted to know so about six months ago I started a research project I just kind of kept to myself to try and see if I could find records on my family and as far back as I could find was my great-grandparents in the earlier part of the 20th century emigrating from Eastern Europe and the records that I had was actually came through Ellis Island actually found my original last name was not written jure it was read a chanc off and it got changed at Ellis Island - Rhett injure half my family evidently their last name went to Cherry and half turned into Rhett injure it's funny because my mom's name was sherry so she theoretically could have been been chery chery previously and before that immigration I can't find any records of any of my ancestors so I wanted to know who I am it's decided to do a 23andme test if you haven't done janek tests I always thought that it was like gotta take blood and send it in or sending urine or something weird gross and invasive turns I just got a little vial like that biggie just spittin it and then you close it up and there's a label yes you send it in you log in online to get an email unlike couple weeks later you get an email with your results and that was really it I also nervous open this up I'm not gonna lie and actually before I opened it up I put out a tweet that was like hey I did a 23andme test something you guys want to know about and there was a pretty overwhelming response yes which is cool this is a tech channel I guess there's a lot of tech that goes into testing your genetics um folks 23andme saw the tweet and they're like hey if we're gonna do a video can we sponsor it so I was like sure I'm gonna do it don't do the video anyway I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say so thanks 23andme for actually actually sponsoring this so here are my results and before I before I give you my results taking guesses put in the comments before I get to this what do you think I am there were no surprises in my ancestry I was 100 or M 100% European I thought that would have been a mix somewhere on my moms or dads side mixed with something but turns out 100% so that was kind of interesting I wish I could find further genetic history of those results at which I could sort of see you know exactly we're in Europe I believe it's Eastern Europe you know Russia Poland Czechoslovakia is always sort of where I've been told my family came from but it was a really interesting process and self-discovery like for me alright so if you don't know about genes you haven't taken that class that or you forgot you have 23 chromosomes was actually where that like 23andme came from 22 of your 23 chromosomes come from your ancestors so aside from all the ancestry stuff they also offer genetic testing to help figure out what you can potentially be predisposed to it's kind of a cool test I did it if you want to have it done 23andme offers it as well so as I was going through and doing this test the folks at the office here we're super interested as well and they wanted to do the tests and most of them wanted to share their stories too about who they are who they thought they were and what they ended up being so give that a watch and maybe you guys can discover something different about yourselves and if you want to try 23andme for yourself or give it as a gift to someone they give us a code it's 23 me complex checked on Buffalo get discounts on all different services that they offer it's really cool I feel better knowing who I am and I know maybe you guys might feel cool about it as well so here's the office and sort of a pretty interesting self discovery hey guys I'm Jesse Ortiz I'm the social media guy here at TechnoBuffalo so when you angrily tweet at us about something you don't like I'm the one happily responding to you but before I did this test I was really really interested I come from a Mexican family both parents are andris that Mexican but I was interested in like what if there's anything else in there I'm I was actually really surprised with the results because I actually got 46% European but it breaks down to being Spanish so I'm 46 percent Spanish while only 41 point 9 so 42 percent native which is Mexican so if they're interesting to see that I have a higher percentage Spanish than Mexican which I expect it to be like 100% Mexican like they would only be the one trait which is interesting and the only other percentage I had was 6.4 percent African which is really interesting coming from the fact that I thought I was gonna be like a Honduras ed native and that was it so it's really cool I really enjoyed this hey what's up my name is Danny Cepeda and I'm one of the editors here at techni Buffalo if you've been on the site you've probably read some of my articles and I'm one of the guys that took the 23andme test and I'm Mexican my mom from Mexico my dad's from Mexico but aside from that I'm not really aware of my genealogy so I was very interested in finding out about that so when I got the results back it turns out much more diverse than I thought I was I'm obviously Mexican Native American and I'm also southern European which means I'm have some Spanish in me and there's even some Asian African and Jewish parts in my genealogy as I had no idea that I was brothers related to that so that's pretty cool and yeah everyone I'm Matt Gonzalez and I'm a video director here at TechnoBuffalo so I always knew that I was half European and half Mexican but I didn't really know how that broke down I didn't know exactly where I was from so it's interesting to see the results especially because on my dad's side who is Mexican he doesn't know his dad so really it's a complete mystery I don't know anything about that side of the family so it turns out after getting the results I'm very European about 75% the biggest portion is British and Irish that is on my mom's side and the other portion is Mexican but it's mainly Spanish so that was very interesting to me I thought there was more native in there but that's only about 15 percent so this test was this test was good I liked finding out exactly what it was and I think I think we're gonna have to buy more of these for my family hey I'm Marklin Sangin and I'm the creative director here at TechnoBuffalo and growing up I grew up in the Philippines born and raised there ever since then like my parents had told me I you know 100% Filipino after taking a test with 23andme it's true like there's nothing different than what they told me when I was a kid I'm according to my DNA result I am 98.3% East Asian and Native American but 91 percent of that is Southeast Asian where essentially that's where the Philippines is technically so I guess my parents weren't lying so so if this sounds interesting you and you want to test your theory on on who you are who you thought you were or see if all of your grandparents were telling you the actual truth on where you came from we got a code 23 we hooked us up so go 223 me calm select TechnoBuffalo this counts there and all their services good through January 31st it's an awesome gift I'm gonna give it to my wife she was really curious after seeing my results on who she is and if you're open to sharing your story and sharing who you are I would love to know thinkin sort of makes people unique who they are and where they came from so leave in the comments or send me a message on Twitter I'll keep the thread active and I'll try to keep coming back to check hope you guys enjoyed totally different sila video but it was one of the most personal videos that i've ever done sort of it's Who I am on like a genetic level I hope you guys enjoyed if you like these more personal style videos let us know in the comments also down below and of course subscribe and hit the little bell faint notifications when new videos are coming up until next time I am a hundred percent European Jon Rhett injure and I'll see you the next video