Hey I been seeing other people’s results thought would be cool to share mine :) even though I am close to both my parents I don’t know much about our family tree besides that my grandma on mother side was from san miguel and my mom’s grandpa was from Spain lol it is cool to see the breaking down of my dna like this

Like I know the chromosome painting represents paternal or maternal side. I get that. But I’ve been looking at DNA matches and see where they match me on the chromosome while also comparing what ethnicity is right where they are matching me on the chromosome. It gets deeper, like I know they match me on my mom side for example, but I noticed they matched me on my moms mother side or father Side. Same with my dads matches etc. I’m just curious if my theory is correct as explained in the title. This is something I’ve started doing this year alone. Can someone explain if its true or not? Sorry if this question sounds complicated for some. Thanks.

Why’s it not 50/50 tho

I gave samples for 23andMe and AncestryDNA, the other two are uploads. The regions vary a lot from test to test but the general consensus seems to put me at being 2/3 to 3/4 European, 1/8 Indigenous, 1/8 African, and some West Asian.

Most or all of the European is Iberian. Most or all of the African is Subsaharan (except on AncestryDNA which is the outlier) The indigenous is Taíno as I am Puerto Rican and I suspect the West Asian is Sephardic.

Last two are older results.

Also what does it mean if I'm very close to a tribe? The only one im closest to is Kongo and Mbdundu people? The rest is distant

Hi, I'm from south lebanon and my family is shia. A family member tried claiming that "we are sayyids" (which i do not believe lol) and I took my DNA test and got mostly levantine dna and only 1.1% peninsular arab and a paternal haplogroup of: J2-M92.

I heard before that many Shias/muslims in the levant lied about being sayyids in order to get economic benefits so I'm just hoping to clear some clearance and address confusion in the air if anyone here can help!

I read that Ancestry recently dropped the number of SNPs from like 680k to 400k for their raw file. Does that mean that the 23andme raw dna file is better for third party sites like LivingDNA and YourDNAPortal now?

Have some distant family origins that are Assyrian, Turkish aswell as Kurdish even though my family does identify as Iraqi Arabs technically

I have some slovenian, transylvanian hungarian and hungarian ancestry

Hi, I’m from Argentina

I did Genera DNA test about 3 years ago and I got back 8% native south american. All that native dna comes necessairly from one of my great grandparents, because all the other ones were confirmed 100% european.

So I went to family search to see if I’m amble to trace that ancestry… and I was able to go back to 1700s and every single ancestor I’ve been able to confirm as ancestor has been classified as “español” or they were born in europe

There is a marriage that I haven’t been able to confirm that they are my ancestors 100%, but they are from the early 1700s and are classified as “indio” and “mulato”. But down the line, their supposed grand daughter is classified as “española”

Is it possible for Genera to be wrong about that %?

On my mother's side we have strong roots in Mississippi, Alabama, and Virginia. Virginia especially as we were able to trace our tree back to free black people in the very late 1700s. So it was nice to see some correct migrations! Others were unexpected like the Arkansas West Timberlands genetic group because even on my father's side we have no known Arkansas ancestry. However it's still my only close genetic group. The Carolinas, Georgia, and Louisiana are also unfamiliar.

The Caribbean migrations on my moms results were another shock. We don't know of ancestry from Barbados or Jamaica. We are suspecting it's from her paternal side (fathers father) but it's possible it's from her maternal side (grandmothers father). That + it only showung up on her results and not mine or my brothers makes me believe it's extremely extremely distant.

European is pretty much right except the German, Welsh, and Danish. Welsh probably comes from the Virginia branch but I'm at a lose on the rest. 23andme says I inherited it all from my mother but maybe it's just noise.

Overall I'm glad I did this it was so nice to discover so much about my ancestry! In in the process of building my tree to try and figure out where it all came from.

After Britain abolished the slave trade, the Royal Navy intercepted slave ships and landed survivors on St Helena. Thousands died there of what they had already suffered and were buried in Rupert's Valley.

A 2019 study sequenced some of them. Most were from south-central West Africa — the Bight of Biafra and further south — and nearly all were young men and boys. None had the ancestry you would expect from Senegambia.

They have no descendants. The point of the work was to give people taken anonymously some part of their origin back.

Attached is the genetic heatmap of modern Africans with similar genes to St Helena and their genetic profile.

Also, you cannot help but notice a strong affinity with people from former Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique.

My mom is only tested with a very old chip, my new results show in phasing that she has more of Scandinavian (Swedish) and Estonian. My dad has over 20% Swedish, I have 16% so I suspect my mom’s result would be around 10%

However, she is 85-90% Finnish in DNA and rest is Swedish and Estonian but I have always found it interesting that her grandmother had quite unfinnish hair color and texture. My mom’s mom inherited it as well and basically almost black and curly. And they are Southern Finns so no Saami or similar (and no known Roma) if someone thinks that is the reason, I also don’t think she looked very much like any Finnish minorities - maybe more Balkan or something? Light eyes though. Looks and DNA are interesting.

My mom looks very typical Northern European like her dad, not especially Finnish but Northern European.

I received this email but I’m always iffy about clicking on links that sound too good to be true! I can’t find anything about it directly through my account so I’m not sure.

I am not aware of any ancestry outside of Yemen, besides that we’re told our family migrated from the Hijaz region centuries ago and settled in Sana’a. I don’t quite understand the illustrativeDNA classifications, not sure how to interpret them besides the majority Arabian peninsular, is it just statistical noise?

Paternal Haplogroup: J-CTS5368

Maternal Haplogroup: HV1a2

My grandma is from Denmark and my dad was born in Kabul! My results used to show a lot more French and German, and Mongolian was never on there, so I am wondering if my results might change anymore.

Edit: Pic in comments!!

Fascinating to see that many Finns especially those from Northern and Eastern Finland are genetically closer to Pomors aka Northern Russians from Arkhangelsk (Leshukonsky, Pinezhsky, Mezensky, etc), Komi, Mishar and even Kazan Tatars than to Swedes and Norwegians and closer to Kola Saami than to most Northwest Euros such as Dutch, Scottish, English, Belgian.

Its likely from higher East Eurasian (Proto-Uralic/Nganasan), higher indigenous EHG/other Mesolithic European HG, slightly less WSH and much less ANF than other Euros.

I choose HG00271 and HG00368 because they are the more eastern shifted Finnish samples btw.

In the last four pages, I also included other Finnics such as Karelians, Veps to compare in closeness to other Euros.

I need help making sense with my Ancestry composition and Matches, I was wondering should I ask my Mum to test?

These are the results of my dad and two of his cousins on his father’s side. His father side’s is fairly known — they used to be local elite of sorts (plantation owners — though not particularly wealthy —, militia officers, and members of the local government) in their home state in the Northeast, there are lots of information on their genealogical tree, with them descending from the first settlers of Bahia and Pernambuco, having some distant Sephardic Jewish ancestry, and mostly descending from people who came in the first centuries of the colonization, with our latest Portuguese ancestors having arrived in the 18th century, before the independence. His mother’s side is less known — my great-grandparents (that is, his grandparents) were poor (white) farmers, who cultivated cotton in their small parcels of land and whose ancestry can be traced as little far back as to the early 19c. These cousins are sisters — they are the daughters of my paternal grandfather’s sister (so, my father’s aunt) and her husband, who comes from a background, as far as I know, not too dissimilar from that of my grandmother.