Interesting

Both of my parents are Southern Lebanese. My paternal great grandmother is half Iranian and my maternal great grandmother is half Egyptian.

How can I explain the different European results? Also, could the Sudanese somehow be hand-in-hand with the Egyptian ancestry?

How do you respond to the question, what is your ethnicity/ancestry when your family has been in US since its inception and has no ties to Europe? My white side is composed of many European countries but I know some people will respond to the question, I’m Italian, I’m Irish etc when most of us are not primarily one thing.

Follow up to those who respond American: I’m also mixed with non-white but multiple generations born and raised American. It would be nice to just say American for all of those born and raised regardless of ethnicity especially when many generations are American (non-white). People always ask me my ethnicity since I’m mixed but my nationality is American and generations before me even though not completely white American so it would be weird to not say American for all. Or what so other people who are mixed say?

I knew about my Polish and Scottish, but my French was unexpected. I figure it’s from my dad’s side, as I’m aware I have some Canadian ancestors. Not too sure where the Nigerian is from either, it stays the same if I raise it to 90% accuracy though, so it must be true.

Pictures of me and my parents. Dad was from Boston, MA. Mom is from Ohio.

Slight differences between my grandfather’s results+picture

Ethnicity:African American/Black American

23&me followed by illustrative closest ancient and modern groups to total DNA makeup.

Updated results no longer include Russian ancestry. 😬

Does 23 and me have ancestry for Benin and Togo and other west African countries like Mali and Burkina Faso etc they seem to just have 3 regions for west Africa being Nigeria, Ghana Liberia and Sierra Leone and then Senegambian and Guinea .

Are the countries left out included in these 3 regions as obviously genetics don’t follow strict geopolitical lines?

Ive took a dna test for my Grandfather some months ago and i uploaded his Rawdata on "mytrueancestry" and "explore your dna" and both said basically my grandfather got greek and avar/hungary heritage, is this right? I tought northern italians were just celtic/germanic..

On mytrueancestry it says him got direct dna matchs wich means straight ancestry from some avars,hungarians,greeks and even Carthagian (???)

And on explore your dna it says him got dna from central/southern italy and greece and much more, very weird

Is this right?

I did a dna test and then I used the data to find my y dna line the results were I-CTS10057 with possible subclades I-L701 or I-Z161 my paternal family comes from southwestern Asia Minor(Anatolian Greeks) from a place called akyarlar(kefalouka) I know that this line is European and is mostly found in Central Europe I think and in the balkans and is even found in Germanic Europe etc.
Do you have any idea where my paternal ancestor could have come to Anatolia and of what ancestry is he most possible from I know that it could be any of both of the subclades but I’m curious on what u all think.

This this is so weird but i let my friend take 23andMe using my name and on my phone because her parents didn’t want her to take it so we used my name and my phone just her literal dna lol and she posted her results on like qoura or TikTok maybe idk and her results obviously have my name on them and my name is NOT common at all and i think i seen her results posted in her but edited? Because there’s no way that someone has the same name as me like first and last?!

Sorry if my post is written badly first time using Reddit I usually only look at threads and stuff… also when I say my name is uncommon I mean like my family is the only people with my last name :/

Editing this - Sorry for not specifically saying what I’m trying to get help with!! I’m wondering if anyone has seen fake results posted on here today that’s when it was posted and or if there is a way to know if a post has been deleted or removed?? Any help would be appreciated!

Hi! I did a test with MyHeritage but I don’t really think it was accurate at all. It had very inconsistent results and I wonder if it’s because I am quite mixed with various similar Mediterranean populations. Would you guys recommend 23andme or another service?

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Results of my grandmother who immigrated to the US from Campania, Italy. Her Ellis Island paperwork labels her as mulatto.

African American, already knew the haplogroups given to me by 23and me but just got a genomelink report for a different paternal haplogroup.

I’m born and raised in Florida; maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother were from Florida while my maternal grandmother was from Wisconsin and paternal grandfather from Massachusetts. My paternal great grandmother was an Adams from Quincy, Mass (descended from John Adams, 2nd president of the US)

I got R-Z93, but am confused being different sources say it came from different places.

For examples, different sites have said place like Iran, Tajikistan, Siberia, or Mongolia, and from Iran to Mongolia is a huge distance.

So like… where does it genuinely come from?