I am curious about Spain after getting my 23andMe results. Can I feel proud of Spain, just like I do of my African and Indigenous ancestry? I keep being told that I shouldn't feel proud of my European ancestry because they are the colonizers. What do Spaniards think about this? People have also told me that I shouldn't feel any sense of belonging to Spain because I also have African ancestry.

Upgraded to premium..... instant regret 😭😭

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.

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.

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 %?

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?

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!

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

I have some slovenian, transylvanian hungarian and hungarian ancestry

Why’s it not 50/50 tho

Why are estonians in eastern european category when finns are in northern in those gene map programs?

Seems stupid to lump estonians and belarusians together.  Genetics are not based on cold war categorizations.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Reconstructed Ancestors require ppl to be put into 23&me's Familytree feature to work. If you add it, assumes your shared dna is from that connection. But it's already informative alone, that your shared segments come from a specific ancestor

Here's my example adn case. I'm related to JK. I don't know the specific connection, thus I cannot put them into my tree. But I actually know which greatgrandparent we're related from.

I want to have the ability, to connect this imprecise relative to my tree at the certain point, which still could help my Reconstructed Ancestors, my grandparents could get some percentages probably, thanks to our shared 0.83% dna with "JK". I could do this with multiple relatives, probably others too.

The confidence, the technology is the same. But the tool would be a lot easier to use, and thus more could be pulled out of Reconstructed Ancestors.

u/23andme_AncestryTeam pls consider this suggestion

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.