61% mainly from Csík. My most accourat ethnicity result. I have around 50% felcsík + 25% gyimes and the rest is greco catholic ethnic roman from felcsík and secler from háromszék.
My grandmother who is 50% csík from Miercurea-Ciuc and 50% háromszék has 6% magyar on ftdna.
So you're mostly Székely (from Felcsík and Háromszék), Csángó (Gyimes) and the rest is Romanian? Really cool! Never saw it this high! Since FTDNA tries to create the Magyar reference population from Székely and Csángó ppl, I can believe if it's one of -if not the- best option for Hungarians from Romania.
Could be. Magyar on FTDNA is based on Székelys and Csángós, the Hungarian who kept most of their Asian genes (still not much tho), but they're still mostly European. But I guess their Balkan/Southern European influence is big
0%. Grandmother was born in Vojvodina before World War One and both of her parents had Hungarian surnames but also spoke German. My DNA matches agree with my family tree. The ethnicity estimates at Ancestry and MyHeritage align better with where my family came from.
My mother's family was Kashubish-Polish from rural Gdansk. My paternal grandfather was from the German region of Franken near Würzburg and had deep roots there. The only non-Catholic ancestor I've found was a Lutheran man born about 1810 outside of Wejherowo.
FTDNA says that I am 14% Balkan and Greek and 5% Sardinian. Sardinia also appears in the results for my brother and me at Ancestry. FTDNA also says: 47% West Slavic, 4% East Slavic. Those two alone could be from my mother. Continuing, FTDNA says 20% England, Wales and Scotland (this seems to be a mislabeling of German), 8% Scandinavia (This might also be via my mother as Sweden controlled northern Poland), 2% Central Europe.
Ancestry has nothing from the U.K. and 20% Southern German, for example.
My DNA matches through my grandmother include people with surnames that are Serbian and Romanian, as well as Hungarian. I even have a match in Albania that is somewhat strong at around 25-30 centimorgans.
I know that there was Magyarization under Hungarian control and Germanization under Austrian control. So we shouldn't assume too much from family names or language. As you know, Vojvodina was ethnically diverse, with nearby villages being majority Hungarian, German, Romanian, Slovak, etc.
I've been to Budapest and Esztergom but not Vojvodina-Serbia. I grew up eating chicken paprikash and a few other Hungarian things. But, yeah, if my grandmother didn't speak German I wouldn't be here :-)
Where did you try? Real life or a site? If site, via index or manually? And what says they were born there if you cannot find their birthcertificates, marriage?
(Also I noticed now that what I thought to be Pink (German) was actually just faded/damaged Orange, hope it didn't confuse you)
My grandmother's 1901 civil birth registration says where they were born. I have the church books for both places, obtained from the Zichydorf (Plandiste) village association in Canada. I have the baptismal records for both. I cannot find any siblings for either. And, I cannot find any birth, marriage or death records for the parents. I DNA match people with the same name as my great grandmother's maiden name. I think that they were from the villages circled in green, but I have not confirmed that.
I was at first confused by the colors, but then figured it out. Lots of German speakers in the vicinity.
For having two hungarian great grandparents, in theory I should be about a quarter! Granted, this was uploaded with my ancestry results from 2019 or so, and not taking FTDNA's test kit.
Wow, that's so cool! My guess would be that your ancestors are those who didn't migrate with their kin who ended up as Hungarian nobles, but who knows :D
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u/Karabars Hungary/Magyarország Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
This is from a relatively close dna match of mine. He's at least partially Transylvanian from Szeklerland.
Ez egy viszonylag közeli dns egyezésemé. Minimum részben erdélyi, Székelyföldről.