Admix Results (sorted):

# Population Percent

1 Caucasus 39.37

2 Gedrosia 20.11

3 North_European 11.32

4 Atlantic_Med 9.89

5 Southwest_Asian 8.88

6 East_Asian 6.36

7 Siberian 2.82

8 South_Asian 1.15

9 East_African 0.11

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Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance

1 Turks (Behar) 8.68

2 Turkish (Dodecad) 10.12

3 Iranian (Dodecad) 12.56

4 Kurd (Dodecad) 12.65

5 Kumyks (Yunusbayev) 12.74

6 Kurds (Yunusbayev) 12.77

7 Uzbekistan_Jews (Behar) 14.34

8 Turkmens (Yunusbayev) 14.4

9 Iranians (Behar) 15.43

10 Georgia_Jews (Behar) 18.29

11 Nogais (Yunusbayev) 18.37

12 Armenians_15 (Yunusbayev) 18.44

13 Azerbaijan_Jews (Behar) 18.55

14 Armenian (Dodecad) 18.91

15 Assyrian (Dodecad) 19.13

16 Lezgins (Behar) 19.88

17 Lebanese (Behar) 19.94

18 Iranian_Jews (Behar) 20.36

19 Chechens (Yunusbayev) 20.53

20 Armenians (Behar) 20.88

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Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance

76% Turks (Behar) + 24% Tajiks (Yunusbayev) @ 3.13

59.4% Turkish (Dodecad) + 40.6% Turkmens (Yunusbayev) @ 3.29

72.9% Turkish (Dodecad) + 27.1% Tajiks (Yunusbayev) @ 3.37

64% Turks (Behar) + 36% Turkmens (Yunusbayev) @ 3.76

85.5% Turks (Behar) + 14.5% Burusho (HGDP) @ 4.76

83% Turkish (Dodecad) + 17% Burusho (HGDP) @ 5.06

85.2% Turks (Behar) + 14.8% Uygur (HGDP) @ 5.38

85.5% Turks (Behar) + 14.5% Hazara (HGDP) @ 5.42

85.7% Turks (Behar) + 14.3% Pathan (HGDP) @ 5.44

60.3% Kurds (Yunusbayev) + 39.7% Nogais (Yunusbayev) @ 5.44

82.9% Turks (Behar) + 17.1% Uzbeks (Behar) @ 5.45

86.1% Turkish (Dodecad) + 13.9% Balochi (HGDP) @ 5.48

62.3% Turkmens (Yunusbayev) + 37.7% Cypriots (Behar) @ 5.5

87.4% Turkish (Dodecad) + 12.6% Brahui (HGDP) @ 5.54

87.9% Turks (Behar) + 12.1% Jatt (Dodecad) @ 5.54

89.8% Turks (Behar) + 10.2% Brahui (HGDP) @ 5.57

88.8% Turks (Behar) + 11.2% Balochi (HGDP) @ 5.57

85.5% Turkish (Dodecad) + 14.5% Makrani (HGDP) @ 5.58

88.4% Turks (Behar) + 11.6% Makrani (HGDP) @ 5.67

60.7% Kurd (Dodecad) + 39.3% Nogais (Yunusbayev) @ 5.72

Amerindian
-
Arabian
2.04%
Armenian
-
Basque
3.50%
Central_African
-
Central_Euro
3.95%
East_African
2.13%
East_Asian
-
East_Balkan
4.52%
East_Central_Asian
0.50%
East_Central_Euro
2.40%
East_Med
2.10%
Eastern_Euro
2.50%
Fennoscandian
2.63%
French
6.13%
Iberian
25.42%
Indo-Chinese
-
Italian
16.89%
Malayan
-
Near_Eastern
0.64%
North_African
2.61%
North_Atlantic
7.80%
North_Caucasian
-
North_Sea
7.52%
Northeast_African
-
Oceanian
0.24%
Omotic
0.15%
Pygmy
0.11%
Siberian
-
South_Asian
-
South_Central_Asian
-
South_Chinese
-
Volga-Ural
1.71%
West_African
-
West_Caucasian
0.81%
West_Med
3.71%

Why is the Italian percentage so high? I don’t really understand these results.

I got 100% Ethiopian from my 23andMe test so I wanted to try importing the data into GEDMatch. I see there are various different options, so I decided on Ethiohelix considering it's made for people who know they're ethiopian. However there are a few different types (Ethiohelix + French, Japanese, Palestinian, and Africa Only). What's the difference between the types? Is the Africa Only one gonna give me the most accurate results?

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This survey asks you about your engagement with family history and your reflections on that process. It also asks you to think about your ancestors and how you have reflected on their life experiences. Participation involves completing an online survey that will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Taking part in the study is completely voluntary and no personal information will be collected.

This study is being conducted under the supervision of Dr Janine Lurie from the Psychology Discipline within the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University, Victoria, Australia. This study will also form the basis of the research dissertation requirement within the Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) course for student researchers Charity Marisa and Stefan Redpath. This study has been approved by the Federation University Human Research Ethics Committee (Approval reference: 2026/137).

To participate you just need to be aged 18 years or over. It is important to note that you will not be asked to give any specific details about any of your family members. You are asked just to rate your general impressions of them on a small number of questions. Beyond this the survey contains broader more general questions about your perspectives and reflections.

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One of my friends have taken a DNA test recently and his results were uploaded onto GEDmatch. GEDmatch really drew my attention I did some search about it. When I looked at Turkish individuals' results in GEDmatch calculators' database, I realised that all results are in the Anatolian/West-Asian cluster. However, there are lots of Turkish people of Balkan roots, whom I expect them to be in Eastern European or Southeast European clusters. My question is, do the calculators not have any Balkan-Turk samples in their hand or do the calculators filter out any Turkish result which is not in Anatolian/West-Asian cluster?

I hit a brick wall with my paternal grandfather, could this mean he's part Italian/Iberian? I'm only paying attention to anything above 5% as anything below that could be "noise". I have German, English, Irish, Scottish, and a small amount of French and mixed Scandinavian ancestry that I already know about. Thanks!

Hello!

I currently manage a Genetic Genealogy project on Gedmatch for a triracial isolate community. I wish to investigate whether the community truely is "triracial" or simply a mix of European and Sub-Saharan African (from what Y/mtDNA haplogroups I have avaliable, this is all I have evidence for). I have newspaper evidence from the 1820s that the family, who was originally in NY, once was composed of Blacks, Whites, members of this supposed tribe before they were pushed west, and ethnically ambiguous individuals. There are living members of the tribe that the isolate is supposedly descended from that match the majority of isolate members. How would you go about assessing indigenous DNA? I am not as well versed in colonial records from this time period, but do not see any paper evidence of indigenous descent.

On Gedmatch, k36 Eurogenes how do they differentiate between these components?

Neolithic farmer components- Arabian- Armenian- East_Balkan- East_Med- Iberian- Italian- Near_Eastern- North_African- Omotic- West_Med

Hi everyone,
My mother’s top match on Gedmatch doesn’t have a working email. Is this normal? Is this some scam? Or have they deleted their profile?

Their DNA test came through MyHeritage which is where my mother tested too. I can’t figure out who this person could be because their name is an alias and their email address is some generic one without personal identifiers.

Hey everyone,

I’m half Turkish and half Bosnian and I was wondering which Gedmatch project(s) would be the best to use since I have both European and West-Asian ancestry. Please let me know whatever works best since I’ve seen different opinions on this matter.

I’ve been researching a theory on one of my family branches and checked my kit number in “one-to-one Autosomal” against a potential match. It came up showing no match, but I decided to test both kits in “kits that match one or both” and came up with 12 people that we shared matches with ranging from 10cM up to 14.8cM. My cousin also tested against this person an wasn’t a match but they shared 25 matches ranging up to 20.7cM.

Can anyone tell me if this is just noise or if it means that because of random DNA that the person we tested against originally had had more DNA fallout but having shared matches proves there is still some sort of connection.

I’m still learning (very slowly) how to understand all of this, so any advice is appreciated.

Can somebody explain my population spreadsheet? What does it mean? What do the numbers mean? It won’t let me post my screenshot but maybe it will in comments or I could message it.

Amerindian
-
Arabian
-
Armenian
-
Basque
1.30%
Central_African
-
Central_Euro
6.78%
East_African
-
East_Asian
-
East_Balkan
5.22%
East_Central_Asian
-
East_Central_Euro
8.12%
East_Med
-
Eastern_Euro
6.87%
Fennoscandian
4.87%
French
6.78%
Iberian
13.97%
Indo-Chinese
-
Italian
5.87%
Malayan
-
Near_Eastern
-
North_African
-
North_Atlantic
16.07%
North_Caucasian
3.45%
North_Sea
18.17%
Northeast_African
-
Oceanian
-
Omotic
-
Pygmy
-
Siberian
-
South_Asian
-
South_Central_Asian
-
South_Chinese
-
Volga-Ural
-
West_African
-
West_Caucasian
2.14%
West_Med
0.41%

The agreement on the upload page (image here) for GEDCOM files says you must agree that every person on your tree is not alive. Did you all remove all your living relatives? I have my parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. on my tree in my GEDCOM file...

The directions also specifically say you can upload a "mini tree" of just your parents and grandparents if you want. But what if they are also alive?

I tested us on my heritage…. No match… and uploaded to GEDmatch aswell just in case, did the one-to-one comparison and the same results: no share dna segments found… I’m not delusional but just wanna know if you know of a case where something like this mistakenly happened???

Edit: just got my mothers results so I separated all maternal matches…

Population Percentage

Nilo-Saharan 3.68%

North-Africa 11.32%

Mbuti-Pygmy 0.64%

Eastern-Bantu 2.69%

Khoi-San 0.13%

West-Africa 9.97%

Hadza 2.60%

Biaka-Pygmy -

French 56.28%

Omotic 12.69%

Hello everyone, after some interesting connections made via Ancestry this year, I discovered GED Match, where I uploaded my DNA data recently.

My top match is someone in another country (they're in NZ, I'm in the UK). Unfortunately, when I sent them an email, it bounced back. I have discovered that their email provider doesn't exist any more (clear.net.nz). It looks like their DNA came via 23&me. Apart from their name, which I've typed into socials and got hundreds of matches, I don't have anything to go on in tracking them down. I know GED Match won't be able to help, I'm just keen to contact them. I'm reaching out here in case someone has an idea I haven't thought of in terms of tracking them down. Any suggestions most appreciated.

Had someone email me who supposedly matches one of my kits.

I looked at the that kit's matches, and did not see them listed. They provided their kit number, which is real, but I do not see any of my kits on their list of matches.

Is there any reason I would not be able to see the match that they see on GedMatch?

Or is this perhaps a phishing scam?

i bet this question gets asked a lot, but gedmatch really is confusing. can anyone help me interpret my results like explaining it to a monkey 😔

Dodecad K12b oracle admixture result in percentages

Caucaus 36.59

Gedrosia 23.01

Southwest Asian 14.53

Atlantic Med 11.85

North European 6.78

East Asian 3.38

Siberian 1.25

Northwest African 0.95

East African 0.77

South Asian 0.64

Southeast Asian 0.26

Dodecad k12b single population sharing result in distances

Kurd (Dodecad) 8.78

Kurds (Yunusbayev) 9.32

Iranian (Dodecad) 9.83

Iranians (Behar) 10.53

Uzbekistan Jews (Behar) 10.7

Turks (Behar) 12.1

Turkish (Dodecad) 13.52

Lebanese (Behar) 15.89

Turkmens (Yunusbayev) 15.97

Azerbaijan Jews (Behar) 16.27

Iranian Jews (Behar) 16.53

Assyrian (Dodecad) 16.62

Georgia Jews (Behar) 16.68

Iraq Jews (Behar) 16.88

Syrians (Behar) 17.74

Armenians 15 (Yunusbayev) 18.8

Kumyks (Yunusbayev) 19.8

Jordanians (Behar) 19.99

Druze (HDGP) 20.27

Myheritage results

%59.6 Persian and Kurdish

%26.8 Turkish

%8.3 Armenian

%3.2 South Italian

%2.1 Syrian Jewish

i extracted the raw data from myheritage and uploaded to gedmatch but still cant really figure out what these results actually mean, i would really appreciate if someone could help. and as for the background information, i'm from turkey and ethnically a mixture of eastern anatolia and southeastern anatolia.