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Hi Everyone,

I just received the mtDNA result of my father. It says my paternal grandmother's haplogroup was mtDNA H1h1.

Background: I am Hungarian, and this side of my family was ethnic Hungarian from the eastern part of the country as far as we can trace it back in time.

The geographical frequency of H1h1 looks like this:

source: hras.yseq.net

My grandmother's best match is a contemporary Italian sample in the H1h1* subbranch. BTW, the H1h1* subbranch is a Balkans-heavy one with samples from Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey, and an ancient sample from Hungary (https://www.yfull.com/mtree/H1h1/)

I find it very difficult to interpret this result. First, I can't understand how a quite particular haplogroup like H1h1 can have very distinctive subbranches in geographically distant places like Finland and the Balkans, or Eastern Spain, but virtualy nothing in between. Second, how can I interpret this result historically? What does it mean to my family? Did one of my grand-grand-grandmothers come from the Balkans? If so, when? And what does that Italian connection mean? I don't know of any significant historic, demographic links between Southern Italy and Hungary.

I am grateful for any interpretation ideas.

My dna results get downvoted for no reason. Can someone tell me why? Do people think im a bad person for my genetic components? I actually dont get it because it happens here in generic dna groups. lame to troll ancestry

Hey everyone, maybe someone can shed some light on this for me.

So my mother is Spanish and my father is British. Unsurprisingly my mother’s ancestry test came back as 98% Spanish with traces of Eastern European and Western Asian. My ancestry test has come back with 62% Spanish and the rest is a mix of Irish, French, German etc from my dad’s side (typical of most British people).

My dad has not yet done an ancestry test but does the fact that I have 62% Spanish DNA mean that he also has Spanish DNA? (Assuming that I would have inherited a maximum of 50% Spanish DNA as supposedly only my mother is Spanish).

Hi, white Aussie here. We're thinking about getting my maternal grandfather (New Zealander), and grandmother (Australian) DNA test kits for Christmas (sounds like a random gift but it's the sort of thing they'd absolutely love). We're particularly interested in finding out if my grandfather has Māori heritage, as we have long suspected, but also just generally interested in the ancestry from our Kiwi side of the family. Any recommendations for the best DNA tests for Aussies and Kiwis?

Hello everyone so as the title states my maternal side is K2a8 and I’m having a difficult time narrowing down a general location or migration. My mother is mostly Spanish so I have been trying to find K2’s distribution there but I have been unsuccessful. I keep trying to find articles but I’m not coming up with anything other than my ancestors being neolithic farmers that spread all throughout Europe (Otzi being an early ancestral carrier for K). Does anyone know of any distribution or can you point me in the right direction for articles? Thank you everyone.

My daughter (18 years old) just received her Ancestry dna test from MyHeritage. The results were somewhat expected. 75% Greek + South Italy and 25% Balkan. If I take the same test from the same company (MyHeritage) would I get the same result, similar or completely different? I am the father. I assume that the 25% Balkan part comes from me since my parents are from Northern Greece. But I don't know anything else than that.

Hello! I'm an adoptee from who I believe is a Russian mother and an unknown Father.

I've had Iran & the Caucasus come up a lot, predominantly Iran, in the DNA tests I've done and/or uploaded to. Ancestry UK placed me firmly at basically 50% Russian with 50% Iranian from the North West of the country. 23andMe placed me at roughly 50% Mezopotamiyan but had no idea which countries in its data base I was from- but also gave me Chuvash Republic for my more localised Russian side. (Made sense because a lot of my DNA matches came from, or have had links, to the Volga Ural area of Russia.) My living DNA gave me a mixed bag of Southern Caucasus(? Or northern- I can check when I have time), Kurdish and then Volga Ural/Russian.

However, when I did Illustrative DNA (since I was suspecting I was potentially Kurdish- or from another minority) I had some unexpected things come up with large % portions. 17.4% Assyrian (Iran) , 15.4% Dargin/Dagestani, 3.2% Kurdish (Urmia), 21.4% Tajik (Predominantly Pamiri/Rushan Pamiri @ 17%) then the remainder was basically just Russian and Volga Ural regions.

This has been super confusing-- and granted the fact I dont know my father or mother basically has thrown me into the deep end again where I have more questions than answers- because that's some incredibly mixed DNA and results that sometimes actually go against what other DNA models gave me. There's likely overlaps and potential confusions because I know Indo-Iranian and Indo-European groups could probably make things a little confusing ? I'm no DNA know it all so I could be really wrong.

I know identity comes from more than this but I just want to understand who I am better and reconnect with my culture. Its difficult because I dont even know what culture(s) I'm even from ethnically.

If anyone who knows a lot more than I do could help me out with narrowing stuff down and/or have a good recommendation for any genalogists who specialise in this stuff- feel free to reccomend!! Any and all help welcome.

My great grandmother died after giving birth to my grandmother

The oldest sample of it was found in an Illyrian male 1900 BC

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓? 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐃!

I am hoping to get some feedback in regard to a couple DNA matches and how they connect with each other. I feel something a little less straightforward has happened in the family history and would love to hear others thoughts and feedback etc about it as it seems a little strange. I will try to explain as best as I can!

One match shares 160cm (My tree indicates 1C1xR) with me and the other shares 71cm (My tree indicates 2C1xR with me.

They share 727cm with each other. Both matches appear to be in the same generation which is one generation older than me.

My great granduncle is said to be the father of the 160cm match and my great grand aunt is said to be the grandmother of the 71cm match.

Ancestry suggests the obvious connection that the 160cm and 71cm match are first cousins to each other. But they claim they are 2nd cousins which clearly does not add up with a DNA connection of 71cm.

If anyone can provide their thoughts, opinions and experiences of what may have ocurred here, even tips/strategies that may help me piece this together a little better I would greatly appreciate it!

I have done much researching of the possibilities with most indicate strange possibilities that I may never fully get the answers to, but I enjoy trying!

Thanks in advance everyone!

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So my mom has German ancestry and I don’t. I know that it’s just because I didn’t inherit it but I’m wondering if this is just a thing with Ancestry testing? Because I also know that in our family line we have some Armenian and yet none showed up for me either. If I took another test using something else like MyHeritage (don’t got the money for that but I’m just curious) would it possibly show more results? Or is it a set and done thing?

This is a side by side picture of myself and my aunt, my mother’s sister. I look more like her than my mom.

A while ago I had a ancestry dna test I've been getting results and have matched with a potential half sister but we can find no connection other than my parents went through fertility testing and her bio father is a sperms doner.

This morning I found what should be my aunt on the website with a less at 1% match. I'm not sure if I should retest as there may be an issue or look at getting my dad to complete a test although I'm unsure if I want to open this can or worms if something comes back against what we have know for 34 years

Is mytrueancestry anything reliable I’ve seen other people have pretty reliable details, for context I’m around 64% European being comprised of Finnish(4%) Irish, Scottish and Welsh(42%), And Iberian(~20%), rest being African, Nigerian (20%) then Sierra Leone (7%) and the rest being Kenyan and Central African both at measly levels

I got 40% Irish Welsh and Scottish from Northern Ireland and Glasgow pretty much expected (from my heritage) but I’ve uploaded to a couple other sites and they are saying I got only 8-12% Irish and the rest all German any ideas why this could be, Celto-Germanic migrations etc?? 🤷‍♂️very unsure, I’ve been told MyHeritage likes to group up subgroups into singular groups not sure if that’s the problem

I’ve heard that we’re just assimilated Turkmenistan people but I’ve also heard that we’re just Kurds who have been turkized into thinking we’re turks and I kind of understand that because I have no Turkish features at all and have even been mistaken as Arab

My dad is a foster kid ...my grandparents (passed) took in my dad & his brother when they were maybe 12-18 months old. I have an Aunt taken in by a different family who I used to see when I was little & she was/is clearly Latina. He knew who his parents were, I don't know their story, I just know they divorced. his "bio" dad was a 6ft white Irish guy & his bio mom was a tiny Latina (both passed). He, his brother (passed) & sister (can't find her) are all short 5'3 dark skinned dark curly haired people.His legal last name is Irish, bio mom's was Palamino & the extended family on her side were also very clearly Latino. I always thought they were Mexican, but my dad was never clear about it & I never asked.

I took a DNA test out of curiosity since I never really knew who 1/2 my family was & to say the least, I was SHOCKED when I got my results. Despite being told my entire life that I was 1/2 Irish 1/2 German, my results say that I don't have an ounce of Irish in me. The German was clear, but the other 1/2 is a mix of Latin decent, mainly PERUVIAN. This tells me that there is a chance my dad's bio dad was NOT his real dad. It makes sense considering he looks NOTHING like him & how can you argue not even 1% Irish in your results? I have more Indian & Japanese in my DNA than I do Irish & I don't know ANY relatives of those ethnicities. But that's pretty much where it ends, since everyone is dead, how can I say, "Hey dad, are you SURE this guy was your dad because this says not a chance" I just don't think it's my place to stir up that kind of drama trauma for him when I'm not that interested in knowing, I just want to know WHAT AM I??? I want to take another test from a different DNA company just to see if it comes back the same or not, but all I know now is that I still don't know who I come from...🤯

I also have 2 brothers that are total know it all narcissists so I can't present them with this info either - they would totally deny it & tell me something like DNA is a conspiracy for the government to control us or some crazy shit like that.