Am I 1/3rd Spanish?

[JamesBond007]

You reduced to only two populations. When you don't, all of his French components are Basque\Southwest French and I think K13 doesn't have a Spanish Basque reference.

Target: Boudin
Distance: 0.4544% / 0.45437839
28.2 Southwest_French
18.9 Russian_Smolensk
15.7 Irish_Ulster
13.3 French_Southwest
10.9 French_Basque
4.4 Saudi
2.5 Balochi
2.3 Dargin
1.1 Sámi_Finland
0.9 Latvian
0.8 Karitiana
0.7 Kalash
0.3 North_Amerindian

In this run he can be molded as 50% Southwest French\Basque. While this doesn't necessarily mean that he has Spanish ancestry it might help understand why it picks it up.

The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/bo...106265/excerpt

[Ibericus]

its normal for some french to score spanish on 23andme , and vice versa.
It doesnt have to be taken literally.

[J.S.]

its normal for some french to score spanish on 23andme , and vice versa.
It doesnt have to be taken literally.

Absolutely.
DNA companies lack of regionally localized samples and, because of it, they probably catch common genetic substrate.

[Creoda]

Probably dark blue = 'French & German' on 23 and me, Yellow gets some Iberian (native pre-Celtic Aquitainian), and pink gets some British & Irish.

[zebruh]

n-way modeling is probably not very accurate but the distance is more insightful. In his cas, it is pretty obvious he is not 1/3 Spanish...By the way how many French are not a third Spanish with 23andMe...

He could be "spanish" from basque family members or he could be catalonian where they border with france.

Basque region is within both france and spain.
Catalans have french heritage also because of the holy roman empire and its invasion into catalan to fight the moors there.

In any case the real answer lies in who he actually shares dna with and paper trail. These kind of things like gedmatch population scores are more like gimmicks honestly

[Defcon2]

This is a Central berrichon results, native

Spoiler!

It is interesting that the French continue to obtain a decent "foreign" percentage after the update, the overwhelming majority of Iberians are close to 100% Iberian.

[Boudin]

It is potentially accurate when we are talking about 30% and not just 3%. How far back can you trace your family genealogy? Spanish ancestry among Cajuns is fairly common and 23andMe tends to trace the last 8 to 11 generations pretty well.

I do have a grandparent with a Spanish surname that's Isleño according to Wikipedia. But, still skeptical about 30%.

Do you get any Eastern European on 23andme?

Nope:

Your closest matches are all basically French and french speakers like Walloons among our memebers. In your top 5 closest samples of TA members 4 are French and one is SW German.

Awesome!

I don't have any problem with Spanish. But, my grandparents' first language was French. One of my great-grandparents spoke only French. If I was 30% Spanish, seems like family would have told me before 23andMe did.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

The only good things about 23andme is you can download the data and connect with distant cousins but you need to go to a more competent 3rd party, such as eurogenes, which you apparently did, for better results on ancestry.

Unfortunately, most people who buy a kit from 23andme don't know this.

[Boudin]

Would you happen to know of any other coordinates or calculators I can use to confirm the Swiss/Northeast French Eurogenes results?

[Flashball]

It is interesting that the French continue to obtain a decent "foreign" percentage after the update, the overwhelming majority of Iberians are close to 100% Iberian.

It's a native thing, the basque-like.

You have some basque sample in the "iberian" category, like spaniard.

I think it's a basque-like component.