Arab trying to interpret Jewish and European results

[Teucer]

You don't score any Sephardic. A lot of Levantines score Sephardic in the 20%-30% range.
Scoring Asia Minor isn't out of the ordinary either, I've seen some Lebanese results and their highest components were Asia Minor then Sephardic Jewish respectively.

Is it fair to say the Levant received at some point an influx of ancestry from Anatolia?

IIRC, a really ancient Levantine sample was close to Bedouins, but by the Bronze age they were more or less the same with Samaritans.

The only noticeable difference I saw was in their gedmatch results was a reduction in Red Sea and an increase of West Asian and West Med

[rein]

I didn't score any sephardic either and my asia minor seems lower than most other levantine FTDNA results I've seen.

Some fake results in many cases. Sephardic and other ancestry you don’t have on ftdna.

[Philo]

ברוך הבא לפורום!

[waam]

Is it fair to say the Levant received at some point an influx of ancestry from Anatolia?

IIRC, a really ancient Levantine sample was close to Bedouins, but by the Bronze age they were more or less the same with Samaritans.

The only noticeable difference I saw was in their gedmatch results was a reduction in Red Sea and an increase of West Asian and West Med

Pretty safe to assume it is. But I it's not something very recent. IIRC the Sidon sample was already pretty Anatolia shifted in comparison to Arabians and clusters with modern day Levantines. And in response to @rein I think the West Middle East population of FTDNA is a hit or miss because maybe it's based on a pretty mixed sampled population (South Levantines from the Negev are Bedouin and the Druze & Northern Levantines are heavily Anatolian).
I myself score pretty significantly for someone who isn't directly from the Levant.

[Longbowman]

Pretty safe to assume it is. But I it's not something very recent. IIRC the Sidon sample was already pretty Anatolia shifted in comparison to Arabians and clusters with modern day Levantines. And in response to @rein I think the West Middle East population of FTDNA is a hit or miss because maybe it's based on a pretty mixed sampled population (South Levantines from the Negev are Bedouin and the Druze & Northern Levantines are heavily Anatolian).
I myself score pretty significantly for someone who isn't directly from the Levant.

What's your actual ancestry? Curious. Also why does your layout look so different from mine?

[waam]

What's your actual ancestry? Curious. Also why does your layout look so different from mine?

1/2 Mountain Jewish, 1/4 Libyan Jewish & 1/4 Yemenite (Adeni) Jewish.
What does your layout look like?

[rein]

Pretty safe to assume it is. But I it's not something very recent. IIRC the Sidon sample was already pretty Anatolia shifted in comparison to Arabians and clusters with modern day Levantines. And in response to @rein I think the West Middle East population of FTDNA is a hit or miss because maybe it's based on a pretty mixed sampled population (South Levantines from the Negev are Bedouin and the Druze & Northern Levantines are heavily Anatolian).
I myself score pretty significantly for someone who isn't directly from the Levant.

I haven’t done the FTDNA test, but wasn’t particularly impressed with MyHeritage transfer.

[Longbowman]

1/2 Mountain Jewish, 1/4 Libyan Jewish & 1/4 Yemenite (Adeni) Jewish.
What does your layout look like?

noice, so Sephardic is way overrepresented. born and raised in israel I'd imagine?

actually I checked and it isn't that different

[whoibe]

You don't score any Sephardic. A lot of Levantines score Sephardic in the 20%-30% range.
Scoring Asia Minor isn't out of the ordinary either, I've seen some Lebanese results and their highest components were Asia Minor then Sephardic Jewish respectively.

I just don't understand the huge difference in results between MH and FTDNA.. How can one site say I'm 16.7% African and 5% Turkish, and another 0% African and suddenly 25% Turkish/Armenian? I guess MH views 16.1% as Mizrahi and FTDNA as Turkish/Armenian (which doesn't make things simpler, at least for me) but how the hell do 16.7% African just 'disappear' ? The only result that's constant is my south European heritage.

[waam]

noice, so Sephardic is way overrepresented. born and raised in israel I'd imagine?

actually I checked and it isn't that different

Correct and correct, yes.