Paksaltopam's mom's results (100% South Italian/Sicilian)

[paksaltopam]

Just got my mom's AncestryDNA results. Not that surprised really. She is 3/4 from Trapani (Trapanesi?) and 1/4 Napolitana. Typical native from Italy it says is 72% Italy/Greece which is right on the money.

Italy/Greece: 72%
Middle East: 12%
European Jewish: 6%
Africa North: 3%
Europe West: 3%
Asia Central: 1%
Caucasus: 1%
Europe East: 1%
Ireland: 1% (?)

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1236139_10200585835553363_1658681303_n.jpg

[Sikeliot]

Did it say what other components and in what amounts are typical for other Italians?

[paksaltopam]

% of natives that have these regions

Caucasus
47%
Middle East
41%
Iberian Peninsula
25%
Europe West
17%
Great Britain
15%
Europe East
14%
Ireland
11%
European Jewish
10%
Scandinavia
8%
Finland/Northwest Russia
1%

That's all it says. Not how much is found in other natives. Just that these appear in this percentage of natives.

[Sikeliot]

Did your mom look like you when she was your age? I can see a resemblance between you.

[paksaltopam]

Also I'm surprised that she has no Iberian. I got 5% Iberian I think. So that must be from my dad which is weird.

[paksaltopam]

Here's a pic of her when she was around my age. It's small though and blurry. She's the girl standing up
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1424314_10202458578611947_651375890_n.jpg

[Sikeliot]

I think you look pretty much exactly like her at your age. Do a lot of people think so?

Even though she doesn't look it so much stereotypically, I have seen many middle aged Jewish American women who look just like her. Mostly mothers of classmates and whatnot, as I go to school with many Jewish people.

[paksaltopam]

Yea I get it a lot that I'm her twin. I really didn't inherit a lot from my dad! She must have more dominant traits. I don't think she looks typically Sicilian though or anything. Maybe because Sicilians are stereotypically short and stout and she and all her siblings are 5'10+

[Sikeliot]

Yea I get it a lot that I'm her twin. I really didn't inherit a lot from my dad! She must have more dominant traits. I don't think she looks typically Sicilian though or anything. Maybe because Sicilians are stereotypically short and stout and she and all her siblings are 5'10+

Some of your uncles resemble my dad's siblings actually. But yes, from what I remember in a picture you posted once, you don't look much like your dad at all.

[paksaltopam]

Yep. The old man:
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1385476_10200751672579185_968031474_n.jpg

[Sikeliot]

That confirms what I said before: exactly like your mom, and not much like your dad. :lol:

[paksaltopam]

I think she cloned me lol.

[Sikeliot]

If you find other Italian results you should post them to compare to your mom's.

[paksaltopam]

On Ancestry they don't tell you what percent other people are. They just tell you which ethnicities they have.

[Prince Carlo]

You have got a lot of african from your Sicilian side.

[paksaltopam]

You have got a lot of african from your Sicilian side.
From my color or my results do you draw that conclusion?

[Prince Carlo]

From my color or my results do you draw that conclusion?

Both. There is an half Russian half Neapolitan girl living in the flat next to me, and she looks nothing like you.

[paksaltopam]

Both. There is an half Russian half Neapolitan girl living in the flat next to me, and she looks nothing like you.

I think it's more MENA than SSA influence.