Ancestry dna of Jebediah's relative from Bagheria Sicily

[jebediah]

http://i.imgur.com/Shp9ZB6.png

[Sikeliot]

This does not surprise me at all. "European Jewish" is clearly native Sicilian ancestry being confused for Ashkenazi due to the common blend of Levantine and Italic.

This result is noticeably more Middle Eastern and West Asian than another AncestryDNA result I saw of a woman of mixed Sicilian (Trapani) and Campanian descent.

[Sikeliot]

I'll add on FTDNA I score "Jewish Diaspora" at 6% which shows to me that there is clear overlap between Ashkenazi and Sicilian DNA even if it is due to both being a mixture of Italic and Levantine rather than one being descended from the other. Remember Bagheria was a Phoenician town, so it makes perfect sense that there is ancestry shared with Israel, Lebanon etc.

[jebediah]

A couple of surprises here: one being the west asian component comprising nearly a quarter, and two there being no indication of any Northern European ancestry. I supposed there would be at least some North Euro since the Normans were prevalent in Palermo province though I'm unsure about Bagheria specifically.

Anyway, thanks kindly for your input and for clarifying the "European Jewish" part.

[Guapo]

A couple of surprises here: one being the west asian component comprising nearly a quarter, and two there being no indication of any Northern European ancestry. I supposed there would be at least some North Euro since the Normans were prevalent in Palermo province though I'm unsure about Bagheria specifically.

Anyway, thanks kindly for your input and for clarifying the "European Jewish" part.

did you do 23andme too

[jebediah]

did you do 23andme too
Nope. Which one is better?

[Guapo]

Nope. Which one is better?

I dont know.

[Sikeliot]

A couple of surprises here: one being the west asian component comprising nearly a quarter, and two there being no indication of any Northern European ancestry. I supposed there would be at least some North Euro since the Normans were prevalent in Palermo province though I'm unsure about Bagheria specifically.

Anyway, thanks kindly for your input and for clarifying the "European Jewish" part.


Norman input is stronger in Trapani province than in Palermo. Palermitans seem a bit more genetically exotic, in a Levantine/Jewish sense. Norman genes are also present in Lebanese Muslims from the Crusades which is why they are 4-5% more European genetically than Lebanese Christians.

[sql]

What is the trace region?

[jebediah]

What is the trace region?

Ireland. Unsure what that would indicate.

[Sikeliot]

Ireland. Unsure what that would indicate.

Italic and Celtic populations were distantly related.