Do you match any Italians on ftdna/ancestrydna/23andme?

[Voskos]

Is it common for Balkanites and Turks to match Italians?

[Iloko]

My mother matched this distant cousin on 23andme relative-finder lol:

http://i.imgur.com/IhxNVYs.jpg

I think he's either an Italian, or an Italian-American.

[Voskos]

My mother matched this distant cousin on 23andme relative-finder lol:
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wierd. i would have expected philipinnos to match spaniards rather than Italians.

[Lek]

Yes. Turks, Italians, Greeks, South Slavs. Most of them Albanian in origin, several are confirmed to be so, like the Turks and Italians but the Greeks could be anything from ancient to maybe Arvanite. The South Slavs have typical paleo Balkan ydna's mostly but there are a few who clearly are paternally non Balkan in origin. For all I know they could of taken Balkan brides or something. Who really knows what happened but if my 23andme test that im gonna do doesnt give me any East Euro, North West etc then Im just gonna assume that. Then I get a lot of western matches which are most likely ancient.

[Voskos]

Yes. Turks, Italians, Greeks, South Slavs. Most of them Albanian in origin, several are confirmed to be so, like the Turks and Italians but the Greeks could be anything from ancient to maybe Arvanite. The South Slavs have typical paleo Balkan ydna's mostly but there are a few who clearly are paternally non Balkan in origin. For all I know they could of taken Balkan brides or something. Who really knows what happened but if my 23andme test that im gonna do doesnt give me any East Euro, North West etc then Im just gonna assume that. Then I get a lot of western matches which are most likely ancient.

so all your matches from italy are confirmed arbereshe?

[Fustan]

south italians mostly and some are arberesh

[Percivalle]

Is it common for Balkanites and Turks to match Italians?

On Gedmatch all the Italians match litte each other.

[RN97]

I do, this one is my closest. Overall I have 14 Italian ones. IDK where from Italy he is
http://i.imgur.com/Cez5um0.png