View Full Version : Do you match any Italians on ftdna/ancestrydna/23andme?
Voskos
07-21-2017, 07:07 PM
Is it common for Balkanites and Turks to match Italians?
Iloko
07-21-2017, 07:10 PM
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
07-21-2017, 07:14 PM
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.
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
07-21-2017, 07:25 PM
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
07-21-2017, 07:27 PM
south italians mostly and some are arberesh
Percivalle
07-22-2017, 12:17 AM
Is it common for Balkanites and Turks to match Italians?
On Gedmatch all the Italians match litte each other.
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
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