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Voskos
04-07-2020, 01:09 PM
My Cretan grandmother(got her tested in 2014) matches a fully Bulgarian woman who scores 100% Southeast Europe on FTDNA. All her listed surnames from family tree are Bulgarian(she lists more than 20).

Is her result atypical? Or is it just a problem with the Southeast Europe reference?What do you think?
Voskos
04-07-2020, 01:20 PM
Screenshot of the result I'm talking about:

https://snipboard.io/RQF6V1.jpg
Ion Basescul
04-07-2020, 01:41 PM
Screenshot of the result I'm talking about:

https://snipboard.io/RQF6V1.jpg

How are Bulgarians supposed to score on FTDNA?
Voskos
04-07-2020, 01:46 PM
How are Bulgarians supposed to score on FTDNA?

I'd expect them to score at least some ''Eastern Europe''. I've seen a couple posted on forums and they do get it.
Thracian
04-07-2020, 01:51 PM
I think so. Never seen a Bulgarian with 0% Eastern European and 0% Western European (including Central European and British Isles). I think, you should ask her for gedmatch.
Voskos
04-07-2020, 01:51 PM
Here's a Bulgarian with some ancestors from Greece(before the population exchange of 1919 there were some Bulgarians living in Greece). This is a result with myorigins first version (before update), which tended to overestimate Anatolian ancestry.

https://i.imgur.com/0oIMBVv.png
Maintenance
04-07-2020, 01:52 PM
Thats cool
Lioncourt
04-07-2020, 01:55 PM
What is the reference for Southeast Europe?
Voskos
04-07-2020, 01:59 PM
What is the reference for Southeast Europe?

The Southeast Europe cluster consists of present day populations from the areas of Italy, Greece, and the western Balkan states from Bulgaria to Croatia. Present day populations in the Southeast Europe cluster show some of the highest rates of genetic relatedness to the second wave of migration into Europe roughly 11,000 years ago. This wave of migration consisted of Neolithic farmers from the Fertile Crescent and expanded primarily into southern Europe, incorporating small scattered European hunter-gatherer communities along their path.

https://learn.familytreedna.com/family-finder-autosomal-testing/myorigins-family-finder-autosomal-testing/myorigins-population-clusters/
Voskos
04-07-2020, 02:11 PM
By the way my grandma scores much less Southeastern Europe than this Bulgarian.I might post her results later.
CommonSense
04-07-2020, 02:26 PM
As far as I know only Albanians can score 100% Southeast Europe.
Voskos
04-07-2020, 02:40 PM
As far as I know only Albanians can score 100% Southeast Europe.

apparently not then. I've seen some slavic speakers from greece with over 80% as well.
Voskos
04-07-2020, 02:53 PM
Her father's Y-DNA is R1b-L23. I don't know if it's that common in Bulgaria but it's certainly Balkan.