Zzig
12-23-2023, 11:17 PM
Hey, folks. I've been trying to figure out a bit of a family mystery for a bit, but people over on Reddit don't really seem to know what they're talking about. I've seen users here do some heavy work on admixture analysis, so I figured I'd bring it up.
My grandmother, aunt, uncle, and I all did the testing from Ancestry, and all of us have Baltic ancestry, ranging from my 1% to my aunt's 14%. We don't have any known Baltic ancestors, but we haven't had much luck in building family trees.
And this is where things start to get complicated.
My grandmother's and aunt's family lived right on the southern border of historical Old Prussian territory, but never as far northeast as Podlaskie or Warmia-Masuria; Węgiersk, Golub-Dobrzyn, etc. That could be enough to explain plain Baltic, however, my aunt strangely has Finnish as well, and we have no known family from Finland or even the Nordic region. Knowing that the modern-day Balts have significant Finnic mixed in, it would seem to imply some relative came from there, maybe far in the past. This does, of course, assume the Old Prussians or related groups weren't part Finnic as well.
Bear in mind, I'm using "Finnic" loosely. I know there's some odd overlap with linguistic terms, but you know what I mean.
What do you guys think? Any help would be incredibly appreciated, and genuinely interesting. Dzięki bardzo!
My grandmother, aunt, uncle, and I all did the testing from Ancestry, and all of us have Baltic ancestry, ranging from my 1% to my aunt's 14%. We don't have any known Baltic ancestors, but we haven't had much luck in building family trees.
And this is where things start to get complicated.
My grandmother's and aunt's family lived right on the southern border of historical Old Prussian territory, but never as far northeast as Podlaskie or Warmia-Masuria; Węgiersk, Golub-Dobrzyn, etc. That could be enough to explain plain Baltic, however, my aunt strangely has Finnish as well, and we have no known family from Finland or even the Nordic region. Knowing that the modern-day Balts have significant Finnic mixed in, it would seem to imply some relative came from there, maybe far in the past. This does, of course, assume the Old Prussians or related groups weren't part Finnic as well.
Bear in mind, I'm using "Finnic" loosely. I know there's some odd overlap with linguistic terms, but you know what I mean.
What do you guys think? Any help would be incredibly appreciated, and genuinely interesting. Dzięki bardzo!