The Butcher
11-27-2024, 09:02 AM
Hey, guys,
Finally got my autosomal DNA results and I'm still trying to make sense of them, would be nice to hear what y'all think. 100% of my ancestry comes from the Balkans -- one single "ethnicity" but my roots are all over the place. I won't reveal it just yet, let's see if you can guess what it is. I created a separate thread for my Y-DNA, it's R1b > R-Y5587.
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What do you think about the 0.1% Arctic (Northeast Siberia)? Have any of the Balkan people on here gotten any of it, too? Is it just background noise as FTDNA seems to suggest?
I also uploaded my data to My Living DNA and got the following results: 96.5% Balkans and 3.5% Finland, of all places... Rather confusing.
I'm also getting a lot of Finnish matches on FTDNA (myOrigins matches map):
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They are all classified as "4th Cousin - Remote", much like the rest of my matches. Does that really mean anything at all? Or is it just based on my <2% Baltic and 0.1% Arctic results which have somehow been tied to a reference population that I actually have nothing in common with? Is it even possible to get so many matches solely based on "background noise" results?
Finally got my autosomal DNA results and I'm still trying to make sense of them, would be nice to hear what y'all think. 100% of my ancestry comes from the Balkans -- one single "ethnicity" but my roots are all over the place. I won't reveal it just yet, let's see if you can guess what it is. I created a separate thread for my Y-DNA, it's R1b > R-Y5587.
134646
134648
What do you think about the 0.1% Arctic (Northeast Siberia)? Have any of the Balkan people on here gotten any of it, too? Is it just background noise as FTDNA seems to suggest?
I also uploaded my data to My Living DNA and got the following results: 96.5% Balkans and 3.5% Finland, of all places... Rather confusing.
I'm also getting a lot of Finnish matches on FTDNA (myOrigins matches map):
134647
They are all classified as "4th Cousin - Remote", much like the rest of my matches. Does that really mean anything at all? Or is it just based on my <2% Baltic and 0.1% Arctic results which have somehow been tied to a reference population that I actually have nothing in common with? Is it even possible to get so many matches solely based on "background noise" results?