Or maybe from a Venetian merchant of Iberian Descent or Roman/Celt-Iberian or even a soldier from the Navarre company
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It's all non sense, FTDNA doesn't do phasing and 'British', 'Iberian' or western European components are just 'best fit' along with some eastern Europen for the northern influence we have - it varies from sample to sample. All depends how they have geared their software program. A Malsor scores like 25% western European lol
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Populations within the Italian peninsula and Greek and Baltic states, however, display more genetic diversity having experienced waves of migration and the rise and fall of numerous civilizations. The Ancient populations on the Italian peninsula generally consisted of the Greek colonies in the south, Etruscan cities in west-central Italy and north of Rome, and Italian cultures – such as Samnites and the Umbrians – who inhabited Rome and central Italy. The western Baltics mostly consisted of small kingdoms until the rise of Alexander the Great’s father Philip II of Macedon (present day Macedonia).
Is this person fully malsor? do you know where all his ancestors came from like 500 years ago or more? I doubt it. That person has most likely some norman or goth ancestry considering this test goes like 1300-1000 years back and DNA you would of gotten before that too.. Those populations settled in balkans before slavs came. Albanians would of easily absorbed those populations even in malsia and also doubt all modern malsors lived there all the time.
As for her Iberian, she gets Italian on 23andme and like 91% Balkan and East European noise, a test that goes like only 500 years back. Her results aren't shocking, I predicted it tbh.
I predicted a lot of Albanian results here.
FTDNA sucks.