Originally Posted by
Universe
I'm glad someone's asking this so I can say what I think about the whole thing.
The following text will be partially addressed to you, partially to others who are curious about my origins and identity.
I didn't what to say what % slovak I am by ancestry because I don't know exactly, but since you're asking this, I will say 50%.
Let me explain what I meant by "I don't know exactly":
My mother has dual identity (but I think her hungarian identity is stronger than slovak), my father has hungarian identity. Paternal grandparents identify as hungarian, my maternal grandparents I don't know, because they died like 15 years ago and I never discussed this with them, but I think they had dual identity like my mother.
My paternal grandma says my father's ancestry is 100% hungarian but for me it's hard to believe knowing how multiethnic Hungary was in the past. My maternal ancestry is said to be purely slovak but it's hard to believe as well (at least to me), since my slovak ancestors came from early 1700s to middle of Hungary and were surrounded by magyars ever since. They were from Nógrád, Hont and Nyitra vármegye's which were ethically weren't homogeneous places, no one really knows if they mixed with other ethnicities or not while they were still in Northern Hungary. I can't be sure because I never really researched my family tree.
Yes, I am quite slavic genetically for a hungarian, but still within the range of what's possible for an ethnic hungarian person.
In your study you only included people who have 6/8 or more magyar great-grandparents and there's this "NoHun1" guy that is as slavic as me. No, he's actually more slavic than I am.
His result:
Yes, it's not easy to find ethnic hungarians with dna like mine, but not impossible. With all due respect, if your study was based 100.000 people instead of 100, I'm sure there would be lots of people who would turn out to be genetically slavic shifted like I am. That would impossible to do though, because such amount of people didn't do dna test yet. Also, your study is great even now.
Even though my genetics resemble that of northeastern Hungarians more, I'm sure in southern alföld it'd possible to find people who score like me because some parts of Alföld were settled by slovaks, I'm not the only one with Slovak ancestry here.
So I don't consider myself non-hungarian genetically because ethnic hungarians like me exist, I'd be genetically foreign to Hungary if I scored like an Englishman or an Albanian.
At the end of the day I'm just a hungarian magyar guy.
