What's Your Y-DNA Haplogroup?

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Originally Posted by majevica

My subclade is actually Eastern Gaul, not Balkan

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Ofc not goys, it's very Southern/Balkan/Roman

WGS now says I'm E-L241 > E-Y251806 > E-BY5635

https://i.postimg.cc/7PJC6922/ydna.png

Bro:

Target: Slovakia_Roman_IA:CGG021935__AD_236__Cov_67.93%
Distance: 1.5342% / 0.01534191 | R3P
67.2 Montenegro_MLBA
18.4 Montenegro_Doclea_Roman.SG
14.4 Israel_PPNB

Target: Slovakia_Roman_IA:CGG021935__AD_236__Cov_67.93%
Distance: 2.0057% / 0.02005711 | R3P
52.0 Albanian_North_Macedonia
44.8 French_Corsica
3.2 Saudi

0.018 m = 92% Croat_Dalmatia + 8% Slovakia_Roman_IA:CGG021935__AD_236__Cov_67.93%

R1b-M269>Z2103>Z2108>CTS9219>BY611>Z2705>Y32147>Y12603 9

https://i.ibb.co/RTQ6ww9n/Screenshot...727-Chrome.jpg

Some of the ancient Macedonian samples from royal tombs of Vergina are R1b-Z2103 and their Paeonian and Dardanian neighbors were as well
There is a chance this was the haplogroup of many warrior kings of the Balkans

Skanderbeg Justinian Constantine Alexander the Great Belisarius

I opened a new chat with OpenAI and shared with it my ancestral path: J-M304>M172>M410>CTS7683>L26>PF5088>...>Z28598>FT135 488>Y36180>BY82631>Y95647>FTC5373

Perfect — that screenshot shows your exact paternal (Y-DNA) lineage from deep prehistory down to your personal terminal branch. I’ll decode what each major stage of your path actually means in real-world history and geography.

Your path:

J-M304 → J-M172 → J-M410 → CTS7683 → L26 → PF5088 → Z28598 → FT135488 → Y36180 → BY82631 → Y95647 → FTC5373

Let’s walk this from ancient to recent.

1. J-M304
�� Origin: Upper Paleolithic Near East (~45,000–30,000 years ago)

This is the root of all J haplogroups. This lineage formed among:

Early West Eurasian hunter-gatherers

Somewhere in the Near East / South Кавказ / Iran–Levant corridor

This already places your deep paternal origin firmly in West Asia, not Europe.

2. J-M172 (J2)
�� Neolithic Farmers (~12,000–9,000 BCE)

This is the big one for civilization history.

J-M172 is strongly associated with:

Neolithic farming expansion

Early:

Anatolians

Levantines

Zagros populations

This is one of the primary Y-DNA lineages that carried agriculture into Europe.

3. J-M410 (J2a)
��️ Core Mediterranean Civilization Line

This branch dominates among:

Ancient Greeks

Phoenicians

Romans

Anatolians

Coastal Levant

Southern Italy

This is the main “Mediterranean civilization” Y-DNA lineage.

4. J-L26
�� Aegean–Anatolian–Levantine Expansion

This branch explodes during:

Bronze Age Aegean

Mycenaean & Minoan world

Phoenician sea trade

Your line is now firmly inside the eastern Mediterranean network.

5. J-PF5088
⚓ Eastern Mediterranean Coastal Spread

Common in:

Greece

Southern Italy

Cyprus

Coastal Anatolia

Levant

This is a mariner / trader–heavy distribution.

6. J-Z28598
��️ Roman Imperial Diffusion Layer

This branch shows up repeatedly in:

Roman Italy

Roman Gaul

Roman Britain

Balkan provinces

This is where your paternal line likely enters Western Europe.

7. J-FTC5373
�� Your Specific Family Line (Medieval–Post-Roman Europe)

This is your personal modern branch. Based on the ancient matches you’ve shown earlier (Rome, Levant BA, Nubia, medieval Germany, etc.), your direct paternal history very likely follows this pattern:

Levant / Anatolia → Aegean → Italy → Roman Gaul → Northern Europe / Britain

Which fits perfectly with:

Your qpAdm “southern proxy” behavior

Your G25 Roman-province alignment

Your strongly NW European autosomal profile today

My paternal line comes from Belgium

That actually fits your Y-DNA story perfectly—and it tightens the historical interpretation in a very clean way.

If your documented paternal line is from Belgium, then the most parsimonious explanation for your Y-DNA (J-FTC5373 → J2a) is:

Eastern Mediterranean J2a → Roman Italy → Roman Gaul/Belgica → Medieval Belgium → Modern Northwest Europe (you)

This is one of the classic, well-documented diffusion paths for J2a into Northwestern Europe.

1. Why Belgium is one of the best possible landing zones for J2a

Roman-era Belgium wasn’t “backwater Europe.” It was:

The province of Gallia Belgica

Heavily settled by:

Roman soldiers

Administrators

Merchants

Craftsmen

With direct migration from:

Italy

The Aegean

The eastern Mediterranean

J2a is:

Extremely common in Roman Italy

Well-attested in Gallo-Roman burials

Rare in pre-Roman Celtic males
So when you see J2a in Belgium, the default assumption is:

Roman or post-Roman Mediterranean male line absorbed into a local Belgic / Gallo-Roman population.