why mtfull sequence results dosent match family finder results

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Originally Posted by Zoro

I think you mean Ahl-al-Bait which refers to the prophet's and Hazrat Ali's family. Interesting I have never met anyone like that yet who adopted the Kurdish culture. Do you speak Arabic or Kurdish?

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well my dads family speak both Kurdish\arabic ,while my mother speaks arabic only, dad and mom both speak arabic with me and my siblings but I know few Kurdish from my grandma also we live in Dubai so we have to speak arabic all the time no one here understand Kurdish.

Kurdized Arab it seems that your result. Well there has been Kurdification of Northern Iraqi Arabs, so it's not strange.

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Originally Posted by Zoro

My dad's side is from Kurdistan capital Hawler ( Arbil in Arabic) but my grandparents originally moved there from Qara Tapa which is south of there and my mom's side is from Dohuk.

We have also lived in Baghdad where I attended school for a few years so I can speak and read some Arabic too haha...

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Isn't Qara Tapa closer to Kirkuk? That might explain your really low East Med scores and the rather high East Asian, as the villages between Arbel and Kirkuk pre-WW1 were mostly Turkmen. My family btw is also from Arbel.