Are you happy with your haplogroups?

Overall, I am pleased with my haplogroups but until I can afford to do deeper subclade testing, I wont be completely satisfied.

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Originally Posted by Jackson

And your tribes were also immigrants at some point. :P

Edit: Plus i'm pretty sure I1 has had a presence in the British Isles probably since the bronze age, even if only a small one.

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I1 was most definitely present in Roman Britania, got there with Batavian auxilia. There were other sources as well...

Not much to be glad/disappointied about imo

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Originally Posted by HispaniaSagrada

I'd imagine that many of those with a strong sense of identity would have a little crisis if they found out that they aren't exactly what they thought.

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I have observed this.

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Originally Posted by HispaniaSagrada

I'd imagine that many of those with a strong sense of identity would have a little crisis if they found out that they aren't exactly what they thought.

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Except a haplogroup doesn't really determine what you are; all it indicates is maternal and paternal lines, both of which are a small part of your overall ancestry/identity.

I mean, somebody could be 95% Native American and have a European haplogroup; all it takes is for their paternal line to eventually go back to Europe, even if it is only their 10th great-grandfather who was European.

For example; I'm R1b-L20+, which appears to be Italo-Celtic, but given the thousands of years of history of the areas in which my ancestors lived, they were likely part Celtic, part Germanic, and part Norse.
Besides, I mostly take after/identify with my mother's paternal line, which my haplogroup doesn't say shit about.

I just don't see how having the "wrong haplogroup" could hurt someone's identity.

It's fine, a bit boring though.

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Originally Posted by HispaniaSagrada

I'd imagine that many of those with a strong sense of identity would have a little crisis if they found out that they aren't exactly what they thought.

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I tend to find to find, it's normally New Worlders who expect to be a certain nationality.

Before I got my 23andme results there was this anti-Turkic/Turkish guy on anthrocivitas who was always trying to demolish any sort of Turkic influence in Turks and Turkey. He was absolutely obsessed with it and spamming the forum 24/7 with his propaganda. So when I got myself tested he told me that I should not expect any signs of Turkic ancestry and that if I did happen to score some sort of CA ancestry, it would be the result of rape.

So I was like 'in your face, douche!' when I got my results back. :D

But other than that, my haplogroups are just cool. My paternal line is a typical Western/Anatolian haplogroup and my maternal line is a Turkic one (or at least carried by Turkics) straight out of Siberia. I think that's a pretty cool haplogroup combo for a Anatolian Turk.

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