DNA results are in!

[happycow]

Any other thoughts?? I'm still waiting on MyHeritage results. I'm not the best at interpreting these results, but whats with the Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, German, British, Danish, Bulgarian, Romanian etc popping up in the mixed mode in some calculators? where would Europe west, South Europe and Great Britain make their way in?

maybe the red hair and beards of some of my family members come from irish and scottish ancestry? lol

[StonyArabia]

Any other thoughts?? I'm still waiting on MyHeritage results. I'm not the best at interpreting these results, but whats with the Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, German, British, Danish, Bulgarian, Romanian etc popping up in the mixed mode in some calculators? where would Europe west, South Europe and Great Britain make their way in?

maybe the red hair and beards of some of my family members come from irish and scottish ancestry? lol

Crusader ancestry. Levantine Muslims have some Crusader admixture

[happycow]

Crusader ancestry. Levantine Muslims have some Crusader admixture

Ahh interesting, thank you!

[happycow]

MyHeritage results

[happycow]

FTDNA

[waam]

I knew you'd have to score Mizrahi. Actually expected a little more than that. Either way for your information that Nigerian is probably false, if you remove and re-upload your raw data it would probably recalculate your results and get rid of that.
Also I think MyHeritage's North African population is heavily mixed with Arabs and not actual isolated berber populations, probably why you score so much in comparison to the other tests.

[happycow]

I knew you'd have to score Mizrahi. Actually expected a little more than that. Either way for your information that Nigerian is probably false, if you remove and re-upload your raw data it would probably recalculate your results and get rid of that.
Also I think MyHeritage's North African population is heavily mixed with Arabs and not actual isolated berber populations, probably why you score so much in comparison to the other tests.

Oh ok cool. I will reupload the data and see if it recalculates a different way. The North Africa part had me a bit confused. It is low on ancestry but when I run many of those gedmatch calculators North African shows up in many calculators? (Tunisian jewish, Moroccan jew, Libya etc.) im not the best at interpreting results. Although, Georgian Jewish and Yemen Jewish show up a lot too.

[happycow]

Oh I just saw the ancient origins thing on family tree.

[waam]

Oh ok cool. I will reupload the data and see if it recalculates a different way. The North Africa part had me a bit confused. It is low on ancestry but when I run many of those gedmatch calculators North African shows up in many calculators? (Tunisian jewish, Moroccan jew, Libya etc.) im not the best at interpreting results. Although, Georgian Jewish and Yemen Jewish show up a lot too.

Oh that's no surprise at all, North African Jews are not actually North African in ancestry, they are native Levantine for the most part which is why you score these populations (as opposed to Tunisian, Moroccan and Libyan non-Jews).
I think you probably descend from Jews, have to tell you I'm curious about how you feel about it.

[Sp_loa]

Oh that's no surprise at all, North African Jews are not actually North African in ancestry, they are native Levantine for the most part which is why you score these populations (as opposed to Tunisian, Moroccan and Libyan non-Jews).
I think you probably descend from Jews, have to tell you I'm curious about how you feel about it.

Palestinian origins are usually from 3 sources: (not by order)

1. Jews that never left to the diaspora and other levantine tribes that had to convert to Islam (some tribes of "Arabs" in hebron area know they are Jews that forcibly converted to Islam).

2. Arab and Middle eastern immigrants from Syria,Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. Most of them came during the Ottoman era.

3. Some came soon as the Islamic caliphate but they are a very small minority .

I wonder what percentage of Palestinians are actually descendants to the "original" Jews. Sephardim and Ashkenazim are roughly half Northern Italian and half Jews (if Jews mean levantines from Judea), sometimes with some other European, Asian and North African traces; while even Mizrahim have other West and sometimes central Asian types of Admix.
It seems like the original Jews were similar to modern day Samaritans.