Alnortedelsur Ancestry DNA Update

**Chaos One** · 09-13-2018, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by tekken999

So i basically have dna similarly split likes your fathers since my euro is 76%, native 14% SSA 10%

Same as me.

My father is 75% Caucasian (not 75% Euro) but my mom is 100% Euro, so I'm 82% Caucasian/70% Euro.

**alnortedelsur** · 09-13-2018, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by tekken999

Wow that's alot of italian and french! I thought your portuguese might be a little higher given than just 4 percent. I'm also surprised to see greece/balkans on there too. Where do you think those come from?

My direct paternal grand-grandpa (the grandfather of my paternal grandfather) was an Italian immigrant. And then, my mom also scores high Italian (20%) on 23andme. I guess that Balkan comes from my Italian ancestry, since Italians score some Balkan for being close to Balkan countries, I guess.

Also, I have to confess that the grandfather of my maternal grandpa was adopted and we don't know anything about his background. It could be that he could have been product of a relationship of some local woman (from Mallorca) with an Italian sailor, to explain the high Italian present on my mom

**tekken999** · 09-13-2018, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by alnortedelsur

My direct paternal grand-grandpa (the grandfather of my paternal grandfather) was an Italian immigrant. And then, my mom also scores high Italian (20%) on 23andme. I guess that Balkan comes from my Italian ancestry, since Italians score some Balkan for being close to Balkan countries, I guess.

Also, I have to confess that the grandfather of my maternal grandpa was adopted and we don't know anything of his background. It could be that he could have been product a relationship of some local woman (from Mallorca) with an Italian sailor, to explain the high Italian present on my mom

Yeah that seems like a very diverse background which makes sense now. I think it's likely that the balkan is from the Italian as well which prob comes from both sides of your family. You must have some recent italian ancestry on your moms side as well for it to be that high on 23andme.

I wish I had has much information as well to explain my family's origins but all I know from my dad's side is that his great grandpa maybe have been an immigrant from north of Spain and I suspect my mother has ancestry from galicia as well because it would explain the weird fact that I scored more portuguese much higher than my spanish on ancestry's update since the galicians are genetically similar to portguese. All of my family is from puerto rico which didn't historically receive many portuguese immigrants compared to spanish immigrants but who knows

**Jana** · 09-13-2018, 06:14 PM

Congrats on your update, looks great. Do you have any Italian ancestry from the south ? It would explain your Greek/Balkans score, because southern Italians have real genetic admixture from there.

**alnortedelsur** · 09-13-2018, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Jana

Congrats on your update, looks great. Do you have any Italian ancestry from the south ? It would explain your Greek/Balkans score, because southern Italians have real genetic admixture from there.

The paternal grandpa of my paternal grandpa was an Italian immigrant, though we have no idea from where in Italy he was from. All we know is that our Italian surname is more frequent in Basilicata.

**Chaos One** · 09-13-2018, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by alnortedelsur

My direct paternal grand-grandpa (the grandfather of my paternal grandfather) was an Italian immigrant. And then, my mom also scores high Italian (20%) on 23andme. I guess that Balkan comes from my Italian ancestry, since Italians score some Balkan for being close to Balkan countries, I guess.

Also, I have to confess that the grandfather of my maternal grandpa was adopted and we don't know anything about his background. It could be that he could have been product a relationship of some local woman (from Mallorca) with an Italian sailor, to explain the high Italian present on my mom

Maybe the Italian is in fact part of the Iberian. I usually get like 15% Iberian and if I have some ancestry, is somewhat far. Even "pure" Italians score some Iberian.

**Jana** · 09-13-2018, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by alnortedelsur

The paternal grandpa of my paternal grandpa was an Italian immigrant, though we have no idea from where in Italy he was from. All we know is that our Italian surname is more frequent in Basilicata.

That's the south, and was part of Magna Grecia

Explains everything perfectly.

**alnortedelsur** · 09-13-2018, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by Chaos One

Maybe the Italian is in fact part of the Iberian. I usually get like 15% Iberian and if I have some ancestry, is somewhat far. Even "pure" Italians score some Iberian.

That's true, but my Spanish mom scores quite high Italian on 23Andme for somebody who is supposed to be full Iberian. Normal for an Iberian would be something like 8-10, or 15% at most. She scores 20% Italian. Is unusually high.