Originally Posted by
samario
My father is not a Morisco, Arab or Jew, not that I know of. My mother seems to be of partial Sephardic Jew or Converso background, though. Still, we're talking about Y-DNA here. I've read a bit about R-Z93 and it's plausible it came along with troops of Scythians or tribes alike to northern Spain in places like Asturias, the place where my surname hails from. The Visigoths, the Suebi people and other Germanic peoples settled the northwestern coast of Spain, maybe they merged with the Central Asian tribes or assimilated Scythians/Alans as their own, dunno. Some people from Asturias bear this same haplogroup from information I've gathered on forums.
I've also read R-Z93 is the most common in the Altai region of Russia. 23AndMe indicates as follows (about my paternal haplogroup):
Please read the bolded part. I think it's pretty conclusive.
Which is the bestest test for subclades?
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