Thanks for approving my membership. I found this post while researching my Haplogroup r-by33316. I am in the USA and it appears my y heritage is POMAK and now I discover Smolyan. As far as I know my heritage is Scandanavian. On FTDNA I have one match with another person with R-by33316 and he is Bulgarian with a POMAK ancestor. So if anyone has any advice on how I can pursue my research I would appreciate it because I am quite surprised by this development. DNA sure can surprise.


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1. Smolyan: R-BY39684
2. Smolyan: I-Y4460
3. Smolyan: R-Y16145
4. Smolyan: I-S9318
5. Smolyan: E-S7461
6. Smolyan: R-A1777
7. Smolyan: I2a1b2a1
8. Smolyan: I-Y4460
9. Smolyan: I-CTS10228
10. Smolyan: I-Y3548
11. Smolyan: R-BY33316
12. Smolyan: R-BY38903
13. Smolyan: I-Y17218
14. Smolyan: E-FGC18422
15. Smolyan: I-M253
16. Kardzhali: I-L161
17. Pazardzhik: E-V13
18. Drama: R-M198
19. Kardzhali: E-M35
20. Nevrakop: J-M172
21. Nevrakop: I-P37
22. Nevrakop: I-P37
23. Nevrakop: R-Y83069
24. Velingrad: G-L1324
25. Lovech: T