WhatsGoingOnBigGuy's AncestryDNA vs 23andme ethnicity estimates.

**Mr.G** · 11-22-2019, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

Hey, Big Guy, if you don't mind, please check the Y DNA predictor using your Ancestry data
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...DNA-prediction
I'd like to know if it's accurate in as many cases as possible.

It was accurate for me, so put another check mark in the accurate catagory.

**Jana** · 11-22-2019, 10:10 PM

Is your ancestor from Lithuania paternal one who gave you this haplogroup? It is typical Baltic variety of R1a.
Which means even if your ancestors might have had Polish/Slavic surname, their Y lineage was Baltic.

**WhatsGoingOnBigGuy** · 11-22-2019, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Feiichy

Is your ancestor from Lithuania paternal one who gave you this haplogroup? It is typical Baltic variety of R1a.
Which means even if your ancestors might have Polish surname, their lineage was Baltic.

Yup! Paternal line is the Lithuanian one.

**WhatsGoingOnBigGuy** · 11-22-2019, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

Hey, Big Guy, if you don't mind, please check the Y DNA predictor using your Ancestry data
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...DNA-prediction
I'd like to know if it's accurate in as many cases as possible.

^^^ accurate for me as well

**Jana** · 11-22-2019, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by WhatsGoingOnBigGuy

Yup! Paternal line is the Lithuanian one.

Many Lithuanians were Polonised during PLC. Might have been the case with your ancestor, although it's only Y lineage, and you would need to check deeper subclades.
But Z92 is chiefly Baltic, not Slavic, and Slavs who have it are mostly assimilated Balts paternally.

**Leto** · 11-22-2019, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by WhatsGoingOnBigGuy

^^^ accurate for me as well

Did it identify you as Z92?

**WhatsGoingOnBigGuy** · 11-22-2019, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by Feiichy

Many Lithuanians were Polonised during PLC. Might have been the case with your ancestor, although it's only Y lineage, and you would need to check deeper subclades.
But Z92 is chiefly Baltic, not Slavic, and Slavs who have it are mostly assimilated Balts paternally.

Thank you for the info. And yeah, I was checking some migration records into the US recently of people with my surname and they seemed to come from both Lithuania and Poland. 23andme gave me some polish regions at one point as well but recently took them away only leaving Kaunas Lithuania. Interesting shared genetic/cultural history in the region. The thing that has always confused me more was my great grandmother's maiden name beginning with 'katz' which always led me to believe I was jewish lmao.

**WhatsGoingOnBigGuy** · 11-22-2019, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

Did it identify you as Z92?

ye

**Leto** · 11-22-2019, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by Feiichy

Many Lithuanians were Polonised during PLC. Might have been the case with your ancestor, although it's only Y lineage, and you would need to check deeper subclades.
But Z92 is chiefly Baltic, not Slavic, and Slavs who have it are mostly assimilated Balts paternally.

Interestingly the guy is autosomally nothing like Northeast Europeans. Haplogroups are a funny thing. The Russian from Kursk oblast I posted is C-M217, lol. And he's barely 3% mongoloid.

**Jana** · 11-22-2019, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

Interestingly the guy is autosomally nothing like Northeast Europeans. Haplogroups are a funny thing. The Russian from Kursk oblast I posted is C3, lol. And he's barely 3% mongoloid.

Rugevit is Z92 btw. He was very Baltic admixed which is normal for guy from northern Belarus (he as from close to Latvian border), but he was very Pan-Slavic oriented.
Sorry for offtopic guys, just found it interesting to mention since very few TA members are this subclade (I don't know any other)

Leto you should test your own R1a