My mums first cousin on ancestryDNA

**Mortimer** · 10-08-2020, 06:59 AM

She is the daughter of my grandmothers (mums mothers) brother. My grandmother was 1/4 russian. My mum is 1/8 russian, I am 1/16 russian. Do you think in this case it shows in the baltic and germanic europe or this means nothing because other gypsies score too I score alot less then her.

**Mortimer** · 10-09-2020, 04:11 AM

bump

**Mortimer** · 10-09-2020, 05:50 AM

**Abriekman** · 10-09-2020, 09:50 AM

6,25% is small amount and Gypsy-Russian combo can spawn confusing results, because of shared Eastern European ancestry

For example AncestryDNA is confusing my Bulgarian with Sephardic, because of shared Southern Europe-like ancestry. Usually Sephardim on AncestryDNA get now 95% South Italy and 5% Western Asian. I have 1-2% Western Asian with 12% Balkans instead of South Italy, because I also have Balkanic ancestry, and Balkanic eats up all Italian-like admixture. You can have similiar situation

**Mortimer** · 10-09-2020, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by Abriekman

6,25% is small amount and Gypsy-Russian combo can spawn confusing results, because of shared Eastern European ancestry

For example AncestryDNA is confusing my Bulgarian with Sephardic, because of shared Southern Europe-like ancestry. Usually Sephardim on AncestryDNA get now 95% South Italy and 5% Western Asian. I have 1-2% Western Asian with 12% Balkans instead of South Italy, because I also have Balkanic ancestry, and Balkanic eats up all Italian-like admixture

yes but i think baltic-germanic is unlikely to be confused, there is another thing called eastern europe, but i didnt count it and it does make sense from what i was told by my family.

**Abriekman** · 10-09-2020, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by Mortimer

yes but i think baltic-germanic is unlikely to be confused, there is another thing called eastern europe, but i didnt count it and it does make sense from what i was told by my family.

I think your Russian ancestry is in Baltics. I am 1/8 Russian and I have 12% Baltics on FTDNA now without East Slavic for some reason