Malta in the maps

[Virtuous]

I'd have assumed Malta was further west. I assumed it was directly in between Tunisia and southwest Sicily.

tsk tsk tsk

We are closest to our sister's ass: Sicily.

[Sikeliot]

Maltese people's ancestry is mostly from Agrigento which is in southwest Sicily so I expected Malta to be right near them.

[Virtuous]

Maltese people's ancestry is mostly from Agrigento which is in southwest Sicily so I expected Malta to be right near them.

Can you tell me the prevalent Haplogroups there?

[Sikeliot]

Can you tell me the prevalent Haplogroups there?

R1b, G2, and J2.

[alfieb]

If you look at Maltese names, most of them, yours included, are from Agrigento or Caltanissetta, in South-West-Central Sicily. Which makes sense, since ya'll look more like Western Sicilians than Eastern ones, geography be damned.

[Sikeliot]

If you look at Maltese names, most of them, yours included, are from Agrigento or Caltanissetta, in South-West-Central Sicily. Which makes sense, since ya'll look more like Western Sicilians than Eastern ones, geography be damned.

His is from Caltanissetta -- San Cataldo area.

Most Maltese surnames are from Agrigento and the area near Gela in Caltanissetta, or from Palermo: