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    Default Weird results, looking for an explanation

    So I got my ftdna origin results and also know a lot more about my birth fam now. So basically my actual ethnic origins are Pennsylvania Dutch/Mennonite/old stock german-canadian. My results on ftdna show 99% European (mostly northern euro stuff as you'd expect, with some "Eastern European"), but the >1% which isn't European is listed as less than one percent Oceanian. That seems literally impossible. My family has supposedly been in north america since like the 1700s and before that came from Alsace, Germany and Switzerland and would have never even set foot on that half of the planet, let alone mixed with Maori, lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adoptee View Post
    So I got my ftdna origin results and also know a lot more about my birth fam now. So basically my actual ethnic origins are Pennsylvania Dutch/Mennonite/old stock german-canadian. My results on ftdna show 99% European (mostly northern euro stuff as you'd expect, with some "Eastern European"), but the >1% which isn't European is listed as less than one percent Oceanian. That seems literally impossible. My family has supposedly been in north america since like the 1700s and before that came from Alsace, Germany and Switzerland and would have never even set foot on that half of the planet, let alone mixed with Maori, lol
    1% is a noise.

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    It's not weird results, many people get >1% Oceanian, it could just represent a very ancient connection or nothing at all, some call it "noise".

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    Quote Originally Posted by arkas View Post
    It's not weird results, many people get >1% Oceanian, it could just represent a very ancient connection or nothing at all, some call it "noise".
    A lot of people get >1% oceanian specifically? That's very weird/interesting. So in all likelihood my results basically just mean "100% European"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adoptee View Post
    A lot of people get >1% oceanian specifically? That's very weird/interesting. So in all likelihood my results basically just mean "100% European"?
    Yes you can take it as 100% European.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adoptee View Post
    So I got my ftdna origin results and also know a lot more about my birth fam now. So basically my actual ethnic origins are Pennsylvania Dutch/Mennonite/old stock german-canadian. My results on ftdna show 99% European (mostly northern euro stuff as you'd expect, with some "Eastern European"), but the >1% which isn't European is listed as less than one percent Oceanian. That seems literally impossible. My family has supposedly been in north america since like the 1700s and before that came from Alsace, Germany and Switzerland and would have never even set foot on that half of the planet, let alone mixed with Maori, lol

    Try Gedmatch calculators with Oceanian component (or Papuan / Melanesian / Australian) and tell if there is some results similar or bigger than 1%.
    K36 Ancestral Report and Chromosomal Analysis / G25 Maps
    https://www.lm-genetics.com

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