DNA test results of Chris596

[Mingle]

Yes, in theory. My father is from Transylvania (Harghita county) and my mother's side is from Hungary (from all over the Alföld, her mother is from Szabolcs, her father is from Bihar county, yet I know that I had some ancestors in southern Hungary as well...)

I suppose that explains it a bit. Transylvania Hungarians are the most Balkan-shifted Hungarians and Alfold is the most Balkan-shifted region of Hungary (though you're from northern Alfold which shouldn't be that southern). Its still more southern than I would expect, but it explains your results somewhat. Some people from Alfold can score like normal Hungarians from Hungary while some are significantly different. So your father could be more southern than average even for a Szekler.

[Mingle]

Magyars are Turkic confederation which came from Central Asia, why wouldn’t they have a couple Iranic nomads among them? I remember there was another Hungarian in Kaspias’s thread who had some minor Iranic as well. And nowadays central Asian Iranics have them but I’m talking about the ones absorbed by Turks. Uzbeks for example have distant Iranic ancestry evident by their south central Asian but they have no South Asian

They didn't come from Central Asia. They came from the Urals Region which is where North Asia and Europe intersect. The Urals region wasn't Iranic.

My bad, I forgot about the Turkic part. The Turkic tribes among them may have some early ancestry from northern Central Asia so they could have a tiny bit of Iranic from long ago. But that would be before the Magyar Confederation formed.

[Chris596]

Before I showed my results... people would of assumed I was lying too by my phenotype (but in my case as a Portuguese). Phenotype does not always = genotype people... and it is all about genotype in the end.

Awesome results btw!

Thank you! Yes I'm amazed and confused by my results at the same time.

Funny that I have a lot of DNA matches from Germany, but basically all the names are like: Jevremovic, Dragovic, Bozovic, Svetozar, etc. etc.

[Dr_Maul]

They didn't come from Central Asia. They came from the Urals Region which is where North Asia and Europe intersect. The Urals region wasn't Iranic.

My bad, I forgot about the Turkic part. The Turkic tribes among them may have some early ancestry from northern Central Asia so they could have a tiny bit of Iranic from long ago. But that would be before the Magyar Confederation formed.

Not only that but they would still have to pass through north Central Asia and other Scythian territories to get to Hungary. I’m not trying to paint Magyars as Iranic, that is easily disproven by a billion things, but it is likely that they had a couple Iranics among them. I honestly think that this is the most probable reason for the mild trace ancestry of Southwest Asian that a couple Hungarians have shown

[Chris596]

I suppose that explains it a bit. Transylvania Hungarians are the most Balkan-shifted Hungarians and Alfold is the most Balkan-shifted region of Hungary (though you're from northern Alfold which shouldn't be that southern). Its still more southern than I would expect, but it explains your results somewhat. Some people from Alfold can score like normal Hungarians from Hungary while some are significantly different. So your father could be more southern than average even for a Szekler.

I think I know what you mean. I certainly think that most of my parents have a significant Balkan ancestry and possibly some West-Asian (from my father, probably). Jewish is a mistery, but I heard that Myheritage likes to give ,,free Jewish" to everyone. At least my parents were right, we really don't have recent German ancestors lol.

[Chris596]

I also heard about the Iranic theory so I have to agree with Dr_Maul as well.

[Coastal Elite]

Then I believe more in GEDmatch. My answer is in the 41th comment.

Ah, partly Transylvanian, just north of Brasov (where some of my family comes from). Anyway, congrats on your results, very interesting.

[Mortimer]

You are still 100% european.

[Grace O'Malley]

23andme has a horrible customer service, they screwed up my package a lot of times and all I could was to get a refund. It's not my fault, I was patient for almost 2 months.

MyHeritage is updating their results though so that is something to look forward to. What I like about MyHeritage is that they have the largest amount of European testers so it is interesting to see what countries your matches come from although you have to look at the surnames and their ancestry breakdowns to make sure they are ethnically from that country. Anyway I'm looking forward to their update and hope they improve and get rid of some of their inaccurate trace regions which are all over the place.

Anyway their raw dna is really good so you can use it for other sites. It's just their interpretation can be a bit strange especially the trace amounts.

[Grace O'Malley]

Interesting results. I think at some point you should reconsider 23andMe (they'll also give you recent ancestor locations as well as being an overall much better company)

23&Me recent ancestor locations are not accurate. They don't get my correct and known ancestor locations in Ireland and give me a load of British areas when I have no known recent ancestry from UK. The best for correct locations is Ancestry with their GCs but I don't think they have many GCs for Eastern European populations yet.