The Butcher's FTDNA autosomal results (100% Balkan heritage)

[The Butcher]

Hey, guys,

Finally got my autosomal DNA results and I'm still trying to make sense of them, would be nice to hear what y'all think. 100% of my ancestry comes from the Balkans -- one single "ethnicity" but my roots are all over the place. I won't reveal it just yet, let's see if you can guess what it is. I created a separate thread for my Y-DNA, it's R1b > R-Y5587.




What do you think about the 0.1% Arctic (Northeast Siberia)? Have any of the Balkan people on here gotten any of it, too? Is it just background noise as FTDNA seems to suggest?

I also uploaded my data to My Living DNA and got the following results: 96.5% Balkans and 3.5% Finland, of all places... Rather confusing.

I'm also getting a lot of Finnish matches on FTDNA (myOrigins matches map):



They are all classified as "4th Cousin - Remote", much like the rest of my matches. Does that really mean anything at all? Or is it just based on my <2% Baltic and 0.1% Arctic results which have somehow been tied to a reference population that I actually have nothing in common with? Is it even possible to get so many matches solely based on "background noise" results?

[Vessna]

I assume your trace Siberian and Baltic ancestry is probably coming from Slavs. I am fully East Slavic and get 1% Siberian and 25% Baltic.

[Benyzero]

U no butcher u a hobo