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Born and brought up in England but I’m aware of some minor Scandinavian/German ancestry through my father’s side. Turns out I am much more Scottish than I realised, which is a surprise as I’m blonde, blue eyed and can tan like a lot of southern English people.

Where the hell did that Albanian come from? Could it be just some non-descript southern European ancestry from way back? Possibly even Roman times?

And yeah I know I’m super white haha

Hello, I am looking for my biological father. My 23andMe test points to Algeria and Morocco; I don't have many matches on 23andMe, but MyHeritage shows only Moroccan results, and my closest matches (sharing 1.5% DNA) are all Moroccan—specifically from the Oriental region (Rif/Berkane). I’m not sure if I can be certain my father is Moroccan, as the matches seem quite distant to me. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks.

23 and me puts my paternal haplogroup as R-CTS241 and my dad's as R-L21. Are these actually just different names for the same group or is something odd happening here? We are very obviously related sharing over 47% of our DNA so it's not like he's not my dad but I'm confused about how we could have different paternal haplogroups.

My previous post is similar but I’m curious to learn more! I’m half from hunza and half hazarewal. I believe my hunza side is the reason for the high unassigned percentage, but 39% is still surprising!

i was born in Alabama and have been here my whole life.
and my haplogroup is H1 :) honestly shocked to not have inherited any french DNA tho as my moms side carries a french last name and my grandpa has talked many times of our german/french ancestry. but still cool !

My one surprise is that there seems to be no Dutch in my ancestry. I knew from historical records that my ancestors were predominantly early American colonists, but my grandmother’s side were all Dutch colonists——Schenectady NY. Our family name was Heemstra.

I’m wondering if the Scandinavian is indicative of Dutch colonists? Especially because the highlighted region os Jutland (Denmark). I was not expecting Scandinavian at all.

Pic 1: most likely, pic 2: 90% confidence

Wasn’t expecting to have such a mixture of things, thought her side would be fully indigenous American from Mexico/AZ.

Not really impressed by FTDNA, but overall I think 23andme is better in terms of ethnic breakdown and region assignment.

Attached for reference:

Photo 1 - "most likely";

Photo 2 - 80% confidence;

Photo 3 - 90% confidence.

At "most likely," my French is at 31%(!)---implying I have a recent 100% French ancestor---but that number shrinks to 5.6% at 80% confidence and then 0.7%(!) at 90% confidence.

What's happening?

AFAIK I don't have any recent French ancestors. Also, I should say: these DNA blocks are long, not many tiny specs (i.e., it doesn't suggest many very distant French ancestors).

What’s taking so long man?

Why is it that I am getting Cameroon on the Nigerian? (def not complaining, Shakira’s World Cup song wouldn’t exist if she didn’t steal it). And yes, I’m also the one who asked about my Liberian cluster like two-three weeks ago. For AncestryDNA I also have Cameroon— I am assuming that 23andMe doesn’t have a distinct group for this country? I have no idea.

My background: So I officially belong to the Uak Clan (Middle Juz) but that's because my paternal grandfather was adopted by a man from the Uak Clan. We don't know who his biological father was. Although, I do know that my paternal grandmother is a Crimean Tatar, which maybe explains the Slavic admixture ig?

With my mother's side, it's pretty well documented that my maternal grandfather is from the Kipchak Clan (the family tree goes up to 11 generations), my maternal grandmother is from Kerei Clan, so that explains the Mongol bit.

I do wonder where the Anatolian part comes from...