r/MagyarDNS

23andMe, IllustrativeDNA, and mapping tools.

Hi. I'm an ethnic Romanian from Eastern Romania, with my Moldavian family in the region for at least the past 600 years, minor gentry and then only free peasants as time passed. According to family oral history, I have one fully ethnic Hungarian ancestor from Hungary (Roman Catholic, minor gentry or wealthy commoner), and one Slavic ancestor from Ukraine under the Russian Empire at the time (merchants and ironsmiths).

I'm including my ancient autosomal DNA breakdowns mainly for fun, as the algorithm tends to over-fit when forced into more than three groups, leading to a few exotic proxies.

What stands out, however, is the high number of matches to early Pannonian and Hungarian samples. This suggests a genuine ancestral signal from ancient and medieval Scytho-Sarmatian, Avar, and Magyar-era populations that faded over generations due to local assimilation and recombination.

Nowadays, a profile compatible with mine is easily reconstructed using a mix of Slavic and Italian-like proxies. Given the scarcity of local Iron Age samples from Romania, largely because Dacians traditionally cremated their dead and not enough sampling, it's likely that part of this local Paleo-Balkan/Dacian heritage is currently absorbed by the Italian and Slavic components.

Half Hungarian Half Romanian, haplogroup I-Z2059

1. Legvalószínűbb eredmény; 2) 90%-os bizonyossággal számított eredmény; 3) Származási térkép

A kelet-ázsiai a 90%-os confidence level-nél is jelen van, míg a közel-keleti-észak-afrikai trace ancestry-ként jelenik meg, és 80%-os confidence-nél 0.2%

A családfa az 5. generációs felmenőkig szinte teljes (32 szépszülőből 31 ismert), akik közül 3 valószínűleg betelepült német nemzetiségű volt. A 32-ből 24 családnév magyar, 3 német, 3 szláv eredetű, 1 nem eldönthető és 1 nem ismert.

(anyaföld: Észak-Alföld, Tisza környéke, Bükkalja)

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1. Most likely percentages; 2) 90% confidence percentages; 3) Ethnicity map

East Asian is still present at 90% confidence, while WANA is classified as trace ancestry, with 0.2% at 80% confidence level.

Family tree is complete to 5th gen (31/32 great-great-great-grandparents), of whom 3 were likely ethnic Germans. 24/32 family names are Hungarian, 3 are German, 3 Slavic, 1 ambiguous and 1 unknown.

Paternal haplogroup is J-L283 and maternal haplogroup is H. From what I understand, my paternal haplogroup is a bit rare for my region.

Family origin is mostly ethnic Ukrainian from
Ivano-Frankivsk and nearby regions, with some ties to other Carpathian Mountain cultural groups in neighboring countries. Plus a few ancestors from the central, southern, and eastern regions of Ukraine.

It is not at all shocking that I have ancestors who were ethnic Poles. To be honest, what was more surreal was looking at my DNA relatives and seeing that I have literally hundreds of Polish relatives, many of whom are not so distantly related to me. One of my friends is Polish with roots in the North East of Poland and we matched as distant cousins.

I was not told specifically that I dont have Polish ancestors, and given the historical context I imagined there’d have to be at least some connection there, but this brought that connection to life on a deeper level, which I’m super grateful for

I knew that I have Roma ancestors, so that checks out. I think at least some of the Balkan DNA in my results is related to my Roma ancestry, as most of my Roma DNA relatives have a big chunk of Balkan %.

The Balkan % is common in a lot of Western Ukrainians, especially those with roots in the mountains, so it’s not a shock to have though.

The Jewish ancestry, I did not know about honestly.

It frustrates me that the map and phrasing they use for the “Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, & Southern Polish” reference population ends up falsely presenting a lot of Ukrainian Highlander and general Western Ukrainian ancestry as being from a foreign source.
If they could go out of their way to add Southern Poland to the map and name due to criticism, they can change it again lol

And I wasn't lucky, as I belong to a rare haplogroup, but here are how it went / És nem voltam valam iszerencsés, mivel egy ritka haplocsoporthoz tartozom, de itt van hogyan zajlott le:

1. Kit ordered / Teszt rendelés: 2026.03.10

2. Kit shipped / Teszt postázva hozzám: 2026.03.11
   1 day / nap

3. Kit reached borders / A csomag elérte a határt: 2026.03.26
   15 days / nap

4. Got my kit / Megszereztem a tesztem: 2026.04.07 (I had trouble with the toll handling / volt némi fennakadásom a vámkezelés miatt)

5. I sent my kit to the Hungarian FTDNA Team (because they have a working method to post these back to the USA and it's cheaper with multiple participants) / Átküldtem a csomagom a Magyar FTDNA Csapatnak (mivel van egy kidolgozott módszerük arra, hogy az Usába visszaküldjék és olcsóbb ha többen küldünk vissza): 2026.04.10

6. Kit sent back to FTDNA / Csomag visszaküldése a FTDNA-nek: 2026.05.06 (as they waited for a certain amount of kits to send back together / mivel megvárták hogy egy bizonyos mennyiségű teszt összegyűljön, hogy együtt visszaküldjék)

7. Kit recieved by lab / A teszt megérkezett a laborba: 2026.05.19
   13 days / nap

8. Kit analization started / Teszt analizálása megkezdődött: 2026.05.20 (Batched; Batch 1721)
   1 day / nap

9. Kit "completed" / Teszt "elkészült": 2026.06.11 (Y-111)
   22 days / nap

10. Big Y result / Big Y eredmény: 2026.07.21
    40 days / nap

11. My sample appeared on the global stats (might've changed my results if I wouuldn't be from a rare haplo) / A mintám megjelent a globális statisztikáknál (lehet változott volna az eredményem, ha nem egy ritka haploba tartoznék): 2026.07.31
    10 days / nap

Total / Összesen:
- Getting the kit: 18 days (without inexperience with toll) / Teszt megszerzése: 18 nap (a vámmal való tapasztalatlanság nélkül)
- Kit reaching lab: 13 days / Csomag laborba jutása: 13 nap
- Analyzation, result: 63 days / Analízis, eredmény: 63 nap

Despite my bad luck, I recommend it, as the more ppl test, the better it is for everyone. The best would be, if these tests (all kind of DNA tests) would be more common, more easily acquired in the East, as currently they often have a certain "Western Bias" / Balszerencsém ellenére, ajánlani tudom, hiszen minél többen tesztelünk, annál jobb mindenkinek. Az lenne a legjobb, ha ezek a tesztek (minden DNS tesztet beleértve), gyakoribbak, könnyebben beszerezhetőek lennének Keleten is, mivel jelenleg gyakrann van egyfajta "Nyugati Elfogultságuk"