r/illustrativeDNA

Hi all,

first of all so relieved to have my results, fellow 29ers know how painstaking it has been. Now whilst I was waiting I had been looking, at other people’s results on Reddit during the update, particularly people from south asian decent as that’s what I hail from, and I’ve seen how fragmented and just plain wrong the results have been.

my family has been in sindh for generations, as ethnic Sindhis, with the new reference population, I was excited as before it would’ve only been termed indo-gangetic plain. I have one grandfather that is baloch, I know there is no reference population for this, could it be the hazara, Pashtun, Kashmir and persian percentages I have, are the representation of his dna. For further clarification , I know he is fully baloch, as we have family that still goes back to his village in Iran.

just trying to make sense of these results

Can anyone analyze what this means exactly and whether I am mixed or not? Note that some of the Bronze Age and Iron Age percentages got cut off.

My mother is Brazilian of Moroccan Jewish ancestry from both sides and my father is Brazilian with one known Portuguese ancestor (his grandfather went to Brazil from Ovar, in Portugal), but the rest is unknown.

I have selected Global because the genetic fit is better and because of my mixed ancestry. At first it shows Greek at the top, then Roman Italian. I thought "fine, it's still close enough", but then French becomes the top population in the Middle Ages? Did somebody get similar results? Can somebody explain this to me?

When I compare myself to modern populations in Europe it shows that I'm closer to Greeks and Ashkenazi Jews, not French.

Why do I have random central asian and east asian groups in my results when I have no asian DNA on ancestryDNA? I do have 4% unassigned on Ancestry but I wouldn’t know where any asian would come from. What’s the cause?

Syrian from Damascus

My family were bidoon on the Kuwait Iraq border. We were persecuted under Saddam’s occupation, forced into Iraq when the war ended in 1991, and later had to cross back into Kuwait. i expected to be like 90% arabian peninsula and waaay higher natufian 60% to 80% and less zagros and anatolian also im not haplogroup j1? im E-BY7659

my normal dna test had 34% egyptian 24% arabian peninsula and 21% syrian and 15% iraqi and more stuff but i dont trust myheritage that much on that stuff

On my mother’s side, I have Italian ancestry from the Lazio region, along with African and Spanish ancestry, specifically from Catalonia. On my father’s side, my ancestry is predominantly Portuguese, with African roots as well.

​She's a Moroccan Jew (a mix of Toshavim, Musta'ribim, and a Sephardic ancestor).

​I've actually been researching my family's history (on both sides) for five years now, trying out tons of genetic tests. My mom's results are different from average Moroccan Jews' results simply because she isn't an average Moroccan Jew.

​I totally understand the confusion and surprise, and I really appreciate everyone's willingness to help. But my mom's results are simply not what Sephardic results look like. She does have that ancestry, and I always say it, but we have no knowledge of anyone else being Sephardic, and she isn't Sephardic. If it ever turns out that I somehow discover another Sephardic ancestor, I'll be the first to say so, I always mention the one we do know about. It's not like I'm ashamed of it or anything, it's simply not my family's history. I only found out in my teens that other North African Jews are considered Sephardic or came from Spain, and I was in shock and asked my mom, she told me about our one Sephardic ancestor and warned me never to say anything about being Sephardics to her father, because he would take being called Sephardic as an insult (an overreaction, but whatever...). I truly appreciate the willingness to help, but I don't appreciate people trying to tell me how I should identify or who I am.

​About the European DNA—my mom gets a mix of Northern and Southern European or just Northern European, but she almost always scores Northern European (it's extremely rare when she doesn't) across all testing platforms. It could be a proxy, or it could be real. Either way, the family has always identified as North African rather than Sephardic, and I think her results actually back that up.

​She also gets a perfect match to the Moroccan Jew toshav-shifted sample.