Question from my Grandmother who recently got her FTDNA results:
My Mother was from what is today Northern Italy (It was the Austro-Hungarian Empire when she was born). Her family were all Italian speakers (of various northern dialects) w/ Italian surnames as far back as the early 1700's.
My Father was born in the U.S., mostly British ancestry..
My Origins results were 85% Western European and 15% Middle Eastern (12 % Asia minor and 3 percent West Middle East).
I'm wondering...
- Why wouldn't I have any southern European ancestry given all of the Italian surnames?
- Where in world would 15% Middle Eastern be coming from? I assume it's too much to just be "noise". Is that a correct assumption?
- As my father's ancestry was predominately British (specifically Welsh), why wouldn't that show up at all?
My Mother was from what is today Northern Italy (It was the Austro-Hungarian Empire when she was born). Her family were all Italian speakers (of various northern dialects) w/ Italian surnames as far back as the early 1700's.
My Father was born in the U.S., mostly British ancestry..
My Origins results were 85% Western European and 15% Middle Eastern (12 % Asia minor and 3 percent West Middle East).
I'm wondering...
- Why wouldn't I have any southern European ancestry given all of the Italian surnames?
- Where in world would 15% Middle Eastern be coming from? I assume it's too much to just be "noise". Is that a correct assumption?
- As my father's ancestry was predominately British (specifically Welsh), why wouldn't that show up at all?
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