I took the FamilyFinder test. I just received my results (screenshots below). It shows that I'm 83% Southeast Asian, but there is an orange blob over Madagascar? Is this a "typo"? Thanks in advance for the help.
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Madagascar does apparently have a south Asian admixture.
following study states part of madagascars admixture is similar to the populations of Java-Kalimantan-Sulawesi areas
Linguistic and cultural evidence suggest that Madagascar was the final point of two major dispersals of Austronesian- and Bantu-speaking populations. Today, the Mikea are described as the last-known Malagasy population reported to be still practicing a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. It is unclear, howev …
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It's just showing where Southeast Asia covers and the same for Northeast Asian. It does not mean that your ancestors came from each and everyone one of those places, but rather that the people in those areas are considered to be of Southeast Asian origin, or that the samples came from people from those areas.
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