Southern Italians

[NicoleFazio]

There is a new Southern Italian Project on http://www.ancestor-projects.com/ .... if you're interested in joining go there and register. You must be on Gedmatch first or else I can't add you. The website gives my email address, just email me the name your used to register or your email you used. I hope we get more people soon!! If you have any questions please ask.

[Javelin]

Best of luck with the new project!

[thetick]

Glad to see you got you project started. If and when I get my son or wife tested they'll be signing up. Her side is all Southern Italian and Sicilian.

[nolnacsj]

There is a new Southern Italian Project on http://www.ancestor-projects.com/ .... if you're interested in joining go there and register. You must be on Gedmatch first or else I can't add you. The website gives my email address, just email me the name your used to register or your email you used. I hope we get more people soon!! If you have any questions please ask.

What if you know you have Italian ancestry, but do not know the region?

[thetick]

What if you know you have Italian ancestry, but do not know the region?

Judy,

You can run the gedmatch admixture tool on your raw data. If you know the location on your Italian chromosome you should see some pretty significant differences in West Asian and Western European between Southern Italian or Sicilian and the Northern Italians. This is assuming you don't have any Jewish, Greek, Middle Eastern ancestry since those will look the same as Jewish ancestry with the Dodecad admixture tool.

See the Dodecad maps at http://bergep.clanteam.com/DOD_Maps/dod_map.html

[vinnie]

Judy, the vast majority of Italian Americans are of southern Italian origin. If you have any idea of where you were born, look into the origins of the Italian American communities in the surrounding areas to approximate the origin of your birth parent.