Help me to analyze please!

[Zaru]

I have been told that my Y-line is originally from Denmark, and perhaps were Jews, but we are talking waay back, c. 1500. I have them traced into Antwerp in 1550. I am now trying to analyze my population finder results, and do not know how reliable these percentages and geographies are, so any help is appreciated:

65.83% European (Finnish, Orcadian) (on the map Britain,Scotland, Finland, and Norway are shaded in- no other countries in Europe are)

20.75% Middle Eastern (Adygei, Iranian, Jewish) this percentage seems to be very high to be just noise, right???

13.42% West African (Yoruba, Mandenka) I was hoping for higher since my mother is 40%, but, oh well.

So does this 65.83% mean only Northern European and primarily Scandinavian?

This Middle Eastern percentage truly has me perplexed....

[Táltos]

I have been told that my Y-line is originally from Denmark, and perhaps were Jews, but we are talking waay back, c. 1500. I have them traced into Antwerp in 1550. I am now trying to analyze my population finder results, and do not know how reliable these percentages and geographies are, so any help is appreciated:

65.83% European (Finnish, Orcadian) (on the map Britain,Scotland, Finland, and Norway are shaded in- no other countries in Europe are)

20.75% Middle Eastern (Adygei, Iranian, Jewish) this percentage seems to be very high to be just noise, right???

13.42% West African (Yoruba, Mandenka) I was hoping for higher since my mother is 40%, but, oh well.

So does this 65.83% mean only Northern European and primarily Scandinavian?

This Middle Eastern percentage truly has me perplexed....

Zaru no I would not think your Middle East result of 20.75 is noise. If you had been told that you have Jewish ancestry, then I think this is your proof. Your European result of 65.83% shows you as a mix of Northern and Western Europe. Because they consider Orcadian as Western Europe. If you are Scandinavian primarily, this is what this combination of Finnish, Orcadian is trying to show.

[Zaru]

Zaru no I would not think your Middle East result of 20.75 is noise. If you had been told that you have Jewish ancestry, then I think this is your proof. Your European result of 65.83% shows you as a mix of Northern and Western Europe. Because they consider Orcadian as Western Europe. If you are Scandinavian primarily, this is what this combination of Finnish, Orcadian is trying to show.

I just do not know where it would be coming from, though I have my suspicions. Could this be attributed to ethnomixing with my African grandfather?

I have reached out to Dr. McDonald and hopefully he will be able to clarify. It seems like at such a high percentage, it would have been a more recent ancestor (i.e. my grandfather is of Nigerian ancestry, but my M.E./Jewish percentages eclipse my African)- I am beginning to wonder if my own father was an NPE. I need to test my first cousin I guess...