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Does my East African seem high? (I mean relative to a person who's ancestry is English & German). I don't show East African here on FTDNA, though I do show a small amount of North African. On 23andMe I show some East African and on GEDmatch I consistently show East African. Could this be deeply ancestral? Or perhaps more recent?
Does my East African seem high? (I mean relative to a person who's ancestry is English & German). I don't show East African here on FTDNA, though I do show a small amount of North African. On 23andMe I show some East African and on GEDmatch I consistently show East African. Could this be deeply ancestral? Or perhaps more recent?
It probably is ancient. Some experts says that we share 99.9% of our dna with all humans.
Does African show up in your FTDNA results? I'm curious because I show a small amount of Subsaharan African in my 23andMe results which is further broken down as West African & East African. When I compare with GEDmatch, these bits of Subsaharan African consistently show up on the same chromosomes at the exact same spots. However, here on FTDNA I show no Subsaharan African, but I do show North African (and 1% is missing from my results).
I had a geneticist look at my results and based on that East African, he felt the African was coming through a Middle Eastern (probably Jewish) lineage. However, 23andMe is adamant this Subsaharan African is within the past 500 years and possibly Congolese in origin (where Bantu people migrated East, then back West). Because I'm a Southerner with ancestors going back to the early 17th century in Virginia, having some Subsaharan African would not be that uncommon... but I also have a strong oral tradition of Jewish ancestry on my mother's side (though Jewish is not really showing up in my DNA results).
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