Hi all,
I’m hoping to get some thoughts on a Sardinian/Italian DNA match, especially from those with knowledge in Italian and Balkan genetics.
A few days ago, a 23andMe match replied to a message and share request I sent him two years ago. He’s listed as a 4th cousin and we share 16cM on chromosome 1. He has no known Balkan ancestors and I have no known Italian/Sardinian ancestors.
On his Ancestry Composition, he has the following results of interest (he scores no Balkan):
41.1% Sardinian (this stays in Conservative)
30.1% Italian
1.9% Iberian
19.1% Broadly Southern European
0.1% Ashkenazi Jewish (This stays in Conservative)
I don’t score any Sardinian or Italian, but do have 1.7% Broadly Southern European, and 2% Ashkenazi Jewish (this is legitimate). I don't get any Southern European on myOrigins (I'm 25% Croatian on paper so not getting this doesn't concern me).
As he isn’t on GEDMatch (yet), I had a look to see what populations I have between 117M and 152M on chromosome 1 to get an idea of what I have there. It’s mostly North Atlantic, East Med with a small amount of West Med.
I have a fairly comprehensive Croatian tree, and between all my third great and fifth great grandfathers, there are no Italian or Sardinian sounding surnames. The closest Italian like surname I have in my whole tree is Bego. This line goes back to the early 1700s in Croatia.
The questions I have with what I know so far are:
1. Does he have a Balkan ancestor he doesn't know about, even though its not reflected in his autosomal results?
2. Do I have an Sardinian/Italian ancestor and the tree is wrong somewhere? (unlikely, many cousins have built it on Geni)
3. Are we, however unlikely, connected through distant Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry somehow, even though his is at noise levels?
I’m hoping to get some thoughts on a Sardinian/Italian DNA match, especially from those with knowledge in Italian and Balkan genetics.
A few days ago, a 23andMe match replied to a message and share request I sent him two years ago. He’s listed as a 4th cousin and we share 16cM on chromosome 1. He has no known Balkan ancestors and I have no known Italian/Sardinian ancestors.
On his Ancestry Composition, he has the following results of interest (he scores no Balkan):
41.1% Sardinian (this stays in Conservative)
30.1% Italian
1.9% Iberian
19.1% Broadly Southern European
0.1% Ashkenazi Jewish (This stays in Conservative)
I don’t score any Sardinian or Italian, but do have 1.7% Broadly Southern European, and 2% Ashkenazi Jewish (this is legitimate). I don't get any Southern European on myOrigins (I'm 25% Croatian on paper so not getting this doesn't concern me).
As he isn’t on GEDMatch (yet), I had a look to see what populations I have between 117M and 152M on chromosome 1 to get an idea of what I have there. It’s mostly North Atlantic, East Med with a small amount of West Med.
I have a fairly comprehensive Croatian tree, and between all my third great and fifth great grandfathers, there are no Italian or Sardinian sounding surnames. The closest Italian like surname I have in my whole tree is Bego. This line goes back to the early 1700s in Croatia.
The questions I have with what I know so far are:
1. Does he have a Balkan ancestor he doesn't know about, even though its not reflected in his autosomal results?
2. Do I have an Sardinian/Italian ancestor and the tree is wrong somewhere? (unlikely, many cousins have built it on Geni)
3. Are we, however unlikely, connected through distant Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry somehow, even though his is at noise levels?
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