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[loisrp]

Do you mean you are not biologically related to your Indian parents? When you talk about "lost a kin", do you think your biological parents "lost" you somehow and you ended up in an Indian family?

This is a fascinating, though tragic, story, and I hope you get some...

[loisrp]

You can easily have autosomal maternal matches with no "X" chromosome sharing. This could be as close as your mother's sibling, for example, as it would even be possible for you to share no "X" with your mother's sibling. (Not very likely if the mother's sibling is a full sister,...

[loisrp]

Do you have any 2nd or 3rd cousins that are unexplained to lead you to this possible conclusion?...

[loisrp]

Yes, I would be similarly misled if I believed the ethnicity reports in Ancestry, and particularly in FTDNA. Ancestry at least shows ranges, which most people seem to miss, but FTDNA only provides "final" numbers....

[loisrp]

People also get different results from DNA.land when reposting the identical file. So this is definitely interesting, but may or may not be due to the build number.

[loisrp]

I agree - if there is validity to the classifications, it's not really feasible you would get 0% Southern Europe.

I've seen people use this "random inheritance" idea to justify parent/child and sibling results that are essentially impossible.

My pet theory is...

[loisrp]

If this is on Gedmatch, I'd think the odds of it being "real" are low.
If it's with a testing company, I think the odds of it being "real" are high.

Some of my ancestors went back and forth between Newfoundland, the West Indies, and Britain. With back-migration,...

[loisrp]

I'm assuming you don't have parental DNA test results available, or you would have mentioned them. This person reports that they have numerous chromosome 22 matches that neither parent has:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/c...e_chromosome_s...

[loisrp]

Chromosome 22 tends to generate matches with low SNPs, for whatever reason. I've read that because it's a short chromosome, it's recombined less.

You can see this in general. Take one of your random DNA matches (on another chromosome). When I do this, and look at the 22-chromosome match...

[loisrp]

FTDNA does have the best autosomal test re SNPs. However, there's no doubt Ancestry has many more people in its database, so anyone who is seriously seeking relatives has to test there too, particularly if you have ancestry within North America or the British Isles.

[loisrp]

Be cautious, though, because people can be related on more than one line. One example of mine:

Me to match (female to female), 40 cM on one chromosome, 5.7 cM on the X

Phased paternal kit (based on my mother's DNA) - 40 cM, and the X disappears

Mother's kit...

[loisrp]

People who have surprise mtDNA findings, like Native American or Sub-Saharan African when they believe they are 100% European, definitely find it worthwhile. The problem is that you won't know if you have a surprise finding until you do it.

[loisrp]

How can one tell if one is of Saami ancestry, given known Norwegian genealogy?

[loisrp]

FTDNA has been promising they will update myOrigins sometime "soon". Your odd results and the discrepancies are not at all unusual. I'd say just wait for the update to myOrigins, and in the meantime upload to Gedmatch, get a hundred other admixture estimates, and enjoy your cousin matches...

[loisrp]

If you have significant Scandinavian matches on FamilyTreeDNA, it is super-clear. It will be obvious that the people in question are from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, or Finland (which I know is not technically Scandinavian). If you can't tell from their names (first, middle, and last), you will be able...