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Well, if I'm Haplogroup A but nobody knows about an Indian in the family, there are some possible explanations:

1) Mother got mtDNA from her father. I could not have gotten Haplogroup A from my father because he's European. Mother's family has been in the Americas longer. And unlike her...

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In an old census, they misspelled my paternal grandfather's surname. Instead of being the distinctive surname he had, it now became a punctuation mark.

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My father does not think that our specific branch were descended from convert Jews. He has met a couple unrelated families with our surname, and they were not aware of convert ancestors either.

So I would like my father or brother (or any willing relative in that line) to get the Y test....

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An autosomal test to determine specific geographic origins?

How much does it cost?

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The Guanches of the Canary Islands made pyramids.

They are extremely similar to those built by the Mayas.

I got Haplogroup A. And my matrilineal family is from the Canary Islands.

So I wonder if there was any pre-discovery exchange between the Guanches and...

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Man that rocks so much.

I read somewhere (maybe Wikipedia) that all living people of European ancestry were related to Charlemagne.

I do know that on my paternal grandmother's side there are ties to the German royal family (Habsburgs?).

Otherwise, the only...

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I may have some Jewish ancestry. My surname is very common among conversos. It's the surname of the person that gets credited the most with discovering the new world. I also have a slightly aquiline nose. And I'm the only one with wavy hair in my nuclear family.

Genetically, I'm mostly...

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I wonder why Caucasoid people in general developed such an interesting mutation. It seems like most people from Norway to Iraq do have it. I do not see much of a connection with other Caucasoid features such as high nose bridges or high amounts of body hair. But it sure can help people adapt to certain...

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I'm not a V. But my father's Catalan. So I wonder if he belongs to V.

However, my intuition says that he belongs to H. But who knows.

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Not sure what you mean by admixtured. But if it means being biracial, then no I am not.

I was different from the local population because I had my father's accent rather than my mother's local one.

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I'm not prejudiced against either Asians or Native American Indians.

I am just confused because nobody in the family knew anything about it.

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That's bizarre.

It can be understood the people here at FTDNA who got A's in Europe are all due to back migrations.

But C and D were splits from the earlier L3 or M, while A is a split from the latter N- who also lead to X, B, and R (the mother of the other European gr...

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So if that D person is in Scandinavia, and D is a supposed Native American group, then it is possible mtDNA A got to me somehow other than an American Indian woman.

Family mainly does not seem concerned or bothered, but still find it a bit odd.

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Well, in that part of the mtDNA I do not know how much effect they could have. It's the nuclear DNA that controls everything.

Mutations result in variety. Some are beneficial- such as if they result in a stronger immune system or faster metabolism (in most climates, that is). Some are...

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All my father's family is from Mallorca. He's 2nd generation at most, hence he considers himself Mallorcan Catalan and not really from PR or the USA so much.

His name is Sebastian Colom Alemany. We do not know if his Colom branch were convert Jews or from how far back. We do know that...