Hioloi
Expert Gynecologist
- Messages
- 35
- Reaction score
- 7
- Points
- 8
- Ethnic group
- Turkish, Albanian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I-Z17855
Its been quite a while, since the last time I posted here.
I know everything about my ancestry now, but still have a huge gap in my paternal lineage.
My great grandpa or grandpa was most likely Albanian. I have many Balkan matches, many of whom are Albanian.
Now the issue I am having is my cousins are from all over. Many are from Kosovo, some are from Northern Albania, others are from Korçe etc.
It is hard to pinpoint exactly where my grandfather originates. My Haplogroup is I-Z17855, which seems to be mostly situated in southeastern Albania and western Macedonia.
I also have a lot of Slavic matches, polish, Russian, Serbian (although I believe some of them are descendants of Albanians), Croatians and Bosnians.
So its very hard to tell.
In my town in Turkey there's an Albanian village nearby, I asked them and they are Kosovo Albanians, there's even many Albanians living in my town in general, so its most likely an Albanian grandfather.
I also do not care about admixture estimates no longer. On ancestry they keep increasing my Albanian dna, now its at 9% (previously 5%), it ranges from 9-17%. On 23andme I get 0 Balkan. People told me that is because they have added Turks of Balkan descent into the Anatolian category, since the last update, so now even if you get 100% Anatolian, you could still be of Balkan descent. And on g25 my balkan dna keeps changing. Sometimes its 12% and sometimes its 25%.
What is your advice, or your opinion? I reached out to many matches and most haven't responded, but the ones that did were from Kosovo (Gjakova), Albania (Shkodër) and Korçe.
I know everything about my ancestry now, but still have a huge gap in my paternal lineage.
My great grandpa or grandpa was most likely Albanian. I have many Balkan matches, many of whom are Albanian.
Now the issue I am having is my cousins are from all over. Many are from Kosovo, some are from Northern Albania, others are from Korçe etc.
It is hard to pinpoint exactly where my grandfather originates. My Haplogroup is I-Z17855, which seems to be mostly situated in southeastern Albania and western Macedonia.
I also have a lot of Slavic matches, polish, Russian, Serbian (although I believe some of them are descendants of Albanians), Croatians and Bosnians.
So its very hard to tell.
In my town in Turkey there's an Albanian village nearby, I asked them and they are Kosovo Albanians, there's even many Albanians living in my town in general, so its most likely an Albanian grandfather.
I also do not care about admixture estimates no longer. On ancestry they keep increasing my Albanian dna, now its at 9% (previously 5%), it ranges from 9-17%. On 23andme I get 0 Balkan. People told me that is because they have added Turks of Balkan descent into the Anatolian category, since the last update, so now even if you get 100% Anatolian, you could still be of Balkan descent. And on g25 my balkan dna keeps changing. Sometimes its 12% and sometimes its 25%.
What is your advice, or your opinion? I reached out to many matches and most haven't responded, but the ones that did were from Kosovo (Gjakova), Albania (Shkodër) and Korçe.