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So, how far away was I?
And vice versa - Western Russians have some West Slavic genes too probably.IMO not too far when you claimed that they could be West Russian.
South-Eastern Poles have some Polonized East Slavic ancestry too.
How different are they from the people of southwestern Poland? If they are, why?
And vice versa - Western Russians have some West Slavic genes too probably.
Hard quesion, I will try to find some info on this (southwestern = natives of Upper Silesia and western Małopolska).
Surely a bit different, but I think that among Poles north-south differences are probably stronger than east-west ones.
Angela said:The reason I asked the question is that one of my dear friends is descended from a German speaking family which lived in Czechoslovakia (very close to the Polish border) from the Middle Ages until after the Second World War. She said they had a bit of Polish ancestry. I wondered if she had a common look for the area. In fact, I guess she does, because she looks remarkably like the picture of Jadwiga Basinka. Honestly, it's an extraordinary resemblance; practically the only difference is that her nose tip doesn't turn down that much.
As far as dark-haired Poles are concerned, one of the first film femme-fatales was actually a dark haired Pole-Pola Negri.
http://theredlist.com/media/databas...1920/pola-negri/005-pola-negri-theredlist.jpg
Genetics: According to a study published in September 2015, by far the most common Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup among the Kashubians who live in Kashubia, is haplogroup R1a, which is carried by 61.8% of Kashubian males. It is followed in frequency by I1 (13.2%), R1b (9.3%), I2 (4.4%) and E1b1b (3.4%). Altogether these account for over 9/10 of the total Kashubian Y-DNA diversity.[43] A study from January 2010 discovered similar proportions of most haplogroups (R1a - 68.8%, I1 - 12.5%, R1b - 7.8%, I2 - 3.1%, E1b1b - 3.1%), but found also Q1a in 3.1% of Kashubians (...).[44] When it comes to mitochondrial DNA haplogroups, according to a January 2013 study, the most common major lineages among the Kashubians, each carried by at least 2.5% of their population, include J1 (12.3%), H1 (11.8%), H* (8.9%), T* (5.9%), T2 (5.4%), U5a (5.4%), U5b (5.4%), U4a (3.9%), H10 (3.9%), H11 (3.0%), H4 (3.0%), K (3.0%), V (3.0%), H2a (2.5%) and W (2.5%). Altogether they account for almost 8/10 of the total Kashubian mtDNA diversity.[45]
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