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Albania possibly.
TBH, i am not good in finding the ethnicity. I will try.what would u guess then? you r right he is not albanian.
Serb or Greek works for me. There are some depigmented varieties.
He doesn't look Italian to me of any type. I couldn't express in words why I think he doesn't look Italian, he just doesn't.
Of course, I've been fooled before when it's a question of Greek or Italian. I suppose it comes down to "eastern" versus "western" influence.
He looks like this Greek actor to me (whom I also wouldn't guess to be Italian), only blonde.
Let's keep in perspective that if you trace your ancestors to 1700 hundreds it is about 12 generations ago. This would give you around 8 thousand great, great, etc (x12) grandparents. Every generation your ancestor doubles. Every one gave you a very small percentage of your DNA. It is quite impossible to trace them all, especially in Eastern Europe. The biggest would be 2% from straight line in Y chromosome, and 0.5% in Mitochondrial DNA. However if your parents had ancestry from one village or a small region than variations of DNA won't be big. All your DNA would look like 3rd cousin to anyone from this small region. Well mixed population nevertheless. Unless there was a big population movement bringing new admixtures and phenotypes in this period.Its funny because everything that everyone is saying is what he has gotten all his life. People usually guess that hes one of these backgrounds, Russian, South French, Italian-greek, or Balkan. That actor the Serbian one you posted, that was the first thing I thought when I looked at him,that he resembles my Father. This is my father by the way, he is 100 percent Slovak, all of his ancestors, at least from what I have traced, come from the region north of Nitra at least back to the late 1700s.
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my father and mothers wedding day
my father at 18
Its funny because everything that everyone is saying is what he has gotten all his life. People usually guess that hes one of these backgrounds, Russian, South French, Italian-greek, or Balkan. That actor the Serbian one you posted, that was the first thing I thought when I looked at him,that he resembles my Father. This is my father by the way, he is 100 percent Slovak, all of his ancestors, at least from what I have traced, come from the region north of Nitra at least back to the late 1700s.
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my father and mothers wedding day
my father at 18
Let's keep in perspective that if you trace your ancestors to 1700 hundreds it is about 12 generations ago. This would give you around 8 thousand great, great, etc (x12) grandparents. Every generation your ancestor doubles. Every one gave you a very small percentage of your DNA. It is quite impossible to trace them all, especially in Eastern Europe. The biggest would be 2% from straight line in Y chromosome, and 0.5% in Mitochondrial DNA. However if your parents had ancestry from one village or a small region than variations of DNA won't be big. All your DNA would look like 3rd cousin to anyone from this small region. Well mixed population nevertheless. Unless there was a big population movement bringing new admixtures and phenotypes in this period.
Welcome to Eupedia srdceleva. Your nickname sounds feminine but you listed Y dna. A little confusing.
How interesting. At 18 he looks rather central-eastern European, but by the time he got married he looked more "southern" to me. In fact, in that wedding picture he does look Italian, but maybe I wouldn't think that if it were a close up. Even the hair looks darker. That does happen, I think. People change as they age. When I was a baby and toddler I looked more like my father's family, then as a teenager and in my twenties I looked a lot like my mother, and then as I got older I started looking more like my father's family again.
Your parents were married in the seventies or early 80s? Nice couple. He's a very imposing, masculine, and attractive man in his older years, your dad, and he has a nice twinkle in his eyes.
The first picture is obviously your dad; the second an Italian partisan from the second world war. Not identical but not a bad resemblance.
I rarely forget a face.
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