Recent content by bigsnake49

Both of my kids are married to similar political leaning people. Marriage is hard enough to navigate through without political friction. It is hard to argue with somebody when you cannot agree what the facts are.

Well most if not all the previous tools at our disposal show similarity rather than direct descent anyway. So while I might share 10% of my genome with Croats (just for the sake of argument), all that shows is that we have a common ancestor (s) at some time in the past (undetermined). Unless...

If both eye color and hair color are very polygenic, how did they determine eye color and hair color? According to one of the eye color determinant based on DNA I am supposed to have gray eye color (my father had blue gray eyes). I, however have dark brown eyes and dark brown hair.

I wonder if we can have a map like that by county in the US. I know that in my area, although very Republican and MAGA, there are a a lot of Teslas. I guess they don't believe everything that Trump says about electric cars.

It would be really informative if we get pure Ancient Macedonian DNA and compare it with let's say other Epirotan tribes like the Molossians.

I agree with other posters that Greeks are one of the least tested populations both autosomally and haplogroups-wise. The Greek diaspora is much better tested than the Greeks in Greece. They tend to concentrate in the US, Germany and Australia with different geographic areas in Greece...

The US can have as many bases as it wants in Greenland due to the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement they signed with Denmark. So there is no justification militarily to invade Greenland. Now I totally understand the Greenlanders desire to be independent but who will replace the $4B of...

A few too many regions for my liking. I just don't see it. I have to be shown migration routes for all these regions. The only explanation would be that among all these regions are the common paleo-balkan ancestors that spread all over the Balkans.

Huh? Wow, do they include them in "Romania" category? Or South East Balkans?

I am kind of surprised of the lack of Bulgarian contribution to my ethnicity. Other calculators have Bularians either the first or second closest ethnic group. After all the geographic closeness should count for something since as far back as I have researched it, my ancestors have stayed in the...

Wow, it looks line IllustratedDNA mish mash. All I can go by are my matches. I have very few non-Greek matches Does anybody knows what the time horizon is? Modern ethnicity, 300 years, 500 years, 1000 years????

https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/15/10/646. Supposedly, according to this paper both linguistics and genetics support this hypothesis. They chose G25 because qpadm only supports 2-3 sources whereas G25 is a lot more flexible. Read the article and laugh.

And yet, you managed to turn it into ultra nationalist political propaganda.

Except my mother was taller than my father, not by much mind you, about 1cm. I look a lot like my mother but taller than her by 16 cm. My paternal grandfather was quite tall for his generation.

Making assumptions and conclusions based on FTDNA is a fools errand. It is a self selected group. First of all Greeks are severely under tested both on the autosomal and Y-DNA side. Only the Australian Greek and German Greek immigrants have been tested to any degree. I have a lot of matches on...