Recent content by Joey D

Catalunya is a good yardstick for Sicily. Whatever Catalunya manages to gain for itself in terms of autonomy within the context of modern Spain, Sicily should always look to match it in the context of the modern Italian state. If it currently falls short, it's only because Sicilian politicians...

Does anyone know what TR stands for?

I've been dying to join in the guessing game, and thought I'd make my debut with this celebrated aussie rules footballer from the 80s/90s who is likely to be unknown to all on this board. His lack of front teeth is not meant to be a hint as to what his ethnicity is, it just means that he played...

curiouscat makes a fair point, afterall, it is the Eurasian continent, and it's pretty arbitrary the delineation between Europe and Asia. And let's not forget that Azerbaijan and even Australia enter Eurovision.

Got this off the it wiki, it's a break down of all the entries in Giarrizzo's Dizionario Etimologico Siciliano. While this appears to suggest that about half of the entries have a derivation that is not Latin, it's worth noting that: - words which are obviously from Latin are not included -...

My EU V2 K15 East Med 30.31 West Med 17.77 West Asian 17.34 Atlantic 12.77 North Sea 9.65 Baltic 4.01 Eastern Euro 3.49 Red Sea 1.73 Using 1 population approximation: 1 South_Italian @ 5.661479 2 Central_Greek @...

Does it stand for Trabzon in Anatolia?

I was just playing around with the Eurogenes J-Test K14, which is meant to focus on Ashkenazi ancestry, and came up with the following results: EAST_MED 30.09 WEST_MED 17.09 WEST_ASIAN 12.36 ATLANTIC 9.6 NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO 9.07 MIDDLE_EASTERN 7.6 ASHKENAZI 6.15...

I remember there was a thread which translated your DNA results to map coordinates, and I did indeed end up on an Eastern Greek island, from memory, just East of Crete.

Ah, I see Pax has already mentioned Policastro, if you read my huge story above, you'll see that I eventually get to Policastro as well.

There are a couple of separate (but related) events happening over the space of some 75 years. I know you will know much of this already, but it is worth laying it out, if nothing else, for completeness. So the Normans first started venturing into the far South around 1030, as part of a...

Interesting spreadsheet, I would not have picked that in a million years.

I agree with these posts, these various tests throw up all sorts of results, and clearly some place a greater weighting on one or another region. So for me, it's just a bit of fun, and to be frank, it doesn't keep me up at night. Having said that, there are obvious pointers which keep cropping...

^ Thanks for the link. Interesting post from oreo cookie: This right here is why people assume that Ashkenazim have Italian DNA. Because Sicilians and Ashkenazim on PCA plots, are both roughly halfway between North Italians and modern day Levantines, people say "well, Ashkenazim are Levantine...

It just seems odd to me that we would bother labelling a community maybe a few hundred years old, when clearly, they have all come from the British Isles and Northern Europe. I know there's always a temporal question involved with these sorts of tests, whether you go back to pre-history or...