Recent content by Stolfi1

@duarte, thanks for your reply. Actually, it kind of makes some sense if the Portuguese/Spanish overlaps with French. I seem to be the only sibling (so far) who has inherited more of my Italian grandmother's Portuguese/Spanish DNA and that may account for me being the only one that is really...

Thanks guys! I have been trying to learn as much as I can about my ancestry and I think the MTA results are a bit over my head. The results on MTA do seem the most accurate of all the sites IMHO...at least far as the Modern Genetic Populations go. It's pinpointed my family pretty...

Salento and Palermo Trapani: I won't disagree as I'm sure you both know more than I do. My Italian roots are from Avigliano and Verzino, Calabria. When researching ancestor's from Verzino, I am seeing alot of DNA matches with Portuguese roots - which I presume now is an anomaly. Also, many of...

Riverman: I guess I'm curious about the French because it keeps coming up under my DNA results on sites (AncestryDNA and here) and it's not coming up for any of my full siblings or my mother. You're right that my father is a typical Italian (100% from Southern Italy mixed with some Spanish and...

Hello All, I've been trying to figure out for the longest time where my French DNA comes from as my paper trail is Italy on my father's side (Southern Italy - Calabria and Basilicata region). My mother's side is English (paternal side has been here since the 1640's - his mother's side was German...

Hi, This is my first post here and I am hoping that I am posting on the correct forum page. I had my brother take the 23andme DNA test so that I can get our haplogroup and it came back as I-L205.1. When I read the information on that haplogroup I was surprised when I got to the part about I-M253...