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Although the Y hromosome, the male haplogroup respectively, is only a small part of the human genome it can prove a common relationship much deeper in time, than the autosomes. mtDna is not very helpful since even one difference could separate a few hundred, if not thousands years apart...

Many Bulgarians are being tested at the moment, but most choose useless tests like with Ancestry and MyHeritage. As we lack the paper trail, there is no chance of finding real distant relatives.

12 STR markers and FamilyFinder tests are just 59$ if you buy it from here and automatically join the Bulgarian DNA project. I think even a poor Bulgarian student can afford that. Further discounts are expected in April. https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Bulgarian

This may have solved the mystery with haplogroup A00, which is only found in Western Africa around Cameroon. Since it was estimated to be around 270000y.o, older than Homo Sapience, some people thought it came from interbreeding with an extinct hominid. However, geneticists did not want to get...

Nikola Tsvyatkov is in fact I2a2b-L38, presumably from the East European BY25359 branch. There are already a few Bulgarians and Macedonians found with it, so not unusual for Bulgaria. His claim to royalty was ridiculously based on the fact that Charles XII stopped at his village sometimes when...

There was a population hiatus on the Balkans from 2400 to 1300BC possibly due to climate change. After the end of the Ezero Culture, there was a hiatus from 2400 to 1300 BC, in which the Balkans were depopulated almost completely. Climate change, warming and droughts have been found to have...

Not sure if followed well, but 301843 Tutunci, Russian Federation is actually with Bulgarian origin. He is from the population exchange between Russia and Turkey when Bulgarians, Gagauze and even Albanians were resettled in Bessarabia, Southern Ukraine and Crimea. During WW2 the Bulgarians from...

Well, soon we will know the subbranches of Roma founding lineages. A new study with Full genome is in the pipeline. This was reported at the Human evolution conference Cambridge 1917: Roma population ancestry from a whole genome sequence perspective: preliminary results. Erica Bianco1, Carla...

Roma obviously acquired E-V13 somewhere on the Balkans, for example it is almost absent in Spanish Roma, but they have other branches like V22 and M81. It is not a "founder lineage" in the study, those being H1, I1 and J2a. There is also L540 in Hungary and Slovakia and the obvious explanation...

Just now 3 studies about DNA from the old steppe came out, which categorically show that the Scythians and the later Hun and Turkic invaders carried at least some East Asian autosomally and as Y and mito haplogroups. Those lineages among contemporary Bulgarians discovered until now are at best...

There must be one more big correction to the E-V13 tree. The V13 project has discovered, and it has been also confirmed by FTDNA in its new tree, that under CTS5856 exist 3 major branches - S3003/L540, Z16663/Y3593 and BY3880. All of the rest and even the former CTS5856* fall under BY3880. This...

Latest Mesolithic Scandinavia study shows, that the I2c haplogroups there are rather I2c1, which is more logical with the current distribution in Europe. Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude...

Yes, this is correct in most cases, the highlanders were originally the same(seeking refuge) or identical to people living the nearby lowlands before Ottoman times. However there are cases when people claim ownership on the basis of a few new settler villages during Ottoman times. This is the...

Well, you asked for "some credible sources to support your claim. l have already posted my opinion on different forums but was attacked even by fellow Bulgarians. The truth is that most Bulgarians also inhabited the lowland of Thrace and Eastern Bulgaria only in the last few centuries. Yes, most...

You can read this study by a professional Bulgarian historian - "Albanians in the Eastern Balkans". It describes the initial settlements of Albanians around their current territory and South to Greece, and later migrations after 16c. Eastwards. Hope Google translate will help...

I would advise you not to use in your linguistic exercises Bulgarian surnames, the etymology of which you don't know anything about. And yes, a huge proportion of Bulgarian surnames have Turkish origin. For example most professions during Ottoman times had official Turkish or other non Slavic...

Wishful thinking, Berbatov's family name most likely comes from the Turkish Berbat, which means awful, hellish, etc. Probably this was his greatgrandfather's nickname, which turned into a surname. Bulgarians did not have official surnames during Ottoman times, some invented one after a nickname...

Rafc has extracted data from the Genographic project, where all origin is self reported. I have filled the questionnaire myself and it goes only up to your grandparents. As most Greeks tested there in fact live in US, Australia, etc. they probably don't have information where their grandparents...

Well, my understanding is if the origin time and TMRCA are calculated on the basis of SNPs, the more number of SNPs on the level of the older branch, the less is the TMRCA for all known subbranches. If there is only one SNP on the main branch, the origin and TMRCA must be equal. This is in fact...

The tree of S7461 is still not clear as nobody from the Balkan members have done the Big Y test. Several Bulgarians are tested with the V13 pack, one is BY5465, a couple stops at BY5022, but many SNPs under are not tested. The Druze branch seems to have a recent founder effect, but still split...