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Maybe the central Italian signature is local Campanian/Oscans mixed with coastal Greeks in the area? I believe there are some inscriptions or graffiti written in the Oscan language (I believe in the greek alphabet) found in and around Pompeii. The Oscan/Samnites of this area but also and...

It's just weird though how it had me with higher Italy percentage before and then, poof, disappeared or absorbed into another. I see my Germanic has risen but could it have absorbed so much Italy? I think using national name references is a mistake because it can confuse people, maybe use only...

I just received the Ancestry DNA update, looking for an opinion. My background on my father's side is German/British Isles and my mother's it is Italian from Campania/Molise/Lombardy. My previous results were closer to what I thought it should be where my Italy was at 36% and it assigned me to...

My Italian side came from 3 regions of Italy from my mother. Kind of like a Frankenstein, patched together from different parts of Italy to end up in upstate NY to marry one another. My mother's paternal grandfather came from a small mountain town commune called Ferrazzano, Campobasso in Molise...

Where my family is from is the mountains of Avellino and Campobasso. I'm not aware of any Jewish people living in those areas like they did in Calabria and Sicily, but I could be wrong about that and or my family history though 17% seems high with no known Jewish ancestry. A lot of Sephardics...

I myself have been assigned 17% Sephardic. My ancestry on my mother's side is predominantly from Southern Italy with no known Jewish ancestry. Before I had 27% Southern European and 14% Anatolia, now my Southeast European is 13% and Asia Minor is 0%. I think if I was truly Sephardic Jewish I...

Why say Jewish media? Why not say JUST the media? Freedom of speech might not apply on this forum...

Very interesting. Familytree doesn't recognize any of my British heritage but Ancestry gets it on the money. The NY law is so frustrating! I am between Canada and Pennsylvania, maybe I should take a little drive, to see the country...no shenanigans of course. :)

I tested with Ancestry and Familytree (not 23andMe because of NY state laws) and with Ancestry I tested 2% European Jewish, Familytree 0% but with Eurogenes either gives me 25% Lebanese, Syrian or Jewish of some sort. I have about 25-30% southern Italian ancestry.

I am haplogroup X2j. Think of Haplogroup as a big family tree and subclades are it's branches. There is some good information on this website about mtDNA X. There are other papers dedicated to it as well that are good but focus mainly on the Native American branches of X. My maternal side comes...

I'm not sure I believe what I wrote myself about raiding and brides, just a thought looking back into myth and roots in the language that show similarities throughout the IE world. David W. Anthony did mention a West Asian culture from Anatolia living in Ukraine that interacted with steppes...

Maybe they traded their horses for foreign women? There are stories and myths in multiple Indo-European societies about bride prices for horses. Then there is the guest/ghosti connection with guest and host found in all PIE languages where there are reciprocal duties of hospitality and where...

Any thoughts on the paper that appeared in Nature on the People of the British Isles posted by Dienekes'? I haven't read the paper myself. Some people say it's a victory for Stephen Oppenheimer. I've read Origin's of the British and couldn't digest it, especially because of his denial of...

I just found that my mtDNA haplogroup is X2j. Almost every article about X2 is about indigenous peoples of North America. It says here X2j is from North Africa. I'm just curious where about in North Africa is this found? My mtDNA goes back to Campania, Italy. I'm wondering if she could of came...

I'm from New York, my Father is mostly British and German. My mother's family is recently from Lombardy, Campobasso and near Naples. My familytreedna results are European: European Coastal Plain 39%, North Mediterranean Basin 27%, European Northlands 15%, Middle Eastern: Anatolia and Caucasus...

I assume the Avar/Bulgar population was admixed before they came into Italy much like the Goths. I've read that modern Hungarians and Bulgarians don't show much central Asian. I'm just wondering what I'm looking at in my autosomal results for Familytreedna, it says I have 5% Eurasian Heartland...

Campobasso Italy is much overlooked but has a rich heritage of Samnites and Lombards but lesser known is the Bulgars and Avars that were given land for military service to the Lombards in the 6th-8th century ad. They settled land near Boiano and a Lombard/Avar grave was found at Campochiaro. My...

My teacher is from the Amalfi Coast and is a very educated man who believes Italy will succeed until everybody speaks standard Italian. I should have mentioned I stopped being tutored by him a while back for financial reasons so it would be interesting to have seen his reaction. :0

I thought I posted replies to individual people on book recommendations but I guess my coffee hasn't reached my brain yet. On topics of books, what book best describes Italy, it's people, soul, attitude etc.? I like Luigi Barzini The Italian's.

Thanks I'm going to read it as soon as possible!