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It looks like 23andMe "re-somethinged" their Ancestry Composition reports It looks like the Ancestry Composition reports has changed in its breakdown. Being half Sicilian and half southern Italian I can understand the Greek influence. Middle Eastern is gone and looks like it was rolled into...

I don't think I participated in this thread, if I did please excuse me. :ashamed2: Italian 70.8% Broadly Southern European 10.4% Broadly Northwestern European 1.4% Broadly European 3.6% Western Asian & North African 12.9% Western Asian 10.7% North African & Arabian 1.1% Broadly Western Asian &...

My first cousin and I, our mothers were sisters, come up with HV4a (me) and R0 (him). I know R is the ancestor haplogroup of H & V, but I'm curious why 23andMe reports our mtDNA at different levels.

Someone, male, I don't know comes up at the top of my DNA Relatives list at 23andMe. He is predicted to be a first cousin. My Y haplogroup is T1a1a. His is listed as L-131, which I think is T1a2. We don't share any X, which I believe means we are paternal relatives. The Shared cM Project 3.0...

The ancient indigenous pre-Christian religions of Europe e.g. Roman, Greek, Norse, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon are experiencing a serious reconstruction and revival. Iceland is building the first temple to the Norse gods in over 1,000 years. And the temple is big. So this is pretty serious dedication...

Thanks... I think the world might be a happier place if more people did that. :smile: But that's just my way. :wink:

Right!!?? Btw, my comment about screaming "Valhallaaaa!!!" was just a joke. I know there are very serious devotees of the All-Father (he still scares me though). :wink:

No, it's a valid question! :good_job: I have no idea either. :thinking: I just feel drawn to the Norse gods, Thor in particular, whom I include in my religious practice. Pretty much in the same way I feel drawn to the Hindu gods, Hinduism and anything Indian. No, nothing to do with killing. I...

Despite my Nordic handle and affinity for the Norse, and being of Italian-American descent I practice Hinduism (I'm complicated). We tend to see the gods and goddesses as both individuals and as manifestations (as we are) of Brahman, the only reality. There is a mahāvākya (lit. "great saying")...

@Angela... That was great. It was definitely worth your effort. I knew only part of it but not the whole of it. This is the part I haven't been able to express properly: I think people confuse genetics, populations and migrations (or settling down) with ethnicity and nationality, both of...

That was a great post, very informative. :great: I think I must admit I'm one of those people who is trying to find out where my ancestors were from before that 500 year mark. I know that my ancestors were Italian and Sicilian peasants, laborers and villagers for all those centuries. Hard as...

I found the http://esquilax.stanford.edu/#pca link in one of the threads here and thought I'd play around with it. I used the HGDP data source and the 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 SNPS. The picture below is the 100,000 SNPs. Pardon my ignorance, since I'm still learning about this, but what is the...

Thanks cattel... I even think I understand that. :laughing: After doing some more reading, I think the high(er) amounts of northern European in southern Italians and Sicilians is very ancient DNA. 23andMe disclaims that they go back only about 500 years, for ancestry of where people lived. But...

Thanks Angela.

Since I first took the 23andMe test DNA Relatives matches have been accumulating. I assume that means that more people who have my traits are adding to the database. So I've run the MDLP 23b as @Sile recommended, and the Eurogenes K15 v2. It said in the GEDmatch tutorial that people of European...

Wrong section, sorry.

I haven't been here in a couple of weeks but I want to thank you all for the information and the links. I wasn't ignoring anyone. :ashamed2:

Thanks. I know it's something hard to pinpoint. Exactly, which is why I thought it odd that being (probably) descended from hunter-gatherers who began eating grains maybe 10,000 years ago or more, I have a problem with them. Agreed that it's often the "malady-du-jour" as I called it, and...

I know, here we go again with gluten intolerance. :-p Seriously, I've seen people get their tongues ripped out and stomped on at other sites, with no serious answers, for asking about the "malady-du-jour" as someone called it. But I did a search... really I did, but didn't find anything about...

Great, thanks.