This guy even begged Aspurg Bosnian/Montenegrin Serb to be accepted and called him brother and kissed his ass because they are same clade of E-v13, while last thing in life Montenegrin Serb Aspurg wanted is to hear Šiptar calling him a brother.
I do consider Albanians of that clade "cousins" because I am still at least a little closer to them than any other Albanian in terms of Y-DNA. You are misinterpreting my attitude towards Albanians as a usual attitude, but generally I am a bit Albanophilic and have been for years. One reason is the clan system which I like.
He was rather interested into Huno-Avar theory of origin rather then having anything with Albanians.
If I were a Kuchi/Kuqi I'd say I have paternal Albanian ancestry or even a Bjelopavlic whose exact connection is yet to be determined (unlike Kuchi who in 1485 even the today's Old Kuci Mrnjavcici had 50 %+ of Albanian first names Bjelopalvici at that time only had a few but they claim by tradition Dukagjin origin).
Albanians as an ethnicity are first mentioned in 11th century (that is I'm talking about mainstream 100 % reliable mention), and my Albanian cousins are atm 3000 yrs away from me. How can I reconstruct my own ancestry by using a clade that is so distant to me? That makes no sense whatsoever. Instead I look for those who cluster with me in nearer time frame. You know that exists a Swedish cluster closer to Albanians than me but still being 2800+ years away.
Fortunately I have a very unusual and easily spottable haplotype and I have closer relatives at places where I mentioned them. Most distant is a Hungarian who did 111 STR's and is 100 % member of my clade, connection with him is also 100 % connection with my closer relatives in Shop region.
And this Hungarian happens to be from Karcag, the most Cuman place in Hungary and is as of now the only person tested for Y-DNA from Karcag, so why is my only current cousin in Hungary (I don't count here kuzmosi branch upstream) found in Karcag of all places? According to Hungarian records about this family their ancestor was a possessor of Kunmadaras (also a Cuman place) in 1702 after these being taken over from the Ottomans. His paternal ancestor had the same name as a person mentioned in Karcag in the Ottoman defter of 1591 this surname is mentioned but it is not mentioned in Ottoman defter of 1571, the only two persons in 1571 who had the appropriate first name to be progenitors of this Gyorffi surname had surnames Kovacs and Csoreg, and between the 2 censuses Kovacs had the same numbers of houses and Csoreg reduced from 3 to 2. How is it not justified of me to suspect that Gyorffi descend of Csoregs. Csoreg means "soldier" in Cuman and this family is considered to have a certain Cuman origin. That's why I'm so interested and keen in having Csoreg tested because even a 23andme "V13" would confirm it. But there are also other families from Karcag who still have Cuman surnames such as Alacs or Kongur etc. Btw I've seen a sculptor who made Cuman statues in Karcag (and who by all account should be related to the guy who tested) calling Cumans "his ancestors", so they might know a bit that I don't..
I want more people from there tested asap..
You know that my second commercially tested cousin is from village Pecenevce near Leskovac who clusters not closely with me but with a Bulgarian. And that this village is mentioned already in (at least) 1498, that next to it there is village Chekmin also mentioned then. It is considered by all historians that Pecenevce is named after Pechenegs, this family has "unknown" origin in literature which means it is very likely indigenous to Pecenevce. Chekmin is most similar etymologically to Chekman who was a Berendei khan (some consider him Cuman) from late 12th century, and Berendei were part of a tribal federation called "The black hats" Chorni Klobuky which included Berendei, Torkil, Kovui and Pechenegs.. So you see this is no accident as
both Cekmin and Pecenevce associate to black hats, as do
the two villages of Berende found nearby in Shop region.
And ofc you know already in my native area carious Cuman and even Bulgar traces exist.
I think I already have myself a clear tribal designation. There was a very privileged group in Ottoman system called Vlachs of Sjenica mentioned already in 1455. They served as Voynuk soldiers the Ottomans and additionally they were guarding passes, because of that they were probably the most exempt group in Vlach status when it comes to taxes. (some of) The heads of this community were concentrated in two villages near Sjenica, 100 years ago my clan was the only family who had members recorded in both of these, and these branches are not my own near Bijelo Polje. Also 400+ years ago in one of these villages the name associating to my current surname (these were very rare) and one surname by tradition we had at some point (but its likely still younger than our tribal name) were also mentioned in those places.. This is a clear evidence IMO of connection. My family is native to Komaran west of Bijelo Polje where we had two villages named after us. Komaran is according to some named after Cumans. Komaran in 15th-17th century was entirely Vlach, that is all villages there had Vlach status, unlike Bihor East of Bijelo Polje where only some had it (mostly those neighboring Komaran and Sjenica nahiya's). The first certain member of my family recorded thus far had what is considered by various authors a Romanian first name, these names where common in areas that had Vlach status for obvious reasons and alot less in Bihor. But Vlachs of Sjenica surely had several hg's.. Some other interesting haplotypes are found there.
Bottom line going by all available genetic evidence I have thus far for my clade Illyrian ancestry is impossible. It's either Gelonians (depending on where yet untested clades found in Russia and certainly Caucasus too end up being on the tree) or Dacians, likely Free Dacians who mingled with other nearby peoples, I have to go by location where my most distant members of my cluster are found which is Karcag-Cluj-Napoca area, which are not that far between themselves, and actually between them is the Bihor area (and near BP western area is called Bihor as well might just a be coincidence). So which Dacian tribes are found there?
Tribes like Biephy, Cauci, Ansamenses, Costoboci or Gelonians are what I come from. My haplotypes weren't found in Albanians thus far, and we peak in Shop but that is extremely likely a bottleneck with a TMRCA of about 1000 ybp (all of us in the Balkan are closer to each other than any is to these Northern guys), because as of now I can say that every cousin commercially tested is found at a location with some Turkic nomad connection, we came from the north with Nomads, some might have arrived with Berendei/Pechenegs others with Cumans.
Btw already it can be said that basal diversity of E-Z17107 in Carpathian area is very significant (as is diversity of certain other CTS9320 clades) and that it indicates all Albanian descend from North of Danube as well, that may be in Iron Age but Albanian E-Z17107 came from the North..
It is not because of my "dislike of Albanians" that I push this theory (ofc I never disliked Albanians) but because I have some evidence for it and because I happen to like it alot.. (some of my relatives might not but I don't care about anybodies opinion really).. I don't care much about "theories" either, I'm into facts and making theories facts..
Btw I think the last time Dacians are reliably mentioned as a people was in 381 when some "Karpodakai" together with Huns and Scirii attacked the Romans..