I forgot to post the admixture one using all the samples: I find it very interesting.
Target: Angela
Distance: 0.7609% / 0.76086678 | |
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24.0 | North_Italian_HGDP01151 |
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17.4 | Tuscan_HGDP01163 |
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14.6 | North_Italian_HGDP01147 |
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13.8 | Sardinian_HGDP01071 |
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10.4 | Sicilian |
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10.2 | Tuscan_HGDP01167 |
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7.2 | C_Italian |
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1.8 | Tuscan_HGDP01162 |
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0.6 | North_Italian_HGDP01172 |
The northern Italian samples are "very" Northern Italian, one near the Veneto at the extreme northeast of the HGLP sample and one at the top north end. Could the people of my father's mountains be even more "northern" than Emilians in general? There's also the fact that one of my "famous" or infamous ancestors on my paternal grandmother's side was supposedly a "privateer" from Rimini who had to flee to the mountains on the other side of Italy.
Then, my Tuscan samples are also the most northern ones, but I get a chunk of Sardinian/Sicilian, about 14% Sardinian, which is a lot. I have documented family trees going all the way back to the 1600s and there's no sign of it, although there are some gaps in my maternal grandfather's La Spezia province lines.
So, I suppose some of that influence came via that latter route? My maternal grandfather's surname is most frequent in Lombardia and Piemonte, but then Roma shows up as well.
However, there's also the fact that some of my mother's people come from extremely isolated villages in the foothills of the Appennini. Is it possible some of that more EEF ancestry pooled there? I don't know, but I get an awful lot of EEF, and Italian Neolithic shows up, as does Greek Neolithic(although at lower levels than Bronze Age samples), which don't for most Italian results I've seen here. Or, is it because one of my ancestral villages was built on a Byzantine castrum? The "Sardinian" and "Sicilian" just mean a pull further south and west than perhaps the samples from Toscana than were used. The Corsica connection may show that too. Interestingly, the Sardinian samples which comes up in my mix is from the internal hinterland, the most "ancient" and pre-Indo-European arrival area of Sardinia. The Sicilian may be a reverse connection. Lots of "Ligurian" in Sicily via ancient migrations and the "Lombards" of the Medieval period as well. I do get connections to the areas where those people settled.
Impossible to know, probably, but I'm getting a lot more clarity than I ever thought I'd get.
Thanks, Jovialis.
None of this would have been possible with the other calculators out there.