torzio
Regular Member
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- Location
- Eastern Australia
- Ethnic group
- North East Italian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- T1a2 - SK1480
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H95a
Although my User-Name is Salento, AncestryDNA did not include the Salento area in the maps of my Genetic Community.
That's why I felt compelled to explain the reason why.
Because of the Griko population, there are small genetic differentiations between the Salentini.
AncestryDNA realized that I'm not a Griko, and it put me with the other Pugliesi.
(Salento is the Lecce / Brindisi in the grayed out area)
I know there are a lot of households all over Italy with your real surname, it would be difficult for you to track your line, but why it was used in that way, well ....................its like , as an example the surname , Tedesco ( which means German ), it was given out to people who had no surname at the time, and because they looked German, .............and not because they came from germany
there is currently 13416 households in italy with your real surname .......so it would be difficult for you to track your line
number 1 is apulia region with 3432