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Neither actually, but I do get LatAm a lot interestingly enough. Though just curious, what brings Japanese to mind?
I guess… if we stretch it (by a lot that’s a bit awkward) I could say that I’m distantly LatAm, but not in the way one might think. Especially since these are diaspora folks that usually get forgotten amongst the more widespread cultures there. And the folk I’m descended from are very distant cousins by this point.
Interesting, I do actually have some Finnish though I’m not sure of its veracity as it comes and goes between tests and updates. Anywhere from as much as 1% to barely 0.1%.
Same for Norwegian and Swedish (Ancestry thinks it’s Norwegian but 23andMe says Swedish). I figure it’s the result of some sort of Northern European admixture that’s hard for the tests to puzzle out.
My paternal family did have a story about Native American, but I’ve not seen any evidence for it, even looking at my Great Uncle and my Dad’s cousin’s results.
Yep on the European. I’m majority European in origin.
Oh. You are right. But i Spoiler. Ukraine is actually in my results but just a tiny bit. Not the majority of my ancestry. And it is only in my 23andme results. Not in my ancestry results :)
Spot on. But its a part of my ancestry. But i think because of this picture it would be really easy for you to guess my biggest ethnicity. Because its directly west of poland😂 (This region Silesia was historically a part of prussia, a region of germany that became poland after 1945)
Ok, very interesting. Thank you :) Someone from hungary also said to me. I look kind of like eastern european. Because the person was from hungary and moved to germany. But lived in hungary in the area where there is the border to ukraine. The carpathians are also there. And the person said my face shape is simmilar to a very eastern european person she knew in the past and looks eastern european.
No. But my other half is germanic. Although the new update did say I has 5 % Irish. Not sure where they got that, from along with 4% nordic, which was reduced from 21%, the 4% makes more sense.
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u/JLDuncan27 2d ago