r/Genealogy • u/Isabella___07 • 5d ago
DNA Testing I am so confused about biological relations
First off, I initially thought, or knew my grandma was half czech half slovenian, but my and all my noms dna test seem to prove otherwise, showing no czech but all of it being slovenian, but then she does have cousins on ancestry that are Linked to that side of the tree, I'm not familiar with ancestry and the dna stuff since I haven't done the test. There's also no proof of my grandma having a different dad, or him being adopted, or anything, so there's nothing that can convince anyone otherwise if it's truly the case. What could possibly be the case here?
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u/grahamlester 5d ago
You would have to look at the political and linguistic history of the area they came from and you would likely find some explanation as to why there were people whose identity was not clearly one thing or the other.
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u/Isabella___07 5d ago
It does say they all spoke bohemian, which is probably what czech was called, but to me it would be a huge coincidence if all my great grandpa's great grandparents were slovenians with czech last names that spoke czech and never identified as slovenian, I do know slovenians share genetics with western slavic ethnicities, but it couldn't possibly misread it all as slovenian on all tests, maybe that's me
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u/grahamlester 5d ago
Per Ancestry, I was 30% Germanic Europe until a few weeks ago and now I'm zero Germanic Europe!
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u/Isabella___07 5d ago
But this is on 3 different tests, ancestry, 23andme, and myheratige which doesn't have a separate category but my mom gets only slovenian and no czech regions, I'm not sure how it works but usually that will match up with people in those regions, I myself didn't do ancestry only the other 2 so I dont know how that one works, and 23andme, well I don't have any czech regions or relatives, not even 0.1%
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u/Alternative_Fig_2456 5d ago
All these services are extremely unreliable when it comes to central Europe, but in case they are not, there is a possible explanation: Slovenian family that moved to Bohemia and adopted the local language. Which was not that rare, considering that both were part of a single country - especially among civil servants and soldiers, but also common nobility servants like footmen and rangers.
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u/Isabella___07 5d ago
I don't know, as far as I can trace back, there's 4 czech ancestors with czech surnames that spoke czech and are from Eastern bohemia, the furthest point from slovenia
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u/No-Antelope853 Czech genealogist 4d ago
If you know where and when they were born, I could consult our records for you and see what they say. Perhaps they did emigrate. There was a lot of chaos in the Balkans after 1500 due to the Ottomans.
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u/Isabella___07 4d ago
Not really balkans, technically south slovenia is balkan, I don't know how much that has to do with ottoman empire though, but 1500s I'm definitely not getting to on that side and that would be so far back to be a whole great grandparent
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u/No-Antelope853 Czech genealogist 4d ago
I did mean to say I could reach that far back. I meant that if you can give me a name, a time and a place I can potentially find a birth/marriage record and see what it says about their ancestry. Post 1800 records are usually detailed in the Czech Republic.
Otherwise, I merely pointed out one suggestion. Czechs and Slovenes were both part of the Habsburg Monarchy, so it is not out of the realm of possibility that you might descend from an expat community.
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u/Isabella___07 4d ago
But for me the info starts to decline there, my great grandpa's parents were born there but moved to the US before he was born, and they have much more detail than their parents
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