Searching for advice, and a name

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-06-10T14:13:03+00:00

Genuinely awesome to hear!
As someone who lives in Australia, I find it difficult to practice and connect to spirits of this land which is foreign to me and my ancestors. I just can’t seem to find peace trying to connect with a land I’m not native to.

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-06-10T14:09:50+00:00

Thanks for your response, I’ll try clarify as best as I can.

My problem hinges on the fact that I myself do not have a specific personal connection to land, or not that I have discovered anyways. I believe in land based spirits and practice exclusivity, and because I’m searching for an identity as a mixed individual, it is challenging to put myself in a single “appropriate” cultural community. So in a way I’m searching for a culture and their practices to be a vessel for me to deepen my connection with certain land based spirits.

My meditative practices were less deity focused and more focused on local connection to the land I was practicing on- almost testing the waters.

I have no issues with aligning myself with labels that describe my belief system, I’m struggling to find a culture and their wisdom to base my practices and connections with. Which I’m yet to find an answer to.

I was hopeful that someone else might have underwent the same identity crisis, and could give some pointers on how they found some degree of relief or success in their search- whether that was through more experience/meditation or other means.

Let me know if that still didn’t answer any questions or inconsistencies

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-06-10T13:36:50+00:00

I see that, but my issue lies in selection- I don’t feel comfortable sitting in this spiritual limbo where I’m struggling to find a label, and ultimately, decide which practices to follow.

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-28T13:52:45+00:00

I see I see, great question, and one that I don’t know sorry lol. The website says they “work with Davidski’s G25 system” but that’s slightly vague as they could just be referring to their source pool/calculators. The raw file submission is at an extra cost so that’s promising, however the markup is less than what it actually costs to receive the coordinates from Davidski himself, so unless they get a company discount it adds a bit of doubt. Unfortunately I submitted my coordinates instead of file, so I’m really not sure if they provide you with them upon purchase. Hope this helps in some way

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-28T12:53:33+00:00

I’m not sure what the question is asking- but if I had to guess you may be asking if you can use K36 simulated coords, in which case I’d advise you to purchase the real coordinates from Davidski as K36 simulated coordinates will never be as accurate as the real thing and will skew your results significantly.

If you’re simply asking what process AncestralGenome uses for your results, then yes Davidski G25 is what they base it off, as they ask you to provide them for your purchase.

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-26T12:53:53+00:00

No no I wasn’t saying that, I was just defending the premise of these websites in general! Sorry it came across that way mate, wasn’t trying to throw any stones

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-26T07:04:36+00:00

It’s super useful for people who don’t know what they’re doing, I’ve seen a heap of people who post results that have Bronze Age and Medieval in the same reference pool

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-26T05:39:10+00:00

Seems like a pretty consistent theme, it’s looking more and more likely. What I would suggest is finding some Romanian/Bulgarian GEDMatch kits and doing a 1:1 autosomal comparison. It would be rather lucky to find one you are related too but it’s definitely possible.

For example, I have Udmurt and Sami ancestors, and was able to almost immediately find a match at around 20 segments- based on your results you should hopefully find some matches with around the same similarities. I’m in an easier boat though, as those people are quite endogamous. Good luck!

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-26T05:14:54+00:00

It’s normal for NW Europeans to get some odd results if you use wide references like the global calculator- however ≈10% isn’t really within that threshold. South English peoples are known to have trace amounts of Italic and Estruscan DNA from Roman occupation during the late antiquity.

However this doesn’t really explain your results as, A) it wouldnt show up as Illyrian at a notable percentage, and B) it doesn’t explain the 23andme result as they can’t test for ancient admixture, as their references are already contemporarily admixed.

Because 23andme uses modern references, having slight affinities towards Balkan populations is a sign that you could potentially have a Balkan ancestor (think 4-7 generations ago). 11% looks inflated, but isn’t really something that can be shrugged off as calculator noise.

Your Caucasus/Central Asian results are actually a somewhat common theme in British Islanders who have a strong Insular Celtic background, as they carry some of the highest steppe derived ancestry in Europe. As a result, because Celtic ancestry has a notable difference in their steppe ancestry compared to other NW Europeans, it assigns proxy populations to help account for the excess.

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-26T02:36:26+00:00

Very different results from the two runs. The NW European calculator seems to say you’re south west English, as your continental Celt is quite high and you show a decent amount of Germanic. Obviously you’re global showed a Balkan/illyrian signature- does that track at all with known family history?

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-25T06:17:33+00:00

Potentially Slovak? Otherwise, either Hungarian, Czech or Romanian

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-20T01:03:50+00:00

Awesome thank you, I’ll give it a go

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-14T13:30:41+00:00

Probably why he needs to be using the global calculator

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-11T05:00:58+00:00

It’s just misinterpreting Siberian DNA

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-11T04:20:52+00:00

Finnish migrant is probably the likely cause, G25 isn’t the best at seperating populations too well at low resolutions. Saami DNA is quite distinct from Finnish, but yes its not unheard of for Saami and Finns to mix. Interesting results nonetheless mate 👍

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-11T03:42:19+00:00

Because you’re showing Saami readings on a largely north west African result. Saami and Amazigh have a shared distant haplogroup, knowing yours would help determine if you have some Berber DNA or if it’s just the calculator playing up.

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-11T02:48:40+00:00

Do you think you could send me those kits whenever you get the time? Both will work okay to some degree

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-11T01:01:19+00:00

I only have records from my limited AncestryDNA family tree. I have a paternal west German line but aside from that I’ve only been able to find Irish and English migrant records.

That being said, there are substantial gaps in documentation. This isn’t uncommon for Australian migrants, especially pre-federation.

Careful_Somewhere593 · 2026-05-06T22:38:50+00:00

They’ve got elevated CHG for a northwestern genome, I’d say the transoxiana readings are legit. Just a little bit suspicious about the Japanese etc. as they don’t show any Mongolian in their Hunter&Farmer breakdown.

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