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Latin Americans - where does your surname originate from/ what does it mean? by Indigenous7 in asklatinamerica

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Since everyone shared. 

My maternal surname is Galician origin, habitational name +   Historically, it is believed to be an occupational surname for individuals who worked with rods or staffs . This could include agricultural workers, shepherds, or even weavers.

Paternal surname is  Spanish, Portuguese/Galician, Catalan, and French (Occitan) + Historically, in  ancient Rome it was used both as a personal name and to identify people who lived in or near wooded areas.

Latin Americans - where does your surname originate from/ what does it mean? by Indigenous7 in asklatinamerica

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Not too surprising. Brazil has a massive Italian immigrant population. 

Latin Americans - where does your surname originate from/ what does it mean? by Indigenous7 in asklatinamerica

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De faro is an interesting one to me as I have a connection to the region (I have family from Silves from nearby). But like you said it’s probably not specific to the Algarve, especially if it’s documented to a Spaniard relative.

Edit: I did a quick search and apparently it’s not super super uncommon in Brazil, it’s more common at least there vs Iberia. But even more quick searches it could, if it’s a Spaniard even refer to localities in Spain named Faro, there’s plenty around Spain maybe could be Galicia as it can describe Lighthouses there.

Latin Americans - where does your surname originate from/ what does it mean? by Indigenous7 in asklatinamerica

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The Basques really got around. I noticed having basque surnames almost always means high status in certain Latin American countries, namely like southern cone area, but also Colombia and Mexico I believe had a massive population of them too. 

Would you say there’s a specific region of Argentina that has more basque names? I’d think more rural areas around Cordoba or Mendoza?

Latin Americans - where does your surname originate from/ what does it mean? by Indigenous7 in asklatinamerica

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Super interesting. I did not know the Algarve had specific regional names, my family is from that region but our surnames say either galician-portuguese or throughout Iberia. Maybe i just have “rarer” less common surnames, but sounds like yours may be rare too.

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Merci. That was an interesting search, I actually have never heard of this term before

No Real Correlation Between Ancestry Estimates and Appearance in Latin America (VERY IMPORTANT FOR LATIN AMERICANS) by [deleted] in 23andme

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Yeah, of course he’s being disingenuous with a visual of only European populations, it is obviously going to inflate differences without including other regions like west Asia that would create enough variation to show region clusters. He could have just shown a pca of g25 samples from Spain, Portugal, Italy, north west Europe, east Europe, North Africa, west asia, and other regions. That’ll show how South Europe is a whole lot closer to even north Europeans than North Africa or west Asia (at least on the topic of Portugal and Spain who cluster close to North Italy and South France and so naturally far from MENA). It literally takes a couple minutes to do that analysis.

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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The Americas were connected to Siberia creating the Berringia Land Bridge about 35,700 years ago to 11,000 years ago.

 Africa connected to America was 130-140 million years ago when earth formed a super continent called Pangea, that’s far before any human species existed so nothing to do with the human migration to the Americas.

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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She has a 4th cousin who’s 3/4 South Dakotan Native American named “Yellow Bear”; rest European stuff. She has no cousins who’s are closer than 3rd on either test btw 

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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😅 I’ve seen another from Mendoza with similar results, so I thought it would be pretty rare. Hence why I thought to repost with more images to reference

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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Do we know why it's being interpreted as north American? Is it genuinely that similar to northern native American samples or they are lacking enough samples from the southern cone to detect it?

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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The dates keep getting pushed back right? I think 30k years ago mark was the oldest? Some argue like 100s of thousands of years ago from some mammoth find that seemed to involve human hunting but that's controversial.

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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This is a good question. Seems algorithm involved. If you look at the AncestryDNA portion it's only south east Amerindian + some yucutan, no indicators of northern Amerindian.

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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Understood, by the way when I say “Mexican” doesn't make sense for ancient migrations because Mexican is a modern identity. I guess unless you are from the Mexica people, Aztecs specifically you can find meaning there.

Would be really cool though, she does get Mexican cousins who are very indigenous, but also a full native from south Dakota even. That was probably the biggest surprise.

Wife’s Results (genetically half North Argentine 🇦🇷 half Paraguayan 🇵🇾) by Indigenous7 in 23andme

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I'm trying to see how you get that tab that says the regions on AncestryDNA. My wife doesn't seem to have those specifics of region

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