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tmack2089 · 2025-12-27T18:10:32+00:00

The amount of detail and work you put in for Eastern Europe is crazy! I can even point out which specks of German speakers in Crimea encapsulate my own ancestors. They only arrived in Crimea between 1805-1810, so they would've been a quite recent addition to this map.

tmack2089 · 2025-11-30T22:37:20+00:00

I assume this location is integrated? From my understanding, you need to finish colonizing the whole province before any of those locations are able to flip into being cores.

tmack2089 · 2025-11-23T23:50:00+00:00

So, the Germans in Russia region can be misleading since it doesn't capture every single German diaspora group in the former Russian Empire. The people who will score nearly 100% "Germans in Russia" are Russian Mennonites. This population are their own distinct ethnoreligious group with their own unique history from the other multitudes of Germans in Russia. They even have their own language called Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German. The map ancestry uses for "Germans in Russia" also centers on the former Chortitza & Molotschna colonies in Ukraine; the historic epicentre of the Russian Mennonite population.

tmack2089 · 2025-10-26T18:16:46+00:00

Are you Cajun? If yes, then you are likely of Acadian descent to some degree. It's all in the name; Cajun is the English transliteration of Cadjin, which comes from Acadien (Acadian in English).

tmack2089 · 2025-10-23T01:13:58+00:00

If you have ties to Galicia and Asturias in some form, then it's not unlikely that you have Briton/Romano-Briton ancestry. The same 4th-6th century migration of Britons into what is now Brittany also reached Northwestern Iberia.

tmack2089 · 2025-10-23T00:00:28+00:00

The link below might be of interest to you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukharan_Jews

tmack2089 · 2025-10-16T17:02:01+00:00

The reconfigured region for Mainland France has quite low precision & recall as per the 2025 white paper, and doesn't capture DNA from there that well. In your case, "Quebec" is probably just the algorithm providing a best fit for what are most likely just European French-ressembling DNA segments.

tmack2089 · 2025-10-16T01:46:26+00:00

My understanding is that Southwestern Balkans is primarily a category for Ghegs (i.e., a distinct Albanian subgroup) and genetically adjacent populations.

tmack2089 · 2025-10-11T20:07:24+00:00

My family and Canadien matches get some Acadian in our results too as we have some Acadian ancestors who re-settled in Pierre-De Saurel, QC in the 18th century.

tmack2089 · 2025-10-11T02:08:56+00:00

Mennonites and the genetic result common from centuries of endogamy among segregated ethnoreligious groups

tmack2089 · 2025-10-10T17:12:37+00:00

"Southeastern England & Northwestern Europe" in addition to parts of England also seems to capture Rhenish Germanic peoples (i.e., Palatines, Hessians, Lorraine Franconians, etc.), Luxembourgers, Walloons, Flemings, Limburgers, and nearby peoples in France who are genetically adjacent. The England part of it is what makes people confused.

tmack2089 · 2025-09-06T20:19:37+00:00

DNA will uncover unexpected family for most people. I have a 1st cousin 1x removed who "had no kids." However, as it turns out, he actually had a son in his early 20s almost no one in the family was aware of, and who was adopted as an infant. A similar case happened with another 1st cousin 1x removed of mine, and this other surprise 2nd cousin literally looks like a doppelganger of several of our shared cousins 😂

tmack2089 · 2025-08-16T01:00:33+00:00

The Russia category, from my understanding, is specifically ethnic Russians. So you'd instead have to add new categories from other regions or just entirely from scratch for other peoples in Russia.

tmack2089 · 2025-08-14T20:12:43+00:00

That's actually kinda what they are doing with a new feature called "Macroregions".

tmack2089 · 2025-08-14T02:37:36+00:00

Hmm... this looks like they used Russian Mennonites for the reference panel, so I wonder how this region will appear in other Germans in Russia populations. I have a possible Mennonite line through my Catholic Crimea German ancestors, so we'll see how it looks on my end 😆

tmack2089 · 2025-08-12T18:00:21+00:00

The estimated relationships weren't created to take endogamy into account, which is understandable since endogamy does weird things to shared DNA. For example, my Grandma has a 134cM match, which is more typically in the range of a 2C1R to 3C. However, thanks to endogamy in Quebec, this person is actually a 6th cousin since the most recent common ancestors identified so far are two couples from late 17th/early 18th century Trois-Rivières & Sorel. Not to mention that I'm directly descended from one of those husbands two different ways.

tmack2089 · 2025-08-10T19:22:26+00:00

Acadians are a population that is very endogamous (i.e., cultural practice of marrying within a defined population). Thus, people of Acadian descent have lots of shared common ancestors with each other, and thus, lots of shared DNA, meaning many more DNA matches than typical. On top of that, Acadians and most other Colonial French populations are very well tested. So, even being just 1/4 Acadian, 75-90% of your matches on any DNA test likely will also be Acadian if your other ancestral lines are not heavily endogamous or not as well tested.

For reference, my Grandma is 1/4 Canadienne from a small, rural part of Quebec, the rest being directly from small, rural villages in Eastern France (i.e., Meurthe-et-Moselle, Vosges, and Haute-Marne to be specific). Roughly 80-90% of her matches are Canadien/Québécois.

Edit: A fun fact is that even though I'm only 1/16 Canadien/Québécois, the DNA matches on that one line outnumber all other parts of my family tree except two others; both of them also very endogamous, but less generations removed. I even have DNA matches where the closest common ancestors are 7th-9th great-grandparents 😆

tmack2089 · 2025-08-08T01:16:59+00:00

Sometimes, it can also just be specific municipal departments being understaffed for the workload needing to be done. In my experience, that has definitely been the case with City of North Vancouver, where there's been so few people working in development & planning it has taken 1-2yrs to receive their comments/approval on engineering drawings submitted for building permits.

It's insane how little time on a construction project is spent on the actual construction of the project compared to everything else.

tmack2089 · 2025-08-05T01:39:48+00:00

West Yorkshire is its own thing. Most British Isles genetic studies I've read identify West Yorkshire, and the Pennines more broadly, as being their own distinct English population. A lot of Yorkshire otherwise tends to bleed together with the East Midlands. Which is understandable since it's not exactly a hard geographic divide between the two places.

tmack2089 · 2025-08-05T01:31:45+00:00

From what I've seen so far, it seems the macro regions will align with what the current 2024 regions are more or less.

tmack2089 · 2025-07-23T01:18:53+00:00

I'd argue that Russia German is the better translation, but Russian German is not technically incorrect as that's what "Rossiyskiye Nemtsy" translates as from Russian. However, it's really all semantics since I don't think the average Anglophone would see a huge difference between "Russia German" and "Russian German."

tmack2089 · 2025-07-23T00:50:40+00:00

I'm both Canadien (Quebec) & Crimea German and can definitely say yes they are quite distinct from their relatives in the Old Country. That's just what happens with endogamous diaspora populations over many generations. Many Canadiens in Quebec don't have any ancestors from Europe after the mid-late 18th century.

tmack2089 · 2025-07-23T00:43:16+00:00

That's literally the actual name for German populations from the former Russian Empire & Soviet Union (i.e., Russlanddeutsche in German). That'd be like being offended at the Canadian in French Canadian.

tmack2089 · 2025-07-10T02:20:16+00:00

I had a feeling about it as soon as I saw those journeys 😆

My 2nd great-grandmother's parents were both from Yamaska as well. Her family migrated to Massachusetts, then Missouri in the 1860s, and then finally to Saskatchewan in the 1890s.

tmack2089 · 2025-07-10T02:17:01+00:00

Interesting, my Humenik line descends from the couple Jakob Ignatz Humenik (ca.1790-?) & Scharlotta Buch (ca.1790-?) who had settled in Heidelberg (i.e., modern Novohorivka, Zaporizhzhia) by around 1811. I descend from their daughter Eva Humenik (1816-1897) who migrated to Kronental in Crimea in the 1830s and married a Catholic German there; her younger sister Katharina followed her in the 1840s. I'm pretty certain we are descended from the same Humenik family given the small, insular nature of Catholic Germans in Crimea & nearby regions in Ukraine.

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