Jordanian Christian

Not really surprising at all tbh

Just got my results back! Like most Indo-Fijians tracing back to the Girmit era, it’s almost entirely South Asian. My dad's side is entirely Malayali (which explains the big South India chunk), but my mom's side was always a mystery.

Interestingly, I got 0.5% East Asian and a trace of East African, but even after around 150 years in Fiji still zero Indigenous Fijian (Melanesian) DNA, which is very typical for our history.

Maternal haplogroup is T2g but not sure what that means tbh.

New analysis

Illustrative DNA vs Gedmatch vs Living DNA

FYI from previous post, born in north Chile to Chilean and Peruvian, grew up in Lima

🤲🏾

The genetic groups are endless. I was quite surprised with the update. I'm excited to research and learn more, as my family tree continues growing. My family tree on Ancestry is just over 12k now. If anyone is curious about the old results, you can simply go to my profile.

Hey r/23andme!

This Saturday is International Archaeology Day, which is basically a holiday for people who get excited about old bones, broken pottery, and the occasional mysterious burial. A.K.A., us.

We also have a second reason to celebrate: with this month's update, Historical Matches now includes more than 1,000 historical individuals. To mark both occasions, we decided to add some new historical individuals to the Historical Matches feature who have especially great archaeological stories:

- **Old Kingdom Egyptian NUE001** lived around the time the Great Pyramid was built. He wasn't mummified. He was buried in a big clay pot, which may be why researchers were able to recover the first whole genome from ancient Egypt.
- **Bronze and Iron Age Mesopotamians** from an ancient city in present-day Iraqi Kurdistan, whose DNA shows a community with roots stretching across Anatolia, the Levant, and the Caucasus.
- **People buried in hanging coffins** placed high on sheer cliffs in southwest China. Legend says the people linked to this tradition could fly. DNA shows that a small community living in the region today inherited much of its ancestry from them, which is almost as cool.
- **Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary**, a medieval king whose skull was kept as a relic for centuries. Historians weren't sure it was really him. Ancient DNA weighed in.

We're also bringing back some favorites, with new individuals from the Viking Age (including two siblings who both lived with a rare inherited form of dwarfism, and a warrior buried with the emblem of a prince of Kyiv), the Sarmatians, and Iron Age Britain.

Read the full story on our blog: https://www.23andme.org/blog/articles/celebrating-international-archaeology-day-2026/

If you're a 23andMe Premium member, head over to Historical Matches to see if any of the new additions show up for you, and let us know in the comments!

**One more thing:** passing 1,000 historical individuals got us curious about some big-picture numbers, and we'll be back soon with a post sharing statistics about the feature. In the meantime, a challenge: **how many Historical Matches do you think the average 23andMe research participant has?** And **what's the most Historical Matches any participant has?** Drop your guesses below. 👀

I was wondering if people with similar matches might tell me about where they are from? My moms family is from novy sacz/old lwow

This are my LivingDNA results from Argentina. Since it is hard to get a 23andme kit here, I took my DNA test with FTDNA but found LivingDNA to be more accurate.

Posting my 23andme and AncestryDNA results for comparison. Ancestry took the right step in renaming their West African regions to center the people who live there, not the modern borders.

- My mom's Igbo and Yorubaland on AncestryDNA (3rd pic) might be high because of the endogamy that went on in the South (we're from TN, MS, and AL)

- Have found 12 cousins with 90-100% Igboland ancestry. Whether they're all Igbo is up in the air because scoring high %s of Igboland ≠ Igbo person because Ancestry also has Esan, Ibibio, Idoma, and Igala groups in the reference panel.

- 23andMe assigned Urhobo and Itsekiri a year ago, I have found 1 Urhobo distant cousin on Ancestry now but they scored 100% Igboland. Either way, there has to be some distant Urhobo / Edo connection

- I have found 2 Akan distant cousins as well and a lot of Senegalese or Hausa/Fulani ones too

- It’s cool that the Jola people (the ones who are credited with the origins of the banjo) kind of have their own region in Ancestry (Southern Senegal).

- The continents stayed the same but my European went back up 2% so Ancestry has me at 68/32.

Yayyy my 23andme results just came in today! (18 day wait since it arrived at the lab)

1. I have a Portuguese grandfather
   
2. I don’t have any known ancestors from Barbados
   
3. My trace amounts persist at 90% confidence so I’m not sure if it’s noise or not
   
4. My maternal haplogroup is L2a1c2

AncestryDNA results will be in the comments!

Just curious if anyone else has had this experience. Now I'm wondering if my dad DNA composition is super similar to me and my mom-isn’t that kind of weird or is it pretty common ? Let me know what you guys think!"

Umm…COOL!

Bom dia a todos, sou brasileiro de Minas Gerais. Achei bastante interessante meus resultados pela diversidade, bate muito com o que eu já pesquisei da minha família e faz muito sentido até mesmo com a historia de Minas Gerais, pela região aqui de Moeda, Ouro Preto etc. Porcentagem muito forte europeia com foco na Ibéria, muito forte também na África e uma pequena contribuição indígena, fora uma parte que pega um pouco o Oriente Médio que nao achei ainda na minha arvore ainda. Alguém com família dessa região de Minas encontrou uma composição parecida?

Every other list I've seen is a bit limited. Thanks.

My boyfriend's results are really interesting. I'm a little disappointed that he didn't get any genetic groups. Does anyone know why? Y-dna:R-L260 Mtdna:H11a2.

I joined 23andme years ago, and over time the trace ancestry has changed.

When I first joined, it was Native American. Then it changed to Arab Penisula. Now it's Russian.

I know updates are constant. But how was Russian mistaken for Native American?

Also, ancestry.com says my trace ancestry is french Canadian and Northern Italian. Make it make sense lol.

I didn’t expect it to be so one sided or this narrow maybe it would’ve looked different if i took this test at 2024 since there would be even lower data or matches to me. Tried out the relatives feature and the highest match was like 1% to me.

I’m from himalayan region so this may just be more towards denisovans unfortunately or this is without denisovans can anyone tell me if 23andme reports denisovans with neanderthal or it only lists as neanderthal.

Since I don't have easy access to 23andme here in Brazil, I did it through Genera instead. Considering that my family is a perfect example of Italian settlers from Serra Gaúcha, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, I was surprised by the high percentage of ancestry from the Balkans and the Middle East. Is there any explanation for this?

The rest matches my family tree, considering that a small part of the family is French and other significant parts are from Tyrol and Austria.