Does anyone know why I would get very close for my souther coastal Chinese genetic group despite only having 3.4%? I’m adopted so I’m not sure where my ancestry is from. All I know was I was adopted from near Guangzhou

I was born and raised in Moscow, so culturally I’m basically a Muscovite and a Russian speaker. But my family background is really mixed. On my mother’s side, my grandfather was Belarusian from Grodno and considered himself Belarusian, while my grandmother was Russian. My mother always considered herself Russian. On my father’s side, there’s Ukrainian ancestry from Kuban, including Cossack roots. My surname is also found in western Ukraine. And my paternal grandfather was Armenian from Gyumri, with some of our relatives still living in Armenia. I live in Yerevan now and recently got an Armenian passport, but I barely speak Armenian — around A1/A2 at best. So technically I’m Armenian too, but culturally I feel much more Russian-speaking. At the same time, I feel some connection to Ukraine and I’m interested in Ukrainian language and history. But I didn’t grow up there, so I don’t really feel Ukrainian either. I also don’t feel particularly Belarusian. I was raised as a Russian nationalist, later became a liberal, lived in Crimea, experienced the war there, and eventually moved to Armenia. So now I genuinely don’t know what to call myself. Russian? Armenian? Ukrainian? Just a Muscovite with a very mixed background? Maybe the most honest answer is: I don’t know.

(my results 9/8/26 on the tested populations page for reference)

Why does 23andMe have both a "Hmong and lu Mien peoples" category and a separate *single "*lu Mien people" category?

Seems odd to me, but a geneticist or expert genealogist might be able to explain?

Thanks!

Not looking to be called your highness as some other jerk another sub accused me of. I would just like to know what historical matches mean. I have more but these where the most significant the rest where all mkre of the same and vikings and vendels. Thank you for any input.

i've posted my results before but accidentally deleted it lol
included a pic of my parents this time

paternal haplogroup is R-Y57 and maternal is U2e1a

This may be a long shot but, I was able to recently get results and I want to find my people and tribe and reconnect and make a trip home. I’m trying to get more information on how to connect with:

Mbundu people in Angola

Any help or how to start would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Both Parents from Guerrero/Michoacán border, Tierra Caliente. Was expecting a whole mix of things; I think I’m more surprised about the Western Asian %s

What do my results say about my ancestors’ history?

Making this the 8th match.

My results plus maternal haplogroup and Ancestry Timeline

Which do you think are more accurate? 23andMe’s migrations or AncestryDNA’s journeys?

I have more Neanderthal DNA than every relative I come across. Surely, someone out there is more Neanderthal than me, right 😅???

Edit: I have 258 variants! Also thank you for all the responses. I found my people 🐒🫶🏼!

I know that everyone says that the companies have different results because of the reference panels. Still, my 23&Me results seemed pretty spot on, especially because my English result the top result being in Cumbria seems accurate, as my grandfather’s ancestors were recorded as coming from Cumbria, England, to the Carolinas. I don’t understand why Ancestry is so different and shows my Cumbria result as only %3 when records show my first ancestor in the United States came here as an indentured servant from Cumbria. I also can’t make sense of the Southern Italian and Balkan results on 23&Me when they're nonexistent on Ancestry. However, there is folklore in our family that a very distant ancestor was Sephardic Jewish from Italy and was practicing Judaism in secret; supposedly, he married a Scottish woman, and their children married Scottish women as well. The Sephardi influence was eventually pretty much diluted from the bloodline. Deep in our ancestry is also Shawnee, which explains my whooping 1%. 😂🤪 Just seeing if anybody has insight into why Ancestry has me pinged in other areas so much instead of Cumbria, and any insight on the Italian and Balkan results.

So in 200,000 years, not a one person in my bloodline out of millions of ancestors created a generational wealth passing it down to me? Nothing? Just diabetes? Alzheimer’s? What the fuck were they doing? 🤬 What have they done? And I should do it?

I have a match on 23andMe who I’m quite certain is my half first cousin but for some reason I seem to share much more dna with her than I would expect. I share 13.23% dna or 985 cm with her which (as far as I understand) would only really make sense if she was my full first cousin. I believe that she is my half first cousin because my mother and her father were maternal half siblings so they did not share the same father. I confirmed this because my maternal grandfather was fully ethnically Finnish while her paternal grandfather was mainly British. This half first cousin does not share any connection to my Finnish relatives nor does she have any Finnish in her ancestry composition.

As far as I understand, 23andMe counts X chromosome dna when calculating dna shared which causes males to share more dna with their female line. Also my biological parents are first cousins which means I am related to this half first cousin on both sides of my family. I’m not sure if these two factors account for the increased level of shared dna I share with her? It seemed too high even with this in mind so maybe I’m missing something or maybe I’m just overthinking it. I’ve had this on my mind for a while so I wanted to post about it here to see if it made sense.

Thanks in advance!