So my background is half Ashkenazi half Moroccan Sephardic, but for some reason I show a consistently high Germanic component in my ancient breakdowns. Above are my results from Illustrative and AncestralGenome which uses G25. On commercial tests I also get a trace northwest euro component, which seems to indicate that I have excess Germanic ancestry for my background.

I was wondering if anyone here has anything to make of this. I saw in another thread someone bring up that marriages between Jews and Germanic pagans in antiquity weren’t unheard of, with the Goths being more tolerant towards Jews in comparison to the Romans. Maybe something like that is at work here?

I got R-Z93! I heard the R-something haplogroup is Levite! So, am I Levite or was it a central Asian migration?

Btw if your wondering why I was was thinking central Asian, I guess thid haplogroup is very very popular in Tajikistan, along with Iran, Pakistan, India, Siberia, Lake Baikal region, and western Asian countries. So idrk where thid actually came from, but Tajikistan seems to be the most densely prevalent areas of this group.

These six individuals are the highest-coverage samples. The lowest-coverage samples are unreliable and do not need to be used.

G25: https://pastebin.com/raw/gT3EbERF

Source for this paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/17/3/358
Source for the G25: Davidski Eurogenes and the Anthrogenica community.

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