Recent content by TertiusOrdoBellator

Oh yeah, Finland tends to form a cluster of our own in the greater European cluster, genetically (though Eastern and Western Finns can be quite far apart from each other). Kind of between Sweden and Estonia. Happened probably due to a population bottleneck(s) in the past. I will ask if any...

That's a lot of useful information and I will be visiting this thread for reference. I appreciate you for taking the time to instruct me. "Finns however differ in this respect so finding such specific info concerning your folks (there should be some published already I guess) will be of help...

I just checked my GEDmatch matches and I had couple. I just can't interpret what all the data about the matches means. Any help is appreciated but I will try to search around myself.

Yeah the companies probably have enough samples from my countrymen (maybe even relatives) already to sequence my DNA anyway so the privacy concern is not the biggest issue. As for Ancestry's database, I'm supposed to have relatives in the US to whom we lost connection a generation or so ago, so...

Thanks! Helps a lot. I used LivingDNA because a friend recommended it to me. I mainly wanted to know about my haplogroups and he said that the LivingDNA one is the best for the cheapest price when it comes to haplogroups. Now that I have the results, I yearn more specific information of my hg...

Not a simple straight forward answer. I'm as pure of a Finn as one can be. I would like to think I'm also fairly knowledgeable in Nordic and in general European history. So based on what I know, what the culture around me is, where I live, the language I speak, the information I have about my...

So I tested my DNA with LivingDNA and got my results. Now I want to know what I can do with those results. I'm very interested in exploring my ancestry and history of my lineages. I will ask some questions and hopefully someone out there is able to answer them. Keep in mind that I am a complete...