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Hello there! I took a MyHeritage DNA test not long ago and my ethnicity estimation is as follows: 89.2% Iberian (Genetic groups are Germany, France, Netherlands and some other European countries and then Midwestern USA), 8.5% Baltic and 2.3% Askhenazi Jewish. Now, I was sure I was going to get...

Culturally, I feel closest to the Romans, being a Spaniard myself. Genetically, I am Celto-Iberian with some Germanic input. My haplogroup is I1 for what it's worth, and any Gedmatch Oracle calculator gives me a quarter either South German, Germanic mixed, English from Kent or even Lithuanian.

She does look like she has some Native in her. Bone structure plus her hair is clearly dyed, it's naturally dark. She doesn't look a hundred percent native American that's for sure, but I am not surprised in the slightest.

More like Northern Spaniards. Basques were the first to take family names, although only the Merino or tribal chief of every village. He would take the name of the village as a way of showing he was the primus cives (first citizen) of that town.

Closest ancient populations showed as Gallo-Roman, Illyrian, Visigoth and Etruscan. Also Daunii. It gave me an approximation of 2.8 to Gallo-Roman+Visigoth and my closest matches were Iron Age Slovenia and Middle Ages Visigoth woman buried in Sant Julià de Ramis (Girona).

I am a member of Y Haplogroup I1, subclade I-M253, which has its highest frequency in Sweden and Finland's Satakunta province, apparently. I am from Spain, my paternal line comes from Asturias which was the last Visigothic stronghold in Medieval Spain. I would like to find out more information...

You are possibly right in the Gothic connection. Other possible explanation is for that 8% of Iberian to be Sephardic Jewish linked to the Askhenazi percentage, but it's a little far fetched.