HOW GREEK AM I?

 At last, my genealogy roots revealed

 I recently found out about this website which connects modern DNA with historical-ancient DNA. The results were astonishing.

The website is called MY TRUE ANCESTRY and is absolutelyfree.  You upload your raw data from any  DNA website and the engine shows you the results. 

To get your raw DNA data from Ancestry, log in to your account, go to your DNA Settings, and click "Download DNA Data" in the Test Management section. You will need to enter your password, check a consent box, and verify via email to receive a download link, which can take up to 24 hours.                       from GOOGLE AI

You will then go to TRUE ANCESTRY where you will follow the apropriate steps.

Below I am showing my results as a wheel according to Ethnicity and percentage DNA matches with ancient populations. At the end of the wheel there is a group of populations too small which are  shown separately.

I was not surprised that there is no evidence of any Slavic or African DNA present. This ties up with the findings of many international studies

I should say that these results completly tie up with the results I got from Ancestry (where I got my raw data from)  and no wonder that Ancestry says I am 50% Italian, although this is a generalised result.

To see the significance of the deep search by TRUE ANCESTRY look at the list of populations below the wheel.

LIST OF POPULATIONS

Hellenic Romans, or Byzantine Greeks, were the Greek-speaking citizens of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire who maintained Roman political identity while embracing Hellenistic culture, language, and Orthodox Christianity. They identified as Rhōmaîoi (Romans) until the late Middle Ages, gradually merging classical Greek heritage with Roman statehood. 

The Romans were an ancient civilization originating from the city of Rome in Italy, which expanded to rule a vast, 1,000-year empire (approx. 700 BC to AD 476) spanning Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Known for their powerful army, engineering, and laws, they transitioned from a kingdom to a republic, and finally an empire. 

The Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, was the direct continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, lasting from the 4th century until 1453. Centered in Constantinople, it survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire, maintaining a largely Greek-speaking, Christian civilization

Ancient Greeks, or Hellenes, formed a foundational Mediterranean civilization (c. 1200–146 BC) characterized by independent city-states like Athens and Sparta

The Carians were an ancient Anatolian people from the region of Caria in southwest Asia Minor (modern Turkey), known as skilled seafarers, soldiers, and traders during the Bronze Age and early classical periods

The Kingdom of Lydia was a wealthy and influential Iron Age state located in western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) during the first millennium B.C.

The Carthaginians, or Punic people, were a dominant maritime, trading civilization based in North Africa (modern Tunisia) that flourished from the 9th century BC until destroyed by Rome in 146 BC

The Thracians were a group of Indo-European tribes that inhabited Southeast Europe (modern Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, and Turkey) from the 2nd millennium BC until they were assimilated by the Roman Empire

The Hittites were an ancient Indo-European people who established a major Bronze Age empire centered at Hattusa in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) during the 2nd millennium BC.

The Galatians were a Celtic people who migrated from Gaul (modern-day France) to central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in the 3rd century BCE

The Corinthian Greeks were citizens of the ancient city-state of Corinth, located on the strategic isthmus connecting the Peloponnese to the Greek mainland

BELOW, THE DISTRIBUTION OF MINOR POPULATIONS

The Samnites were a powerful Oscan-speaking confederation of tribes inhabiting the mountainous Samnium region of south-central Italy (modern Abruzzo, Molise, Campania) during the first millennium BC

The Seleucids were a Macedonian Greek dynasty that ruled the vast Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic successor state to Alexander the Great's empire, from 312 BCE to 63 BCE

Pontic Greeks (Pontians) are an indigenous Greek population from the Pontus region along the northeastern Black Sea coast of modern-day Turkey

The Macedonian Empire, established between 359–323 BC and led by Philip II and his son Alexander the Great, was a short-lived but vast dominion stretching from Greece to Egypt and India

The Illyrians were a group of Indo-European-speaking tribes inhabiting the western Balkan Peninsula—modern-day Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia—from roughly the 10th century BCE until Roman conquest

The Amorites were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking people from Syria who dominated Mesopotamia, Syria, and Canaan from the 21st to the 17th century BC.

Urartu was a powerful Iron Age kingdom (c. 9th–6th centuries B.C.E.) located in the Armenian Highlands around Lake Van (modern-day eastern Turkey, Armenia, and Iran)

The Ottomans were a Turkic dynasty and the ruling elite of the Ottoman Empire (c. 1299–1922), founded by Osman I in Anatolia

The Sequani were a powerful Celtic tribe in ancient Gaul, inhabiting the region between the Saône, Rhône, and Rhine rivers (modern Franche-Comté/Burgundy) with their capital at Vesontio (Besançon)

Armenians are an indigenous Indo-European ethnic group from the Armenian Highlands in West Asia, with a history spanning thousands of years. As one of the oldest civilizations, they established early states, adopted Christianity as a state religion in 301 AD, and maintained a distinct culture despite periods of foreign rule

Galicians are an ethnic and linguistic group native to the autonomous community of Galicia in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula (modern-day Spain)

The Minoans were a major Bronze Age civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from approximately the 27th century BCE to the 15th century BCE

The Aramaeans were ancient, Semitic-speaking tribal people from what is now Syria

The Nairi were a powerful Late Bronze Age alliance of tribes and small kingdoms (c. 14th–10th centuries BCE) based around Lake Van in the Armenian Plateau (modern eastern Turkey)

The term Hispanians (Latin: Hispani or Hispanienses) historically refers to the inhabitants of Hispania, which was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula (comprising modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar). 

The Achaeans (/əˈkiːənz/; Ἀχαιοί) were a foundational Greek-speaking people, predominantly used by Homer in the Iliad to collectively describe the Greeks (Mycenaeans) who besieged Troy

The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic-speaking maritime civilization (circa 1500–300 BC) based in the Levant (modern-day Lebanon and Syria)

The Alans were an ancient, nomadic Iranian-speaking people, part of the Sarmatian confederation

The Guanches were the indigenous Berber-descended, Neolithic people of the Canary Islands, inhabiting the archipelago for roughly 3,000 years before the Spanish conquest in the 15th century.            from GOOGLE AI

NOW I CAN SLEEP EASY!