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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 8233459, member: 81887&quot;][USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] :&nbsp; Glad you enjoyed my coin and thread.&nbsp; Sadly, I can&#039;t take credit for alerting you to those authors- I&#039;m afraid I&#039;ve read very little on the history of this region.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since everyone else is posting their ancestry DNA estimates, I might as well share mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447866[/ATTACH]</p><p>From documentary evidence, I knew that three of my four grandparents were of Italian descent (both maternal grandparents from Sicily, paternal grandfather from Calabria) so the 74% Italian descent (mostly of Southern Italy) checks out.&nbsp; My paternal grandmother was supposedly half Irish, half English, but the DNA results seem to imply that my British Isles ancestry is mostly Scottish, with a sprinkling of the others for flavor.&nbsp; Of course, there was a lot of population flow between Ireland and Scotland for centuries, so who knows.&nbsp; And Sicily has been a huge mixing ground for every culture that ever managed to sail a boat in the Mediterranean: the first versions of this estimate had me at about 12% Middle Eastern, which could technically be true considering the lengthy period of Muslim rule over Sicily.&nbsp; But in the centuries since, those &quot;Middle Eastern&quot; alleles have been blended into the general population, so they&#039;re now just another part of the Sicilian meta-genome.&nbsp; Anyway, it&#039;s best not to put too much trust or importance on commercial DNA ethnicity testing.&nbsp; It&#039;s more scientific than astrology, but it doesn&#039;t necessarily tell you anything important, either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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