darkerhorse wrote: ↑09 Jun 2021, 22:19My mistake. I was thinking she was related to your father's brother.MarcuccioV wrote: ↑09 Jun 2021, 21:57No. There are too many connections to my maternal side. She has no DNA connections to my dad's side, and her Italian % is too high to be deep in the tree. I HAVE explored that. She also does not match the facial compare to his side. Remember she was a 66% match to my mom...darkerhorse wrote: ↑09 Jun 2021, 21:34 Have you looked into the possibility that your father's olive skin and apparent Italian ancestry are linked to your new-found cousin? Perhaps they share a common ancestor further back than your uncle, especially since neither of your father's parents seem to fit the bill by skin tone or paper trail?
I understand your reasoning on the olive skin.
You couple that with DNA evidence to point toward Italian ancestry (instead of other ancestry) as the origin of his olive complexion.
Not having had a DNA test myself, I don't really understand DNA results very well.
Can you briefly summarize your DNA evidence linking your father to Italian ancestry in a few sentences in layman's terms?
I can try, LOL. Your DNA markers are compared with various populations that have been tested to find similarities. Once similarities are established, your markers are 'assigned' the ethnicity that best matches the reference populations. Not an EXACT science, but it's pretty accurate.
So in my ethnic breakdowns from the various matrices I've uploaded to, the ones that seem the most accurate (both by my own investigation & the opinions of others), show anywhere from 55-65% Italian (and related Mediterranean) ethnicity. So 50% of that is my maternal side (& even that MIGHT be tempered with some Franco-Germanic), leaving 5-15% of my Italo-Med ethnicity to my father's side.
So let's go conservative and say the 5% extra is from him. That would make him at least 10% (double my amount) by approximation (due to random replication). Even THAT would reinforce the olive complexion possibility.
Of course if it were 15%, then he would be 30%, and so on.
And then there is the chromosome paint report that indicates total Italian ancestry on my 15th chromosome (for both parents) and 100%/30% on chromosome 2 (I assume the 100% is maternal & the 30% paternal). It would be IMPOSSIBLE for there to be Italian ancestry on both sides of a chromosome unless both parents carried at least SOME of that ancestry.
Another strange fact is that more than several of my DNA matches attributed to my dad's side (through connections to known paternal relatives) have some percentage of Italian. yes, I realize there could have been intermarriage in some of their cases with Italians, but there seems to be too many of them to be coincidental. But I'm not putting much weight into that, I just find it interesting.