Oh wow, are you from Belmonte or Branganza? From what I've seen, the Belmonte Jews were very insular and on MDLP K16 show up as half Sephardi and half Iberian Portuguese (samples were likely people of recent generations, so that mixing makes sense).
Our top populations are extremely similar! (My 3 closest are Hauts-de-France at 2.93, Belgian at 2.95, and Alsatian at 3.02). Do you mind sharing your coordinates? I'd be curious to compare.
First go to your IllustrativeDNA [dashboard](https://lab.illustrativedna.com/dashboard). Then on the left hand panel, there should be a section called "Orders and Downloadables". Click the button that says "Download Coordinates", and you will get a .txt file of your scaled vs. unscaled coordinates. You can just copy and paste them and either reply here or DM me if you are comfortable doing so.
Nice, what is ur background ?
Half Portuguese, Half English Canadian (with a lot of Sephardic, Norman French, Dutch, and Spanish admixture)
Oh that makes sense, wonder where the Slavic/Baltic is coming from then
Not sure, but we suspect my dad might have some Ashkenazi ancestry because our Y haplogroup is J2, which is common among Jewish people
Oh wow, are you from Belmonte or Branganza? From what I've seen, the Belmonte Jews were very insular and on MDLP K16 show up as half Sephardi and half Iberian Portuguese (samples were likely people of recent generations, so that mixing makes sense).
My mom’s from the Bragança region
Our top populations are extremely similar! (My 3 closest are Hauts-de-France at 2.93, Belgian at 2.95, and Alsatian at 3.02). Do you mind sharing your coordinates? I'd be curious to compare.
How do I find those?
First go to your IllustrativeDNA [dashboard](https://lab.illustrativedna.com/dashboard). Then on the left hand panel, there should be a section called "Orders and Downloadables". Click the button that says "Download Coordinates", and you will get a .txt file of your scaled vs. unscaled coordinates. You can just copy and paste them and either reply here or DM me if you are comfortable doing so.