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I have a strong signal in a region where I don't have any known ancestry. Why?

Why deep, widespread ancient signals can appear even without recent family ties to a region.

Some regional anchors capture deep shared ancestry or population continuity signals that reach far beyond individual recent family histories. This is especially common for the steppe-ancestry signal and for Baltic hunter-gatherer ancestry.

It doesn't mean your records are wrong — it just means you share very old connections to that region that your family tree might not show.

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