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The report shows a region my recent family isn’t from — is it wrong?

Usually not — these regions describe where your maternal line was in deep antiquity, not where your recent family lived.

Usually not. These regions describe deep antiquity — where your maternal line was thousands of years ago — not where your recent family lived. A lineage can arise in one region and, over long spans of time, become common somewhere quite different.

So a deep-history region and your known family history can both be true at once.

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