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Seraphina's Maternal Ancestry

A collage depicting visuals of the ancient deep dive male and female samples set against blue sky and golden fields

Seraphina's maternal ancient ancestry goes back to Vikings, Early Slavs, and Kievan Rus ethnic groups with her mother's mtDNA belonging to haplogroup K1a4j1.

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Seraphina's mother's ancient relatives (AD period) are represented by the following deep dive samples (MTA):

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  1. Sample - (AV1) - Scythian + Early Slav (Polish – modern)

  2. Sample - (I10430) – White Croat (South Polish)

  3. Sample - (Rise568) – Early Slav (Russian Smolensk)

  4. Sample - (SVK-A1) – Viking – (Western Norwegian – modern)

  5. Sample - (brk581) – Viking (Irish -modern)

  6. Sample - (VK56) - Viking + Kievan Rus (Russian Kargopol – modern)

  7. Sample - (SHE006) – Viking + Baltic (Russian Kargopol – modern)

  8. Sample - (SHE009) - Viking + Early Slav (Polish – modern)

  9. Sample - (VK542) - Scythian + Early Slav (Polish – modern)

  10. Sample - (Sigtuna stg026) – Viking (West Norwegian – modern)

  11. Sample - (Sigtuna kal006) – Viking (Estonian – modern)

  12. Sample - (Sigtuna84001) – Viking (Western Norwegian – modern)

  13. Sample - (Stg021) – Viking (Danish – modern)

  14. Sample - (kal006) – Viking (Estonian – modern)

  15. Sample - (Sunghir6) – Kievan Rus (South West Russian)

  16. Sample - (KRA001B) – Viking + Early Slav (Ukrainian – modern)

  17. Sample - (KBL002a) - Viking +Early Slav (Estonian – modern)

  18. Sample - (KBL003a) - Ostrogoth + Early Slav (Polish – modern)

  19. Sample - (VK541) - Kievan Rus + Early Slav (Ukrainian – modern)

  20. Sample - (KED001) - Viking +Kievan Rus (Belorussian – modern)

  21. Sample - (KED001a) – Viking + Early Slav (Belorussian – modern)

  22. Sample - (KED003) - Viking + Early Slav (Estonian – modern)

  23. Sample - (KED003a) - Viking + Early Slav (Estonian – modern)

  24. Sample - (KRS001a) - Curonian + Kievan Rus (Estonian – modern)​​​​​​​​

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A collage depicting visuals of the ancient deep dive male and female samples set against blue sky and golden fields

Seraphina's mother's ancient relatives (BC period) are represented by the following deep dive samples (MTA):

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  1. Sample - (BOL007) - Baltic + Sarmatian - (Kargopol Russian - modern)

  2. Sample - (Kar1) - Baltic + Longobard (Estonian - modern)

  3. ​Sample - (I18721) - Scythian + Gepid (Austrian - modern)​

  4. Sample - (I16089) - Baltic + Scythian (Ukrainian - modern)

  5. Sample - (I13170) - Ostrogoth + Early Slav (South Polish - modern)

  6. Sample - (scy010) - Scythian (Croatian - modern)

  7. Sample - (scy009) - Scythian (Eastern German - modern)

  8. Sample - (I25525) - Scythian (South West German - modern)

  9. Sample - (I18226) - Baltic + Ostrogoth - (South West Russia - modern)

  10. Sample - (I18183) - Ostrogoth + Early Slav (Eastern German - modern)

  11. Sample - (I25524) - Baltic + Early Slav (Lithuanian - modern)

  12. Sample - (I25509) - Scythian + Early Slav (Polish - modern)

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​The DNA segments of these ancient relatives contained in Seraphina's DNA can be traced to such modern ethnic groups as Northeastern Poland (Podlaskie), Southern Poland, West Ukraine, Estonia, Germany, and East Finland, which constitute Seraphina's modern ethnic mix on of her maternal lineage.

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