Paternal haplogroup is J-L283 and maternal haplogroup is H. From what I understand, my paternal haplogroup is a bit rare for my region.

Family origin is mostly ethnic Ukrainian from   
Ivano-Frankivsk and nearby regions, with some ties to other Carpathian Mountain cultural groups in neighboring countries. Plus a few ancestors from the central, southern, and eastern regions of Ukraine.

It is not at all shocking that I have ancestors who were ethnic Poles. To be honest, what was more surreal was looking at my DNA relatives and seeing that I have literally hundreds of Polish relatives, many of whom are not so distantly related to me. One of my friends is Polish with roots in the North East of Poland and we matched as distant cousins. 

I was not told specifically that I *dont* have Polish ancestors, and given the historical context I imagined there’d have to be at least some connection there, but this brought that connection to life on a deeper level, which I’m super grateful for

I knew that I have Roma ancestors, so that checks out. I think at least some of the Balkan DNA in my results is related to my Roma ancestry, as most of my Roma DNA relatives have a big chunk of Balkan %.

The Balkan % is common in a lot of Western Ukrainians, especially those with roots in the mountains, so it’s not a shock to have though. 

The Jewish ancestry, I did not know about honestly. 

It frustrates me that the map and phrasing they use for the “Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, & Southern Polish” reference population ends up falsely presenting a lot of Ukrainian Highlander and general Western Ukrainian ancestry as being from a foreign source.   
If they could go out of their way to add Southern Poland to the map and name due to criticism, they can change it again lol

my results as an ethnic Ukrainian 🇺🇦