Youtube hearted comments of Ponto (@Ponto-zv9vf).

  1. I've built my family tree, it wasn't that difficult once you work out your recent relatives I mean grandparents, great grandparents. It might sound odd but many people don't know their grandparents, and definitely don't know their great grandparents. I was born in Malta, and as I said once you get through the recent relatives it's easy to go further via church records that a Mr. Adami recorded by copying church records from each church. The problem of course is missing records, and with Maltese people the habit of naming children after Joseph and Mary, and the many very common surnames. So far, my ancestors are holding up by dna testing. As far as the ethnicity of my ancestors, it's not important to me, and anyway I use G25 coordinates and Yahaduo to work out my ancient ancestry from Neolithic farmers, Steppe herders, HGs ....
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  2. The reason Neanderthal dna is reducing with time is that the Neanderthal population was quite small, covered a large area and were quite inbred. They had a lot of deleterious mutations due to this inbreeding. The genealogical ancestry from Neanderthals is 10 - 20%, but the genetic ancestry is 2%.
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  3. I don't understand Russian, and I have to say you can speak very fast without seeming to draw breath. It was very interesting for me particularly about the HGs living east of the Black Sea/Baltic Sea boundary. Also the prominence of the Globular Amphora Neolithic farmers in the ancestry of Northern and Central Europeans compared to Europeans further south whose ancestry is more like the original Anatolian farmers that spread into Europe.
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