Can you have Spanish dna in you if you were born in Russia (place, Portuguese)

[ShannonRoman]

So I am just wondering if you can have Spain dna like in your family ancestors if you were born in Russia. Because I was born in Russia and do have the tanner skin tone and I know it’s crazy but would it be possible if I had some Spanish in me?
Just wondering
Thanks!

[Zimogor]

I think you know there's no such thing as Spanish DNA or Russian or anything. There are haplogroups. Haplogroups R1a, R1b are common in Russia. In Spain, too, there is a haplogroup R1b. So that perhaps can be said that Spanish and Russians relatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup

[erasure]

Originally Posted by ShannonRoman

So I am just wondering if you can have Spain dna like in your family ancestors if you were born in Russia. Because I was born in Russia and do have the tanner skin tone and I know it’s crazy but would it be possible if I had some Spanish in me?
Just wondering
Thanks!

Yes you can have "Spanish blood" in you, literally, while being born in Russia.
I don't remember the whole story behind it, but a number of Spanish children ended up in Russia during the Franco regime in Spain.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_c...n_of_Francoism


Some of them stayed in Russia, married, got families and so on.
But usually, they could all trace their origin to such grand-parents and what's not, ( and later they received Spanish citizenship.)


Overall, usually Russians that have some Western European ancestors can trace them in their blood lines, as much as they can trace them if they have their origins from elsewhere.
But if you have "tanner skin tone", that doesn't necessarily indicate "Spanish origin."
It can point at other possible origins as well.

[Ruth4Truth]

Depends. Who were your grandparents?

[erasure]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Depends. Who were your grandparents?

It might be an adopted person, since a lot of international adoptions ( American in particular) took place back in the nineties, when Russians couldn't afford to feed their children and were surrendering them to the orphanages.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by erasure

It might be an adopted person, since a lot of international adoptions ( American in particular) took place back in the nineties, when Russians couldn't afford to feed their children and were surrendering them to the orphanages.

Well, let's see what the OP has to say. He might have Central Asian ancestry, or something.

[AFP]

I'm of Portuguese ancestry and have some Russians and Finns as autosomal DNA matches so there is a connection somewhere. As far as tanner skin that's hard to say depending on what part of Russia you are from but tanner skin perhaps you have a connection to the Caucasus region.