Where do Your Ancestors Come From? Masaman's Ultimate Map of Human Migration

Where do your ancestors come from? In today's video, I will be unvieling my ultimate map of human migration from throughout history, a project I've been working on for the past couple weeks. It truly is amazing to have yet another tangible manifestation in visual form that shows just how fascinating the human story is by showing major and minor migration patterns around the world from all periods of time.
Check out and download the map here: / masamap_human_migratio...
Be sure to let me know which migration paths you find to be the most interesting or shocking. Thanks for watching!

[@Masaman]

Download here: www.reddit.com/r/Masastan/comments/gnezem/masamap_human_migration_throughout_history/ Also, I know the wording of the poll for today's video is strange. I ran out of characters. Apologies for not being so productive in the recent past. Honestly, it's extremely disheartening to do so much research for a video only to have it perform extremely poorly view-wise compared to some of my others. However, I will be working on projects that I actually want to work on now, so my productivity will increase. Thanks for watching!

[@scoutgamer9448]

Please, do a video about the sons of Noah (Shem, Ham and Japheth)

[@kivloli8385]

@@scoutgamer9448 haplogroup CF(Japhet) haplogroup DE(Shem) Haplogroup AB(Ham).

[@zaippiaz]

did you design the map that is shown at 7 mins 13 seconds? This is how every map of the world should be shown in my opinion in terms of ethnic groups. Continents seem more political than actually geographical. For instance, if Eurasia is one tectonic plate then technically it should be one continent. The middle East and India should be separate continents

[@njit2]

I love the grey and color arrow maps without the continents! Would be awesome if you could share those as well! I've already set up a new desktop background with a screenshot ;) (but they're low-res)

[@kivloli8385]

@The Truth Bantus languages is hebrew www.jstor.org/stable/715705?seq=1

[@WatchingFromHeaven]

daym, that feeling, when after several thousands of years, you still live where your ancestors stood their grounds

[@whyistherumgone5693]

Lol as a Turkic it is opposite. Nomadic lifestyle...

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

@Mark Donald actually those western hunter gathers like cheddar man are not english peoples direct descendants. they were wiped out if not by the neolithics peoples but surely by the time the steppe bell beakers arrivied who wiped out 90 % of existing population with a few decades. The mesolithic people that british and irish people are closest related to are the lochbour western hunter gathers . which is around luxembourg . btw cheddar man was far from black his skin was very much lighter but more so a tanned brown. similar to inuits colour.

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

@@Willowtree82 your u5 mtdna is not the same as cheddar man's u5 ,you would need a specific test to see if your u5 is u5abab123 etc. Its 99% likely no Briton is a descendant of cheddar man. The u5 mtdna was from from the Gravettian culture 30,000 years ago. So it evolved a lot more since then when cheddar man was around 9,100 year ago.

[@SameLif3]

Tomás here you can see who’s responsible for the most destruction

[@lindapolle1665]

So my joke is: If I wanted to find my relatives, all I would have to do, is go to my Old Country town jail, and see who has not been run out of town yet. 😁

[@zitools]

i know it's never said enough, but: Dear Masan, You are an international treasure. I genuinely wish you nothing but the best in life. Innumerable thanks. Sincerely Gracious, a fellow map-gazer.

[@nicholasnguyen1674]

I too, give thanks, also as a fellow map enthusiast.

[@topcatseriosblack8396]

Yall look at maps huh. Than you no this is miseducation following incorrect theories from narratives not science or biblical context right .

[@sumnerwaite6390]

topcat seriosblack science and the Bible are one. Physics may not be a “churchy” subject but God created those rules (for example). The universe is tuned perfectly for our existence. Curious, do you think Adam and Eve were not homosapiens?

[@Getcakedieyoung23]

Sumner Waite The earth is tuned for our existence because if it wasn’t we wouldn’t exist

[@taotaostrong]

Zitools, I couldn’t agree more! ♥️

[@samuelschonenberger]

I am severly disappointed that you didn't include that one French dude that settled in Siberia

[@nicholasnguyen1674]

Who was it?

[@NotQuiteFirst]

I actually am that Swedish guy who went to Sahara that he mentioned but no arrow 😢

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

@@NotQuiteFirst what country

[@dajjukunrama5695]

First kom hem :(

[@kozmickarmakoala3526]

S.S... LMAO !!

[@Bocbo]

Please do a map of archaic dna's migration. Neanderthal, Denisovan, etc. I know information on this is scarce but your work in creating these maps is the best there is. If anyone can, you can. Thanks for the amazing dedication to these important works.

[@kivloli8385]

They carry the MC1R and the OCA2 Neanderthal genes which give them their pale skin and blond hair.

[@commentingaccount1383]

There is really just not enough data to do a detailed map. You're talking about stuff from hundreds of thousands of years ago with little surviving evidence. It would be really great though, and they are making incredible progress in ancient DNA retrieval, so hopefully something like that may be possible in the near future!

[@honest_bishop5905]

@Alexnder90 F Why is your theory not accepted by mainstream anthropologists? Why is your source a book instead of a scientific paper?

[@lawilder2059]

Survive the jive is also amazing and goes deeper into history.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@Alexnder90 F why are religious people like these smh

[@vikingdesigner1471]

The amount of research you must put in is awesome

[@gonzalo731]

I’m from Buenos Aires, Argentina and I almost finished my family tree. Out of my 16 great great grandparents, 10 were from Northern Spain (Basque Country, Navarra, Galicia, Castille, León), 4 were from Southern/Central Italy (Basilicata, Calabria and Lazio), 1 was from Northern Italy (Piedmont) and 1 who descended from a family of landowners from the spanish colonial times (who descended from Spanish conquistadors, governors and other soldiers from Castille, Andalusia, Murcia and from Portuguese merchants, between others) with ties to political figures of those times.

[@GuavaConQueso]

Gonzalo L'Afflitto was your family tree information passed down through generations or did you do most of the work? It’s really detailed.

[@gabinator3343]

That is awesome that you know this info. I am currently trying to find out who all of my great great grandparents were. I have 14 instead of 16 and I have found out the first names of 11 of them. 1 out of the 11 I have to find out the maiden name so I am still searching. They were all from the same village though so it's not as interesting as yours lol

[@danielfragoso7283]

Dang, no indigenous American, makes sense for an Argentine

[@gonzalo731]

Victor Perez my family aport me a lot of information but the rest I searched it by myself

[@gonzalo731]

Gabinator 33 yeah, I worked in it like 1 year or so, but in Argentina there is a lot of information about the arrival of immigrants and such things so it made my job a lot easier. I wish you good luck in your research!

[@yoban360]

I’m Native American and the more I have done research on my people, comes to find out, my ancestors were Siberian’s who went East.

[@yoban360]

The body what kind of heroin shit are you on? An Irish born in the US, is still an Irish, same with a Chinese born in the US. Why is a Jew born in Russia or anywhere in the world still a Jew and claims Israel? A native American from the amazons/Brazil, from central and North America is still a Native American, who speak a different languages because of a different European power who colonized them. That’s the only difference.

[@SameLif3]

The body yep for all I know we were from the Himalayas from last ice age and were part of the Olmec civilization until colonization

[@SameLif3]

yoban gonza but you still got places like Chile, Peru, and Bolivia where most of them stand or stood

[@citrusblast4372]

@@yoban360 i think because it wasnt just one generation but at least millenias worth. Given enough time im sure that as a latino, if I were to move to europe and have a lineage that last 2000 years STILL living in europe, im sure my family would be considered european. Again, we ALL come from Africa

[@franciscoaraujo6624]

@Amanjol Məmbetjanūlı and I’m half Native American and people have said I’ve looked Northeast asian :)

[@R.B.90]

Its always crazy to me to think about our ancestors who left the safety and security of their homes to start a new life in an unknown land not knowing what they are getting into and that they are leaving everything behind forever. Its the ultimate sacrifice. They problem live hard lives knowing they are helping build a new society for thier decensdants to enjoy that they never will. In many ways modern migrants still face a percentage of this but obviously the world is now mapped and connected now image doing that without that.

[@SameLif3]

The body aren’t aryans from Syria

[@SameLif3]

The body I mean the originals of Israel’s are ibvri, they also said Assyrians assuming they’re the same

[@kayseek1248]

R. B. Something like that could still very well happen as the first humans move to the moon and Mars.

[@ccvcharger]

@@kayseek1248 I kinda hope it will happen within my lifetime.

[@geraldobrien7323]

They most likely left because there was NO safety or security in their homeland at the time they moved out.

[@tobiasglendenning7966]

For centuries my ancestors have lived in Southern England and some from Scotland. Going far back enough I have some Scandinavian. I cant trace back further than to approximately 800 CE (take with a boulder of salt). As far as I am aware, this is based on the etymology of names, paternal genetic testing, knowledge of the general movement of the historical societies my ancestors are from and some intuition. It is important to note that this is not precise and I can only say with absolute certainty that up to my great-great-grandparents are completely English, any further is an educated guess.

[@rojioyama248]

I did both the National Geographic Human Genome Project and 23andMe DNA tests. Both traced my ancestral roots to the place of birth, Japan and beyond. Matrilineal line showed origins in SE Asia, whereas patrilineal line showed ancestral links to NE Asia and Korea. My physiological profile showed a noticeable percentage of Neanderthal. It is still fascinating as distant relatives keep showing up on my 23andMe profile. I have been looking at GeoNomad lately, but it's too dense academically for me to digest. Keep up the good work!

[@pradyutdas7358]

Just one thing came out of my mind... "Awesome"! That's exactly what I have wanted to see for years.

[@negevsix8832]

my friends used to joke that I was just the typical New York mutt, Ashkenazi from my mother, Irish Italian from my father.

[@gonzalo731]

Southern or Northern Italian? Ashkenazi and Southern Italians are pretty similar genetically

[@atronachh]

Sounds like the child of the gangster Henry Hill

[@yannick245]

@White Chocolate She? Rule #30 of the internet states that there are no girls on the internet. Also look up rule #29!

[@tonnyengert]

@marios gianopoulos she is only jew when the grand parent and late grandparents are jewish, your parent must be 3/4 or full blood, half and lower then you're not jewish anymore

[@creeperhannes]

That sounds American to me

[@jondigiacomo5539]

We will watch and appreciate all of your videos Mason. The hard work you put into all of your content shows. Thank You so very much for educating us on our collective history.

[@LisaR._]

Thank u Masaman as always . I'm a Calabrese Italian ) and Armenian / Egyptian. Made in America by two first generation Americans . I love being Mediterranean

[@anonymoose9315]

I'm Swedish, Danish, German, Austrian, Irish, and Armenian from Smyrna. With a little Greek, Italian or Levantine, ancestry. Also some Persian I think. Armenians are the bomb!

[@AviChetriArtwork]

@White Chocolate You sound like a character from Skyrim.

[@ultraphitaro4834]

@White Chocolate nord are a bore? Why?

[@postmodpen1169]

No. You are gypsy

[@youssefsaeed7774]

Greetings From a Fellow Mediterranean From Egypt

[@MrAlexanderrangel]

Great video man. Mexican (Indigenous American and Spanish) , Filipino, and Portugese dna

[@aurorarose2836]

I love your videos. So interesting. I'm 100% East Midlands (in Britain), my family lineage predates the Romans.

[@mvnkycheez]

That's pretty nuts, I have no idea about my genetics but my father has traced our last name back to Norman conquest

[@kwamenyame1277]

So fascinating! As far as I know I’m a 💯 Ashanti - Akan from Ghana 🇬🇭

[@fivegoalseason]

me too bro, well im fanti.. Supposidly the other half of the Ashanti tribe.. all Akan

[@robertbateman3698]

100% mixed European

[@fivegoalseason]

@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan u must havs Greek and Roman in u then

[@bigsouth010]

fivegoalseason Lol good one

[@bigsouth010]

I’m 100% African American

[@pomtubes1205]

This guy... Masaman, you are the man of the masses! Seriously, you have the most uniquely overwhelming content out there and all for free?! More power to you, man.

[@Joshuafukumoto]

Most of my ancestors came to Hawai'i from Southern Japan, Kwantung, and Okinawa in the late 1800s to work on Sugar plantations. Even my Hawaiian ancestors migrated from Hawai'i island to O'ahu, looking for work in the early 1900s.

[@fatman9196]

Best video in a while ... I’m at least 90% sub Saharan west African with a possible west European Y chromosome

[@luan0020]

It only takes one European ancestor to have a European Haplogroup, that's why haplogroups are useless

[@JustHatcheted]

I'm the opposite haha, I'm Mexican/Mestizo and have a West African haplogroup

[@rooster0143]

Whoops.

[@topcatseriosblack8396]

This video was not good it's very misleading.

[@haltdieklappe7972]

I’m 4/5 european and 1/5 African

[@MiguelRodriguez-lp5ce]

I had one of those DNA tests done to know more about my heritage. As a Mexican with mixed features myself, I expected a 50-50 ratio of native Mesoamerican and Spanish. I got about 45% Purépecha and Huichol (pre-columbian civilizations native to western Mexico, which was kind of a surprise given that I was born, raised, and actually live in the north of Mexico), 45% Spanish (mainly central and southern Spain), BUT, the remaining 10% goes from the Congo region of Africa, to the Sahara, to Egypt and the Middle East, and even to Sweden, Scotland and Ireland (those last 3 had a tiny 1% each, but HEY! Totally unexpected. It’s awesome to witness how far humans have traveled and how unique each person actually is, but in the same way, how related we are to each other. I guess in the end we are all just part of a one HUGE family.

[@rennnelson8028]

Many vikings and French invaded parts of Spain.

[@DonnaGisellaTranchel]

🇸🇪

[@DLC1325]

Now this is MUCH better than anything else I've ever seen. The area maps of specific groups where the deep colors fade into lighter shades are always how I picture migrations and if there were a way to incorporate the fading/blending color changes into your map (since there really aren't any hard lines in this sort of thing), I think you might have the greatest migration map of all time if you don't already. Maybe a separate map to consider. Top notch!

[@Taffee]

Sweet gracious word this video is enlightening! Your channel is greatly underrated when you take into account the amount of hard research and internet scowering you had to endure! It's beyond amazing and beautiful to learn how actually connected humans are and how people moved around astonishing distances. Sincere best wishes from your fan from Indonesia!🙏👍 (Pretty sure I'm predominantly of Minangkabau ancestry although from migration patterns, it is possible that I maybe have some south Asian or Middle Eastern ancestry). Much love ❤️

[@Jupiterssilhouette]

Great video, I’m a quarter Scotch-Irish, a quarter English Germanic, a quarter Iberian Spanish and a quarter Colombian Indigenous Amerindian. Basically my dad is Canadian and my mom is Colombian

[@elementaesthetique]

LOL

[@TheNachoOne]

Great video @Masaman! For future versios of the map, I would add a line from Chile to Antarctica, since it is the primary route to reaching the White Continent, and also because Chile has one of the only two permanent civilian settlements there.

[@AwesomeSauce696969]

This is your best and most ambitious video to date. The presentation is excellent and the map is just a masterpiece. Well done!

[@sunburstrose7860]

@Masaman, wanted to say thank you for slowing down your narration. I'm finding it much more enjoyable to watch your videos and can take in the material so much more.

[@vianabdullah2837]

Take a moment to appreciate how much effort Masa puts into these videos, despite the topics being so niche.

[@nonochanyeppoyo2490]

I am an Indonesian. The history book when I was a kid always said my ancestors were sailors from Yunan. But my mom has curly hair a trait of a non oriental Asian.

[@paddaboi_]

I am South African yet I have Asian characteristics, I have straight hair, kinda Asian eyes and I'm kinda yellow, and my grandfather is Muslim which are descended from Asian slaves from Malaysia /Indonesia etc

[@afrisianaufalfahrianto1516]

You probably have Melanesians DNA

[@fadhil2831]

Well because your ancestors mix with the ancestors of the papuan which they are the first to live in sundaland or Sahul

[@guillermofernandez7954]

This map of yours is truly a game changer. It should be in the books!

[@csoares6229]

Always find your videos informative and full of in-depth knowledge which is not even easy to find in textbooks.

[@hnaku8748]

Thanks for your effort Masaman. Coming from an ethnic minority group it's sometimes hard to know about our past, but bits like this always help. Great work.

[@eyuin5716]

This is one of your most impressive works yet.

[@m.debaser4]

Oh Lord, Masaman going at it! This quarantine unchained his mapping capabilities!! One suggerence to your support: you could create an online shop to sell t-shirts with maps stamps, the one at 11:00 is truly baddass!!

[@182452134]

I love your content, it's so wholesome! You deserve so much recognition!

[@micahasher7600]

Masaman, can you please do a video on the genetic outliers? Like those with high % of rh- blood (gaunche, berber, yazidi, and basque) as well as other anomaly's like the ainu and Andaman

[@SomasAcademy]

The issue with this map is that it doesn't account for time at all. For example, the spread of Southern African Hunter Gatherers happened over 100,000 years ago, whereas the spread of the Indo-Europeans only happened about 2-6,000 years ago, yet both are featured with equal prominence. Inconsistent standards are also applied to groups branching off from one another, resulting in the Australian migration from ancient South Asia (around 60,000 BCE) being represented as an Oceanian group splitting off from the South Asian group, while the more recent migrations out of South Asia that formed the bases of the Western and Eastern Eurasian populations (around 50-40,000 BCE) are completely ignored in favor of having the Indo-European and East Asian populations seemingly pop out of nowhere.

[@SomasAcademy]

@The Truth Insightful reply, thanks professor.

[@marooned_space_princess]

Great work! Appreciate you doing the research and creating these maps!

[@desanipt]

My ancestors come from bacteria, who likely lived in a pound somewhere in a chaotic pre-historic Earth, that's what I can tell.

[@nkley1]

We must be related

[@NoodleErik]

@Menard Acosta Pretty sure thats not a bacteria but a virus...

[@ilect1690]

Ponds didn't exist back then because land didn't exist

[@gushernandez25]

As far as I am concerned, our ancestors crashed into earth from Mars.

[@kingnick6260]

@@gushernandez25 I like that one!

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

10:45, so midway to Hawai'i, they thought, nah, let's go to Alaska damn it! 😲

[@topcatseriosblack8396]

Lol good one some one knows alittle history

[@uts4448]

I’m Micronesian and according to my research, my ancestors originated from the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Which you stated. 👏👏👏 also I could tell those girls are Micronesian at 9:28 just by the mumus they’re wearing lol

[@umarmars47]

Not really from Taiwan. That's just a theory.

[@_braileanul]

Are you Chuuk?

[@uts4448]

@@_braileanul sorry for a VERY late reply lol. Yes I’m Chuukese.

[@_braileanul]

@@uts4448 what will you vote if that referendum takes place? Sorry its only thing I know from chuuk lol I'm just curious

[@vipin395]

this guy does a lot of hard work deserves more subscribers

[@taotaostrong]

Great graphics! I always enjoy your work. Thanks for this channel. ♥️

[@valiumk.9489]

Diaspora is one of my favourite words, it means sow (or scatter) across. I really wish I knew more about my ancestors, what I do know is that on my father's side, my grandma was from an old Byzantine family, probably dating back to the early days of Byzantium, my grandpa's family was from a Greek Persian community, who moved to Odessa for business in/with the Greek embassy, but had an ottoman surname, which also goes back centuries. Both families were forced to return to their "country of origin", Greece, in the early 1900's. My grandparents met in a battlefield/hospital during the WWII. My mom's family is still somewhat of a mystery, unfortunately, but the unusual surname might be of Arabic or Hebrew origin. I wish Greeks had a better way of keeping records. Have a wonderful day!! ☺️

[@PyroPuffs777]

It all starts in East Africa, and humans just went crazy from there.

[@CloseThatBackdoor]

I'm east african, as east as it gets 🇸🇴🇸🇴 Search up Greater Somalia

[@Sigfrid421]

The human history is probably even older than we thought... scientists have discovered the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens in Morocco, which push our history back by a 100000 years!

[@iforbach4003]

The out of Africa theory is nonsense.

[@shysoul2450]

@@iforbach4003 🙄

[@iforbach4003]

@@shysoul2450 Africans of today have archaic admixture not present in populations which supposedly descended from them. It's literally impossible for Europeans and Asians to have come from Africa. Also, archeological evidence is mounting more and more that the earliest human settlements lie outside of the African continent. If anything, there is an "into Africa" story to the human race.

[@madamemarmot]

Completely fascinating, and as you said, beautiful. "The proper study of mankind is man," and you certainly are, Masaman. Good work. Always such a pleasure.

[@mackmaster100]

I say it once again, one of the best channels on KZbin

[@Lilly-ud6qs]

Nice video.I'm Jamaican,did ancestry and results said Indigenous central & South American,West/Central/ South African,Western European and Southern European.

[@fishcakes5626]

Same. Both my parents are from Jamaica and I’ve got South Asian, West African, Iberian + NW Euro (Scotch) DNA . We’re truly a melting pot! 🇯🇲

[@Raj-dy2cn]

You guys are really a cocktail

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Haven't tested but I know that my ancestors were West African, East Indian, Scottish, German, and Syrian.

[@proudreal868]

Jamaica= west africa----slavery route to the island period.

[@knockhello2604]

@@proudreal868 oh.

[@TRAVELZILLA]

Hello there. I am a dual citizen being Brazilian and Portuguese. The vast majority of my ancestors come from Europe, Portugal, Italy and France! In my family they were mostly settlers and colonizers from Portugal though. My ancestors have founded many important cities not only in continental Portugal ( I descend from the country's founders), but also I descend from the first Portuguese settlers of the Madeira Islands and the Azores Islands including the navigators who have first discovered and settled these islands. (Antonio Leme, Gonçalves Zarco, Perestrello, Tristão Vaz, etc etc) I have covered 40+ generations in my family tree and I got ancestors in all 9 islands! LOL. From there we went to Brazil from the 1530's to the 1900s in various subsequent waves, in the meantime we have founded many cities in Brazil, more than a couple of dozen of them. In Brazil I descend from many of the main Banner Barriers or BANDEIRANTES. Curiously enough the Portuguese and Spanish Jews fled to Brazil over the centuries, converted to christianity and then made sure their descendants married into the familyes of colonialists who descended from the Knoghts Templars and the order of Christ in order for them to preserve their lives and enter the local Brazilian nobility ( Brazil was a monarchy for almost 400 years). So many of the people who expanded Portuguese AMERICA were converted Jews ( Mix of Jews with Iberian peoples). I have actually gotten certified by the Israelite Community of Portugal who have seen reviewed and recognized my documents are factual and valid under the law. Since Brazil is a country of immigrants I have also branches from France, Italy and Spain and a tiny bit of Native-American that came from the first settlers who frequently intermarried. Careful when studying Brazilians. Most of the DNA is European, regardless of skin color in Brazil because our official immigration numbers are phony. They only count the immigrants from 1890-1970, but that is inaccurate from numbers that came before are just as large if not larger and the numbers from 1890-1970 are very partial for it is known that in certain years for 1 official immigrants there were from 3-7 who came in off the books! That is why the European DNA is way higher than expected in Brazil in people from all skin tones.

[@shable1436]

For a 10min video, this is amazing amount of information about our history.

[@azakzaak1691]

Very impressive work. This mapping of ancestry and migration is by far more probable than millions of written papers about this subject.

[@mrgeorgejetson]

Love your work, man. Always interesting, and as you say, data maps can indeed be strangely beautiful things. Keep up the good work, and thanks!

[@kanyekubrick5391]

Noticed that you kept saying “could go into more detail, but...” dawg don’t be afraid to go into more detail. I would love that 🤟🏽😁

[@Jsmith2024]

Brilliant! There's a lot of hard work here. Thank you for sharing it.

[@desiderious1]

Another fascinating video Masaman. Keep them coming.

[@colouredgal]

74 % central and sub saharan African decent and 26 % Western European decent

[@kingzod8536]

Light skinned

[@sammyr6911]

king zod Your mom

[@colouredgal]

king zod what an ignorant comment

[@zoezoe3301]

ain't no such thing as sub saharan Africa. Africa is Africa the north African today are invaders .That term is used to steal history.

[@fia8159]

@@zoezoe3301 You missed the entire point of this video.

[@kaninma7237]

I immigrated from the US to the Czech Republic, and I love within 15 km to 70 km of five of the ancestral villages where six families of my ancestors came from. I am learning the language, and I plan to become a citizen.

[@nowakevelyne223]

👍

[@user-xt6mf1wk8w]

Isnt a USA a "promise" land?

[@johnegan5967]

Omg I'm OBSESSED WITH YOUR CHANNEL!!!

[@SuperAltamish23]

you are a gem of youtube, keep it up mate

[@mitchellgolston2726]

My family came mostly from Europe moms family is Celtic / German and Slavic. Dads Parents were Very diverse , his dad was Sierra Leone, Benin and Gambian. His mom was Barbadian Italian Mexican and German. Pretty wide group love your videos

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

11:00, all roads lead to Easter Island!

[@eemah4209]

loved your video. talk about content-rich! I will watch this again, and again. (Maybe I'm a slow learner, but this is fascinating.) Thank you!

[@blindvisionary415]

Thank you for your hard work, and for sharing!

[@andresbaronayala4269]

Hey , I’m Colombian and these are my roots according to the ANCESTRY DNA test : -55% Spain -34 % Native American -3% Basque (which is a region in Spain And France ) -4% Irish and Scottish -4 % France Thoughts ?

[@Nuevomexicano]

Your last name ayala is basque in origin

[@SameLif3]

Andres baron ayala oh I just remembered mine is basque too but didn’t know it was from an island. I’m more of a native though

[@SameLif3]

NMduke sure

[@torrezno1990]

55% España es muchísimo para alguien de Colombia. Buenos resultados.

[@foxtail803]

your are a legend. . Thank you soon much .I wish their were more intelligent inspirational ppl like you. I am mixed British Papua New Guinea and just went home after 38' years.got full tribal welcome to country ritual ...I thought my elders would be just afro islander but noted several very old women from my tribe ( eg their great grandparents were same as mine) have more indian aboriginal or very dark skin Asia features ...like a mix and two of them spoke a lanuage the old uncles said they didn't understand.but new was very old. Your videos which I had been watching before I went home allowed me to share with younger cousins a migration path that leads us to Papua New Guinea ...everything you have said .I have physically seen in my relatives faces skin hair languages and customs

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Where is your hometown and maybe have a dna test. Maybe you have some Indian ancestors who migrated to Africa or wherever your village is. And language they speak could be an asian language

[@foxtail803]

@@ShubhamMishrabrothanks so much for the reply I am going home in three years and a older cousin is going to take me high into the highlands of PNG to meet old relatives from our tribe. So will take three dna tests home then. I will also record the languages...as the two old relatives who spoke a really old lanuage didn't sound like what I am used to and I was thinking some words were like sanscript or like the Muslim prayer words ...yeah it was definitely an eye opener seeing community life and then seeing how the older relatives were so different in physical looks. Very dark skin with Long curls jet black hair small noses high cheeks small eyes very small frames compared to the younger afro islander relatives ( who were in their 50' 60s of age) with chocolate skin afro light black or even blonde/brown afros tall warrior like statue bodys I can't wait ....

[@foxtail803]

@@ShubhamMishrabro Papua New Guinea ( near Australia) my relatives are living in capital port Moresby but relatives from several villages walked or took bus from there homes one or two days away to come see me. One villiage was Karama name....the ppl there identify as kerema ppl....motu speaking ...they were the firsts to mix with Western ppl.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@foxtail803 ohh it will be interesting

[@Josh-oh2zq]

This is an amazing perspective. Thank you. I hate to ask for more, but you're making me more curious. I'd love to see this as a time-lapse with the arrows growing and then fading grey as as a timeline bar progresses Cross the top of the screen. I'd also love to see examples of how the skin hues and appearance progresses and mixes and adapts to regions as the arrows are progressing... this was so cool.

[@ivete5524]

Bula (🇫🇯) Mason, love your work of human origins, migrations etc, i reckon its one of the best researched accounts on youtube ! My background is majority Fijian, some european and a tiny bit polynesian. Most would know that apart from the usual Melanesian Polynesian cross pollination for 1000s of years, the more recent (1800s) migrants have been Europeans (British/Irish) who then brought the Indians. But mayb most would not know of a lot of other European men that settled in Fiji from the mid to late 1800s. They came from Scandinavia, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain etc and almost all married native Fijian women and lived the rest of their lives in remote corners of Fiji. Most of their descendants, carrying their ancestors surnames are still there today. As Fiji was a stop between Australia and America in the Gold Rush and Whaleing days, then Sandalwood and Beech de mer days to Asia, Fiji was bound to have some of these seaman stopping over. That is why a sizeable part of the population now makes us like some countries in the Caribbean with our population mixes , Fijian-European-Polynesian-Indian. The indigenous population is still very significant tho and bilingual in Fijian and English and i dont think would ever lose their language and culture. Mayb another invesigative job for you, as some of these other European peoples settled in other parts of the Pacific that their Govt colonised at one stage or another like Papua, Samoa, parts of Micronesia, New Caledonia etc. Vinaka vaka levu and keep up the great work. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 mdo mdo mdo 👍🏾

[@janetgraham-russell4476]

My genealogical search said my family had only moved 100 miled in the last 400 years. I had my DNA done and it more or less confirmed it. Scottish Borders/Northumbrian woman through and through. Well apart from a smidge of Norwegian.

[@xx-xk9uz]

Hi! The map at 7:09 was very intriguing to me! Do you mind expanding on which criteria these regions are divided upon?

[@triangulator01]

probably culturally

[@ld4846]

Great video! You're channel's amazing. I hope you continue making more videos. One question, do you recommend a list of sources, books that you use, so I can research further for myself? Thanks again

[@axelgomez2311]

Spanish guy here. As far as I know since I'm 50% Galician, I have Celt, Visigothic and Hispano-Roman heritage, and the other parts are mostly Basque, Bereber, Romani and maybe a most recent Amerindian heritage from Spaniards that went to the new world and came back. Love ur vids, cheers mate.

[@rennnelson8028]

I have been to Galicia, Burgos, and basque country, do many spaniards have family in Latin America still. sign an american?

[@michealperez1863]

Hey, Masaman, I want to recommend some channels to you: History Time, I Love Languages!, Kings and Generals, Pete Kelly, Real Crusades History, Voices of the Past. Also could you start doing research on other primates?

[@hallvardlundehervig5508]

Micheal Perez yeah, those are great channels

[@ChasOnErie]

GREAT WORK ... you are a breath of knowledge... We think we are from somewhere ....but we are human , the original hobos.

[@chris_2208]

Thanks for your work bro!! Humanity will learn from this.

[@LouisHansell]

Your map at 10:56 would make a great poster.

[@vtron9832]

I’ve been waiting for this ever since I subscribed to you Masaman.

[@tasogarerubica]

On the last note you expressed, I would loved to see the recent migration of East Asians of the last two centuries, notably the Chinese into the americas in the 19th century and the Japanese into the americas around late 19th and early 20th century. While the large migration of Viennese and Korean to the America’s in the mid 20th century would also be quite notable in changing the racial demographic of North America.

[@EbuniMisses]

Excellent work. The very fact that you would take the time to collect and organize this much information for us is appreciated and remarkable. It really opens up the mind to look at the world differently. This also just further shows how COMPLETELY STUPID racism is. Even amongst siblings with the same mother and father, the DNA mixture can vary greatly. We are just the current manifestations of all the DNA that has ever been with our own (now) unique stories. God Bless.

[@johnransom1146]

I love maps. Thanks. My dad’s family is English from Ipswich. My mom’s is German that emigrated to around Herkimer, NY. Then they had to leave during the war of independence and moved again to Canada as loyalists to Flamborough, ON.

[@Aciek25]

I just love this videos. And an idea: when there are no detailed maps, just create them!

[@pkb8353]

I'm Brazilian with 50% Japanese, 25% Italian, 18,75% Portuguese and 6,25 Amerindian blood

[@blueorangeade712]

acammtt That’s normal in brazil

[@catalina6]

Kudos, Masaman. Interesting migration of some Sami people to Western Washington, USA at the end of the 19th century. They drove herds of Caribou/Reindeer across Canada to Alaska on a government contract during a famine. Started the return to Samiland by sailing ship and got as far as Port Townsend and settled in the region. They said they were "Norwegian" until fairly recently. (Large Norwegian contingency in the area).

[@cynthiaahern9081]

Watched it. Loved it. Now taking aspirin because of it. Even Data would get a headache. So much information. Amazing.

[@hillloguz5810]

Hi, Masaman! Love yor content. I already commented this on your last video but I am really looking forward to creating spanish subtitles for your videos and I am wondering if there is an email or some way to contact you, thanks.

[@Leo-us4wd]

A video on Minoans and their dna pls

[@Phaedon53]

Maybe this would help a little bit. The article contains some new data on the issue that you are interested in. www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/greeks-really-do-have-near-mythical-origins-ancient-dna-reveals

[@valiumk.9489]

@@Phaedon53 πολύ ενδιαφέρον άρθρο!!

[@sork998]

They were greeks

[@hallvardlundehervig5508]

Krisztián Kovács the Minoans were not Greeks as they did not speak Greek. The succeeding civilization, the Myceanans who absorbed the Minoans in 1600b b.c were the first Greeks because we know that they spoke Greek.

[@MartinUToob]

Someday you'll have to plot where everyone has migrated to abd from, Mason. All that granulation has to reveal a new insight(s) at some point, eh? Great vids. Love your stuff. 👍 🖐👋🖐👋🖐

[@PierreLucSex]

Epic work. Thank you.

[@TexasDragon]

Pure English-Scottish from my Mom's Dad. Spain/Mexican Hispanic from my Mom's Mom. Portuguese from my Dad's dad. Scottish/Cherokee Indian from my Dad's mom. = American 😎

[@jonahs92]

American or Texan? I'm assuming from your username that you're in fact Texan.

[@swophonorious4127]

This map is glorious. Thank you.

[@altyrrell3088]

Great video, awesome work! My mother's ancestors came from Westphalia. My father's ancestors came mostly from the British Isles, except for one great grandmother, who was Native American. The records go back to the 1600s before they completely stop.

[@112deeps]

You are truly talented and your work brings humanity together in a very different ways. Currently there is debate going on in India that the scientific data analysis also indicates that there was a larger migration towards central Asia rather than smaller migration and smaller migration towards South asia rather than bigger migration. The reading of the data is being reviewed in south Asia. You probably ars aware of the hot debate!

[@Ilovepizzandnb]

Japan, Mainly Jomon DNA/Ainu Paternal Haplogroup D-M55, Sub-Group D-M125 and Maternal Haplogroup G. Then recent migration in the late 1890's to Hawaii.

[@AviChetriArtwork]

It's amazing that you know your haplogroups.

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

American - Northern/Central Italy, Southern Rhein Germany, Québec (likely french?), Poland/Belarus (Russian empire) An amalgamation of centrally European ancestries, dark hair mixed eye color! 😊

[@knockhello2604]

Creepy pdp

[@IRex-wm9pd]

wow this one was really map madness overload! I love it...

[@infinitydomi]

You always come up with interesting contents

[@JesseSierke]

Most of my ancestors came from Western Europe. Among my 3x great grandparents, most were American, and after that, Irish. Among those Americans, Ireland can claim a few more branches. Short answer: Ireland.

[@momz6569]

Both of my parents were "Donnauschwabians" or ethnic germans that were born in what is now Serbia. DNA testing revealed that my genetics show mostly central european (Germanic and Celtic) DNA. It also shows traces of Roman/Greco DNA. My parents met after WWII in Cleveland OH and settled in metro Detroit as there was a substantial number of DanubeSchwabians here already. I have relatives in Quebec, Ontario, Ohio, Germany, Austria, and a few spread throughout South America. I would like to share what I know about the Donauschwabians if you may be interested.

[@ainslieberrafella]

You should read the memoir 'No Going Back to Moldova' by Anna Robertson. It starts by relating her family history moving from Germany to the Banat (right on the Danube) in what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of her birth, and were spread further afield with the advent of the second world war. It's a very interesting book and a heartfelt and moving story.

[@mimidoodle58]

It is actually spelled Danube Swabians (Donauschwaben).

[@El_Presidente_5337]

I wouldn't have expected swabians in Serbia. (I live in the swabian part of Baden-Württemberg)

[@cbv7207]

@@El_Presidente_5337 There were a lot of Saxon miners during Nemanjić dynasty in Serbia.

[@noelbecker7002]

I have a hefty serving (abt 50%) of swabian ancestry, coming equally from my maternal and paternal lines, and settling in Michigan. I would very much appreciate if you could do the history of the swabians and of Baden.

[@MatthewsPersonal]

I love this channel so much

[@usamaizm]

You Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.