Your welcome, On Gedmatch I have looked at my mothers East African that myorigins assigns her it isn't all East African some is West African although she has more East African the same with my daughter she has both but in her case slightly more West African. I think some of the East African is likely admixture from Jewish ancestry that myorigins isn't able to pick up yet I expect that to change when they have their Sephardic Jewish Diaspora ready. Ftdna is testing Sephardic Jews in Israel that were from Salonika Greece and Izmir Turkey two communities that received a substantial amount of New Christians from Portugal(forcibly converted Jews) in the 1600's these people converted back to Judaism in Greece and Turkey. It is possible some may also come from Ethiopia there was a huge effort by the Portuguese to convert the Coptic Christians there into Catholicism with many Portuguese missionaries also there was mixed community there started with about 200 Portuguese soldiers marrying Ethiopian women likely from the Tigray tribe. Those people at one point were kicked out the mtDNA M1 haplogroups in the Azores group look like they may be from there.
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