🏔️ New report · Central Europe

Mitteleuropa

Your Central European Roots

For people with roots in southern and central Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace, Czechia and Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and northern Italy, and for Central European families abroad. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core (the LBK first farmers, the Corded Ware arrival, the Bell Beaker and Unetice cultures, the Hallstatt and La Tene Celts, the Roman provinces of the Danube and the Alps, the Germanic peoples of the Migration period, the early Slavs, medieval Germany and Hungary) and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 10 communities is your closest reference, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (LBK farmers, Corded Ware, Bell Beaker and Unetice)
⚔️ Hallstatt and La Tene Celts, Roman provinces, Germanic peoples and Slavs
🏔️ 10 Central European communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 7 periods, from the Deep past to the Middle Ages
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI, in 11 languages including German, Hungarian, Czech and Slovenian

⚠️ Designed for people with roots in Central Europe. Works for any of the 10 communities, from Bavaria, Saxony and Alsace to Austria, Switzerland, Czechia and Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and northern Italy, and for Central European families abroad (German-American, Austrian-American, Swiss-American, Italian-American from the North, Brazilian and Argentine of German or Italian descent). If your roots are in northern Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark or Scandinavia, Nordsee fits better; for Poland and Eastern Europe see Sarmatia, for France France Profonde, for Croatia, Serbia and the Balkans Balkan Frontier, for Britain and Ireland Isles. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the fit will be poor and our Advanced Ancestry Report is a better choice. Not sure? The free Report Finder tells you.

Who it is for

South Germans from Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia, and Central and East Germans from Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt.
Austrians, Swiss (German- and French-speaking) and Alsatians, from the Alps to the upper Rhine.
Czechs and Slovaks, from Bohemia and Moravia to the Carpathians.
Hungarians and Slovenes, where the Carpathian Basin meets the Alps and the Adriatic.
Northern Italians from Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Veneto, Trentino, Friuli and Emilia, and Italian-speaking Switzerland.
Diaspora families in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere whose DNA is mostly Central European.

1. Choose your community

Pick the community your family comes from. Not sure, or mixed origins? Choose "Let the model decide" and we compare you to every community automatically. Neighbouring communities of Central Europe are genetically close to each other, so the result is always a closest reference, never a provincial call.

South German (Bavaria, Franconia, Swabia)

Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia in southern Germany: the Hallstatt princely seats and the Celtic oppida, then the Roman province of Raetia and the Alamanni and Bavarii of the Migration period; a reference sample mostly from Middle Franconia and eastern Württemberg

Central and East German (Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt)

Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, heartland of the LBK, Corded Ware and Unetice cultures, later of the Thuringian kingdom and, east of the Saale, of medieval Slavic settlement absorbed into the German eastward expansion

Austrian

Austria, from the Hallstatt salt mines and the Celtic kingdom of Noricum to the Roman Danube frontier, the Bavarian and Slavic settlement of the early Middle Ages and the Habsburg heartland

Swiss

Switzerland, German- and French-speaking: the Neolithic lake dwellers, the La Tene site and the Helvetii, then the Roman provinces and the Alamanni and Burgundians of the early Middle Ages

Alsatian

Alsace, on the upper Rhine between the Vosges and the Black Forest, Celtic then Roman, settled by the Alamanni and long part of the German-speaking world, today in France

Czech and Slovak

Czechia and Slovakia, the Bohemian and Moravian lands of the Celtic Boii, then of Germanic peoples and, from the 6th century, of the West Slavs of Great Moravia and Bohemia

Hungarian

Hungary and the Carpathian Basin, crossroads of Celts, Pannonian Romans, Sarmatians, Huns, Germanic peoples, Avars and Slavs before the Hungarian Conquest of 895; ancient DNA studies find that most of the ancestry of Hungarians today is shared with their Central European neighbours

Slovenian

Slovenia, where the Alps meet Pannonia and the Adriatic: Hallstatt and Celtic Norican lands, then Roman, settled by South Slavs from the late 6th century (Carantania); the reference is a single average of published Slovenian samples

Northwest Italian (Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Italian Switzerland)

Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria and Italian-speaking Switzerland: the Remedello and Golasecca cultures, the Ligures and the Cisalpine Gauls, then Roman, Lombard and medieval northern Italy

Northeast Italian (Veneto, Trentino, Friuli, Emilia)

Veneto, Trentino, Friuli and Emilia: the Terramare and the ancient Veneti, Cisalpine Gaul and Roman Aquileia, then the Lombard duchies and the Venetian Republic

🔎 Let the model decide (auto)

We detect which community you are genetically closest to.

What your report models, era by era

🦴 Deep ancestry

The Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Central Europe, Anatolian and Iranian farmers, steppe herders and the Eastern and Caucasus hunter-gatherers: the prehistoric building blocks of every profile.

🌾 Neolithic and Copper Age

The LBK first farmers who spread from the Carpathian Basin from about 5500 BC, the Middle and Late Neolithic farmers and Swiss lake dwellers, the Carpathian and northern Italian Copper Age, and the Corded Ware people who brought steppe ancestry from about 2900 BC.

⚱️ Bronze Age

The Bell Beaker and Unetice cultures (one merged reference), the Tumulus and Urnfield cultures with the Tollense battlefield of about 1250 BC, the Carpathian Bronze Age (Maros, Vatya, Fuzesabony) and northern Italy (Polada, Terramare).

🛡️ Iron Age

The Hallstatt princely seats and salt mines (Heuneburg, Hochdorf, Hallstatt), the La Tene Celts (Boii, Helvetii, Norici) and Cisalpine Gaul, with Scythian-period and Danish Iron Age proxies for the steppe and the Germanic North.

🏛️ Roman era

The provinces of Raetia, Noricum and Pannonia along the Danube limes and the Germanic peoples beyond the frontier, with Sarmatian, Roman Italian and Levantine proxies for the people who settled beside or moved within the Empire.

⚔️ Migration period

The Lombards, Ostrogoths, Gepids, Thuringians, Alamanni and Bavarii (one merged Germanic reference, as they cannot be told apart in G25), the Romance-speaking locals of the Alps and Pannonia, and the Huns as a steppe proxy, c. AD 400 to 650.

🏰 Medieval

The Slavic settlement of Moravia, Carantania and the Elbe, the South Slavic ancestors of the Slovenes, the Avars, the Hungarian Conquest of 895, medieval Germany and Arpad-era Hungary.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from Central Europe, we include steppe, Roman-period, wider European, Sub-Saharan, East Asian and Amerindian proxies, so any real outside ancestry is detected honestly instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🏔️ Closest communities

Which of the 10 communities your DNA most closely resembles, ranked by distance. Neighbouring communities are close genetically, so this is a closest reference: near-ties are shown as ties.

🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA lineages

If your raw DNA file is available, we classify your paternal and maternal haplogroups in a Central European context (e.g. R1b-U152, R1b-U106, R1a-M458, I1, I2a-Din, G2a; maternal H, U5, K, N1a), always as one line among thousands of ancestors.

67 reference populations

Your DNA is modelled against ancient regional proxies, modern community reference populations, and non-regional outside proxies (steppe peoples, Roman-period and wider European sources).

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Bronze Age sources

Bell Beaker and Unetice cultures, Early Bronze Age (Bavaria, Czechia, central Germany, Lower Austria, c. 2500-1600 BC) · Bronze Age northern Italy (Polada, Terramare, Olmo di Nogara) · Carpathian Basin Bronze Age (Maros, Vatya, Fuzesabony, Encrusted Pottery) · Han Bronze Age proxy (East Asian) · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya) outside source · Tumulus and Urnfield cultures, Middle and Late Bronze Age (Knoviz, Unstrut, Neckarsulm, Tollense battlefield) · Yoruba Bronze Age proxy (West African)

Deep ancestral sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG, Kotias) · Central European Mesolithic hunter-gatherer (Germany, Austria, Alpine Italy) · Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) · Han (East Asian proxy) · Iranian Neolithic farmer (Ganj Dareh) · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya, Samara) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

European host

S European (Italian) · SE European (Balkan and Aegean) · SW European

Iron Age sources

Cisalpine Gaul, northern Italian Iron Age (Cenomani of Verona) · Danish Iron Age (Germanic North, non-regional proxy) · Hallstatt culture, Early Iron Age (Heuneburg, Hochdorf, Magdalenenberg, Hallstatt salt mines, Slovenia) · Han Iron Age proxy (East Asian) · La Tene Celts of Central Europe (Boii, Helvetii, Noricans: Czechia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia) · Scythian-period Carpathian Basin (Vekerzug, Mezocsat; steppe-influenced, non-regional proxy) · Yoruba Iron Age proxy (West African)

Medieval sources

Avar-period Alpine and Pannonian populations (Alpine, Central European and North Adriatic profiles) · Avars, Eurasian steppe nomads (Avar and East Asian-mixed profiles, 568-800, non-regional proxy) · Early and Carolingian-era Slavs (Pohansko in Moravia, Avar-period Austria, Elbe Slavs; Central European Slavic profile) · Han Medieval proxy (East Asian) · Hungarian Conquerors, early Magyars (10th c., Early Magyar profile, non-regional proxy) · Medieval and early modern Germany (Ellwangen, Lubeck, Hamburg) · Medieval Hungary, Arpad and Angevin eras (Carpathian Basin and Central European profiles) · South Slavic settlers of the Eastern Alps and Pannonia (Avar period, ancestors of the Slovenes) · Yoruba Medieval proxy (West African)

Migration-period sources

Germanic peoples of the Migration period (Lombards, Ostrogoths, Gepids, Thuringians, Alamanni, Bavarii; 5th-7th c.) · Han Late Antiquity proxy (East Asian) · Huns and steppe nomads (Hun elite and East Asian-mixed profiles, non-regional proxy) · Late Antique Italy (non-regional proxy) · Late Roman and Romance-speaking locals of the Alps and Pannonia (Burgusio, Collegno, Lombard-period locals) · Yoruba Late Antiquity proxy (West African)

Modern Central European communities

Alsatian · Austrian · Central and East German (Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt) · Czech and Slovak · Hungarian · Northeast Italian (Veneto, Trentino, Friuli, Emilia) · Northwest Italian (Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Italian Switzerland) · Slovenian · South German (Bavaria, Franconia, Swabia) · Swiss

Neolithic and Copper Age sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer (outside source) · Carpathian Basin Neolithic and Copper Age (Koros, Starcevo, Lengyel, Tisza, Tiszapolgar, Baden) · Corded Ware, Central Europe (c. 2900-2350 BC, arrival of steppe ancestry) · Han Neolithic proxy (East Asian) · LBK, the first farmers of Central Europe (Linear Pottery culture, c. 5500-4900 BC; Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) · Middle and Late Neolithic farmers (Hinkelstein, Grossgartach, Funnelbeaker, Wartberg, Swiss lake dwellers) · Neolithic and Copper Age northern Italy (Square-Mouthed Pottery, Remedello, Alpine valleys) · Yoruba Neolithic proxy (West African)

Roman-era sources

Germanic peoples beyond the Roman frontier (Hassleben and central Germany, Roman Iron Age) · Han Classical proxy (East Asian) · Imperial Roman Italian (Classical) · Roman Levant (Classical) · Roman provinces of Pannonia, Noricum and Raetia, local provincial profile (Roman Hungary, Austria, Switzerland) · Sarmatians of the Great Hungarian Plain (Iranian steppe incomers, mixed profile, non-regional proxy) · Yoruba Classical proxy (West African)

How it works, and its limits

🔬 How to read your results (please read)

Your result is computed by genetic similarity (Global25): we place your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space and find the mixture of reference populations that best reproduces your profile, era by era. The reference populations use G25 coordinates built from published ancient-DNA studies and modern reference samples; none of our reference data is simulated.

Reference populations are statistical proxies: "La Tene Celts of Central Europe" or "Germanic peoples of the Migration period" means a few dozen to a few hundred individuals sampled at a handful of sites, not a whole people. A Celtic-like, Germanic-like or Slavic-like percentage is a similarity to those samples, not proof of an ethnicity or a specific ancestor. "Celtic", "Germanic" and "Slavic" are language and culture labels, not genetic categories, and the report does not give a percentage of any of them.

Genetics is not identity: this report is not a national, regional or political determination. Neighbouring communities are close in G25 (each about 0.011 to 0.017 from its nearest neighbour), so the closest community is a best-fit reference and not a proven origin. Few medieval genomes have been published from Switzerland, Slovenia and northern Italy, and the Slovenian reference is a single published average: the report says so when it matters for you.

Why group these 10 communities in one report? They share the same formation story: the LBK farmers, the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker arrivals, the Hallstatt and La Tene world, Rome on the Danube and in the Alps, the Germanic peoples and the Huns of the Migration period, then Slavs, Avars, Magyars and the medieval kingdoms, with their own regional emphases.

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Is Mitteleuropa right for your DNA?

Paste your G25 coordinates or drop your raw DNA file. We run the same fit test as our free Report Finder, for Mitteleuropa only, and show you your verdict, your regional core and your 3 closest communities before you spend anything.

Click or drop your raw DNA file here 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FTDNA, LivingDNA or a chip VCF (Genotek, Atlas): .txt, .csv, .vcf, .zip or .gz

A raw file takes 1 to 3 minutes: we first estimate your G25 coordinates from it.

🔒 Your file is processed for this check only and immediately deleted.

⚠️ Designed for people with roots in Central Europe (including Central European families abroad). If you are mostly of other ancestry, the models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor.

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📖 What is raw DNA & G25?

Explore these populations in our free Population Genetics Atlas

No DNA file needed. Each free page shows a population's ancient make-up, its closest modern and ancient neighbours, and ancient DNA from the same country when we have some.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the Mitteleuropa report for?

It is built for people with roots in Central Europe: southern and central Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace, Czechia and Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and northern Italy, across 10 communities. Families of Central European descent in the Americas and elsewhere can use it too. For other ancestry the Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Does it tell me how Celtic, Germanic or Slavic I am?

No, and no honest test can. "Celtic", "Germanic" and "Slavic" are language and culture labels, not genetic ones, and the Germanic peoples of the Migration period (Lombards, Goths, Gepids, Thuringians, Alamanni, Bavarii) sit too close to each other in G25 to be told apart. The report shows which period populations of Central Europe you resemble, and says plainly where the data cannot go further.

Can it detect Hun, Avar or Magyar ancestry?

It measures your resemblance to Hun-period, Avar and Hungarian Conqueror individuals of the Carpathian Basin, used as outside proxies. These steppe newcomers mixed quickly with the much larger local population: ancient DNA shows that most Hungarians today carry only a small share of their ancestry, while the Hungarian language was passed on far more widely. A share is a resemblance compatible with that history, never proof of a steppe ancestor.

I am Swiss, Slovenian or northern Italian. Is my area covered as well?

Yes, with one honest limit: few medieval genomes have been published from Switzerland, Slovenia and northern Italy, so the medieval layer of these areas is read through neighbouring references (Avar-period Alpine populations, the South Slavic settlers of the Eastern Alps, medieval Germany and Hungary). The Slovenian community reference is also a single published average. The report states this clearly when it applies to you.

How precise is the community match?

Neighbouring communities are genetically close to each other (each about 0.011 to 0.017 from its nearest neighbour), so the closest community is a closest reference and not a proven origin or a provincial call. When two or more communities are tied, the report says so.

Not sure it fits me. Can I check first?

Yes. The free Report Finder reads your raw DNA file (or your G25) and tells you honestly whether Mitteleuropa is a good match for you, before you spend anything.

Do I need to have taken a DNA test already?

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

How much does it cost and what do I get?

€15. A full PDF report with your ancient regional core %, non-regional outside admixture breakdown, seven period-by-period breakdowns, closest modern community reference populations, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups (if raw file provided), and a narrative interpreted by Claude AI, in English, German, French, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch.

A DNA report for Central European ancestry

Mitteleuropa is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for people with roots in Central Europe. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, pick your community, and we model your genome against the ancient regional core plus non-regional outside admixture, era by era, from the first hunters to the Middle Ages.

Whether you are Bavarian, Saxon or Swabian, Austrian, Swiss or Alsatian, Czech or Slovak, Hungarian or Slovenian, or from northern Italy, Mitteleuropa models the genetic layers of your region's history, from the LBK farmers and the Corded Ware arrival to the Hallstatt and La Tene Celts, the Roman Danube, the Migration period, the Slavs, the Avars and the Hungarian Conquest.

The report uses the Global25 (G25) system developed by geneticist Davidski, placing your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space alongside ancient and modern reference populations built from published ancient-DNA studies.

👁 Sample reports

See three real Mitteleuropa reports

Full example reports, flip through every page: cover, regional core, the seven periods, closest communities and the AI narrative.

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🇩🇪 Bavarian sample

A South German profile: from the LBK farmers and the Hallstatt princely seats to the Bavarii of the Migration period and medieval Germany, with its closest community references.

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🇭🇺 Hungarian sample

A Hungarian profile: the Carpathian Basin from the first farmers to the Sarmatians, Huns, Avars and the Conquest of 895, read honestly against its Central European neighbours.

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🇮🇹 Northeast Italian sample

A Northeast Italian profile: the Terramare and Cisalpine Gaul, the Roman north of Italy and the Lombards, and the closest communities on the Italian side of the region.