Aba Family 3 samples 23andme format

The Aba kindred claimed descent from Aba, a chieftain who accompanied the Magyars during their conquest of the Carpathian Basin around the late 9th century. According to tradition, the clan’s progenitor may have been of Khazar or Turkic-Cuman origin, though some medieval sources present the family as fully Magyar.

A prominent early figure was Samuel Aba, who became King of Hungary from 1041 to 1044 AD, after marrying a sister of King Stephen the 1st. His rule represented one of the earliest power struggles between pagan and Christian factions within the young Hungarian kingdom.

After King Samuel Aba’s death in battle in 1044 AD, his descendants retained large estates in northern and eastern Hungary, especially in the regions of Heves, Borsod, and Nógrád counties.

During the 13th–14th centuries, members of the Aba family served as ispáns (county governors), palatines, and high-ranking officials under the Árpád and later the Anjou kings.

The Abas were large landholders, controlling fortresses and estates in northeastern Hungary. The town of Abaújvár, which means literally “New Castle of the Abas”, was a key seat of their power and even became a royal county.

Despite their gradual decline in direct political influence after the 14th century, the Aba kindred remained one of the heraldic symbols of ancient Hungarian nobility, representing the pre-Christian tribal roots that merged into a Christian kingdom.

For this video, I gathered the raw genomes of 3 members of the Aba family from a study called “Archaeogenetic analysis revealed East Eurasian paternal origin to the Aba royal family of Hungary”.

All three samples are male. Two samples are direct patrilineal descendants of the Aba, the Magyar Ancestor. The third sample also descends from Aba, but not through his paternal line.

I ran the three individuals through my Trait Predictor and Betacalc tools for DNA analysis.