Hello,
Genka Kostova is my mother.
She is from Bulgaria. Her mother was Jewish and her father was Macedonian (or Serbian).
On the Jewish side,
- my mother's grandfather (Yosif Finkelstein)'s ancestry appears to be mostly from Ukraine according to Relative Finder, though Lithuania comes often as ancestry place as well; according to family legends he came from "somewhere in Russia".
- We do not have any additional history on my mother's maternal grandmother (Oro Eshkenazi, maiden name), who was born in Bulgaria.
Tanya
Tanya, welcome to the forum. Please visit other threads as well.
I can say that most of your mother's matches are from her father's side (Ashkenazi). Her mother was Sephardi, which are underrepresented on 23andme.