You can have both types of DNA tested, unless you have no surviving paternal male relatives of your father (or dad himself, better yet). It makes a great gift idea. Men of Finnish origin with typical IE yDNA are more likely, IMO, to have inherited it during the (more recent) periods of Viking domination in Finland, or from fairly modern Russians.
What fascinates me is to go back even further, as genetics allows us to do. It seems that there really was an Ice People, trapped in Central Asia 30,000 years ago when the last Ice Age began. All Northern Europeans, Turks, Siberians, and the non-Athabaskan peoples of North America are descended from them. The entire population of Northern Europe is descended from a single man from this lineage who was born in the north of Russia/Lappland, west of the Urals. I guess
once these people became cold-adapted, crossing the Urals and living
in solid ice was no trouble.
In a way, Finland is perhaps one of the least mysterious places to have ancestors from, since we know for a fact that the Northern Europeans all came from the east via Lappland or Russia. Originally all Finns lived as Lapps do, of course, since the traditional agricultural lifestyle of Finland only became possible with the end of the Ice Age. The Finns have probably also lived in that land for longer than any people on earth outside Africa or the Middle East, maybe 20,000 years, but since these other areas have seen so many different peoples come and go, their original inhabitants are unknown
by name.
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