Our faces can literally be the visualisation of our ethnic mix and a permanent display of our ancestral background.
Seraphina's facial features bear distinct traces of her major paternal, and selected maternal, lineages going as far back in history as 15th century. The reason for such phenomenal preservation of certain ancestral features and through them ethnic components is attributed to intermarriages within relatively tight familial groups. In Seraphina's case, certain ancestral lineages run on both her maternal and paternal sides.
Seraphina's facial features comparison to her paternal and maternal direct ancestors revealed an 'echo chamber effect' phenomenon when certain facial features of Seraphina echoed back from her ancestors of centuries ago. The facial comparison was performed using an AI tool - 'Compare-a-Face' (Family Search).
The most striking resemblances can be found on Seraphina's mother's side with Stanislaw Potocki (1752-1805) and Alexander Lvovich Narushkin (1760-1826), and on on her father's side with Hesse lineages, including Louis IV of Hesse (1837-1892), Elisabeth of Prussia (1615-1885), Louis II of Hesse (1777-1848), as well as with Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704-1774), Christina of Denmark (1521-1590), and Barbara Jagiellon (1478-1534).
Seraphina's great grandfather (mother's side)
Petr Andreevich Bobrynsky (1893-1962)
Petr Andreevich Bobrinsky is Seraphina's great grandfather on her maternal side. He is a direct descendant of Grigoriy Grigorievich Orlov (1734-1783) and The Empress of Russia Catherine The Great (1729-1796), making them Seraphina's 6th great grandparents.
Petr Bobrinsky's dominant female phenotypes are:
Lithuanian - 65%
Georgian - 65%
Anglo-Australian - 63%
Moldovan - 53%
Chelkan - 52%
Armenian - 50%
Seraphina shares with Petr Bobrinsky the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Petr's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Moldovan - 43%
Georgian - 42%
Armenian - 40%
Seraphina's 5th/6th great grandfather (mother's side)
Stanislaw Potocki (1752-1805)
Stanislaw Potocki is Seraphina's 5th/6th great grandfather on her maternal side. He appears twice in her Family Tree. Both times on Seraphina's mother's maternal side - on her maternal father's side Stanislaw is Seraphina's 5th great grandfather, and her maternal mother's side he is Seraphina's 6th great grandfather.
Stanislaw's dominant female phenotypes are:
Lithuanian - 55%
German - 53%
French - 52%
Russian - 51%
Tunisian - 49%
Udmurt - 48%
Seraphina shares with Stanislaw the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Alexander's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Lithuanian - 56%
Russian - 49%
German - 43%
Tunisian - 50%
Udmurt - 57%
French - 41%
Seraphina's 5th/6th great grandfather (mother's side)
Alexander Lvovich Narushkin (1760-1826)
Alexander lvovich Naryshkin is Seraphina's 5th/6th great grandfather on her maternal side. He appears twice in her Family Tree. Both times on Seraphina's mother's maternal side - on her maternal father's side Alexander is Seraphina's 5th great grandfather, and her maternal mother's side he is Seraphina's 6th great grandfather.
Alexander's dominant female phenotypes are:
Russian - 69%
Hazara - 62%
German - 60%
Armenian - 55%
Lezgin - 55%
Moksha - 53%
Seraphina shares with Alexander the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Alexander's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Hazara - 60%
Lezgin - 53%
Russian - 49%
Moksha - 45%
German - 43%
Seraphina's 2nd great grandfather (father's side)
Louis IV of Hesse (1837-1892)
Louis IV is Seraphina’s 2nd great grandfather on her father’s side. So far, he is the most striking ethnic facial features match to Seraphina. But this is not a surprise considering his and Seraphina’s ancestors belong to an ethnically homogeneous group. His parents are the product of the unions of the four1st cousins whose parents, three sisters and a brother, were the children of Louis IX of Hesse and Darmstad (1719-1790) and Caroline Zweibrucken (1721-1774). Louis IX is Seraphina’s 6th great grandfather with whom she has 51% of facial features resemblance.
In addition, Louis IV is a descendant of Caroline of Nassau with whom Seraphina has 63% of facial features resemblance.
Louis IV’s dominant female phenotypes are:
Breton – 69%
Icelandic – 64%
Anglo-Australian- 58%
Moroccan – 55%
Lezgin – 54%
Russian – 53%
Seraphina shares with Louis IV the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Louis IV’s and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Lezgin – 53%
Russian – 50%
Breton – 40%
Louis IV's Main Female Phenotypes (PDF)
Louis IV’s dominant male phenotypes are:
Estonian - 77%
Russian (West) - 63%
Komi Zyrian - 59%
Mordva Erzya - 54%
Moldovan (Prutsky type) - 54%
Russian (Central) - 52%
Seraphina shares with Louis IV the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Louis IV’s and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of male phenotypes:
Estonian - 55%
Moldovan (Prutsky type) - 55%
Russian (WesT) - 49%
Komi Zyrian - 45%
Russian (Central) - 41%
Louis IV's Main Male Phenotypes (PDF)
Seraphina's 3rd great grandmother (father's side)
Elisabeth of Prussia (1815-1885)
Elisabeth of Prussia is Seraphina's 3rd great grandmother on her father's maternal line. She is the 2nd great grand-daughter of Caroline of Nassau (1704-1774), and is a descendant of Friedrich VI von Baden-Durlach (1617-1677) and Christina Magdalena von der Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg (1616-1660) - the shared common ancestors with Seraphina's maternal 6th great grandmother - Catherine The Great (1729-1796).
Elisabeth's dominant female phenotypes are:
Kazakh - 57%
Lithuanian - 54%
Mari - 52%,
Armenian - 50%
French - 49%
Breton - 47%
Seraphina shares with Elisabeth of Prussia the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Elisabeth's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Armenian - 52%
Mari - 45%
French - 41%
Kazakh - 40%
Breton - 40%,
and other minor ones.
Seraphina's 4th great grandfather (father's side)
Louis II of Hesse (1777-1848)
Louis II of Hesse appears in two ancestral lines that intersect and run to Seraphina's father and subsequently to Seraphina. He is an ancestor of Seraphina's paternal great grandmother (Seraphina's 4th great grandfather), and paternal great grandfather (Seraphina's 4th great grandfather), reinforcing certain ethnicities in his descendants, Seraphina included.
Louis II's dominant female phenotypes are:
Breton - 68%
Bengali (South Asia) - 66%
Ukrainian - 64%
Kyrgyz - 58%
Kazakh - 56%
Yughur (China) - 55%
Seraphina shares with Louis II the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Louis II's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Breton - 40%
Kazakh - 40%,
and some other minor ones.
Louis II's Main Female Phenotypes (PDF)
Louis II's dominant male phenotypes are:
Russian (North West) - 58%
Chuvash (N85) - 57%
Russian (in contact with East) - 54%
Komi Zyrian - 54%
Karelian - 53%
Chuvash (N87)- 53%
Seraphina shares with Louis II the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Louis II's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of male phenotypes:
Komi Zyrian - 45%,
and some other minor ethnicities.
Louis II's Main Male Phenotypes (PDF)
Seraphina's 7th great grandmother (father's side)
Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704-1774)
Caroline of Nassau is one of Seraphina's father's ancestors who appears in his Family Tree at least 7 times. She also has a plethora of ethnicities which are encoded in her facial features.
Caroline's dominant female phenotypes are:
Syrian - 75%
Ossetian - 71%
Kabardinian (Circassian) - 71%
Mokshas (Mordovian) - 69%
Hazara - 66%
Udmurt (Fino-Ugric) - 66%.
Seraphina has inherited from Caroline of Nassau the following ethnicities as identified via comparison of Caroline's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Hazara - 60%
Udmurt - 57%
Kabardin - 47%
Moksha - 45%
Syrian - 43%
Seraphina's 15 great grandmother (father's side)
Barbara Jagiellon (1478-1534)
Barbara Jagiellon is the founding mother of many intertwining ancestral lines that lead to Seraphina's father and Seraphina. She appears 9 times in the father's side Family Tree. Barbara is the 5th great-grandmother of Caroline of Nassau on her father's side.
Barbara's dominant female phenotypes are:
Ingush - 57%
Kyrgyz - 54%
Kazakh - 51%
Portuguese - 51%
Romanian - 50%
Lithuanian - 50%
Seraphina shares with Barbara the following ethnicities, as identified via comparison of Barbara's and Seraphina's facial features to the facial features of female phenotypes:
Lithuanian - 56%
Ingush - 44%
Kazakh - 40%
Seraphina's 1st cousin 15x removed (father's side)
Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan (1521-1590)
