These are exciting times for our group as the new BigY results come in. We've already had one block of SNPs broken (thanks, Jim!) and it appears we'll have more broken soon. There are a couple of BigY results which I think would be very helpful for us but I have to get the people willing to join the U106 group and to upload their results.I'm holding out hope for twigs springing up all over our piece of the tree.
? In line with the new twigs, I have updated the S6881 tree. Expect more updates to follow and that eventually I won't be able to keep the tree to one page. I'll keep updating every time Iain's results show new developments for us.
? ?Speaking of Iain, I have been in contact with him recently and we've been talking about our part of the tree and ages. This is what he wrote before our most recent results were in:
"Z8 seems to be an early Germanic SNP, occurring somewhere in the western Baltic region around 3000 years ago. Z343 seems to be more closely concentrated in the British Isles, the Low Countries, and Germany. Under the "Germanic" scenario, this may correspond to the migration of the Germans out of the Baltic and into continental Europe around 700 BC.
When looking at our results, we expect 2/3 of lines to be British and 1/3 to be European. When calculating lines, we aren't talking about people living today, but the ancient lines they descend from, like A11376, A11377 and any ancient lines we can infer from STRs.
S6881 seems to have more of a concentration in the British Isles, but its parent FGC11780 doesn't have the same bias. So we can say that the migration to Great Britain happened after S6881 formed (184 AD ¡ª 1082 AD).
A11376 and A11377 seem to have a distinct location in western central England, and probably both arose there sometime in the period 629 AD ¡ª 1336 AD.
So we're maybe looking at a migration of this group from Germany or nearby to the west of England at some point around the "Anglo-Saxon" or Norman migrations.
I hope this gives you some insight. Do remember that this is all very speculative right now."
I will post what he shared after Jim's results came in on another post. Thanks for being willing explorers as we try to find our distant past.
Chris
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