After Jim's results came in Iain shared two things. One was to Jim and myself (I hope you don't mind my sharing this Jim):
"Your relationship with the Graves and Sexton group is around 1000 years ago (give or take a few centuries). The pattern of development since S6881 (about 1400 years ago) is suggestive of a post-Roman but pre-Norman origin. It's too early to say you descend from the "Anglo-Saxon" invaders, but that would be a direction in which we would want to explore."
And then to me today:
"The range of ages is now starting to be constrained enough to almost rule out certain possibilities. It's now starting to look less likely that your family has a Roman origin or a Norman origin. The range of ages most likely brackets somewhere between the post-Roman ("Anglo-Saxon") migration and that Danelaw."
I don't know if you guys get excited about this stuff, but I do. It really helps that we might be able to speculate when our common ancestor made it to England and what group he came with. It's nice to get some concrete idea of how long we've been in England (though some of us have subsequently left). Hopefully, this will give you something to ponder as we move into the new year. Wishing you all a happy New Year and I hope I'll have more news soon.
Chris
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