Hi Peter,
? That's a very interesting history that you bring to the group. Thanks for sharing that. I know the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons are both coming to England in the early centuries AD. I believe the Anglo-Saxons may have gotten there before the Vikings. And there is the whole Danelaw bit too to put into the mix. Iain has tried to take a stab at what group he thinks might be behind our S6881 SNP and is guessing (and only guessing) Anglo-Saxon. But anything could be possible. Take a look at the below link if you haven't already. Iain has put together a sort of tree with the SNPs posted against a time-line of what was happening in Europe and what the climate was doing. Find your last shared subclade (FGC51240, topish?right) and see what was going on.Then look back at the SNPs A11377 and S6881 and see what was going on. I do believe our ancestor S6881 was already in England before having children, and thus before subsequent SNPs. So that might give you clues too. On the other hand, we're all just learning and this could change as new discoveries develop. Some of the Viking project groups seem to concentrate on the I haplogroup more than the R haplogroup but at no point in time was anyone checking haplogroups before people were allowed to join groups or marry into them so any haplogroup is possible.
I can see your Stewart match in the U106 group. Is your Leatham match in the U106 group? He doesn't seem to be. I'd see if he'd join the U106 group and then encourage both to do further testing. It might be good to get Stewart to test out to 111 STRs as well as yourself and see if the match still stays close. How many STRs does your Leatham match have? If they seem promising after that I would see if they would do a BigY at one of the sales or test SNPs. There is talk of upgrading the SNP pack that covers our part in U106. The current one I wouldn't recommend testing. Or they could test at YSEQ if they would rather but the results won't come across to FTDNA. Let me know what you think of these ideas. Thanks.
Chris
