Hi,
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This is my brothers line FT72134 downstream of S11515 Driffield 3 but separated from him by quite a long period of time.? I believe our three Germanic 'prisoners of war' turned out to be Britons.? I am actually closer to the Nordic Celtic one autosomal DNA I live in Northern England but near the West Coast.? Certainly our branch of R1b seems to have stretched far and wide.? Our nearest Continental Cousin is a Finn we share an ancestor? in around 300 B.C I think.? We have no other matches apart from 4 downstream American's who share their SNP.?
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The reason for taking a test was our family name turned out to be a Widows married name, no genetic connection to the name whatsoever, my Dad would have been very upset by this but such is life, people died all the time the poor couple only had one surviving child out of seven.? Our matches are all called Smith (great name for Unetice men I suppose) but our shared ancestor is 1100 a.d so no guarantees on the surname being the same.? This line was more West Pennine area and moved more North West over time.
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SNP tracker has the line coming into Britain in the late Bronze Age Wave, obviously I am not including my male ancestor in this with a Finn being the closest match in 300 a.d.? According to MyTrueAncestry I don't have much in the way of Anglo Saxon archaic matches at all but whether they list Langobards for Frisians I am not sure, I get about 8% for them (Langobards) and about 5% for Unetice. My brother has matches in La Tene graves and Viking graves but none are close.? They are so diverse stretched from Hungary and Romania to Bavaria and France then Viking Kill Sites in Britain so it's difficult to figure out what happened and which way it went.? They all seem distant in time from my brother.? So far FTDNA has an estimated time of arrival in the U.K around 150 BC but if a Continental Cousin turns up obviously that will have to be revised.
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I thought they were saying they did think some U106 arrived earlier than thought...maybe that's who the Romans bumped into in Kent when they described them as tall and fair?? Might they have arrived with Belgae?? I don't really mind but it would be nice to know who it arrived with.? Out of 5 kits I have sponsored for family 2 x full sequence MtDNA and 4 x Y700 I only have a clear answer for one.??
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Regards
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Linda
