Re: The Importance of Colmar 239
Thank you Iain! This is reminiscent of several discussions and conversations in my neck of the aDNA woods over the last several years. We are fortunate to having these analyzed remains, but they have
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Susan Hedeen
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#7580
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Re: The Importance of Colmar 239
Hi Ed, I don't know that there's been a lot of talk specifically about Colmar 239, but if you're basing your origin estimates off Globetrekker, then you're in for a bad time. Globetrekker effectively
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Iain
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#7579
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The Importance of Colmar 239
Analysis of the DNA of ancient remains of a man believed to have been associated with the La Tene culture in Haut-Rhin, France, and known only as Colmar 239, reveal that he was descended from the
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ejsteele56@...
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#7578
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Re: Best-guess origins of the major R-U106 haplogroups: methods and results
#origins
Hi Roy, A new post on the FTDNA blog which deals precisely on this: https://blog.familytreedna.com/gothic-origins/ Cheers, Ewenn
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Ewenn
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#7577
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Re: Best-guess origins of the major R-U106 haplogroups: methods and results
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Thanks for the clarification, Iain. I thought you were referring to a split into three major haplogroups of the Germanic speaking people. Makes perfect sense now. Thanks again for all your work on
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Randy
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#7576
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Re: Best-guess origins of the major R-U106 haplogroups: methods and results
#origins
Iain can now add Indo-European linguistics to his portfolio of expertise. However, one small point might cause confusion: North Germanic languages only reached the Black Sea through the trading and
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Roy
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#7575
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Re: Best-guess origins of the major R-U106 haplogroups: methods and results
#origins
Hi Randy, There are plenty people who will give you a more authoritative answer on this, however I'll give it my best shot. The Germanic language family and, by extension, the Germanic people, can be
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Iain
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#7574
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Re: Best-guess origins of the major R-U106 haplogroups: methods and results
#origins
"R-U106>Z381>L48>Z9>Z2>Z7>Z8>Z1>Z346>Z343>CTS5601 Likely MRCA data range: 1100-100 BC Likely origin: Scandinavia, likely Sweden Culture: proto- or early Germanic (if early), north Germanic if later
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Randy
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#7573
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Re: Testing statistics and country-level bias update
Hi Mike, For R-FGC910, see R-Z7 and R-FGC902 on this post: /g/R1b-U106/message/5759 The period of history is very difficult to make predictions about. It's too far back in history for
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Iain
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#7572
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Re: Testing statistics and country-level bias update
Hi Ian, This data is really interesting. I run a small project for "Gleave" surname which is quite rare, mainly present in Lancashire and Cheshire. We are downstream of R-FGC910 and after spending a
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Michael Gleave
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#7571
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Re: Projects for Sub-groups of U106
Thank you sir! Robert McMillan
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Robert McMillan
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#7570
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Re: Projects for Sub-groups of U106
Robert McMillan, I have been checking and it appears I've sent it everyone I can from the R1b All Subclades project to the R-U106 project that is tested U106. There are a few people who only grant
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Tiger Mike
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#7569
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Another request for case studies
Hi again folks, As many of you know, I'm in the process of updating the textbook I'm writing with the Strathclyde team. We're now looking at the final chapters and would like a short case study
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Iain
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#7568
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Testing statistics and country-level bias update
Hi folks, About November time I like to go through the haplotree, looking to see how much different branches and different countries have grown over the previous year. This helps us understand both
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Iain
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#7567
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Re: FTDNA Administrators Conference 2023
Hi Joe There are already lots of Australians in the FTDNA database. A lot of people are testing first at AncestryDNA and then transferring to FTDNA. I certainly find in my Devon DNA Project that only
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Debbie
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#7566
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Re: FTDNA Administrators Conference 2023
Thank you Debbie and Charles for the update. Sounds like importing YSEQ won't be an option in our lifetimes but at least we are getting more Aussies onboard! Now if we could only do something about
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Joe Sprowl
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#7565
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Re: FTDNA Administrators Conference 2023
Charles You provide a good summary of these discussions. I think what FTDNA said was that everyone would eventually be forced to used two-factor authentication. The process will start with project
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Debbie
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#7564
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Re: Projects for Sub-groups of U106
Robert, you are right to "attest to how hard it is to get everyone to join a haplogroup project." I can help on this. I'm the R1b All Subclades project admin and send people to the R-U106 pretty much
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Tiger Mike
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#7563
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Re: Projects for Sub-groups of U106
As someone who spends some time every day doing something across one of five projects that contain people of the FGC11672 subclade MacMillan MacKay MacCallum MacVicar R-U106 And then looking through
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Robert McMillan
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#7562
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Re: Projects for Sub-groups of U106
It is true ¡°many members of sub-projects don't join the over-arching parent project.¡± This can be overcome and is why an admin from the master U106 project should be an admin on every sub-project.
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Tiger Mike
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#7561
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