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  1. Eochaidh

    FTDNA Big Y 700

    If you do take the Big Y, you get information like this below. It connects my family with the 3 Rathlin Island samples(Lara M. Cassidy 2015), down to a group of 8 men living today. Rathlin Samples: Rathlin1 2026BC - 1885BC M269>L23>L51>L11>P312>S461>L21>DF13>DF21 Rathlin2 2024BC - 1741BC...
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    LivingDNA Living DNA launching One Family One World Project in cooperation with Eupedia

    Living DNA does test the L21 line Living DNA got me to M269>L23>L51>L11>P312>L21>DF13>DF49>DF23>M222 from the start. FTDNA among others, have me at M269>L23>L51>L11>P312>L21>DF13>DF49>DF23>M222>FGC4077>A725>S676
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    23andme and AncestryDNA, post your Southern European results

    Six company comparison My 23andMe results just came in and they got my Italian grandfather somewhat better than the others. His mother was from Frosinone and his father was from L'Aquila. My other grandparents were 2 Irish and 1 West Jersey Quaker. West Jersey was the name of the first Quaker...
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    E-L117 among Irish Plantation families

    The new and interesting thread about E-V13 and the "Hallstatt Celts and Italics" prompted a question in my mind which I did not wish to ask in that thread for fear of a derailment. My family was brought into the Genetic Genealogy field by an email to our website from someone of the same surname...
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    LivingDNA Is the Central Italian component in Living DNA a good proxy for Roman ancestry?

    Yes, as explained to Davef, I was not clear. I have seen other people with non-southern Italian, but still Italian ancestry receive results like mine. In the US, Italian-Americans are very much from the south, especially Sicily and Calabria which Ancestry lists as Italy/Greece. My thought was...
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    LivingDNA Is the Central Italian component in Living DNA a good proxy for Roman ancestry?

    Yes, I phrased this poorly. I score little or no Italian on any of the 5 companies to which I sent my results. Since the Irish is consistently accounted for by about 75%, which matches the paper trail, I concluded that the remaining approximately 25% is from my Italian maternal grandfather.
  7. Eochaidh

    LivingDNA Is the Central Italian component in Living DNA a good proxy for Roman ancestry?

    The rest is generally Ireland. Here is a picture. Both MyHeritage and Living DNA have me at 84% Irish or Great Britain and Ireland. That is why I included some south England numbers in the original graphic to make up the about 25% that he needs.
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    LivingDNA Is the Central Italian component in Living DNA a good proxy for Roman ancestry?

    I cannot say with certainty whether he had any unusual ancestry. My aunts who visited his sisters in Italy did not mention anything interesting like that. If you note the other companies (MyHeritage is excluded, but about the same), they are all over the place as well. The second version of...
  9. Eochaidh

    LivingDNA Is the Central Italian component in Living DNA a good proxy for Roman ancestry?

    I don't know. We always just knew about Frosinone and some of the aunts were in contact with the family there. When I did DNA testing I found that most of the Italian connections (that I could reasonably trace) were from western Abruzzo. I dug deeper and found that both my grandfather and his...
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    LivingDNA Is the Central Italian component in Living DNA a good proxy for Roman ancestry?

    My grandfather was born in Frosinone, Latzio, but his father came from Abruzzo. He never gets any central (or much of any) Italian. This is Living DNA Here are the others for reference
  11. Eochaidh

    Haplogroup I in Ireland?

    Sparky, I know this message is several years old, but I wonder if you have any opinion on the HG I data from McEvoy 2006? There are two names which descend from the ruling peoples of the Uí Echach Coba, also called the Cruithin which is cognate with Pretani who inhabited part of County Down in...
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    Surnames and DNA/ I1 vs R1b-M222

    The I1 Haplogroup is, as has been noted, not common in Ireland, but it is believed to be very old there. The Trinity College Dublin study of 2006, which discovered M222, also has I1 results. They list the HG as IxI1b2, so I am just assuming that this is still I1 as so many names have changed...
  13. Eochaidh

    PCA trends of Europeans and Near Easterners

    The error from Dropbox indicates that this is not a public URL. Rather it is only view-able by the owner, LeBrok. There is usually a public URL to cut and paste. Error (403) It seems you don't belong here! You should probably sign in. Check out ourHelp Center and forums for help, or head back...
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    Research by Dublin scientists reveals that ancient Europeans were lactose intolerant

    Their analysis indicates that lactose intolerance persisted to the late Bronze Age. While fermented milk was eaten in the Neolithic, raw milk was not. They also indicate that they can detect new populations, not just new technologies. The full article from Nature...
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    What is the first mention of the term dun in a place name?

    In 496 AD the Irish Annals record the storming of Dún Lethglaise now called Downpatrick in County Down. Dunseverick in Antrim is named after the Dun of Sobarki, the legendary king of Ulster who lived, (if he lived at all), several centuries before the common era.
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    The Bronze Age Collapse

    Dendrochronology and the Bronze Age collapse in Ireland. The end of the 12th century BC marked the rise of the Hill Forts in Ireland which are one of the major cultural horizons in the early era. Professor Michael Baillie has identified the likely year of an historic collapse which coincided...
  17. Eochaidh

    Similarities between Celtic and Romance vocabulary

    Like most languages, Irish can be divided into 3 periods: Old Irish, Middle Irish, and Modern Irish, where the earliest of these was used from about 600 CE. But with Irish, there is one documented earlier period called Ogham Irish after the Ogham alphabet which was used to record it on...
  18. Eochaidh

    Films & Series Favorite Historical Movies

    When I was very young in 1957 and 1958, my Irish grandmother had me watch the morning news show called Today with her. She was interested in the news from Algeria and Kenya. There were often stories about Oran and Constantine, but especially about Algiers. Battle of Algiers (1966)...
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    Map of Hallstatt and La Tène expansions

    The La Tène artifact at Navan Fort Emhain Macha, now called Navan Fort is about 260 m across. It is 2 Km west of the city of Armagh. The site marked B is the location of the figure-of-eight and 40-meter structures. The 40 m structure at Site B, the enclosure of Navan Fort itself, and The Dorsey...
  20. Eochaidh

    Map of Hallstatt and La Tène expansions

    Someday it may be possible to extend the dates in the excellent new graphic to 100 BCE and include part of Ireland for the following reasons. All of the La Tène artifacts unearthed in Ireland have been found in the northern part. The metal finds are generally made from bronze, but in the La...
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