J's where are you from?

[Nasturtium]

I've been threatening to do this for a long time, and now I've done it. I created an interactive Google Spreadsheet to track the subclades of J. Please add yourself and list the ancestral homeland of your oldest maternal line ancestor - I'd like to limit the colonies (US, Canada, etc) if possible but if it's all you've got, go ahead. Anyone can edit it, so if you need to add a column for a subclade I don't have listed, do it. I just ask that you do it in a logical manner so that that it flows by each new mutation. As we collect data, I will add pivot tables to chart the results. Thanks!

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqARKoDx3EVHdGJkd3ptRVhDSll2WHFocmg0SU0ta UE&hl=en_US

Here is a compilation of J's in the world I did based on a study released last year:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqARKoDx3EVHdDd2WGN2UnB2WG95d1QtZktweXdSQ Xc&hl=en_US&authkey=CITr4sMO

[Carlitos]

Is it to DNA Y or also mitochondrial DNA?

[Nasturtium]

Strictly mitochondrial J's, thanks.

[Carlitos]

Thanks, although I did test at 37, with the prediction I'm definitely sent J possessing mutations: 16069T, 295T, 489C

[FBS]

Hi Nasturtium, I'm J1c3 (according to 23andme). As you can see I am from Kosovo, Albanian. Still have not found out how did J1c3 end up in my family.

[grandpa broon]

I'm J1c, and I live in Scotland

[adamo]

Mtdna J is found at its highest frequencies 25 or so%) in the Fertile Crescent ( northern Middle East.) then a 20% coat of J extends across much of the Arabian peninsula, and parts of extreme western Iran and the Caucasus. Oddly enough, this 15-20% coat also extends into parts of east and west Central Europe, affecting countries such as Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, parts of extreme south-western Russia, Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria parts of Bulgaria. Then a weaker 10-15% zone spreads across the extreme southern Arabian peninsula, most of Iran, and in Europe this between 10-15% of females affects Denmark, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina much of central England.by the time we reach the entirety of Italy and central France, levels drop to a definite 10%. Past central France ( Spain, Portugal) levels start to drop to 5% and less. J is found from the Arabian peninsula as Far East as the Indus Valley and all the way to eastern and Northern Europe. It is a signature of the Neolithic period (movement took place 10,000 years ago). The highest diversity for hg J is in the Middle East, indicating a point of origin there.

[Grubbe]

My father is J1c2. As you can see from the Norway project's result page, there are now quite a few J1c's http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Norway/default.aspx?section=mtresults Right now about 9 % of the testers are found to be J or one of the subclades. About 80 % of J are J1 and subclades.

[Abixu]

Mtdna J1c3 i am from Moldavia-Romania.

[Carlos]

Grazalema, Andalusia Spain but all my genetic matches are from Álava, Guipuzcoa, Navarra, Aragón, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England, except for one match in the Guadalquivir valley and another in a town in Granada, but it is a population that suffered a strong repopulation from the north of Spain after the expulsions of Moriscos, I also learned that Grazalema (Cádiz) was repopulated with people from the province of Seville.

What I do not understand is that with the Spanish matches it is 12 chromosomes and with the matches of the British Isles to 37 chromosomes, since the test I have it to 37, probably when it increases to 67 I get even more genetic closeness.

[Joey37]

J1c2b, maternal line origin in County Waterford, Ireland. It was there for many many years until great-great-grandmother Nellie Ryan shipped up to Boston in the 1890s, having 13 children, spreading her mitochondria all over New England, where I was born and live to this day. She might have even spoken Gaelic, as her birth certificate was bilingual in English and Irish Gaelic.

[Yaan]

My Maternal Grandpa J1c-C16261T from Bulgaria :)

[Dinko]

I am Kosovar Albanian, and J1C2e is my fathers MTDNA.. (lots of Croatian MTDNA matches)
J1c5c is my own MTDNA with only one Greek match.
Full MTDNA sequence with FTDNA.

[Moonmaiden]

J1c5 born and bred in England

[halfalp]

J1c5a here from Switzerland, Mother is originally from Eastern Germany ( Dresden ). Hey Moonmaiden!

[ElleMort]

I'm J1c5a and my mother line is from the West Country of England for many generations.

[mophousyu]

They come from middle east,

[New Englander]

J1c8 from British Isles or France, from Maine but the maternal surname Currier (5 gens back) sound French

[Ghostface]

Hi all. I'm a straight J. No further subclades. Can't find any info on other representetives. Seems like this haplogroup is almost extinct.

[FEDERI]

Decent, need to accomplish something like this with mine.

[Tamakore]

I'm J1c3b2 and my maternal line ancestor seven generations back was born in central London around 1777. She had a typically English name and gave her children Anglican baptisms, suggesting that her English ethnicity went further back.

[silver bird]

Hi Just accidently got here.. newie I am. I am from the J1C group Maternal. and Paternal E-V13-and2JBI Going back 16,500years so much to occupy my mind with ...fascinating stuff I luv it must come back here soon. regards to all, PS Also Adamo you have some of my lineage there thank you Silverbird

[silver bird]

Hi Grandpa Broon hopefully you have a good ol Scottish sense of humour as patience is needed to correspond with me.I have my lineage way back when...If you browse back to ADAMO message on this board here you will see my heritage -DNA there well most of it...I go back hundreds of years and are exited to find my ancestors /relations from everywhere haha are you? regards from Silverbird

[silver bird]

Gee Nasturtiam that is so great..I will get there later thanking you from Silverbird

[Krum]

Bulgaria, My mother's group J1c-C16261T
J1c-C16261T

[frank56]

Hello I am J1b3a my maternal ancestor lived in Belgium 1688.

[Suzana]

I'm J1c6A and my maternal grandmother was from Portugal.

[Empereux]

I am just J1. My mother's family come from Andalusia.

[VictoriaMM]

Hi everyone am new here, tried the above links and couldn't get on. I've been working on my genealogy since before computers, but am not understanding all the genetics and mutations, terminology. I did test with FTDNA and am J1c5. But not many people seems to test with ancestors in Belgium I've no matches except my 1st cousin. (except a couple closer autsomal?) on paternal side. I have tracked and verified starting with my maternal grandmother born in Antwerp, back to early 1600's. I'm getting more verification for last 2 generations. Am hoping to go back further, want to find where my line came from before Antwerp.

[VictoriaMM]

Hi everyone am new here, tried the above links and couldn't get on. I've been working on my genealogy since before computers, but am not understanding all the genetics and mutations, terminology. I did test with FTDNA and am J1c5. But not many people seems to test with ancestors in Belgium I've no matches except my 1st cousin. (except a couple closer autsomal?) on paternal side. I have tracked and verified starting with my maternal grandmother born in Antwerp, back to early 1600's. I'm getting more verification for last 2 generations. Am hoping to go back further, want to find where my line came from before Antwerp.

[leperrine]

I'm J-L70. My Perrin family was established in Languedoc France.

[PaulH01]

Hi - I'm J1C1, and ancestors since c1850 came mainly from North East England. I live in the south of England.
Before that, they came to this area from several places - Ireland, Scotland, North West England - because of the Industrial Revolution.
DNA matches etc. seem to indicate that older ancestors came from Central Europe, likely via Vikings and Romans.

[Twilight]

J1c7a from Seal, Kent, UK :)