FuriousGeorge
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Hi.
I've compelted SNP and STR yDNA testing. I'm interested in historical migrations.
My known ancestry is 5 generations on the Iberian Peninsula in NW Spain, close to the Portuguese border. The sixth generation is a mystery, the nature of which is still part of our extended family legend, though that's not why I'm testing.
I was surprised to see that most of my matches had Germanic last names. I have two potential matches in Spain, related to me on the order of 800 years ago, if they are true matches. I'm fairly certain one is, as the genetic distance is only 7 at 67, which puts the estimated TMRCA at around 550 years. In my limited experience, however, matches tend to get farther as more markers are compared.
After that, nearly all of my results are Germanic or Anglo sounding, save for a smattering in the area of the Balkans. Essentially, they are from both groups that would be over-represented. The former because more people from English speaking countries have taken the test, and would have more ancestors in countries that speak Germanic languages, and the latter because V13 is so common in the area.
I'm waiting to get .BAM results, eventually, from ftdna. After that I'm out of tests to do. Not many matches, no real close matches, and still not sure how many are just real matches.
I'm curious if my paternal ancestors were linked to Roman expansion, and subsequently what they were doing in the middle ages, and where. It seems likely that they arrived at Iberia during the Renaissance, and the circumstances surrounding that would probably be the most interesting, given that there'd be more known history for context.
My closest matches who have checked 111 markers and are at least S7461 (no one in my BY5145 clade on ftdna to look at STR markers for), believe themselves to be Norman, and have a family tree going back to Normandy at the advent of surnames. On yfull, I share the most SNPs with English and American kits, and per isogg's wiki, the TMRCA for snp matches on yfull is ~2500 ya.
Based on that, I expect to match them pretty strongly.
I have no matches on ftdna, and I've read TMRCA is ~1500 years or less in that case, so that suggests I'm related to them American/English kits in the range of 1500 to 2500 years ago.
If number of shared snp correlates strongly with that, then I'd suspect I'd be closer to the front end of the range for the kits with which I share 12 snp and closer to the back end of the range for the kit's with which I share 3. A couple of snp are only 1 star however.
Judging by the part of the world, aside from the Romans, the Bretons, Suevi, or Visigoths, a religious pilgrimage could have also brought V13.
The data is sparse enough that it is impossible to know. At least for me it is. Msg me if you're interested in any of my kit numbers or test results. I have many, but I can't paste links.
I've compelted SNP and STR yDNA testing. I'm interested in historical migrations.
My known ancestry is 5 generations on the Iberian Peninsula in NW Spain, close to the Portuguese border. The sixth generation is a mystery, the nature of which is still part of our extended family legend, though that's not why I'm testing.
I was surprised to see that most of my matches had Germanic last names. I have two potential matches in Spain, related to me on the order of 800 years ago, if they are true matches. I'm fairly certain one is, as the genetic distance is only 7 at 67, which puts the estimated TMRCA at around 550 years. In my limited experience, however, matches tend to get farther as more markers are compared.
After that, nearly all of my results are Germanic or Anglo sounding, save for a smattering in the area of the Balkans. Essentially, they are from both groups that would be over-represented. The former because more people from English speaking countries have taken the test, and would have more ancestors in countries that speak Germanic languages, and the latter because V13 is so common in the area.
I'm waiting to get .BAM results, eventually, from ftdna. After that I'm out of tests to do. Not many matches, no real close matches, and still not sure how many are just real matches.
I'm curious if my paternal ancestors were linked to Roman expansion, and subsequently what they were doing in the middle ages, and where. It seems likely that they arrived at Iberia during the Renaissance, and the circumstances surrounding that would probably be the most interesting, given that there'd be more known history for context.
My closest matches who have checked 111 markers and are at least S7461 (no one in my BY5145 clade on ftdna to look at STR markers for), believe themselves to be Norman, and have a family tree going back to Normandy at the advent of surnames. On yfull, I share the most SNPs with English and American kits, and per isogg's wiki, the TMRCA for snp matches on yfull is ~2500 ya.
Based on that, I expect to match them pretty strongly.
I have no matches on ftdna, and I've read TMRCA is ~1500 years or less in that case, so that suggests I'm related to them American/English kits in the range of 1500 to 2500 years ago.
If number of shared snp correlates strongly with that, then I'd suspect I'd be closer to the front end of the range for the kits with which I share 12 snp and closer to the back end of the range for the kit's with which I share 3. A couple of snp are only 1 star however.
Judging by the part of the world, aside from the Romans, the Bretons, Suevi, or Visigoths, a religious pilgrimage could have also brought V13.
The data is sparse enough that it is impossible to know. At least for me it is. Msg me if you're interested in any of my kit numbers or test results. I have many, but I can't paste links.
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