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Hi MOESAN, I meant that Cornwall is still considered a Celtic region today according to dictionaries, encyclopaedias and various cultural organisations. The Cornish language survived there for many centuries after the Anglo-Saxon age and no historian speaks of any notable Anglo-Saxon...

Hi again MOESAN. Just a few more thoughts and questions after looking at the PCAs etc. I find it very telling that Northumbria resolves as different to England (and clusters with Scotland) several steps before both Devon and Cornwall separate from England. This must be significant. Devon and...

Hi Moesan. Thanks for your response. I'll read it a few more times and digest it. But for now here are my initial thoughts. I agree that the degree of differentiation is subtle, but it is subtle between most of the clusters and England, including those that never saw Anglo-Saxon settlement or...

Thanks Moesan. As I say, I'm certainly no expert but I have poured over those two studies a great deal for a few months and given them a lot of thought and I think my conclusions are sound. I think they show the North East - much like the North West of England - to be the most Celtic (or least...

Hi MOESAN, thanks a lot for your thoughful comments. I think with regard to point one, the PBI study tried to address that by only taking samples from those in rural areas and whose grandparents had all lived close to one another in the same rural areas. In this way they tried to eliminate any...

Seeing as it relates to the thread, perhaps I can ask Maciamo about the following paragraph: "Germanic people brought a whole new set of paternal lineages with them, namely I1, I2a2a-Z161, R1a (L664 and Z284), R1b-U106, and to a lower extent Q1a. Those haplogroups now make up over half of all...

Thanks for the reply. When you say 'procured by' do you mean that they use the PoBI data to offer their clients a breakdown of their British region ancestry, or do you mean that they actually procured the original data for the PoBI? I've never seen them mentioned on any of the PoBI material...

Hi all. I'm doing some intensive research into the history of Bernicia, Northumbria's Northern Kingdom, and of neighbouring Lothian, which came under Bernician rule in the 7th century. It seems to me that the genetic data could settle a lot of issues which have been the subject of debate for...