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My Swedish paternal grandmother's mtDNA is H and my Swedish paternal grandfather's Y DNA is I1 m253+. My German maternal greatgrandmother came from Schotten, Germany to the USA in 1885. Schotten means Scotland in Germany and we discovered that it was founded by monks, from the Hebrides Islands, Scotland, Great Britian, invited by Charlemagne to set up a monastery in there in the mid 700's. We were extremely surprised that our mtDNA is not from Central Europe but rather Celtic from either Ireland or Scotland and we have found others with the rare K1a9,10 who are also from Ireland and Scotland. We presume that the monks traveled by sea and rivers and took retainers from the islands with them to Schotten, thusly the name. This means that my Celtic/German family stayed in the same town from the mid 700's to present day.

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