Recent content by Nasturtium

Thanks for the map! I am looking forward to other maps as well, for example my J1c3i (German/Swiss Mennonite). In the meantime, it's nice to see my grandpa is so British!. K1a4a1d from his British born mother and R1b1a2a1a1b4 R-L21 DF13+ from his American born father (most distant Y ancestor...

Where did you hear this? J1c is not an Ashkenazi founder mitochondrial lineage, it is a Eurasian mitochondrial lineage which is much older than than Jewish religion, estimated to be 13,072.3 years old. The Ashkenazi founder mtdna lineages were found to be K1a1b1a, K1a9, K2a2a, and N1b...

Go now! Stop thinking about it and do it now. You don't have to move forever, but there's never a better time than now. At age 21 I had the opportunity to reenlist in the U.S. Army and go to Germany - all expenses paid. I could have spent 3-4 years stationed there and traveled all over...

I love it - is it proprietary or can I borrow it? As an American, of some English ancestry, I can identify with about half of the "what he means" and for the other half, would be likely to mistake it for what I think he means! hilarious, but true

Just a follow-up, as went ahead and ordered the test: I am rs6323 GT and my son is rs6323 G...and my son is a warrior! Now we need to find an rs6323 G who is "normal, no warrior version" to confirm there is absolutely no correlation with G.

This has an extensive comparative list of relative mtdna frequencies from all over the world, including 5 or 6 regions of Italy. However, it's complicated to read: you have to read ST3 to decipher some of the abbreviations. The study is interesting, but the goodies are found in the...

I don't know of any names for the subclades of mtdna J, but here are my suggestions: J1b - Jayla (supplanter, to follow) Most linked with the Neolithic expansion, her daughters came to Europe as the ice age receded and became firmly established. Many other migrations of J1b were to follow...

Expediency, ignorance, habit, Anglo Saxon tradition, laziness, or some other reason...a couple thoughts: First, many American evangelicals seem to be distancing themselves from the whole Christmas/Santa thing either because they see it as a bastardization of a Christian holiday or because of...

I found this weird headline at Medical Express: Gap between Scottish and English suicide rates widens A new study has revealed the widening gap in suicide rates between Scotland and England & Wales due to a large extent to the number of young Scottish men taking their lives...

I'm trying to get used to it. Do I like it? No, but maybe I'll warm up to it. Of all the things I don't like, posting new threads bothers me the most. And if we have to join groups, why isn't our group affiliations on our profiles? As far as Relative Finder, I mainly use it for...

Whether rs6323 can, or cannot, predict whether you carry the "warrior" version of MAO-A has been debated in much detail on 23andme. The final consensus is rs6323 can only predict enzyme type, high or low, but not which version of repeats of the MAO-A promoter region (the VNTR/STR). The warrior...

All sources say that the risk for Rh incompatibility between Rh- mom and Rh+ fetus occurs in second pregnancies. The sources indicate that the mother builds up the antibodies after delivery of the first incompatible child and generally only affects subsequent pregnancies. I just have to wonder...

Interesting analysis, Maciamo. I blog about autism and recently a paper examining the belief systems of individuals with HFA (high functioning autism) was compared to NT (neurotypicals), which used equally unorthodox information gathering. The participants were 192 HFA from wrongplanet.net, a...

Strictly mitochondrial J's, thanks.

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...