Hi Tim
Thanks for the reply, I think the four confirmed H-P96 in the UK could be related, its so rare there,s not much accurate recent information about it here, even its origin is troublesome, but over the next few years it should become clearer.
I believe it was actually believed extinct in the UK, and the North, and North West Europe, where we live, untill the last few years, so it supprised me, and probably a lot of researchers when the results showed up.I first got my Haplogroup results in 2017.
I had a feeling something was up,I took part in the earlier University of Leicester, search for Viking Ancestry in the North of England, by Turi King and Mark A Jobling as I have a Viking sounding/derived surname, with all four g/grandparents from the same area, but it came back negative for a confirmed Y Haplogroup, this was due to its rarity I understand now.
As a result Im not sure where my, H P96 and your Y DNA, came from, could of been around for years, stone age, neolithic Farmer, Celt, Roman Soldier, some trader, no idea,..Its a headache at present, but Autosomal Indicates 100% European, and recent 100% ancestors, from around the last 300 years from Britian and Ireland, Germany & France,( earlier Netherlands ) Scandinavia, Finnland, and Iberia, not a lot of help there ..at least its a start.
All '8' of my Great Grandparents were born in what at that time was County Durham, England, between 1874 and 1888.
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Regarding your Paternal Line, with William, researching further is also going to be more difficult to trace than normal, due to the popularity of both names William and Smith, and I wish you luck, hopefully genetics will be more helpfull soon. I was stuck for many years tracing a Smith in my family research, I stuck at it and found she was born a Cuthbertson, and had previously been married, so I wish you luck in your research.
On a further positive note regarding the surname Smith, I had another direct ancestor named Elizabeth Smith who had earlier married William Fairfax the 3rd Vicount Emley. Elizabeth, who died in Essex in 1692 had re-married my ancestor John, and their son, another John, died 1705, produced one of my direct lineages, which was very well documented especially around the York area, so there is hope.
Regarding more information on the Y DNA, 23 & Me has raw data, but when I downloaded it, I cannot understand it, and Im abit concerned about sending it to find out, or making it too public, untill I fully understand about DNA etc.
Regarding our MTDNA,H1c3 is common but it further devides into two further Subclades, H1c3a and H1c3b, I am going to try and find a test that could or may confirm if I have a downstream positive marker for any of these, but the Mtdna result I got from LivingDNA has only seven positive snp markers, so its a bit more difficult at present.
Living DNA gave me 199 Y -Positive SNP markers, and 7 MTDNA markers, that Im trying to figure out about.
This site is great for finding out about DNA, and the only other information regarding anyone in the UK with Y H2 P96 have been posting on the anthrogenia DNA site.
Also look on the FTDNA Haplotree, site for the associated countries, and numbers recorded there, it will also give you an idea of the modern Y and MTDNA count, which may be of help.