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A paper published in Nature where they study the descendants of one of Quebec settlers, carrier of the mt-mutation T14484C. This one is know to favor Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Studying the lifes of her mt-descendants through the extensive Quebec genealogy database, it seems the males...

I'm 5'4" or 163 cm. But I don't have a Y chromosome, so... My "little" brother is 6'2", though.

What about Monaco?

They always seems to start with mtDNA, probably to test whether there is enough DNA left to do anything, and later push on with autosomal DNA, including Y. I have no doubt will have everything within a few years.

Trying to extend the lines of known descendant of Charlemagne in my own genealogy, I realized one of them had a mt-descendant who tested and she has royalties on her mt-line (which is not mine, unfortunately). Her name is Catherine Couvent, she married Philippe Amiot in Épieds around 1625. At...

Thanks for the link, that's exactly what I was looking for! ^_^

Breeders says it take 8 generations to turn a mongrel into a pure blood. The number is the same for dogs, cats, horse, cow, you name it. To get 80%, let's see... Let's say your father line is 100% foreign, on the first generation your patriarch marry an Algerian woman and they have a son who is...

At 23andme, they always give a subclade even if not always elaborated. If you don't have one it means C* or a new unknown branch of C. That being said, 23andme are a bit behind with haplogroups, so maybe your branch of C is known, but 23andme haven't update to it yet. We'll have to see where...

You explained it all right, Angela. I would had just one more thing. As we see on the female chart, the X-DNA ancestors don't have an equal contribution. After 7 generations, the line zigzagging between male and female contribute about 1/16th of a woman's X, while the all female line only...

I'm a bit late here... Orca1, if you haven't ordered yet, know there are $20 coupons issued these weeks, which would make your Y37 at $119. If you still haven't order and I got one in my new batch this monday, I'll give you mine.

I heard from a Dutch genealogist that people of Netherlands score heavily Scandinavian in the commercial admixture test.

I meant, the D branches was the first among the DE branches to go East, while the rest stuck around Red Sea or moved West. I should have been more precise.

From the genbank database: http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/sequences_by_group/i1a_genbank_sequences.htm The haplogroup is found in Morocco, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Checkia, England, Wales, Scotland. So, generally West European... Her mother subclade, I1a, is found among Armenians...

My guess would be that, wherever DE arose around the Red Sea, East Africa or Arabia peninsula, it spread around the on both side of the water body and probably moved around quite a bit over the millennia. Branches settled in Africa, others in Middle East, I would guess the D branch was the...

Your thinking too much into Y-DNA here, J and R men don't reproduce with each other, they partner with women who bring their own autosomal DNA. For the Melungeons, we know they have African slaves among their ancestors and autosomal DNA from Africa. If I remember well, the founders of their...

It sounds very formal, I would guess it was a legal phrasing fluff, something like "en l'an de grâce 2016", meaning "in the gracious year of 2016", which didn't make it to commun people French, luckly. But I wouldn't be surprise if it was part of a standard phrasing, something like "Oyez! Oyez...

There were matagama made of other material during the Jomon period, like clay and chalk. It was improved into jade in the Yayoi period.

I found an interesting "conversation", what Japanese name a cross interview if I remember well, between MIURA Sukeyuki, Professor, Rissho University, and SHINODA Kenichi, Director, Department of Anthropology, Japanese National Museum of Nature and Science. Here some interesting bits: So there...

Here's a summary from the contemporary Chinese reports: The earliest written records about people in Japan are from Chinese sources from this period. Wa, the Japanese pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD; [...] Early Chinese historians described Wa as a land...

What about Marie Curie? Without her and her husband works, there is no atomic bomb, no Hiroshima and Nagazaki, no cold war, no medical isotope, no radio therapy, no nuclear power plants, no Chernobyl, no Fukushima, no radio isotope for dating in archaeology, and a lot more. Plus, her influence...