genealogy

Hello, I just came across this very old but interesting article. It is a study done by the University of Oxford, and it demonstrates that there are certain groups of people across the world that can be tested to be "LY1 positive" with having a LINE-1 retrotransposon insertion in the centromere...

I am new to genealogy, is it true that all descendants of haplogroup CF-P143(haplogroup C, F, G, H, IJ, K...) inherited these 4 mutations below and are still carrying them today: while haplogroup B, and DE doesn't have them, that's why only the descendants of C and F can trace their ancestry...

Have you ever wondered how many ancestors you had 200 years ago, or 500 years ago, 1000 years ago, 2000 years ago? Venture to take a guess? It's easy enough to count how many ancestors we have after 3 generations (8 great-grand-parents), 4 generations (16 g-g-grandparents), etc. But what about...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180299/#!po=21.4286 My goodness, the important part is already in the captions.

I have checked Ragnar Lothbrok's genealogy to find if he had male line descendants to this day. It would not be surprising considering that he had eight sons and they became powerful rulers of their own. The main issue is that the genealogy is disputed. If enough Y-DNA lines survived, it would...

Hello everyone! I was wondering where everyone on this site comes from? When I ask this question, I do not only mean your place of birth but the countries where your ancestors come from. I am from the U.S., and one branch of my family tree has been in what is now known as the U.S. since the...

I am a part of the Z36 branch of the R1b-U152 Y-Haplogroup, and I'm 99% certain that my paternal ancestry is British in nature. As U152's prevalence in the British Isles is markedly lower than that of S21's or L21's, I've grown curious at how exactly my paternal family would have gotten to...

Olasz et al. (2018) tested the DNA of King Bela III of Hungary. They also tested the mtDNA lineage of his wife, Agnes of Antioch, which was identified as H1 (either H1j8 or H1bz). Update: Olasz et al. published a second study refining Agnes's mtDNA and her haplogroup was eventually identified...

I guess that most of us have a family tree, and even if we did not make it ourselves, there is surely a relative in the family that spent considerable time (hundreds, if not thousands of hours) researching in archive rooms to go back as far as possible in time. There is often some kind of pride...

UPDATE : a new study by Larmuseau et al. (2013) disproved that the blood tested by Lalueza-Fox et al. belonged to Louis XVI of France. Louis XVI s mtDNA lineage was therefore NOT N1b as originally mentioned in this thread. The genealogy below is still valid but for another, still undisclosed...

Hello, My Y-DNA haplogroup is i2b1 - I am trying to do a family tree and am looking for any genetic matches who share my i2b1 haplogroup, especially those based in Europe. Please get in touch if you are my genetic match, would be great to hear more information about our shared ancestors and...