Prehistoric DNA study for France

[Rhonda Hatton]

Okay, “ exact “ box definitely improved the search: thank you for mentioning it, I didn’t notice it at first!...

[Rhonda Hatton]

I like your idea, Gwailo, and I hope they eventually have archaeogenetic data for non European peoples too!

[Rhonda Hatton]

Yes, the search is horrible now! It’s amazing what’s considered “ close enough “....

[Rhonda Hatton]

I see where a woman can contribute both Y-DNA ( by means of a male relative) or information on a surname or a specific branch of it, and I also see where a woman could be allowed to join and contribute those things without her Mtdna having to be displayed ( just like men’s Mtdna doesn’t have to...

[Rhonda Hatton]

I joined a Y-DNA group for my father’s surname because FTDNA suggested it, and I was warmly welcomed by the moderator who knows a great deal about the history of the name ( most of them are related, going back on the paternal line ) and gathered information from me on my father’s grandfather that...

[Rhonda Hatton]

So glad to hear that, Stevo! Galina and you are very blessed that things have turned around for her; best wishes.

[Rhonda Hatton]

Those are truly red leaves! I look forward to October, the light is still bright but the trees are a noble gold and everything starts to look like a painting. By the way Stevo, how is your wife doing? Hope that the two of you are well....

[Rhonda Hatton]

Pretty much the same here, I’m western european deep blue all over dotted with lots of turquoise eastern european, and it feels like there’s no rhyme or reason for any of it. I thought I remembered them saying you would be able to compare matches in chromosome painter but I guess I was wrong, so...

[Rhonda Hatton]

That K1a1b1a sample in Normandie sounds interesting, I don’t think I know what study that’s from! I’ve got another study on Gaulish genetics I can post later, I just wish that studying the Gauls ( sometimes in ALL fields) wasn’t restricted to the very edges of the territory such as Normandie...

[Rhonda Hatton]

No, I was referring to this discovery made in late summer of 2019. If you google it there are pictures of the skeleton, discovered at a megalithic site in central France . I was so excited when this hit the news! https://www.inrap.fr/en/megaliths-ve...-aligned-menhi...

[Rhonda Hatton]

Great article: I have pedigree collapse somewhere in my tree, where I don’t know, but there are matches I share enough DNA with in order to match them but my parents don’t match them, because the DNA they inherited was too little but, combined in me, it’s enough to register. Very odd, and I have...

[Rhonda Hatton]

It’s strange how they were surprised at France’s genetic diversity during the Neolithic period, I guess because a similar study in the British isles yielded exclusively Haplogroup I. Not to say that the other haplogroups were abundant ( C and H, I believe?) but they were still present all the same....

[Rhonda Hatton]

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/23/12791#ref-36 hope this will be of interest to some of you here, I thought the relatively early ( though not inexplicable ) occurrence of R1b was interesting.

[Rhonda Hatton]

Thank you so much for posting this, I love to study tuberculosis and it's effects on human genetics, population and history!...

[Rhonda Hatton]

Nice to see an Assyrian with R-M269, Almoni, we're always told that this often European haplogroup originated in the Middle East, and your lineage reflects that even though R-M269 isn't the biggest haplogroup there now. Please keep testing your DNA and busting down brick walls!...