Posted on 11/23/2017 6:14:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With a vial of saliva and a little cutting-edge science, AncestryDNA can tell you if you’ve got any Irish heritage in your genes. And with a lot of cutting-edge science, researchers in December 2015 published a study telling the world where that Irish heritage first originated.
By studying the 5,000-year-old remains of a female farmer buried near Belfast, Ireland, and the remains of three men buried 3,000 and 4,000 years ago on Rathlin Island in County Antrim, archaeologists and geneticists now say they now know where the modern Irish people originally came from.
The remains of the Stone Age female farmer show that she resembled modern people from Spain and Sardinia, suggesting she had roots there. But her ancestors ultimately originated from the Fertile Crescent, the once-lush region of the Middle East where humans first practiced agriculture. Those migrants brought cattle, cereals, and ceramics, along with black hair and brown eyes.
The remains of the Bronze Age male farmers show a different group of migrants entering Ireland one to two thousand years later. Those farmers came from the Pontic steppe of southern Russia. They brought metalworking culture, the genetic disposition for blue eyes, and the gene for a blood disorder so often found in Ireland that it’s known as the Celtic disease: haemochromatosis.
Using a technique called whole-genome analysis, scientists at Trinity College Dublin studied the DNA from all four bodies to establish a history of ancestral migration and settlement.
“There was a great wave of genome change that swept into [Bronze Age] Europe from above the Black Sea … we now know it washed all the way to the shores of its most westerly island,” geneticist and lead researcher Dan Bradley told the BBC.
The research shows that cultural changes in the ancient British Isles, such as the introduction of agriculture and metalworking, likely arrived because of large-scale migrations rather than the adoption of new ways by indigenous people.
DNA research isn’t just for looking back thousands of years. With AncestryDNA, you can discover whether your grandparents or great-grandparents really did hail from Ireland or any one of 26 distinct ethnic populations. AncestryDNA can also be an invaluable tool in genealogical research by matching up your DNA with relatives you might never have known and by identifying common forebears you may never have heard of.
From there, the 16 billion historical records on Ancestry can help you search forwards or backward in time to fill in your family tree — wherever that tree first took root.
If you are of British ancestry when you go back one thousand years you are related to or descended from everyone alive at that time in the British Isles. Go back another thousand years and you are related to or descended from everyone alive at that time in Europe. If you go back to the time the pyramids were built you are related to or descended from everyone alive on the face of the earth at that time.
I understand this has been proven both by mathematicians and geneticists.
That maybe true. lol
Mission accomplished
Love the cartoon, have already shared it. Thanks for the laugh.
Love the cartoon, have already shared it. Thanks for the laugh.
I think we paid $100 a piece. Trustworthy in what way?
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Plenty of Scythian Blondes are buried in western China.
Northern Japanese have strong Caucasian genes as well.
We don’t know half of the real human history that is true.
“Fertile Crescent, the once-lush region of the Middle East where humans first practiced agriculture. “
Oh...you mean like Cain and Able, as learned from Adam and Eve?
So interesting.
The Picts were not Irish. The Irish did have some influence in Southwestern Scotland, but the Picti are genetically and linguistically distinct.
Yes they were. Irish and Pictish.
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I assume I probably go back 2000 years from my British Isles genelogy, don't know about Egypt, of course.
I've uncovered a lot of interesting and fun family history, but most blue blood claimants have a whole lot more of it than I do.
Here is a link to one of the best vetted genealogy lineages of royalty if anybody is interested. It gets a little tricky to keep your place, but you can get the hang of it with a little effort.
Don't be put off by the fact that an Australian built it and manages it. It covers many North American gateway ancestors and their lineages. And what a fine resource it is, the best genealogical database of its kind I'm aware of. There are many excellent family sites, too.
#41. Re “If you go back to the time the pyramids were built you are related to or descended from everyone alive on the face of the earth at that time”.
Well, since I’m Jewish, and both sets of grandparents were from Europe, and my wife’s side of the family include the English, possibly Scots, definitely the French, and now by marriage, the Irish, that would explain all the foreigners who showed up at my Thanksgiving dinner addressing me as “Uncle, Cousin, Bro”.
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Perhaps the mythical Fomorians?
Paid $99 a few years ago. Results:
- Great Britain: 47%
- Europe West: 22%
- Ireland, Scotland, Wales: 21%
- Scandinavia: 8%
“Low confidence regions:”
- Finland/Northwest Russia: <1%
- Caucasus: <1%
Pretty much a mutt. But obviously also a long history of presumed “white privilege,” despite the many known generations of relatively poor, hard-working ancestors to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude for the decisions and actions they took which led to my American birth and life!
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