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To: Renfield

This is cool...I have Orkney ancestry...The men in the family have tested out as Haploid group R1a, which shows up in high proportion in the Orkneys

Interesting quick read article on Wikipedia about how this may signal an early group settling there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1a_%28Y-DNA%29


14 posted on 10/18/2007 11:56:29 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Above map, 18,000 year ago.

R1a's spend the Last Glacial Maximum(18-23,000 years ago) in the Ukranian Ice Age refuge. The above map shows the direction of migration at about 12,000 years go.

There is much debate presently as to which DNA group, R1a or I1a, are the 'Viking Gene.' In my opinion, it's both.

The Orkneys where the 'jumping-off' point for the Vikings on the way to Iceland.

16 posted on 10/18/2007 12:27:23 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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