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To: SunkenCiv
also, ultimately, survival of a given strand of chromosome is luck of the draw.

Yup. That's why they're often surprising. I was expecting mainly Celt and maybe some Roman with a smattering of Viking.

What I got on the male side (in descending order) was Frank, Visigoth, Ostrogoth, Danish Viking, Saxon, Celt.

Of course genes from archaeological samples are hardly a representative sampling. But it's still fun to look at.

18 posted on 05/04/2020 9:18:43 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: pierrem15
And you're right, one survivng ancient sample may not give the full picture of that vanished people, but since it is characteristic of that time and place, it's probably not all that far off. :^) By and large, my Ancestry DNA report verely verified what the paperwork shows.

22 posted on 05/04/2020 9:33:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: pierrem15

What did you get on the female side?


29 posted on 05/04/2020 10:46:25 AM PDT by Jacob Kell
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To: pierrem15

whoops, verely = merely


36 posted on 05/04/2020 11:28:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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