[peyton randolph]

The test, expected to cost about £130

---

The test is failed by paying this fee instead of being frugal. ;-)

 

[cripplecreek]

I didn't pict my ancestors.

[martin_fierro]

	Genetic Genealogy
Send FReepmail if you want on/off GGP list Marty = Paternal Haplogroup O(2?)(M175) Maternal Haplogroup H
GG LINKS: African Ancestry DNAPrint Genomics FamilyTree DNA mitosearch Nat'l Geographic Genographic Project Oxford Ancestors RelativeGenetics Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation Trace Genetics ybase ysearch
The List of Ping Lists

[grjr21]

This thread is useless without Picts

[bannie]

My mitochondrial DNA has been passed on to two granddaughters. I'm a proud woman.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side.
I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them.
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Lazarus Long

[tongue-tied]

Isn't there an old Pink Floyd song called Grooving With The Picts"?

[Strategerist]

What I'd like to know is how they separate the Pict DNA from the several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict......

[alarm rider]

I feel a sudden need for a dram & a sporn. Och!

[Larry Lucido]

This thread is useless without Picts.

[Holden Magroin]

Were the Picts Celts? Were William Wallace and Robert the Bruce Highlanders or Lowlanders? And did the English dislike Lowlanders or just Highlanders?

[PistolPaknMama]

Burn the village to the ground
doo dah, doo dah

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Were the Picts indigenous? The British Isles seem to have gotten wave after wave of peoples from the mainland (Iberia, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Norman French, Poles, etc.).

[Caramelgal]

This is not news. As a direct decendent of a true Viking, I'm probably related to half the peope on the planet.

Hey what can I say, they got around.

Where do you think the Irish got their red hair, the Scott's their frugalness and bad tempers, the English their common laws, the Russians an end to complete political anarchy, who opened trade routes with China and the Middle East before that guy Marco somebody and who first discovered "the New World"?

It wasn't the French. (and even the Normans were not French but the decendents of Vikings.)

[Drango]

Can't speak to the legitimacy of getting "DNA strands from 1,000-year-old bone fragments" but DNA is now becoming mainstream in genealogy. I had my DNA done by FamilyTreeDNA and found an unknown (lost?)relative. What a rush.

Here is an article that speaks to DNA use for us amateurs http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4144963

[sionnsar]

we proved that a large proportion of people on Orkney are descended from Vikings.

Duh... but then again proof is proof, I guess.

[Mike Darancette]

A geneticist has created a DNA test for "Scottishness"

I thought that the test for "Scottishness" used a quarter and a storm grate.

[WFTR]

This is a great thread.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the
"Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list or GGG weekly digest
-- Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[SunkenCiv]

Those poor, misunderstood bloodthirsty killers, the Vikings.

Did the Vikings drive natives from the isles?
by Stephen Stewart
May 17 2005

Viking settlers may have "ethnically cleansed" Scotland's islands, waging a genocidal campaign against native Pictish tribes as they arrived, according to evidence uncovered by archaeologists... Work at Langskaill farm, in Westray, shows signs of a Pictish culture vanish abruptly with the arrival of the Scandinavians, underlining the theory that the Northern Isles were taken violently... A Viking-Norse longhouse was unearthed, which was built directly over an earlier earth house and part of a Pictish house, probably indicating a takeover of the site and adjoining lands... In recent years, the image of the Vikings has been transformed from bloodthirsty pagan savages to that of sophisticated merchants with exceptional navigational and engineering skills. The finds on Orkney, however, are expected to reopen the entire debate.