Recent content by FuriousGeorge

Douro is from western Iberian romance for of "of gold". If it is also a Celtic name, then it was borrowed, and called something else first. See also "de oro" (spanish, "of gold") and especially "de ouro" (portuguese). Drop the first 'e' and combine the two words, and you're left with douro...

BUMP because I rewrote everything, after having deleted the content while failing to delete the thread.

They would be important to determining when the line originated, correct? I'm sure you saw the other post in the topic with respect to that. I thought raf's argument seemed to stand up well to review. Also, some of those TMRCAs given for yfull data don't seem to reconcile with each other. I...

I enjoy reading OP's stuff, especially since this is my branch. I'm bumping this hoping he gets a ping. I can say that this seems to jive with my results. When I was looking over my STR results with a cousin of mine, before I understood things like str convergence, we both remarked that...

Changed my mind The quick and dirty method I was thinking about no longer feel sound. Unfortunately, I can't delete the thread. I was thinking you could take the TMRCA for a branch, take the TMRCA for two people who you know are somewhere under there, add those two numbers and divide by 2 to...

Hi. I've compelted SNP and STR yDNA testing. I'm interested in historical migrations. My known ancestry is 5 generations on the Iberian Peninsula in NW Spain, close to the Portuguese border. The sixth generation is a mystery, the nature of which is still part of our extended family legend...