Recent content by Mark Polman

Maybe you should update your ancestor's location on yfull from Groningen to Friesland then. It's a small difference, but it could be relevant in the end.

Two links for those who wish to wander off looking for lost grounds since the last ice age: https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/ https://webapp.navionics.com/#boating Most shore lines are quite steep, but the North Sea, Denmark, Baltic, Brittanny, Atlantic Andalusia, South of...

Excuse me for being imprecise in my (supportive) reaction. I read from your analysis that five samples from the pit could be considered as European, although some are put in an admixed group in the paper. I just wondered whether additional observations could be made regarding the samples from...

Elucidating, we've five Europeans (2 Germans, Spaniard and 2 Mediterraneans). Let me guess, you are going to show us that the Near Easterners were Christian Armenians? No admixtures?

Theoretically speaking, Roger de Barneville might have had Levant ancestry. Did your match and you do research in order to determine whether the Syrian branch was prior or arose during the Crusades, e.g. with BigY on yfull?

Clear about 39, thanks.

When I look at those tables, I get confused. I would have put SI 38, SI 42 and SI 45 in "Near Eastern Group". SI 40 and SI 47 in "European Group". And SI 44, SI 39, SI 41 and SI 53 in an "Admixed Group". That would make more sense, wouldn't it?

Allright, Schiffels, Haak et al (2016). They are Saxon in a British context, but would they fit the Northern Germans? The first Saxons from the Elbe region had occupied Brittan around 442 CE. Other persons and groups arrived later. Maybe exactly these Hinxton samples would better fit later...

Generally, when we are talking about Saxons and Old Saxony (see e.g. Wikipedia for both terms), it's about Northern Germany. No mention of Norway, Sweden or Finland. So what ancient samples of Saxons does MyTrueAncestry use?

I'm a Frank-Saxon and have a 2.9 distance to the ancient Longobard-Frank samples. My most close relation to present populations is Northern German and Southern Dutch, which is correct related to my documented tree. My third and fourth present population relation on MyTrueAncestry are both...

I'm sure our E-V13 specialists are trying to sort out the lines. Is there something we could learn from the approach as is starting to be done with G2a?

I've got a cousin with whom I share a MRCA about 3200 ybp. His family lived in England and Ireland by the name of Sinnott, a noble family that arrived with the Norman conquerors in the 11th century. This is an example of a late entry of E-V13 on the British Isles, so they aren’t directly a...