Recent content by MichaelOH

Ashkenazi from Bohemia? :bored: Hello Nuño, I have ancestor from Bohemia surname Werner. Family arrived in America in 1868. Closest male line cousin of this family also R-M198. Another autosomal match with this surname going back to Kutná Hora a few kilometers southeast of Prague in...

I suppose that the Scottish referendum will shift the focus back to R1b rule in the European Union with bigger fish to fry, as virtually all male European royalty of this type. Celt is a late historical designation applied first by the Greeks in relation to their barbarian neighbors to the...

You are right about MRCA. The time of coalescence for I2a2 Disles is circa 500 AD. I agree that this coalescence probably took place in Britain. Because all living I2a2 Disles males have a MRCA at 1,500 BC plus or minus, does not I2a2 Disles this common ancestor make. There could have been...

As I understand it, the sparsity of I2a2a-Disles in west continental Europe, together with TMRCA for 'Disles' being roughly 1500 years, leads to the conclusion that the origin of this type is in pre-Roman north Britain, from which it then spread outward back to the continent and to Ireland. It...