Genetic results from a new paper, Continental Connections Transformed the Genetics and Appearance of Early Medieval England, were released before publication. Here is a link to the genomic data and an abstract from the paper at ENA. Nicely, a person…
Last year, in a post, I processed some autosomal and Y DNA points of interest in my wife’s family. A total lack of thruline ancestor matches with her paternal surname family, strong matches with more distant cousins on a maternal…
This year marks 100 years of being Thompsons for my branch of the family. It’s 15 years of keeping this online diary. My son who was just three years old when I started this, is eighteen now. Many of the…
Old Norse Specialist Jackson Crawford I’ve listened to a lot of Jackson Crawford videos over the past several years. If you’re interested in the sagas and the eddas, or the differences between old Norse and other Germanic languages, you should…
Ancestry has updated origins with more defined regions, so this is a good time to look at the new outcomes. For reference: My 2011 Genome Analysis was described as English or British with significant input from the continent. My dad…
The End My dad Tom died on June 27th 2025 from complications due to liver disease. The story is that he was exposed to chemicals at work that damaged his liver and so the clock has been ticking since then.…
The sample is CGG107465, Lille Vasby, Høje-Taastrup, Zealand, Denmark, 2194-2026 calBCE, Bell Beaker. In the image below they are the farthest down on the left. Visually represented close to the estimated beginning of R-Z18. This is the oldest sample for…
For reference we’re talking about DNA samples from a preprint released about a year ago: In a previous post I left notes about a new branch for the R-CTS12023/DF95 crew and it’s not a new descendant branch, but a…
For reference, the Y DNA reads I’m talking about are from this study which recently released BAM files, which Ewenn at the U106 group was able to analyze for subclades: Notes on R-Z18 in Steppe Ancestry Pre-print The study left…
A few weeks ago, I received a notification about a new MTDNA relative. I went in to see who was new and who had any information on their last known mito relative. Many of my matches have no information at…