100 Years of Thompsons
My Grandfather’s birthday is 49 years and six days before mine. In my early memory, we celebrated our birthdays together. We shared a birth month, and I inherited his lazy eye, which left me with an eye patch and corrective…
Mike Thompson
R-CTS12023 R-DF95 Homeland
In this round of notes, I’m going to look at Iain McDonald’s draft paper again, with subclade information that happily includes R-DF95 Background The draft paper is well worth a read. Regarding R-Z18, Iain laments the lack of information…
Notes on R-Z18 Avars in Austria
These are my quick notes and thoughts on R-Z18 Y DNA in the Wang et al. study “Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture“ Some Back Story and Context For reference, we’ve talked about the Avars before with…
When You Start to Worry that You have a Problem
Every so often, I poke around at my wife’s family tree and genetic genealogy. She has the average amount of interest in genealogy that I see in my circles. Her family story is interesting enough to watch an episode here…
The Other Half
I’ve watched a few videos and read a few papers that help explain the movement of autosomal DNA and MTDNA in a way that makes sense and seems obvious once someone says it. It’s also meshed to the origins of…
R-Z18 Origin Estimates
Things to get right out of the way: 1. I will reference an unpublished draft work that has not been peer-reviewed. So, although the author is way better at math, probabilities, and genetics than I am, this work reflects them…
Year End 2024
In 2010, I started an online diary for my family search, which had been thwarted by a lack of basic information and resources but was about to get easier due to the proliferation of internet content and genetic genealogy. Conveniently,…
Notes on R-Z18 in Steppe Ancestry Pre-print
These are my notes from the pre-print Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages. It hasn’t been peer-reviewed. This is, at it’s heart, an autosomal study, but it does contain some Y-DNA information. They’re trying…
R-Z18 in Wielbark DNA
What is Wielbark Culture? The short answer is it’s the Goths and Gepids. It is a material culture from the 1st to 5th century in Northern Poland. In the 5th century, it was replaced by early Slavic culture. The story…
Burghgraeve Family Progress
It is always exciting when one of our Y DNA families puts the puzzle pieces together. The De Burghgraeve family has been working on their matches and paper trail and has hit some milestones for triangulating Y DNA ancestors and…