Are you happy with your haplogroups?

Since I'm a Y-DNA J2 ,Haplogroup J rules! :cool:

I bet there's been a lot sleepless nights and wet pillows for many members :laugh:

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Originally Posted by RussiaPrussia

i dont know my haplogroup and dont care. For me its only useful to see the admixture of a people.

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Sure thing Mr. C3 :laugh:

I'm neither happy with them or unhappy with them. They just are what they are.

I am happy with my haplogroup.
My Y-DNA was sort of both, a surprise (in a good way) and typical for my family's origins.

First I was to find it was marker of Celtic speakers in the Atlantic, and upon further testing I found it not only belongs to the "Scots-Model", but that certain markers were found with more frequency among families who had origins in the western Lowlands of Scotland.

I was proud because it reflected the genealogical origins of my father's line, who were Scotch-Irish that had originally came from the western Scottish Lowlands and the Anglo-Scottish Borders and also because it was said to be a marker of the Strathclyde Britons, in my case.

This got me more interested in the history of those people and I was also just generally proud of the fact they were some of the earlier, pre-Roman settlers in Scotland itself.

My mtdna is H and I have not done any further testing yet on it but I am still proud of it as being a very common marker found in European populations.

I dont place too much emphasis on them though, like some people, because the autosomal results are what truly matter .
But I am also proud of those as they too reflect the general background of my family history, coming mostly from the British Isles.

Couldn't be happier... with all three of them.

I am so pissed.

Here's something that you can try. If you know the names of your various male ancestors, go to one of those family DNA web sites. If you know the date and place of his birth, you can discover his haplotype. So far, I've found R1b (two kinds), R1a, I1, and E3b in different ancestors' lines.

So far, I only know my Y-DNA haplogroup. I was a bit shocked with it (I have a very rare E-M78 sub-clade), because there were not many in formations about it. Later I began to be proud of it, as my studies of the sub-clade were deepening my knowledge. Eventually I found that the highest STR variance was found in the Netherlands and the coalescence age 12.300 years old, so Late Mesolitic. Some weeks ago I discovered that the oldest boat in the world was discovered in the Netherlands, and the datings show that it was constructed soon after the birth of my sub-clade.
With my matches (all from Central and Northern Europe) I confirmed 1) my supposed Germanic ancestry and 2) the belonging to a noble family of Saxon origin.
So I'm definitely proud of it.

Of course ... from the mighty Trojan War heroes.

Yeah, they seem to go well together.