Originally Posted by
Blanka
*waves* My dad's a representative for those "R1's that hardly exists". He was just assigned R-M198 after testing 37 markers. But it's not an Eastern European branch, and he has very few hits and none are close. The ones he has is one Finnish and one Norwegian, but none is closer than a common ancestor at least 20 generations ago. That's it. On top if it, in the part of Nyland where dad's male side of the family is found, R1a is the least common haplogroup in the country. Everyone else is N1c or possibly I1. What are the odds? It's like winning the lottery - and getting a cubic meter of nothingness.