I know it's one of those things you cannot change. But what was your first reaction when you found out your haplogroup/s? Were you pleased or disappointed?
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I know it's one of those things you cannot change. But what was your first reaction when you found out your haplogroup/s? Were you pleased or disappointed?
i dont know my haplogroup and dont care. For me its only useful to see the admixture of a people.
I was surprised, mainly because I thought it would be something different. After I came to terms with this, I realized that my haplogroup represents a people with a reputation for strength and stability.
I was pleased, i got the main haplogroup of my nation. It means i'm no outsider :)
I agree autosomal dna is more helpful overall, but there is something to be said for a man to know his paternal line, who his father's father's father was. It is similar to one's surname. It represents you.Quote:
Originally Posted by RussiaPrussia
I don't know my haplogroup, I would probably get R1b-S28 or R1b-L21, no idea for mitochondrial DNA.
I was a bit surprised. I was expecting it to be something more common like H. It's great that it's not very common (makes me special!) but there is very little information about it. There are only 6 people with it on the FTDNA database with my particular subclade, and I am one of them. So that makes 5 other people.
Why does everyone know what a haplogroup is? Is genetics taught at school in the West?
No it's taught on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteruthenian
And currently on sale, at both 23andMe and FTDNA.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
I feel indifferent about mine.
it shouldn't mean much since it is just a one ancestor out of other thousands.. Anyway, It is native to the region and occurs highest on my nation in the region so it's cool..
To be honest, i found my Y haplogroup a bit boring when i discovered it for the first time, but when i found out info about my subclade(thanks to Jackson) is it pretty awesome.
Btw, i was talking about my Y-DNA since i thought this thread was only about it. As for my mt-dna, i didn't get the most common H, and i got a more random one that is not very specific to my nation:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Delarge
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Still i found it interesting and tried to learn more about it.
I was shocked at first to see I was from haplogroup E (especially seeing the 23andme distribution map), but then I found out what my haplogroup (Y-DNA) actually means, i.e. the specific E-V13 which is Neolithic and connected with early Greek expansion in southeast Europe. It brings all sorts of possibilities and is interesting. So ... proud Trojan/Thracian here :thumb001:
As for my mtDNA, H1b, it seems to be common in Northern Europe so I was pleased from the start with it.
Happy with my MtDNA as it's similar to Otzi. :)
Ydna is like a Clan name to be proud of.. & isn't a Norse or Anglo invader. ;) Am happy.
Ah yes, an invader haplogroup would be disapointing to me too. A Roman, Moor or Germanic haplogroup.
Luckily mine is native and older than those people :)
Invader haplogroup! :lol:
Makes it sound like an invader species of plant which has taken over the habitat of indigenous flora.
As for invader/native ... my haplogroup is certainly an invader one ... it is very rare where my paternal family comes from. It's said to be from Roman soldiers of Balkan origin (likely Thracian) who settled in the area of Germania Inferior.
First reaction was hmm interesting..I'm the outlier. Also prob got a bunch of stomfront wannabe nutzis (like Kastrioti) jealous of my northern Haplogroups.
:coffee:
I got the all common R1b1b2a1a2f for my paternal DNA and H4a for my maternal DNA, I feel indifferent about both of them.
R1a is the mightiest Y-dna and V is kinda rare.
So I'm quite happy with them :)
My Y-DNA is the most common in Poland but subclade and cluster looks interesting (looks more Sarmatian than Slavic and has interesting distribution - from Volga Tatars to the Carpathian Highlanders and Hungarians). It's named as a "Volga-Carpathian". We need some Sarmatian aDNA, maybe my dreams will come true :D
Iazyges cataphract, MAYBE one of my ancestors:
http://www.dbaol.com/images/faces/1331_face.jpg
Fought in a Marcomannic wars along with Germanic Marcomanni and Quadi.
My mtdna is very interesting and quite old, found commonly in mesolithic remains from Russia to as west as Portugal, coorelated mostly with North-Central Euro hunters-gatherers.
The oldest U4 is from Germany, found in Bad Dürrenberg and dated to the 6850 BC. Quite decent distibution among Baltic and Finnic people, non-trivial in Sweden and among East Slavs.
Yes ..i am happy..i have tipic albanian cluster R1b..:love:
I was surprised to find out that my mtDNA haplogroup is U5a1b, which isn't a very common haplogroup, especially in Greece. But I can't say I feel happy or sad about it.
My Y DNA haplogroup is the most common in Greece, so no big surprises here.
I'm okay with them, I guess.
I wish there was more info on them. K2b1a is rare, and R1b L20+ is relatively new and there's not a lot of info on it.
I'm happy with mine. They are both kinda interesting and go well together (I1 and U5a1b). My grandfather's haplogroup (H1b) is kinda interesting too, as it is more common in eastern Europe, although i have no recent eastern European ancestry, my grandmother and father's mtdna haplogroup is pretty much what i expected - J1c8 - As that line comes from NW England, and J1c in the British Isles is centered around the Irish Sea as far as i know.
It's kind of cool that they go together, like the most common pairing is R1b and H, second most common is I and U5. So i am less common but still fit in perfectly. :)
Cool to find another U5a1b on the forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by paschalisb
Immigrant, taking our jobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaksen
And your tribes were also immigrants at some point. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Graham
Edit: Plus i'm pretty sure I1 has had a presence in the British Isles probably since the bronze age, even if only a small one.
Overall, I am pleased with my haplogroups but until I can afford to do deeper subclade testing, I wont be completely satisfied.
I1 was most definitely present in Roman Britania, got there with Batavian auxilia. There were other sources as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jackson
Not much to be glad/disappointied about imo
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I have observed this.Quote:
Originally Posted by HispaniaSagrada
Except a haplogroup doesn't really determine what you are; all it indicates is maternal and paternal lines, both of which are a small part of your overall ancestry/identity.Quote:
Originally Posted by HispaniaSagrada
I mean, somebody could be 95% Native American and have a European haplogroup; all it takes is for their paternal line to eventually go back to Europe, even if it is only their 10th great-grandfather who was European.
For example; I'm R1b-L20+, which appears to be Italo-Celtic, but given the thousands of years of history of the areas in which my ancestors lived, they were likely part Celtic, part Germanic, and part Norse.
Besides, I mostly take after/identify with my mother's paternal line, which my haplogroup doesn't say shit about.
I just don't see how having the "wrong haplogroup" could hurt someone's identity.
It's fine, a bit boring though.
I tend to find to find, it's normally New Worlders who expect to be a certain nationality.Quote:
Originally Posted by HispaniaSagrada
Before I got my 23andme results there was this anti-Turkic/Turkish guy on anthrocivitas who was always trying to demolish any sort of Turkic influence in Turks and Turkey. He was absolutely obsessed with it and spamming the forum 24/7 with his propaganda. So when I got myself tested he told me that I should not expect any signs of Turkic ancestry and that if I did happen to score some sort of CA ancestry, it would be the result of rape.
So I was like 'in your face, douche!' when I got my results back. :D
But other than that, my haplogroups are just cool. My paternal line is a typical Western/Anatolian haplogroup and my maternal line is a Turkic one (or at least carried by Turkics) straight out of Siberia. I think that's a pretty cool haplogroup combo for a Anatolian Turk.
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