We have a 'Viking' haplogroup in the family!

[RandomGuy20]

So I did a FTDNA test recently and found a 1st-3rd cousin using the Family Finder feature, we are related by my maternal grandmothers-father's side (my great-grandfathers nephew). Through this I have discovered his Y-DNA haplogroup of my great-grandfather's paternal lineage which is a subclade of R-DF19 (I won't post the subclade because his info is posted with it online). Here is a small section from the FTDNA website about this haplogroup:

"The mass migrations of the Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Frisians have likely been responsible for a first geographic spread of DF19 and its subclades towards the British Isles and across Western Europe. Through the southward expansion of the Saxons, the Franks and later the Vikings, Y-chromosomes carrying the DF19 mutation also started appearing in the rest of Western and Central Europe.

However, many of the British R-DF19 lineages seem to have left their ancestral homelands in southern Scandinavia only during the Viking age. Between ca. 800 and ca. 1100 AD, Viking raiders and settlers brought the DF19 mutation to Ireland, Scotland, England and Normandy. In 1066 the Normans invaded England, and quite a few of them (probably descendants of the - predominantly Danish - Vikings that had settled in Normandy in the early 900s AD) belonged to the R-DF19 haplogroup."

My great-grandfathers paternal linage comes from mostly a mix of English, Scottish and Irish (and lesser amount of Dutch). Definitely an interesting find, glad I did the FTDNA test

My FTDNA results if you're interested:
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...-FTDNA-results

[Bosniensis]

"Y-DNA haplogroup of my great-grandfather's paternal lineage which is a subclade of R-DF19"

So how do you have I-S17250 if your Great Grand Father is R-DF19

Or maybe I misunderstood?

[RandomGuy20]

"Y-DNA haplogroup of my great-grandfather's paternal lineage which is a subclade of R-DF19"

So how do you have I-S17250 if your Great Grand Father is R-DF19

Or maybe I misunderstood?

Sorry, I wrote it out fast - must not have explained properly. The I-S17250 comes from my paternal side (Croatian grandfather). The R-DF19 subclade is from my maternal grandmother's side who didn't pass down or inheret the Y-DNA as she is female. Both my grandmother's brothers died relatively young and didn't have any children so I always thought there was no way of finding out more about her paternal side until now.