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Our Male Line AncestorsIf You Build Content, They Will ComeCreating searchable content about your haplogroup with relevant links or contact info is an easy and scalable way to advance the research into your male or female line's origins.If you build, they will come!Anyone who descends from Smith/Schmidt in haplogroup G-L497, if you are positive for any of these branches, reach out to Matthew Smith (www.matthewesmith.com) to see if you may be related.These are the codes designating the increasingly more specific branches of G that these particular Smiths descending from Johannes/Matthias/Andreas Schmidt are positive for.
2022-01-3112 min
Our Male Line AncestorsReligious Continuity Along J2b Male Lines - Sometimes Going Back At Least 1800 YearsAutosomal DNA studies have shown that minority religious groups practice endogamy, that is, tend to marry within their minority religious community.Y-DNA can take this research even further, determining how long the male line ancestors have likely been practicing the religion and helping to ascertain the geographic origin of the deeper male line ancestors.I discuss six instances of minority religion continuity along male J2b lines going back 750-1800 years. They include Jews of northern Africa, Europe, and India and Syrian Christians from India.Notably, our J2b-L283 Syrian Christians of India...
2021-09-1216 min
Our Male Line AncestorsBrick wall? Recruit potential Y-DNA relatives on Wikitree for cheap, targeted SNP testingWikitree is a free resource you can use to find people who may be in contact with living descendants of your male line(s) of interest.Once you find someone who consents to test, a SNP test for $18 at YSEQ is the cheapest way to determine whether or not they are male line relatives. If they are positive then you can consider more advanced (read: expensive) Y-DNA tests, knowing beforehand that they really are related to you.
2021-08-1210 min
Our Male Line Ancestors20 Haplogroup Heatmaps From Various Regions of the WorldI explain twenty examples of relative frequency heatmaps computed by Y Heatmap to help you get an idea of the mobility of various male line haplogroups formed at different times and regions in the world.Understanding male line mobility from different regions / ages can help those who wish to most accurately interpret the origins of their own subclade which may not yet be as well understood as others.You can check the maps here as I go down the list explaining the significance of each.https://phylogeographer.com/20-haplogroup-heatmaps-from-various-regions-of-the-world/This...
2021-07-2440 min
Our Male Line AncestorsGerman for Genealogists 101 - Umlaut Spelling RulesIf you understand the simple umlaut transcription rules, you can troubleshoot against common transcription errors that would otherwise lead you to the wrong location or surname.In the case I present here, there were four men whose ancestors had surname variations of Matthies / Mattes / Mathes and were shown based on their Y chromosome STRs to be distantly related on the male line.Only one of these men traced back to a specific birth location somewhere in Europe, but it was ambiguous which town he actually traced descent to, based on umlaut transcription errors.
2021-07-1303 min
Our Male Line AncestorsSilver, Phoenicians, Iberians, and Cypriots - Trade and Technology TransferInteresting headlines popped up in my Google news feed last week:"Civilization May Have Collapsed in 1200 B.C.E. but the Silver Trade Didn’t, Researchers Discover" - Haaretz, July 7, 2021"Scientists reconstruct Mediterranean silver trade, from Trojan War to Roman Republic" - Eurekalert, July 4, 2021I was interested to dig deeper to see what is really known, has been known, for some time already.The bulk of this podcast discusses the article from the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2020 that discusses a link between Phoenicians, Cy...
2021-07-1121 min
Our Male Line AncestorsBook Review - The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: A Political and Military History - Hugh EltonI review the book "The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: A Political and Military History" by Trent University professor Hugh Elton.My review is from the perspective of how this book helped me understand useful facts regarding the proliferation, extinction or migration of male lines.This book may help you learn more about your male line origins and the migrations of your ancestors or their close relatives if your male line was living in land controlled by the Romans. Especially those areas heavily recruited in Late Antiquity, Isauria, Illyricum, Thrace, and Armenia (author's ordering). Not...
2021-07-0723 min
Our Male Line AncestorsSichuan is first J2b from ChinaA sample from Sichuan China is the first sample from China to be found positive for J2b on the YFull YTree.I describe what we know / can theorize regarding the ancient origins of the lineage he is found positive for, J2b-Z2432.https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Z2432/This man from China has no close relative yet, but among his relatives is prolific lineage J-Y28237 that appear to have been living to the east and/or north of the Caspian Sea by 1600 BC. One group eventually became Tatars who are now (and...
2021-07-0317 min
Our Male Line AncestorsDiscovering hidden samples on the basis of SNP prefixes / Simple geographic origin case study on three samplesBasic pattern recognition led me on a successful hunt for a third sample in a new lineage in J2b-L283>YP91>YP61 known as J-S8436.I then walk through how to theorize the geographic origin of this lineage based on three geolocated samples and taking into account relative sampling rates and the geographic origin of the lineage's more distant ancestors.
2021-07-0311 min