Tracing My Y-DNA Ancestry - Last Blog
It's been a difficult quest to trace my paternal ancestry as I explained in my 1st blog. Since Tracing My Paternal Y-DNA through my cousins only provides a partial view of half my DNA mapping. Because, I am a woman and I don't carry the Y chromosome then I have to extract those haplogroups from the haplogroups of my relatives and find common ancestral connections. That means I can only trace my grandmother's ancestry from my paternal side. Since the X chromosome I have, comes from his mother.
It sounds simple but it isn't. The rule is: sharing a haplogroup with an ancestor of a famous person suggests a distant relationship, that could potentially go back hundreds or thousands of years. It means you both descend from a common ancestor who lived in the past and carried the same genetic markers defining in your haplogroup. However, this doesn't necessarily imply a close, recent family connection.
So are we related? If we match to the exact haplogroup there is big maybe, to yes, we are potentially related.
E-M34 Haplogroup
I did a few mistaken searches due to typos and had to delete them. However, I had one interesting result with E-M34 haplogroup that is connected as a common ancestor from 500 CE with Napoleon Bonaparte, so when I plugged that haplogroup it linked it to a distant but more detailed haplogroup E-BY36878... and that one is the Napoleon Haplogroup which only 3 people apparently have it. There are no direct living descendants of Napoleon only descendants from his brother. E-M34 didn't result in any direct ancestry since I am only 1% Ashkenazim Jewish and that was the result of this experimental example. I share that haplogroup with a few 3rd and 5th cousins, so I can say, I am related to them only.
Also, France is not listed in my DNA results. So that means I am not French. Period. I do see a big 50% Spain 🇪🇸 or Spanish in my DNA. Spain and France share borders therefore they may have haplogroups that share similar migration paths. But that doesn't make me French.
Now, I cannot attest the same about my relatives since their DNA results may show different connections even if we are related, we have different results. However, E-M34 is prevalent among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews so that could explain the small 1% Ashkenazi DNA percentage in my DNA result.
Anyway, I did have a few surprising discovery like finding out that there is a big possibility my 3rd-grandmother up to my 5th-grandmother were certainly of Scottish-Irish-Welsh descent based on the many haplogroups I see in my DNA pool, which are shared among my closest cousins up to my most distant 10th cousins which provide the oldest ancestry in my DNA.
Getting a bit more personal, I can say I was very close to my Grandmother who was born around 1893. My grandfather died of sadness months after she passed away. He was around the same age 99 - 100 years old. She was a caring grandmother to me. And I also knew my great-grandmother who died around the age of 112 years-old. Calculating the time of her death, she was probably born around 1871 and peacefully passed away when I was just a toddler. I have a vague memory of her of course, we visited often and I had the chance to talk to her, but she wasn't speaking or walking anymore. I never met my Great-grandfather but they were married until he passed away at a younger age.
In my previous blog I talked about all the different haplogroups I found mostly in that region. Including a close ancestry with Robert Burns from the R-CTS278 Haplogroup, which gets me to the closest Scottish ancestry from someone who was alive at some point in history. A very rare connection that only 1 in 5,500 people or 127 people have been identified to be closely related to the former poet. I am not claiming direct family lineage of course but clearly we share ancestry.
Another interesting and rare connection is that I was able to trace Celtic ancestry from both my maternal haplogroup U and H and my paternal Y-DNA haplogroup R-M222.
R-M222 Haplogroup 🕈🧬
Celtic Mystery Ancestor 🧬 350 BCE - 250 CE. The Celts were a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe during the Iron Age, that shared a similar language, religious beliefs, traditions and culture. They originated from central Europe and spread throughout the continent, including the British Isles, Ireland, Scotland and Spain, and even parts of Anatolia.
Several tribes made up the larger population of the Celtic people. The Gaels, Gauls, Britons, Irish which are mostly my paternal haplogroups and the The Galatians who populated mostly the Asturias region of what is now Northern Spain, which were mostly predominant in a few of my maternal mtDNA haplogroups' H. The Galatians settled as far as regions like Anatolia and Rome and you can see traces of their culture around Europe, predominantly in ancient architecture and traces of the Celtics Religion and Sacred sites.
Haplogroup R-M222 is linked to Niall of the Nine Hostages and indicates direct ancestry to him from that haplogroup.
R-M222 and R-A260 Haplogroup
In the same Haplogroup is the O'Conor House 👑 1088 CE. The O’Conor family was one of the most distinguished and powerful royal houses in Ireland, ruling the Kingdom of Connacht for centuries up until 1475. His son Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (1116–1198) was the last High King of Ireland.
1 in 411 or only 1,678 people are this closely related to O'Conor House👑
And the Uí Briúin Dynasty 👑 250 CE. The Uí Briúins (pronounced ee brew-in) ruled the kingdom of Connacht in western Ireland from the 5th to the 15th centuries.
There isn't a lot of data around the Uí Briúins except that Brión, the ancestor of the Uí Briúin, was a half-brother of Niall of The Nine Hostages; meaning they shared a common parent, Eochaid Mugmedon, but their mothers were different.
If you have Haplogroup R-A259 is direct ancestry to the Uí Briúin Dynasty.
1 in 411 or only 1,678 people have been identified to be this closely related to Uí Briúin dynasty.
G-P15 Haplogroup
Yuya 🛕📜Unknown - 1374 BCE. Was a powerful Egyptian courtier man in the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He served as a key adviser for Amenhotep III and carried many titles such as "King’s Lieutenant" and "Master of the Horses."
He married the Egyptian noblewoman Thuya and was the great-grandfather of Tutankhamun through their daughter Tiye, who was the Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III, the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
This is to me, a real archaeological discovery that left me speechless. It's very very very distant ancestry shared mostly with a few 7th, 8th cousins. It's a very rare ancestry.
I do have 3% Northern African in my DNA, which means it could be divided between my parents. It's a very very small percentage but I am guessing on my mother's side it is either Turkish or Algerian, based on the haplogroups I'm researching.
R-CTS4528 Haplogroup
Slonk Hill man 391 - 203 BCE, he lived around 300 BCE during the Late Iron Age in Great Britain. His remains were found in an Iron Age burial near Brighton, England, dating back to between 2,400 and 2,200 years ago. He was discovered in 1968 during an archaeological digging. He likely had light skin, brown or black hair, and brown eyes. His direct maternal line belonged to mtDNA haplogroup H1.
This is considered an Ancient Connection from my haplogroups.
1 in 295 or only 2,341 people have been identified to be this closely related to Slonk Hill man.
This concludes my research on my paternal ancestry.
I found through my discoveries many inconclusive haplogroups and that's mostly because my biological father and mother didn't have a son. In the absence of a biological brother from their marriage, I can only access a partial map of my Y-DNA. Like for instance I found haplogroups from Hungary and America but they were not fully detailed. And asking my biological father for a DNA test is out of the question; plus the subject of paternity has never been a concern.
My biological father and I don't have any communication, we are very distant and it is better that way, and not the subject of this blog. My paternal Y-DNA research is mostly for closure and to finally find conclusions to my questions around the other half of my DNA.
Another reason was to find distant and unknown relatives that I found during my research. Also more importantly to make a public fact, that I Do Not Have A Missing Brother from either my mother or my father's side.
Also that I am not someone else. I am one person. My names are mine, my current or any former legal identity I had are all mine and my genetic information is mine and not someone else's. I own them all unquestionably and irrevocably.
I will call out any attempts from scammers, criminals or anyone else trying to steal my identities since I have dual citizenship. Or anyone trying to steal my genetic information or alter my ancestry, or to represent me as someone else I am not. And I will take legal actions against anyone trying to use it in any form or anyway. That includes false or malicious attempts to change my Personal Identifiable Information, Legal Identity, ethnicity or genetic information in any way, for any reason. I choose what I decide to disclose and no one else.
It goes beyond that. Since we are now living in the age of digital crimes and scamming. I have to say, I think about the multiple scammers fabricating the impostors pretending to be that fake brother named Chris who is allegedly living in Texas or that other one named Christopher... I don't have any brothers in Texas. There was another one named Christian from Mexico who claimed to be my brother and wanted to collect money for "medical reasons".
Also that my mother or my father are Black or of African descent... No, they are both Caucasian/Hispanics. Or that I'm French, or have lived in France or that I have family in France. All False. I have never even visited the country of France. I can read French, but no one in my immediate including myself speaks French... Also we are not from Mexico either or of Mexican descent. It is All False.
Or that other false claim from another scammer claiming, he and I were separated at birth... I Do Not Have a Twin Brother or Sister. And with this, I rest my case.
This concludes the Y-DNA blog. I have more to write about my mtDNA. So I am not done yet.
