Saturday, May 2, 2009

I Lied I was reading

Our Mother's DNA is T3 ...we came from Europe...dah!
From Wikipedia--
Haplogroup T is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. Haplogroup T derives from the haplogroup JT, which also gave rise to haplogroup J. Haplogroup T may have originated in Mesopotamia approximately 10,000 years ago, and then moved northwest into Europe and east as far as India. It is found with particularly high concentrations around the eastern Baltic Sea. According to Oxford Ancestors, group T "includes slightly fewer than 10% of modern Europeans. Its many branches are widely distributed throughout southern and western Europe with particularly high concentrations in Ireland and the west of Britain."[1]
In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes, who is himself in haplogroup T, named the originator of this group Tara, which means rocky hill in Gaelic. Sykes believes "Tara herself lived 17,000 years ago in the northwest of Italy among the hills of Tuscany and along the estuary of the river Arno."[2]

More Ts
The last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, has been shown to be of haplogroup T This was established when genetic testing was done on his remains to authenticate his identity. Assuming all relevant pedigrees are correct, this includes all female-line descendants of his female line ancestor Barbara of Celje (1390-1451), wife of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor. This includes a great number of European nobles, including George I of Great Britain and Frederick William I of Prussia (through the Electress Sophia of Hanover), Charles I of England, George III of the United Kingdom, George V of the United Kingdom, Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Olav V of Norway, and George I of Greece.

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