Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Sunday, September 28, 2014
More Dodecad V3
Dodecad is like Gedmatch 1.0, but I like the idea that since it is the original, it goes more to the heart of my family's origins.
So after all my tooling about, I am looking at it again.
What interests me is the disparity in Eastern European for CEU versus British. It appears to the about the same percentage as for Scottish. Meaning I think that the immigrants to the British Isles were sort of ushered to Scotland. Someone could correct me if I am wrong.
Mormons supposedly have a high British component, but from the DNA they look a lot more like the Scots. Also, I wonder if having some Scandinavian helps bump up those Eastern European scores.
What percentage of Mo's were Viking? A girl of Mormon heritage from Sweden claims to know she "is a Viking". Which makes me wonder what makes Viking offspring fall for the tale of secret migrations from Israel to the New World.
Maybe it's boat love.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Who are the Ulster Scots?
I know we have Ulster Scots heritage on my dad's side. The Craighead name is prominent in his lineage. There is a long line of Presbyterian reverends who helped settle the country. For one of them, there is an amusing story which I can't accurately attribute right now, but it's about one of these ministerial men not being paid by his congregation. It appears his sermons were so unpopular that Cotton Mather had to strongly suggest (I forget how exactly -- I think jail was mentioned) that the parishioners pay him. They weren't willing to do so voluntarily.
I was talking about my dad regarding this, and he thought maybe this preacher was like the preacher in the movie Cold Comfort Farm, whose sermons are so bleak that they make everyone tremble with fear.
Anyhoo.....the point is, we know we have Ulster Scots heritage. What heritage we didn't know we had was Abkhazian. It shows up on my daughter's Eurogenes K13, and elsewhere as well I do believe.
It's not much -- just 1.8% on the Mixed Mode Population, which could be naming a lot of other influences as well. But I was just looking it up to try to explain it to my daughter. That is when I found this interesting website that notices a similarity between Ulster symbolism and Abkhazian symbolism.
Some great pictures here
I was talking about my dad regarding this, and he thought maybe this preacher was like the preacher in the movie Cold Comfort Farm, whose sermons are so bleak that they make everyone tremble with fear.
Anyhoo.....the point is, we know we have Ulster Scots heritage. What heritage we didn't know we had was Abkhazian. It shows up on my daughter's Eurogenes K13, and elsewhere as well I do believe.
It's not much -- just 1.8% on the Mixed Mode Population, which could be naming a lot of other influences as well. But I was just looking it up to try to explain it to my daughter. That is when I found this interesting website that notices a similarity between Ulster symbolism and Abkhazian symbolism.
Some great pictures here
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