My father's Dodecad Mixed Mode Populations

Not going to speculate about anything just yet.

Here's my dad on Dodecad V3, Mixed Mode:

Here's my dad on Dodecad K12b, Mixed Mode:

Here's my dad on Dodecad K7b, Mixed Mode:

Here's my dad on Dodecad World9, Mixed Mode:

I find these results somewhat different from Eurogenes.  I try to get a more precise answer as to why they differ, but I haven't yet received a satisfying answer.  There is overlap that might not be readily obvious.  For example -- Yoruba in Eurogenes may be partly accounted for with Moroccans, Canarias, Puerto Rican and/or Brazilian.  Basque may be a subset of the English population somehow.  His Family Tree DNA results also show French, Spanish & Basque DNA.

And then there's this guy:

It may just be the moustache, but I think he has a bit of a Spanish look.

My father's Dodecad results - 1. Pie charts

The Dodecad tool was the first tool I used at GEDmatch to parse out my DNA, and I was somewhat shocked when it knew immediately that I was from Utah.  (Technically I have lived elsewhere, but really Utah is the locus of many family generations....)  This is where I first heard the term "CEU".

 Dieneke's anthropology blog is a formidable read for someone who has no background in anthropology, but still covers many interesting threads.  There are four tools through GEDmatch from Dienekes that section up the world in different ways and provide interesting perspectives, which we are then left to interpret and analyze.

I am going to show the pie charts for the four tools together, so I can compare them against each other.

This is Dodecad V3 -- this is the first calculator I used and the one that immediately showed Utah (CEU) as the top result in the population finder.

This is Dodecad K12b.  I like it, because it uses 12 populations and so gives more choices to compare. 

This is Dodecad K7b for my dad -- the world is grouped into only 7 types, and so results vary.  However, it should be mentioned that each test still has sample populations that test out with an average percentage for each type.  So, for example, there are British participants in each test with known, full British ancestry.  They will test differently with different amounts of each component in each test.  So, in other words, it's likely that your main group that you align with should still be available for comparison to see how much you coincide with or trend away from the average.

Below is World9 -- World9 is unique compared to the others, in that it actually creates an Amerindian component.  This shows a little higher than what I have estimated were possible if my g+ grandfather Solomon Mack were actually 100% Native American in a previous post, which we know he isn't.  So, it's either a Finnish thing, or a Finnish and hint of Native American that can account for this result.

One thing I might want to try later is narrowing down which chromosomes for my dad show high in Amerindian with World9 and see how that compares with other tools -- like the East Asian & Siberian above, his McDonald painting, my painting, etc.  I have already found a Finnish person linked to the largest "Siberian" segment, but haven't ruled out a small segment on the 17th chromosome as Native American.

Dad's Eurogenes, chapter ii -- Oracle X

I'm having difficulty with Blogger, so I'm starting a new post for the Eurogenes Oracle X results for my dad.

Oracle X has given me some exotic results on other tools, although Eurogenes, for my dad at least, seems pretty true to his acknowledged family tree.  I will be posting all of the different tool's results for review and contemplation in other posts.

Oracle X does acknowledge that the results are speculative at this time, and may change in the future.

Here is Oracle X, option 1, EU test for my dad:

Here is Oracle X, option 2, EU test for my dad:

Here is Oracle X, option 1, J test for my dad:

Here is Oracle X, option 2, J test for my dad:

My father -- Several Genetic Perspectives -- 1. Eurogenes -- EU & J tests

This is my dad according to Eurogenes, the EU test on GEDmatch.  It is supposed to be the best test for Europeans, as it is uses more European samples (I think that's why).  More about Davidski and his EU test (for Europeans) and J-Test (for Jews) can be found on his blog.

There is a feature called Mixed Mode populations that I love dearly, but I think I overuse it.  I think you are not supposed to over-believe in the secondary populations.  Basically what it does as I understand it, is it takes all of your ancestors, via your SNPs that have been tested, and makes them separate into two camps on the globe.  And it does that 30 times, since there are many different poles that can be found within a person's genetic story -- to give you many different perspectives.  It cannot pin down specific ancestors and tell you who they are and where they came from.  I believe it is theoretically possible to do that, but you'd need lots of people providing samples, who also happen to have really thorough paper-based pedigrees. (Ancestry.com, anyone?)



I'm going to now show the pie chart for my dad on the J-test, and then get to mixed-mode populations after that.  Then I'll show you some other charts of  different tools by different geneticists.  (Dodecad & Harappa World.)

Just so you know, my dad's results look pretty standard for a British person.  The West African (which is definitely there, but isn't enough to make it onto the pie chart) may be the exception.

Also, my dad is 1/4 recently British (Lancashire, Nottingham, etc), 1/4 colonial American (British, Scots Irish, others), one more fourth recently British (Chedworth), and 1/4 Danish.

The Oracle-4 feature is nice -- it goes from 1 set of possibilities to 4.  I am going to just show the four grandparents presented in each test, to see how it compares to what we know about his grandparents through their paper trail.

Here are the 4 grandparents through the EU test.  Seems pretty close:

Here are the 4 grandparents through the J test.   Very similar results:

The Mixed Mode population on Eurogenes doesn't veer very much from our published family tree information.  We know he has 50% British, 25% Danish and 25% American which includes more British, Scots Irish, French Huguenot, Irish, Palatine German and possibly others, including African most likely.   However, as I shall show on other tools, other ethnicities do come up, although it could always be an average or composite of different kinds of people -- similarities, instead of actual descendency.

Here is the mixed mode population results for the EU test:

 Here is the mixed mode results for the J test:

NO means Norwegian. DK is Denmark.  IE is Irish.  EE is Estonian.  The other ethnicities with 0% are just placeholders, as you can tell from the fact that they are in alphabetical order, starting with A.

Crypto-Jews..... meet Crypto-Mormons

I just found this story today, which I think is cute. Yes, "cute".


 Perhaps I should have something more profound to say about it... like... somehow it gets at the heart of what I'm researching here. .... The heart's inexplicable attractions.

Why is it that religious traditions that are mocked or deemed inferior still struggle on in the hearts of man?  I don't have a good answer, and maybe this is all spin, but religious fervor that lives on in secret -- when there is no apparent social or economic motive to sustain it -- is something that does puzzle me and I think even delights me. (Although I am not much of a believer in anything, and I definitely see the downside of zealotry.)


Ok here it is -- there are Crypto-Mormons in Russia!!

Western Folklore link

 "'Whole tribes of Native Siberians call themselves Mormons. Many people in villages around Orenburg and Samara are Mormons but will deny it if you ask them. My grandfather was a Mormon, but he died long ago,'" are paraphrases of the more common story types."

 I have to pay more to read more... $16.  Maybe later.

Anyway, I just find this fascinating given prior discussions about Native Americans and Siberians having an ancient link.  Also a segment of one of my dad's chromosomes was believed to be Native American but then turned out to be Siberian with a more recent Finnish expression....

  Read more here

Marlow, New Hampshire & the Missing Squidoo

Silly title, because -- my source for this post has been taken down.

There was a very informative Squidoo lens, which apparently had to be locked due to spam infiltration.  I hope they didn't mean me....

Here's the link in case it comes back up...

http://www.squidoo.com/marlowhistorynh

So, the lens was a very interesting page from "owlperson" -- here's owlperson -- http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/owlperson

They had a lot of good local history about Marlow, New Hampshire and a lot of it related to the Mack family.  I will keep checking the link to see if it comes back up.  Anyway, a good chunk of it had to do with the Mack family, which as previous blog posts indicate, intrigue me due to the relationship to Joseph Smith.  I posed the question to owlperson about the possibility of African ancestry coming from the Mack line.  I received this reply, and I am posting it here because it's very informative and has new leads for me to follow:

owlperson said:
Hi, I'm really sorry that the Marlow-Lyme lens had to be withdrawn because of spammers coming through links to a Forum which turned out to be spam-heaven; however, I found your last message still intact. 

 I wouldn't be in the least surprised to find African blood in any of the descendants of the Marlow folk for exactly the reason you state. I looked up some members of the Mack family in one of the Carolinas (I think) and found them to of quite dark skin tone. I believe Macks had plantations on Barbados. I suspect that Aaron Huntley I of Lyme, related to the Macks, had an alternative family in the Carolinas. I would not be surprised if they were people of color. 

Also, although Solomon Gee, one of our early settlers from Lyme and also related to the Mack family, was apparently a clothier, that would have involved, at the least, importation of cotton and exotic fibers, but probably also cotton cultivation. The related DeWofe family of Lyme and RI was involved in every sort of trade you can imagine, including slave trade. I have a puzzle here in Marlow, a fellow living with or beside Lois Huntley (" called a widow" before the death of her husband Christopher Ayers) called Libares Aries (Libares Ayers?). Doesn't it sort of make you wonder who he was, what his role was, what his ancestry was, and what he looked like??

Joseph Smith and Jewish Privateers

I have been accumulating some interesting sources about the possibility of Sephardic Jewish ancestry for Joseph Smith.  I didn't want to just let the cat out of the bag, but I have to start somewhere.

First of all, there is the fact of Balthazar DeWolf.  I was quick to research him, because I like his name.  He is a great grandfather (exact greats presently unknown)  to Joseph Smith, through Solomon Mack.   Also, my 10th great grandparent.  You can find a lot of information about him and his family on the web. 

First off, the DeWolf family is supposed to  be responsible for funding around 25% of the slave trade in North America.  Beyond embarrassing.  The internets tell me there was a tradition of privateering in the family, which basically amounts to government-sanctioned piracy. 

And several sites have indicated the DeWolfs and others involved in the Triangle Trade were crypto- Sephardic Jews.  One of these sources was even the Rhode Island Jewish Community Center. They are facing facts, so why shouldn't we?

I found a new article today from a Dr Elizabeth Hirschman that cites there is DNA evidence for a group of Crypto- Jews in England who were involved in naval activity and privateering. 

She says:

The research to be presented argues that a large, but largely unacknowledged, group of crypto-Jewish Britons of Sephardic descent was present in England from the reign of Henry VIII onward to that of his daughter Elizabeth I, and that this community played a key role in guiding Britain’s naval development and New World colonization efforts. In particular, the new data source of DNA will be introduced as a way to support efforts of historical revision.

http://h06.cgpublisher.com/proposals/343/index_html

She does give some names of which the names of my family units are not mentioned, so the link is through occupation, place and intimation of religion. 

I found this particularly interesting:

Among the most prominent of this set of mariners were Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Phillip Sidney, Robert Cavendish, John Hawkins, Richard Grenville and Martin Frobisher. This group was united by its origins in southwestern England (Cornwall and Devon), its fervent Protestantism and marked anti-Catholicism, and its antipathy for Spain. Less known, but perhaps of even greater importance, is that the group of privateers was also bonded closely by marriage, kinship and business dealings – in some cases spanning several generations.

This gives me something to check for when looking at individuals surrounding the DeWolf line. I have noticed some strong intermarriage tendencies in other lines neighboring the Mack/Smith connection but I do not believe they originate from Southwestern England.