• H3ad

  Haplogroup H3ad is a branch on the maternal tree of human kind. The woman who started this branch lived at some point between recent generations and 4,500 years ago (Behar et al., 2012b).

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News

• YFull Launches New mtDNA Tree

  As many of you know, Phylotree has not been updated in several years. While I support Phylotree and Dr. Van Oven’s efforts, he has not answered emails in some time either. This is so for both many of you and for myself.

   

• GDPR & The Genealogy Blogger in 2019 – A Cookie Policy

  Using CookieBot, setting your cookie policy is really simple. They have a script that loads preset text and a list of your cookies on your site. To get it, go to your CookieBot account.

   

Featured Pages

• About Rebekah Canada and this Site

  Rebekah Canada fell in love with genealogy when she was seven. It began with a family history written by one of her maternal cousins. Over the months and many bags of pogan ginger cookies, she fell in love with the women of Colonial New England. While working on her undergraduate degree, she began researching the other branches of her family.

  
   

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• Ireland – A Place

  Ireland is also known as the Republic of Ireland. It is an island nation in Northwestern Europe. It lies to the west of Great Britain. The Republic of Ireland occupies five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean.

  
   

Journal Articles

• Diaspora, migration, and the sciences: a new integrated perspective

  The study of human migration since the Bronze Age is ready for a new view as archeological studies incorporate ancientDNA (aDNA) analysis of human, animal and plant remains,pathogens and the systematic use of big data.

   

• Genetic affiliations within a 19th century burial ground at Darwen, Lancashire, UK

  We used ancient DNA sequencing to assign mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups to 29 individuals from a 19th century Primitive Methodist burial ground in Darwen, Lancashire, UK.

   

• Skeletal Anomalies in The Neandertal Family of El Sidrón (Spain) Support A Role of Inbreeding in Neandertal Extinction

  Neandertals disappeared from the fossil record around 40,000 bp, after a demographic history of small and isolated groups with high but variable levels of inbreeding, and episodes of interbreeding with other Paleolithic hominins. It is reasonable to expect that high levels of endogamy could be expressed in the skeleton of at least some Neandertal groups.

   

• A Y Chromosome Census of the British Isles

  By analyzing 1772 Y chromosomes from 25 predominantly small urban locations, we found that different parts of the British Isles have sharply different paternal histories; the degree of population replacement and genetic continuity shows systematic variation across the sampled areas.

   

• Analysis of the Preserved Amino Acid Bias in Peptide Profiles of Iron Age Teeth From a Tropical Environment Enable Sexing of Individuals Using Amelogenin MRM

  We describe the first dental proteomic profiles of Iron Age individuals (c2000‐1000 years B.P), collected from the site of Long Long Rak rock shelter (LLR) in northwest Thailand.