Saturday, March 28, 2020

y-DNA can trace Candland Origins

All Candland men should share the same y-DNA, because the Y chromosome is passed virtually unchanged from father to son for generations. 

Finally I can share the result of my y-DNA test.  This should tell us more about where the Candlands came from.  My haplogroup is (drumroll please) ... R-U198

MeekDNA.com says the following about this haplogroup;
We come across R-U198 quite often in men whose ancestry is English, Lowland-Scots or Ulster-Scots, Flemish, Dutch or German (particularly from the Rhine Valley).

To date (June 2018) R-U198 has only been identified in living individuals. We eagerly await the recovery of R-U198 from ancient or mediaeval remains of known provenance.
There are clues that our haplogroup originated somewhere in Western Eurasia and spread West towards Britain but we would rather await the empirical data.
The majority of surnames represented in our haplogroup project are not the “true” ancestral surnames at all, if one looks back a few centuries. There may be clues in the few surnames that are starting to emerge as genuinely old, for instance some of these claim Norman, Breton or Flemish origins.
Candland men - have any of you had a y-DNA test done?  Did you get the same result?




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