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From: John Coats <>
Subject: Re: FW: [DNA] About the R1a1 findings on Y Chromosome
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:42:36 -0500
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David; How fascinating, especially since this is exactly the case in my
test. My results from FTDNA show exactly what your message says.
John Coats

David Faux wrote:

>Michael:
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>Among people whose ancestry traces to the British Isles, an R1a haplogroup designation almost surely means that their ancestor in the male line was of Norse (likely Viking) descent, from the western coast of Norway. Most individuals in this category will find that they have relatively few matches in the databases of FTDNA, but will likely note two mutation "matches" with individuals from Mongolia, India, and Eastern Europe (for example). In the literature of the "turn of the century", you will note that R1a is designated as Hg3 - and it is James Wilson who manitains that it is the only haplogroup which can unequivocably be linked to the Norse Vikings.
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>David F.
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>Michael Harper <> wrote:
>So can you explain how R1a differs from R1a1? Presumably, R1a1 is an
>offshoot of R1a? When did this happen? The data about Haplogroups per Dr.
>Hammer suggests that R1a were Kurgan in origin. Checking the FTD REO I,
>being R1a, find matches mostly with Ashkenazi derivations, but this seems at
>odds with a Scots-Irish migration in the 1700s. Incidentally, other families
>with the same Surname living in a contiguous area in Ireland were as
>expected R1b.
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