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From: David Faux <>
Subject: Re: FW: FW: [DNA] About the R1a1 findings on Y Chromosome
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:00:16 -0700 (PDT)
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Michael:

The "Hammer Group", and I include FTDNA in this designation, believe that R1a originated among the Kurgan culture in what is today the Ukraine. At the bottom of your "Haplogroup page" you will see the information in detail. They are considered to be the "carriers" of the Indo - European group of languages and so presumably their descendants migrated as far south as India, as far east as western Mongolia, and as far west as Eastern Europe. One of these migrations presumably took a considerable number of these folk to Scandanavia - but primarily to what is today western Norway. I really don't know if Dr. Hammer and group are operating within the realm of speculation here, or whether their evidence is compelling. What I feel comfortable in saying, based on my study of the available literature, is that if your ancestors came from the British Isles (where they likely resided back to the time when surnames were adopted), and you are R1a, then your male ancestor was almost cer!
tainly a
Viking from the west coast of Norway. If perchance your ancestors arrived but recently in the British Isles (e.g., 1700s), then of course there is a possibility that they are Ashkenazi Levites (but the vast majority of R1a in Britain comes from Viking sources, of that there can be no doubt).

David F.


Michael Harper <> wrote:

David,

Thanks for your reply. If this is so, how does this square with Hammer's
attribution to Kurgan or Ashkenazi Levite?



Dr. David K. Faux, P.O. Box 192, Seal Beach, CA, 90740, USA



www.davidkfaux.org


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