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From: "Greg W. Moore" <>
Subject: William Wallace
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <00c601c5bd72$a30cbe90$84139a8e@PeterAKincaid>


Peter,

Have you heard the version that William Wallace's ancestors were Welsh..??

Greg




"Peter A. Kincaid" <> wrote:
First of all, from what I see of the results to date there is just one
R1a. The bulk of the Wallaces are given as R1b and I.

Secondly, we do can't have direct male decendants of William Wallace
tested as there are none. Thus, it is impossible to infer his haplotype.

As far as other Wallaces we have no way of knowing if near male
Wallace relatives were affected by a non paternity event; or even
William Wallace himself for that matter. I gave you one example
where the head of one Clan is descended from another family.

Again I will hold to my position that unless can find and test one
of the pieces of William Wallace then the only assertion that can
be made is that he was British.

Peter




----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg W. Moore" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ethnic Migrations Across Europe


> Peter,
>
> In the genealogical terms - certainly YES. But, because the present
> Wallace family reports the R1a haplogroup the speculation at the time
> (November 2004) was that ethnically he came from the R1a Slavic aeras
> some, may be, two thousand years ago ...
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> "Peter A. Kincaid" <> wrote:
>
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>
>
> William Wallace's last name points to a British origin. His place of abode
> points to a British origin. Unless one finds one of "his pieces" to do a
> DNA test I believe his ethnic origin has to remain what has been
> accepted - British.
>
> Peter



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