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From: "Greg W. Moore" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] William Wallace
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:48:33 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <000d01c5bd79$f3e23d70$0c139a8e@PeterAKincaid>


Asking this way - I could ask - have you not heard that William Wallace was European..?? Britain was and still is a very complex country in the purely ethnic terms and thus many heritages are listed as Highland Scottish, Lowland Scottish, Northumbrian, Anglian, Saxon, Welsh, Cornish, etc. etc. That is - we are not talking about the Passport Office here but about genetic/genealogical/ethnic studies - if you are interested at all ... Greg




"Peter A. Kincaid" <> wrote:Have you not heard that the Welsh were British??

Peter



----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg W. Moore"
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:51 PM
Subject: [DNA] William Wallace


> Peter,
>
> Have you heard the version that William Wallace's ancestors were Welsh..??
>
> Greg
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> "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


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