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From: "Glen Todd" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Sloan's Thesis as to the Origin of English People
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:34:20 -0600
In-Reply-To: <380-2200665201023145@earthlink.net>


> Please explain three different "top level" Haplogroups within your own
> "English" heritage.

So far I've identified R1b, E3b, and several varieties of 'I', including
I1b2* x cluster, in my immigrant ancestors from England, all from solidly
English families traceable back quite a number of generations.

> What are you talking about?

I'm not trying to promote anything. Rather, I was trying to shoot holes in
the theory that it appeared that somebody was suggesting that there's
somehow a single 'English' genetic type whose exact origin can be
established. Somebody had suggested that R1b (M343) was the mark of 'the
English race'. I was pointing out that while I doubt that anyone would
seriously question the 'Englishness' of my ancestry, R1b forms a decided
minority of my immigrant ancestors that we have triangulations for, and I
myself do not carry it.

Glen


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