Genetic Genealogy
Since around the beginning of 2017, I’ve spent some time on a new hobby: genetic genealogy and, in particular, testing of the Y chromosome. My ancestors along the direct paternal lineage can be traced back to Skived in the southern part of Värmland in Sweden. In one of the projects that I work on, the goal is to learn about the whereabouts of earlier members of that lineage: when did they arrive in Värmland and wherefrom did they come? (See the information below about the Värmland-Hedmark cluster.)
Y-DNA Project: The Värmland-Hedmark Cluster
The Värmland-Hedmark cluster is a subbranch of the haplogroup R1b (R1b is very common in Western Europe). So far, all the testers on this branch have oldest known patrilinear ancestors who lived in southern Värmland (in Sweden) or in Hedmark (in Norway). A more formal definition of this cluster is R1b > M269 > U106 > Z18 > S11601 > Y112538 > Y100873. My own paternal line (so my Y chromosome) belongs to the Värmland-Hedmark cluster. Read more about it in the newsletter (link below).
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Newsletter
Issue No. 1 (July 2019): here |
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Links
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R1b and other Y-related links:
R-U106 (Iain McDonald's page) R-U106 Yahoo page R-Z18 -- a North See Tribe Haplogroup R with subclades The Big Tree: R-Z18 The Big Tree: R-ZP24 (equivalent to S11601) YFull's tree: R-FGC35835 (eq to S11601) Genetic Homeland Ysearch McFadden project (subpage) Irish Type 2, Kane (subpage) |
