Thanks to a link posted in one of the Haplogroup G groups on Facebook we have a new way of looking at the history of the Rhaetians. I say “new” with tongue in cheek. Back in 1830 Henry Malden (1800-1876) looked at the connection between the Rhaetians and Etruscans. Malden was Professor of Greek at University…
It’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and I’m thinking about Jews in Haplogroup G2a3b1 (P303). I’m specifically thinking about the theory that G2a3b1 might have entered Europe, at least in part, with the Jewish Diaspora. Ray Banks, the Project Administrator for Family Tree DNA’s Haplogroup G Project has been flirting with this theory for some time now.…
Interesting news from the administrator of Family Tree DNA’s Haplogroup G Project. He thinks the concentration of G in the area that was anciently called Rhaetia might be due to the Rhaetians. The announcement comes seven years, almost to the day, after I first suggested it to him. I’ve renewed the conversation several times since…
Many y-DNA haplogroups now have projects at Geni.com, a collaborative website for building family trees. More DNA projects are being added as information becomes available. Geni.com is a genealogy website, something on the order of Ancestry.com or Rootsweb.com — except that users share management of their common ancestors, and cooperate in the process of researching,…
I’ve neglected many interesting updates to our Hauri project over the past few years. Genetic genealogy is a fast-developing field, where new information quickly supersedes the old. I’m now re-doing the information here. If you have questions or suggestions, I’d love to hear from you.
