Wednesday, February 21, 2018

A Big Y for a German ancestry family: updated I-S2703 tree

Click here to download our February 19, 2018 tree for I-S2703

I-L161 was nicknamed "Isles" because it's very typical of the British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland) click here for I-L161 tree. But the major I-Y11338 branch is strictly continental European (and found as far as Iraq) and this branch probably never had a presence in the British Isles. Click here to download our latest I-L161 tree

The other major branch is called I-S2639 and almost all of its members have British/Irish ancestry. But there are some I-S2639 men with continental European ancestry. Did the common ancestor of I-S2639 live in Britain/Ireland, and did some lines migrate back to the continent? Or did the common ancestor of I-S2639 live on continental Europe, and did several I-S2639 lineages migrate to Britain thousands of years ago?

We are starting to determine more specific haplogroups for many of the continental European I-S2639 men. It's already known that many of these men belong to the I-S2742 haplogroup. This updated I-S2703 tree shows a new branch represented by a large German family, it is part of the more specific I-Y14339 haplogroup. It seems that many I-L161 men with ancestry from places like Poland, Germany and Sweden may belong to I-Y14339.

(Quick reference: P37>M423>L161>S2639>L1498>S2703>S2742>Y14339)

I think ancient DNA studies might find some I-S2639 men in continental Europe, maybe some have already been found.

Click here to find our previous tree for I-S2703


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