kiss me, i'm irish
2009-Mar-24, Tuesday 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI know nothing about my family heritage other than "Irish". Someone once mentioned: Tennessee, 1800s, Irish. Someone else would mention Irish marrying other Irish, and later more Irish marrying into the family, and later some more Irish. Mind you, I never once heard a name associated with any of these cases. There was only the word Irish. That, plus we'd always been poor and there was alcoholism in the family too. Not that racist stereotypes are to always be believed, of course. *big shrug* I'm just saying that the little bit I'd heard seemed to fit with the reality of American history, where the Irish lived and worked on plantations with the slaves... in Tennessee... in the mid-1800s, I think.
Well, the haplogroup testing seems to confirm it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroup
The maternal haplogroup U5b2 (left photo) is generally northern European, but it is also commonly found throughout Europe. The paternal haplogroup R1b1c7 (right photo) is much more specific though. The text at 23andme even says, "R1b1c7 reaches its peak in Ireland".
So, yes, I am Irish.
Well, the haplogroup testing seems to confirm it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroup
The maternal haplogroup U5b2 (left photo) is generally northern European, but it is also commonly found throughout Europe. The paternal haplogroup R1b1c7 (right photo) is much more specific though. The text at 23andme even says, "R1b1c7 reaches its peak in Ireland".
So, yes, I am Irish.
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Date: 2009-Mar-25, Wednesday 03:09 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO99nL_at0o