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From: David Faux <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Shetland and the DNA Signatures of Prominent Scottish Families
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:54:58 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20040601121407.16543.qmail@web50703.mail.yahoo.com>


Doug: Same diff n'est pas. The genealogy of all of us Shetlander descendants who have an ancestor from there with the Stewart surname goes via Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney back to his father James V, and then to all the latter's ancestors. I am assuming that Robert II and James V would hve the same haplotype, but I use James V here simply because it was his son who went to the Northern Isles.

Center of the Universe - true. Could this not be as a result of the "fecundity factor" - that all the Stewarts of each generation were more "fit" to reproduce (it's hard to say no to the King), and they had a vast number of "casual liasons", thus the "Ghengis Khan and Attilla the Hun factor" comes into play? Whatever, the genealogy (barring any non - aternal factors) of the Stewart participant indicates that in all probability we are seeing the haplotype of the Scottish Kings. Also, is it not reasonable to suppose that the ancestor of Clan Donald R1b's was a Scottish Monarch - especially in light of the Shetland evidence?

David.

Doug McDonald <> wrote:
Possibly, yes, though it would be best to pick on
some earlier Stewart, like Robert II.

However, this signature is very close to the
center the Clan Donald R1bs, and, unfortunately,
the center of the Universe as well.

25 markers is clearly not enough for this task ...
44 would be much better, and 100 better still.

Thankfully the Clan Donald R1a center is well away
from the center of the Universe.

Doug McDonald






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