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From: (Raymond Whritenour)
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA shows Celtic hero Somerled's Viking roots
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:23:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu>'s message of Tue, 26 Apr2005 14:44:02 -0500


Doug:

I said "may have been." My point is simply that a Y-chromosome
signature shouldn't lead one to the easy conclusion that this determines
one's ethnicity or race (which all of us here know, of course), which
was the impression left by some of those quoted in this article.

Ray Whritenour

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Raymond Whritenour wrote:

[[And see how carelessly this result is interpreted! Somerled may have
been 90% "Celtic," but because of his male-line signature, he's somehow
considered "Viking."]]

Somerled himself has unknown ancestry.

But his wife, and mother of his children with paper trails, Ragnhilda,
was mostly Scandinavian, with some Irish, Scottish, Danish, Ukranian and
Polish ancestry.
Doug McDonald

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