Re: Thay now have us near the Scotsman :)

From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:58:02 -0800

BTW, I've been curious about the SNP designations. I've known that the
letter part identifies the lab and that the number specifies that the SNP
is the nth SNP discovered by the lab. We've seen a lot of YPs lately. This
is why:

"YP = SNPs identified by citizen scientists from genetic tests, then
submitted to the Y Full team for verification."

-Michael

On Mon, February 2, 2015 23:30, Michael Cooley wrote:
> Yeah. It's a mistake, too, of thinking that these haplogroups have any
> real ethnicity associated with them. That comes from genes in chromosomes
> other than the Y. Geography is the better characteristic. Hence, a
> preponderance of R1b in W. Europe, R1a in E. Europe, etc. But those
> generalizations don't tell the whole story.
>
> -Michael
>
>
> On Mon, February 2, 2015 22:21, lvcooley5 wrote:
>
>> I keep making the mistake of thinking that the further back in time you
>> go, there was less diversity in a given place. Forgetting the obvious
>> fact that there were R1a and R1b men living and dying together, in the
>> same village, in the same tribe. Perhaps even men who acquired the name
>> of Cowley/Cooley.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Donald Cooley
>> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 8:00 PM
>> To: John Cooley Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: Thay now have us near the Scotsman :)
>>
>>
>>
>> The L448 group is dominated by Scots, but this Y-DNA mutation happened
>> in Sc=
>> andinavian and is now found throughout the British Isles and not just
>> Scotla=
>> nd. Perhaps our distant Cooley ancestors lived in what is now Scotland
>> at so= me point before living in what is now England, but I'm thinking
>> they lived i= n England a long time and came to America from there. In
>> any event, I'm over= 99% sure our Cooleys lived somewhere in the British
>> Isles
>> before coming to A= merica. -Don=20
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 2, 2015, at 7:37 PM, lvcooley5 <lvcooley5_at_cox.net> wrote:
>>> =20
>>> I noticed that, too. Who is the blond all dressed in black supposed
>>> to=20=
>>
>>> represent? His shield is vaguely Celtic. How do the Celts figure in
>>> to this? Or the Picts? =20 Jim
>>> =20
>>> -----Original Message-----=20
>>> From: Michael Cooley
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 10:48 PM
>>> To: John Cooley Mailing List
>>> Subject: Thay now have us near the Scotsman :)
>>> =20
>>> =20
>>> https://www.familytreedna.com/public/r1a/
>>> =20
>>> -Michael
>>> =20
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>>> =20
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>>>
>>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> See http://johncooley.net/list for list information.
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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