Thanks Michael! Very interesting.
I think we may have to wait for many R1a men - and a few Cooleys - to take
the new Big Y test at FTDNA before we can narrow down the geographical home
region of our Cooleys in Europe using Y-DNA SNPs. (Link to Big Y test
http://tinyurl.com/lmoryqb )
That being said, I'll bet it is northern England - southern Scotland most
recently -- and before that what is now Norway. And during the last Ice
Age, long before surnames, our Cooleys lived in the area near the Black Sea
(which was a fresh water lake then) in what is now the Ukraine and Southern
Russia.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!
-Don
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:26 PM, <ancestr2_at_host187.hostmonster.com> wrote:
> I just noticed that my Z284 SNP test had come back a couple of weeks ago.
> Of course, it's positive. That was expected because it's upstream from
> L448, the "Young Scandinavian" marker. I just thought it would be nice to
> complete the arc.
>
> And the first Wm Henry Cooley tester has received results for L448. Again,
> there's no surprise that he's positive--his Y-STRs are nearly identical to
> ours. That SNP (a mutation from one chemical to another) is about 2300
> years old so it really doesn't help us in determining how Wm H was related
> to John, but it's the youngest SNP in our line available for testing. I'd
> gotten excited that PF4661 has been discovered and is downstream
> ("descended") from L448. This map, though, doesn't look encouraging. (I'm
> assuming the testers are took the Geno 2.0). It seems to widespread
> throughout Europe to be have much help to us.
>
> http://www.semargl.me/en/dna/ydna/map-snp/2861/
>
> On another note, I'm working on the manuscript a little but nearly every
> morning.
>
> -Michael
>
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