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J-L1253

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All results to hand show testers with origins most likely in the Scottish-English Border Region.  All Project test results will be flagged here on issue.

Our L1253 SNP dates approximately to the Plantation of Ulster by Scots and English in the early 1600's CE.  Among the families driven out of Scotland's border region by the Stuart monarch at this time were the ElliotsArmstrongsIrvines, Bells, Grahams and Johnstones among others.  Following these expulsions to Ireland, many changed their surnames, such as Graham reversing to Maharg and a straight change to a more colloquial County Down Norman surname such as Jordan. 

Our, apparently, Scottish J1 group couples with an apparently English J1 group (names include; Baker, Corder, Crouch, Cufley, Douglas, Randolph & Robertson) with a mutual (relatively recent) common ancestor with SNP BY65, living at or about the time of the Roman retreat from Britain in 410 CE.  This is not to say that this common ancestor was a Romano Briton or legionary as he could have lived elsewhere in the Empire at that particular time.  However, his progeny certainly persists in Great Britain. Ireland and North America to the present day.

The next great SNP branch on our tree is FGC8223 which is approx. 3,500 years old, approximating to 1500-1177 BC, the time of the collapse of Empires such as the Old Kingdom in Egypt, the Hittite and the Assyrian Empires, The Minoans, the biblical exodus from Egypt and the eruption of Santorini (stressful times for DNA).  Please bear in mind that we were not necessarily part of that exodus, on the other hand, who knows.

Then we come to SNP YSC76, which is a 4000 year old branch on our J1 Tree, dating from 2000 BC approx., coincident with the Abrahamic or Patriarchal Age, when these Amorite nomadic pastoralists, reputedly migrated into the Levant.

This setting of our L1253 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism employs SNP's as historic waypoints on our genetic journey, the events herein described being used as descriptive approximating context only.  I could have interpolated events from Chinese or South Asian history for an Asian demographic, which does not appear to be the case in this instance. 

Do bear in mind that our historic narrative is changing day by exciting day and I hope to keep you informed as further discoveries come to light.