Anglo - Saxon (Germanic) Y-DNA project- Background

I will accept onlythose people that have tested with a SNP associated with Germanic origins.
Those that have surnames of a Germanic origin, those that match others surnameswith a Germanic origin.Make sure that the SNP you have tested is associted with a Germanic origin. 


In 98 B.C. Tacitus's writes in his work Germania, about theIngaevones who were described to be a West Germanic cultural group living alongthe North Sea coast in the areas of Jutland, Holstein, Frisia and the Danishislands, where they had by the first century B.C. become further differentiatedinto the Frisians, Saxons, Jutes and Angles. 

Ancient genealogies and myths have the three sons of Neugio who are namedBoganus the progenitor of the Bogari, Vandalus the progenitor of the Vandals,and Saxo the progenitor of the Saxons and Thuringii.



According to the 8th Century Historian Nennius, in his work HistoriaBrittonum.

The first man that dwelt in Europe was Alanus, with his three sons, Hisicion,Armenon, and Neugio. Hisicion had four sons, Francus, Romanus, Alamanus, andBruttus. Armenon had five sons, Gothus, Valagothus, Cibidus, Burgundus, andLongobardus. Neugio had three sons, Vandalus, Saxo, and Boganus. From Hisicionarose four nations__the Franks, the Latins, the Germans, and Britons: from Armenon,the Gothi, Valagothi, Cibidi, Burgundi, and Longobardi:: from Neugio, theBogari, Vandali, Saxones, and Tarincgi. The whole of Europe was subdivided intothese tribes. 

Alanus is said to have been the son of Fethuir; Fethuir, the son of Ogomuin,who was the son oof Thoi; Thoi was the son of Boibus, Boibus off Semion, Semionof Mair, Mair of Ecthactus, Ecthactus of Aurthack, Aurthack of Ethec, Ethec ofOoth, Ooth of Aber, Aber of Ra, Ra of Esraa, Esraa of Hisrau, Hisrau of Bath,Bath of Jobath, Jobath of JJoham, Joham of Japheth, Japheth of Noah, Noah ofLamech, Lamech of Mathusalem, Mathusalem of Enoch, Enoch of Jared, Jared ofMalalehel, Malalehel of Cainan, Cainan of Enos, Enos of Seth, Seth of Adam, andAdam was formed by the living God.


The first Germanic peoples to have arrived in Brittan asauxiliaries in the Roman Army.
Known has auxilia, non-Roman soldiers hired into the legions to act especiallyas a light infantry adjunct to the Roman legionnaires. 


The Saxons were a Germanic people first appeared in the beginning of theChristian era.
The Saxons were said to have lived in the south Jutland Peninsula in the northof what is now modern day Germany.
By the end of the 6th century, the Saxons had taken all of the Roman territorywithin north-west Germany, as far as the Elbe River.
The Angles and Saxons joined forces and in a invasion of Britain in the 5th and6th centuries. 


The Angles that may have come from Angeln, a Germanic tribe that occupiedthe region which is now Scleswig-Holstein, Germany. 

The Franks were a West Germanic tribal confederation first attested in thethird century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River.

The Saxons, from Lower Saxony what is today modern Germany ( German:Niedersachsen)

The Frisians , the Germanic people whose origins are in coastal parts of TheNetherlands, Denmark and Germany. They are concentrated in the Dutch provincesof Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia. 

The Jutes, from the Jutland peninsula what is modern day Denmark. 
Hengist and Horsa , the sons of Wihtgils, are the names of two brothers who,according to ancient tradition, led the Jutish invasion of Britain and foundedthe kingdom of Kent.

The Anglo-Saxons in Britain was a gradually expansion that pressed the Britionswestward and divided them into separate kingdoms - Dumnonia in the South West;Strathclyde in the western lowlands of modern day Scotland; and the"Welsh" kingdoms - Dyfed, Powys and Gwynedd.

Sharon Turner , English historian born in 1768. Published the History of theAnglo-Saxons (1799-1805), he believed in a theory that “The migrating Scythianscrossed the Araxes, passed out of Asia, and suddenly appeared in Europe in thesixth century B.C… The names Saxon, Scythian and Goth are usedinterchangeably.”

Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was a monk at the Northumbrian monasteryof Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth,well known as an author and scholar, and hismost famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum he placed the Anglesnorth of the Thames, the Saxons south of the Thames and in Wessex, and theJutes in Kent and on the Isle of Wight. For Bede, the Angles came from Angulus,modern Schleswig which still has a district called Angeln. The Saxons came fromthe coast between the Elbe and the Weser valleys and the Jutes resided north ofthe Angles in Danish Juteland or in Holstein.

In England there are 3 periods. 

Pagan Saxon Period 400 - 600 A.D.
Middle Saxon Period 600 - 800 A.D.
Late Saxon Period 800 - 1066 A.D.

In 367 The Saxons, the Picts and Scotti joinedforces and overruned Hadrians.

The Saxons were supposedly named from theircharacteristic short knife called, the Seaxa. 

Roman's had a aggressive policy for herexistence and drafted men from so called barbarians into auxiliary units of thearmy.

Tradition states the 2 brothers Hengist andHorsa were invited into Britain in 428 A.D. by Vortigern. They are said to havearrived with 3 ship loads of followers to help safe guard the province. 

Saxon pirates are have said to have raidedfrom the Orkneys to Spain, they are said to have struck from th sea with nowarning. The Gallo Roman, Sidonius Apollinaris describe the Saxon raiding theGallic coast in the 470's A.D. 

'They outdo all others in brutality.Ungovernable, entirely at home at sea, they attack unexpectedly. When they areready to sail home they drown or crucify one in ten of their victims as asacrifice, "distributing the iniquity of death by the equity oflot".' - Sidonius Appollinaris. 

Also, the Irish Annals of Ulster describe in434 "The first prey by the Saxons from Ireland or in Ireland."


(Germanic sea raiders were commonly grouptogether under the general designation of “Saxons.")

There is also the Transylvanian Saxons, called by the Germans, SiebenbürgerSachsen a people of a German ancestry who settled in from the 12th centuryonwards.

The Frisians are believed to have settledacross Scandinavia, Poland, the Baltic States and across Central Europe. Somebelieve that the Frisian seafarers may have been invited into Ireland, theSpanish provinces of Asturias and Galicia near Portugal and the few mightjoined the Normans when they occupied Sicily in Southern Italy.

The Jutes of Kent had a fairly extensivecontinental European contacts is suggested by the fact that 'Eormenric' is theAnglo - Saxon variant of 'Ermanarich' , the 4th century Ostrogothic ruler of avast territory in the Ukraine.

- A brief history of the Anglo - Saxons, thebeggining of the English Nation by Geoffrey Hindley.