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July 2007. A new twist to American Nason genealogy. The 1880 US census names several Nasons who were born in the Netherlands. It is likely that they were descended from NIJSING ancestors, found in C18th Netherlands and probably genetically unconnected with any Nason line. However, a C17th Dutch painter is recorded as Pieter Nason and there is a South African Nasson who claims Dutch ancestry.
Previously:
Current research has pushed back the documented history of the surname to 1483 and to a birth date before 1450. This discovery complements the speculation that the surname Nason came into England in the early 1400s. Historical research in that period has provided a plausible narrative for arrival of the prototype Nason.
Administrator’s notes.
Y Haplogroup R1a1
(subclade of Kit#64082).
Current information posted elsewhere suggests a deep origin for this haplogroup:
‘Researchers . . . thought the forefather of all R1a1s was probably born in the Ukraine about 15,000 years ago. A theory is that the subsequent spread of haplogroup R1a1 across Eurasia may have been connected to the domestication of the horse about 5000 years ago ( Kurgan culture)’.
‘Some markers,DYS19=15 and YCAIIa,b=19,21 are seen as being specific to the R1a1s in Western Europe, while Eastern European R1a1s typically had DYS19=16 and YCAIIa,b=19,23 a pattern also seen in some Western Europe R1a1s - but the earlier pattern is almost never seen in Eastern European R1a1s’. The current three members of the study display a mixture of both!
Another researcher saw a pattern in the STRs of the R1a1s that seemed to be specific to the region around Poland. A recent paper claims that this haplotype is fifteen times more common in Poland than in the rest of Europe. The pattern is common enough in that area that two versions of it appear among the 30 most common haplotypes in the European YSTR.org database.
The Genographic Project (National Geographic) states: Today [approx] 40% of men living in the Czech Republic across the Steppes to Siberia . . . are members of haplogroup R1a1.
Administrator's comment:
It is far too earlier to conclude anything from the above but it is interesting to note the tentative proposal that the prototype English Nason may have been a member of a Bohemian family circa 1400.
Previously:
Current research has pushed back the documented history of the surname to 1483 and to a birth date before 1450. This discovery complements the speculation that the surname Nason came into England in the early 1400s. Historical research in that period has provided a plausible narrative for arrival of the prototype Nason.
Administrator’s notes.
Y Haplogroup R1a1
(subclade of Kit#64082).
Current information posted elsewhere suggests a deep origin for this haplogroup:
‘Researchers . . . thought the forefather of all R1a1s was probably born in the Ukraine about 15,000 years ago. A theory is that the subsequent spread of haplogroup R1a1 across Eurasia may have been connected to the domestication of the horse about 5000 years ago ( Kurgan culture)’.
‘Some markers,DYS19=15 and YCAIIa,b=19,21 are seen as being specific to the R1a1s in Western Europe, while Eastern European R1a1s typically had DYS19=16 and YCAIIa,b=19,23 a pattern also seen in some Western Europe R1a1s - but the earlier pattern is almost never seen in Eastern European R1a1s’. The current three members of the study display a mixture of both!
Another researcher saw a pattern in the STRs of the R1a1s that seemed to be specific to the region around Poland. A recent paper claims that this haplotype is fifteen times more common in Poland than in the rest of Europe. The pattern is common enough in that area that two versions of it appear among the 30 most common haplotypes in the European YSTR.org database.
The Genographic Project (National Geographic) states: Today [approx] 40% of men living in the Czech Republic across the Steppes to Siberia . . . are members of haplogroup R1a1.
Administrator's comment:
It is far too earlier to conclude anything from the above but it is interesting to note the tentative proposal that the prototype English Nason may have been a member of a Bohemian family circa 1400.