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Z SNPs added to I-M26 tree
Here is a drawing of the current I-M26 tree (March 2012), click on it to enlarge. I will write more later.
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Geno 2.0 Heat maps
Genographic Project 2.0 heat maps for paternal haplogroup I-M26 and I-PF4189. They are exactly the same, and supposedly Sardinia doesn't have these groups. Are the I-M26 people who make up 40% of men...
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I-M26 tree (click on it to enlarge)
This tree includes all known SNPs in I-M26. The format is based on this tree which shows mainly Z SNPs discovered by volunteers looking at 1000 Genomes...
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I-L160 tree, click on it to enlarge
Another Geno 2.0 result this week creates another level in the I-M26 tree, and now the L160 section is so large that it requires its own diagram, see above.Someone with paternal ancestry from the...
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Updated I-L160 tree
Click on picture to enlarge. At this point we have 6 groups of L160+ (and the Z110+ group only known from 1000 Genomes Project sequences). I don't know if F1295+ and PF4088+ are the only basic branches...
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M26 men in Sardinia
It's well known that around 40% of men on the island of Sardinia belong to the I-M26 paternal haplogroup, but which subgroup? And can that tell us anything about where M26 originated? Did M26 people...
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Early branches of M26
Four branches of I-M26 have been known for a few years:M26+ L672+M26+ L277+M26+ L277+ L247+M26+ (L672- and L277-)What's new is that several L672+ men and one L247+ man have completed Geno 2.0 tests. We...
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L160 tree with Geno 2.0 SNPs, updated and simplified (click tree to enlarge)
We have nine Geno 2.0 results for I-L160 which fall into eight different subgroups. Unless one of your relatives or close matches have done Geno 2.0, it's impossible to predict what group you will...
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We now have a Geno 2.0 CSV file for someone with paternal ancestry from Malta (an island in the Mediterranean, between Africa and Sicily/Italy). He clearly is related to the I-M26 people in Sardinia....
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Main branches of I-M26, September 2013
All known I-M26 is either F1915+ or L672+. I-L672 is by far the larger group.I-L672 can be L160+, PF6947+ or can be I-L672*, with the * meaning no known additional derived SNPs beyond L672.I-L160 is by...
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English and Scottish Cullens in 1881
As some of you might know, there were only a few places in Englandwhere the name Cullen was found in the 1800s: the main areas werecentral England (Nottinghamshire and surrounding area),...
View ArticleEnglish Cullens in Tasmania
There is a great story here that I'd like to learn more about:http://www.heavenandhelltogether.com/index.php?q=node/31 (link updated May 2009).In 1835 Luke Cullen was convicted of stealing by a court...
View ArticleWhat does Cullen mean anyway?
Most people named Cullen are from Ireland, or have ancestors from Ireland, and I've read that the original name in Irish meant "holly tree", but others with the Irish name "whelp""small dog" have also...
View ArticleMcGirr from Clogher, Tyrone
I've been corresponding with a woman named Ellen, who is researching her McGirr family (changed their name to McGarr) and McSorley from Clogher civil parish, County Tyrone, which is where my Cullen...
View ArticleCullen as a German surname?
It could mean "From Cologne":seethis link at about.comGeographical Surnames - Derived from the location of the homestead from which the first bearer and his family lived (Leon Meer - Leon from by the...
View ArticleSouthern and Protestant Cullens
I think of Cullen as a typical Irish-American surname, with our ancestors emigrating during the potato famine in the 1840s and until the early 1900s, settling in the northeast/midwest, ending up in big...
View ArticleFamous Cullens
There aren't very many.There is Countee Cullen, the Harlem Renaissance poet, but Cullen wasn't his birth name (see below).There was Bill Cullen, the game show host. My great-aunts thought he might be a...
View ArticleCullens in clogher history: Cullen's Point, Cormore
Clogher is a very small town in county tyrone which I visited in 1989. I also visited my Heagney relatives in Tullycorker, which is a townland (like a rural crossroads) just a couple miles to the north...
View ArticleCullens in Clogher history: Priests: Piers O'Cullen
from Military History magazine:Irish Triumph at Yellow Ford"Russell was only too glad when the Irish agreed to a truce in southeast Ulster, which lasted until the summer of 1597. During that time,...
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