This haplogroup is one allele away from being the Atlantic Model. It's beginnings go back 4,000 to 8,000 years ago in SW Asia and it spread into Western Europe. The Atlantic Modal Haplotype, or AMH, is the most common STR haplotype in haplogroup R1b1b2a1a. Since I have just gone for a test of 12 alleles I don't know what else our group would be called.
The Henwood line I have found goes back to the 1500's in Hampshire, England. That's Western Europe. I don't know when they entered there from SW Asia, but 4,000 years ago would be about 2,000 BCE. At that they've been in England forever, it seems. It would be interesting to check out the history of England at that point in time knowing this. Were others in England?
This information came from ISOGG's latest 2010 Y-DNA Haplogroup R information.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
The FTDNA Woodman DNA Project
I joined the Woodman DNA Project at familytreedna. If you have a surname with Wood in it, you can join. I just saw some new results and there was one person who matched perfectly with all 12 alleles, and his name was G.S. Hopwood. I'll have to follow up and try to contact that person.
Life in England 1620
The majority of people living in England in the 1620's were very poor. The monarch, Queen Elizabeth I and James I, wanted to maintain the Church of England as the only permissible religion. Anyone suspected of religious deviance was imprisoned, threatened, fined, sometimes tortured and even hanged. Therefore, the ones who came over sought to escape religious persecution and wanted to worship in the manner they believed to be the "proper Christian way." Children were put to work by the time they were age 6 or 7. They were expected to do as they're told. Complete and unquestioning obedience was the rule. Sunday was a day of rest and religion. Church services began at 8 in the morning and lasted until noon. Services resumed around 2 p.m. and continued until 5 p.m. or 6p.m.
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