On my dad’s side of things it appears that I belong to the R1b1c haplogroup, which is the most common haplogroup in western Europe.
If you want to get more specific, it looks like I’m part of the R1b1c9a branch.
23andMe says,
“Today R1b1c9a is found mostly on the fringes of the North Sea in England, Germany and the Netherlands, where it reaches levels of one-third. That distribution suggests that some of the first men to bear the haplogroup in their Y-chromosomes were residents of Doggerland, a real-life Atlantis that was swallowed up by rising seas in the millennia following the Ice Age.”
Whoa. Doggerland? A real-life Atlantis? I got to look that up on Wikipedia.
I guess this doesn’t sound too crazy since the only thing I remember from when my dad did the National Geographic Genographic Project was that at one time my paternal ancestors were Dutch Vikings.
I really hope this Doggerland myth isn’t a myth since it sounds so cool. I’m going to try and not be too skeptical. :)
The map below shows where concentrations of R1b1c might have been located 500 years ago (Darker color equals more concentration).
Here is some of the R1bc1 story (I edited it down to the Introduction and R1bc19a part):
And, of course, famous people in my paternal haplogroup:
You can see my maternal ancestry post here. And, if you want me to share my 23andMe genetic profile with you than go here.
