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   XPost: soc.genealogy.britain   
   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "John Cartmell"  wrote in message   
   news:4e4c10236cjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...   
   > In article <44c79969@news.greennet.net>, allan connochie   
   >  wrote:   
   > > They assume that at one point the people in Britain and Ireland were a   
   > > pretty much homogenous lot as far as Y chromosomes go and that the   
   changes   
   > > have occurred since the sub-Roman period.   
   >   
   > That assumption is unwarranted. I don't know about the area in question   
   but in   
   > Lancashire (an example I know a little about) there were up to 10 to 50   
   > thousand Sarmatians (5,500 cavalry + families) dumped there in 175 CE and   
   > descendants still there as a recognisable group in 425 CE. That has to   
   have an   
   > effect on the homogenuity.   
      
   Quite so I totally agree. And that is only one example.   
      
      
   Allan   
      
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