XPost: england.genealogy.misc, england.history.misc, soc.genealogy.britain   
   XPost: soc.history, alt.genealogy   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 08:04:59 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"   
    wrote:   
      
   >In message <0m4m2blnpj3el62hehob679o1danln696u@4ax.com>, Steve Hayes   
   > writes:   
   >[]   
   >>A new genetic map of Britain shows that there has been little movement   
   >>between areas of Britain which were former tribal kingoms in   
   >>Anglo-Saxon England   
   >[]   
   >>The ‘People of the British Isles’ study analysed the DNA of 2,039   
   >>people from rural areas of the UK, whose four grandparents were all   
   >>born within 80km of each other.   
   >>   
   >>Because a quarter of our genome comes from each of our grandparents,   
   >>the researchers were effectively sampling DNA from these ancestors,   
   >>allowing a snapshot of UK genetics in the late 19th Century before   
   >>mass migration events caused by the industrial revolution.   
   >[]   
   >Thanks for posting this; interesting.   
   >   
   >Although the Telegraph's analysis - though it left the second two   
   >paragraphs above in - seems to have ignored them; by limiting its focus   
   >to those whose grandparents were all born within 80 km of each other, it   
   >is obviously biased to immobility. The general thrust of the article is   
   >that we haven't moved much for 14 centuries; however, a better summary   
   >would be that _up to the late 19th century_ we hadn't moved much. Still   
   >interesting, especially the fact that Viking, Saxon, and Roman (genetic)   
   >influence is only moderate, but not particularly startling to   
   >genealogists: anyone who has done much research in the field will have   
   >already discovered that people before even up to the end of the   
   >nineteenth century often lived their entire lives within a few miles of   
   >where they were born.   
   >   
   >It would be interesting to have another study taken without the   
   >restriction, to see how things _have_ changed since "mass migration".   
      
   I think the restriction would have been necessary to discover what   
   they had changed *from*.   
      
   If you want to find the DNA of a particular area, it makes little   
   sense to test the DNA of people who *have* migrated from elsewhere.   
   Only when yopu've established the base can you work out where the   
   others may have migrated from.   
      
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