Monday, July 21, 2008
1870 Census Finds Goldfoot in New York
On the 13th July 1870 census, I found a Cumad (Cunead) Goldfoot age 50 b: 1820 in Bavaria living in Clarence, Erie, NY that was a farmer. His wife was 54 yr old Caroline. They are not related to us.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Male Ydna Test Results: Q1, Q, R1b
Results for the three people tested for the Ydna carried by the male line are in.
The Q line is said to come from the Atlai Mountains in Turkey.
These three haplogroups all split off from P. Q split off in Central Asia. Some Qs must have moved into Siberia and then across into the Americas and then became Q3s on the other side.
In Europe there are two types of Qs found in the British Isles and Scandinavia. A few were found in France and England. None of these types are at all common in Lithuania, where possible my grandfather, Nathan Goldfoot came from, though all we know is that he came from "Russia", which covers a large territory. He had married Hattie from Lithuania/Poland, in Suwalki. Q's are more prevelant in the southern part of Central Asia around the Black Sea and across the Mediterranean coast.
So from our mother and father, we carry the Ydna "Q" from East Asia, and the mtDNA "H" from West Eurasia.
The male R1b comes from Western Eurasia and East Asia.
The Q line is said to come from the Atlai Mountains in Turkey.
These three haplogroups all split off from P. Q split off in Central Asia. Some Qs must have moved into Siberia and then across into the Americas and then became Q3s on the other side.
In Europe there are two types of Qs found in the British Isles and Scandinavia. A few were found in France and England. None of these types are at all common in Lithuania, where possible my grandfather, Nathan Goldfoot came from, though all we know is that he came from "Russia", which covers a large territory. He had married Hattie from Lithuania/Poland, in Suwalki. Q's are more prevelant in the southern part of Central Asia around the Black Sea and across the Mediterranean coast.
So from our mother and father, we carry the Ydna "Q" from East Asia, and the mtDNA "H" from West Eurasia.
The male R1b comes from Western Eurasia and East Asia.
Our mtDNA Results: H (16354T)
The mitrochondial dna which traces the female line of Mildred Goldfoot b: 1913-2005 to her mother, Augusta "Gustafva Johansson Gustafson" Robinson b: 1870-1955, and her mother in Sweden was Lisa Ersdotter, born in Backgarden, Lumsheden, Sweden in 1830-12-07 and died in 1891-01-17, and her mother was Brita Hansdotter b: 1806-1887, and her mother was Lisa Olsdotter b: 1766-1831 who was married to Erik Hansson, turned out to be H with the HVR1 as: 16 354T. This was done as a 12 allele test. We already know that our grandmother's family came from Lumsheden, Sweden, a village in Northern Sweden. About half of Europe's women bear this H haplogroup. The differences show up in the HVR1.
Men carry both Ydna from their fathers and mtDNA from their mothers. They can be tested for both, which is what we did. David was able to be tested. Women can only be tested for the mtdna, so if you have a brother, have him tested for both. Whereas the male line mutates at a faster speed, the female line does not. It only mutates once every 10,000 years.
H stands for Helena. The book, The Seven Daughters of Eve presents the seven types of Haplogroups for the female line. Helena was born about 20,000 ago on land between France and Spain. She belonged to a family of hunters who harvested oysters to supplement their diet of meat. We arrived in Europe from the Middle East. We reached England about 12,000 years ago after the Ice Age. Read http://www.duerinck.com/migrate.html .
The prevailing thought is that we are all related through our mothers. Professor Bryan Sykes at Oxford Universtiy has identified seven women who lived thousands of years ago from whom almost every native European is directly descended through the maternal line.
Our Swedish H came from Lumsheden Village, Svardsjo Parish, Kopparbergs Ian, Sweden. I've traced the female line to 1766 so far in this village.
Men carry both Ydna from their fathers and mtDNA from their mothers. They can be tested for both, which is what we did. David was able to be tested. Women can only be tested for the mtdna, so if you have a brother, have him tested for both. Whereas the male line mutates at a faster speed, the female line does not. It only mutates once every 10,000 years.
H stands for Helena. The book, The Seven Daughters of Eve presents the seven types of Haplogroups for the female line. Helena was born about 20,000 ago on land between France and Spain. She belonged to a family of hunters who harvested oysters to supplement their diet of meat. We arrived in Europe from the Middle East. We reached England about 12,000 years ago after the Ice Age. Read http://www.duerinck.com/migrate.html .
The prevailing thought is that we are all related through our mothers. Professor Bryan Sykes at Oxford Universtiy has identified seven women who lived thousands of years ago from whom almost every native European is directly descended through the maternal line.
Our Swedish H came from Lumsheden Village, Svardsjo Parish, Kopparbergs Ian, Sweden. I've traced the female line to 1766 so far in this village.
