Comments by "Dorchester Mom" (@DorchesterMom) on "Celtic History Decoded" channel.

  1. Ny husband and I are of Northern European descent. His eyes are an icily piercing light blue, mine are light green. It’s interesting to note that green eyes are also considered “blue” in most scientific literature. Babies are either born with blue eyes or brown. In the case of blue eyes, it can take up to several years but, they can change to green. I had blue eyes until I was about three ❤
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  2. the zed rod - a scythe maybe? The grain being attached. Fertility? The four points - Four cardinal directions, the sun in the seasons in transit? That they used such complicated symbolism says a lot about the depth of their belief system (to me!)
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  3. My true ancestry connected me to Danish vikings at something like 5%
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  4. I have one Germanic ancestor (from Baden, born in 1840), a 3rd great grandfather. I grew up with a German maiden name. I even took German in College! Then my tests came back and I traced my paper trail… No German 😂 Thanks for this video. My dad, a direct ancestor, had his haplo come back as R-Z253, which is downstream of R-M269 (Irish type 3) and it’s always thrown me off. His results do not say German; he comes back as 1.3 Scandinavian and 1.4 Eastern European (specifically from his paternal side) I guess the haplo could indeed fit? Help me make sense of this 😅
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  5. Thank you for another interesting presentation!
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  6. Going outside on a bright morning makes me feel like a vampire emerging from a dark cave
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  7. My husband is like this. He’s 100% Irish on several sites. When some of the Irish came here to America post famine, many settled alongside one another in smaller communities within the large cities (Boston in our case) by county of origin, with friends and family who also came over, and tended to set down roots within those communities. In my husband’s family, they strongly encouraged their kids to marry only other Irish-Americans. It was a way to hold on to their culture perhaps, especially after losing so much by having to come here.
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  8. I would totally plop down and lean against an ancient Pictish stone. Jamie Frazier, here I come! Thanks for sharing the stones with us at home - they are beautiful!
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  9. Thank you! I’m a fairly new subscriber - I really appreciate the closing summary points you did here, it wrapped the presentation up nicely and brought everything home ❤ definitely please consider keeping this feature as a regular thing going forward.
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  10. My maternal haplo is h6a1b2. I can only take it back seven generations, but it goes to Lancashire where they were textile mill workers. When that line came to America they went to… other textile mills in Massachusetts. I assume we had better labor conditions though 😅 23andme tracks my maternal haplo to the Yamnaya. The specific subclade was found in several Yamnayan burial sites. It came out of the Middle East originally. I’ve been following news in genetics and new studies that have come out seem to suggest that the Bell Beakers absorbed Yamnaya women and brought them to the British Isles and Ireland, so I assume that’s the likely way my foremother arrived in England. Perhaps a video is in order explaining that absorption process??? ❤ I’m mostly Irish on my paper trail but have other lines from Scotland and England… Another such line arrived in America via the Puritan Wave. When I researched that line I found American colonial ancestry that linked to seven Mayflower passengers. Another line on my other side also tracks to Lancashire. The family name on that is “Winterbottom.” Researchers working on that part of the tree said the name itself originates from the fact that the weavers who lived there overwintered at the bottom of the hill where it was protected. They spent the summers overseeing the flocks atop the hill. Pretty cool if true. They also came to Massachusetts to work in our textile mills. All of them, the post famine Irish, the post-clearances highlanders, the mill workers, the pilgrims… they were looking for a better life what a mutt I am.
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  11. My grandma was descended from highland scots who were some of the first who set out for Nova Scotia… MacDonalds from the Hebrides, clan Ranald. She was this tiny little thing, feisty, olive skin, thick black hair and dark eyes. And the temper! I know it’s not at all scientific or proveable, but I always thought of her as a tiny Pictish warrior woman ❤ How does one discovery Pictish ancestry if you don’t mind me asking? Can it be done with autosomal markers or is it only linked to haplogroups? She was H37 but I think her matrilineal line may have been from England or Germany.
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  12. H6a1b2. It’s out of the Middle East originally, then went up to Yamnaya, finally going west to the British isles.
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  13. Thanks for this ❤ I have a lot of overlap with Rathlin 1; he’s my closest ancient dna match on gedmatch so he has a special place in my heart. My mito h6a1b2 is thought to have arrived in Ireland and the BI via the CW/BB - who absorbed yamnayan females as they moved west.
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  14. What’s really crazy about that is when you are an American-mutt and have Irish/Scots/English… and the first two hate on the latter 😅
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  15. David Reich’s book was an amazing read - and very accessible for non scholars 💕
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  16. You come from wonderfully strong, fierce, determined and hardy people. God be with you, by your side. Guaranteed your ancestors will be waiting on the other side to tell all their secrets when you arrive ❤️
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  17. My mother in law is a Stewart, her direct ancestor passed down through Ireland and then came to the US however.
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  18. Green eyed lady here - can confirm four living generations in a straight matrilineal line from my Nana down to my daughter (H6a1b2) have them. They are my favorite physical attribute ❤ I’m an American, but my autosomal DNA is entirely Northern European. Mostly Irish but also Scots and English. My Nana’s matrilineal line goes back to Blackburn, England but possibly Ireland prior to that. My maternal haplogroup was found in a sample among an Yamnayan burial site, which is so interesting to me. Thank you for making this video, I learned a few new things!
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  19. Absolutely not as far as I read. There are a few logical points against it: At the time, the native Irish wouldn’t have mixed in with the soldiers; It was completely taboo. The majority of the soldiers were round up and murdered anyways. Even if some had managed to mix in, they would not have contributed enough DNA to make a marked difference. “Black Irish” just describes a look - think Colin Farrell - dark hair/eyes/complexion. You can see the phenotype mostly in the west (Galway and Cork.) Ireland is a land that was settled many times by many groups people. The ginger stereotype is by no means the reality; it’s high in incidence there, especially when compared to other nations, but most Irish have brown hair. My family is what you would call Black Irish. My dad looks almost Iranian, he’s olive toned with heavy features, jet black hair and dark eyes - but I’ve done his DNA and it’s mostly Connacht, Uist, and Lancashire. The phenotype likely arises from some of the earliest settlers who were Brythonic.
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  20. The mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell ❤
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  21. Green eyed people actually a small bit of a different, yellow pigment called lipochrome in the mix! Maybe Celtic history decoded can do something about the prevalence of lipochrome in different populations, although I haven’t seen any major studies on it.
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  22. I am not a direct line descendant - my great grandmother was though. I grew up around her until I was about twenty years old and she was so very proud of that heritage. Her direct ancestor was Angus “macGhilleasbuig” (I probably spelled that wrong but, of Alexander?) of the Clan Ranald branch of the MacDonalds. He was born in Inverness-shire in 1821 but I think the family was originally from North Uist in the highlands and were possibly cleared - they ended up going to Nova Scotia to settle with so many others. His son in fact came a year or two after the main branch emigrated, as he had to finish an apprenticeship in Scotland before setting out. My great gram was from Glace Bay/Antigonish. She knew a little Scots Gaelic as I recall and told me… never to trust a Campbell. (Sorry, but what they did to my poor ancestors? Yikes 😅) On my maternal side one of my great-great grandmothers was a Campbell (Grace, of Donald Campbell and Catherine MacLean. Donald was born in Ontario in 1821, but his da was born in Scotland.) I don’t know their story, where they came from in Scotland, what drove them to the heart of upper Canada - but they were fairly early settlers to Martintown, Ontario. I also have MacDougall and MacIntyre, also from Nova Scotia but highland Scots. My mother in law is a Stewart. Her direct ancestor (Peter) was from Caputh in Perthshire born c. 1800. His son for whatever reason (it involved horse trading - or rustling!) ended up in Ireland. Their descendants also immigrated to America (1880’s/90’s)
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  23. This is my idea as well. The mutation happened in a subgroup that had already split and went west, then sexual selection, or some combination of sexual selection and fitness, were selected for. That sounds like the most logical explanation (so far.)
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  24. Is the oca2 mutation exclusive to Homo sapiens, or was this present also in late Neanderthals? I know it is said Neanderthals also sometimes had blue eyes - was it something they gave to us, or could it been present in a shared ancestor?
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  25. Can you please do a video on true green eyes and the prevalence of lipochrome in specific genetic communities, or has there not been much research in this vein yet? I know hazel eyes do contain some melanin and so are a combination really, but true green eyes are associated with this other pigment and seem to correlate with the major places blue eyes are found. I know green eyes are considered “blue” scientifically, but have never seen much about communities being linked specifically to lipochrome.
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  26. My mother in law is u5a1, she has deep roots in western Ireland ❤ So, it’s original hunter-gatherer? Very cool.
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  27. Then there’s me, with mito h6a1b2 which is Yamnayan. I like to think this foremother rode out with her husband or brothers to raid and win land, but who knows. She could have been the laundry wench or something worse 😅 I wonder how many women were actually known to ride out from the East with the guys? I’m sure a few did. It’s a fun idea! My dad is also downstream of R-m269 with R-Z253, which if our paper trail is correct, comes out of Western Germany. But, it’s also possible it was a NPE… he was a 35 year old newly arrived cabinet maker from Baden and married an 19 year old Irish maid via justice of the peace at an orphanage. Maybe she was already pregnant! 😅 If he was the dad (and I hope so, I took two years of German! lol) then maybe that original forefather was a bell beaker who stayed behind on the mainland? 😂 Thanks for another awesome video. It’s fun to plug in your own DNA data to the various studies coming out and effectively see where and when it could possibly link in the greater timeline of Ireland and the British Isles.
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  28. But vitamin D is found in Dairy - the communities that have the strongest lactose persistence overlay on the blue eyed map?
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  29. ⁠ @johnbrereton5229 with most people who do (point it out) it’s more of an offhand joke. I do sincerely wonder what it would have been like for those just post famine or post clearances marrying into English, but I assume that every single one of them was so beaten down that at the end of the day they were all just people trying to survive in the new land of America. Generally most of my ancestors were poor and illiterate, just trying to find work and support thier families. I know other people though who are more outspoken about those pairings 😅
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  30. H6a1b2 here — very close!
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  31. Clan MacDonald of clan Ranald here - clan Campbell on my other side, but the heck with them 😊 I can’t believe you are a Campbell! 😅😅😅 I LIKE you! (More in the comments!)
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  32. Ohmygoodness! Pronounce “J” again ❤ Is that a Scots thing? Love it.
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  33. Speaking of that - can you possibly explore My True Ancestry and let us know how accurate you think it is to ancient populations, the specific samples they use, generally what you think? Thanks.
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  34. Thank you - I’ve come to really look forward to your presentations here.
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  35. Me, watching and seeing all our family haplos 😅 My husband’s is R-Z18079 (downstream of R-M269.) On 23 and me it’s relatively rare: 1 in 4,000 men have it. So his mom’s most recent mito foremother was WHG and his most recent Y forefather was Bell beaker (yamnaya derived) As the archaeology shows, and in real life, the invaders loved those local ladies ❤
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  36. Hello distant cousin! Clan Ranald via Angus “MacGhilleasbuig” here.
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  37. I literally browsed around earlier to revisit this out of curiosity. am 14% metal age invader per FTDNA. 44% farmer and 40% HG. My maternal hap (H6a1b2) was found among the Yamnaya, and my dad is downstream of R1b. R-M343 I believe - Irish type 3. Having such a small amount of their autosomal DNA it’s wild to see the persistence of their lineages through time in direct ways (sex chromosomes) Can you do a video on female Yamnaya lineages being absorbed into the BBs? Like, What do we know about those westward moving bands bumping into other groups? Did they blend? Or go to war? How they mixed and became CW and later, BB folk? Reich recently put this forward I believe, as well as the evidence The yamnaya carried bubonic plague.
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  38. I’d love to see a video about them! And - the genetic connection to northwest costal England. I read that the dna is very closely related, both being WHG rooted?
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  39. Essentially, Mito eve/Y Adam = our MRCAs
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  40. Don’t hold your breath - this one is a Campbell. Kidding of course! No harm meant, just a bit of fun. I imagine Clan Ranald will be a video into itself ❤ I further request a part two getting more into the later clearances - I find it very confusing - the players involved, the non-noble members, how they picked Nova Scotia and so on. Thanks 🙏 ❤
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  41. I ran my kit against Cheddar Man on gedmatch and have no segments larger than .5 cms in common with him 😢 Rathlin 1, on the other hand is my largest ancient match. Would Rathlin 1 be considered Brythonic or Proto-Celt?
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  42. Hello distant cousin! Clan Ranald in America will help you hide the bodies! (Kidding. Our video host gets a pass)
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  43. My husband was straw blonde as a child, ash brown as an adult, and has a red beard.. How does that work? Two different pathways for encoding? He must carry a recessive redhead gene?
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  44. I understand the social aspect versus actual genetics. I actually posted another comment asking the page creator if he could break it down further and analyze the service itself, pros and cons and if it was worthwhile. Thank you for the correction though.
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  45. Thank you sir!
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  46. That’s why they moved on us and tried to wipe us out!
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  47.  @johndanielharold3633 super interesting! I have some highland ancestry from N. Uist and only learning about these guys. Norse gael Gallowglass, cool!
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  48. I was just poking around my promethease report looking for SNPs and found I have an allele associated with a higher likelihood for a type of green eyes in European populations. It’s associated with glutamine on the OCA2 receptor. Anyways, I know many other factors come into play, but this was interesting! rs1800407(A;G) green/hazel/brown/black eyes more likely rs1800407 is located in exon 13 of the OCA2 gene at amino acid position 419, and it is therefore also known as the R419Q variant. The (A) allele encodes the amino acid glutamine (instead of arginine), and it is associated with increased odds of having green/hazel eye color in some Caucasian populations. One copy of of rs1800407(A) is sufficient for this effect.
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  49. Another point is that East Asians exhibit the highest expression of the “warrior” COMT gene as well, but because the culture is so regimented that warrior gene becomes a net positive in regards to focus and drive, you don’t get the aggression as much as in other groups. Maybe higher levels of iodine, improving focus, is the mechanism to explain that? I’m not a scientist - just an interested person speculating.
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  50. MY hair is a darkest brown but I have red undertones you can see in the sun. People say my hair is black, but the tones say otherwise.
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