Comments by "Dorchester Mom" (@DorchesterMom) on "Irish DNA: What is the Genetic History of Ireland?" video.

  1. 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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  2. 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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