A few observations on the recent genetic study.1. The article in' Nature' makes it clear that the study was limited in extent. To extrapolate from these results and say that Celts are not a unique genetic group is not acceptable, bearing in mind that the Celtic peoples were, according to authorities like Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe,  at one time, the major ethnic group in Europe.  The archaeology bears him out.2. To find the Cornish are distinct from the people of Devon is unsurprising to us Cornish who know our history.  According to the 'historian' William of Malmesbury: ' King Athelstan (ca 894-939) 'expelled the filthy Cornish from Exeter'.  Athelstan also set the boundary between the English and the Cornish as the high water mark on the Eastern bank of the Tamar [so the Tamar belongs to Cornwall, not England, which is why Prince Charles as Duke of Cornwall, not the Crown, derives income from the tolls on the Tamar road bridge. ] The 13th century Mappa Mundi in Hereford cathedral shows Britain to be comprised of the countries of England, Cornwall, Scotland & Wales.3. There was considerable commerce between Brittany, Wales and Cornwall; not surprising as we share a common, Celtic, language. Because the Cornish spoke their own language it could be postulated that it was easier to deal with these areas rather than with the English speakers across the Tamar - who were regarded as 'foreigners'. See Carew's  'Survey of Cornwall' for his comments on the response of a Cornishman  to the greeting 'good day' in English. And this in the 17th century.The Cornish have been proclaiming their difference from time immemorial - it's the Anglo-Saxons who have a problem in accepting this. Stephen Treseder On Monday, 23 March 2015, 8:05, "cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com" <cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: When replying to a digest message, be sure and highlight ONLY the message you are quoting and select "reply quoted text" or whatever option you have in your email program.  Please don't quote the entire digest.  And don't forget to change the subject line from "Reply to CORNISH-GEN Digest, Vol X, Issue XXX" with the subject line from the message you are replying to.  Cornish Volunteer Lookup Library http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/cornishlib/cornishlib.htm Online Parish Clerks (OPC) http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ Questions or assistance: Contact Yvonne Bowers, Listmom CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com Today's Topics:   1. "DNA study shows Celts are not a unique genetic group"       (Wesley Johnston)   2. URL for readable UK DNA study map (Wesley Johnston) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:11:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Wesley Johnston <wwjohnston01@yahoo.com> Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] "DNA study shows Celts are not a unique genetic     group" To: "cornish-gen@rootsweb.com" <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Message-ID:     <315887662.126317.1427019105650.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Here is a link to a BBC web page, which does contain a small non-enlargable copy of the map of the entire study area (UK). So far I have not found a site that has the map at a size where you can actually read it, although the small sized map's colors do clearly show Cornwall and Devon as unique from both each other and from the rest. http://m.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31905764 The article includes this text: "There is also a marked division between the people of Cornwall and Devon that almost exactly matches the county border. And the People of Devon are distinct again to those from neighbouring Dorset." ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:46:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Wesley Johnston <wwjohnston01@yahoo.com> Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] URL for readable UK DNA study map To: "cornish-gen@rootsweb.com" <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Message-ID:     <105745934.144033.1427021202238.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I finally found a readable copy of the UK DNA study map. It is in the March 2015 newsletter (number 6) of the People of the British Isles web site, in a PDF file. The URL is: http://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/nl6.pdf The PDF file of the newsletter has 10 pages. The map is on page 4, immediately after this text: "The first and most striking observation is the extraordinary correspondence between the genetic clusters and geographical location. Most obvious at a first glance is the distinctiveness of the genetic clusters in Orkney, which is perhaps not surprising given that Orkney was a Norse Earldom for several hundred years. Also striking is the clear separation of the Welsh clusters (green and pink squares, yellow inverted triangles) from the rest of the UK, and the extraordinary separation between Cornwall (pink crosses) and Devon (blue circles)." ? ------------------------------ To contact the CORNISH-GEN list administrator, send an email to CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com. 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