Ha ha!! :-) The blurb is backed up at the end with lots of impressive scientific articles to meet the criticism of unfounded claims. All we need is a scientist to write an article saying it isn't Irish, until then we can blame Moore et al. (2005). For those interested, the other familiar papers cited are the Busby 2011 paper cited by Jean Manco which I mentioned the other day, Capelli's regional study from 2003 and the Myres 2011 paper Busby uses: European Journal of Human Genetics (2011) 19, 95–101; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2010.146; published online 25 August 2010 A major Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b Holocene era founder effect in Central and Western Europe http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v19/n1/full/ejhg2010146a.html Iain > Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:00:48 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [R-M222] Congratulations Iain > > Dear Iain, > > Wonderful..............happy it got to be you first............ > > Ancient Irish................;-) ...........who knew? > > Linda > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message