Mr. Hoeft, can you explain please the DNA factor which you mentioned below? Regards, Rollo+~~ ============== Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Disappearing People > Hi all. I posted this several days ago but I don't think it was put up. > Here is another piece of information about surnames that may be helpful to > some of you, especially if you are working between Prussian and > Kashuby names. > > It is almost a given that if you are Kashuby to any degree or Polish, you > are Slavic. It is one of the truths brotherhoods that we share and > seperates us from the rest of the world.. Being Slavic sets us apart from > other races of the world because for one, we all share a DNA factor. Now, > there was a time when the Slavic people came across the Oder River from > Poland and extended by small groupings only as far west as Northern > Germany, > or so they thought. > > It has now been proven that there existed in a small number, Slavic people > in Sweden. These people were referred to as REM, and they were a warrior > class of people who fought for the king. When Sweden ruled Northern > Germany, or Pomerania, the king sent the Slavic Rem people to Pomerania to > fight and protect his land. These Slavic people stayed on and married > into > the Kashuby and Polish people, and the Rem surnames survived even until > today. > > So in our search of surnames, we will even encounter Swedish names, and > yet > not know how they came to be there. > Just thought you'ed like to know. > > LOTCHO DROM my friends > Vilhem(Bill) Hoeft >

Well, in its simplest form, all Slavic people contain a certain piece of DNA marker in their make up that people from other races do not. The people that study DNA can't explain why Slavic's DNA is different, but they are, and that is what makes Slavic people a race as opposed to being just a group of people. Here is the same explanation in technical terms. Two main subgroups of Haplogroup I (Y-DNA) are I-M253/I-M307/I-P30/I-P40 which has highest frequency in Scandinavia, Iceland, and northwest Europe. The other is I-S31 which includes I-P37.2, which is the most common form in the Balkans and Sardinia, and I-S23/I-S30/I-S32/I-S33, which reaches its highest frequency along the northwest coast of continental Europe. I hope this may help your search. Bill Heoft ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Lipprandt" <rloss@bellsouth.net> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:57 PM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Slavic DNA > Mr. Hoeft, can you explain please the DNA factor which you mentioned > below? > > Regards, Rollo+~~ > ============== > > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Disappearing People > > >> Hi all. I posted this several days ago but I don't think it was put up. >> Here is another piece of information about surnames that may be helpful >> to >> some of you, especially if you are working between Prussian and >> Kashuby names. >> >> It is almost a given that if you are Kashuby to any degree or Polish, you >> are Slavic. It is one of the truths brotherhoods that we share and >> seperates us from the rest of the world.. Being Slavic sets us apart >> from >> other races of the world because for one, we all share a DNA factor. >> Now, >> there was a time when the Slavic people came across the Oder River from >> Poland and extended by small groupings only as far west as Northern >> Germany, >> or so they thought. >> >> It has now been proven that there existed in a small number, Slavic >> people >> in Sweden. These people were referred to as REM, and they were a warrior >> class of people who fought for the king. When Sweden ruled Northern >> Germany, or Pomerania, the king sent the Slavic Rem people to Pomerania >> to >> fight and protect his land. These Slavic people stayed on and married >> into >> the Kashuby and Polish people, and the Rem surnames survived even until >> today. >> >> So in our search of surnames, we will even encounter Swedish names, and >> yet >> not know how they came to be there. >> Just thought you'ed like to know. >> >> LOTCHO DROM my friends >> Vilhem(Bill) Hoeft >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.11/836 - Release Date: 6/6/2007 > 1:10 PM >