For what it's worth... The Prussians were not Germanic nor Slavic, and, like the Kashubians, they resisted the intruding Germans. Rather, the Pruzzen (Prusai) were a Baltic Tribe -- related to the Latvians and Lithuanians. When the Poles began to invade the area of the Pruzzen tribe around 992, the tribes fought back. Considered a "heathen race," the German Teutonic Knights were sent in to the area in 1226 to conquer/convert the Pruzzen or eject them from the land. The indigenous Baltic Pruzzen tribe occupied the area of what became East Prussia. From time to time they fought the Poles and Teutonic Knights but managed to stand their ground. It's interesting that the Pruzzen tribe united with the Kashubian tribe to fight the Knights. For a time they both regained and kept their land, but the Knights were bringing in German settlers from the west. By the early 1300s, many new villages were established and all were under German Law. The Kaszubi and Pruzzen tribes resisted Germanization, but the Kaszubians retained their identity and the Pruzzen did not. In time, some Pruzzen's fled to the east or south. Those who stayed and were not annihilated began to merge with the German settlers brought in by the Knights. By 1600, the old Baltic Pruzzen language became extinct. Prussian surnames differ greatly from the German surnames of other more German ethnic areas. Some Prussian names are Slavic in their derivation. Place or field names of Baltic Pruzzen origin have been found father west in the medieval Duchy of East Pomerania, etc., the heart of which became Kashubia, so it is believed the Pruzzen moved around a bit. Karen B. Whitmer ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Greetings, I'm wondering if anyone might know of any German-language websites concerning Y-DNA haplogroup G? I sent an email in English about the results of my recent Y-DNA test to my German cousin but unfortunately he doesn't read English well, and translating DNA results and theories of haplogroups can be especially difficult. I'm especially interested in sites that deal with the most mainstream theories about the origins and migration of haplogroup G. (It's one of the rarer and less understood haplogroups but the going theory among geneticists is that ancestors of Europeans of haplogroup G may have come to the continent about 10,000 years ago bringing agricultural skills and the Indo-European language with them.) Best regards, Kenneth ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front

Try http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/DNA/Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-G.html K E wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm wondering if anyone might know of any > German-language websites concerning Y-DNA haplogroup > G? > > I sent an email in English about the results of my > recent Y-DNA test to my German cousin but > unfortunately he doesn't read English well, and > translating DNA results and theories of haplogroups > can be especially difficult. I'm especially interested > in sites that deal with the most mainstream theories > about the origins and migration of haplogroup G. (It's > one of the rarer and less understood haplogroups but > the going theory among geneticists is that ancestors > of Europeans of haplogroup G may have come to the > continent about 10,000 years ago bringing agricultural > skills and the Indo-European language with them.) > > Best regards, > > Kenneth > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Bored stiff? Loosen up... > Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. > http://games.yahoo.com/games/front > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >