LOL! Linda...actually YOU are in the majority here...even for Scotch-Irish. I'm the one in the tiny minority of Scotch-Irish who have this K+ (the k+ is also common but you and I both have that one). There is even a rare genetic disease associated with this K+ antigen IF it is accompanied by other variant recessive genes on the X chromosome -- it occurs mostly in men since men only have a single copy of the X and if that one is defective along with the K+ antigen being present they can be affected. It is called McLeod's syndrome (see WikiPedia for more info is interested). From the name McLeod's it sounds as if this first occurred in a Scottish or Irish man perhaps? Anyway, in my search for others with the K+ who were Northern European I ran into one man who actually has this syndrome (which is where I learned about it) and he's of Scotch-Irish descent. Joan In a message dated 5/25/2010 3:23:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Joan, We knew already my mtDNA was J1c, due to free testing at Smurf, but now it is J1c3a, which so far has not told me much. My maternal maternal line is German (everyone in Pennsylvania has some German), and it apparently goes back to the mideast, where it entered Europe in neolithic times. 25% of Arab women have it. I'm a "Lost Tribe". Actually the DNA type originated long before Abraham so both Jews and Arabs have it (I have read). My dad is English. Frisian (northern german), maybe in Durham, England long before the Romans. For only another $89 I can know for sure...... I will have to check my Kel group to see what it is....Nope, K+k-. Do you want to run the list instead? Maybe it is more appropriate since my Kel is wrong <grin>. Linda Merle