I seem to recall a fairly recent news item that researchers have discovered, using DNA analysis, that the original occupants of what we now call the British Isles came from the present day Basque region. The Celts came much later I guess. Vic Taylor

I like the Sykes books - Saxons, Vikings & Celts is his most recent one and it talks about this, but it's a bit more complicated - and partly depends on the part of Britain. The Northern part of the British Isles was probably not inhabited during the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saxons-Vikings-Celts-Genetic-Britain/dp/0393062686/ for UK readers, or from various Amazon stores of your choice (US, etc) His work in previous books Seven Daughters of Eve (mitochodrial DNA --mother's mother's mother's mother's etc back 17,000 to 40,000 years) and Adam's Curse (yDNA in men - father's, father's, father's, father's in similar time frames) is explored in a specifically British Isles context in this one. At 05:32 AM 6/10/2007, vic.taylor.genealogy@googlemail.com wrote: >I seem to recall a fairly recent news item that researchers have >discovered, using DNA analysis, that the original occupants of what we >now call the British Isles came from the present day Basque region. The >Celts came much later I guess. > >Vic Taylor > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Lynn Calvin Aurora, IL lcalvin@interaccess.com