My grandmother (who was very Irish!) told me long, long ago that the Irish originally came off the turkish steps. Interesting. Patricia Crane > From: waterford-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: WATERFORD Digest, Vol 5, Issue 72 > To: waterford@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:01:39 -0700 > > > > The Ireland GenWeb County Waterford website is up for adoption. Check it out at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwat/ > If you would like to take this site over, contact: Waterford-admin@rootsweb.com > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Off-topic: New DNA Studies (Janet Crawford) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:45:20 +0000 > From: Janet Crawford <reojan@gmail.com> > Subject: [WATERFORD] Off-topic: New DNA Studies > To: cotipperary@rootsweb.com, waterford@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimGgPU3edqv+ZyK9HT2fFCjdBy-V3oO-MVqPVRS@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > The detailed genetic study of one of the first farming communities in > Europe, from central Germany, reveals marked similarities with > populations living in the Ancient Near East (modern-day Turkey, Iraq > and other countries) rather than those from Europe, the Australian > Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide said in a > news statement about the research. > > http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/11/asian-invaders-showed-european.html > > and > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101109172344.htm > > and > > http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000536 > > That study indicates that early farming man [Turkic based language] > traveled West. Another study involving DNA and a bit of lingistics > indicates that the hunters, whose language was different > [Indo-European based language], were moving East at the same time in > the same areas. > > http://www.turkicworld.org/turkic/60_Genetics/Klyosov2010DNK-GenealogyEn.htm > > It seems to make sense that as land was turned into farmland, the game > would be driven away forcing the hunters to migrate. Both DNA > signatures are found in Europe today. > > The Turkic group is R1b, which constitutes much of the Irish DNA. > > Janet > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the WATERFORD list administrator, send an email to > WATERFORD-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the WATERFORD mailing list, send an email to WATERFORD@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WATERFORD-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of WATERFORD Digest, Vol 5, Issue 72 > ****************************************