new Viking Y DNA - daily updates

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Breaking news on Viking DNA: from Roberta Estes' blog:

442 Ancient Viking Skeletons Hold DNA Surprises – Does Your Y or Mitochondrial DNA Match? Daily Updates Here!

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click on the linked words Daily Updates Here

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My Y DNA matches VK44 (S658+), VK95 (S658+) and VK545 (DF109+).

VK44 was found in Faroes, Denmark est. 16-17th century CE.  VK95 was found in Hofstadir, Iceland est. 10-13th century CE. VK545 was found in Dublin, carbon dated to around 665-865 CE.

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wow, Mike!  Does that shed any light on your family history?

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I mean, so far we share the same preliminary haplogroup which is around 1800+ years old.  The samples are still being processed to "the tree" and may create some new branches. 

Göran Runström of FTDNA said “FTDNA is downloading and processing these results right now so we should start seeing the first ancient/modern pair branches on the haplotree in a few days.”

Spreadsheet of the samples with the locations, dates, ages, etc: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-020-2688-8/MediaObjects/41586_2020_2688_MOESM3_ESM.xlsx

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Did Göran say where we would see them? Will there be a separate screen or will they somehow be incorporated in the public Haplotree at FTDNA?

Darin

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It appears that you could just go to the FTDNA tree and lookup their public terminal SNP to see the position. Roberta should be indicating these in the blog.

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Do you mean the sample's SNP?  If that is the case we would have to know the SNP to look up, which is what I am looking for.  I was hoping there would be a screen that showed each of the samples and what their terminal SNP was. Then I could navigate to it in the Haplotree.

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Darin, Roberta appears to be posting the sample's terminal SNPs as they become available. These are either preliminary analysis, as upstream SNPs can be determined quickly, or as far downstream as they are able to be matched with the currently tested kits.

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Awesome! Thank you!

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It appears that these are showing up at yfull.com as well. I think it is a little easier to see there.

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Darin, are you sure? yfull typically updates their tree only once per month.

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Mike,

Yes, I did not see these the other day when I was looking.  Check out the I-P109 page. Up until recently there were only two ancient DNA samples   https://yfull.com/tree/I-P109/

Darin

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Thanks for pointing those out!

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Well that was cool – I have a mtDNA: T2b24 match with Sample: VK332 / Oland_1088 Location: Oland, Sweden.

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Mapping tool to look at the 442 Viking Samples:

https://mapalist.com/map/79314fae-b08a-4d6d-a356-e27a07d87ba4

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 You tube comment from one of the authors

Answer 1

While not typically discussed, Vikings were slave traders as well as prominent sea men, raiders and warriors.

Dublin, Ireland in particular was the largest Viking Slave port in Western Europe.  The existence of Celtic DNA in Viking territory, does not mean those people were necessarily Vikings as commonly understood, but rather part of the larger population of thralls.