Last Xmas, the genome company, 23andMe had a sale! $100 for a genome. My wife and I ordered our done and the results are in!
One reason for doing this was to figure out how to fill in those damned forms that ask me to classify myself by race.
Well, now I can and I am one VERY weird bird!
Locations of haplogroup R1b1b2 circa 500 years ago, before the era of intercontinental travel. R1b1b2 is the most common haplogroup in western Europe, where its branches are clustered in various national populations. R1b1 was confined to Iberia and southern France during the Ice Age. R1b1b2a1a2b is characteristic of the Basque, while R1b1b2a1a2f2 reaches its peak in Ireland and R1b1b2a1a1 is most commonly found on the fringes of the North Sea.
Lets start with the paternal side. My paternal Haplogroup is R1b1b2a1a2d. By family stories, I 
knew we were from Andalus, that is pre 1492 Spain. . Besides the genome, my story is now confirmed from a surprising source. Pioneering picoarchaelogy work from France has made it possible to get pictures, of a sort, from old rocks located near sources of positronic emission. One such image is shown here. Although the image can not be exactly dated, based on archaeology of different periods when the caves were used, the source probably was about 17,000 years ago and we know there were no more than a few hundred of my ancestors alive at that time. Therefore, I suspect the baby in this photo (based on Asimov’s postitronic photo imprints found in rocks near the Lascaux caves) may well be my greatest grandfather! The boy certainly looks like my new grand daughter, or will once she gets more hair! If the woman carrying the baby is my ancestor, that is even more wonderful.
What is surprising is that we “begin” .. that is start from a few ancestors only 17,000 years ago .. the time of the last ice age. We have origins from the North Sea. Sounds like some Viking got to some ancestor and passed on his genome. The other fun idea is that we may be related to the Cro Magnons, the first modern people in Europe and believed by some to be the direct ancestors of the Basque!
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Maternal Haplogroup:U1b, Haplogroup R arose in southwest Asia not long after humans first expanded beyond Africa. It eventually spread throughout Eurasia, giving rise to most of the major haplogroups of Europe as well as one – haplogroup B – that was involved in the migration of people from Siberia into the Americas.
Mom’s genome is VERY different. We appear to be related to the first folks who left 
Africa, 60,000 years ago!
Of course this raises an intriguing question. If my genome is half Viking and half African, if some of my closest relatives are indigenous to South America, South African, and my paternal family name is Negri, am I now legally a Hispanic or an African-Australian-American?
all too too weird for me
i think i greatly prefer hearing about my ancestors the old way ie oral traditions my dad liked to pass on of how i was descended from austro hunagarian princes.
much easier to digest and deal with.
but it was fun to hear of your putative ancestry
i suspect most of us are rather weird birds;
as you know the various invading and counter invading hordes over the years did not mind hooking up with local “ladies”.
It’s really interesting to see a genomic trace of ancestry this detailed. Thanks!
What amazes me is my Mom!
I am somehow related to the Maori AND the Incans!
Funny things must have gone on the shtetl!
BTW .. I am REALLY looking forward to the next time I have to fillin a form for “race.” Do you think it is OK if I ID myself as a Cromagnon/Incan/Sustralian aboriginal?