Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2012
Some months ago I posted about having unexpected discoveries about your ancestry. Just when you think you have reached the end of your search, something comes out of nowhere! (if you are lucky….)
My local bookseller called my attention to a newly published book titled Gypsy Boy. This is a personal account of the author’s “Life [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2011
A new U3b study group has been started through FamilyTree DNA by a gentleman who discovered my site, RedTambourine, because of its link to Haplogroup U3 and U3b. He is U3b, like me, but he belongs to a different group of U3b specimens than I do. He is the second person that I have found [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2010
If any of you have any romantic ideas about Gypsies, you need to let those go. There are no more Gypsies of our childhood stories, gathered around horse-drawn wooden ‘roulottes’ (caravans) and cooking outside over open fires. Men are no longer strumming guitars while women in long, flowing skirts shake tambourines and dance around the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2010
I made mention of the Polish Roma in last week’s post. All of us who are U3b haplogroup have an RMI (Relative Match Index) that matches at a high ratio to Polish Roma — what that means is that out of indigenous populations in the world, we match most closely to Polish Roma. It does [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2010
Last week I posted about our U3b group, and the questions that we are asking among ourselves about the validity of the data in the journals of the Genebase Indigenous Population application. We would all like to know definitively whether there is a ‘dna signature’ identified with the Polish Roma people.
I called FamilyTreeDNA and spoke [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2010
One of the most interesting parts of my genealogy research has been connecting with other people who are U3b haplogroup and who are questioning and searching for the same information that I am. We are a small group, but we share information and exchange opinions about our research with each other.
To give you some perspective [...]
Posted in My Story, Share a story about your heritage on Jan 12th, 2010
I am immersed in a big project. I found a book in August of last year at an antique bookseller’s stall in France titled ‘The Great History of the Gypsies’ (my translation of ‘La Grande Histoire des Bohemiens’)–the only catch is that this book is written in French. I speak passable French, but reading a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2009
Haplogroup R1b1b2a1b. It’s definitely a mouthful. This is the Y-haplogroup from my paternal side of the family, as determined from the ‘Deep Clade’ testing offered by Family Tree DNA. I wanted to believe that perhaps we come from Vikings, but it turns out that we are actually from a group identified as Italo-Celts. Believe it [...]