Monday, March 25, 2013

DNA Monday: Haplogroup H3, My Deep Peeps

Is anyone out there in haplogroup H3? Anyone at all? Think I'm the only one! Can't be.

Still here stumbling around under the Nut Tree looking at my DNA results from 23and Me. It strikes me that while other blogs are written by experts and offer answers, here I am wandering round watching the questions multiply before my eyes. Why anyone would want to read this mess is beyond me, but thank you so much for stopping by. And if my misery from time to time makes you feel less miserable, then something has been accomplished.

Before I got my DNA test results back I tried to get up to speed on some aspects of the test, and one of them is haplogroup. I found out that haplogroup is a way to think about the great tree of man, or Homo Sapiens. Because I'm female my haplogroup comes down from a very distant woman living about 190,000 to 200,000 years ago now called Mitochondrial Eve. As the great family of woman grew and migrated, the ladies haplogroups grew and migrated. You can see that it's helpful to change the letters at each junction where the tree branches out.

My group, H, can only be given to female descendants because it's contained in the mitochondria of female DNA known by it's abbreviation, mtDNA. Guy haplogroup determination has a whole other set of letters and because there's so much written about yDNA and surname tests, let's let them fend for themselves. H, L2, and A haplogroups belong to us gals.

Science likes to get as specific as possible so the letters break down into sub groups and numbers are added. The haplogroups are also called clads, and the numbers are called subclads. These can be further broken down and if they are then lower case letters are added. While I'm H3 I've seen other people's results that are E1a. And science isn't resting on its laurels. No, researchers are working and these subclads are, even as I write and you read, now breaking down subclads even further in an effort to be as specific as possible. That's great because each addition of a letter or number means deeper specificity, and don't we want that so we can know as much about our deep peeps as possible?

I've had a good time finding out about my H3 haplogroup. We're quite an interesting band of travelers and here's our story. Haplogroup H originated in Southwest Asia about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago on that great big tree of man, er I mean, of women, when H came out of haplogroup HV. You can Google up a haplogroup migration tree if you get a spare moment and are interested.


Evolutionary tree of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups
Mitochondrial Eve (L)
L0L1-6
L1L2L3L4L5L6
MN
CZDEGQASRIWXY
CZBFR0pre-JTPU
HVJTK
HVJT
(Table courtesy Wikipedia.)
 
 
My H3 deep peeps, after a stint in Southwest Asia, moved on down the line as part of the migration during the last ice age, and landed in the Franco-Catabrian Glacial Refuge. Interestingly for me, this is where all of the cave art also comes from. So can you picture them huddling in caves and what not, enduring the last ice age? If I was there I'd have said, "Hey, let's put some art on those cave walls!" This group was also responsible for repopulating much of Europe after the ice melted.
 
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Laxcaux. (Wikipedia commons.)
 
Well, I could go on here because this is the kind of stuff I just love knowing. But you'll have your own haplogroup to work on and the fun of finding out about your own deep peeps!
 
 

154 comments:

  1. Here I am !!!
    I have had my deep mtdna done and belong to H3 ... you are not alone !
    I don't understand much of this either but I absolutely love knowing this much.
    It's simply thrilling !
    I live in Canada and am of Irish (mostly) and Scottish descent.
    Loved your post !

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    1. Hey! Look at us: H3! It is a kick to know it, somehow, isn't it? Thanks for commenting:)

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    2. I'm also H3, through 23andme. Looks like we may have a clan!

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    3. I'm also H3, through 23andme. Looks like we may have a clan!

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    4. I'm also H3 through 23 and me.

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    5. I'm also H3 through 23 & Me.....of Scot/Irish descent via my father and Dutch/German from my mother.

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    6. I know this is pretty old, but I was just browsing around. I'm also H3 from my Maternal side. Men get it from their MAternal side as well.

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    7. im H3 too from 23 and me :)

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    8. Another H3 from South Carolina, nice to meet all of ya'll!

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    9. Another H3! H3c to be precise! Also from 23andMe. I currently live in Miami, but I am of Cuban descent. 23andMe also confirmed that I am 91% Iberian/Spanish/Southern European. Nice to meet everyone!

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    11. I am H3 also (23andme). I am of English/Irish/Scottish/German descent on my dad's side. My family has lived in KY for over 200 years. I am English/Irish/Scottish/Dutch on my mom's side.

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    12. H3 here as well! (23 and me). Is anyone O negative blood type too? I was comparing the two, or trying to.

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    13. Canadian (near Toronto) 23/me says brisith Irish and German decent. Dutch on mom's side/ French Canadian on Dad's side. H3. Hereditary blood disorder: spherocytosis. :)

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    14. our family is H3 also....from 23andme....My mom had type o blood also....

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    15. Here it is 2018, and I just found out I am also H3 - thanks 23 and Me (from my daughter's kit - mine is still in the works!). We are O-positive blood group. My ancestry is full of Northern British Isles (very little British but lots of everything else), French, German, Iberian, a bit of Italian in there, and God knows what else! Looks like we all come down from the same Eve!

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    16. H3 checking in! My mom's side is Irish. Not sure of blood type. I think O and probably positive. I love the tidbit about the cave artists. I'm an artist ❤️

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    17. I am H3 (23 and me) - While trying to understand the Haplogroup designation I came across this write-up, I enjoyed reading it.

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    18. Also an H3, but I have my family tree back before Christ, so I already knew who my relatives were. Scotch/English on my mothers side and scotch/Welsh/Norwegian on my fathers side

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    19. I am in Haplogroup H3. My blood type is O negative. My maternal line, as far back as I know it, comes from Ballintadder, County Mayo. --Eva Casey eva[at]theworld.com

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    20. Hi. Just found out I belong to H3. Born in South Africa. Living in South Carolina.

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  2. Men have mitochondrial DNA too, passed on from our mothers. I too am a member of your group.

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    1. Hello ...i have a huge problem with the results i have been given,i have done a 23andme test and my maternal haplogroup is A2ae....but also i did another test through crigenetics which also i paid to do my haplogroups as a result my paternal is r1b, and my maternal is H3h.....im really confused about this any oppinions?

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  3. Roll call for H3? Checking in! My maternal descent is all Eastern European and I live in Western PA.

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    1. So is mine! 100% Eastern European. I grew up in OH but now live in AZ. Both my parents were Lithuanian.

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    2. scottish, german, and slovak :) both sides from east PA in the Poconos and I grew up in Ohio as well

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  4. Hi all! I'm H3 too. My family came from England and Ireland and were early American colonizers. I grew up in SC and now live in NY.

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  5. Hi, I am checking in, I'm an H3 too! My family came from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and France. They were also early colonizers of America. Grew up in CA, now live in TN

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  6. H3 and RH Negative. Are any other H3ers RH Negative as well?

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    1. Hi, I'm H3h and RH NEGATIVE.

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    2. I'm an H3 O negative. My mother came from eastern France. Possibly Jewish.

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    4. Yes, I'm Negative. H3G1 ...no idea what it means. I know nothing of my mother's' family.

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    5. I am H3 and my blood type is O negative.

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    6. H3 and RH negative. Alien blood

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    7. H3 and O negative. I was curious too!

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    9. I'm H3C from 23andme, O negative blood. Nice to meet you all. I'm Spanish/Basque, Swiss, Irish, German, and Italian. Basically a European Mutt.

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    10. H3 and B neg. I also just found out that I'm adopted (at 44!), so I'm trying to find out more about my biological family.

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    11. Yes, female H3H and O- neg. ancestors from Sami/Finnish/Norrbotten Sweden.

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  7. Hi, I am H3 and thank you for your post, it helped explain this group better.

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  8. Just found out Maternal line is H3 Kootz , Noll line

    I'm a guy

    Jack

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  9. Hi Folks-
    Just to clarify something not clear in this post, females are the ones who give us mitochondrial DNA but guys have it too... and as I understand it, they keep it while we ladies pass it on:) But as I say above, I'm no expert! Thanks to the guy commenters above for underlining my lack of clarity:) Much appreciated.
    Cheers, Diane

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  10. I have haplogroup H3 on my mother's side. Her family comes from central Italy. Jon

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    1. Interesting I am H3 and both my parents are from Lithuania. I'm 100% Eastern Europen.

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    2. I am also H3 from the Tuscan area of Italy

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  11. H3 sister here . . . my family lived in Eastern Europe (Krakow region of Poland) for at least 200 years prior to migration to Chicago in the early 1900's. Glad to meet y'all!

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  12. Hi, I am also H3, but it is a known fact that my great great grandmother was Lenni-Lenape/Delaware Indian (I have a photo of her and others who knew her whom I have spoken to). Perhaps not all Native Americans are in mitochondrial groups A, B, C, D, & X? Or, somewhere in her line some generations before her there must have been a female from an H3 region like Portugal, France, Basque, etc.?

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    1. this is worth looking into. this territory goes back 15-1600s, even Scandinavians around 1000, or Irish well before that. I'll be curious to hear your full story as it develops. I'm looking for anyone to match H3g1

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    2. This interests me. My mother grew up on and next to a reservation in AZ. We have identified Native American history but no relationship according to DNA. ?

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    3. Have you found out any more connection between the H3 and the Native American ancestry? I always thought my grandmother was Native American. She came from the mountains in Eastern Kentucky.

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    4. I am H3, 0-, and almost 19 percent Native American....

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    5. Brenda Dawson, I'm H3c and all of my grandparents come from Eastern Kentucky.

      I had a great grandmother who was native American.

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  13. Just found out I'm H3. Adoptee born in Tulsa OK 1967. Don't quite get all the technical info but loved learning my ethnicity was European/British/Irish. Now to figure out what to do with all this raw DNA information..lol
    Sienna

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  14. Hi all, H3 too. I am russian, parents are russian, everyone I know from my family is russian, so I wonder how that happened, haha
    Well anyway nice to meet ya all

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  15. I'm H3 & AB pos. Myers-Briggs personality type INTP, can we connect the dots......?

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    1. H3c, B+ (my father was AB+) and ENFP here!

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    2. H3c, B+ (my father was AB+) and ENFP here!

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  16. H3 here! Rare? I didn't know that. Its all brand new to me and I'm trying to learn as much as I can.

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  17. I'm H3 too. Maternal family were Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe (Latvia, Ukraine) as far as I can track individuals. I'm O pos, as well.

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  18. I'm H3 also, my mother is O neg. we have decent from Italy.

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  19. Forgot to mention I live in Michigan and H3's are a distant relative of Jimmy Buffet!

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  20. Hi! I'm H3 in Dallas, Texas. My mother's family has been in Texas since before it was a state. O pos, 2.9% Neanderthal.

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  21. I'm H3, B+ and and INTJ! So there. :) My Granny was adopted, but her biological mother was Irish.

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    1. I am H3 (H3c), B+ and an ENFP! Hi cousin!

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    2. I am H3 (H3c), B+ and an ENFP! Hi cousin!

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  22. H3, O+. Always considered my maternal lines to be predominantly British Isles, English, Scottish, perhaps Irish. But the two furthest-back females at the bottom of my tree are both born ca. 1770 Virginia. Have somewhat similar last names. Vittitoe/Videto (from records) and Rippeto. It's been suggested that that Rippeto may have been Rubideaux -- perhaps French Huguenot. Always an adventure!

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  23. Just received my results from Family Tree DNA. I am H3... have no idea what all the rest means. I always thought my grandmother was Native American. She came from the mountains in Eastern Kentucky.

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    1. our family is H3 from my mother who was from eastern KY also...Lee county..hmmm......lol

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    2. Brenda I am H3c and my sister H3, I too had a grandmother that was supposedly native, but her records are nearly impossible to fine. Mind telling whom yours was?

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  24. H3 going back to Scandinavia as far back as I know.

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  25. I'm H3 - All 8 of my great-grandparents emigrated from Sweden to the U.S. in the 1860's - 1880's. But I had my DNA tested and discovered it is almost 10% Irish (surprise) with little bits of Slav and NW Europe (French/Belgian). Of course, it is mostly Scandinavian.

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  26. H3 from 23 and me as well!! Irish decent.

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  27. I'm H3 (23andme) on my mom's side (female haplogroup) and she was a flaming redhead of Scottish descent. It's interesting to me to see all of the Scottish and Irish connections to H3 on this thread.

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  28. I am male, H3 and O negative. German immigrant to the USA, with no known priors, although my siblings immigrated as well and have children in the USA. Ladies from Indian backgrounds, I do believe you are an important link in the heritage chain of the families of Conquistadors, and possibly Sephardic Jewish women from the Spanish/Porugese dispora. A comparison of H3 values between a descended from early Newport, RI settlers and American Indian descendants with H3 values would be highly interesting, and shed some light on the very early settlers (other then soldiers and officers) of the Americas and inversely on the trek of Sephardic Jews in Europe, of which very little is known.

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    1. I should add the my documented maternal relatives are from France/Germany/Poland.

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    2. Hey! I'm H3H and O- also! Greetings :)

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    3. I am also H3, O-, 39.6 Iberian, 18.9 Native American. Sephardic ancestry??

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  29. Hello - I am female, H3 and O negative. All 8 of my great-grandparents came from Sweden, which is reflected in my DNA test results - but in my DNA there are also bits of Finnish, Slavic, French, and Irish/British.

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  30. Hello! I'm female & H3 here, & O pos (my mother was 0 neg.) Scottish/Irish/English/Dutch - Almost all Northwestern European / Scandanavian anecestry. Family history spoke of Cherokee blood of apx 1/8%...DNA did not show this, to our surprise. Only a tiny 0.02% of Native American blood! I as well, am interested that so many have Scot/Irish ancestry.

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  31. Hi! H35 and A pos. All my ancestors have lived in Sweden since early 1600s, when the "Forest Finn" part of the family came over from mid Finland. Still 42% Finnish according to 23andme. 31% Scandinavian and the rest Eastern Europe, Ashkenazi and Siberia. Only 0.3 British.

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  33. H3 A positive found out I am related to William Bradford from the Mayflower 1620.

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  34. H3 checking in from downunder. Via NZ via scotland as far as I can research.

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  35. H3 from New Zealand here. I can trace back about 5 generations to Ann Clare GILL daughter of William GILL from London.

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  36. Hello- I'm H3 from only Galician area of Polish-Ukrainan that I know of! But 23andme said I had a bit of Scandinavian, northern Europe [presumably German?], southern Europe and Balkan [more than the other areas besides eastern Europe]. I'm trying to figure out where H3 started. Spain to Germany to Poland? Or Russian steppes through Germany to Scandinavia and Ireland? I have no British or Irish dna surprisingly compared to all the other H3's! But my sister, brother and maternal relatives have a lot of red or blonde hair! Where did that come from- Vikings for me and the Scottish/Irish H3's??? And maybe why east coast American Indians have H3? Again, vikings through Greenland to Maine? So interesting!

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    1. I'm H3, O-, 76percent European, (39.6 percent Iberian) 18.9 Native American, and possibly Viking (my mother and sister have Dupuytren's (the Viking disease) contracture of the hand.

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  37. Here's another H3 member. My mother and her family are all from Scotland. We have big chunks of Scandinavian, wisps of Morrocan, Tunisian, Italian and a dash of Eastern Siberia, too. My father's people are overwhelmingly English with some Scots, Irish and Welsh added for good measure.

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  38. I'm H3 too! I participated in a lupus study with 23andme. Still researching my results. mitochondrial Eve! Love it! I'm 100% European, mostly northern, but some Sardonian and Balkan, but I have a tiny bit of unknown? Alien!!?? Why would someone leave that tropical paradise of Sardonia, while I'm left in Ohio??

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  39. Thanks for the info. I'm (23 and me) H3 and another O positive. My maternal line is from Germans settled in Romania and Hungary. (Paternal side is County Mayo ) I was shocked that I didn't have any Eastern European

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  40. H3 - American since mid 1600s in Eastern U.S., VA, TN, NC. Family from Wales, Scotland, England, and Native Amercian/Cherokee. H3 must be an exploring Viking lineage!

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    1. H3-T1 Bet you are too. I'm from South Carolina by almost exactly the places you have listed! Small world huh?

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    2. Same here, exactly as you said. Diane Martin, I also have Martin family connections.

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  41. I'm H3 O pos. My mom's family is mostly from Scotland. Came over as Puritans. My sister has lupus. How many lupus-ites are there here?

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  42. Im H3 through 23 and me, my mothers side is from a few other areas (middle east/north Africa and sub-saharan africa and other) but just around Europe (having trouble specifying it) and my dads side is still to be determined but we know some of it is from Sicily ( at least my great grandmother and great grandfather, etc. were)... its cool to see so many other H3's!

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  43. Hi, I am H3 and it is great to see there are more out there. Found out through 23 and me. I see I have the same group as Jimmy Duffit....I didn't even know who he was! My ancestors all come from Europe. I am in New Zealand

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  44. Hi, H3 here also, I know my family migrated from Ireland/Scotland as well, I have also been told we have Native American and that my great great grandmother walked 10 trail of tears, but this did not show in my DNA results from 23 and me..I have relatives in Oklahoma as that is where my family settled and spread from there.

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  45. Hi, H3 here also, I know my family migrated from Ireland/Scotland as well, I have also been told we have Native American and that my great great grandmother walked 10 trail of tears, but this did not show in my DNA results from 23 and me..I have relatives in Oklahoma as that is where my family settled and spread from there.

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  46. I know very little about my maternal line past my great-great grandmother Evelyn (Warren) Jones in 19th c. Illinois. I would love to be able to trace my H3 further back to Europe.

    My ancestry includes Eastern European (Czechoslovakia was the birthplace of my father and my maternal grandfather), Northwestern European (more British and Irish than anything else), Southern European, Scandinavian, and Finnish. I have not been able to trace these last three genealogically.

    I am O+ and do not have lupus to the best of my knowledge but have suffered from a variety of autoimmune disorders.

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  47. H3a, A+ blood type. Moms Family is from the Galacia Region of the Carpathian mountains, called Lemko people, who are a touch of Ukranian culturally, but have German, French, Amer Indian, lots of Balkan SW Asian and Black according to 23 and me. oh 2.9% neanderthal. Who'd a guessed I have to believe we were a convergence or pathway through Europe and Asia and back again on the 2nd out of Africa migration.Those Carpathian mountains were the breadbasket of hunter gatherers and early farmers. My DNA is all over the place. Oh and horrible endocrine systems, Thyroid, osteo, etc. generations.

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  48. H3f (23 and me) and O+. I'm adopted but what i know is maternal side is German and Paternal side Czechoslovakia and only <4% neaderthal. Almost 50 years old and healthy!

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  49. Hi there! I just got my 23andMe results, which stated I was H1m. However, after I ran my results through Promethease, Promethease stated my maternal haplogroup was H3. Very curious about this discrepancy!

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    1. If you can't trace the reasons yourself, contact Promethease (and/or 23andMe) and ask to have the logic explained.

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  50. I am an H3 and 23andme as well. Irish, Scottish, French, as well as Sub-Saharan African. I am trying to find out if there is any Ashkenazi or Sephardic ancestors in the family. How do I do that?

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  51. I am H3 and O positive. All members of my lines seem to be O- or 0+. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I do know I carry the MC1R Gene, as the red hair runs through our generations before us. I am 83% French, 7% Irish, 2% German, 2% Iberian, 1% Dutch, 0.6% Scanavian, 0.6% Ashkenazi.

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  52. I am H3 and O positive. All members of my lines seem to be O- or 0+. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I do know I carry the MC1R Gene, as the red hair runs through our generations before us. I am 83% French, 7% Irish, 2% German, 2% Iberian, 1% Dutch, 0.6% Scanavian, 0.6% Ashkenazi.

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  53. H3C here. My grandparents were all from Greece yet I have this 24% Southwestern Europe, slightly exceeded by Italy & Southern Europe - 27%, and Asia Minor - 29%. What a scatter pattern. AB+

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  54. I'm H3h5 from family tree dna. My son is maternal group H, paternal group J-M 241, from 23 and me. My mother was Irish, Scottish, French, German. My father was Ukranian. My husband, my son's father, was Jewish Ukranian and German

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  55. Another branch here!! Also H3! Mother's side came from Romania (was Hungary but the border changed since coming over)at the turn of the last century. Came to the states in 1910. Lived in New York, Florida and resting in Texas.

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  56. H3a here - Basque on my father's side and German/Irish on my mother's. Grew up in NY and Florida, now live in NJ.

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  57. H3f through 23andme as well =)
    But I'm adopted do my DNA results were 65.6 European and 33.6 sub Saharan with the majority 30.1 in west Africa. Not sure what it all means though.

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    1. Hello! I'm H3f (23andme). 94% northwest european (british, irish, french, german, scandinavian).

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    2. I am H3F as well (23andme). 99.5% European (49.6% British/Irish, 24.4% German)

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    3. h3f as well 99.5 % European 0.5 sub Saharan African

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    4. My wife (and kids) H3f as well. Their maternal line goes back to the 1600s in Zeeland (South-west of the Netherlands).

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  58. I'm H3 as well. 99.8% European, mostly British/Irish (62%) and French/German (9%). Lots of ancestors were immigrants to the US in the 1600s and early 1700s, including several Quaker families.

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  59. I just found out that I am H3g1. I was told it is rare; true?

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  60. I am also recently discover what it means to be H3C. Type O - as is my mom and one of my two daughters. I’m a European and Native American. Would love to learn more and possibly join others in a group.

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    1. Estella, whom does your native come from? I've got it in my dna, heard for years I had grandmothers on both sides being full blooded but having a time tracking it down.

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  61. I'm also H3 and i'm from morocco :D

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  62. H3 here too. Mom's side , France, Germany, Eastern Europe and Iberian Peninsula. O+

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  63. I'm H3T. And I see in the upper left corner of your 'names I'm working on' there is Hartley - that is my maternal great-grandmother's name.

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  64. H3G1 here. Dutch, Scandinavian, and Asia minor

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  65. I´m H3g1.Swedish since generations,blood group B+ and my daughters have 0Rh- and B-. I have found my mm mm mm, who was Maria Dorothea Gerdrut Wolmer (Walmer) born 1749/50 in Winsen an der Luhe, Germany, died March 1, 1800 in Kiel, St. Nicolai, Germany.Her daughter-daughter-daughter moved to Sweden ca 1840.//Christina













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  66. I too am H3! Scot/Irish and more..

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  67. Thank you for this informative blog post & interesting comments! Very nice to meet everyone in the H3 family! My maternal haplogroup is H3 also (as per 23andme) and my blood type is O-. My mbti is INFJ. I'll be 45 in March and was diagnosed in my mid to late 20's with a very severe form of Fibromyalgia & and the autoimmune disorder, Ankylosing Spondylitis. I'm hoping more genetic discoveries are made in the near future to ascertain how some of us are immune to certain illnesses while being predisposed to others. I read online that haplogroup H and H3 have a greater degree of genetic immunity to diseases such as hiv while simultaneously being predisposed to inheriting & developing Alzheimer's -- My Mother was diagnosed with this horrible disease in 2014. Supposedly, H3 handles the affects of premature aging a bit better than other haplogroups! Not sure if and how all of these things are interconnected but it's utterly fascinating information to say the least! I Currently reside on the MS Gulf Coast/one hour East of New Orleans. I am 100% European -- Heavily Scots-Irish/British & Scandinavian on my Father's side and heavily German/Scots-Irish & Basque on my Mother's side. My Father (surname Isaacs) was from West Virginia and my Mother (surname Sigler) is from Louisiana. Both of my paternal & maternal lineages have been in the U.S. for many hundreds of years -- very old stock American settlers. I'm interested in finding out as much as I possibly can about our H3 haplogroup. Until then, sending wishes to all for a lovely 2019! Kind Regards, Lea xoxo

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  68. My theory is that 25000 years ago H3 was a nomadic subgroup out of Africa through Israel with a high intermarriage rate (4%) with Neanderthals. Their descendants often have prodigious memories. The H3 migrated northward through the Black Sea and then eastward Iinto Asia. During the ice ages they adapted to a hunting environment atop the ice traveling west through the Baltics, russia, Poland,Finland,scandanavia and ultimately ireland where one nomadic group the “corca mogha”(tribe of Mog) settled around 7000 bc as the glaciers receded. The Corca Mogha remained the principal aboriginal tribe of Ireland for several millennia. Approximately 5000 years ago they were displaced to the region between kilkerrin and gort in eastern Galway. The celts taxed them at rate ten times greater than other tribes. Eventually the corca mogha were referred to as “descendants of slaves”. Perhaps because of their genetic memories, Their descendants had an astonishingly high rate of academic success. The corca mogha dominated the brehon lawyers, administered the law schools and were often elected to run the abbeys. The royal line was restabliahed and the king of corcamoe was one the twelve great kings advising the high king of Connaught and served as military chiefs for the high king of Ireland. After the defeat of Connor, their castle in gort was destroyed and many of the corca mogha scattered around the world. Some remained in Ireland in the area around kilerrin. The Corca mocha continued to speak their unique language until it finally became extinct in the 1800’s. Please email me at johnloftus@live.com if you have any leads. Thanks!

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  69. I'm H3H from nat geo helix test. B+blood

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    1. Omg! Me too! I have checked all the sites and the crazy thing is my half sister, same mother is H3. I am H3C! As well as A+.

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