Joe

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Hi my name is Joe Melluish

I have done my dna with 23and me and am interested in finding people with the same surname who might have the same y dna haplogroup. my surname is melluish but  interested in find out if the melhuish and melluish are of the same family or just got similar names from there own families that got there names from the manor melhuish when living there back in medieval time. My paternal haplogroup is R-Z19. There is little on the internet about this haplogroup but is the brother SNP of R-Z18

• Z18 - referred to as the North Sea tribe ? brother SNP of Z19 ... Estimated age: 2380 BC (3079 BC to 1773 BC)
  • R-Z18 on Wikipedia     
    R-Z18 has its highest concentrations in Scandinavia, but is also found throughout areas of Germanic migration, including the Low Countries, Central Europe, and the British Isles.^[4] The likely Scandinavian origins of R-Z18 are bolstered by the dominance of Scandinavian individuals among ancient DNA samples. These consist of individuals found in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland; settlers in Orkney and the Isle of Man; executed Scandinavians found in Oxfordshire and Dorset; and a Lombard individual found in what is now Hungary. It would be  interesting  to see more results on here. 

Kate

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Hi Joe-

My Melhuish paternal haplogroup looks to be R-M269.    I'm afraid my knowledge of haplogroups is rather limited.

Admin

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Y dna has the potential to tell us a lot about ourselves as it varies so little from generation to generation. In particular it helps when following a surname because we inherit both our Y dna and our surname from our fathers.

However it is immensely difficult and technical to understand, partly because the terminology has changed at least once as it has become a better-understoood science. Fair enough, as you learn more about a new subject it can become apparent that the old way of classification is no longer up to the job. It is horribly confusing for us amateur genealogists floating on the margins of the topic though.

Kate, it looks as though your father's R-M269 haplogroup is also known as R1b1a1b, and it's the group that dominates in Western Europe. The R group more generally seems to have its origins in central Asia most probably about 18500 years ago. So my reading of that information suggests that all Western Europeans are descended from a group that migrated westwards from central Asia.

If anyone has a better understanding of the topic, please do enlighten us.