Notable members include mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna (1895-1980), after whom the Nevanlinna Prize was named; population geneticist Harri Nevanlinna; architect Arne Nevanlinna; composer Tapio Nevanlinna; and philosopher Tuomas Nevanlinna. Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) was a prominent Confederate Army general during the American Civil War, renowned as a cavalry leader and military strategist. This man's mother had mitochondrial haplogroup U3a2, which according to Eupedia "found in Yemen, Italy, Switzerland and Britain / found in the Kura-Araxes culture . Bull-masked terracotta figurines and bull-horned stone altars have been found in Cyprus (dating back as far as the Neolithic, the first presumed expansion of J2 from West Asia). 1955), the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation and the richest man in the world according to Forbes for most of the time since 2000, appears to belong to haplogroup I2-Y3684 (aka Y3713) according to the testing of a close relative. 1971) could also belong to that haplogroup, although it hasn't been confirmed yet. The Lowland Scottish Clan Lindsay descends from Sir Walter de Lindissie, who accompanied David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, to claim his throne. According to the Buchanan DNA Project, most members of the Highlands Scottish Clan Buchanan belong to haplogroup R1b-L21 > DF13 > L1335 > L1065 > S744 > S691 > S695. of which 57% are J2 and around 20% are J1. Last update February 2023. So, it may be that the haplogroup previously attributed to Niall is actually attributable to Conn of the Hundred Battles. The J-M172 Story. Haplogroup J2 is commonly found within Asia Minor, Persia, . According to commercial tests conducted by other members of the Jewish Oppenheimer family, the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) belonged to haplogroup Q1b. The study revealed that he belonged to haplogroup E1b1b1. The acclaimed Jewish actor and director Dustin Hoffman (b. J2b has a quite different distribution from J2a. 1955) descends from George Adam Costner (Kastner) from Edenkoben, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and his father Andreas Kastner. He invented among others the phonograph, the automatic telegraph, the movie camera, the alkaline battery and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. According to the testing of relatives, he would have belonged to haplogroup I1-Z138. There is another cluster of J2a with a frequency approximating 15% in Bactria, in southern-central Asia, in what is now northern Afghanistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan. Their language is distantly related to Dagestanian languages, but not to any other linguistic group. This needs to be confirmed by further descendant testing. Oppenheimer played a major role in the Manhattan Project and is considered one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. Burt Bacharach (b. The man who is the most recent common ancestor of this line is estimated to have been born around 25,000 BCE. He was Commanding General of the Union Army for 5 months. In human genetics, Haplogroup J2 (M172) is a Y-chromosome haplogroup which is a subdivision of haplogroup J. Haplogroup J2 is widely believed to be associated with the spread of agriculture from the northern Fertile Crescent, the Levant, and Anatolia [1],[2]. Hattori Hanz (1542-1596) was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan. It is also common amongst Bedouins. [2], Luke the Evangelist is a Christian saint and apostle born on 1st century A.D. in Roman Syria and died in Roman Greece. A third alternative is that L70 originated in Anatolia or Greece and moved to Italy with the migration that gave rise to the Etruscan civilisation. This identity was confirmed by match to that of her grand-nephew, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[11][13]. However, Dagestani peoples (Dargins, Lezgins, Avars) belong predominantly to haplogroup J1 (84% among the Dargins) and almost completely lack J2 lineages. Text . The researcher reported that the tested members of these clans with a confirmed paper trail all belonged to the Norwegian variety of R1a-L448, and more specifically to the subclade L176.1, which to date has been found almost exclusively among the descendants of Somerled. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards, among others. . [21][22][23][24] They share mtDNA haplogroup J1c2c. 8. Although this points to a non-paternity at some time in the Plantagenet lineage, it is likely that most if not all Dukes of Beaufort, and possibly most Plantagenets monarchs outside the House of York belonged to R1b-U152. Z435 was formed about 3,600 years ago and has a TMRCA of only 3,100 years ( 300 years). Cousins of Horthy posted their Y-DNA results at MolGen, and all belonged to I2a-Din-N (or I2a1b3a in current ISOGG nomenclature). The DNA analysis of the only known extant DNA sample from prisoner Spandau #7 proved to be a match to the Hess male line, thereby refuting the Doppelgnger Theory. Clan Hamilton is a Lowland Scottish clan whose chiefs descend from Walter fitz Gilbert of Hambledon in 14th-century Lanarkshire. a number of Steppe invasions from the Bronze Age until the Middle Ages. Notable O'Neills include the American playwright and Nobel laureate Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), the American businessman and founder of the O'Neill brand Jack O'Neill (1923-2017), the 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill (1914-1990), and the British economist Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley (b. . [47] The Kerey clan of the Kazakhs have a high amount of the C3* star-cluster (C2*-ST) Y chromosome and is very high among Hazaras, Kazakhs and Mongols in general. Further tests published in December 2014 revealed that his Y-chromosomal haplogroup was G2 (not tested for downstream mutations, but statistically very likely to be G2a3 as a northern European). The English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known professionally by his stage name Sting (b. J1 is defined by the mutation J-M267 and the subhaplogroup is often referred to by that name. One high-frequency regionencompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the . Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), the 14th president of the United States, was a member of R1b-U106 > Z381 > Z156 > S497 > DF96 based on the results from the Pierce DNA Project (North) (Group C). In Human Genetics, J2 haplogroup (AKA J-M172) is among the most frequent Y DNA haplogroups in the Middle East and in the Arab World. Finding Your Roots Bernie Sanders Sanders is a US politician and advocate. They would acquire the title of Earl of Tullibardine (1606), Earl of Atholl (1629), Marquess of Atholl (1676), and ultimately Duke of Atholl (1703) to this day. The distribution of mt-haplogroups J1b and J1d are reminiscent of thhose of Y-haplogroup J1 and J2 (mtDNA J1d being closer to Y-DNA J2). The king was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup H and the woman was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup H5a. The Minamoto are the patrilineal ancestors of numerous samurai clans, including the Akamatsu, Akechi, Amago, Arima, Ashikaga (shguns), Hatakeyama, Hosokawa, Ikeda, Imagawa, Kitabatake, Kuroda, Matsudaira, Miyake, Miyoshi, Mogami, Mori, Nanbu, Nitta, Ogasawara, ta, Rokkaku, Sakai, Sasaki, Satake, Satomi, Shiba, Shimazu, Takeda, Toki, Tokugawa (shguns), Tsuchiya and Yamana. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858), the man who forced Japan to open its ports to Western ships, which eventually caused the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji restoration, probably belonged to haplogroup R1b-DF27 > Z196 > Z209 > Z295 based on shared genealogy (descendant of Edward Perry 1630-1695 from Devon, England) with members of the Perry Y-DNA Project (Family 11). Check also Haplogroups of European kings and queens for mtDNA lines of many Habsburg family members. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 1963), an actor, producer, musician, comedian and singer, famous for his roles as Blackie Parrish on the ABC television series General Hospital, and Jesse Katsopolis in the sitcoms Full House and its sequel Fuller House, and in Grandfathered. An analysis of the Hume DNA Project has provided conclusive evidence that the Scottish philosopher, historian and economist David Hume (1711-1776) belonged to haplogroup R1a-Z284 > S4458 > S5301 > S5153 > L448 > CTS4179. This connection is supported by its age (8,500 +/- 3,500 thousand years ago) , which is very close to the beginning of the Neolithic . The remains of the great Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio (1571-1610) were excavated to confirm the circumstances of his mysterious death at the age of 38. The high incidence of J2a in Italy is owed in great part to the migration of the Etruscans from western Anatolia to central and northern Italy, and to the Greek colonisation of southern Italy. The pharaohs are buried in the Valley of the Kings. The Fujiwara clan was a powerful family of regents who dominated Japanese politics during the Heian period (7941185). The original researchers also stated they had not been consulted by iGENEA before it published the haplogroup information. 1973) might belong to haplogroup E-V13. Sax commented: Such methods obtaining material without the consent of the donor would generally disqualify He is assumed to be a member of haplogroup J1 according to a discussion on the Poreklo Forum. 1965) ad his Y-haplogroup was revealed by the PBS television series Finding Your Roots. They identified them as a members of haplogroup R1a. This could either mean that Z435 was one of the founding Italic lineages, or that it was already in Italy and was assimilated by the Italic tribes. I2a2a1 in current ISOGG nomenclature) according to the Luce Surname Project. 1670 in Callender, Perthshire). Bill Clinton (born 1946), who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, most probably belonged to haplogroup I1 based on the results of distant cousins testing available at Ysearch.org. The Cochran DNA Project determined that the clan's original lineage is R1a-Z284 > S4458 > S5301 > S5153 > L448 > YP355 > YP609 > YP4252 > YP4248 > YP5007, which confirms the Scandinavian origin of the clan. (2017)). William Welles Hollister. Nicholas II belonged to Y-haplogroup R1b and mt-haplogroup T2. This deduction is based on the results from the Washington DNA Project where most bearers of that surname belong to various clades under DF13. David Hume was one of the fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment and one of the leading Empiricist philosophers. J. Richard III, last king of the House of York and last of the House of Plantagenet, was YDNA G-P287, in contrast to the Y haplotypes of the putative modern relatives. In fact, it seems that many branches of J2a (e.g. The most famous member was probably Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury who served as British prime minister three times for a total of over thirteen years under Queen Victoria. Several scientists have created their own theories about the Y-chromosomal haplogroup (and therefore the patrilineal ancestry) of Genghis Khan. It is believed that Clan Douglas also descends from Freskin and the biggest cluster in the Douglas DNA Project indeed matches the Sutherland and Murray haplotype. If this is correct, it could mean that all Japanese emperors and a great number of daimyo (feudal lords) and samurai families would have belonged to haplogroup D1b1a2, if non-paternity events did not occur. Author: Maciamo Hay. He also drove the construction of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. J2a levels would have been higher among the Greeks than the Etruscans, and particularly among the insular Greeks that colonised Magna Graecia. The Hattians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Canaaites, and Carthaginians all had bull deities (in contrast with Indo-European or East Asian religions). Early in this expansion process, Haplogroup J developed 2 subgroups, J1 and J2. 2014), in the minor Kyjatice culture, an offshoot of the Urnfield culture, which differs from typical Indo-European cultures by its use of cremation instead of single-grave burials. Clan Murray descends from William's cousin. J1c8 (mtDNA) J2a1a (mtDNA) Famous Members (to be added) How to Participate. 2004). Members of the House of Wettin include the Kings Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI of the United Kingdom, all the Kings of the Belgians, the Kings of Portugal from 1853 to 1910, the Kings of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1946, several Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania, the Margraves of Meissen from 1075 to 1423, the Electors of Saxony from 1423 to 1806, the Kings of Saxony from 1806 to 1918, and the rulers of the numerous smaller Saxon duchies. Through a founding effect, J2b2-L283 lineages might have considerably increased their original frequency after reaching Illyria. The Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, probably belonged to R1a-Z92 > YP617 > YP682 according to the testing of a distant cousin descending from Gregory "Pushka" Alexandrovich Morhinin, founder of the Pushkin family (reported on the Serbian genealogy website poreklo.rs). Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was an American army officer during the Second Seminole War and MexicanAmerican War and later a Confederate army officer who served as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. [37] A followup publication precisely identified the haplogroup more precisely as a subgroup of O-M175, designated O1b1-F1462(xPK4). [70][71], Haplogroup J2 is commonly found within Asia Minor, Persia, Central Asia and the Caucasus Mountains and is frequent in modern and historical inhabitants of the Levant and Fertile Crescent especially among Jews and in Lebanon. While testing for paternal relatives of Richard III of England to confirm the identity of his presumed remains (see Haplogroup G2a), researchers found that three modern relatives with the surname Somerset and descended from House of Lancaster all belonged to haplogroup R1b-U152 (x L2, Z36, Z56, M160, M126 and Z192). The test result supports genealogical information recorded in about 1610 by Johannes Bureus. Mikls Horthy (1868-1957), was Regent of of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1944. Y21500 has a TMRCA of 3700 years and is also found in Russia, which suggests an Indo-Aryan origin - perhaps one of the J2a1 subclades assimilated by R1a invaders in Central Asia before conquering the Indian subcontinent. This paternal lineage ultimately descends from the House of Oldenburg, which includes all the Kings of Denmark since Christian I (reigned from 1448) as well as several Kings of Norway, Sweden and Greece, and the current heirs to the British throne (Prince Charles and his son Prince William). The timing, location and admixtures of these samples fit with the Illyrian colonisation of the Dinaric Alps, which is thought to have taken place between 1600 and 1100 BCE. American writer and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner (1897-1962) was a member of haplogroup I1-Z60 > Z140 > Z141 according to results from the Faulconer DNA Project. Henry is best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" 2016). A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, he is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the late 1950s through the 1980s. The most famous member of the clan was probably the astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was the first person to walk on the Moon, and who took with him a piece of the Clan Armstrong tartan. He belonged to the subclade J2a1b. His son, another Richard Stockton (1764-1828) was a senator for New Jersey, and his grandson, Robert F. Stockton (1795-1866) was a United States Navy commodore, notable in the capture of California during the MexicanAmerican War. 1957). He is the nephew of screenwriter, film director and producer Francis Ford Coppola, who shares the same haplogroup. Mulders commented: I never wrote that Hitler was a Jew, or that he had a Jewish grandfather. This page collects famous members of Y-DNA haplogroup J2 (paternal lineage). Clan Campbell is historically one of the largest and most powerful of the Scottish Highland clans. Both of them are descended from Sir Anthony Jackson (1594-1666) from Yorkshire, England. In 2020, a genetic study showed that the figure of the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat killed in 1793, had the haplogroup H2 (mtDNA). 16069T, 16126C, 73G, 146C, 185A, 188G, 263G, 295T, 315.1C. John Tyler (1790-1862), the 10th President and 10th Vice President of the United States was identified as a member of haplogroup I2-L801 > Z170 > CTS1977 > Y4946 > Y5282 > CTS1858 > CTS10148 based on the results from the TYLER Family DNA Project (descendent of Henry Tyler). Elvis's paternal grandfather was born out of wedlock and got his mother's surname. Geneticist Spencer Wells further clarified that his subclade is I2-M223 CTS616+ at the Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2014 Conference. 1947), the renowned American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy, belongs to haplogroup I2-L801 > Z170 > CTS6433 > S2364 > S2361 > Z78 > CTS8584 > Z185 > Z180 > L1198 > FT73935 > Y6060 > Y5748 > Y46018 > Y7272 according to genealogical research. The migration map tab shows the path between Mitochondrial Eve who lived in African about 145,000 years ago and your haplogroup today. The branch of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen also ruled as Kings of Romania from 1881 to 1947. The majority (about 70%) are members of the Celtic haplogroup R1b. The American journalist, television personality Anderson Cooper (b. His Y-DNA is R-M343 (formerly R1b). This is the case of the Asakura clan. Staff from iGENEA examined images from news coverage of the above study, that purportedly showed data from Tutankhamun's Y-DNA profile. The American actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck (b. (2016)) and Late Bronze Age Lebanon (Canaanite burial from Sidon, Haber et al. This is the case of the Hattians, the Hurrians, the Etruscans, the Minoans, the Greeks, the Phoenicians (and their Carthaginian offshoot), the Israelites, and to a lower extent also the Romans, the Assyrians and the Persians. Because mtDNA is carried through the direct female line, some researchers have identified the haplotype of historic persons by testing descendants in their direct female line. His Y-DNA test showed numerous exact matches with the Wallace surname in Scotland, who within haplogroup I belong overwhelmingly to the rare haplogroup I2c1a2a1a1a (F2044). Richard Stockton (1730-1781),was an American lawyer, jurist, legislator, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 1928) is an American singersongwriter, composer, record producer and pianist. 1947) was shown to belong to haplogroup I2-L38 on the PBS TV series Finding Your Roots. Clan Graham is a Scottish clan of probable Anglo-Norman origin that settled in Scotland in the 12th century. The most likely hypothesis is that J2b2a1 (L283) penetrated into the Pontic Steppe region during the Neolithic or Chalcolithic period, by crossing the Caucasus from western Iran, then migrated to the Volga-Ural region, where it was absorbed by the R1a-Z93 tribes in the Early Bronze Age. The remains of Philip Calvert (c.1626-1682), 5th governor of Maryland, were analysed by Reich at al. The Drummond DNA Project determined that the Drummond Peerage belonged to R1b-L21 > DF13 > L513 > S5668 > A7 > Z17623 > S5982 > FGC30224 > ZS4584 > BY4017. His mtDNA haplogroup is K1a9. This places him in Group 23 in the Morgan Surname Y-DNA Project corresponding to haplogroup R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > FGC43861 > BY2868 > BY132302. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and has enjoyed a prolific career as both a soloist performing with orchestras around the world and a recording artist. Mike Nichols (1931-2014) was a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. The clan chiefs later held the title of Lord Glamis (from 1445), Earls of Kinghorne (1606), and eventually Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne from 1677 to this day. Clan Mackenzie is a Highland Scottish clan descending from Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st of Kintail (d. 1304). American statesman and lawyer and Founding Father Roger Sherman (1721-1793) probably belonged to R1b-L21 > DF13 > FGC5494 based on the results from the Sherman DNA Project. Dodik was the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska from 1998 until 2001 and from 2006 until 2010 and the President of Republika Srpska from 2010 to 2018. On 12 September 2012, archeologists from the University of Leicester announced that they had discovered what they believed were the remains of King Richard III of England (1452-1485) within the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester (see Exhumation of Richard III). [11][12], Empress Alexandra of Russia and her children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were identified as belonging to mtDNA haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C). According to the Stewart Stuart DNA Project, the House of Stuart, who ruled Scotland from 1371, then also England and Ireland from 1603 until 1707, belongs to R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > DF41/S524 > Z43690 > S775 > L746 > S781. Outside Italy, it is now found in such varied places as Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, Belgium, southern Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Tunisia or Lebanon, all regions colonised by the Romans. His Y-DNA is Q-M378 (previously Q1b). (2010), who had analysed the DNA from a handkerchief dipped in the presumptive blood of Louis XVI after his execution, as well as by Charlier et al. The oldest attested ancestor of the clan is Waldenus De Cochrane (1240-1300). (2017)). The lineage of the clan chiefs of Highland Scottish Clan MacLaren belong to to R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > L1335 > L1065 > S744 > S764 > Y16252 > BY23333 according to the Clan MacLaren DNA Project. J-L24-Y-DNA. Two of his descendants tested with Family Tree DNA and both shared the same haplotype under haplogroup O2a2a1a1b, also known as O-SK1700 (or F4010). The clan's most famous member is the folk hero Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734). According to a study conducted by L.A. Ferydoun Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn and Sahar Khosrovani published in Qajar Studies, Journal of the International Qajar Studies Association, volume VII (2007), Qajar dynasty, the Iranian royal family who ruled over Persia from 1785 to 1925, belonged to haplogroup J1. The Indo-Aryans pursued their southward expansion, invading northern Pakistan and northwest India from 1800 BCE to 1500 BCE, and eventually bringing about the demise of the Indus Valley Civilisation around 1300 BCE. [25][26], The Y haplogroup of Richard III, last king of the House of York and last of the House of Plantagenet, was identified as Y-DNA G-P287, in contrast to the Y haplotypes of the putative modern relatives. Professor Michael Hammer of Family Tree DNA said that "scientific studies as well as records from our own database[,] make it clear that one cannot reach the kind of conclusion featured in the published articles." Corresponding areas between Geno 2.0 J2b2 and Roman settlements at the Rhine frontier (Limes). They became the ancestors of a number of kuge (court aristocrat) families like the Ichij, Nij, Konoe, Kuj, Saionji and Takatsukasa, as well as of samurai clans, such as the Adachi, Ashikaga (Fujiwara), Azai, Date, Gam, Honda, Ii, It, Katakura, Kikkawa, Nabeshima, Niwa, Ryzji, Shni, Tsugaru, Uesugi and Utsunomiya, among many others. Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. E1a and E-M75 are found almost exclusively in Africa. It has various subclades of its own which are scattered today around Italy (northern Italy, Tuscany, Latium, Sicily, Sardinia) and in places like Switzerland, south-west Germany, Britain, Spain, Romania, Greece, Turkey and Syria - also all these regions were part of the Roman Empire. Robert the Bruce successfully fought off the English in the First War of Scottish Independence and is now revered in Scotland as a national hero. Oxen were used to draw wheeled carts and camels were domesticated in this region c. 2500 BCE, just before the start of this civilization.
