Wednesday, September 28, 2022

History of the Human beginnings in Africa to the Rest of the World through the Lenses of Genetics, and the Tanakh.

 Been doing ancestry research starting from Y-Chromosomal Adam before the times Europeans colonized North America.

Haplogroup A Cain (South Africa), Seth (Ethiopia and East Africa), and Abel (West Africa)

Haplogroup B Pygmy - Probably degenerates that walked out of the Tower of Babel, along with other monkeys.

Haplogroup C Noachides The first wave out of Africa into Australia, Northern Asia, North America, and South America. Every 10 generations brings a massive expanse. Keep in mind this is before the days of men were numbered, and there is discussion among Jews that Noah's Ark actually represents a fleet of Arks. In fact, the internet is the massive expanse that affects the entire world, especially following the pattern of 1,000 Gregorian year based calendars, as in my lifetime I’ve crossed the year 2,000 CE and wow, so much has changed in my life. The talk of the windows of Noah's Ark, makes me think of Microsoft Windows.

Haplogroup D The descendants from Adam that are the first wave to settle Asia; the Japhethites with milky colored skin.

Haplogroup E The descendants from Adam that stayed in Africa; the Hamites with dark skin.

The descendants from Adam that left by way of Ethiopia; the Semites with intermediate skin tones, mixing with the Hamitic Cushites, as Ethiopia was the land of Cush, and there are still dark skinned Jews that live there to this day.

Haplogroup F in Ethiopia (Egypt) migrates across the Red Sea into the desert of Saudi Arabia and/or Iraq.

Haplogroup G represents the descendents of Abraham and Sarah through Isaac as Haplogroup G-P15. Haplogroup G-M237 represents the descendants and Hagar Ishmael. Ishmael colonized Iran.

Haplogroup H consists of the descendants of the Ishmaelites in Pakistan and India.

Like its parent macrohaplogroup GHIJK, Haplogroup HIJK and its subclades comprise the vast majority of the world's male population. These are the progenitors: G=Abram, H=Hishmael, I=Isav, J=Jacob, K=the descendants of Abraham and Keturah. Haplogroup L (India), M (South Pacific), N (Northern Eurasia and Siberia), O (Central and East Asia), and P (Turkmenistan) represent the five sons of Abraham through his concubine Keturah (the sons are as follows: Medan, Midian, Ishbak/Jishbak, Jokshan, and Zimran), and they settled in India and the Orient. This may be the source of Asians that practiced Judaism before the Jews took the land of Israel back after World War II. Thus, the 7 sons of Abraham are represented through haplogroup G-P15 (Isaac), Haplogroup H and G-M237 (Ishmael), and K (Keturah and Abraham).

Haplogroup-IJK in turn splits into IJ (F-L15) and K (M9). The descendants of Haplogroup IJ are haplogroups I and J, while Haplogroup K is, ultimately, the ancestor of major haplogroups L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, and T.

Haplogroup J is the most common Haplogroup of the Jews, especially that originated from the Patriarch Shelah, father of Eber/Iver (I Chronicles 1:24), which means Hebrew or from the other side. Shelah is also the son of Judah, which means that Judah taught his older ancestor about things associable with being a Judahite (I Chronicles 2:3) in some form of adoption, which still occurs to this day, such as royalty, and thus the Shelahites become Jews, in the way that Edomites descended from Reuel become Zerahites, such that no remnant of Edom is left, as the Zerahites become Judahites (I Chronicles 2:4). Haplogroup J, the Jews, defined as the Israelites at that time, migrated to Israel from Babylon, and it then underwent a schism into the Northern and Southern Kingdoms.

Haplogroup J (Jacob) divides into the Northern Kingdom (Mostly Europe Haplogroup J-M172) and Southern Kingdom (Mostly northern Africa Haplogroup J-M267).

Haplogroup-J1 (M267) Typical of populations of the Middle East, Dagestan and Semitic-speaking populations of North Africa and East Africa. Southern Kingdom

Haplogroup-J2 (M172) Typical of populations of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Southern Europe, and the Caucasus, with a moderate distribution throughout Southwest Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa. Northern Kingdom

Haplogroup IJ partially forms from Haplogroup J. From haplogroup IJ (Isav/Esav/Esau/Edom and Jacob). The Edomites in Saudi Arabia/Iraq are the descendents of Edom, that through Reuel become the Perezites and the Zerahites, having their origin in the Caucasus Mountains, another source of light skin color, as a given ice age caused those with dark skin to die off.

Haplogroup I forms - The remnant of Edom, which is Christendom, a polytheistic religion that migrated to Europe from the Middle East through through Turkey. Though they, Edom, left Ethiopia with the Jewish Israelites, they did not take part in the Jewish conquest of the land of Canaan.

Haplogroup I1, also I-M253 The most recent common ancestor of all of haplogroup I1 and survived through 1 male about 6,000 years ago, according to modern science. It is the most common subclade in Northern Europe, the Zerahites. They migrated into Europe through Turkey, and are commonly of Viking and Anglosaxon heritage, remarkably having the characteristics of Edomites. These are the Zerahites: I1 consists of (M253, M307, M450/S109, P30, P40, S62, S63, S64, S65, S66, S107, S108, S110, S111, per ISOGG 2008; also L64, L75, L80, L81, L118, L121/S62, L123, L124/S64, L125/S65, L157.1, L186, L187, L840, M307.2/P203.2). They are typical in I1 populations of Scandinavia and Northwest Europe, with a moderate distribution throughout Eastern Europe.

Haplogroup I2 Is Edomite and a common group of Eastern Europe. These are the Perezites, and are possibly equable to Poseidon in Greek Mythology, as Zeus, a Zerahite is Haplogrop I1, and his Zeus' brother, Poseidon possibly I2, are related to Shelah, the brother that is Hades, where the Shelahites seem to always have hell to pay.

Haplogroup I2a Typical of the South Slavic peoples of the Balkans, especially the populations of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. They are among the West Slavic populations of Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Haplogroup-I2b1 (M223, P219/S24, P220/S119, P221/S120, P222/U250/S118, P223/S117) (formerly I1b2a - old I1c) Occurs at a moderate frequency among populations of Northwest Europe, with a peak frequency in the region of Lower Saxony in central Germany; minor offshoots appear in Moldavia and Russia (especially around Vladimir, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and the Republic of Mordovia), and among speakers of Persian (including Iranians, Hazaras in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Tajiks in Afghanistan)

Sunday, September 27, 2020

My Possible Relation to Dukes of Hamilton Through the Douglas Clan

 Haplogroup I2a2a (M223):


I2a2a-L1193 (British Isles)

All the Dukes of Hamilton since William Douglas-Hamilton (1634-1694) I2-M223 - Hamilton Surname DNA Project. The dukedom is the highest ranking title in the Peerage of Scotland.


1 of the people at ftdna that is closely related to me has the surname Douglas. Thus, I propose a possible connection with the Douglas clan.

The dukedom is the highest ranking title in the Peerage of Scotland.

m. William Douglas later Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, 1st Earl of Selkirk (1635–1694) (created Duke of Hamilton for life in 1660)

Saturday, September 26, 2020

A Royal Connection to Harcourt, Beaumont, and Hamilton

Edit: My connection to Statesman Alexander Hamilton is probably false. His Y-chromosome was I-m253. My Y-chromosome is I-m223. Sorry...


I have a German Y chromosome and that I am closely related to several people with the surname Vance or Wentz by DNA. These Vance and Wentz families trace their lineage back to Good King Wenceslas. However, I do have reason to think that some from the Wence family migrated to Scotland before coming to America. However, this blog is not about that. This is about a different migration that is through the Vikings and King Bernard “The Dane,” next the Harcourts, next the Beaumonts of France, and finally the Hamiltons, and to the best of my knowledge does not include Good King Wenceslas

What I posted below is most importantly a direct lineage that makes that route possible starting with me and my most recent ancestors with the present surname “Hamilton” with the my Y chromosome and following its connection to back to King Bernard "The Dane" through Humphrey de Vaux, a member of the noble Harcourt family descended from the Vikings, and shares a more recent common ancestor that seems true given the ancestry of USA Statesman Alexander Hamilton. One might be able to see this is important to me because I share my surname with the late Statesman Alexander Hamilton.


My lineage starting from Hamilton goes through the Hamilton knights of Cadzow back to Gilbert de Hambledon son of William de Hambledon who traveled to Scotland from the Beaumonts, a noble family in France. Then, further back the Beaumonts come from the German Harcourt family.

Why? Look below, there is Humphrey of the Harcourt family that goes by the name Vaux, which is an alternate spelling of Vance! Thus, I suggest that my link with the modern German Vance family is probably about 1,000 years old, starting from the Harcourts. This is how I could be related to the Vance family by DNA, but wound up with a different surname.

HARCOURTS BY OTHER NAMES

1. Torf. According to Robert of Torigny (GND, viii. c. 37), Torf was the father of Turold and Turchetil (see also OV ii. 12). It is wrongly assumed that this Turchetil was a forefather of the Harcourts; he died childless, passing his estate to his great-nephew, Asketil (cart. Preaux, fol. 97v; CP xi. Instr., col. 201 a. d., Du Monstier, Neustria Pia, p. 522, 1663). Turold mar. Duvelina de Crepon, sister of Gunnor, the wife of ‘Duke’ Richard; they were ancestors of the Beaumont family of Pont-Audemer, and, according to Auguste le Prevost, of the Harcourts, with Turold and Duvelina being the parents of both Onfroi de Vieilles (GND vii. 1. 3.), and Turchetil. (See Ordericus, ed. Prevost, vol. i., p. 180; ii. pp. 14, 369, 370; iii. pp. 42, 229).

1.1. Turchetil.

1.2. ‘Turoldis teneri ducis pedagogus perimitur’ (Will. Gemet, VII.).

1.2.1. Hunfrid (Onfroi de Vieilles, alias Vetulis or Vaux, lord of Vieilles; a small commune in the canton of Beaumont, arrondissement of Bernay. (Humphrey)

1.2.1.1. Roger de Beaumont; Asketil, his dapifer, being a junior kinsman.

1.2.1.1.1. Robert de Beaumont, Ist Earl Leicester.

1.2.1.1.1.1. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl Leicester, founder of Garendon in 1133, to which donated his kinsmen, Hugh de Berges, and his son, Asketil.



Something else to consider is that the USA statesman Alexander Hamilton had Gilbert de Hamilton and other Scottish nobility as ancestors and that Alexander Hamilton is in the I-M223 group, which most in the Hamilton clan are not I-M223! Imposters? I’ll take a bet that they are because I-M223 is strongly associated with vikings, which is where both Alexander Hamilton and I could share ancestors. However, I also claim to have descended from Gilbert de Hamilton and I am of the group I-M223, like Alexander Hamilton, but not like other Hamiltons other than ancestral originators of the clan starting with Gilbert de Hamilton, who is sometimes called Gilbert de Hambledon.

The major difficulty to explain though is why am I a Hamilton, but when given a DNA test there are no other Hamiltons with my DNA that have been tested. One would think that if I am a Hamilton, there would be some other Hamiltons with my Y chromosomal DNA on record.

This is what I think my lineage is though based on the ancestry of Statesman Alexander Hamilton: 

These might be my ancestors.

Bernard "the Dane"

He is supposed to have been the ancestor of two great Anglo-Norman baronial families, the Beaumonts and the Harcourts. Bernard the Dane (French: Bernard le Danois) (c. 880 – before 960) was a Viking jarl (earl) of Danish origins.

1. Touroude (Torulf, Turulf) de PONTAUDEMER

2. Humphry de Belmont (Vaux). This is where I (Craig) am suggesting that I get my German Y-Chromosome from that I share with Statesman Alexander Hamilton, and my Y-chromosome with the Vance and Wentz surname.

3.Roger de Beaumont (de Belmont) (c. 1015 – 29 November 1094)

4. Robert 1st Earl of Leichester (de Beaumont)

5. Robert 2nd Earl of Leichester

6. Robert 3rd Earl of Leichester

7. William de Hambledon (de Breteuil)

8. Gilbert de Hamilton

9. Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton, 1st of Cadzow

10. Sir David FitzWalter de Hamilton, 2nd of Cadzow (ancestor of Statesman Alexander Hamilton)


This page has some of Statesman Alexander Hamilton's ancestry:

https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=5876%20alexander%20hamilton&ahnum=262144&fbclid=IwAR2knbmAvzBnTorx18_F7dNsErbZOOfU51n87v91S0Wp4QEGwn70zhh3GBY


Monday, June 15, 2020

Back to Scotland again?

Had long thought I was Scottish (the Hamilton clan is the 2nd most noble clan in Scotland), then German as some people I'm closely related to are German, having the last name Wentz and thought to descend from "Good King Wenceslas" and the Will of the first USA Hamilton ancestor of mine is written in German, around the year 1776, but I still yet might be Scottish, because that is what was handed down verbally. I'm thinking my German ancestors crossed through Scotland.

I'm not a Hamilton, but a Vance though Hamilton is Scottish, while Vance can be Scottish or German. I have no Hamilton that I'm related to by DNA on DNA record that I know of. It just so happens that in 1770 the name Vans was changed to Vance in Scotland. Here is a link to the 
Vans crest: https://www.scotclans.com/scottish-cl…/clan-vans/vans-crest/

Why Vance and not Hamilton? My DNA shows many close genetic links, within a few generations, to both the Wentz and Vance family. Wentz is German however, but many Germans were given the Anglicized name Vance when they came to America. Both Vance and Wentz surnames must be related to me according to my DNA, but which country, as I am closely related to several people with the Wentz surname?

So German or Scottish, it's hard to say! Best support for the Scottish tale is that the 4 most closely related people to me have the last name Vance not Wentz, and their most distant ancestors do not have Wentz either, meaning their lineage is more closely Vance than Wentz. The DNA says this about my 4 closest Vance relatives "A 36/37 match between two men who share a common surname (or variant) indicates a close genealogical match. Very few people achieve this close level of a match, and it is within the range of most well-established surname lineages in Western Europe."

Friday, August 25, 2017

German Hamilton Line - Jacob Hamilton

Jacob was the first German Hamilton in America known that is a part of my genealogy.  He probably changed his name from Wence or Vance according to my Y Chromosomal DNA.

Jacob Hamilton seemed to appear out of nowhere. He first appears on the Perry County census in 1830, as age 20-30 with a wife age 20-30. He is listed as purchasing property April 1, 1834. He was a saddler by trade.

Jacob and Catherine are buried in the Liverpool, Pa. cemetery  in front of Christian and Annamarie Weirick stones. The will is written in German script and offers little biographical data.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Good King Wenceslas - Possible Y-DNA Royalty Link (Corrected)

My Y chromosomal DNA shows a strong connection to the German surname Vance, or Wentz.  The surname Wentz is thought to have a connection to various Deutch Kings.  My surname is Hamilton, but the Y DNA says I have a close connection to the surname Vance.  How close? 37 marker close at

37 MARKERS - 11 MATCHES to the of Vance or Wence.


According to Wikipedia: 
Y-DNA testing results are normally stated as probabilities: For example, with the same surname a perfect 37/37 marker test match gives a 95% likelihood of the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) being within 8 generations,[22] while a 111 of 111 marker match gives the same 95% likelihood of the MRCA being within only 5 generations back.[13]
[22] references www.familytreedna.com This is the company that did my Y chromosome DNA test.

What does it mean to me?  It's long shot, but there may be some relationship to German Royalty, or maybe a saint. Having the surname Vance/Wentz here are 4 males that match me within 1 of 37 markers, meaning 36/37 markers match; 2 matches within 2 of 37 markers or 35/37 markers match; 5 matches within 3 markers or 34/37 match. Those are the males with the surname Vance/Wentz that are very genetically close to me.  

More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas
"Good King Wenceslas" is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a Bohemian king going on a journey and braving harsh winter weather to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (December 26, the Second Day of Christmas). During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step, through the deep snow. The legend is based on the life of the historical Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia or Svatý Václav in Czech (907–935). The name Wenceslas is a Latinised version of the old Czech language "Venceslav".


Many of these families have traced their surname origins to original immigrants in the 18th or 19th century from Germany or Switzerland whose last name was Wentz or a variant like Wantz. In their new English-speaking home, the last name sounded like "Vance", and either through regular usage or by the pen of a government official the new spelling stuck.
Several books (see Online Books of Interest) describe the origin of the Wentz surname as a diminutive of "Wenceslaus" or the German variant "Wenzo", and track the name's association with a Saint Wendelin and of course several kings named Wenceslaus, with variants "Wenzelo" from 1198 through "Wenzel" in the 1300s. "Wentz" and "Wenz" were later variants appearing in the 1300s and 1400s near Basel in Switzerland and several locations in Germany. Other sources cite Slavic variants like Vaclav but agree on the same basic timeline.

The stories say an original Wentz family came out of Bohemia (part of the current Czech republic) or Pomerania (now part of Germany and Poland on the south Baltic Sea) and migrated into Bavaria in western Germany and to the city of Basel in Switzerland some 700 years ago. These stories have so far not been verified. In the 1700s and 1800s, however, several German and Swiss Wentz families immigrated to the US where the name became written as Vance.

Good King Wenceslas - Possible Y-DNA Royalty Link


My Y chromosomal DNA shows a strong connection to the German surname Vance, or Wentz.  The surname Wentz is thought to have a connection to various Deutch Kings.  My surname is Hamilton, but the Y DNA says I have a close connection to the surname Vance and Wentz.  How close? 37 marker close at

37 MARKERS - 8 MATCHES of which 7 have the surname Vance or Wentz.


According to Wikipedia: 
Y-DNA testing results are normally stated as probabilities: For example, with the same surname a perfect 37/37 marker test match gives a 95% likelihood of the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) being within 8 generations,[22] while a 111 of 111 marker match gives the same 95% likelihood of the MRCA being within only 5 generations back.[13]
[22] references www.familytreedna.com This is the company that did my Y chromosome DNA test.

What does it mean to me?  It's long shot, but there may be some relationship to German Royalty, or maybe a saint. 

More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas


Many of these families have traced their surname origins to original immigrants in the 18th or 19th century from Germany or Switzerland whose last name was Wentz or a variant like Wantz. In their new English-speaking home, the last name sounded like "Vance", and either through regular usage or by the pen of a government official the new spelling stuck.
Several books (see Online Books of Interest) describe the origin of the Wentz surname as a diminutive of "Wenceslaus" or the German variant "Wenzo", and track the name's association with a Saint Wendelin and of course several kings named Wenceslaus, with variants "Wenzelo" from 1198 through "Wenzel" in the 1300s. "Wentz" and "Wenz" were later variants appearing in the 1300s and 1400s near Basel in Switzerland and several locations in Germany. Other sources cite Slavic variants like Vaclav but agree on the same basic timeline.

The stories say an original Wentz family came out of Bohemia (part of the current Czech republic) or Pomerania (now part of Germany and Poland on the south Baltic Sea) and migrated into Bavaria in western Germany and to the city of Basel in Switzerland some 700 years ago. These stories have so far not been verified. In the 1700s and 1800s, however, several German and Swiss Wentz families immigrated to the US where the name became written as Vance.