Information on Y-DNA test results for descendents of Valentine Nix of Germany

One Nix male has tested with these markers.

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FTDNA predicted this testee's Y-DNA was part of haplogroup I based on the haplotype results. Family Tree DNA describes the origins of haplogroup I briefly as: This haplogroup was derived within Viking / Scandinavian populations in northwest Europe and has since spread down into southern Europe where it is present at lower frequencies.

I highly recommend Ken Nordvelt's website, which contains a lot more information about haplogroup I's European origins and patterns of dispersal. He has also been studying the various subgroups of haplogroup I and worked on determining their patterns of dispersion within Europe. Based on Ken's modal haplotype's for each subgroup of haplogroup I, this testee's results fall within Haplogroup I subgroup I1a-AS. His website describes this I1a-AS subgroup as "I1a-AS (AngloSaxon) is the most populous form of I1a that is found. It must be considered the major core haplotype variety of I1a; it acquired its nickname (AngloSaxon) because it reaches its highest percentages of population in areas of continental Europe where the Anglo-Saxons are said to have originated --- Netherlands, northwest Germany, Denmark. It is also found in good amount throughout modern Germany, but falls to about half the fraction of total population by the time you get to south and eastern Germany. Southern Sweden also has a good amount of this basic I1a variety. A good amount of this I1a variety has been brought to the British Isles; the most plausible scenario is that the Anglo-Saxon invader/immigrants brought it. Regional studies in the Isles such as that of Capelli show this I1a variety reaching highest densities in those lsles locations where Anglo-Saxons and later immigrants of the Danelaw settled."

This testee's haplotype results matched that of 3 individuals in yhrd.org's mainly European database of 32,196 anonymous individuals. The matches to the testees haplotype results were as follows: 1 person from Chemnitz, Germany. 1 person from Freiburg, Germany. 1 person from Switzerland.

This testee's haplotype results were compared with ysearch.org's database of 14,194 mainly American and English testees. The results were as follows: 14.69% of the people in the database were also members of Haplogroup I, but only 1 other individual was a direct 12 marker match to the Nix testee's specific haplotype. That individual was American.

This testee's haplotype results matched that of 5 individuals in Family Tree DNA's private anonymous database of Recent Ethnic Origins. The matches to the testee who were of known geographic origins were as follows: 2 persons from England. 1 person from Sweden.

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