Information on Y-DNA test results for Nix families originating from Union Co, SC and Rutherford Co, NC and their kin.

Five Nix ancestral lines have shared the same set of DNA markers. Three are from Union Co, SC. A fourth is from an area of Georgia where many Union Co, Sc families settled. The fifth is from an early Rutherford Co, NC family

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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 I1b1-Western. His website describes this I1b1-West subgroup's distribtion as "I1b1-West (Western)... is found more in Western Europe... particularly in a swath across Germany’s Baltic and North Sea coastal areas, and then into the British Isles... "

They have a very rare haplotype. They matched with only 2 other individuals of known origins in Family Tree DNA's private anonymous database of Recent Ethnic Origins. One match was from the United Kingdom, and the other was from Ireland.

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