Information on Y-DNA test results for two Australian Nix families with immigrant ancestors that arrived in Australian from the Lincolnshire area of the UK in the mid 1800s.

Two Nix males from Australia have these same set of DNA 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 I1b2a-Cont. His website describes this I1b2a-Cont subgroup's distribution as "I1b2a-Cont (Continental) is the main variety of haplogroup I1b2a. The area of its most dense presence is Northwest Germany and Netherlands, then up into Denmark, and even Southern Sweden and Norway. A good amount is also found in the British Isles, perhaps brought there by the Germanic and Scandinavian invader/immigrants in the historic era."

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. Several individuals of known geographic origins were a direct 12 marker match to the Nix testee's specific haplotype, including: two from Kingswinford in England, three others from unspecified parts of England, two from Ireland, one from Lisburn in Down in Northern Ireland, two from America, one from Frutigen in Switzerland, one from Mlawa in Poland, and one from Germany.

This testee's haplotype results matched that of 28 individuals in Family Tree DNA's private anonymous database of Recent Ethnic Origins. The number of matches to the testee and their self-identified geographic origins were as follows: England 9, Great Britain 5, United Kingdom 3, British Isles 1, Scotland 1, Ireland 4, Germany 5, Denmark 1, Russia 1, Sri Lanka 1, Australia 1.

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