Y-DNA testing is a proven scientific procedure (General)

by Roger Griffiths , Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 12:17 (5391 days ago) @ 10noyrum

Presumably, this Y-DNA route only works if there is a vast or universal database. My researches are stuck around 1720. I can't see the benefit of having my DNA tested and recorded unless my contempories descended from my antecedents prior to 1720 also have theirs done.

Personally, I think all people should have their DNA profile recorded for selfish family history reasons, helps solve crime also.

I think it was in 2008, a Y-DNA exercise was undertaken in Eastern and Central England and in Western Europe from Southern Denmark down to Holland. 65% of the people tested were close matches. Given the intense cross migration of peoples within the UK in the last 3 centuries, a remarkable evidence of the Anglo Saxon presence. After all, England = Angles from Southern Denmark, the smallest group of the Anglo Saxon invasions.

Roger