Just as with our own spirit of nomadism, by which I would travel so much more if opportunity was there, far back enough our ancestors would have done just that. Like, I've always been trying to pinpoint a matriarchal homeland, but its more likely that until political pressure limited free living, the peoples would have relocated according to the seasons and food abundance. When all is so hot it is better to be in the high Caucasus, when cold there, down one goes to the Armenian grasslands, or on and around the Black Sea, as is not to be forgotten that my mtDNA has also been found in the Ukraine, and when all is cold even in these parts, even further south one goes deeply into the Levant, to Syria and Palestine, the slopes of Mount Carmel and the Mediterranean. Mountains are places of refuge and safety, but it takes a lot to remain in them when when conditions turn brutal and food becomes sparse. Only when kingdoms arise and assert permanent territories does one have to find a long term place to wedge in oneself. By trading, travels even then can carry on, and in honouring the former sacred places by pilgrimages. But, like the vast confounded pathways the elephants habituated in the Indian jungles I have stayed in, so too the people would have got blocked, fenced in, driven out and attacked. Despite all this, we do know a group that has always travelled, the gypsies, refusing to be stuck forever in one place only. AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees.
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Familytree has perfected and updated its ethnic autosomal interpretations. And how crazy it is that, yes, before I was told I had some small Central Asian component, which is east of the Caspian Sea, which had got me all excited for its exotic appeal, but this has now been whacked back west and south of the Caspian to Armenia and Turkey. With a new ability to consider trace percentages I have been told I have Middle Eastern, that is the Levant, and Eastern European, both which I had not known of before. And whats more, to blow my mind all over again, I have some 2% Central South African! I almost feel, on being told this one day and that another day, that this science is too new even to be relied upon. Everything I have felt to believe is really fragile in this regard. And my matriarchal origin, is it really of the Caucasus, when it does seem that an Armenian link is arising, which is to the south of there. Anatolian Armenian Christian, this does appear quite possible. It could be this that has blended with the Levantine, and even the African, which has me confused of what to make of it all. The Africans could have been slaves in the Arab world, or from some past colonial interbreeding with locals. So many potentially fascinating stories are there which I will never know. And even this is not such a vast number of generations back. How exotic could it get, to know discover this ancestral connection to Africa, in the dark jungly south, where is Botswana, Angola, Zambia, and South Africa. And how watered down this is in me already, so pale and freckly, so very English looking. That black haired, ivory skinned ancestress in Greenwich, Maria Harrison; such a mystery resides within her. Was she a combination of Armenian, Levantine and African; is this why her distinct looks? My friend Deepak had once suggested she may be Armenian, with her un-British looks, and maybe he was indeed tuning into something. I need to locate the previous percentages that were given to me, to compare. I recall there had been Mediterranean, which has now been pinpointed to the Spanish peninsula. Other than which there is a whole connection to France, and/or its neighbouring lands, which I'd also not known of. British is naturally my main ethnic make-up with its Viking addition and of European there is in total 97%, though all then adds up to 105% and not 100%. The is the up to date percentages, then, which make up my autosomal ethnic mix: British Isles 55% Scandanavia 21% West & Central Europe 13% Spanish Peninsula 8% Turkey/Armenia 2% Eastern Europe 2% Levant (Asia Minor) 2% African (Central-South) 2% The Eastern European, which is from Poland to the Ukraine, is also a surprise. This is where the Ashkenazi Jews were located, so a link would be there, at least of having lived among them. This would concur with dreams I've had of being pursued by Nazi types and having to escape, and why I so feel to defend Jewish people who have known centuries of persecution even into modern times. Again, there could be an admixture into rarer types of peoples, via Ukraine, where indeed an ancient type of my matriarchal DNA has been found, as my friend Satshanti had recently pointed out to me. So, maybe my Eastern European type is indeed Ukrainian. With such a subject, all can only be guessed or assumed. These are but whispers of a past otherwise lost to us. But Africa, oh, Africa, how could I have know this was not just anciently the mother land, but something so much closer, still in my being. AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees. There is a new communication from Satshanti Peter Pynchon, who has found me another ancestor 700 years before Christ, a woman in the company of Scythians in the south of the Ukraine. Her numbers match mine, but for not having my 129, which he suggests may have evolved in the North Caucasus since then. This was the second communiqué on this news. I had previously had a dream, seeing the face of a beautiful Asian looking young lady. There was a row of portrait pictures of such ladies, looking identical, among which was she, who I understood to be one of my people, and I was fascinated by this. This lady Satshanti had now presented to me, the Scythians whose company she was in were of a different DNA, so it looks like although she was among them, she was not of their tribe. Good old Satshanti, keeping an eye on all such developments and sharing them with me. AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees. |
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