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Deciphering our past Part One: DNA to Decoration—following the trail of one YSNP FGC22501
Posted on May 24, 2026 1 Comment
Introduction This blog post or what may be a series of blog posts is a collaboration of Vanessa Van der Beke and myself. She has done a lot of the heavy lifting research wise in often esoteric old texts. It has been an unexpected journey that I don’t think we could have ever imagined. You […]
Deciphering our past Part Two: Sun Wheels to Druids
Posted on June 5, 2024 2 Comments
I began this post over two years ago with these lines: “With little to go on but a few samples of ancient DNA to guide us, I am going to offer a plausible story to tell one branch of the FGC22501 progeny story. I intuit to bridge the gap between the ancient FGC22501+ skeletons in […]
The Journey of one 4000 Year old Celtic Y-SNP FGC22501: Ten Years of Discovery
Posted on May 22, 2024 Leave a Comment
Background To recap my first dive into Genetic Genealogy was giving my husband a Family Tree DNA Y37 kit for Valentine’s Day in 2011. It was purely out of frustration, as traditional genealogy had failed to connect him with either Thomas WHEADON (later WHEATON) of Branford, Connecticut or Robert WHEATON of Salem and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. […]
The Human Diaspora: Illustrated through a Single Y SNP
Posted on November 30, 2022 8 Comments
At Family Tree DNA many of the Haplogroup projects are for very large Haplogroups (quite old) including thousands of members such as Haplogroup Q or R1b. The project I started is based on a single Y SNP that occurred in a man about 4,000 years ago who is FGC22501+, a descendant of the huge Haplogroup […]
Serendipity: Time Travel with the Romans with a Twist of DNA
Posted on November 27, 2022 8 Comments
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot I recently wrote about the unexpected connection between where I stayed in the French Alps (Saint Gervais near les Contamines and the Roman Road and […]
Adventure in Ancient DNA Part 2: Bridging the Gap
Posted on January 30, 2022 2 Comments
This post is based on the exquisite research of Vanessa Verbeeck of Belgium, who is the primary author. Because we are working in the past with sometimes scant historical records the work is speculative in nature but grounded in facts. BACKGROUND Long before the Romans occupied central Europe the area was held by ancient Celtic […]
Adventures in Ancient YDNA: R1b> U152>L2 to Celtic FGC22501
Posted on January 17, 2022 7 Comments
Introduction It all began with a search for my husband’s WHEATON ancestry. After 40 years of trying to connect him with either immigrant Robert WHEATON of Rehoboth, Massachusetts or Thomas WHEADON if Branford, Connecticut I resorted to giving him a YDNA test for Valentine’s Day! In less than 6 weeks I had my answer that […]
Wheaton Wood 