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4/3/2009
9:53:13 am EDT
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Clues To Ancient Invasion In DNA
Author: BBC News Source: BBC News
Title: CLUES TO ANCIENT INVASION IN DNA
  Scientific evidence of an ancient invasion of Scotland from Ireland may have been uncovered by DNA techniques.
Researchers from Edinburgh University said studies of Scots living on Islay, Lewis, Harris and Skye found strong links with Irish people.
Early historical sources recount how the Gaels came from Ireland about 500 AD and conquered the Picts in Argyll.
Scientists said the study was the first demonstration of a significant Irish genetics component in Scots' ancestry.
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| "Life Here, Began Out There.." | Apr 5th. at 4:27:05 pm EDT
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Jeff Kincaid (Lynchburg, Virginia) - Email Me
So says the Book of Pythia. Hmpf, maybe they are right. Maybe dems not Pictish genes, maybe dems Kobol genes.
So say we all...
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| Not Too Surprising.... | Apr 5th. at 3:52:28 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
As the Irish and the Scots were more likely to get along with each other better than they ever did with the English....
DNA has become something of a historical roadmap of late, mirroring the results of warfare and trade and even disaster within the history of mankind. It even often points to more than a few surprises that we would never have known about otherwise.
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| Doesn't Really Matter. | Apr 5th. at 1:38:56 pm EDT
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Winddragon (anderson, South Carolina) - Email Me
My Heinz 57 family is Scots-Irish and English. White+white+white = well, white. Then along came my mom of Cherokee descent to add the mix. So we're a hazel eyed and quick tempered mosh.
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| Ireland The Brave... | Apr 5th. at 8:50:50 am EDT
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Andrew the Troubadour (London, England) - Email Me - Web
Actually, it's good that confirmation comes from science - but much of science is confirming what has long been known. As for who it was who conquered the Picts, we've always been told that back in the day, there was an Irish tribe known for causing trouble, so the Powers That Be in Ireland at the time rounded them up and banished them to Scotland. The Picts were going to kill them, but for one of their number catching the eye of a young member of Pictish royalty, and so they were allowed to live.
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| Nothing New Here | Apr 4th. at 1:53:22 pm EDT
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Fuil Fitheach Sian (Missoula, Montana) - Email Me
My clan, Clan Henderson (MacEanruig) has always maintained that we are the descendants of Big Henry Son of King Nechtan (Eanriug Mor Mac Righ Nechtan) the Pictish monarch who fought the invading Irish Dalriadans.
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| Red Hair.... | Apr 4th. at 4:59:22 am EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
My GrandMum had RED hair and GREEN eyes and she was FULL Cherokee! What does that say? The same happened here and everyone knows that Columbus didn't get here first - the VIKINGS did!
Love to all
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| This Is Not Really New To Me... | Apr 3rd. at 11:54:10 pm EDT
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
I've long known about this sort of thing. The Dalriadans were a group of Irish who went over to Scotland (of course, neither Ireland nor Scotland were known by those names at the time...) .........
And a few centuries later, a large number of Scots were given land in Ireland as a means of "controlling" the Irish (it was around the time, give or take a century or so, William of Orange was Britain's King) .
I am not at all surprised that there was a mixing of DNA. Actually, show me a sample of "pure" Human DNA taken from anyone living today (completely void of so-called "impurities" from another ethnic/racial group) -- and I'll show you an example of scientific fraud.
--nasionnaich
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| Red Hair. | Apr 3rd. at 11:28:37 pm EDT
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WickedRedX (Bear, Delaware) - Email Me
They couldn't just look at the red hair and put two and two together?
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| ... | Apr 3rd. at 11:27:30 am EDT
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Earc (Nampa, Idaho) - Email Me - Web
I've long said that the Scots were Irish with the good sense to get out of Ireland.
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