I’ve been tracing Harvey’s deep patrilineal ancestral roots (father’s father’s father’s line etc.) through the use of Y-DNA. In other words I’ve been looking at Barnes DNA.
Join me as I journey from ‘Adam’ in Africa through to the 20th century Barnes family living in Newlyn, Cornwall. You’ll meet 10,500 year old cattle herders from Mesopotamia, Bronze Age Scandinavians and Iron Age Germanic tribes. Oh, and not a Celt in sight!
Newlyn properties owned by the Barnes family during the 20th century
For those who are interested, Harvey’s larger haplogroup is U106 and his subclade is R-S18890*.
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