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Recently a research programme has been started in Scotland to find out where the Scots have come from. I therefore took the opportunity to have my mtDNA done and discovered I was a U41b. We also received a breakdown into the background.
U41b is classed as Yenesi. It seems that this gets it's name from a river that rises in Mongolia and runs through Central Siberia to the sea. I notice the breakdown that you quote on the site also states Georgia, so I guess we are in the right area! The nearest people to the original Yenesi are the Ket. They also have connections with Native Americans. U4, it seems, is very big in Finland, Scandinavia and the Baltic.
In my case they presume my ancestors walked west and came to Britain via a land mass that sank when there was a shift in tectonic plates which raised Scotland and Scandinavia and sank southern England. That area now is known as Dogger Bank.
Looking at some of the names on your site, they have Irish connections. Scots and Irish have crossed the Irish Sea constantly in search of work, plus we have been invaded on and off by Vikings (Scandinavian connection again) and of course the Orkney Islands of Scotland were originally Norwegian and we inherited them through marriage into the Scottish Royal family. Ireland and the Isle of Man were also big Viking settlement in the past.
Hope this has been helpful.
Agnes

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