Ancestral Lines
DNA of Scottish surnames
In Scotland one surname is carried by the descendants of different fathers, and the Y chromosome shows whose lines converge and when.
Corpus composition
- R1b 72%
- I1 11%
- I2 6%
- R1a 5%
- other 4%
Share of each line among the men of the corpus. The rest is mostly E1b1b, J2, G2, J1.
Stories
Which surnames does yours converge with — and when did the branches diverge?
A card for every surname with its lines and branch ages, the surnames nearest to it, and a comparison of any two — in the app.
Open in Google Play The “DNA of Nations” app