Sandy YDna
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Sandy YDna
 JSBianchi
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Posted: 14 Feb 2008 2:05PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Hi cousins,
Perhaps you’ve been watching as I have a PBS series about the genealogy of African Americans. Last night’s episode concerned genetic genealogy. Focusing on the mixed-race host of the show, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, it was revealed through a YDna test that his paternal ancestry goes back to King Niall of the Nine Hostages, the warrior/King who began the Ui Niall, aka the O’Neill clan. (There is a DNA project being done in Ireland that has tested Irish men for descendancy from or relationship to King Niall. It has been determined that 1 in 5 male Irish citizens carry his gene and that there are at least 3 million men living today who are his descendants.) This information prompted me to Google around to find the values of King Niall’s YDna markers, and I did locate them. Lo and behold, except for 3 one-step deviations (an entirely acceptable amount after 1500 years) my father’s YDna matches King Niall’s! I believe that if other Sandy men would have their YDna tested, they would find they are King Niall’s descendants too. King Niall has now surpassed Ghengis Khan in the estimated number of descendants. (Go team!)
Whereas this discovery identifies his Irish roots, it does not invalidate the likelihood of his English ancestry. The Ui Niall populated the west coast of Northern England too…which was the seat of the 13th century Sandys family. The House of Windsor also has Ui Niall ancestry.
(By the way, looking online at the Sorenson DNA project I found a 19th century American immigrant named Horace Albert Sandy who was descended from a man named John Sandy b. 1824 from Norfolk England. His DNA is also a close match to my father’s and King Niall’s too.)
My father passed away in September, so I’m not able to share this amusing news with him. But be sure to read about King Niall…I know you will find the mythology surrounding this man to be very interesting!
Julie Sandys Bianchi in St Louis
Perhaps you’ve been watching as I have a PBS series about the genealogy of African Americans. Last night’s episode concerned genetic genealogy. Focusing on the mixed-race host of the show, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, it was revealed through a YDna test that his paternal ancestry goes back to King Niall of the Nine Hostages, the warrior/King who began the Ui Niall, aka the O’Neill clan. (There is a DNA project being done in Ireland that has tested Irish men for descendancy from or relationship to King Niall. It has been determined that 1 in 5 male Irish citizens carry his gene and that there are at least 3 million men living today who are his descendants.) This information prompted me to Google around to find the values of King Niall’s YDna markers, and I did locate them. Lo and behold, except for 3 one-step deviations (an entirely acceptable amount after 1500 years) my father’s YDna matches King Niall’s! I believe that if other Sandy men would have their YDna tested, they would find they are King Niall’s descendants too. King Niall has now surpassed Ghengis Khan in the estimated number of descendants. (Go team!)
Whereas this discovery identifies his Irish roots, it does not invalidate the likelihood of his English ancestry. The Ui Niall populated the west coast of Northern England too…which was the seat of the 13th century Sandys family. The House of Windsor also has Ui Niall ancestry.
(By the way, looking online at the Sorenson DNA project I found a 19th century American immigrant named Horace Albert Sandy who was descended from a man named John Sandy b. 1824 from Norfolk England. His DNA is also a close match to my father’s and King Niall’s too.)
My father passed away in September, so I’m not able to share this amusing news with him. But be sure to read about King Niall…I know you will find the mythology surrounding this man to be very interesting!
Julie Sandys Bianchi in St Louis