Monthly Archives: July 2011

Untangling my genetic heritage, part II: the West Slavs

For a long time, my perception of the origins of the Germanic people looked something like this map – prior to the Migration period, the Germanic people inhabited an area that stretched east from the Rhine into modern Belarus. The … Continue reading

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Untangling my genetic heritage, part I: Slav and Avars?

Getting my results from 23andme was only the first step. The main reason I did this was to probe my ancestry, but 23andme actually offers only a limited amount of information in that regard. But there was still some really … Continue reading

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