Is the Haplogroup R1b (Y-DNA), the most usual in europe?

[saxonwold]

Originally Posted by AFP

I believe that currently Family Tree DNA is the only company testing direct paternal line Y-DNA and direct maternal line mtDNA. Which will tell your halplogroup this is a very exact science.Testing those two areas of your dna will tell you what your maternal and paternal haplogroups are.

There is a different type of test called aDNA(autosomal) DNA will inform you of the DNA you inherited from all your lines within the last five to six generations sometimes much further(This test is not nearly as exact as the Y-DNA and mtDNA it will give you a breakdown of ancestry by percentage. You can purchase this test from several companies the only 3 I would recommend are 23 & Me, Family Tree DNA and Ancestry.com.

True!

[saxonwold]

R1b-U106 subclade is historically associated with the Western Germanic tribes who invaded parts of Europe, particularly the Saxons, Frisians, etc... It is concentrated in the Low Countries, northwestern Germany and also England (Anglo-Saxon invasion).

[saxonwold]

R1b-U106 (Germanic)
Example from the Netherlands.

[saxonwold]

It was the major migration to Ireland 4,000 years ago (Bronze Age), which started in Eastern Europe that brought the R1b-L21 subclade Y-haplogroup, as well people with typical Irish features such as piercing blue eyes, Celtic complexion (pale or freckled skin) changed Ireland forever. The Irish are closely related to the Welsh and Scottish, according to a very recent study released by geneticists from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and archaeologists from The Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland). Before that most Irish were dark/black-haired, brown-eyed as the majority of Southern Europeans are. So literally blue eyes became the norm in Ireland, 4000 years ago only.