— People you don’t want leave out of your Christmas list; not for gifts but for other important items.

This is roughly what is said about R1b:

First there was A, a descendant of A left Africa
and experienced mutational changes until becoming super-haplogroup
K. From K emerged the first R (defined by the mutation M173),
 ”most of his lineal descendants died off (there still being some M173 in the Dead Sea region of the Middle East and the Camaroons in Africa)”.
From R emerged haplogroup R1b1c(mutation M269)  “the direct ancestor in the male line to a majority of men in many parts of Northwestern Europe [and the Iberian Peninsula], but still leave a small group of descendants as in the Middle East (e.g., Syria).”
  About 40% or more of the European Y chromosomes today are R1b.
<<These … R1b chromosomes reach a veritable saturation point in the western counties of Ireland (98.5%) and parts of Spain (e.g., the Basque Region) where the numbers are close to or above 90%. R1b declines in frequency from Ireland and Iberia to Eastern Europe where it is scarce. It is still found in West, Central and South Asia, but much more rarely.>>

<<[R1b] … is found all over the world today as a legacy of colonialism, to cite just four examples it is found at appreciable frequencies amongst Pacific Islanders, Eskimos (Inuit), Latin Americans/Hispanics and African Americans.>>
A variation is also strong in Turkey.

Source for information and quotations concerning R1b
EthnoAncestry: “Unlocking Your DNA Archive”

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NOTE: Excerpted information from an informative website about DNA, and specifically R1b Haplogroup.

Want to know more, click through to this page.

– Cathy

Directory of Royal Genealogical Data (http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/)

But when it came to Native American burial sites, no such protection has existed.

Thus, any mound, shell monument or place suspected of containing Indian remains could be — and often was — invaded by relic hunters or the curious. They often dug down, cast remains aside, and made off with pots and other artifacts that ended up in private collections or the black market.

Not only did they desecrate a grave, they also destroyed valuable archaeological evidence that might have told researchers more about the people who first lived in Alabama.

William Reese Owsley III
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Funeral services for William Reese Owsley III, 44, of Franklin, Tenn., formerly of Anniston, will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at Parker Memorial Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Mack Amis, the Rev. Kevin Garrett and the Rev. Jim Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with K. L. Brown Memory Chapel directing services.

Alabama Governor Joseph Forney Johnston
Born: March 23, 1843
Died: August 8, 1913
Birth State: North Carolina
Party: Democrat
Family: Married Theresa Virginia Hooper; three children

Periods in Office: From: December 1, 1896
To: December 1, 1900

State Web Site

Higher Office(s) Served: Senator

War(s) Served: Civil War

JOSEPH FORNEY JOHNSTON, Alabama’s 30th governor, was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, on March 23, 1843, to Dr. William and Nancy Johnston. He was educated in public schools, and moved in 1860 to Talladega, Alabama, where he attended high school. In 1861, Johnston enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private, served as captain of the 12th North Carolina Infantry, and was wounded in four battles.

The Confederate and Union infantry soldiers will come together this weekend at Janney Furnace. Confederate memorial services will take place at Edgemont Cemetery in Anniston at 10 a.m. and Jacksonville City Cemetery at 11:30. An Iron Cross Dedication is also due to begin at noon at the Jacksonville location.

Saturday and Sunday feature reenactments of the Battle of Janney Furnace. We’re not sure if the result will be the same, but it’s probably a safe bet.