tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post8440354490845714113..comments2024-01-04T15:48:20.985+00:00Comments on RADNORIAN: What about Ffred Fflintstone?radnorianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18441612211167338629noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post-18126270003163275482015-04-25T10:46:33.709+01:002015-04-25T10:46:33.709+01:00Ireland is also a big gap in this study. Would be ...Ireland is also a big gap in this study. Would be interesting to see if mixing of Welsh and Irish populations is detectable genetically.andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14212517476818907962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post-85626019317194678552015-04-21T18:25:41.589+01:002015-04-21T18:25:41.589+01:00Oh I should have added that one shouldn't be t...Oh I should have added that one shouldn't be too precise about county borders. Indeed the old Welsh territorial divisions would seem to me to have more cultural relevance, even today. What I miss from the study are things like: where does the North Wales grouping end, what about the Silures of SE Wales, what about Shropshire etcradnorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18441612211167338629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post-72739073001747373882015-04-21T18:15:04.662+01:002015-04-21T18:15:04.662+01:00Of course the populations in central Wales are sma...Of course the populations in central Wales are small and there has been a fair amount of movement even within the farming communities but still I would say that there were many who met that 60km criterion.radnorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18441612211167338629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post-17147189103955734352015-04-21T12:32:05.588+01:002015-04-21T12:32:05.588+01:00As to regions of Wales lacking sampling, this may ...As to regions of Wales lacking sampling, this may have something to do with stringent criteria imposed by the study (and connected to the statistical analysis). <br /><br />"Approximately 4000 rural samples from throughout the UK have so far been collected using the criteria that all four grandparents were born in the same rural area, defined as lying within 60 km linear map distance of each other. "<br /><br />The nitty gritty of sampling is here (open access I hope)<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v20/n2/full/ejhg2011127a.html<br /><br />Figure 2 suggests there were people from mid-Wales in the collection<br /><br />I am interested to know how feasible it is to identify Radnorians that conform to these criteria?<br /><br />andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14212517476818907962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post-87113686070772476762015-03-28T10:57:26.050+00:002015-03-28T10:57:26.050+00:00It was a big mistake for this survey to exclude th...It was a big mistake for this survey to exclude the Irish Republic.<br /><br />The media spin goes against the findings eg Little England, Landsker nonsense. In reality the "south" Pembrokeshire grouping is one of three oldest - all in Wales - and also has none of the Saxon marker.<br /><br />The Saxon marker is present in most of England, between 10-40%, which suggests a sizeable folk movement. The argument has been between those who say the Saxons slaughtered the Britons and those who say they integrated. The survey suggests a combination of the two. It would have helped if samples had been taken in Brittany.<br /><br />Britishness? This is very interesting, I've thought that Britishness was for the little people and that the elite were developing into a supra-national grouping above the nation state. I still think that but at this stage of history we do seem to have an Anglophone empire plus a few vassals eg the international community ranged against unpeople who can be attacked with impunity.<br /><br />As for the media spin Welsh and Scottish nationalists can see the spin against their own countries just as the left in England can see the spin against trade unions, public ownership etc. What the majority fail to see is the even greater, almost total propaganderising of foreign affairsradnorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18441612211167338629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post-73987584278807342682015-03-26T21:30:39.008+00:002015-03-26T21:30:39.008+00:00I'm beginning to wonder where this relentless ...I'm beginning to wonder where this relentless promotion of Britishness is taking us. None of the destinations I see look inviting.Jac o' the North,https://www.blogger.com/profile/02032744625666336148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20783018.post-74165605657173670112015-03-24T16:51:06.103+00:002015-03-24T16:51:06.103+00:00Good write up, DNA can prove anything the person p...Good write up, DNA can prove anything the person paying for it wants, just like Opinion Polls.<br /><br />The genetic research has probably been going on for a while, but thier results are handy for a paranoid Britsh establishment and rabid rightwing press wary of the contined rise of of the SNP and all things Scottish.<br /><br />Im sure in not the only one whose noticed every small thing that can be, being used to promote Britishness and Englishness while erasing or undermining anything Scottish, Welsh or Irish.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com