Deyo Y-DNA

Below is the Y-DNA result for a descendant of Christian Deyo (ca1595-1678) of New Paltz.[1]

DYS 393 DYS 390 DYS 19 DYS 391 DYS 385 DYS 385b DYS 426 DYS 388 DYS 439 DYS 389-1 DYS 392 DYS 389-2
13 23 14 11 11 14 12 12 11 13 13 28

R Haplogroup, defined by mutation M207, originated as a clan over 40,000 years ago in central Asia from Haplogroup K. R split into two groups, with R1 (mutation M173) moving northwest and then west into Europe and R2 (mutation M343) moving south into the Indian sub-continent. R1b haplogroup, defined by mutation M343, arrived in Europe around 40,000 years ago. R1b is thought to be the direct descendant of Cro-Magnon -- the oldest Homo Sapiens settlers in Europe, who first arrived in Europe 40,000 years ago and superseded Homo neanderthalensis, which disappeared around 30,000 years ago. R1b expanded west through northern Italy and on into France and then south into Spain. During the extreme severity of the last Ice Age, R1b took refuge in the warmer areas of Spain and Italy. After the last Ice Age when the weather began warming up about 10,000 years ago, the refuge R1b population is believed to have expanded north rapidly along the west European coast and throughout Europe as humans re-colonized Europe. R1b is now by far the most common haplogroup in Western Europe, subdivided into numerous subclades, and reaching over 90% of the population in some parts of western France, northern Spain or Ireland. The highest R1b concentration in Western Europe is found in the Basque Country of northern Spain, where 98 % of native men have this R1b haplogroup. Current inhabitants of Britain and Ireland are closely related to the Basques, reflecting their common origin in the Spanish refugial area. R1b1b2, defined by mutation M269, is the most common European sub-haplogroup and contains the Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype. (http://genforum.genealogy.com/ruscoe/messages/257.html)

All members of Y-group R1b can trace their Y-chromosomes back to one man who is thought to have lived about 35,000 years ago. This man may have belonged to a group of hunter-gatherers, who were among the first modern humans to colonize Europe. Such groups likely took refuge in Northwestern Spain during the last Ice-Age, when most other parts of Europe were uninhabitable. When the Ice-Age waned, between 10 and 15 thousand years ago, the descendants of these groups are thought to have expanded into previously uninhabitable regions of Europe. Today, members of Y-group R1b are primarily found in European populations, where it is the most common Y-group. In Europe, the highest concentration of Y-group R1b members is in the west, in the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula, where it accounts for 60 to 70 percent of all males. The frequency of Y-group R1b members decreases as we move further east within Europe and becomes negligible east of Central and South Asia. (http://demo.decodeme.com/ancestry/male-line-info/R1b)