I mailed my kit in about a week and a half ago and it finally showed up as received, so I've only got another two months to wait.

My ancestry is muddled enough that pretty much any haplogroup that made it to northern Europe is a possibility.

Just out of curiousity, do you have the markers M47, M67, M12 and M92 in addition to M172?

My family name was originally "Hosni" or "Husni", from the Valley of Hosn in Syria (between Homs and Tartus). They moved on to Lebanon around 1700 and then to the Americas (North and South), with some in Mexico. All of them, Greek Orthodox christians but I wonder if any connection...

Interesting; same lineage here; probably also kicked out of Spain or 'peacefully converted' and resettled in the Spanish Netherlands, would need to find out!
At least, time to create the "M172 Jerichocracy" elitist group on Facebook e.g.!

I am African American, with a dark complexion and the decendant of slaves. According to the Genome Project I am J2 M172.....

....And I'm blond haired, blue eyed, Anglo-German American... and J2 M172.

This is like AA.

i am from northern england and had my y dna test done ... i was surprised to find i am j2a1b m67 ... could anyone shed some light onto how that dna is in a lad from yorkshire ... farmers phoenicians ???? any help appreciated

i am from northern england and had my y dna test done ... i was surprised to find i am j2a1b m67 ... could anyone shed some light onto how that dna is in a lad from yorkshire ... farmers phoenicians ???? any help appreciated

i am from northern england and had my y dna test done ... i was surprised to find i am j2a1b m67 ... could anyone shed some light onto how that dna is in a lad from yorkshire

J2a1b is not specifically tied to Jews or Phoenicians. It is more generally a North Mediterranean haplogroup, spreading from Anatolia, and related with the Neolithic agricultural expansion. It is also, depending on the subclade, relatedw with Crete, Greece and Rome. So this are mostly the vectors that would account for it in England, and elsewhere in Europe.

I am also M168 M89 M304 M172 and we first show up in Saarland, Germany 1708 but speculation is that we were recent immigrants from Tyrol. I wishfully speculate that in the 9000 odd intervening years we worked our way through the Greek and Roman Empires to finally arrive at the final German destination as a clan of iron workers. The supposed family coat of arms was bestowed by Kaiser Sigismund circa 1437.

If you guys want to send me a photo to jordan(at)husney.com I will create a new posting called, "the Faces of Haplogroup J2"

I think it would be very interesting to show how diverse a single haplogroup may be.

all this genographic haplogroup marker stuff is absolute crap.

My son informs me that he had his DNA analysed and has been informed that we are Haplogroup J2 originating from the Fertile Crescent area in Mesopotamia.
As my great grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in 1859 from Chilwell in Birmingham England there must be a connexion to the Romans. It has been suggested possibly to the Syrian Archers who were used by the Romans along the northern frontiers in England

I'm j2a4b with Italian roots, +M67, non-Jewish that I know of. My closest matches seem to be from the British Isles. I'd love to belong to a project called "The Faces of J2". I have brown hair & green eyes. I have much research to do.

This report often fails to inform that most of the J2 M172 are Turkish and the dominancy of this group is on lands that have always been inhabitant by Turks going back to the Ice Age. My DNA is linked to Catalhoyuk(Konya-Turkey) where the marker sparked a wave of migrations to the Balkans(Turakya-Thracia) and Etruscan, to Troy(Tur-Ova-Trojans)and East to by way of Sumerians that stretched to Central Asia. The climatic changes(mainly Ice Age) forced migrations back and forth to Central Asia. This is why a Turk with Asian feautures, but white and Balkan or Hungarian can look a bit different but carry similar Genes. The kicker is to test if they like Kebaps. All Turksh love Kebaps. Note, the "Jews- Ashkenazi" are not Jews directly from the Middle East. They are related to Khazar Turks that migrated along ancient trade routes that connected North Europe to Siberia.

Also J2 with Grandfather coming from Trpcane, Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia (former Austria Hungary). I supect there are two primary ways J2 arrived there, either:

1. Turkic/Saramtian tribes enter the norhern Balkans prior to the Greeks/recorded history.

2. Greek seafarers or later Roman Auxillia via the Adriatic.

I bleieve most of my bretheren J2 in Northern Europe are decendants of Roman Auxillia cohorts deployed to far flung reaches of the empire.

You misspelled "Semitic." And Genographic takes 6 weeks, not 6 months - don't make stuff up.

Charles, thank you for the comment. You'd make a fine fine-toothed comb. I've made the correction. Regarding 6 months--perhaps things have sped up with their delivery since 2006!

I received the results a few weeks ago. My paternal grandfather's lineages confirms that we are also J2. We are part of the group that traveled eastwards to chinese occupied present day Kashmir. We consider ourselves Kashmiris and according to family lore we were hindus that converted to Islam 600 years ago (1400s). We tought we were mixed with southern indians but this test reveals otherwise.

My mother is from the Azores and her paternal grandmothers test revealed that the family took the opposite route: they traveled westwards from Ethiopia to Morocco and then the Iberian peninsula to finally settle in the beautiful azorian island of Sao Miguel. They are haplogroup L2. All I can say is that these dicoveries are a beautiful window into the past and that if National Geographic reduces their kit feel I'll buy another two more :)

I just got my results and i have the same results as the opening poster did.
I have a well documented geneology tracking back from here in america to northern ireland to southern scotland all the way back to a man who came over from france along with the norman invasion 1066. It gets lost after that
Now I can speculate that some ancestor was in the roman army that invaded gual and stay around and married into the local culture. I am such a creative writer.

Hi there!

It's nice to see so many diverse and interesting J2 stories from you all! I just happened to find this page and would like to warmly invite Jordan and all of you to join our J Haplogroup Project, hosted at Family Tree DNA, which some friends and I coordinate. My dad is a J2 from Switzerland, and I started researching this back in 2003. Everyone has their favorite theory, but for my own family, I have to agree with JB, (correcting his spelling)
"I believe most of my brethren J2 in Northern Europe are descendants of Roman Auxillia cohorts deployed to far flung reaches of the empire."

There are now many, many recognized sub-branches of J2 with different ethnic connections. Come and see our project, join us, and we'll help you find out which one your lineage belongs to! In the results table here, J2 haplotypes start about 3/4 of the way down on p. 2 of the chart (as of today -- this could change). Set the page size to 2500 or 3000 to see all at once:
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Y-DNA_J/default.aspx?vgroup=Y-DNA_J%2cY-DNA_J§ion=yresults

If you just got your results from National Geographic, you'll need to transfer your results to Family Tree DNA (who did your test) and use your account there to join projects and get involved in our collaborative research. By joining with your fellow haplogroup J members, you'll be able to tune into a fascinating story with more great research advances all the time, far beyond what you get with your 12 markers and that 10,000 year time-frame. Hope to see you there!

I too just recently tested J2a1b* by 23andMe. According to documented ancestry, my father's grandfather was born in Yorkshire, England around 1841 and immigrated to America possibly in early 1870. I know nothing else about his ancestry.

My father also was J2; the NatGeo page says 'exclusively found in southern Europe.' However, our family history is not southern European: we are Bavarian/Austrians displaced during the Counter Reformation to a small city in Wurtemburg, Germany. The city was the northernmost outpost of the Roman army though so I suppose that could account for the results. It came as a surprise to us all!