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This project is a meeting place for users who share the R-BY71612 Y-DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their paternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives.
Project page for individuals tested for haplogroup R1b subclade R-M269-U-106 with final subclade R-BY71612. Only 3 known members (from FTDNA) with origins in Norway, England and Ireland as of 6/11/2019.
Possible historical origins of the family include the Sea-Kings of Kvenland, Raumsdal, Romerike, Oplaendinge and Vestfold of Scandinavia, the Norse of Orkney, Shetland and Iceland, the Vikings who settled Northeast France and the subsequent Norman invaders of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Bloodline of the Walsh of the Mountain of Kilkenny, Ireland.