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This project is a meeting place for users who share the R-YP282 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.
Around the period of 100-300 AD this subclade YP282 suddenly splits into a large number of branches (subclades) after going through a bottleneck of more then 1000 years. Most of the members of this subclade have their origin on the British Isles, and until now we assumed they came originally from the continent probably with the Romans (germanic soldiers) or Anglo/Saxon-, Viking- or Norman-invasions. Our latest ideas about how this YP282 came to England is with the migration of the Geats from South Sweden in the period of 300 AD (also called Jutes invasion). Originally R1a-L664 was living around 2500-2000 BC mostly in Germany/Poland/Czech Rep and was belonging to the Corded Ware culture. Before 1800 BC some R1a-L664 belonging to subclade S2894 moved to Scandinavia. Around 1800 BC Subclade S2894 separates in two branches YP287>YP285>YP282 and S2880 Around 1600 BC the subclade S2880 divided in 3 branches YP432, S2886 and FGC57195. Both subclades YP432>YP431 and S2886 stayed in Scandinavia and we find still most members of these subclades in Norway/Sweden. Probably also Subclade YP287>YP285>YP282 stayed all the time in Scandinavia (mostly S-Sweden) Most likely around 200-300 AD some of YP282 have left Scandinavia with the large mass migration in NW Europe around 200-400 AD and ended up on the British Isles. Remark: There is a proposed link between the Goths and British migration, the so-called "Jutish Hypothesis". The "Jutish hypothesis" claims that the Jutes may be synonymous with the Geats of southern Sweden or their neighbours, the Gutes.