My Hammons Genealogy
and other blood-related branches
There is a DNA service that compares your DNA to tens of thousands of DNA samples taken from bones from archealogical sites around the world. The company is called My True Ancestry. What this site has done for me more than any other DNA service is to paint a much clearer picture of my family origins. Because my father and mother have very similar genetic backgrounds I have not been able to determine which of these samples are from my paternal or maternal side. In some cases I'm sure they are both. I currently have 140 samples that I match and more than half were found in two countries, England and Czech Republic. All of the Czech samples are from the Bronze Age and are ethnically Celts and all of the Bronze Age samples from England are also Celts. The Iron Age samples from England are mostly Saxons with some Danish Vikings. Most of my Middle Age samples are Danish Vikings. My haplogroup is J-CTS11760 (J2b2a1...) and my ancient matches to my y-DNA are found in the Balkans, in particular Croatia.
This map on the left shows the higher concentration of Celts with the dark green the epicenter of their beginnings. A very large majority of my Celtic matches occur in the dark green area. The map on the right shows J2b2 ancient sample sites. The purple are BC samples and the orange are AD samples. As you can see a majority of the BC samples are in Croatia with a couple in Slovenia.
Here is a breakdown of my ancient populations:
| Estimate | |
| Celts | 33-37% |
| Celtic Parisi | 18-20% |
| Danish Vikings | 14% |
| Celtic Cantiaci | 8% |
| Celtic Corieltavi | 5% |
| Belgae | 5% |
| Celtic Britons | 5% |
| Saxons | 3.5% |
| Picts | 3% |
| Celtic Brigantes | 2% |
| Franks | 1.5% |
| Celtic Dobunni | 1.5% |
| Icelandic Vikings Ostrogoths Quadi Swedish Vikings Longobards Scythians Belari |
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Celts are "generic Celts" whose tribes have not yet been determined.
Picts are considered a Celtic tribe which, along with Belgae, brings the Celtic make up about 80% of the total.
Belgae were a tribe that was located in North-northwest France, Luxembourg, and Belgium, but also in central-southwest England and is also considered a Celtic tribe.
Genetic Distance: the lower the number the closer you are related. It does not represent generations nor does it represent degrees of cousin relationships. It is a very complicated forumula that I have yet to get a handle on.
| Genetic Distance | |
| Celts | 5.948 |
| Celtic Parisi | 6.106 |
| Danish Vikings | 6.167 |
| Celtic Britons | 8.416 |
| Celtic Corieltavi | 9.266 |
| Belgae | 9.932 |
These are my actual genetic matches (first 25) in order of most closest to least:
1. Early Bronze Age Czech 2. Iron Age Somerset 3. Bronze Age Obernai 4. Bronze Age Netherlands 5. Celtic Briton Gladiator 6. Late Bronze Age Scotland 7. Iron Age Yarnton 8. Copper Age Czech 9. Bronze Age Czech 10. Bronze Age Czech 11. Iron Age Cornwall 12. Bronze Age Scotland 13. Bronze Age Jutland 14. Celtic Briton Gladiator 15. Gaelic Settler 16. Iron Age Kent 17. Iron Age Yorkshire 18. High Status Parisi 19. Copper Age Germany 20. Ollsjo Battleaxe 21. Iron Age Hampshire 22. Danish-Gaelic Viking 23. Iron Age Somerset 24. Viking Settler 25. Copper Age Czech |
Rodney R. Hammons
433 N Main Street
Rushville, IN 46173
1.337.499.8674