Re: Pruitt - Chisholm connection?
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Re: Pruitt - Chisholm connection?
Ritchie Pruitt 5/23/10
Chisholm group has ober 115 participants at FTDNA, and you have collided with the 35% bunch. There will be an announcement about this I1 Norse group in the near future, with regards its connection to the foundation of Clan Chisholm.
Your family lore sound close to the mark, and the closer you are to the Chisholm group, the closer you will be to confirming that Norman origin. We do have matches in this group who have no connection to normandy, their ancestors either remained in Scandinavia, or migrated eastwards around the Baltic. I have also recognised some more distant matches, significantly more distant, where the ancestral trail led from Scandinavia to the wester coasts of Britain via the Viling raids in those parts.
With regards Normandy, I have found this lookalike Y chromosome amongst at least two particpants still residing in or near Normandy, plus in several of American or French Canadian descent. You can generally pick these matches up via Y search. The derivation of your surname meaning from Old french,Proux, "Valiant/brave/wise" is a good clue as to Norman origin, it looks like the Y-DNA is backing that up. I cant comment on all the other Pruitts who are R1b...as you know the Normans were a heterogenous lot and although Norse led, they would have had plenty of the locals in the rank and file, and R1b would be amongst them.... but the R1b Pruitts will need to look at how and where they match to others to determine whether their ancestors came over with the conqueror, or whether they were simply British folk who took on the name of the local Landowner, perhaps a descendent of a Valiant Norman knight, your ancestor. I think the ratio in Britain is roughly 80% R1b- 20% I haplogroup, does your Pruitt group stack up like that. The Chisholm group certainly does not, its around 60-40.
Robert