If You Have These Punjabi Surnames — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed Your True Ancestors
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If You Have These Punjabi Surnames — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed Your True Ancestors
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The surname at #1 is carried by Sikhs in India and Muslims in Pakistan. In 1947 a border cut that clan in two. The DNA says something no border could change.
We count down 15 Punjabi surnames from both sides of the border: Khatri names like Malhotra and Kapoor, Arora families of West Punjab, Saini and Kamboj, the Ramgarhia builders of the Uganda Railway, Ahluwalia and the Kapurthala state, the royal Sidhus and Brars of Patiala, Dhillon, Grewal, Sekhon and Gill, the Mohyal "Hussaini Brahmins," Arain and Gujjar, the Potohar clans Awan, Janjua, Khokhar and Gakhar, Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sandhu clan, Bhatti and the legend of Dulla Bhatti, Randhawa, Bajwa and Virk, and a #1 that tells the story of all of Punjab. We also test the old theory that Jatts descend from the Scythians.
A note on accuracy: surnames are shared across communities and religions, so a surname alone does not determine anyone's DNA. Very few genetic studies focus on specific Punjabi clans; this video describes broad regional patterns, not clan-by-clan measurements. Family and community origin stories, including the Mohyal Karbala tradition, Arab-origin claims, links to Porus and the size of individual clans, are presented as tradition. Partition casualty estimates vary widely between historians. No community is ranked above another. Be careful with percentages from hobbyist calculators; they are not peer-reviewed.
SOURCES:
Narasimhan et al. (2019) — The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia, Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7487
Mahal & Matsoukas (2017) — Y-STR haplogroup diversity in the Jat population reveals several different ancient origins, Frontiers in Genetics https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2017.00121
Shinde et al. (2019) — An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers, Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.0...
The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium (2015) — A global reference for human genetic variation, Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15393
Reich et al. (2009) — Reconstructing Indian population history, Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08365
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Paternal sir name: Leandher
My parents are from jallandhar ,Hoshiar pur, Punjab area.
If You Have These Punjabi Surnames — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed Your True Ancestors
Ancient Genetics Archive
19,190 views
If You Have These Punjabi Surnames — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed Your True Ancestors
📚 WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOUR ANCESTORS REALLY CAME FROM? Get our two-book bundle — "What Your DNA Is Really Telling You" (how to read your DNA results, ancestry percentages and haplogroups) + "Origins: The Ancient DNA Story of Every Human On Earth" (every major human migration, from Out of Africa to today): 👉 https://ancientdnafiles.gumroad.com/l...
❤️ Want to support the research behind these videos? Join us on Patreon: 👉 Patreon: AncientDNAFiles
The surname at #1 is carried by Sikhs in India and Muslims in Pakistan. In 1947 a border cut that clan in two. The DNA says something no border could change.
We count down 15 Punjabi surnames from both sides of the border: Khatri names like Malhotra and Kapoor, Arora families of West Punjab, Saini and Kamboj, the Ramgarhia builders of the Uganda Railway, Ahluwalia and the Kapurthala state, the royal Sidhus and Brars of Patiala, Dhillon, Grewal, Sekhon and Gill, the Mohyal "Hussaini Brahmins," Arain and Gujjar, the Potohar clans Awan, Janjua, Khokhar and Gakhar, Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sandhu clan, Bhatti and the legend of Dulla Bhatti, Randhawa, Bajwa and Virk, and a #1 that tells the story of all of Punjab. We also test the old theory that Jatts descend from the Scythians.
A note on accuracy: surnames are shared across communities and religions, so a surname alone does not determine anyone's DNA. Very few genetic studies focus on specific Punjabi clans; this video describes broad regional patterns, not clan-by-clan measurements. Family and community origin stories, including the Mohyal Karbala tradition, Arab-origin claims, links to Porus and the size of individual clans, are presented as tradition. Partition casualty estimates vary widely between historians. No community is ranked above another. Be careful with percentages from hobbyist calculators; they are not peer-reviewed.
SOURCES:
Narasimhan et al. (2019) — The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia, Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7487
Mahal & Matsoukas (2017) — Y-STR haplogroup diversity in the Jat population reveals several different ancient origins, Frontiers in Genetics https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2017.00121
Shinde et al. (2019) — An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers, Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.0...
The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium (2015) — A global reference for human genetic variation, Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15393
Reich et al. (2009) — Reconstructing Indian population history, Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08365
#Punjab #PunjabiSurnames #AncientDNA
TAGS: punjabi surnames, punjabi dna, punjabi ancestry, punjabi origin, jatt dna, jatt gotra, are jatts scythians, sikh surnames, gill surname, sandhu surname, sidhu brar, dhillon grewal, cheema bajwa virk, khatri surnames, arora surnames, ramgarhia history, ahluwalia history, mohyal brahmins, hussaini brahmins, arain origin, awan janjua khokhar gakhar, bhatti surname, dulla bhatti, partition 1947 punjab, harappa, indus valley punjab, pakistani punjabi dna, indian punjabi dna, ancient dna punjab, ancient genetics archive
Get our two-book bundle — "What Your DNA Is Really Telling You" (how to read your DNA results, ancestry percentages and haplogroups) + "Origins: The Ancient DNA Story of Every Human On Earth" (every major human migration, from Out of Africa to today):
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