u/Embarrassed-Duck-799

I used Living DNA a few years ago and have an intesting mitochondrial haplogroup. I'm curious to see if anyone else has had this result:

Haplogroup R1a

Haplotype R1a1a2

This is the description

"Your haplogroup is only really found in great numbers amongst the Adygeans, a Russian people who live to the east of the Black Sea, with 10% of the population carrying your marker. It is also found in 9% of the Kurdish populations of Turkmenistan who live on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea. As yet your haplogroup remains undetected in Scandinavian and German populations and is only seen very rarely in the United Kingdom and Ireland. As it has not yet been seen in Germany, it is difficult to trace the spread of your marker to the United Kingdom. It may be that your ancestors walked the long journey over, crossing the ancient landscape that connected Britain with Europe."

I'm Welsh/English/Irish and Scandinavian/German mostly.

My grandma's side is very dark complected with dark hair and dark eyes. Always wondered if this was from the Welsh (no Irish or Scandinavian on that side)

Just curious and think it's interesting :)

Hi all, new to reddit but have a good amount of research under my belt. I've got a few tools I've grown fond of.

First is full text search. (Family Search ).I was able to find really good info on hard to find family. Not enough to make up for 20 years between censuses, but it has helped. If you're not familiar (or I might be captain obvious here), it searches the scanned, unindexed documents for what you're searching.

Internet Archive has most of the 'history of __ county" books from the 1800s. It also has censuses and family history books. It's free to view and download. I do the 'control f' to search for names in the books. The county histories were pay to play, so poor ancestors aren't typically listed unless they're a pioneer. Still worth the search though!.

Hoping to help someone as it helped me.

Hi there, newish to reddit so I'm hoping there's no etiquette I'm missing. After having a constant bounding pulse for a year straight and worsening vision (and being dismissed everywhere) I got a referral from my eye doctor to see a neuro opthymologist. I had been in the ER with the worst headache of my life and they did quite a few tests but were not interested in investigating further. My opening pressure was 25, which meets the diagnostic threshold and was put on 250mg twice daily of Diamox. When I met the NO he said IIH can definitely cause the bounding pulse I've been suffering with and put me on 500mg twice daily. I had many tests that I'm waiting to get results for, but during the ultrasound I looked at the screen and there were many multi colored dots, not waves like it should look. There was also a high pitched noise when they put the machine up to one of my arteries. Aaaaanyway

Does anyone have trouble with running to the bathroom on this stuff? I've had unpredictable ... journeys let's just say where I'm indisposed for a while. I called the office and they texted me a few days later and said to take 1.3 g of potassium bicarbonate daily. I asked if he was ok with that without a blood test, because when I looked for it at the store the pharmacists told me I shouldn't just take it without knowing my levels. He said sometimes you can have mild Hyperkalemia, never medium, never severe when taking the supplement on Diamox. I've been missing out on teaching my students because it's so unpredictable. Should get the results on the 19th. My NO leaves the nastiest replies to negative Google reviews and now I'm legit scared of him. Should be interesting. Thanks all!