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The Long Road to Scotland: The Genetic Journey of the Joss/Joyce Family

The Long Road to Scotland: The Genetic Journey of the Joss/Joyce Family

Paperback

Series: The Genetic Journeys, Book 1

Genealogy & HeraldryGeneral World HistoryGenetics

ISBN13: 9798247009375
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Long Road to Scotland is not a traditional genealogy book. It is a genetic and historical investigation into the deep paternal origins of the Joss/Joyce family using modern Y-DNA evidence alongside parish records, estate history, migration routes, and documented lineage. Beginning in Southwest Britain c. 650 BCE with SNP R-BY814, this study follows the Joss/Joyce male line through the Norman Marches, into medieval Scotland under King David I, through Aberdeenshire, into Ulster in the early 1700s, and eventually into Colonial Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ontario, and New Zealand. At each stage, the Y-DNA record is aligned with historical events, inheritance systems, and migration pressures to explain not only where the family lived, but why certain male lines survived while others disappeared.

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