Holopainen Paternal DNA

We have made some progress with Holopainen paternal DNA study. Most of the so far tested 22 Holopainen men from Northern Savonia belong to Western haplogroup I1 and its Eastern Finnish subgroup Y8954.

Comparison to traditional family research

Results:

Kuopio and Leppävirta Holopainen branches are related: Kuopio branches are more closely related to each other than to Leppävirta branches, also the Leppävirta branches are closer related to each other
Proposed Kuopio and Leppävirta branches common origin has not been confirmed, but is also still possible
one sample from Leppävirta Haapamäki and one from Putronniemi Kuopio belong to haplogroup N1. These two results are not close to each other.
additionally one Holappa family in Siikajoki appears to be originally Holopainen (ancestor Mikko Antinpoika b.about. 1665 in Kuopio Ritoniemi); typically Holappa belong to different haplogroup (N1)

Targets for future study:

verify relations between Kuopio branches
relation between Putronniemi and Leppävirta branches
are Northern Karelia branches closer related to branches in Northern Savonia or Southern Savonia
how Southern Savonia and Heinävesi branches are related to others

Paternal line history

Happened so far:

Years before present	Haplogroup	Location	Comments
over 60,000	A	Africa	Genetic Adam is common ancestor to all paternal lines
45,000-50,000	IJ	Near East
27,000	I1	Balkan	Oldest haplogroup born in Europe. Northern Europe including Finland will be covered by Ice Age glaciers for 15,000 years more.
4700	I-M253	Denmark
4100	L22		Nordic main branch, expands greatly in Southern Scandinavia during Bronze Age
1900	L287	Satakunta and Pirkanmaa	Almost fully Finnish (can be found in whole country), also some found in Norway, Sweden, Poland, and Russia.
1300	Y15894	Eastern Finland	Eastern Finnish group has likely divided into subgroups already during the Iron Age in the vicinity of Lake Saimaa. This is the largest group of descendants from the eastern expansion of Tavastians.
1300	BY545		Spread by Karelian and Savonian settlement migration
	Y8954
700	Y20304
	Y34543		New haplogroup contains only samples with name Holopainen

475	--	Sääminki and Rantasalmi	First written evidence of Holopainen families (land tax record 1541)

Partial haplotree

Part of I haplotree from March 2018. There will be changes when more samples have been tested. All listed here are at least Y67 paternal test, some also BigY test.

	I-Y8954 Holopainen Kuopio: 1 several surnames: 5


I-Y36138 Holopainen Kuopio: 3 several surnames: 3	I-Y20304 Holopainen Kuopio: 1 several surnames: 7	I-PF1123(I-Y19820) Hiltunen: 5


G20310783 Kortelainen: 4	I-Y34543	I-Y55803 Nevalainen: 9	I-Y81452 Turpeinen: 3


I-Y37117 Holopainen Leppävirta: 7 several surnames: 2	I-Y69595 Holopainen Kuopio: 4 Holappa: 1	I-BY12643 Nevalainen: 1	I-Y90878 Turpeinen: 1


I-BY50730 Holopainen Leppävirta: 2

Source: FTDNA group I1 Suomi Finland & N-CTS8565

Haplogroup I1 percentage of European men map.

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