UPDATE
On a national level, Australia tops the percentage of rh negatives with 19%.
Why is that?
Here are a couple of factors that are likely to cause this:
1) A high percentage of Australians have Scottish and Irish ancestry. With Scotland not being an independent country, their high number of rh negatives impact the percentage.
2) Some believe that amongst the prisoners England located to Australia, a very high percentage was rh negative.
But when we examine high percentages of rh negative people, the wisest approach would be to ignore national levels for the most part.
Here is why:
We are all a mix of ancient tribes and the closer we get to the source of each tribe, the easier it becomes for us to pinpoint which genetic ancestry is mostly responsible for rh negative blood.
The Basques
When talking about the people with the highest percentage of rh negatives, the Basque population keeps popping up as the number 1 group in the world.
Reports indicate that depending on location, 21-43 percent have been the percentages of rh negatives amongst them.
Another group often mentioned are the Berber tribes in the Atlas mountain region of Morocco.
On a national average, Moroccans are around 9 percent rh negative.
But here is another claim:
The Berbers
The highest percentage is found among some of the tribes still living in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco (40%). The next highest are the Basques, reported in different publications as having 25 and 32%, depending on location. The people of northwest Ireland, the Highland Scots and the western islanders of Norway all have between 16 and 25%, while the Lapps of Norway and Finland have between 5 and 7%. In addition, Cavalli-Sforza reports two small isolated populations of the same tribe, one in Chad and another in Senegal, each with about 25%. On his map, he shows an Rh-negative population in Chad, still living near the formerly enormous Chad lake. Only part of this lake still exists on the spot where the boundaries of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon meet. These people may originally have been the sailors on Chad lake. Could it be that this is the original location of the Rh-negative population that then moved to Morocco and Algiers to become the Berbers? Or would it be the other way around?
(Source)
Here is another study to support this:
The Scots
Scotland is one of the locations where there is a strong variation of blood type frequencies based on location. Between 20 and a little bit over 30 percent of rh negatives can be expected in most of the extreme northern and western regions. Noticable as well: In the west coast region of Inverness where the rh negative percentage has been measured at 30.44%, the percentage of blood type O has also been noted as substancially high.
For more information on Scotland and its percentages of rh negative, please continue here.
The Irish
Ireland is reported to have around 25% rh negatives in several reports while others demonstrate more of a percentage of around 15-16.
However, recent studies have indicated that in Northern Ireland, the percentage of rh negative people is somewhere around 27%.
The Guanches
Another group said to be high in rh negative blood are the Guanches of the Canary Islands.
The Guanches as a tribe are considered extinct and today´s remnants are predominantly of Basque and Berber ancestry according to DNA test.
Here are some claims that do not seem to be true:
“Cherokee tribes are high in rh negative blood”.
The evidence is to the contrary.
And many believe that the frequency of rh negatives amongst today´s Cherokees likely comes from Irish and Scottish settlers mixing with them.
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I am half Scottish, half Cherokee. Being able to trace both my heritages to 1784 in America. I am convinced my Rh neg, blood stems from my Celtic ancestors.
I’m Polish, when I done my DNA, coming up with Scottish Orkney, American Indian, Bolivian, Spanish Catalonian, Portuguese, Irish, Belarusian, Hungarian, with B rh – I don’t have idea how’s come to that?
I am of English and Irish decent with one great grandparent being from the island of Malta (So some medeteranian but not sure if Malta is more Italian or Spanish). My mother and sister both have very dark hair and dark eyes, like the Spanish and if they spend a week in the Sun on holiday, they go a lovely bronze and actually hold their tan for a month or so, they hold the tan longer than it took to get it. I, on the other hand, have red hair, blue eyes, freckles and rh- blood (mega mix of double recesive genes) and I can’t spend more than an hour in the sunshine without burning (except the Scottish sun cos the Sun is pretty weak up here ;). It’s annoying because it’s like my sister got all the Med genes, so she can tan and enjoy the sun and isn’t ginger xD and I got all the Irish genes so….well 🙁
My name is Bojan.I,m Macedonian and A rh negative.We got mixed ancestor heritage here.
I am a Mexican-American female. My blood group genotype combination is as follows: ABO Genotype BO, Rh Genotype
Rh Negative,and MNS Group MN. That is a very rare combination for one of my ethnicity especially for myself since genetic testing has revealed that I am of about 70-75 percent Amerindian extraction. Yet, I guess I am what I am.
Technically speaking, one rh negative ancestor is enough to make someone rh negative.
My father has A – and mother A+ I am o+ my father is of middle eastern ancestry ( Iran , Syria, northern India and Portuguese my mother Indian and Mongolian ancestry.
I am RH B- Neg. Of Basque, Welsh/Irish/Scotch = Celtic and Romanian ancestry – the weird thing is both of my parents and all 4 grandparents are/were RH Negatives as are my three brothers, several aunts uncles and cousins. Weirder yet, when I was pregnant with our first child, and got genetic testing I found out that my husband’s dad, and two of his sisters are RH A-, as are his two sisters. My husband is A+, half Italian, half Russian Jewish and also, my friend’s mom and daughter are Polish and RH B- Neg. too. But it skipped my friend- she is RH. O+. She says she’s a hybrid and I guess that’s true, lol.
Right on Cameo….
I am a fellow Rh Negative Mexican-American female.
I am Type O Rh Negative.
Cordially,
Una Numo
My name is Alyssa Skibinski. I am a friend of Cameo and Una.
I am Type A Rh Negative.
The native Americans in south and north America were all O+ before European colonization. The Blackfoot tribe in Montana is mostly A+ proof of mixing with European settlers.
Not necessarily. There are Asian groups high in type A+ from whom the Blackfoot tribe could have originated.
Also a lot of French Canadians are RH- or are carriers of it. Quebec and New Brunswick Canada.
I’m adopted but know that my parents were French Canadian. I am RH-A blood type. I haven’t been able to find out where in France do they have this frequency? I know france is a mixing pot of many cultures. I’m curious to see where my blood type leads me to. My daughter has the RH-O factor has her father is 0+. My other two children are positive. I don’t know what my parents blood type were but do know that my mother had to carry the RH- gene as she was always very sick after giving birth to some of my siblings (which I assume were RH positive. They did not have the shot back in the 50 & 60’s.
Im Louisiana Creole, specifically Acadian from New Brunswick Canada aka Cajun, and it’s known that the Basques populated the regions where the Acadians were in New Brunswick. They were walers and formed close relationships with he native tribes there. They mixed with the First Nations people there, the Mi’kmaq, I have records verifying my Basque French great etc grandfather married a Mi’kmaq woman. That’s moms side. My fathers side is Sicilian with Irish and Austrian in the mix on his dads side and Creole Louisiana, hence basque, on his moms side. I live in Louisiana in the Acadiana region and I suspect lots of people here are like me with Rh negative type since Cajuns/Acadians/Louisiana Creoles tend to stick together. I may do a DNA test one day but they still creep me out so for now I rely on birth/death/marriage records and my own blood test. I do have auburn hair and I tease my kids that they stole my red because they were born with firey red hair. Their dad, my ex is also Louisiana Creole and his family is mixed with local Amerindian natives.
My mother, my son, and I all have blood type O-. My son’s father was proud to be Irish. People said he looked like he could be my brother bc he has dark hair and bright blue eyes. I have dark hair with bright very light blue-green eyes. My mother has medium brown hair and blue eyes. My son looks like a bigger version of his dad with dark hair and bright blue green eyes. My mother’s grandmother was a Farrell and we are half Irish and told we are related also to Queen Mary of Scotland also Pennsylvania Dutch. My grandmother was maybe 1/2 or less Cherokee. ..much of the rest being Austrian.
I am also Rh- with Scottish, English, Dutch and Cherokee ancestry and related to Mary Stuart as my Grandfather on my Mothers side was Stuart and also Cherokee.
English and Dutch come from my Father, who was Harris.
I have brown hair and brown eyes, but I have 2 children (a boy and a girl) with hazel eyes like my Grandfather and 2 girls with brown eyes like my Mom’s and her Mom’s side, (Purvis & Perry) who were also Cherokee.
I was also told we are decended from Mary queen of Scoots and my irish ancestors have blue eyes almost black hair and rh negative blood .I was told by my granmother that her mother said Bailey Burkbanks and Haggerty are all related Bailys to balys burbanks to burbanks haggertys to haggertys and we are all related.
I am O-. I have red hair and blue eyes. My ancestors were Highland Scots, clan Buchanan. I’m certain my blood type comes from my Scottish ancestry.
I have A- with Rh factor I was told as a child there was Cherokee in the family but can’t find out any information because my mom and grandparents are all gone
Cherokee are not known to have RH negative blood. that is misinformation
Dear MS Horner…I am just now seeing this. 7/24/16. I too am
A-with RhD/negative blood type…and long ago told I had
a Cherokee as an ancestor..that did not prove to be true
since my father did write a geneology book about our
ancestor’s….Harris is the fraternal name…I find it interesting
that my grandmother thought she was Scotch/Irish her entire
life and named all her kids Irish names…then father did the
research and found that we were common Harris folk..a name
as common in England as Smith is in America. But, now I wonder if there is an error in the lineage upon reading that
there is a higher population of people with our blood type
in Scotland & Ireland….well..it certainly sort of makes one
be curious about getting one of those DNA ancestry tests
done…Best Wishes
I am Finnish / Swedish. The Berbers were said to have migrated to scandanavian countries about 12,000 years ago. So it is interesting that Berbers are mentioned as RH negative. I think original Basque came from Berbers. Because Basque are was more isolated, they tended to be more isolated hence mixed less so more RH negatives. Scant data would suggest that Berbers may have most RH negative. Geographically Basques are close to where Berbers were.
Hey that is so interesting I live in the Netherlands , and in my female lines I am Scandinavian and Finn ! My fathers line I was told where Portuguese Jewish but I have no prove except he Shure is dark curly haired with a red beard and hazel eyes . He is I negative my mom a negative my mothers sisters ab negative I am o neg
I’m o neg. mom’s family is from Scotland originally- migrated through Shenandoah valley, settled in North Carolina- Generations later eventually moving south to Tallahassee, fl in the late 1800s- early 1900’s- those family names are broome and humphries( mom’s mom’s parents) mom’s dad’s side is Ausley, and pretty sure of Cherokee descent – my grandad had o- blood and so does one of my moms sisters- my
Dads side is Winfield and dirickson – some have rhneg- I’ve had 3 kids and had to get the rhogam shot- have been anemic ( low iron) frquently and have always felt “ out of place” my whole life, even more so nowadays- I have blond hair and green eyes
You have not included the native British (welsh). The Welsh, scots, irish, cornish and basques are all celts (related people’s).
Right on..
I am A- so was my Mom, so is my Grandmother and so was my Great Grand mother. I believe my son is too. We have alot Highland Scottish ancestry all the way back to the Picts and Irish Ancestry on my paternal side. I have black hair and hazel piercing eyes so people tell me. I stop clocks when I walk by, drain my phones battery in half the time and tend to know the phone will ring before it does and alot of odd stuff. Low bood pressure the dr always metions, can tell if a person likes me within 3 mins of talking to them, can tell moods right away. Search every day for the truth. Look up at the sky and wonder “why?” Speak to Jesus daily and get amazing wash over feelings! It’s honestly we are like the pin point for others to meet around to find their way in life people always talk to me for advice and help always… daily. I also rub alof of people the wrong way like we all do its likely the energy mismatch. My life is very difficult and different from other humans I feel I do not belong.
Same here! I’m O-negative. I stopped the digital clock in my brand new car once by concentrating on the idea of stepping out of “time.” I also am a messenger and counselor to many people. Have a magnetic effect on people without trying. Have a sense of a mission in life. A strong connection to God and Jesus. A LOT of synchronicities, intuitions, foreknowledge. I have to stop myself from thinking of someone if I don’t want them to call me shortly after thinking about them. I have always felt like an outsider in the world. Like I’m from somewhere else. I’m very low key inclined to be modest, but I often feel like I have a strange super power that I don’t know where it comes from. I use it all to do good in the world. To make someone’s life better. I can often tell another O-negative when I meet them. I just know that energy.
I fit in that category too add to it…rish and German I think., natural everything. No fear, strong faith. I always have some bit of council to offer iand into situations even when not told the whole story.
Wow, just read ur post, and have been reading about rh- blood types and there is some strange occurrences’ that go along with having the rh negative blood type, such as myself, O-. I agree with you, and that I too have experienced some unusual premonitions in my life, more so in my early teenage years. I’m about to have my first child so I was interested in learning about the issues that go along with being rh-, lots of medical conditions and the possibility of psychic abilities. I can only describe it as something bigger than myself yet can’t quite put my finger on it, when I was younger I thought I just had good luck, now I’m seeing a connection with my mind, concentration and energy.
Your singing my song here. I really like reading all of these responses. I’ve been “different “ from others my whole life. And upon discovering the rh negative factor, I feel great relief and hope knowing that my “family” is out there. I don’t feel so alone. I can just be sitting there doing an saying nothing and people will literally say “your weird”. Or people get uncomfortable around me. Or it seems I don’t get others at all. I do indeed feel lonely as well. I am homesick all the time. And I don’t feel like I belong here at all.
I feel the same way A-
On my gosh. You just described my life. I am half Scottish and 40 percent Irish. My father swears my grandmother was a druid healer. Our last name was Mc Eldridge until my great grandfather dropped the MC from. I’m not sure if that’s accurate.
My grandmother had A- blood type. Along with an uncle and myself. My parents are both dark haired have dark skin. Dad has blue eyes and Mom had dark brown.
I have red hair, freckles, fair skin and hazel eyes that will change to green.
I have always felt different than others. I have never meet a stranger but I seem to rub some people the wrong way. For some reason I don’t get along with women as well as men. I look at someone and get vibes that tell me what kind of person they are
You just described my life. I also have very vivid dreams and sometimes have a hard time telling if they are real or not. When I Close my eyes I see pictures in color which I’ve been told most don’t.
I have seen thing that are not suppose to be there.
I believe there is so much more than just what we see. I can feel it around me. One of my son’s tell me we are sensitive. I can’t wait until I can visit my home lands.
hi.. i am an O- and i have a twin brother. we are from the philippines. i traced our ancestors..
form my father’s side,my grandma is a hawaiian and my grandpa is a spanish.
from my mother’s side, my grandma is a mixed fil-japanese and my grandpa is a filipino.
im wondering why we have negative rh..
IM PROUD TO BE A RH NEGATIVE THOU..
Likely something to do with your Spanish link :). Spain and France house the highest percentage of RH- people right on their border in the Pyrenees Mountains – the Basque people 🙂
You wouldn’t want to be rh negative.It’s very hard to get a blood compatible to you during surgeries/emergencies since 99% of Filipinos are Rh +. And you might have miscarriages due to RH incompatibility with your husband.
I have blood type AB- and my father is Scottish, mother is mostly Irish although there is some Northern European (old Norwegian) Ancestry on my grandfathers side.
It seems New Zealand is on par with Australia and its frequency of negative blood. Mostly European.
A- Trying to map my origins. Both parents born in Puerto Rico. Father’s grandfather born in Santander on the northern coast of Spain not far from Basque Country. Father’s grandmother born in Aragon. Mother’s grandmother born in France, mother’s grandfather born in Canary Islands. Somewhere in that mix I came out with A-like my father. But mother is O+ with negative allele.
I’m rh neg o neg >> maiden name ledbetter … an prodigy of this millennium.. never knew father…mother was estranged … curious of background fondues…
Hi rebecca i need to know was your mother rh neg o also ? i´m from denmark and we see a lot of children seperated from ther mother with rh neg – have you any contact today with your mother ?
I am British and can confirm that Ledbetter is a common surname here, or fairly common anyway. I would say it’s a British/Irish surname but there is probably a Germanic equivelent like Smith and Smidt. I know a few people with surname Ledbetter, they are all Scottish. Hope that helps you a bit, 18 months later lol
I am a type rh negative, my last name is norse and I am a north amercian indian from north east coast of canada. I am Mic Mac from Newfoundland where the Norse first landed in the year 1000,
I’m A neg, and so happy to have come across this site ( and others like it). I now feel like I belong…as I’ve finally had questions answered. I’ve always, always wondered ‘why it’s so, and what is it all about’! I’ve never been able to wear a watch, and my mobile phone batteries need charging daily. (Even when new – I wear my mobile on a lanyard around my neck). I’m a loner, happily so…I tend to ‘pick up’ energy from anyone I’m near – it can be very draining. I had (greying now!) reddish hair, and I’ve got blue/green eyes. I’m absolutely convinced that being ‘a negative’ is the reason. Although I must say I can’t accept the ‘alien’ or ‘biblical’ explanations for this. I liken Rhesus negative people’s differences to….a redhead (generally) being prone to sunburn (because of the fair skin), or the Welsh (generally) being good singers (because of ‘the singing’ gene). It’s genetic that negatives are inclined towards certain characteristics and tendencies. Simple. Do you agree?
Thanks for posting this! I totally agree. I am A neg too, but to the best of my (limited) knowledge our family is not Irish, Scots, Berber, etc. I fit into none of those groups and I am curious what caused me to be A-neg. I am the only negative in my living family. Why? I do have light cyan-blue eyes, blond/light brown hair that apparently has lots and lots of red in it, am a loner, great singer (& musician), and empath where all others are concerned. I look forward to reading more on this site to try figure out the mystery of my negative blood type.
I’m B- and my ancestry is all Irish except for a great-grandma from Ukraine who came to Glasgow and married a Scot. As if having Rh negative blood didn’t cause enough problems, my family also has Haemochromatosis (Hemochromatosis in US). This genetic disease is more common amongst Celts and Northern Europeans than most people realise. Previously I only ever heard of it in an episode of House!, than some years later we found out my younger brother is a sufferer. The symptoms of Haemochromatosis include joint pains, liver disease, heart and coronary artery disease, rheumatoid arthritis, loss of libido, bronzing of the skin so you have a perma-tan and early menopause amongst many, many others. My healthy and slim and always sun tanned looking father died suddenly at 58 of a massive heart attack, all his siblings bar 1 sister died before they reached 60 and I believe they all suffered from it; the disease is also present in my mum’s family. The disease means your body stores iron in the joints, organs and tissues in increasing amounts, and this iron overload causes lots of health problems. Uncontrolled iron overload is deemed terminal if not recognised and treated.
If you or your family have suffered any of these symptoms and early death then I would advise you to look at getting tested. The good news is that it is easy to reduce iron levels by regularly taking blood from the sufferer until their iron levels are normal, and managing the diets to avoid iron-rich foods, getting your doctor to diagnose it is much harder.
For more info on Haemochromatosis go to http://www.hemochromatosis.org
From the Irish Times: http://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2016/11/23/news/awareness-call-as-genetic-disorder-haemochromatosis-silently-destroys-lives–794299/?param=ds12rif76F
Thankyou for sharing 😊
I am b negative and I am from Indian Highlands (Indian Himalayas). I wonder if I can trace the ancestry just with B Negative blood type.
Hey Mit,
You should research your male ancestry, and get a DNA test to see your DNA’s origin.
“B” bloodtypes originate in the Middle East. Mine did. I’m B Neg.
I read somewhere males pass the blood type to their offspring. Trace your father’s father’s father… lineage. Though I haven’t traced my mom’s mom’s mom… and yet my mom has B Pos.
Mark Gibbs
Hi.
Born with reddish hair so I am told but it changed later. A- blood type, green eyes and according to dna am 47% French and 46% Irish. I did look at pics of Basque people and was surprised at how we all look similar.
But Alien??….No, I don’t think so. Probably just a genetic aberration that started around the area where the Basque’s lived. Yes I seem to have all the traits mentioned but Alien….I’m afraid that’s just a little bit out there.
I dont think it is mentioned anywhere on here we are connected to aliens or that aliens exist .. 😊
I too have irish blood and a lot of native american my dad is 25% Choctaw and British on my mom side is german, irish and Sioux we are both A negative bloodtype. I am short with reddish brown curly hair and piercing hazel/chestnut brown eyes that change colors based on mood. I also have a dimple chin which is an irish feature along with freckles.
I’m a A-. Born in Scotland. fair skin with freckles and green eyes my mums side from Ireland and my dad’s norwegian x love to read where everyone is from
I am type A RH- and being adopted I know very little of my genetic family history. My parents were French Canadian my mother had the RH- and between 10 siblings many of us have the RH- factor. I assume my ancestors came from France and maybe even the Basque region. All my siblings have either dark hair/blue eyes (father) and fair/blue, blue green eyes (mother). I have the dark skin tone of my father but blue eyes and had blond hair as a child. I believe we may have some Irish, maybe even Basque descendants since they have the highest incidence of RH- factor. I am looking at taking a DNA test so I can find out about genetic history. Some people have claimed that we could have Native in us (since the French and Native were friends in early settlement of Canada. Again the Native Indians have very low Rh- blood so I”m less likely to think that way. Interesting information about the RH-blood factor.
Hi, I’m O Rh- (as is one of my cousin’s). I have just got my DNA results from ‘MyHeritage’ which showed that I am 64.6% North and West European, 30.8% English, 3.7% Iberian and 0.9% West Asian. Looking at this ethnicity estimate, I am beginning to wonder if I have some Basque in me? A possibility for my blood group? On the ‘MyHeritage’ map there is a clear overlap with the France and Northern Spain region’s. Your thoughts on this please. 🙂
RH neg O…Same as my mother and father. I was born in Northern Ireland, three daughters only one is negative A neg…I am very intrigued by the Basque connection..I have dark brown hair and hazel eyes, my Dad had black hair as did most of his family my mom brown hair….I daughter is strawberry blonde light blue eyes , one is blonde with amber coloured eyes and one has dark hair and strinking blue eyes…Their Dad is a blond with a red beard and grey eyes (Also from Northern Ireland) he is B positive.His mom was RH neg and his dad B Positive when he was born he had blue baby syndrome blood type.He had one sister die just after birth because of incompatable blood types…His Mom was a blond and his dad was dark haired..My dads sister lost numerous babies to Blue baby syndrome..
I am A negative, along with my mother. She always believed there was Spanish in her ancestry, and after reading up on the origins of RH neg, my curiosity about our family tree was even stronger. Recently, my sister had her do a DNA test as part of tracing our family, and, it turns out that she is Spanish and Irish. Seems to fit in well!
“With Scotland not being its own country” Excuse me, Scotland is a country within a United Kingdom of four other countries.
Changed to “independent country”. Correct now?
No one has mentioned the Welsh. I am half Welsh half Scottish, O neg, met my husband who is mostly English & later found out he was o neg……where does that put us? Quite a few people I know are O neg in South Wales. Like some of the other people have had ‘odd’ experiences. Are these experiences something O negs get?
Wales is high, but nowhere near as high as let’s say Scotland or Ireland. According to the main study I have seen, out of 60,308 samples, 17.01 percent were rh negative:
http://www.rhesusnegative.net/themission/bloodtypefrequencies/unitedkingdom/northernireland/
Wow-
I’ve been researching My family and Where they came from for some time now.
I am and so Is My Son RH O neg.
Had out blood typing done. We are 86% Great Britian 8% Ireland. 3% Iberian Peninsula 2% Europe East 1% Scandinavia.
With all that- I haven’t a clue where to start looking for our ancestors….?
Anyone have some advice?
Elisabeth,
If I were you I would start in Great Britain since that is where most of your typing came from. It would lead to where the others came from I would think.
There’s Ancestry.com , 23 and me, and CRI Genetics. All three of them are different in providing their report.
I did mine through CRI genetics to further my research in finding my ancestors. I was VERY pleased with their report.
My father was 0 neg, my mother was A pos. I’m A neg. When my first child was born I had an extreme amount of blood loss due to complications in his delivery. Our small town didn’t have a blood bank at that time and it would have taken over an hour to receive the amount of blood I required from the nearest city. Thankfully, my dad was there and started donating. His blood kept me going until the rest of the blood arrived. I don’t know how much blood they took from my dad but I was billed for 4 units that I received from the blood bank. I like to think that I have my dad’s blood genetically and literally.
Incidentally, my first recorded ancestor on my father’s side was born in London, England in the early 1700’s. I also, have Welsh, Irish, Scot, Dutch and German from both parents. There are many red heads on both sides of my family. Two of my 4 sons have red hair and my daughter’s hair has a red cast to it as did mine before it turned gray. Also, 3 of my grandchildren are red heads.
I am working on my ancestry.com tree after doing the dna test. Almost all of my family moved to South and North Carolina from Ireland. And Scotland in the late1600s early 1700s. After the war of 1812, many received land Grant’s in Georgia and Mississippi. Most of the families had 10 to 20 children that lived to adulthood. After 1950 the family sizes decreased to 3 to 5 children. I was amazed that so many children survived and many lived to be 90 -100. I am A neg as is my son. We have blue eyes and blond hair. My husband is o neg with dark hair and hazel eyes that recently started turning blue. So far none of the family trees cross each other as far back as 1700. We are doing a graveyard tour to map out family and extended family. Thornhill, Carlisle, Boyte, Burt, Myers, Wilkinson, Mclaughlin , Brister, etc. It is so fascinating and addicting. Is there any research as to the percentage of RH neg blood types by state and regions of the USA?
I am A- basque/Irish. My guess is that we started in Egypt, based on King tut Blood type, and settled in and around Northern Africa, where my genetics put me. The Egypt culture after filling in the northern Africa area, Morocco, and Basque between France and Spain, then populated the Canary island. And also Ireland and Scotland, England basically both sides filled in from Egypt to Ireland. Then many of us was sent to Australia, and Christopher Columbus noted that Basque was already in Canada when he arrived. So we just kept coming from different locations around the world and filled up North America and Australia. Also many Basque located in South America. There s legend of Egyptians going to Ireland, and I believe I have heard that some Egyptian writing was found in North America. My Family name is very old one, and can be found in abundance in North America, Australia, Ireland, in the Cherokee tribes especially in Oklahoma, and even in black families in united States which we date back to 1640’s with Edward Coffey, prior from Ireland. So we are a base family for RH-. But the name is not as common in Basque land where my genetics put me 100% (European) From North Africa, apparently we liked to sail. There is also rumor or legend that the RH- come from Atlantis by legend was located in Atlantic ocean between North America, and Basque Spain. Spanish Basque in North and South America makes perfect sense, so I don’t doubt that we spread our genes. Another legend has it that some of the elongated Skulls of Peru are RH- when they were tested, showing that the genes spread slowly also from ancient times most likely from South to North America. Lastly there is some information around the World in regards to Pyramid building that is interesting. Seems almost all land masses have Pyramids, China, North and South America, Middle East of course. They all appear slightly different, but if you take South American Pyramid building and fill them in as you go up, you have Egyptian pyramids. There is also the issue with Languages, Basque Language is different from all other European languages so they are sometimes referred to as the European Indian’s. I think we will need to wait longer to really be able to isolate gene’s from one area to the next, but I found t interesting in my own family searches to find so many connections around the world, and most of my extended family is RH-, I have one Child RH-AB, and the other B+ like his mother.
I am Hebrew, Basque, Black Dutch, Welsh on my Mothers side and Hebrew, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee on my Fathers side. I am AB- and have light hair, green eyes, do not tan easily and use to get freckles easier when younger. Many cousin on that side (fathers) are either fair and red headed and green eyes or dark, high cheek bones and blue eyes. On my mothers a few had light hair but most had brown hair and hazel or brown eyes. I have no idea on the RH factor of my parents (passed) Could it ne with these ethnicities, It could be a high percentage on both sides?
April 25,2020 Marilyn
I am totally Slovenian from where all of my grandparents came to America in the 1900-1910. I am O- and have a son and one daughter who are O-. My son had me take several ancestry tests and I am on several sites. The best one is definitely Living DNA from England which traces your ancestry back to where it began. Mine was IRAN!! I began researching this and found that my family were from the northwest part of Iran and that we were Kurdish! I and my family were always Catholic. I found out that in 67 AD John the Baptist built a church in northwest Iran. My ancestors left there, went through the mountains, up into the Ukraine and down into Slovenia. My maiden name is Samsa which comes from my paternal father, grandfather, etc. and is an Iranian word. My maternal grandfather and my paternal grandfather both have Y which traces to Ukraine. My maternal grandmother, who is the source of my blood type had some connection with Finland in her ancestry. Her father was Austrian who had lived in Slovenia for many years. Slovenia was occupied by the Slovenians from 598 AD. So before that the migration happened. I don’t have the times figured out. I am not American Indian, Scotish, and have never been in Africa. So, because they don’t know what to do with me, several genetic groups are looking at DNA to figure out how I can exist! My conclusion is that they have it wrong! I believe there were several creations of man and I am from the one that took place in the Garden of Eden in Sumeria. My blood type is O8b1b-, very old. After much research, I think I am a descendent of Samsa, (also known as Shamsa, Utu) twin brother of Ianna who were grandchildren of Enlil, who lived in Akkadia, north of Baghdad. I have 4 college degrees and am good at research! I have brown hair with just a touch of red in it, and brown eyes. There is some indication that the Neanderthals had red hair, as many of you noted. I have more than the average amount of Neanderthal in me. 23and Me shows your DNA chart and your Neanderthal chart! I was very disappointed in Ancestry. They don’t tell you your DNA and texting is rough-not many people get good at it. They give you very little information. I mention this because many of you are trying to trace thru your ancestors. With Living DNA you get to see where you started. 23andMe is good for health and charts. I am a great thinker and I believe I inherited it from my ancient ancestors. Don’t scoff at aliens. It is true! They created us. The world authority on this is Zacharia Sitchin who wrote about 10-12 books on it. They are at the bookstore or you can order them through Amazon. He could read Sumerian and all of his writing is from what he read. He passed away about 4-5 years ago. The Sumerian section at the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum have much of what Leonard Woolsey found when he excavated Ur in Iraq, which they paid for. Queen Puabi’s skeleton is in England, but her headress is in Pennsylvania. They have thousands of items. We are all negative so we have that in common! I am trying to find out if it might have come from our visitors, but I need hard facts, which I have not yet found.
Before I did my DNA , I already knew both of my parent’s ancestry lineages which are composed of Scandinavian, Northern European, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Western, Southern, and Central Slavic. Since I was used to researching in college, I decided to explore my ancestry research through CRI Genetics. I was very pleased with their report and a lovely surprise at the same time. My DNA traced back to West Asia between 20,000 and 38,000 years ago. “Present in farmers from the Early Neolithic, Near East and among European farmers. Haplogroup K spread during the Bronze Age led to migration patterns venturing into German countries and Central Asia”. Today , mtDNA is particularly common in Northern Europe.
My original mother was from Iran. I have also small percentages from the British Isles, France, Toscana Italian, Iberian, Gujarati Indian, Sri Lanka Tamil, and Chinese.
All of my family members are RH negative blood. My father is RH O negative , my mother RH A negative, I am RH A negative. Both of my sons are RH O negative. Everyone in the family has either blue eyes or bluish-green eyes. We were all born bold and then started growing whitish blonde hair got a bit darker during puberty time.
Has anybody come across certain minerals, vitamins, supplements etc that they must have to function optimally? I gravitate towards salt as do other rh- in my family.. .does anybody else? Do we have special needs as we age that are different than those who are rh+? How about hormones, do we have a different makeup compared to rh+? I also hear alot of folks in healthcare complain about full moon and those who act out. Thoughts?
I worked for Medicaid and we got more calls – and apparently more complaining – when the moon was full.
Personally, I didn’t really notice. I thought it was mostly a joke.
I’m really interested to know if any research has been done about Rhesus blood and Covid 19. I’m Rh neg A. Both my parents were Rh neg A.
I’m blood type O Rh neg, the only neg in my family. My grandparents were from Finland & Italy respectively. My Italian grandfather has some middle eastern dna & I strongly suspect it came from Iran, Iraq or Jordan. I think I may have some dna from the Iberian peninsula as well.
Im of italian origin. Dont know if my ancestors came from other countries. I have light brown hair and hazel eyes. My grandparents are a mix of dark and blonde, brown and blue eyes.
Im also RH negative A blood.
heh, i guess i could says RhD negative blood is like me & mine (O neg) in some ways, it exists mostly/often times around the edges & in well protected nooks and not usually deeply within the centers of the megalopolises. i need some space…some distance from it all…maybe other RhD negs do too. yeah, these recessive RhD negative genes can hang around for a long time in the human gene pool…but their percentages in it should decline if they have less offspring. who knows?…maybe the dominants will find ways to preclude RhD negs from the start via gene editing and/or sterilization of some sort. i guess it will/should all depend on what people prefer, tend to want most over time. i think knowledge, caring & understanding make things better. let each choose & be responsible for their own path/life when & while each is able.
i guess it could be said that the natural hidden genetic momentum/genomic bias/push/direction among blood types and RhD factor is w/ those who have dominant genetic blood type traits. environmental factors, personal choice/preference/wants/needs, knowledge, phenotypic traits of the recessive types when compared w/ those types that are dominant or equivalent and such, become and are much of what will shape humanity going forward. the RhD negative female pregnancy issue w/ RhD positive men was likely something that contributed to some separation between these people/groups in the past. speaking about myself, O negatives and some things i know: i, an aunt (6+ yrs older than me) and a now dead male friend of mine (his older brother might well be O neg also, so i’ll include him) all produced no children intentionally. i don’t know how common it is for O negs and/or other RhD negative people to choose not to have children now; but if it’s common or more so than for the dominant types, then this is surely a way that people w/ these recessive traits will start to fade away & likely have less impact/less affect on the future. differences make a difference. the modern high tech human present & it’s (apparent to me) likely future direction & path, seem to be ever-more integrative, all-encompassing, less choice/no-choice oriented and certainly exclusionary toward those too different and/or unwilling to conform to it/with it. the machining of humanity…i’d rather build and create useful tools than to be forced to become one myself.
heh, i guess i could say RhD negative blood is like me & mine (O neg) in some ways, it exists mostly/often times around the edges & in well protected nooks and not usually deeply within the centers of the megalopolises. i need some space…some distance from it all…maybe other RhD negs do too. yeah, these recessive RhD negative genes can hang around for a long time in the human gene pool…but their percentages in it should decline if they have less offspring. who knows?…maybe the dominants will find ways to preclude RhD negs from the start via gene editing and/or sterilization of some sort. i guess it will/should all depend on what people prefer, tend to want most over time. i think knowledge, caring & understanding make things better. let each choose & be responsible for their own path/life when & while each is able.
i guess it could be said that the natural hidden genetic momentum/genomic bias/push/direction among blood types and RhD factor is w/ those who have dominant genetic blood type traits. environmental factors, personal choice/preference/wants/needs, knowledge, phenotypic traits of the recessive types when compared w/ those types that are dominant or equivalent and such, become and are much of what will shape humanity going forward. the RhD negative female pregnancy issue w/ RhD positive men was likely something that contributed to some separation between these people/groups in the past. speaking about myself, O negatives and some things i know: i, an aunt (6+ yrs older than me) and a now dead male friend of mine (his older brother might well be O neg also, so i’ll include him) all produced no children intentionally. i don’t know how common it is for O negs and/or other RhD negative people to choose not to have children now; but if it’s common or more so than for the dominant types, then this is surely a way that people w/ these recessive traits will start to fade away & likely have less impact/less affect on the future. differences make a difference. the modern high tech human present & it’s (apparent to me) likely future direction & path, seem to be ever-more integrative, all-encompassing, less choice/no-choice oriented and certainly exclusionary toward those too different and/or unwilling to conform to it/with it. the machining of humanity…i’d rather build and create useful tools than to be forced to become one myself.
fwiw, in case you see this Mike: the second copy of my post eliminates that nasty “s” i left on the word “say” in the first sentence. obviously this comment and only one of my prior two should be made public. we’ll see how it goes.
My father has A – and mother A+ I am o+ my father is of middle eastern ancestry ( Iran , Syria, northern India and Portuguese my mother Indian and Mongolian ( desendants of Genghis Khan. )
I’m blood type A and Rh negative. I comes from Serbia. My ancestor are from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. As I see, no one in this comment below wrote that comes from the Balkan region but there is also a lot of people with blood type A and Rh negative. As history say, before Slavic comes to Balkan there was a lot of Celtic tribes who lived there so I guess that genetically some people still have some genes from those Celtics.
I’m Basque. I’m B-. My brothers are O-.
I’m rh negative. 23&me says i have a tiny bit of sephardic jew in my gene. no one else that’s been tested in my immediate family have this trait however they used a different site.. i forget the breakdown of where my genes came from: Ireland, Scotland maybe a bit of Spain/Portugese. As for personality traits i definitely feel different from other people and most times don’t feel like i belong. as i age it’s become more of an issue. it in itself is not an age thing. i’ve felt this way since i was a little kid, didn’t have many friends, had/have a hard time making friends and was somewhat of a longer or a follower depending on the scenario. . life in my body & mind has not been easy.
I’m AB- like my Irish Father. His father was Irish, his mother half Welsh/half Scot.
My Mum is B- From a very Old Cheshire Uk Family with a lot of Scandinavian DNA so Viking?
Three of my six children are RH Negative blood: does this mean I am too?
RH A Negative – Scottish, Northern Ireland County Down roots from Scottish and English settlers – Scandinavian blood, Welsh, 2% Spain – and 1/2 Japanese, but that doesn’t count. LOL
Great-grandfather was at least 6-foot-tall and red-haired.
Very sick as a baby (almost died) and had epilepsy for many years. Always liked school, did well and both family lines have been fairly successful.
Me, my Dad and brother are all redhaired. Me and my Dad have green eyes, my brother brown. Thru my father we can also trace ancestors to Down, Derry, Donegal, Galway, Sligo and Roscommon. My dad has the R-M222 yDNA gene, the famous Niall of the Nine Hostages gene. It is found all over Europe but most predominantly in northwest Ireland. My dad is rh positive, my brother and I negative as our mother of Italian descent is rh neg.