Melton Paternal DNA Tracing from African Origins to Europe to Today

Today haplogroup A is most common among people groups in Eastern and Southern Africa. These are our ancestors who stayed in Africa when we modern humans left about 70,000 years ago. Most of them are hunter gathers. One major group is the San people. The African haplogroup A later became haplogroup F from which 80% of all men in the world have descended including most European males. These folks first arose not long after the first major migration of we modern humans out of Africa which occurred about 70,000 years ago when a small number of people( only a few hundred) crossed the Red Sea at its most southern narrow tip, and made their way around the tip of Saudi Arabia into southeastern Asia. This group finally became haplogroup R about 30,000 years ago and then they migrated into Europe at the end of the last Ice Age around 12,000 BC as Civization began. Today this DNA group is found in more than 59% of all European males , and this group is now located mostly on the fringes of the North Sea in England, Germany, and the Netherlands, where it consists of 33% of the male population. These are the male ancestors whose offspring came to Virginia, USA as the Meltons. And from VA they traveled to NC and on to GA. Our Melton male/ father/paternal side of the family DNA haplogroup is R1b1b2a1a1. ( google it if you want to know your Melton Family DNA history!!) . More on Mother's side to come.