Following the path of immigrants to Unalaska

Yes, through my constant research, I can see that all the full-blooded males that had children did cease to exist. This solidifies early theories that there aren't any more full-blooded Aleuts.

Even more interesting is that the bulk of Aleuts with the highest Native blood quantum, are having Athabascan blood. There are also a few with significant quantity of Tlingit background, but the amount is small, in comparison with most.

In modern times, lots of families who have claimed substantial blood quantum, most of whom are not even close to the amount on their papers, are marrying Yupik. There are also some being absorbed into the Inupiaq / Inupiat communities. The others that have been accepted by tribal entities, outside their respective primary form of self-identification, are now Tlingit.

You have done an amazing job on the research Byron and contributed so much work, piecing together families. No other person has done so much for Alaska's genealogy community.

Have you been to gedmatch lately? They have been changing the MDLP Haplogroup and World Haplogroup origins. Before when I checked, it said my Mothers line was everything from Aleut to Paleo Eskimo to Tlingit, Haida, etc, now it is lumped together into pretty much three basic groups; Aleut,Tsimshian and La Brana 1.

You were right about Aleut etc., being part European admix. There is the Asian contribution and the Paleo Siberian contribution. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Paleo-Siberian

Something I wonder about the Paleo Siberian contribution. Does it show up because of ancient origins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETm2e4M7T4c or does it show up because of more recent ones in the past few hundreds of years. In a book online, it talks about Vitus Bering's trips along these rivers in Russia where the Ket lived. I wonder if he picked some some of the Men up and brought them to Alaska later? They were used to living in some of the harshest conditions on earth, so it would be logical that they would be useful to him. https://books.google.com/books?id=KnoSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=...

Thank you again for your all your help :)

Well, I try. It's too much for a single person to keep up with, especially the information on ethnic backgrounds of the lineages. I find that the more I research, the more I have to change.

I remember at GEDMATCH that you and I had a common ancestor, somewhere, but what I learned since then is that my great grandmother was Tlingit. I also discovered Athabascan background as well. So, I think Tlingit in your admix results is probably spot-on. Plenty of Russians married baptized Tlingits and other Tlingits got absorbed into the islands and they went unnoticed because they had Russian names. Their offspring claimed Sugpiaq and Ungan and I am finding them, one family at a time. The most prevalent is definitely Athabascan though. It's because the Aleuts were heavily involved with excursions into the interior, but also, if you pay attention to Aleut lore, some Athabascan were originally Aleut. Same is said of Haida and I have heard it from both sides. Just different genetic markers from breeding with locals over time.

The first people into Alaska were called Russian, but most weren't ethnic Russians. They were the natives of Siberia and probably looked similar to our ancestors. No doubt that they had European blood in them. I think this is where those pieces are coming from. More recent than ancestral. At least in the last 250 years.

Again, for your background, I think Eskimo, Tlingit and Haida, are all likely true. They say the Aleuts are from the same basic genetic stock as the Eskimo and then the Alutiiq seem a mixed bag with both Aleut and Eskimo backgrounds, more recently, depending on the area they hailed from. The Haida, well, we may never know. It is only a certainty that we made it to the mainland, then went back to the islands. The only ones that stayed put were in Attu.

The more they research, the more the information changes, depending on how far back in time you go. The Aleut were a separate lineage from the other Alaskan Indians. If you follow the coastal path of migration, it's a lot of miles to cover no matter how you do it). The Aleut are D2a1a, other Tribes are Q or A haplogroups with some X thrown in for mystery. Now they want to throw in some Oceana into the mix as the oldest of all.

Depending on which heritage you use on gedmatch, you get different results.

MDLP World and World 22 has my maternal line as either strictly Aleut or a mix of Aleut/Tsishimian, Tlingit, and Haida. For some reason I thought La-Brana 1 was part of that but it is actually under Eurogenes and takes up over 6% which is rather high percentage for a modern girl like me. lol I have not found any other La-Brana 1 matches on oracle 4, and sadly, the articles say it's extinct. It must be an error or something because the older archaic match @ 45,000 yrs. old shows up at as a closer relative; F999935 but he is also extinct.