1939) desends from an illegitimate branch of King Robert III of Scotland, the Stewarts of Blackhall & Ardgowan. Union general William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), who played a key role during the American Civil War, shared a common ancestor with Roger Sherman in the person of Henry Sherman (1511-1590) from Dedham, Essex. Finding Your Roots Bernie Sanders Sanders is a US politician and advocate. The team that analysed the Eighteenth Dynasty mummies disputed a claim later made by the personal genomics company iGENEA regarding Tutankhamun's Y-DNA profile. GENERAL NOTES: Haplogroup I2 is the most common variant of haplogroup I. Their language is distantly related to Dagestanian languages, but not to any other linguistic group. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations". Niall belongs to Haplogroup R1b1c7 (M222). The American actor, producer, writer, and director Tom Hanks (b. A few samurai clans descend from Japanese emperors through imperial princes. [citation needed]. Chromo 2 Y-DNA Y-SNPs covered from the current research tree. The latter corresponds roughly to the timing of the invasion of Italian peninsula by Italic tribes from the Alps. This branch of J1 is found mostly in the Levant and the western Mediterranean, where it may have been brought by the Phoenicians. This, in order to convey that he was not exactly what during the Third Reich would have been called 'Aryan.' Joy Ibsen's mtDNA was tested and belongs to mtDNA haplogroup J. He also drove the construction of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. Some of the most notable clan members include the 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan (1791-1868), and American political commentator Pat Buchanan (b. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth was the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland with mistress Lucy Walter. Another notable descendant of the same John Hancock of Chesterfield was Union general Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886). Several other descendants of his patrilineal ancetsor Eutaces Gates (1580-1626) from Suffolk, England, also tested positive for that haplogroup in the Gates Surname Project. The oldest known J2a samples at present were identified in remains from the Hotu Cave in northern Iran, dating from 9100-8600 BCE (Lazaridis et al. The Hata clan of Japan, said to have originated in China under the Chinese surname Qin and immigrated to Japan during the Kofun period (250538). This dynasty is known as the House of Bjelbo, and all six kings were presumably members of haplogroup I1. (2014) tested the Y chromosomes of seven modern male individuals who claim belonging to Aisin Gioro family, and they concluded that the haplogroup of the Imperial House of Qing Dynasty was C3b2b1*-M401(xF5483). This region matches exactly the confines of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilisation, that existed from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE and which practised bull worship like other J2a civilizations. Clan Chattan is a confederaton of Highland Scottish clans. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. The Hamilton DNA Project compared the Y-DNA of four descendants of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), one of the a Founding Fathers of the United States of America. [44], Doras Folger, one of Benjamin Franklin's mother Abiah Lee Folger's six sisters, passed on her mtDNA to her 9th-great-granddaughter, Charlene Chambers King, indicating that Franklin belonged to mitochondrial haplogroup V, with the following mutations: T16298C, 315.1C, 309.1C, A263G, and T72C. Check the Donald Clan Genetic Genealogy Project for more information. (GDrive) , 46 Pre-Chalcolithic J-M172 main sub-haplogroups, Y-SNP analysis of I4331, J2b2a-L283, Bronze Age Croatia Mathieson et al. The famous Protestant reformer Martin Luther appears to have belonged to haplogroup I2a-Din-N (L147.2+) according to probable relatives whose haplotypes can be found on the Luther Surname DNA General George C. Marshall (1880-1959) was an American solider and statesman who served as Chief of Staff under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, then as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman. The Home family descends in the male-line from Cospatric I (died after 1073), the Anglo-Danish Earl of Northumbria. Several clan members with genealogies going back to the 13th or 14th century tested at the Home/Hume DNA Project and belong to R1a-Z284 > S4458 > S5301 > S5153 > L448 > CTS4179 > YP276 > YP5728 > BY66158, a lineage that is indeed of Scandinavian origin. Mike Nichols (1931-2014) was a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. Most branches (Towie, Collairnie, Fife, Kilbirnie, Perceton) were found to belong to haplogroup I2a1a-M26 > L160 > PF4088 > PF4189 > Y84594 > BY68371. The Serbian-American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is most famous for his work on the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system, the induction motor, the Tesla coil, etc. (2016) tested 44 ancient Near Eastern samples, including Neolithic farmers from Jordan and western Iran, but only the above-mentioned sample from Mesolithic Iran belonged to J2. While J2b* and J2b1 lineages are mostly restricted to the Caucasus, eastern Anatolia and the Balkans, J2b2 is found throughout Europe, in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, in Central Asia and in South Asia, particularly in India. 2018, J2-M172@FTDNA Project Administration Changes Announcement, J2a-Z6048: refinement in the no-Caucasus J2a* clade, Refinement for J2b2a-M241 (including L283,Z622,Z2447,Z2444), J2a1-PF7413(xPF7415): refinement and new subclade Z40257, Z40258, J2a1-S15439,L198: M419 NGS available and new subclade Z40067,Z40068. 2004). Other Drakes also turned up with the same haplotype. Descendant testing from the Rutledge/Routledge DNA Project determined that they belonged to R1b-U106 > S263 > L48 > L47 > L44 > L163 > Y23482 > Y23476 . [64][65], Emperor Higashiyama (1675-1710) belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup D1a2a1a2 (D-IMS-JST055457/CTS107), which is a subclade of haplogroup D1a2a which is prominent among the Jmon people that make up about 30% of modern Japanese ancestry. (2020) analysed the DNA of two high-status Egyptian priests from the 12th Dynasty from what is known as the Tomb of Two Brothers, Nakht-Ankh and Khnum-Nakht. The Taira clan descends from four 9th-century emperors (Kanmu, Ninmy, Montoku and Kk) and were the ancestors of several daimyo families such as the Ashina, Chiba, Hj (shguns), Kobayakawa, Miura, Sma, and Oda (whose most famous member was Oda Nobunaga). However, the testing of actual relatives, published on the Serbian DNA Project at Poreklo, showed that his Y-DNA line was more probably R1a-M458 (L1029 subclade). The branch of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen also ruled as Kings of Romania from 1881 to 1947. According to commercial tests conducted by other members of the Jewish Oppenheimer family, the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) belonged to haplogroup Q1b. They descend from Richard Stockton (1665-1709) from Princeton, NJ, whose lineage was determined to be G2a-L497 > Z1816 > FGC809 > Z39863 by the Stockton Surname DNA Project. Zhu Xi (1130-1200), the most influential Neo-Confucian scholar and philosopher in Chinese history, may have belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup O2a1a, based on the test of one documented descendant. Sayyid Ajjal was Yunnan's first provincial governor in history and was of Arab, Turkic or Persian Muslim origin. According to the results of a cousin posted on Poreklo, the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic (b. All the men tested share the same haplotype that falls into haplogroup R1b-S1200 > S14328 > S1196 > S6868 > FGC23892. The J-M172 Story. 2014), in the minor Kyjatice culture, an offshoot of the Urnfield culture, which differs from typical Indo-European cultures by its use of cremation instead of single-grave burials. Subclades. The clan chief has held the title of baronet Murray, then baronet MacGregor of MacGregor, since 1795. This page collects famous members of Y-DNA haplogroup J2 paternal lineage. 1956), best known for his roles in the films Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Da Vinci Code, was found to belong to haplogroup R1a-Z284 > S4458 > S5301 > S5153 > YP959 through the Hanks DNA Surname Project as a descendant of William Hanks of Richmond, Virginia. [42] A patrilineal descendant of Naphtali Hirsch Einstein (17331799), Albert Einstein's great-grandfather, was tested and belonged to E-M35 (E1b1b1). lineages within a specific haplogroup. Yehia Z Gad and his team at the Ancient DNA lab of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo retrieved the DNA of several members of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (c. 15501295 BCE), which included Amenhotep I to III, Thutmose I to IV, Hatshepsut, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. The results confirmed that the two men, who share a common ancestor in Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, possess the same haplogroup and haplotype. The other main J2b2 subclade is Z2432, which split from L283 some 10,000 years ago, during the Early Neolithic. Modern Cretans have the highest percentage of G2a (11%), J1 (8.5%), J2a (32%), and L + T (2.5% together) in Greece (and the highest percentage of J1 and J2a in all Europe for that matter), the three haplogroups associated with the Kura-Araxes culture. Other ducal lineages descended from illegitimate sons of King Charles II include the Dukes of Cleveland (extinct in 1891), the Dukes of Grafton, the Dukes of St Albans, and the Dukes of Richmond (combined with the Dukedoms of Lennox and Gordon). 1947), the renowned American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy, belongs to haplogroup I2-L801 > Z170 > CTS6433 > S2364 > S2361 > Z78 > CTS8584 > Z185 > Z180 > L1198 > FT73935 > Y6060 > Y5748 > Y46018 > Y7272 according to genealogical research. The forensic analysis of the skeletal remains of Che Guevara (1928-1967), the Argentine Marxist revolutionary and major figure of the Cuban Revolution, revealed that he belonged to haplogroup R1b-L21. Bronze started being used by the Harappan Civilization circa 3000 BCE, a few centuries after its earliest known regular use around the Caucasus by the Maykop culture (from 3700 BCE) and the KuraAraxes culture (from 3500 BCE). Check also Haplogroups of European kings and queens for mtDNA lines of many Habsburg family members. Nevgen assign his haplotype to R1b-U106 > Z381 > Z156 > BY12482 with 100% certainty. It has been hypothetised that Napoleon III was the son of Count Charles de Flahaut, who was Hortense's lover and had an illegitimate son (the Duke of Morny) with her three years after Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's birth. Another branch became the Earls of Loudoun (1633-1786). An extended 17-marker haplotype was published in 2007,[57] and the company Family Tree DNA has also published results for other markers in its standard first 12-marker panel. Oxen were used to draw wheeled carts and camels were domesticated in this region c. 2500 BCE, just before the start of this civilization. Predicted Y-DNA haplogroup G2a, based on ancient Y-STR profiles. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Lowland Scottish Clan Montgomery, whose chiefs have held the title of Earl of Eglinton since 1508 and of Earl of Winton since 1859, belongs to haplogroup J2a1-L26 > Z6064 > Z6055 > Z6057 > Y7013 > Y7010 > Y13128 > Y14434 > Y14439 > Y16842 > Y22056 (aka Z40262) according to the results from the Montgomery DNA Project. [citation needed], Minamoto no Yoritomo (11471199), the first shgun of the Kamakura shogunate, and a descendant of Emperor Seiwa (858876), the 56th Emperor of Japan. There is a high diversity of J2a in Italy, but the most common branch found all over the peninsula and therefore most likely linked with a Roman diffusion is L70, and particularly its subclade Z435. Haplogroup J (Y-DNA) In human genetics, Haplogroup J (previously known as HG9 or Eu9/Eu10) is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. In the 17th century, the Barclay de Tolly, a branch of the Barclay of Towie from Banffshire, migrated to Mecklenburg, and later to what is now Latvia and Lithuania. Scientists make inferences of descent as hypotheses which could be disproved or modified by future research. 1969), most famous for playing Chandler Bing in the sitcom Friends, probably belongs to haplogroup R1b-U152 > L2 > Z49 > Z142 > CTS2819 based on results from members of the Perry Y-DNA Project (Family 7). M319, one of the principal J2a1 subclades in Greece, Italy and Western Europe, reaches is maximum frequency in Crete (6-9%). The House of Grimaldi also produced three doges of Genoa, a prince of Salerno, and several archbishops and cardinals. This is the strongest evidence that J2b actually originated in the mountains of the Zagros or the Caucasus, rather than in the plains of the Fertile Crescent. He was the only general on either side who began as a private. He was part of the so-called Great Triumvirate, along with Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, who dominated American politics for much of the first half of the 19th century. The American magazine publisher Henry Luce (1898-1967) belonged to haplogroup I2-M223-Isles-E L1193+, (a.k.a. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. John Hancock (1506-1570) from Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Bill Gates (b. Haplogroup H showed a 30% higher intrinsic mitochondrial function compared with the other haplogroup U. Men of the Jewish Rothschild family, who established an international banking business, acquired the largest fortune in modern world history and established a true dynasty in the 19th century, apparently belong to haplogroup J2a1-L210. Another branch became Lords Paisley (1587), Earls of Abercorn (1606), Marquesses of Abercorn (1790), and Dukes of Abercorn (1868) to this day. He has recorded more than 90 albums and has received 18 Grammy Awards. A distant relative of his was Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863), the best-known Confederate commanders of the American Civil War after General Robert E. Lee. By extension, the whole Radziwi family would belong to that haplogroup. The most principal occupant, Gaodang King Korguz, had mtDNA of haplogroup D4m2. The Harvey Y-DNA Genetic Project managed to retrace the ancestry and identify the Y-chromosomal haplogroup of William Harvey (1578 -1657), the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart. DIS-Filbyter. The 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886), probably belonged to haplogroup I1-Z63 > BY151 > His real name is Nicolas Kim Coppola, and his paternal great-grand-father emigrated to the U.S. from the South Italian town of Bernalda in Basilicata. 1928) is an American singersongwriter, composer, record producer and pianist. [citation needed]. His Y-DNA is Q-M378 (previously Q1b). The DNA of two male Minoan indivuals was tested in 2020 and they belonged to G2a-P303 and J2a1a-L26 > Z6055 > Y7010 > Y13128 > Z36834 (a branch found in Portugal today). The Chechens and Ingushs belong almost exclusively to the Y7800 clade, which formed only 2,000 years ago and has a TMRCA of approximately 1,500 years. This places him in Group 2 in the Kastner Y-DNA Project, who belong to R1b-U152 > L2 > A19725 > BY39321. 1955) is a Chinese-American cellist. Recent demographics and ancestry of the male East Asians Empires and Dynasties", "DNA shows Celtic hero Somerled's Viking roots", "Emanuel Swedenborg his origin in haplogroup I1-BY229 | Hijen", "Family Tree DNA - Rothschild DNA Project", "Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia", "J2a2-PH3085,SK1403: Ancient Altai, modern Uygur and Turkish J2-M172", Evidence of the Past: A Map and Status of U.S. Emanuel Swedenborg (16881772), the 18th century scientist and mystic from Sweden likely belonged to the haplogroup I1-BY229,[68] a haplogroup with a common ancestor about 1500 years ago who lived somewhere in central Scandinavia.[69]. That would explain why it has been so hard to identify R1a or R1b lineages that could be of Illyrian or Mycenaean origin. So, it may be that the haplogroup previously attributed to Niall is actually attributable to Conn of the Hundred Battles. The Clan Campbell DNA Project identified the main Campbell line from Argyllshire as belonging to R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > L1335 > L1065 > FGC10125 > FGC10117, with a common patrilineal ancestor who lived about 1000 years ago. (1304-1374), the famous humanist, scholar and poet from the Early Italian Renaissance. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, could have belonged to R1b-L20, a subclade of L2, based on the numerous results from the Cleveland DNA Project. Bla was a member of the rpd dynasty, which ruled over Hungary (and Croatia from 1091) from the arrival of the Magyars in the 9th century until 1301. The distribution of mt-haplogroups J1b and J1d are reminiscent of thhose of Y-haplogroup J1 and J2 (mtDNA J1d being closer to Y-DNA J2). In human genetics, Haplogroup J-M172 or J2 [Phylogenetics 1] is a Y-chromosome haplogroup which is a subclade (branch) of haplogroup J-M304. Approximately 20% of Ashkenazi Jews belong to haplogroup E1b1b. Based on results from the Witherspoon DNA Project was a member of R1b-U106 > S263 > L48 > L47 > Z159 > Z4714 > BY35813 > BY56495. Based on descendant testing, it appears most likely that the sultans of the Ottoman dynasty belonged to haplogroup R1a-Z93. All of them belong to the typically north-western European R1a-L664 (DYS388=10). The Austrian composer, music theorist and painter Arnold Schnberg (1874-1951) belonged to Y-haplogroup R1b according to his profile on Geni. Several members of the Lubomirski family were a candidate, at different times, for crowns of Poland, Bohemia and Hungary. The king was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup H and the woman was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup H5a. George W. Randolph (1818-1867) was a Confederate general who served for eight months in 1862 as the Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (b. He is one of a small group of people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Their son was Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly (d. 1470), whose patrilineal line was therefore Seton/Seaton and not the original Gordon lineage, was the progenitor of all the subsequent chiefs of clan. It is defined by the 12f2.1 genetic marker, or the equivalent M304 marker. In 2003 Oxford University researchers traced the Y-chromosome signature of Somerled of Argyll, one of Scotland's greatest warriors, who is credited with driving out the Vikings. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and has enjoyed a prolific career as both a soloist performing with orchestras around the world and a recording artist. Lazaridis et al. Matt Lauer (b. The acclaimed Jewish actor and director Dustin Hoffman (b. For anyone scientifically interested in paternal lineage J2, J2a, J2b, etc. It is also known as J2, which is its designation under the older hierarchical naming scheme for Y-DNA haplogroups. American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian Vince Vaughn (b. He is best remembered for being a strong defender of slavery. [47] The Kerey clan of the Kazakhs have a high amount of the C3* star-cluster (C2*-ST) Y chromosome and is very high among Hazaras, Kazakhs and Mongols in general. In that case, Napoleon III would be the grandson of Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Prigord. The great English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882), who proposed the scientific theory of evolution and the process of natural selection, was a member of haplogroup R1b according to the test results from his great-great-grandson. This was determined by testing his grandson, Alexander Burdonsky (his son Vasily's son). The Chechen people are mainly . This is the case of the Hattians, the Hurrians, the Etruscans, the Minoans, the Greeks, the Phoenicians (and their Carthaginian offshoot), the Israelites, and to a lower extent also the Romans, the Assyrians and the Persians. The researcher reported that the tested members of these clans with a confirmed paper trail all belonged to the Norwegian variety of R1a-L448, and more specifically to the subclade L176.1, which to date has been found almost exclusively among the descendants of Somerled. British Prime Minister David Cameron and Canadian film director James Cameron probably belong to the same lineage, but it hasn't been confirmed yet. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. One of his most illustrious descendant was admiral Zheng He (1371-1433), sometimes dubbed the Chinese Columbus, commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433. A team led by Prof. Albinas Kunceviius tested the DNA extracted from the remains of Mikoaj "the Red" Radziwi (1512-1584), Count Palatine of Vilnius and Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, and of his son Mikoaj Radziwi (1546-1589). (2013) investigated the Y chromosomes of Sayyid Ajjal, the ancestor of many Muslims in areas all across China, through his modern descendants. As of November 2016, he was the 12th richest person in the world. His genome possessed about 30% of Steppe admixture and 15% of Eastern Hunter-Gatherer, which suggest a recent arrival from the Steppe. The family contributed numerous politicians, statesmen and military officers in the course of U.S. history. They descend from Robert Affleck (1785-1854), listed on the J2 Y-DNA Project. Edison was of one of the most prolific inventors in history with 1,093 US patents in his name. 1941) belongs to Y-haplogroup J2a according to the PBS television series Finding Your Roots. They identified them as a members of haplogroup R1a. Richard Stockton (1730-1781),was an American lawyer, jurist, legislator, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Adams Surname Y-DNA Project compared the Y-DNA of 15 families that have an oral history of being related to the US Presidents John Adams (second president of the United States) and his son John Quincy Adams (6th president). The J-L24-Y-DNA Haplogroup Project. 1955), the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation and the richest man in the world according to Forbes for most of the time since 2000, appears to belong to haplogroup I2-Y3684 (aka Y3713) according to the testing of a close relative. Based on 13 STR markers tested his haplogroup can be assigned as E1b1a. Larry David (b. BritainsDNA J2 Haplogroups and SNPs. Notwithstanding, the branch descended from Vladimir II Monomakh's presumed paternal cousin Oleg I of Chernigov (Olgoviches) belonged to R1a1a. Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), the 29th president of the United States, belonged to R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > DF49 > DF23 > ZP75 based on the results from the Harden/Harding DNA Project. Edmund Randolph (1753-1813) was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General during George Washington's presidency. George H.W. The original researchers also stated they had not been consulted by iGENEA before it published the haplogroup information. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the 16th president of the United States, appears to have belonged to R1b-U152 > L2 > Z142 > Z150 > S20376 > S20376. Birger Jarl was one of Sweden's greatest medieval statesman. Robert the Bruce successfully fought off the English in the First War of Scottish Independence and is now revered in Scotland as a national hero. Through clan genealogies, the genetic relation was mapped out. In the case of males, their mother's direct female lineage descendants are tested. Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, belonged to haplogroup R1b-P312 > Z30597 based on the testing of a descendant of his grandfather, Judge James Wilson (1787-1850) at the Wilson DNA Project (Genetic Family ZZN). Famous members include Richard Lee I (16171664), founder of the family and wealthy landowner, Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), who was commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. There is a distinct association of ancient J2 civilisations with bull worship. The Ongud claimed descent from the Shatuo, prominent in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Some are over 10,000 years old (CTS6002, F3133, M68, M319, PF5174, Z6065) could have migrated from West to South Asia during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic or Early Bronze Age. The main branch of Scottish Clan Sinclair, whose clan chief has held the title of Earl of Orkney from 1379 to 1479, then of Earl of Caithness since 1455, belongs to R1b-U106 > Z381 > L48 > Z9 > Z30 > Z7 > Z346 > S5246 > S5629 > FGC15254 > FGC35613 > ZS5151 according to the St Clair/Sinclair DNA Project. [8], The mummy "Juanita" of Peru, also called the "Ice Maiden", has been shown to belong to mitochondrial haplogroup A. We recruited 54 males and determined their mitochondrial haplogroup. It was formed by descendants of the original clan, namely Clan Macpherson, Clan MacBean (or McBain) and Clan MacPhail, with the Clan Mackintosh and their cadet branches (Clan Shaw, Clan Farquharson, the Ritchies, and Clan MacThomas), and other clans unrelated by blood such as the MacGillivrays and the Davidson. He was a naval innovator and an early advocate for a propeller-driven, steam-powered navy. 1951), was revealed to belong to haplogroup I1 by the PBS TV series Finding Your Roots. American actor Tom Hanks, a descendant of William Hanks of Richmond, Virginia, belongs to haplogroup R1a1. He was the son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, who was Secretary of State under King James I, and the brother of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, after whom the city of Baltimore was named, and of Leonard Calvert, 1st Proprietary-Governor of Maryland.