[blam]

"Seppälä is a Finnish name. Seppä = Smith . 1"

My dad's mother's name is Smith and her mtDNA is haplogroup U5a (as are many of the Sa'ami).

My mother, whose maiden name is Strength, has mtDNA haplogroup 'V', as do 52% of the Skoat Sa'ami.

Now, during reading various articles about Sa'ami's, I came across a Sa'ami name Streng (minus the 'th' of Strength).

Anyone have any insight into this name Streng/Strength?

FYI, 9,000 year old Cheddar Man is haplogroup U5.

My yDNA is R1b (wide spread) and my mtDNA is 'V' (rare).

[muawiyah]

The lucky guys in the Orkney Islands share many Sa'ami genetic traits but they are culturally Indo-European. Archaeology shows that the Sa'ami most likely occupied Britain, the Orkneys, those funny islands in between Iceland and Scotland, and most of the Southern reaches of Scandinavia.

Then, they moved further North, or, as I suspect, the migrating Norse ate them (snork, snork ~ a joke guys).

[Little Bill]

You can't go by names. I am an R1b like you but my family name was concentrated in East Anglia and Glostershire and the Western Part of Somerset, an odd distribution and goes way back.

I have a couple of friends that are German that have the same last name, one spelled the same, an other with a vowel substitution. Then I ran across another person, German, who had my name, pronounced the same, but spelled closer to the original Middle English, beats the hell out of me.

[Viiksitimali]

German word streng=strong, hard.
Common surname in Germany ,Scandinavia,Finland .