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Interesting.
"Modern methods only recently discovered allow for lots of new links to be made, such as finding where an individual originated from through their genes."
Since it was only recently that they had this ability and used this technology it might not be "rare".
A Tinker's Ping!
Surprise at this finding basically rests on ignorance of the connections between Saxon England and the late Roman Empire (by your leave, the Empire did not change names simply because the last Western Augustus was retired to a villa near Naples in 476--the name 'Byzantine Empire' is a fiction created by Western post-Enlightenment 'scholars' with an anti-Christian agenda).
Pipe organs (used at the Imperial court in Constantinople, though not in Orthodox churches) first came to Europe with a gift to King Alfred the Great of Wessex. He installed it in the cathedral, as it, not his palace, was the only building in his kingdom capable of housing the gift.
Likewise in the 11th century, Saxon nobles fleeing the Normans went principally to Constantinople and Kiev: a chapel for the Saxons was built in Constantinople in 1090, and the daughter of King Harold Godwinson (or St. Harold, Last Orthodox King of England, as some of us Orthodox prefer to call him) married Prince Vladimir Monomach of Kiev.
(In passing I would note that the cornonation rite of St. Harold is still extant, and the creed was recited without the filioque. Likewise England was temporarily out of communion with Rome when the mutual anathemas of 1054 were promulgated--indeed the Normans had a papal mandate to reduce the English church to papal rule--so that Orthodox, especially of British ancestry, tend to regard England as having remained Orthodox until 1066.)