Ocampo

/oʊˈkɑːm.poʊ/

From the Galician o campo — the field.
We come from people who planted seeds
and gave them time to grow.

This little corner of the internet is our family's field.

The Roots

The name traces to Lugo, in the green northwest corner of Spain they call Galicia — a Celtic land of rain, granite, and the Atlantic.

From there it crossed an ocean to Colombia,
and from Colombia to California.

where
  • Beringia · A2, B2d (maternal lines)
  • West Africa · E-M180 (paternal)
  • Iberia · I-P109 (grandfather's paternal)
  • recorded history · the crossing, Colombia → California
  • shared prehistory · out of Africa
when

The trunk180,000 – 275,000 years ago

Two people in Eastern Africa.

Trace any mother's-mother line far enough and it meets at one woman, haplogroup L. Trace any father's-father line and it meets at one man, haplogroup A. All four of our lines start here.

The crossing≈ 76,000 – 59,000 years ago

Out of Africa, at the narrow strait.

Small groups crossed the Red Sea at the Bab-el-Mandeb into Arabia. On the mothers' tree, L3 → N. On the fathers' tree the trunk splits: DE-M145 turns back west; F-M89 goes on to become nearly every non-African man.

The men who went west≈ 17,000 years ago

Ice-Age West Africa.

E-M96 → E-M180, in the pockets of West Africa still habitable through a very dry Ice Age. Ten thousand years later its men spread across the continent with farming and iron. Up to 90% of Mandinka and Yoruba men carry it. The Ocampo paternal line.

The women who went east≈ 24,000 → 16,000 years ago

Across Beringia, then down the coast.

Two maternal branches take the same road a few thousand years apart. N → A → A2 waits out the glacial peak in Beringia and then runs 13,000 km down the Pacific coast in about two thousand years. N → R → B4'5 → B2 → B2d follows through East Asia. A2: the Ocampo maternal line. B2d: both maternal grandparents — the same lineage.

The men who went north≈ 48,000 → 1,300 years ago

Ice-Age Europe, then Scandinavia.

F → I-M170 were among the first people in Ice-Age Europe. I-M253 settled the north. I-P109 is barely 1,300 years old — 52 generations — a Scandinavian branch that Lombard migrations carried south into medieval Italy and, later, Iberia. The Tabares paternal line, with no business being in Colombia.

ConvergenceToday

Four lines. One department in Colombia.

Every report says the same recent place: Antioquia. West Africa, Beringia, Scandinavia, and Iberia met there — and from there, the name went to California.

The blood

Roads are one thing. Blood is another.

The name tells one story. The DNA tells a wider one — three continents, written in a language we only recently learned to read.

Below: what three people's reports add up to, in you — and the two threads in each of them that never shuffle.

Where the blood comes from, and where it goes.

Hover a ribbon or a node.

What that adds up to, in expectation

Half of your autosomal DNA comes from your father and a quarter from each maternal grandparent — on average. The shuffle is random, so the real numbers differ; but this is the centre of the distribution, and no report has computed it for you.

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