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Parisi Celts

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Today (July 9, 2015) is truly a new day for who I believe are a group of men who started new lives in the "Wolds of Yorkshire". Today they don't always share a surname but they surely share the same DNA. This project will accept males who have confirmed DF27+ SNP with no downsteam subclades. French, British, Irish and Spanish origins are also required.  SNP Z31644 and all its SNP's all its downstream SNP's to FGC13109 and FGC131245. Deeper SNP testing is suggested should to confirm ancestry.  DF27+ panel test will do fine in determining what SNP's group or tribe fits your Y profile.  

Brief History of the Parisi of Yorkshire England and presumed sister tribe Parisii of Gaul.  Its Believed the tribes split off from the Celtic Senones.  

There are also archeology digs that support a Celtic (Gaul) migration in the periodof 4-500 B.C. into present day Yorkshire. The Romans identified these people in the first century as Parisi Celts and one of the Brigantes Confederation of tribes.

The Parisi lived in East Yorkshire. They were a small, but distinctive group of people who farmed the chalk hills of the Yorkshire Wolds. The Parisi share their name with the people who lived in France around what is today Paris although whether both tribes shared strong links is hotly debated. The British Parisi are known for their unusual 'chariot-burials' and cemeteries.

The Parisii were a Celtic Iron Age people who lived on the banks of the river Seine(in Latin, Sequana) in Gaul from the middle of the third century BC until the Roman era. With the Suessiones, the Parisii participated in the general rising of Vercingetorix against Julius Caesar in 52 BC.

 It is my current belief that the Parisi came to Britain in three significant waves. #1 in 400-500 B.C. #2 after the Romans defeated the Gauls about 52 B.C. #3 was an unknown number of Parisi within the host that William brought in 1066.

The Parisii of Gaul, separated from the Senones according to some historians. They brought in specialists from Rome and from the East to mint coins of copper, bronze, silver or gold that was used as their currency. The Parisii are still much admired by historians today.  There is a town 60 miles east of Naples with the last many having the surname Parisi.  This confirms that the Romans did offer citizenship to some Parisi men after their defeat by the Romans.