Dutch DNA: What is the Genetic History of the Netherlands?

Dutch DNA: What is the Genetic History of the Netherlands?

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:46 English, Dutch and Frisian Languages
1:25 Ancient Genetic History of the Netherlands
2:45 Iron Age: Ancient Germanic Peoples and the Celts
3:31 Romans, Frisians, Franks & Saxons
5:19 Vote for Video Topics on Patreon
5:41 Vikings
6:39 Dutch Colonial Period
7:34 Modern Dutch Genetic Makeup & Haplogroups

How has the genetics of the Netherlands changed over time and what is the genetic makeup of the country today? What impact did the Romans, Germanic peoples, the Vikings, the Dutch Colonial period and various other episodes down through history have on the genetics of the Netherlands?

Now the word Netherlands literally means "lower countries," which is in reference to its low elevation and flat topography. The people are much taller than the landscape though, as Dutch people are the tallest in the world. Outside of the Netherlands itself, people with Dutch ancestry are found across the world, notably in places such as the US, South Africa, Canada and Australia. Some of the best artists in history have also been Dutch, including Rembrandt and Van Gogh, two of my favourite artists.

Linguistically, there is a strong connection between the Dutch language and the English language. Both are West Germanic languages and Dutch is generally considered one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn. And in fact, the Frisian languages, which are in spoken in parts of the Netherlands and Germany, are actually the closest languages to English, thanks to the Anglo-Saxon migrations. And Friesland is one of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands today, to the north of the country, which is named after the Frisians.

But what about the genetic history of the Netherlands?

Sources:

Ranked: the 25 Countries With the Tallest People in the World - Business Insider

Dutch people - Wikipedia



Frisian Kingdom - Wikipedia


Haplogroup U5 (mtDNA) - Eupedia

Haplogroup K (mtDNA) - Eupedia

Creative Commons Imagery:



Guriezous File:Europe and the Near East at 476 AD.png - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons

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[saillife]

Just a hint, "Van Gogh" rhymes with "Loch" (in a Scots' accent).

[ankavoskuilen]

People are indeed tall here in the Netherlands. I am not, but when I am abroad I am normal size or even tall.
Once I stood in front of the Mona Lisa and there was an entire busload of Japonese people in front of me. I was a head taller than all of them and I could easily see the painting. That would never happen when I am in the Netherlands.

[Hansjoh]

My wife and I did such a DNA test. My wife is Viking Heritage (Northern Netherlands) and I myself Celtic Heritage (South-West Netherlands). As you can imagine, we fight it out every day:)

[TroyDowVanZandt]

Ouch! You stepped on the Jos Bazelmans landmine. He's the one who came up with the idea that there is no historical/genetic relationship between the classical Frisii and the medieval and modern Frisians. He cites marine inundations and a lack of historical references to the Frisians during a short period to the annihilation of the Frisii and people wandering in and adopting the name Frisian ratione soli. I have spoken extensively with Frisian scholars, and Bazelmans' ideas have been thoroughly discredited. I have been told Bazelmans has backed off these contentions, but they persist on the Internet. There are indeed references to the Frisii/Frisians at the juncture of the fall of the Roman Empire and the Early Medieval Period. Marine inundations didn't drown the entirety of what is now the Netherlands. If the sea encroaches, you move a little further inland. Today's Frisians are descendants of the classical Frisii. Indeed, the Frisians took advantage of the Migration Period to expand their territory from around the now defunct Lake Flevo eastward such that their political center of gravity moved that direction and the prestige dialect of their language was spoken on the East Frisian Peninsula. Like many Americans of ostensibly Dutch ancestry dating to the 1600s, my ancestor was Frisian. Christoffel Harmens was born in Kleverens (modernly Cleverns) in 1618. The Frisian spoken modernly in the Netherlands has been under severe pressure from Dutch for centuries, and Christoffel's Frisian doubtless sounded like the now-extinct Wangerooge Frisian and Saterfrisian that remained mutually intelligible until the former's demise. The British passed a law in the late 1600s that forbade the use of patronyms, so we adopted the name van Zandt. These patronyms persist on the East Frisian Peninsula with old Frisian clan names like Cirksena, Tammena and Tjarksena now functioning as last names. And, yes, my Y DNA haplotype is R1B.

[eveonite]

This video explains it pretty perfectly for me as Dutch person:

80, 7% Northwestern European (mostly Central East Netherlands)
12.1% Scandinavian
4, 7% Broadly Northwestern European
1, 9% British & Irish (mostly Glasgow City)
0, 5% Ashkenazi Jewish
0, 1% Unnasigned

[l.m.s]

As a southern European who lived in the Netherlands, I can guarantee the Dutch are tall for real ;)

[jfv]

Excellent overview! I'm Dutch from Frisian decent on my father's side an Hugenot from my mother's side of the family. The cultural divide between north and south is real but not divisive in nature.

[BluuurghAg]

First of all: Love the Scottish accent! Was a pleasure to listen to you.

I am interested in doing a DNA test. I am dutch, living in the Netherlands and is there a test you can recommend? For some reason I don' t want to send my DNA to the US or another country outside of the EU. But so far I haven't found any. And maybe I am just way to paranoid.

[annecarter]

This explains how the Anatolian agriculturalists, Iron Age & Scandinavian DNA got into my Dutch ancestors !!!! Haplogroup H10e. So very interesting!!! Thanks a million!!

[frdml]

Thanks, very informative. As a Dutchman I had to watch this of course 🙂.
From a Mormon herritage database I traced a herritage line back to Charlemagne (39 generations back) as well as Alfred the Great (35 generations back).
So I should at least have some Frankish and Saxon blood I guess.
But considering if you go back 38 generations you would potentially have 270 billion ancestors, which is obviously impossible, since there were only a few million people in all of Europe then, so I sometimes half jokingly say that every European probably has a line back to Charlemgne somehow.

[-_YouMayFind_-]

I am Dutch and I did a DNA test with also haplogroups. My paternal haplogroup is actually more common in Southern Italy, North-Africa and West-Asia, even though we live in the Netherlands for at least 400 years or something (as far I can find the family tree and I have found no Spanish or Italian ancestors so I don't know where my sisters Italian DNA comes from). I do have a German in 1830 in the family and Flanders. I am Southern Dutch (Brabant). My sister did have 2.9% Italian in her DNA, but I didn't have that and neither my dad or the grandmother on my moms side. I am now 100% Dutch but before that I was 81, 8% North-Western European, 16, 8% English and 1, 4% Irish, Scottish and Welsh. I have paternal haplogroep G (Which male mummie Yuya in Egypt also had) mine specifically is unique as it only occurs 1 in 13000 at 23andme and its: G-Z37368. The Maternal haplogroup is: J2a1a which is supposedly a more common one in Western Europe including Denmark. The G haplogroup has no R in its journey.

[Strada]

You forgot to mention in the medieval era a sizable amount of Dutch farmers moved to the territory the Teuton knights "christened by the sword"" creating what later would become Prussia, and now are part of Poland and the Baltic states. You can notice this today in the Dutch names used in the Witcher ( game and series ) which fantasy environment is based around that area in the medieval era. Since Stalin chased away or killed much of the Prussian population by erasing Prussia from history after WWII i am not so sure traces of Dutch DNA still exist in that area. Probably were displaced to Germany, of which the Netherlands territories were part of for centuries anyway.

[weiareinboud]

Nice! Someone from Scotland will have no difficulties in pronunciating 'Van Gogh'. The 'a' is like Scottish 'a', both 'g' and 'gh' are close to Scottish 'ch'. Si say 'van choch' and there you are!

[BinneReitsma]

As a Frisian this dna explanation makes allot of sense.
It confirms allot of things I've always thought and read.
Nice to see it in genetics

[Ramotttholl]

i know my mothers family history is from Friesland, (helped build the afsluitdijk on the west side, and moved to Texel when that work dried up, survived the german occupation there and moved to Beverwijk after because of work the Steel factory provided. most of my uncles still work there)
and my fathers side from central Netherlands and thats all i know about there history.
wish i knew more. but i dont trust my data security (or what they do on purpose with your DATA) to companies that do those DNA tests.

[MeLancer]

Texan here with R-U106 Fresian ancestry.

[Ed]

Great video, was very helpful for my family heritage research. I'm Hungarian but I have a bloodline that goes back to medieval Dutch/Saxon people. These ancestors moved to Slovakia in the 12th century and didn't really mix with the locals. Therefore I've got quite a big percentage of Scandinavian DNA in my results and many of my distant cousins are Danish and Swedish. To me, it seems like my DNA has the Viking era Dutch DNA and not newer or older "versions".

[edopronk]

Somewhere in the future the Dutch will be called Blue white beaker people, because of the Blue white Delfts pottery.😅

Imagine being called after your pottery. 😅

[dirk]

You forgot to mention that the golden period of the Netherlands started with an influx of refugees from the southern low countries (the current Belgium)

[bootboy]

Im from the centre of the Netherlsnds, did a heritage test earlier this year, turned out im 21% scandinavian mainly Denmark and Norway. Now i know a little bit of why, thank you so much. If only this episode could be longer