Rusty
Regular Member
- Messages
- 26
- Reaction score
- 21
- Points
- 3
- Location
- Indiana, U.S.A.
- Ethnic group
- Colonial American, primarily British
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I1
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H1c
American explorer James Felix "Jim" Bridger belonged haplogroup J2. Bridger was a western explorer in the first half of the 19th century and one of the first Europeans to see the Yellowstone area and the Great Salt Lake. He was descended from General Joseph Bridger (1631-1686), an early settler of Virginia originally from Gloucester, England. The Bridges DNA Project at FTDNA shows 2 descendants of Joseph in J-M172 Group 02.