Adolf Jonker - a myth shattering convergence of science and the 300 year old record?
A examination of recently published public DNA tests of two individuals who claim descent from Adolf Jonker whose origins remain contested today. The tests slot him into a haplogroup whose modern descendants are found in southeast Asia, and shatter the 'mythical' view that he was of patrician German ancestry. They support the theory, posited by Mansell Upham, that he was a descendant of the royal family of Ternate.
The Author
Delia Robertson is the researcher, compiler and developer of the First Fifty Years project.
