I count GD=8 between you. Seeing as your common ancestor was only a few hundred years ago (I'd think 450 years ago at the furthest), this is rather remarkable. This difference in STRs would otherwise

I've started an initial analysis based on the limited information I have from FTDNA thus far. I can provide more information after I receive Michael's VCF files. The following lists provide the SNP na

Excellent! Michael, if you could please e-mail me your raw data file from FTDNA, that will be necessary for me to do a full analysis. Go to https://www.familytreedna.com/my/big-y/#matches and then cli

Charles - I've tried to contact the Evans match from ySearch, but their contact form has broken broken for weeks and I can't get anyone from FTDNA (they run ySearch) to respond to my inquiries about i

Excellent! He's not within FTDNA's Y-DNA match threshold for me, but may be for others here. If he would join the L513 Project and if we can get a kit #, then I can see how closely he aligns with the

This post should (hopefully) make a lot more sense... A few of us have been doing some analysis to try to figure out how long ago our common ancestors may have lived. We have come up with much more re

I've again updated the charts at http://dna.smithplanet.com/snp These now include the proper positioning for everyone. I removed the speculative branches that do not have available SNP tests. All of u

The S5668 SNP pack results are in for Chuck Martin and they confirm a new Thomas/Martin branch of the tree. First, I had indicated Chuck's kit # previously as 161394. That was incorrect. His actual ki

Please send all of them (with an indication of or grouping by YFull's quality level). I'm curious how their quality levels align with those from the other sources I used - Mike W.'s analysis, Alex's B

I have uploaded a new spreadsheet to http://dna.smithplanet.com/media/Z16357-Variants.xlsx This likely has limited utility for anyone other than me, but I thought I'd share it. This file is used for a

Charles - Oh, that must be Chuck Martin's SNP pack results. I don't see those results at all yet, but that would put him at the same place on the tree as you. We don't know if he's on the same branch

I forgot to mention that I've updated the charts at http://dna.smithplanet.com/snp to reflect these changes, in case you prefer a visual view of what's happening. Jared

The Big-Y results for Brent Phillips are in. He is confirmed R-Y29969 with Bennett and Thomas. This is phylogenetically equivalent to BY11573. You'll notice FTDNA has changed the terminal SNP for Benn

Charles - That is interesting. It does appear that your (supposed) ancestor is probably I-M223. Sylvia and Lenita (our Z16357 people) and I are in the Smith R-M269-16 group. Many or most of the other

Yes, I now form a new theoretical branch from Z17911 (well, theoretical until I can get a closer cousin to test). My branch will be a sibling to your Hartley branch, which is a sibling to the BY11573

My Big-Y results (kit #307773) are in. I am firmly (still) at R-Z17911. I had hoped that I would share some private/novel SNPs with Hartley, or maybe a few with Bennett or Thomas, but it appears that

As a quick follow-up, Merrick's BAM file was analyzed by FTDNA and they've confirmed that Merrick is positive for Y29969, so this confirms my suspicion that it is equivalent to BY11573. This also mean

I'd like to welcome Michael Hartley to the group. He has kit #617805 and has recently done the Y67 DNA test. He likely shows as a match to some of you (he is GD=7 to me at Y67). I've added him to the

Joel noted on the R-L513 list that YFull has updated their tree based on Bennett's results - https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-S5668/ R-Z16351 is our branch (what I call Z16357). They have Joel alone at th

Charles - Nothing yet. I'll follow up with them soon. Thanks, Jared