I'd certainly recommend that anyone that has done autosomal testing to upload their results to GedMatch.com. This site provides a great way to find matches from all of the major testing companies. If

Thomas - That is correct. This is only for those that have done the Big-Y test. If any new SNP testing looks viable for you after the analysis, I'll certainly let you know. Thanks, Jared

Hi all! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and I wish you all the best in this new year! I'm still in need of quite a few new Build 38 files to update my analysis. I've received Raw Data files

Hello fellow Z16357 cousins! Things have been relatively quiet around here - no new matches in quite some time. Now's a great time to recruit those STR matches of ours = Big-Y is on sale for $475. For

Iain McDonald has just published a new project analyzing all of the P312 Big-Y results. P312 is much older than our Z16357. The general heredity is P312 > L21/Z290 > L513 > S5668 > Z16357. He places t

FTDNA has now had these Smith SNPs named. The new haplogroup label is R-BY19970. The FTDNA tree has been updated, as well as the terminal SNP identifier for Sylvia's and Lenita's kits. I've also updat

We have a new, significant branching under Z16357. Up to this point Sylvia Smith was the only person truly at Z16357 - meaning that her kit had tested positive for Z16357, but for no shared SNPs downs

I'm happy to welcome Rachel to the list. She administers the C. Pillsbury Big-Y test that is a new close match to us. She shares a relative with Fran Pillsbury dating to 1605. They both fall onto the

Joel - This is great news! Another person on our branch! If desired, you could "Wish a SNP" at YSEQ for some of the other Hartley SNPs. If they can test them, then John could take some additional test

Fran - That's excellent news! This will be a very nice addition to that portion of the tree. I'll keep an eye out for the results, but when you see them come in, ping me and I'll take a close look. It

I searched Michael's novel variants at yBrowse.org and see that William Hartley submitted at least one of them for naming. 14806931-C-G is named A15733 - so I propose that this be the designator for M

I hope everyone is doing well. We haven't had any new tests on our branch of the tree lately, but now is the optimal time for us to recruit new Big-Y testers. Big-Y is on sale for only $450 through Th

It's official - my terminal SNP is now A11138! FTDNA did a BAM analysis to verify this and has added this SNP to the tree. I've updated my charts at http://dna.smithplanet.com/snp I also added a bit m

No, I don't show A11138 as being a matching SNP with you. That's what is particularly confusing to me. But I clearly show positive for A11138 in my SNP list in my "Hg and SNPs" list. A11138 is the ver

Charles - It appears Mike made a mistake when he updated the chart. This should be FGC33966. None of us have BY11382. I'll let him know. Thanks, Jared

First, I see that FTDNA has pushed the updates to the tree for the Hartley branch. Joel and Michael, your terminal SNP is now recorded as A11132. I just got my YFull results processed and they show me

Charles - FGC33966 is your terminal SNP shared with Martin, but I only analyzed Big-Y testers so I could include the novel variants. So FGC33966 is counted as one of your 6 novel variants. This method

Aging our ancestors using Y-DNA data is far from an exact science. I'd be happy to have you poke holes in any of this. An analysis of the 11 Z16357 people who have taken Big-Y results in the following

I did some additional analysis of Michael's results from his raw data. There's not too much more to add, but I did find a couple other variants that Joel and Michael share: 22425308 G A 25297201 T A 2

Yes, there are no really slow moving/changing STR mutations that you can differentiate the two Hartley lines on - but this would not really be expected considering how closely related you are. But the