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

Here is an interesting article on how to leverage the new FtDNA tools. Of course, I will need to read it multiple time for it to sink in at all. :) James

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

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

Hi again, John Hartley just notified me of the following: "I have received my YSEQ results and the summary is A11132 T+ and Z17912 C+." Joel Hartley

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

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 m

Hey Jared, I was looking for something online in addtion to dna-explained.com to send to an autosomal DNA match of mine for explanation of the possibilities of the match and I found the following nic

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 followin

I notice a new BigY match today with Mike Hartley. I'm not as good as Jared as figuring out what the matches mean. For example, there are 5 SNPs which Charles Thomas and I have that others don't hav

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 k

Hi Jared and everyone, I have a new 34/37 match. Surname is Dean who may be related to my previous match of that name. I invited him to check out the L513 project. Charles Thomas

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

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

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

Hi Jared, It's of no consequence to my Y-DNA lineage or to your research, but in another line I'm supposedy a descendant of Nicholas Smith d.1719 Surry County, VA, and wife Elizabeth Flood. His Y-lin

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

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 t