Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Finder

[Mitchell-Atkins]

The new assignments can be helpful even if they don't cover downstream branches but you know the context. Like I got a new match I was excited about, but he was placed upstream of my main branch. And the reason for this placement seems to be that he belongs to the sister branch of my main branch, which being not covered by the FF assignments. So basically all people placed upstream of my main branch are highly likely to belong to this sister branch which got no assignment of its own. They are all out for me, since they can't be close, not even within the last 3.000 years.
Since a large portion of my matches belongs to this siblilng branch, it helps to sort all those not that closely related matches out. That's something I guess.

I would be thrilled within the last 3000 years, but it appears FTDNA didn’t include significant SNPs below U152>L2>Z49 which was 4500 years ago.  This is an initial assessment based on the increase in Z49 assignments in the FTDNA U152 project…more green “Z49”, less red “M269”.

Currently there are 1200 Z49> Z142 samples in in the FTDNA database but I don’t think this SNP is being tested in this update.  Z142 was around 2300 BC.


 440 sample in Z49>Z142>Z12222, Z150, but neither SNP appears to be included.  Again before 2000 BC on this branch.

Sorry to whine.  Just a little frustrated when I see others getting huge benefits from this update.