(05-13-2024, 05:56 PM)rmstevens2 Wrote:(05-13-2024, 05:11 PM)rmstevens2 Wrote: R-BY166 seems to be the default Y-DNA result from Family Finder for my own Y-chromosome line, both for those with my surname and more broadly for most of the guys in the R1b-BY168 and Subclades Project. Old R-M269 predictions are steadily being replaced on the project's DNA Results page with R-BY166. I would rather everyone upgraded to the Big Y-700, but this is much better than no improvement at all.
In my maternal grandfather's Y-chromosome line (Z253>FGC3268>BY43439>BY4303>FGC59516>BY93500>BY132893>FT418639), the old R-M269 predictions are slowly being replaced by R-Z253. That's not quite as good as the R-BY166 in my own Y-DNA line, but, once again, it's much better than no improvement at all.
I have probably already mentioned this, but R-BY166 is also the default result for my Y-chromosome line at 23andMe; only there it's given as R-Z18021. That's what I and a few of my Y relatives have there and also a guy with the Welsh surname Lloyd who contacted me about it some years ago (but then never did any more about it).
I was hoping he would test with FTDNA and join the R1b-BY168 and Subclades Project. He sounded interested, but of course money was involved, so I guess I can't blame him. Another stingy Welshman.
Guys, don´t cry.
My closer YFull match is a 2,100 years old fossil.
In FTDNA I have not BigY matches, I have exactly 35 people with whom I share some (old, old) relation in the last 3,500 years
And my STR matches are:
111: ZERO
67: ZERO
37: ZERO
25: zero
Well at least in 12 I have... z e r o matches.