05-18-2024, 01:11 AM
(05-17-2024, 11:33 PM)Mabrams Wrote: Most haplogroups are not very modern. FTDNA said as much in the initial announcement.
"This means you’ll only receive a partial haplogroup from an autosomal test. Most customers can expect this haplogroup to have originated in the Metal Age (about 10,000 years ago)."
I think they were being very conservative to suggest 10,000 years ago, but that might be true for some people.
That part was weird. The Copper Age is the first of period with metallurgy which started around 7,000 years ago.
Regardless it was easy to see, based on the results from 23andme, Ancestry, myHeritage, and LivingDNA, that most people would get a very old haplogroup. Most of the haplogroups in FF v3 that are younger than 23andme v5 are only slightly younger.
Big Y has always been the better test that leads to a haplogroup within the last 2,000 years in most cases.