Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Finder

[rmstevens2]

Only one of my kits updated so far but it's a very interesting one. Son of a friend who is paternally Bangladeshi/Sylheti got assigned R1b haplogroup, that is rather rare in Bangladesh, below 1% I believe. Huge surprise.

I mentioned your post over at the FTDNA Big Y Facebook group. FTDNA's Göran Runström was interested and said your friend's son might belong to something downstream of R1b-BY14355. BY14355 is just downstream of R1b-M343 and parallel to R1b-L754, which is the most frequent Y-DNA haplogroup in Europe.

There are quite a few ancient samples under BY14355 in FTDNA Discover's Ancient Connections. I started a thread on BY14355 here.
It would be great if your friend's son did the Big Y-700.

Thank you for the information. 

If his results would be potentially valuable to help better define R1b tree (to my understanding?), I'd like to do BigY on him but I would need some help. It's just a child, and his mother doesn't know anything about genetics. I sugested a test because person of such background is extremely unusual in my country.  

His father is out of the picture and I paid for his test from my own pocket. Now, I'd be willing to finance big Y in 1/3 of total cost, because more than that is too much for my Croatian standard and I didn't even test my own paternal line that deep because I consider it pricey.

Let me know if they have any funds there are FTDNA that can help partially finance his BigY. I know sometimes they do.

Cheers.

I agree with jdbreazeale. Here's at least one project you should join him to:

R_R1b All Subclades

The admins there might be able to help.