Big Y700

[ltnultihaxer]

Has anyone had luck contacting FTDNA support to get in touch with a sample who is private? There's a couple under my haplogroup who haven't shared their earliest known ancestor so I'd like to get in touch with them to understand what they do know.

[Riverman]

Has anyone had luck contacting FTDNA support to get in touch with a sample who is private? There's a couple under my haplogroup who haven't shared their earliest known ancestor so I'd like to get in touch with them to understand what they do know.

I had such situations both on FTDNA and YFull and while the support is helpful, they can only tell you and do what the customer in question allows. If the customer doesn't want to get in touch, doesn't want to reveal his origin, or simply doesn't respond, you are stuck.

[JMcB]

For anyone interested, Family Tree posted their latest branch and variants numbers yesterday.


Monthly Y-DNA Tree Update

We're 817 branches away from 75k total branches on the Y-DNA haplotree!
The more Y-DNA tests taken, the more refined your haplogroup becomes, and the more branches and variants we can identify.

Witness the growing number of branches and variants within each haplogroup, providing a deeper understanding of our genetic heritage. Stay informed and join us as we unveil the expanding tapestry of ancestral diversity

[Dewsloth]

Can someone help me interpret the meaning of the thinner lines they put on the map?
Never mind the 4000-year-old SNPs they have placed in the Isles, where there are no known DF19+ samples until the Romans arrive.
The thinner black lines show up and elongate as the map runs.  What are they based on?  
Just modern SNP distributions with the implication that they (as distinct subclade lines?) may have been in Ireland, Scotland and the German/Polish border by 200 BCE?
That northernmost German/Baltic line is already there on the map by 1700 BCE, and I'd love to know why.

[rmstevens2]

I hope a little lighthearted humor is okay. 

[TigerW]

Thank you, Big Y testers … your investment is documenting the Tree of Mankind.

As of the end of 2023, the Haplotree has
- Over 75,000 haplogroups
- Over 11,000 average new haplogroups yearly
- Over 650,000 variants
- A core of over 100,000 Big Y testers

End of year haplotree totals
Haplogroups Variants
2018 17,966 132,782
2019 28,849 217,420
2020 37,545 349,626
2021 50,677 466,626
2022 62,495 554,344
2023 75,069 650,996

There is a stable variant found in Big Y700 testing about every 2.5 generations from the genetic Adam to your family. This is an opportunity to position your family on the tree as a permanent record for your descendants, relatives and clans.

Please consider all of your paternal lineages. Every mother has a father. mt DNA testing is also an excellent choice, but Y DNA has very high resolution. We are not just a random mix of DNA. We are a *tapestry of individual lineages*.

Please look at the Y haplogroups of your Family Finder matches as well as your Y DNA matches. It never hurts to ask them to consider an upgrade.

A graphic trendline chart of this growth in the haplotree is here.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi...7hbw2&dl=0

The 2023 monthly numbers are here.
https://www.facebook.com/FamilyTreeDNA/p...ix3xANDRjl


Have a great 2024!

[JMcB]

For those interested, Göran Runström just posted the following on FTDNA’s Big Y Facebook Group.

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The weekly Discover update is out and this week we added two big ancient DNA studies:

71 samples from "A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations" by Olalde et al. 2023

72 samples from "Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death" by R. Hui et al. 2024

This brings the total number of aDNA samples up to 6,567. We also have over 300,000 Y-SNP-tested modern samples and 76,216 Y-DNA haplogroups in the reports now.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../abs/pi...7423011352

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi5903

The Globetrekker update will follow a little later.

[Riverman]

For those interested, Göran Runström just posted the following on FTDNA’s Big Y Facebook Group.

  ·  ·

The weekly Discover update is out and this week we added two big ancient DNA studies:

71 samples from "A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations" by Olalde et al. 2023

72 samples from "Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death" by R. Hui et al. 2024

This brings the total number of aDNA samples up to 6,567. We also have over 300,000 Y-SNP-tested modern samples and 76,216 Y-DNA haplogroups in the reports now.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../abs/pi...7423011352

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi5903

The Globetrekker update will follow a little later.

Great they added the new Medieval English samples. Unfortunately they were rather low coverage and this shows, because so far I detected two for E-V13 and one for E-CTS8814, which is as upstream as it gets within established E-V13 assignments.
3/72 is a solid representation of 4,2 % within the Medieval Cambridgeshire population which made it to the Tree.

[JMcB]

The following may be of interest to our friends in Finland:


FamilyTreeDNA® Big Y Group
Göran Runström

Here is an update from our Finnish friends in the Savo DNA project who have researched and identified the haplogroup of another famous Finn: Aleksis Kivi, known as the national writer of Finland.

Y-DNA haplogroup I-M253>DF29>Y2592>CTS6364>CTS10028>S6346>L22>Z2338>CTS6868>Z74>FGC9478>L813>BY45977

Thanks to Jere Markkanen https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/savo-dna/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksis_Kivi

[Moeca]

my Big y  globetrekker

i cannot upload map as its too big

But final spot on map is in Wels Austria  1200BC

[JMcB]

For anyone interested, Family Tree has written a blog post on the various methods used to dated ancient DNA samples.



Old as Dirt: Four Dating Methods Used For Ancient DNA
MARCH 19, 2024|IN ANCIENT DNA

By: Jim Brewster


Learn how scientists are able to provide an estimated date to the ancient samples we add to the Time Tree.

https://blog.familytreedna.com/ancient-d...-110659981

[leonardo]

I just noticed that I have another Big Y match the man is from Hungary and our shared branch is R-Y2921, around 350CE. Currently there are 8 matches with German ancestry, 3 from Czechia, 3 from Poland and this man from Hungary. His terminal clade is R-FTB88328.