My 12 markers are one step away from the Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype so my pattern looks similar to what Rick reports. I have 351 exact matches at 12 markers and only two at 25 markers. Both of the latter are descendants of the same man, in the same surname project, etc. Again, this is an R1B pattern so there are many matches from many locations in Europe. My own ancestor came from Germany and was born around 1725. The two 25 marker matches have a Swedish ancestor born in the early 1600s. When you extend out to 37 markers, we begin to show more significant variance (I think we match on 32 out of 37 markers in total). So we share a common ancestor more recently than most of the rest of the R1Bs share one with us, but it is still a long ways in the past. / Tom
Similar to those two people who match you 25 out of 25 markers, there is only one male who matches me 24 out of 25 markers and 32 out of 37 markers. His surname is different than mine and none of his paternal ancestors migrated anywhere near the areas that my paternal ancestors resided on this side of the pond (USA) so our most recent common ancestor might have been walking the earth before the origin of surnames...

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