Hello, my name is Jennifer and I am here because my brother was nice enough to submit his DNA for genealogical studies! What a nice guy!
Anyway, I am here asking for help because I don't understand much about the whole thing and the results I received where not what I expected. I have not had any match to anyone with my surname. I have had some very close matches with a variant of my surname and some even closer results with surnames not even close to mine. I don't understand why those matches would match!
Also, I have been reading other posts and I have visited the Whit Athey site to find out about the haplogroup and haplotype, although I still don't understand all that either. FTDNA said I am R1b1 which seems to be a large group of people to say the least! I have found that Whit Athey gives me a 57 for Q and an 83 for R1b and then a 21 for R1a. Now remember that I am a total idiot at this point as far as all this is concerned!
So I have no clue what all those numbers mean!
I would just like for someone to better explain all this to me and what it means from a genealogical stand point.
Thanks to anyone that can lend a hand!
Jenn - who is very

Anyway, I am here asking for help because I don't understand much about the whole thing and the results I received where not what I expected. I have not had any match to anyone with my surname. I have had some very close matches with a variant of my surname and some even closer results with surnames not even close to mine. I don't understand why those matches would match!
Also, I have been reading other posts and I have visited the Whit Athey site to find out about the haplogroup and haplotype, although I still don't understand all that either. FTDNA said I am R1b1 which seems to be a large group of people to say the least! I have found that Whit Athey gives me a 57 for Q and an 83 for R1b and then a 21 for R1a. Now remember that I am a total idiot at this point as far as all this is concerned!

I would just like for someone to better explain all this to me and what it means from a genealogical stand point.
Thanks to anyone that can lend a hand!
Jenn - who is very

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