Puzzled

[piper109]

Lots of good info to digest and try. Thanks !
My test was at the Y37 and my single match is a 12 marker and has a genetic distance of 0

I get the impression that my test put me pretty much beyond the scope of the FTDNA database.

[piper109]

Yes, my wife's results are mtDNA. About 1000 of her matches are HVR1, the rest are HVR2 and coding region (not sure what that means)

My family name is Cotsford and the solitary match I have is Scotford. I have no means of contacting them as no info other than the surname is given....

[piper109]

My wife and I recently received our individual results from FTDNA.

My wife is part of a fairly rare Haplogroup I and has about 1300 matches.
I am part of a very common Haplogroup R-M269 or "predicted" to be. I have one solitary match of a somewhat similar but not same...