How long does it take to get Y DNA matches once results are back?!!

[villandra]

Can't identify Scotch Irish ancestors isn't grounds to suspect endogamy.

At the level of 4th cousins, you and any given relative have a 50% chance of matching at all. The rest can vary from 0 to 50 cM. So, 4th cousins, in my direct experience, most often trace to a single couple who were...

[villandra]

Chromosome Browser was having issues, for weeks. And weeks. When it began to be fixed, I was told it was working fine for some users and not others, and eventually it was working fine for every other user but me. Or that's what I was told. This was posted in mid October and it is now mid Novem...

[villandra]

Are you still having this problem?

This must be the one computerly possible problem I have NOT run into at Family Tree DNA in the past several months. One problem I had was an endlessly spinning wheel when chromosome browser results ought to appear...

What I would suggest...

[villandra]

I have a project member, who ordered a 111 marker Y DNA test, and all 111 markers came back last Thursday. They all appear on the STR marker results page. It is now Sunday. He has NO matches. NADA. It spins through 111 markers, 67 markers, 37 markers, 25 markers, 12 markers, and reports NO matches....

[villandra]

The article I read doesn't say how they know the people are Philistines, except that they came from a Philistine cemetery. That would be the context of hte cemetery - timing, place, culture. It shouldn't be too hard to know if the cemetery was Philistine!

Now, for how to tell people...

[villandra]

There is nothing that makes less sense to the newbie, or even the oldbie, than YFull.

You're basic Isles Scottish haplotype. It is controversial whether this group originated in southwestern Scotland or northern Ireland.

At one time it was thought to have originated...

[villandra]

I left de Haas out of my equation. One of the haplotypes I discussed with Family Tree DNA was hers; her genetic distance from several of my project members is 6 at 67 markers, but I get between 9 and 11, and cdy accounts for half of the difference. She tested a male relative. She belongs to a Jewish...

[villandra]

I recalled that a large Scottish Hamilton family is also medieval, and looked at its project page.

https://www.familytreedna.com/public...ame=ycolorized

If you look at group A, you will see a very similar pattern. There are maybe 175 people. There isn't much...

[villandra]

I have what strongly appears to be a late medieval group of families. They have very similar haplotypes, and share the rare SNP Z17926, which is a subclade of a rare sister branch to DF29, in haplogroup I1. The haplogroup I1 project previously categorized them as the AS121210 haplotype cluster....

[villandra]

Before I write a long post I want to know if my post shows. Google finds a lot of posts in this forum, some of them within the past year - but not ONE of them displays below.

Dora Smith

[villandra]

If they match at 67 markers, then it's highly unlikely that they match by accident.

The 111 marker test is sometimes (not always) helpful when you're trying to pin down when the most recent common ancestor lived, or else find the nonsurname match closest to a given person's Y DNA. In...

[villandra]

One reason why I have so whole heartedly recommended Family Tree DNA over the years is its combination of excellent customer service and habit of redoing any test where there is reason to question the result.

When two different testing companies gave me different results on my mitochondrial...

[villandra]

WT...?

I ordered a Y DNA upgrade for my brother on June 4, it's batch 626. Should have been back by end of July.

It was delayed until August 9 or 17 or something, and now it's been delayed AGAIN until August 18 or Sept 2.

Meanwhile, people are posted...

[villandra]

It matters where you tested. 8 at 63 markers suggests that one of you did not test at Family Tree DNA. Most of teh competition does not include 5 markers that Family Tree DNA provides, that distinguish genuine matches from the background noise.

8 is a fair amount of genetic distance...

[villandra]

My brother's Y DNA closely matched people with three surnames, but it pinned the ancestral location right down. In the 16th century, my father's people lived just north of the Forth of Firth, near Stirling, in Scotland. One of them non-surname matches traces to there, and the other tells a wild tale...