Hi, and Merry Christmas!
I got notified that John’s Y-DNA test results came in, and I wanted to share them with you as quickly as possible – I know that you have been anxiously awaiting them. I’m going to try to explain things as I go, but will send a separate email about the implications of the results on our genealogical research. You will see links to web sites where you can read more on any given subject.
Here is the first result:
A haplogroup is a genetic population group of people who share a common ancestor on the patrilineal or matrilineal line. For more info, click here. This R-M269 group is also referred to as R1b1a2 (there has been a recent change in nomenclature, so it is referred to both ways). Basically, they take all the results of your testing and categorize them into this grouping for analysis on a macro level.
Haplogroup R1b (R-M343) is the most frequently occurring Y-chromosome haplogroup in Western Europe and the most common haplogroup in the genetic genealogy databases. R1b1a2 (R-M269) is the dominant branch of R1b in Western Europe. For more info, click here.
Your complete Y-STR values are shown below. You were tested at 37 markers:
These were the values that they categorized to come up with the R-M269 designation. However, for matching purposes, they use your individual values for each of the markers.
FTDNA also provides us with a list of people who match you. We tested John at 37 markers, and here is the result with people who match at 37 markers:
Only one match, and that 4 genetic distances away (as much as 20+ generations difference!).
Among people who have only tested 12 markers, there are a few more matches:
There are no matches to the Vosper name – in fact, there are no matching surnames at all. What is really odd to me about this is that I would expect MANY MANY more matches, given this is the most common haplogroup in Europe. I suspect that the process used by FTDNA to find matches is run periodically, has not been run over the entire population of their Y-participants since John’s was processed, and will be updated in the near future with many more matches.
Under ANCESTRAL ORIGINS, FTDNA produced this chart:
This is based on people with 12 marker testing. You can see that the most matches (70) were from England with a genetic difference of ONE, and a close runner-up was Ireland (61).
There were no matches at the 25 or 37 marker testing levels.
A copy of your haplogroups tree looks like this:
To find out more detail would require more testing, which of course would be more money. It might be interesting, but not particularly helpful for our research.
There is an interesting presentation about the origins of R-M269 here.. I don’t pretend to understand all of this – the document looks like slides that went with a presentation – it has some informative maps and theories about the origins of the haplogroups, but, minus the spoken word, is a bit difficult to understand.
The migration map for your group (R1b) is (you can see it originating in the mid-east and going towards France):
FTDNA also provides a variety of printable reports, which are attached as PDF’s.
There are several very important implications of these results for our Vosper genealogy study, which I’ll address in another email. I have included the BLOG on the distribution of this email, as well as other Vosper Y-DNA participants. I have not copied all the Vosper Cousins on it. If you object to the specific STR results being on the blog, please let me know, and I’ll edit the post to remove that graphic.
Merry Christmas,
Cousin Teri
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