I was tooling around the FTDNA site checking on my DF95 results and happened into the “maps” area. Since I’m always excited about map speculation, I checked it out. It’s very basic. Since I’m in R1b it has that group…
I’m unsure about the continued relevance of my own Y DNA to the search for the Thompson family, but I am hopeful that it may yet lead me to some conclusion about my grandfather and his male line. So, we…
The Cumberland Cluster at the Z18 and Subgroups project comes in two flavors now, thanks to cluster wide DYS458 retesting sponsored by our Elmer and Emery brethren. DYS458.2 does not occur in all Z14 Cumberlands. So we know it happened…
During the course of puttering around on various DNA related forums, I began a conversation with another Z14 person who is not in my cluster. In conversing back and forth about his Y STRs and mine I asked if…
I asked several members of different families that I’ve mentioned here in the past like the Coens, Damerons, Elmers, Knowltons, Emery and Winnes if they have DYS458 with a microallele of .2 (like 15.2, 16.2, 17.2). So far everyone who…
As a quick recap. My Y DNA testing at Ancestry.com showed that I have an odd marker at DYS458. Where most people have a solid number like 16, I have decimal number like 16.2 The way the .2 happens was…
I was looking at my most recent map of people who are roughly like me at FTDNA who are also U106. It looks much like my other maps but just a little more focused. Having those extra four STRs from…
Owning the bad guy. Here is the digest version of what is a huge and complicated history. Okay, so if you’ve followed me this far you know that my first forays into what it meant to be a Thompson led…