Big Y Cluster Bomb and Thoughts about Migration
It’s kind of hard to believe it’s been a few years since I posted on the 458.2 break up of the Cumberland cluster in the R-Z18 project. I figured it’s time to go forward a bit. Look at new members…
Category Z18
Two Flavors of Cumberland
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…
DYS458.2 Cluster Bomb and a DF95 for me
Although this information is unlikely to help me find Levi Thompson’s family in Pennsylvania, I’m pretty excited. In order to get the most current data on all cumberland cluster members DYS458 results, a few of us donated money for testing…
And so this is Christmas..and what have you done
I think since I’ve moved my Y DNA results to FTDNA, I’ve been able to take advantage of a lot of good testing and research within the FTDNA groups and also take better advantage of what I got from Ancestry.com.…
DNA Wide and Thin
In the past when I’ve talked about the searches I’ve done I’ve been laughed at. Mainly because I accept some pretty broad results. I call them my matches but functionally at FTDNA they would not be matches. We all have…
DYS458.2 Poll Returns
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…
458.2 A New Hope
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…
Anthropology Closing the Gap on Genealogy
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…
Z14 it is
My results are in and I am Z14, along with my Elmer match(es). Z18, our parent group contains the Knowltons, Damerons, Emery and Pipkins who were in my matches at FTDNA, Ancestry.com and SMGF. I’m clustered with all these people…