u/EarlyBirdStories

▲ 12 r/FTDNA

So I just forged a new haplogroup!

I woke up this morning to find out that I defined a new branch along my current haplotree which is pretty wild. I know there are few Y-111 people with close results waiting for theirs to get back as Y-700.

Has anyone experienced this at all?

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u/EarlyBirdStories — 9 days ago

Say hello to Mando!

He appears to be 5 to 7 months old. He started two weeks ago afraid and scared and has grown warmer to my wife and I.

We have him trained or he is training us. He will come ro our door when he wants food. He actually knocks for food then hides. I have a camera and can tell when he comes to knock for food.

He has the zoomies too. So when he sees me and I am bringing food out he will stop playing in my back yard, do somersaults and then hide under my deck.

I think I have about two more weeks to a month before he is indoors. But we eat together he will see me eat and then continue eating.

Anyway say hi to Mando!

u/EarlyBirdStories — 16 days ago
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Family Tree DNA Login Down

It looks and appears that FTDNA is down. Going through the log in process and it spins.

Just heads up!

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u/EarlyBirdStories — 3 months ago

Genelogical Wild Ride

First I probably should search for more assistance. I will do that another time.

I have been working on building out the family tree after my grandfather passed several months ago. I knew up to my great grandpa's name and his father.

With from death certificate data from them all it got mw to a revolunist and then eventually a founding family of Portsmouth, RI. Pretty dope so far.

Either way my whole family before my great great grandpa is mapped out in book of his time by another famous relative (sur name) doctor.

So I do more and more research find a group of people with my surname and find out that they need help with more DNA specificly YDNA. I am invested, but realize I will need to have someone up my paternal line who is a generational sur name like me. This would eliminate bad data.

Anyway I start hunting and hunting for people on ancestry who up the paternal line and still carry Y chromosomal data. I can't use my immediate family. That would be like triangulating from the same corner of a triangle.

I keep going and going. I realize I am on a genelogical island. Either because of dying before having kids no kids or they have the last name because they had a kid out of wedlock. No one is carrying the y chromosomal data. Just my dad, uncle, brother, three cousins and I. We are at a genealogical island.

The worry is that because I have been able to track family back not just from sourced but also autosomal that carried me to 5th generation great grand parents. I wouldn't have the ability to challenge my genelogical heritage if mine isn't the same as a few already captured.

Heck I am in for a wild ride when I get my YDNA data back. 🫠

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u/EarlyBirdStories — 3 months ago