Hi Janine,
??? I sent an email to the owner of kit #188665 to ask them to change their access to allow me to view their results, but have not heard back from them, yet. So far, the email has not come back as undeliverable, so hopefully, it is still good. They have not logged into their page at FTDNA since January of 2015.
?? That being said, I was able to look at the results from kit #4116. They have tested to 111 markers, which is good. They have three 66/67 marker matches, one of which is to another Daniel whose haplogroup is I-M253, but the other two are to men surnamed Pryor and Robertson who are also I-M253. The match to kit #188665 is a 65/67 match. The other matches of kit #4116 to men who have taken 67 or higher marker tests, starts widening but there are significant matches though none are to Daniel men. Match surnames include multiple men named Gordon, Hitchcock and other surnames. At 111 markers, kit #4116 has only two matches, to men named Robertson and Gray.
?? In the absence of any primary record evidence suggesting a familial relationship, this strengthens my conclusion that the shared Daniel(s) surname between kit #188665 and the family of Job Daniel is probably a coincidence. The significant number of closer matches to men with several differing surnames suggests a clan ancestry, probably Scottish or Irish. Still, the relationship between all of these men is fairly recent, probably to an MRCA who lived within the last 8-10 generations. There is no clear indication of what the surname of that MRCA may have been, however, and chances are pretty good that it was not Daniel. It is also possible that there has been some rapid Y DNA marker mutations which might account for the differing haplogroups.
Probably, the only way to sort this out is for several of these men, including several different surnames, to do Big Y testing to discover their Terminal SNP. That would be pretty expensive. Testing to 111 markers, instead, might be helpful and might give a better estimate of when the common ancestor between these men lived. It would be a less expensive alternative.
Here are a couple of links that might be helpful.
Let me know if you have any questions. If I hear back from the owner of kit #188665 and they grant me access to their results, I will send another update
Kevin
Kevin Daniel