? ?So you guys have been working so hard to find close matches to test that we've broken the tree. I spent all day yesterday reordering everyone's BigY test results so we could see who was matching to whom. And there are lots of new branches! I've uploaded two files. One shows the actual SNP data below U106 distilled down just to our positive SNPs. I color coded it to show what little group you are in. It also shows the singletons you have left to match to someone who hasn't come along yet. The other file is a sort of tree, color coded to match the groups in the first file. Only now we've split out into so many groups it isn't as simple and clean any longer. That's a good thing for the group but not easy to represent. So I've taken my best stab at it and hopefully, it still makes sense. Both files are done in Excel. If you don't have anything that will open Excel we'll have to see what we can do for you but the tree is too long and wide to go on one sheet of paper in Word any longer. Iain runs the software for the new U106 BigY spreadsheet (where I get our results) and in his instructions he says the results on his spreadsheet are ordered with the largest sub-clades on the left. Well, guess who is all the way on the left now? Yes, us! And Iain told me we managed to become the best tested Z343 group and improved the age estimate of S6881 considerably from all our testing. Kudos to all of you!
? ?So, some of you are nodding along with what I'm saying and need no help at all. Others?are wondering what language I'm speaking. Please speak up here. This is the place to ask your questions, big or small. And if you are wondering it, probably someone else is too. I don't profess to know all the answers but we can certainly go looking for the ones we don't know. The more you understand this, the easier it's going to be to find good matches for you and for you to explain to these matches why you want them to test. Look things over and let me know where I didn't make things clear enough. I will upload a word document on everything Iain has said to date on the ages of our S6881 group. Let me know if you can think of anything else we should have in our files section, or if you have something you think is really good, upload it yourself. Thanks for working so hard for this part of the tree.
Chris
