Good afternoon,?
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I had posed a similar question a few months ago, but have learnt a lot since then and have some thoughts and questions I was wondering if you guys could help me with.?
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My terminal clade is R-FT239204 and my earliest ancestor is from Kerry, Ireland. My surname however is English and I suspect that I have found documentation to support a Protestant > Catholic conversion around 1857, when records for this line stop (could indicate a migration into Ireland from England directly prior to this point).?
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Anyway, having read a thread on here from a while back regarding the extremely distantly Kincades and Sinclairs and whatnot, which had mentioned haplogroup 995, I had assumed it to be post 1066. However, I have a match at y67 whose earliest ancestor seems to be from western Cornwall. I won¡¯t reveal any information regarding them of course though. Therefore, my clade, in tandem to the two other subclades of R-FGC13546 (BY60940, and FGC12983) all cluster within Cornwall, with 940 and 980 being within just a few kilometers of each other. According to FTDNA, my clade with the others split off from 13546 around 700 CE.?
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Would this not indicate that 13546 itself was from within Cornwall? Maybe even 995 was in England already? I know that there is a Dutch sample directly upstream of my clade, but this could be a back migration? I didn¡¯t match with that individual and hence have no way of gathering their information.?
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It also states that 940 and 983 both formed around the 1400s and 1500s, and so I am wondering as to if that would indicate a later split between those two clades and my haplogroup which formed around 750 CE, even though the TMRCA for all three states a common ancestor at the same time (700 CE).
I do have another question. I do not have a very deep understanding of strs and whatnot. I don¡¯t really understand what it means. I have 1 y67 match who shares my terminal clade, and then 2 at y25. However, I have about 20 matches at y12 and here is where I am confused. Those at y12 mostly have vastly different clades to me. Some even have R1a and non R-U106. Despite this, they¡¯re mostly at 1 step, I think I roughly understand what that means, and they are predicted to be related to me around the 1100s on average. Am I misinterpreting this? How can I, U106, be related to R1a or vastly distantly related R1b within 25 generations? Some are even located in Finland, Scandinavia and Poland, etc. I mean, for U106 that¡¯s not irregular but to somehow be related to these individuals when my clade is clearly a different clade and completely separate from those regions around 1100 is strange.?
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Thank you for all your help, :)?
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- Saul
