They keep asking me to add my earliest known ancestors as well, which I did years ago, both Y line and MT line
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 12:16 PM, jason jordan
<jasonmjordan76@...> wrote:
It has been added. But for some reason ftdna keeps reminding me to do it.? I may email them to look into this.
Hi Jason,
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I had a look at your kit. Your Y-37, Y-67 or Y-111 matches haven't taken the BigY test, so they won't show up as BigY matches. You have matches at Y-25 and Y-12, but these matches are too distant to show up on BigY and are effectively irrelevant to you anyway.
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If your Y-STR matches upgrade to BigY in the future (or if new testers come along and take BigY tests) then you will probably find they are within your "terminal" haplogroup. In that case, a new, more-recent haplogroup would be formed, and we'd get some extra information on where your family comes from.
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Incidentally, you may want to update your earliest known ancestor information to include a place, and identify a country of origin on the FTDNA system. A lot of the discussion I've put on the forum recently relies on these kinds of data, and we'll be putting a plea out to everyone to add this information. This info is what we rely on to estimate where haplogroups come from and unravel people's ancestral journies.
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Cheers,
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Iain.
