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I now have 5 Big Y tested members in the VanHouten project, all in or downstream of R-BY71870, with 4 of the 5 having paper trails back to one Roelof Cornelisz. van Houten, who was first recorded as drawing supplies in 1638 in the records of Rensselaerswyck, New Netherlands. The fifth I was only able to trace back to a Henry Van Houten, recorded in the 1850 census of Salem, Washtenaw County, Michigan at age 77 with presumed wife Susan, but this 5th match (and my original Big & match) is grouped with a descendant of Roelof's son Cornelis in R-BY81828.

The most recent match I had hoped would produce a new haplogroup with me, as I had traced him to be descended, like me, from Roelof's son Helmagh, while the remaining tester is descended from his third son, Theunis, but the three of us are still grouped together in R-BY71870. The big surprise is that the new tester matches the two members of R-FTA73229, with the most recent common haplogroup being R-Y98475, which is estimated to have been created in 450AD.