E-Y14891 (AB-005) Project

Hello all, Many thanks to all E-Y17357 members as well as the other admins in their help with this initiative. Last month we sent out a survey to all confirmed or predicted E-Y17357 members on FTDNA, asking for genealogical and geographical information on their paternal lines. Our goals included wanting to get a better sense of the geographic spread of the subclade, as well as trying to see if we could identify where the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) lived based on the spread of his descendants.  As stated in the email sent to E-Y17357 members, this subclade makes up 16.5% (107/649) of the whole lineage on FTDNA, yet is only 450 years old according to YFull. This means the MRCA and his descendants were very reproductively successful in a relatively short amount of time, founding many surviving subclades. Here is the map with results from the census, along with the pertinent numbers for context.  Important things to keep in mind: 1) This is a map of ancestor locations, mos...

We are happy to announce the acceptance of a new subclade by YFull! The new subclade is E-FT34550, and it is downstream E-FT33868.  Many thanks to the two Big Y testers whose kits are now defining the new subclade for their patience and support of the project! It is a single SNP subclade, defined by the mutation FT34550. YFull's estimate for the Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor (TMRCA) of this subclade is only 50 years, based on the fact that neither kit has any novel SNPs. We have the benefit of having trees back into the late 1700s for these two lines, with genealogical no connection in sight. It's likely that FT34550 occurred sometime in the early to mid 1700s, with these two lines branching off before any genealogically pertinent information could be saved.  This subclade is associated with groups C01  in the Y-DNA results page  here , along with its siblings in the E-FT33868 subclade.  The geographic situation for this subclade is an interesting one. As ...