Re: We are Young Scandinavian! And other news.

From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:54:05 -0700

http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpR.html

L448 makes us R1a1a1b1a3a :(

-Michael

> My test results for the L448 SNP are *finally* in and I *do* have it!
> FTDNA has *not* changed the haplogroup. However. I suspect they will want
> all the upstream markers tested before they change it. At $40 a pop, I
> might as well wait until I can afford the $200 gen2.0 test which, as I
> presently understand it, includes all the latest commercially available
> SNPs. (Well...I've just ordered M417 from FTDNA so as to make the R1a1a1
> distinction official.)
>
> SNP, by the way, stands for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism--a single
> location in our DNA that has changed from one value to another. SNPs on
> the Y chromosome can be thousands, if not tens of thousands, years old.
> The SNPs, rather than the STRs that many of us tested, define a halogroup.
> It's simply that certain SNPs are found to be closely associated with STRs
> (Short Tandem Repeats), which are those strings of chemicals that are fast
> mutating, which make them good for judging relationships in the last 15
> generations.
>
> Here's a map of the R1a1a1 subclade, generated just last month. L448 is
> pretty much middle, center. There are now a number of known subclades
> under it. I'm guessing we may test down to at least L176. But I'll do some
> reading (or decide on the gen2.0 test) before proceeding.
>
> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/R1a,R1a/default.aspx?section=news
>
> L448 is about 2300 years old. That's getting us into the historic period.
>
> In other news...
>
> Every now and then I contact a Cooley DNA Project member who hasn't
> entered their most recently known Cooley ancestor. I exchanged emails
> today with kit #99728. He's a descendant of the Peter Cooley who
> immigrated with his family in 1774 as indentured servants. He's haplogroup
> E1b1b1, which is nothing like ours.
>
> And test results for the descendant of John Cooley of Franklin County have
> come in. He matches to the Halifax County Cooleys! Either his genealogy is
> wrong or that line goes back at least one or more generations.
>
> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cooley/default.aspx?section=yresults
>


-- 
Second VP, the Cooley Family Association of America
Administrator, the Akins DNA Project
Administrator, the Ashenhurst DNA Project
Administrator, the Bishop DNA Project
Administrator, the Eldridge DNA Project
Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Cooley DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the McDougall DNA Project
Instructor "Genealogy and Family History," the Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute (OLLI)
B.A. Humboldt State University, History
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