Thomas Goff's SNP pack results are in and he has moved way down to the
tips of the Z17911 branch. He is both BY11573+ (currently with Thomas,
Bennett, and Merrick) and also BY11565+ which is only Merrick.
With him and Merrick both having this SNP, this creates a new BY11565+
branch of our tree!!! I had this as a theoretical branch, but this
confirms it. It also adds additional credibility to BY11573 as a very
solid branch, and pushes the tips of this branch at least 100 years
closer to present day.
Thank you Mr. Goff for investing in this test!
I need to process and analyze these results a bit more, but have
updated the SNP tree at . I catch a
flight for NYC early in the morning, but will soon notify Mike W. to
update his R-L513 tree. I also think that FTDNA should probably also
push a terminal SNP name update for all 4 of you to reflect these
findings.
I'm not sure if Merrick has done a FamilyFinder test, but if so, it
would be worth checking for an autosomal DNA match between you. It's
probably a long shot, but a match would place your common ancestor
within the last few hundred years.
Unfortunately, this does cause some disruption to Joel's STR analysis
in his wonderful blog post today. The STRs he suggests map to Z17911
and Z11573 work for everyone - except for Goff - who is just the
opposite. I, like Joel, had presumed that Goff would stay at Z17911
based on his STR results. He's a very close STR match to me, but I
don't have BY11573 or BY11565. I guess this shows that STRs (at least
less than 111+ of them) are still just a rough predictor of haplogroup
- especially for this last ~1000 years of our branch.
This is all very exciting to me!
Jared
Jared Smith