Does that frown mean we are stuck in L448 or is there still a
possibility swimming to L176?
Will the gen2.0 test for CTS4179?
Jim
On 6/15/2013 2:00 PM, The Cooleys wrote:
> R1a-L448 rolls of the tongue a bit easier :-)
>
> On 6/14/2013 11:54 PM, ancestr2_at_host187.hostmonster.com wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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