Big Y-500

As of April 19, 2018 I have completed the most extensive Y-DNA test available. My location along with one other person share the position of R-BY33504. This is very a small twig on the R1b tree. It is located well below the R-L1065 Scots Modal.

S691 / Z13851 SNP

Newly discovered snp's downstream of my current terminal snp (Scots) L1065 has provided me more testing possibilities.

YSEQ, a fairly new company that offers individual snp testing has made S691 / Z13851 available to persons that are L1065+.

It is a wait game to see how many of us will test positive. There is speculation that this snp may point toward ancestors that lived in the geographical region of Argyll, Scotland.

Ulster, Ireland on the journey to North America?

Could Ulster have been the next stop on the trip after my paternal ancestors left Scotland? Without written record, I do not known if that question can be answered.

 Some 15 or more years at genealogy, less the Y-DNA testing has only collected bits and pieces here and there on a possible ancestor from Londonderry Ireland that came to this country in the late 1600's, early 1700's.  There is missing links in my documentation from my oldest proven ancestor, to this Ulster Scot of Lancaster County, PA., Robert Luckey.

Scotland was home at one time in history!

I did test positive for the snp L1065. Currently many of the peoples that have tested positive for this snp have surnames of the Highland Clans and "septs" meaning associated with. Most of these peoples lived under a system where they gave allegiance to a clan chief for protection and livelihood.

At the present there are no snp test downstream of L1065 that predictions would show positive for me.

Both L1335 and L1065 were discovered less than a year ago. Over the months and years from now other downstream snp's will probably be discovered in the testing process.

What do the letters and numbers in the Haplogroup Information box mean?

We show the SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) results from our Y-DNA SNP tests (transferred Geno 2.0, Advanced SNP, Backbone, or old Deepclade) under the Haplotree tool in the Haplogroup Information box. The names of the SNPs are numbers prefixed with a letter or set of letters. These most often indicate the research lab that discovered it.

Research Labs' Prefixes

Designation	Research Lab
IMS-JST	Institute of Medical Science-Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
L	The Family Tree DNA Genomic Research Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
M	Stanford University, California, United States of America
P	University of Arizona, Arizona, United States of America
PAGE/PAGES/PS	Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts, United States of America
PK	Biomedical and Genetic Engineering Laboratories, Islamabad, Pakistan
U	University of Central Florida, Florida, United States of America
V	La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
CTS	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
F	Fudan University, People's Republic of China
PF	Dipartimento di Zoologia e Genetica Evoluzionistica, Università di Sassari, Italy
Z and DF	Various members of the Genetic Genealogy community, Worldwide

The research group names the SNP by assigning it the letter or set of letters that represents their lab. The team then assigns a sequential number to the SNP.
For example, the University of Arizona are prefixes SNPs they discover with the letter P. Thus, P109 is the 109th SNP named by the University of Arizona.
In addition, the SNP M253 is the 253rd SNP that the research group at Stanford University has named.
After each SNP, you will see either a plus (+) or a minus (-) sign. The plus sign means that you are positive for the SNP. The minus sign means that you are negative for the SNP.
For example, your results show L22+, M253+, P109-; you are positive for the M253 and L22 SNPs and negative for the P109 SNP.
Note that some SNPs discovered in early population genetic research may have prefixes related to their location on the Y-chromosome or other genetic features. These include LINE, LLY, MEH, RPS, and SRY.

 This information was taken from: Understanding Results: Y-DNA Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Family Tree DNA.

 

I am currently waiting on test results for SNP: L1065 - R1b1a2a1a2c1k1 - CTS11722. At the moment all three of these letter number combinations, above stand for the same SNP. Even though I will always belong to the major haplogroup of R1b the rest of the letters and numbers after this prefix above may change, because when new SNP's are found they may be placed sometimes in the middle of all this. That is why it is best to use what is called the "shorthand" L1065 or CTS11722, which will probably never change. I know all of this is confusing. 

SNP / R1b-L1335+

 

 

Today I received positive test results for the (Scot's Modal) snp L1335. Before I totally lay claim to Scotland, there is a cluster of L1335 persons that were in Wales. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, snp L1065 is below L1335. I was predicted to test positive at 90% for L1065 also.

To the best of my knowledge none of the Wales cluster has tested positive for L1065.

I may take a break before this next test and let the bank rest for a spell. At the moment L1065 is the only know snp available to me and have a good change of testing positive again.

We will see how long I wait!

67 STR Marker Matches

Surname matches at 67 markers are included below.The lowest number of mutations or mismatches from my markers are listed first.

4 steps off / between 16 - 24 generations a 93 - 100% chance we shared a common ancestor.

Luckie 

5 steps off

Campbell 

7 steps off

Alexander, Bourland, Brammer, Buchanan, Davis, Duncan, Hayes, MacAskill, McCaughan, McElhattan, MacKinnon, MacPherson, Morrison, Stewart, Welsh, Young.

I will let you make your own evaluation as to the Western European location of these genetic cousins that I shared a common ancestor with some 500 plus years ago.