Update on this: Kehoe, kit 97610, is now the first person to officially be DF23+ M222-. His furthest-known male-line ancestor is from County Wexford, Ireland. In other words, he is the closest relative yet known to the M222+ folks without actually being M222+. His line branched off before the M222 mutation occurred. It's early days yet and it will be interesting to see where other DF23+ M222- people turn out to be from. Steve On 3 November 2011 21:51, Stephen Forrest <stephen.forrest@gmail.com> wrote: > There was a subsequent post on DNA Forums by Mike in which he paraphrased > a message he'd got from Max Blankfeld of FTDNA. Mr. Blankfeld stated that > a mistake had been made in his test and he was actually M222+ after all, > and they are giving him refunds for all the unnecessary SNP tests since his > initial deep clade test. > > A few people have since pointed out that there still several M222- guys > left who are close to the North-West Irish modal and who would be good > candidates for DF23 testing. >