On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 12:40:46 PM UTC-7, Gordon Banks via wrote: > My yDNA is the common British Isles R1b. Supposedly these ancestors > sheltered during the Ice Age on the Iberian Peninsula. The DNA testing > company offers connections with others who match you at 12, 25, 37, 64, > etc markers. You also list your birthplace, which in my case, was New > Mexico. I was interested to find that most of my 12 marker matches (none > of the higher matches) were with Hispanic people. I was contacted by > several of my Hispanic "cousins" from New Mexico with 12 marker matches > who picked up that I was from the same area (New Mexico was settled by > Spanish colonists 400 years ago, for those who didn't know). > Unfortunately, I had to inform them that 12 marker matches were not all > that close and that our yDNA relationship was probably 12000 years old. Yeah, 12 markers are only good enough for deep-ancestry typing, not genealogy. Telling you they found relatives that were 12-marker matches is just a fancy way of telling you they found no genealogically-relevant relatives. The match to Hispanics is indicative of the fact that the majority of Hispanics have European Y-chromosomes (including the broadly distributed European R1b), and there are just a lot of Hispanics in New Mexico. If you looked in West Virginia, you would probably have a lot of matches with WASPs, if you looked in Maine or Louisiana, then the matches would be with French. taf

It seems like they shouldn't report 12 marker matches at all, if it serves no genealogical purpose. It just confuses those who don't understand the significance of it to be given the email of one of their relatives to contact when the relationship is so distant. On Jun 13, 2016, at 2:08 PM, taf via wrote: > On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 12:40:46 PM UTC-7, Gordon Banks via wrote: >> My yDNA is the common British Isles R1b. Supposedly these ancestors >> sheltered during the Ice Age on the Iberian Peninsula. The DNA testing >> company offers connections with others who match you at 12, 25, 37, 64, >> etc markers. You also list your birthplace, which in my case, was New >> Mexico. I was interested to find that most of my 12 marker matches (none >> of the higher matches) were with Hispanic people. I was contacted by >> several of my Hispanic "cousins" from New Mexico with 12 marker matches >> who picked up that I was from the same area (New Mexico was settled by >> Spanish colonists 400 years ago, for those who didn't know). >> Unfortunately, I had to inform them that 12 marker matches were not all >> that close and that our yDNA relationship was probably 12000 years old. > > Yeah, 12 markers are only good enough for deep-ancestry typing, not genealogy. Telling you they found relatives that were 12-marker matches is just a fancy way of telling you they found no genealogically-relevant relatives. The match to Hispanics is indicative of the fact that the majority of Hispanics have European Y-chromosomes (including the broadly distributed European R1b), and there are just a lot of Hispanics in New Mexico. If you looked in West Virginia, you would probably have a lot of matches with WASPs, if you looked in Maine or Louisiana, then the matches would be with French. > > taf > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-MEDIEVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message