What with the sales currently on at FTDNA, I'm wondering about my options... here's the situation: My brother has done Y-37 and Big Y, as well as autosomal testing. He has no very close matches with 37 markers--they come to a distance of 2 at 25 markers. He belongs to the appropriate Y project, which has an updated map here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Wev1XRrmyzQl5v12SRiIp8hmqK8&hl=pl&ll=51.031354920586296%2C19.846628250000094&z=4 . My father's first cousin has done Family Finder and is clearly related just as expected. So far we have not bothered to test his Y, on the theory that it is likely to be exactly the same, although the possibility does exist that there is a mutation either in his line or my grandfather's. Thoughts on whether to get his Y tested? He and other surviving males descended from my great-grandfather are the only people we know of in the lineage--we haven't discovered my great-great-grandfather's parents or siblings, as he first appears in the records we have seen as a parent in Polajewo in the Posen/Poznan region of what's now Poland. In other words, great-great born in the 1820s is now the top brick wall ancestor as all the other lines go into the 18th century or earlier. Sifting through all the neighboring parish records seems like our next and daunting step to trace him. I have probably asked this question before, but as prices drop and list membership changes a bit, it can't hurt to pose it again. Karla Huebner calypsospots AT gmail.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

My vote is yes. Father's first cousin, has three points where a special mutation could occur. If it happened, he might match your brother *also* at 23/25 and yet suddenly match someone else at 25/25 and there you go. -----Original Message----- From: Karla Huebner <[email protected]> To: genealogy-dna <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Aug 17, 2017 8:02 am Subject: [DNA] Y DNA question What with the sales currently on at FTDNA, I'm wondering about my options... here's the situation: My brother has done Y-37 and Big Y, as well as autosomal testing. He has no very close matches with 37 markers--they come to a distance of 2 at 25 markers. He belongs to the appropriate Y project, which has an updated map here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Wev1XRrmyzQl5v12SRiIp8hmqK8&hl=pl&ll=51.031354920586296%2C19.846628250000094&z=4 . My father's first cousin has done Family Finder and is clearly related just as expected. So far we have not bothered to test his Y, on the theory that it is likely to be exactly the same, although the possibility does exist that there is a mutation either in his line or my grandfather's. Thoughts on whether to get his Y tested? He and other surviving males descended from my great-grandfather are the only people we know of in the lineage--we haven't discovered my great-great-grandfather's parents or siblings, as he first appears in the records we have seen as a parent in Polajewo in the Posen/Poznan region of what's now Poland. In other words, great-great born in the 1820s is now the top brick wall ancestor as all the other lines go into the 18th century or earlier. Sifting through all the neighboring parish records seems like our next and daunting step to trace him. I have probably asked this question before, but as prices drop and list membership changes a bit, it can't hurt to pose it again. Karla Huebner calypsospots AT gmail.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected]m with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message