Hi Tanya I agree with the other opinions that this is not rare at all. I have just had a look at your project pages and I can see that your YDNA results are hidden, so I cannot see which haplogroup you have. It would be better to make these results public, so that everyone can see them. If you do not know how to do this, I can explain. However, my father’s line has the haplogroup of R1b or R-M269, which is the most common in Western Europe and when I got the first result for a cousin in this line, he had no matches at 37 markers. About 9 years later almost his only matches are men whom I have asked to do a test, and whose relationship I know. He also has very few matches at 12 markers. I have recently tested a cousin on my mother’s side and found that he has the same haplogroup and again very few matches at 37 markers. In his case, he has lots of matches at 12 markers, but only 3 at 37 markers. The same applies to some of the other men in my project, who have different haplogroups. It just means that men who might have matched have not tested. June Willing Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 Willing/Willings One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ Willing/Willings DNA Project https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/willing Dominicus One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus/ > On 19 Apr 2017, at 18:53, Tanya Kimber <ridgeon_ons@outlook.com> wrote: > > Hi all > > I’ve just got the Y-DNA results back from FTDNA for my first Ridgeon participant. I know that I now need to do a lot of reading and research myself but wanted to put a question ‘out there’ for comment as I am a bit concerned! > > My participant has been allocated a Haplogroup and has a lot of matches at the 12 marker level, but only 1 at the 25 marker level and none at all at the 37 marker level, which I understand is quite rare. My concern is what this means! I am worried that perhaps this means that the sample wasn’t very good and it has been possible to extract only limited information from it. > > I would be really grateful for any views/knowledge/ideas/comments on this outcome as I guess this may affect where I go next with my study. > > Many thanks. > > Tanya (6296) > > ridgeon@one-name.org > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message