FaerieQueene
04-10-2019, 05:53 PM
My father's current FTDNA ydna SNP results from Big Y 500:
E-M84 < E-CTS1096 < E-Y14899 < E-BY63615
My father is of Palestinian Christian heritage, and his direct paternal documented family tree goes back 19 generations to the 1400s AD in the same village of the northern West Bank (Samaria region) only 13 miles north of Jerusalem.
This is the text message I sent my father when he asked me why I recently purchased the Big Y 700 upgrade for him:
In 2015 we did the Big Y 500 ydna test on FTDNA for your direct paternal line. This is the upgrade for Big Y 700. It tests millions of genetic variants along the direct paternal line. For the longest time you did not have a "cousin match" for the Big Y 500 test, but someone got tested Oct 2018 matching you exactly along the direct paternal line, thus creating a brand new cluster with you and him being the only 2 people in the world so far with this particular ydna. It is imperative to do the upgrade so as to find out more information about its origin. In terms of ethnic origin, FTDNA ydna experts and Haplozone E1b1b experts had previously mistaken your ydna as Ashkenazi because of the extremely similar STR variants in you and them, previously placing you in an E-M84-B Ashkenazi Jewish ydna cluster (clearly indicating the expected Semitic origin in both you and them) I am in email contact with an FTDNA ydna expert and the person you match with. Your ydna does not match up with ydna from Bedouins or the Arabian Peninsula, also ruling out your direct paternal line being from Arab Ghassanids. It is currently being speculated that the ydna of you and the person who matches your direct paternal line is either of Greek, or Aramaean, or Canaanite/Phoenician, or Samaritan origin.
I had him guess what country his match is from and he guessed correctly on the 1st try: a Greek Cypriot.
E-M84 < E-CTS1096 < E-Y14899 < E-BY63615
My father is of Palestinian Christian heritage, and his direct paternal documented family tree goes back 19 generations to the 1400s AD in the same village of the northern West Bank (Samaria region) only 13 miles north of Jerusalem.
This is the text message I sent my father when he asked me why I recently purchased the Big Y 700 upgrade for him:
In 2015 we did the Big Y 500 ydna test on FTDNA for your direct paternal line. This is the upgrade for Big Y 700. It tests millions of genetic variants along the direct paternal line. For the longest time you did not have a "cousin match" for the Big Y 500 test, but someone got tested Oct 2018 matching you exactly along the direct paternal line, thus creating a brand new cluster with you and him being the only 2 people in the world so far with this particular ydna. It is imperative to do the upgrade so as to find out more information about its origin. In terms of ethnic origin, FTDNA ydna experts and Haplozone E1b1b experts had previously mistaken your ydna as Ashkenazi because of the extremely similar STR variants in you and them, previously placing you in an E-M84-B Ashkenazi Jewish ydna cluster (clearly indicating the expected Semitic origin in both you and them) I am in email contact with an FTDNA ydna expert and the person you match with. Your ydna does not match up with ydna from Bedouins or the Arabian Peninsula, also ruling out your direct paternal line being from Arab Ghassanids. It is currently being speculated that the ydna of you and the person who matches your direct paternal line is either of Greek, or Aramaean, or Canaanite/Phoenician, or Samaritan origin.
I had him guess what country his match is from and he guessed correctly on the 1st try: a Greek Cypriot.