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FamilyTreeDNA finally plays catchup and adds yFull style processing to their base BigY test. They more than doubled the reported SNPs and now include 389 to 450 STRs never before available.

FTDNA yDNA sales make it cheaper than ever to test to the extremes needed for many of our groups. But many are still not taking advantage. Now is the time!

Malcolm has been researching the possible English ancestry for John Hord of Shady Grove, VA by looking through early Virginia records. He thinks he has found the story in a John Hore, son of Giles Hore, who was involved in a rebellion and sent away from England. This John Hore is likely the father of John Hord of Shady Grove.

NGG has changed their partner for USA-based order fulfillment from FamilyTreeDNA to Helix; drastically changing the microchip array used as well. Results are no longer importable to FTDNA.

LivingDNA has started offering their new test kit based on the Illumina Infinium Global Screening Array to the general public

Many groups can benefit by having remaining members take the appropriate yDNA SNP Pack test to verify they are in the same haplogroup That is, if one or more members in a matching STR haplotype have already taken the BigY, and an appropriate SNP Pack has been identified to cover the terminal (leaf) haplogroup identified by that BigY test, then other members need just take that SNP Pack test instead of BigY to confirm they are in the same haplogroup.

We are saddened to announce the quick passing of our co-founder Roz Edson this past May.

Less than a year after passing 23andMe in Autosomal testers and reaching the 1 million tester mark, AncestryDNA announces they have reached 2 million testers.

Our family branches have new terminal nodes in the latest phylogenetic tree as a result of expanded use of the BigY test in the past year.

R1b-P312 has a further branch, that is likely long overdue, of this behemoth branch of the yDNA phylogenetic tree. At least with regards to an online discussion forum. U152 has a large enough user base on its own to warrant its own subgroup away from the other P312 chatter and its other main branches DF27 and L21. As a result, there is yet another Yahoo Group for R1b and specifically below the R1b-P312 forums. Our very own Tim Peterman is this new discussion group admin.