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From: Whitney Keen <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] New Y chromosoome database
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:14:53 -0500

I am posting an announcement of a new service from Family Tree DNA, the
testing service we have been using for the Whitney Surname project. For
those people who are participating in the Surname project, this will be
a way to compare your results with others both in the FTDNA database
and, ultimately against the results from other testing services. This
will be one way that we can, individually, see if there are others out
there who might be our relatives.

I must tell you that in order to participate in this search, each
participant must go to his own personal page at FTDNA and click the box
requesting to participate. The information is at the right of your page,
the click button at the bottom of the paragraph. You will find yourself
at an information page where you can put what information you want to
share, and you can indicate to what extent you are willing to share your
name and contact information, like your email address. It will upload
your information automatically, once you have given permission. Because
the surname project was a "private" project, the only names you have
been receiving are the names of family participants who match you. This
will open the gates to a lot of people who may or may not be related,
even though they may match. I would recommend that you not try to do a
haplogroup search, however. Based on the distribution of alleles for
Whitney males, you are all or nearly all, R1b, the most common
haplogroup in Europe. You will match hundreds of people on that basis.
However, you may find some people with exact marker matches, and if
everyone puts immigrant and country of origin data into the form,
perhaps some of the matches will come from the same areas as our own
ancestors. This may be useful for all those participants who match no
one in the Whitney project, .

There is another similar database, European based, at ybase.com. This is
run by an English company, similar in its mission to FTDNA. You can also
enter your data manually there to see if you find any matches.

Do I recommend this? If you are interested and don't mind sharing
information, sure. I doubt it will help you uncover and cousins. It will
provide you with some deep ancestry information and some, perhaps useful
or perhaps not information about where your immigrant ancestors may have
come from in England. (or other places). Any questions or concerns, feel
free to email me at or Max Blankfeld at
.

Whitney Keen
Group Administrator
Whitney Surname Project





Dear List,

I would like to announce the launching of Ysearch.org , a free public
service from Family Tree DNA, by quoting from the welcome message at its
home page:

Much has happened since Y-DNA testing first became available
commercially through Family Tree DNA in February of 2000. Many thousands
of people have tested to find family connections as well as family
origins. Since then, other labs have entered this market, and the number
of tested individuals is growing as the use of DNA is becoming more and
more accepted as an important tool for family research, enhancing
traditional genealogy research methods.

In order to allow people that have tested with the different companies
to make their results available for comparison, Family Tree DNA is
offering Ysearch as a free public service. We have added several tools
that allow you to compare side-by-side different users - the
YsearchCompare - as well as generate a Genetic Distance" Report, and
many other features.

We hope you enjoy the use of Ysearch.org


E-mail me any time!

Max Blankfeld
Vice-President, Operations and Marketing
http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com
"History Unearthed Daily"

713-868-1438

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