Progress!!!
The FTDNA sale is half over and we have made some real progress. We have gained several new members recently, some members have taken advantage of the Big Y/Free Y-111 one-time only offer (must have a minimum of YSTR-12 either previously tested or currently batched) and many STR upgrades. This is very exciting and I cannot tell you how important your contribution is to our cause. We share many issues with our brick walls and as you are keenly aware many of us bottleneck in Ireland. This is why it is incredibly important to Y-STR test as far out to YSTR-111 as you can. Those subtle mutations in our markers help sort out our cousin lines. The Big Y test gives us more permanent marker values that can be aged to help give us a reasonable time period when our specific cousin branch may have occurred. This is important to help give us the Who, What and Where. Secondly, I was able to get FTDNA to develop a SNP test for our most recent major subclade, FGC60974, which you can take if you a