To bring together information and people from a small group who shared a common direct-line male ancestor a few thousand years ago. It is hoped that by sharing data and ideas we may better understand, through time, our common shared ancestry and deep origins.
Testing of the Y-chromosome, which is passed directly, and virtually unchanged, from father to son, is proving enlightening in both family genealogy and the search for deeper origins.
A great many people of European ancestry will find they belong to the large haplogroup known as R1b. Great advances have been made in splitting R1b into various “sub-clades” which promise to be more useful in determining origins as they are smaller than the parent super-haplogroup and have a more recently-shared ancestry.
Our project deals with a sub-clade defined by the presence of a positive test result for a special marker called a “SNP”. In our case the SNP is known by a variety of names including the following:
All of the above are the same thing. Our haplogroup may also be referred to by a variety of other names but since these are constantly changing, thereby creating confusion, they will not be listed here.
It is also possible, with reasonable accuracy, to determine the likelihood of a person belonging to this sub-clade using the “Y-STR” markers that one will commonly have tested by a number of commercial companies.
We believe that “S29” is evidence of an interesting shared ancestry buried within our DNA and we invite you to explore further with us.