A cool genetic visualization tool
Rob Spencer is a scientist who’s developed a set of tools for use with DNA results — visualizing some of our genetic genealogy.
He calls his website, Tracking Back, a place “for genetic genealogy tools, experimentation, and discussion.” And he offers a lot — to think about, and to play with.
One tool in particular is really neat for seeing the historical track of our ancestors from the dawn of time forward to modern times. And all we need to use it is our haplogroup — our position on the human family tree that we get from YDNA testing (if male) or mtDNA testing (if female or male, since we all inherit our mitochondrial DNA from our mothers).
So here’s the historical path of my maternal line, mtDNA haplogroup H3g, back to the earliest female ancestors of the human race (click on the image to enlarge it):
And, using the YDNA haplogroup of my brothers, here’s the historical path of my direct paternal line, YDNA haplogroup E-V13, back to the earliest male ancestors of the human race (click on the image to enlarge it):
And, fully explaining why my mother’s family cannot stay in one place for more than one generation and often moving more than once within one generation, her direct paternal line, YDNA haplogroup R-BY75993, using the Big-Y-documented haplogroup of her brother, back to the earliest male ancestors of the human race (click on the image to enlarge it):
Definitely cool stuff…
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Tracking back…,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 1 August 2021).
Your E-V13 line left Africa (near Suez) more than 40K years after you R-759903 line left farther south but beat them to Europe by about 2K years.
The E-V13 guys probably asked for directions… 🙂
I have a maternal great-great grandfather who was a sub-clade of E-V13 (E-BY4373). They appear to have traveled with you into Macedonia. Spencer predicts that my branch line got to Switzerland by about 1500 AD. I can pick up the paper trail there before 1600 AD.
Thanks to Mr. Unbekannt (unknown), my paper trail begins in 1855…
If you need to refine your brother’s terminal ySNP from E-V13 with a BIG 700 test, FTDNA just announced an August sale.
There’s no genealogical value in the Big Y yet for my research purposes — my brothers match exactly each other, and nobody else.
I am in the same position of no matches, except I have recently tested my Y700. It threw up a heap of new SNPs. If I test known 3C and 4C cousins of mine, that should help show the split from our Common Ancestor, born 1810. And work out which of those tens of mutations happened since then and which before. Maybe it’s not much, but it’s some sort of progress.
It’s not high on my “to do” list, but it is there.
I’m sure it would be scientifically interesting, but when I say no matches, I mean none. And no candidate cousins to test either, since my great grandfather had only one son to survive (my grandfather) and he had only one son to survive (my father).