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Family Tree DNA is offering their Y-37 test for $99 and their Y-111 test for $199 plus free shipping through Tuesday December 3rd. This is the best price I have ever seen on these two tests. Click here to order either one of these tests through our...

Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 11/20/2019

Due Date,      Batch #,        Kit #,              Type of Test

11/25/2019    954                 39556             Big Y-700

11/25/2019    894                 260595           Backbone

11/25/2019    1017               453255           Family Finder

11/25/2019    1011               B43755          Backbone

11/27/2019    868                 841558...

Male haplogroups are determined by a certain kind of marker called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). However, Family Tree DNA uses short tandem repeats (STR's) to predict a man's haplogroup as follows:

At FTDNA, a Y-DNA haplogroup prediction is...

Family Tree DNA is holding a Thanksgiving Sale that ends November 28th. Almost all their DNA tests are on sale but for the purposes of our Phillips DNA Project, only Y-DNA tests are useful. I recommend the 37 marker Y-DNA test on sale for $99 plus...

The Y chromosome is a sex chromosome. Sex chromosomes carry the genetic code that makes each of us male or female. All people inherit two sex chromosomes. One comes from their mother and the other from their father. Men receive a Y chromosome from...