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**~~Albion~~** · 12-06-2012, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by xajapa

I think like you Artek. It is true that your y-dna is but one line of your ancestry. But, as a man, I do relate first and foremost to my father and his father. It is very important to know my paternal line and my paternal ancestry. There are many subclades within many y-dna lines. Take R1a. It is quite expansive, but recent studies have been able to pinpoint regions, even areas with countries, where a particular subclade first emerged and/or is primarily situated. In my particular case, it has helped me actually pinpoint the region from where my paternal lineage originated, knowledge i did not have prior to getting my y-dna tested. As for the cost, it isn't cheap, but it is my hobby and interest. My brother spends more on beer in 6 months than I have on all my y-dna tests.

Yeah, that's why I wanted the Y-DNA tested as well - it's interesting to have a general idea of where an ancestor came from many millennia ago.

Hmm, i might consider getting a y-DNA 67 or something similar. The origins of my direct paternal line are a mystery at the moment. It would be nice to firstly run the chance of getting a close match and helping resolve that line, and secondly to go into finer detail of my y-haplogroup (the sub-groups), for example from 23&me i know that i'm I1, not I1d, so i'm in one of those numerous AS clades that is typically more common in southern Scandinavia relatively speaking, combined with my paternal line coming probably from north-east England that makes me think it's probably Anglian rather than Norse, but i might get some finer detail from a specific y-DNA test.

Don't you want to test aDNA as well? aDNA is more likely to disappoint though - with Y-DNA you just get a haplogroup, but aDNA can turn up any African or whatever other unknown admixture one might have...

@Albion
Looking forward to finding out your Y-DNA

. Expect R1b and you might be surprised i guess. The problem is that you might find you want to upgrade after that anyway, given that there are three major groups of R1b in NW Europe & Britain, geographically distinct but overlapping. Good thing about R1b is that you will never fall short of information in the coming years. It's massive. (That's if you are R1b).

Do you want to know what I'm expecting - this below (it'd be a good {European} result, but very, very boring):

**~~Albion~~** · 12-07-2012, 11:14 PM

I wish the test kit would arrive already. It's probably the worst time of year to send anything in the post - near to Christmas. I'm wondering if I can get it before Christmas and get it back before then too. I've heard FTDNA are a bit slow at providing results though...

**Artek** · 12-08-2012, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Albion

I wish the test kit would arrive already. It's probably the worst time of year to send anything in the post - near to Christmas. I'm wondering if I can get it before Christmas and get it back before then too. I've heard FTDNA are a bit slow at providing results though...

I've had my y-DNA results in 2 and a half of a week after they received a kit.