My Big Y success story

**Peterski** · 02-09-2026, 02:39 AM

My maternal grandfather's brother is Władysław Meller, I tested him with Big Y.
Recently Family Tree DNA has updated his terminal subclade to R1a-FTD92418.

He got a close match with a Miller whose oldest known ancestor is Leopold Miller from Germany, and who is also R1a-FTD92418:

Y-DNA matches: https://i.imgur.com/cENcU3V.png

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Big Y matches: https://i.imgur.com/TAPX2U9.png

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Our most recent common ancestor lived around year 1650 according to FTDNA Discover, but 1100 years ago according to YFull:

https://discover.familytreedna.com/y...FTD92418/story

https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-Y54572/

I'm not sure if YF089510 from YFull is Leopold Miller or not? (it seems he did not pay for his YFull test so I can't message him).

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R1a-FTD92418 according to FTDNA Discover (the haplogroup of Meller from Poland and Miller from Germany):

**Peterski** · 02-09-2026, 03:31 AM

It is quite funny because it is a Slavic haplogroup originally. Probably some Polabian Slav became Germanized, then his descendants migrated to Poland and became Re-Slavicized here. And some others of his descendants like this Leopold Miller remained German.

**happycow** · 02-09-2026, 04:34 AM

Pretty cool, thank you for sharing. I wish I had an interesting Y DNA. Haven’t learned much other than it’s a European clade of haplogroup G and is of Roman origins. I don’t have any Italian matches though. Appears to be very rare clade.

**Peterski** · 02-09-2026, 04:44 AM

Originally Posted by happycow

Pretty cool, thank you for sharing. I wish I had an interesting Y DNA. Haven’t learned much other than it’s a European clade of haplogroup G and is of Roman origins. I don't have any Italian matches though. Appears to be very rare clade.

I feel you! My own Y-DNA (the one I got from dad) is also rare and so far there are no close matches.

**Katarzyna** · 02-09-2026, 07:56 AM

Imo there is something weirdly attractive about Y-DNAs.

But that’s crazy that he ended up getting one of the Slavic German haplogroups. Given the fact that in modern Eastern Germany R1b is dominating. (How did that even happen? As autosomally they still carry their Slavic DNA)

**Mopi The Dire Wolf** · 02-09-2026, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Katarzyna

Imo there is something weirdly attractive about Y-DNAs.

But that’s crazy that he ended up getting one of the Slavic German haplogroups. Given the fact that in modern Eastern Germany R1b is dominating. (How did that even happen? As autosomally they still carry their Slavic DNA)

probs because I visted Eastern Germany a number of years ago, hence the explosion in R1b