Hi Liz,
Many thanks for getting me up and running on Y-Search via familytreedna.
Sorry I had to recruit you to tick the boxes for me but it has been very worthwhile
because I have had a good look around my Haplogroup of R1b1c and it makes interesting
reading when one delves into it.
The near marker matches are a bit difficult to decypher and thus it is good to know that
the staff at familytreedna will automatically flag up (as they have done in the Bilton
Ainstey and Normanton Cat*ley case) where a 99.0%+, certainty of a genetic match exists.
Having said that, it was interesting to "de tune" the match ratio and see who
else worldwide who has also been tested, carries the same Haplogroup.
Lots of Americans (well obviously! They presumably being from
English/Scottish/Irish/Welsh/German and Scandinavian descent) but many Franco/Belgian as
well plus smatterings of others within Western Europe too numerous to detail here.
This group is the one thought to have retreated to the Iberian Peninsular at the last Ice
Age and then followed its melt back, North through France and into Britain before the land
that is now beneath the North Sea sank down and made us an island.
I nearly had a fit when I went up to the Y37 stage and searched and got an almost perfect
match with a John Cattley who's origins are indicated as Lincolnshire. They only miss
my Locus designations by one Allele each in two of the 37 Loci matches. Then logic kicked
in and told me that the person I must be looking at is in reality, our John Cattley of the
Bilton Ainstey Tree incorrectly identified as originating from Lincolnshire rather than
Yorkshire?
Either I am reading the results all wrongly or John has typed in Lincs rather than Yorks
on his application. Maybe you will wish to check this out Liz?
The whole dna event has been an interesting experience for me and productive in joining
two "separate Cat*ley trees" together which I honestly did not expect to get at
this early stage of what is a 25 year holding span as far as the testing company is
concerned.
Hopefully more people with Cat*ley origins who trace down through the male (Y) line will
be enthused enough by us initiators to go ahead and do the test as well, the more
volunteers we get, the more accurate we become in identifying our mutual origins.
Cat*ley is so unusual as it is, that we have a really good chance of identifying how many
basic cells of families originated using the name independently. How many separate Catley
lines are there?
Only dna tests will tell.
Regards, Tim Cattley