Recent content by kmkessel

Hi Torzio, Not sure if you were able to decipher this or not, or if it holds true for everyone, but my Maternal side was Parent 1 and Paternal side was side 2.

All of my 10 matches that are in the T project are 23. They are only matches at the 12 marker level. The two that had the highest levels of testing were clades T-Y21204 and T-BY109563, which look like they split prior to CTS1848. I think these two kits might be related as they have the same...

Thanks Torizo! That is interesting about Maurer. He is showing as one of my 12 marker matches at a genetic distance of one step. It looks like he also has an origin in Romania. There are Maurers in on my father's side of the family tree from the village in Transylvania. Maurer is a job...

I am the other kit in the T project, Kessel. I was confused why Caquelin and I had the same clade but weren't showing as matches. I asked Gareth and he estimates that we shared a ancestor between 2400 and 2600 years ago. He mentioned that the large number of private variants prevent the FTDNA...

Thanks Torzio! My family are Transylvanian Saxons, so the Lorraine France location makes sense. Prior to arriving in Transylvania, they would have come from some where in the Eastern France/Western Germany/Benelux area.

I also recently received my results from FTDNA. I'm under T-FTB90092. It was T-Z19947 for a day, then it recalculated. I only have 15 matches on FTDNA at the 12 marker level and the other kit with the same clade as me isn't showing as a match. I reached out to Gareth...