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My research is starting to show it might have been that Bronze Age migration of Eastern Anatolian people. Matches in Turkey, Sardinia, Albania, Bulgaria and Germany. If I start to see matches in Cyprus and Crete that would further back up this theory.

One of our matches the Turk says his family history is not Turkish, but Circassian?

We are not sure when we got to southern Germany, we have a paper trail to Hockenheim in the 1400's, legend says we were ancient weavers from Switzerland? In the 1500 and 1600's we were burgermeister meisterburgers, tax collectors, and built the oldest inn in Hockenheim.

If I was to draw a circle on a map of the are 1000BCE it would include: Phrygians, Lycians, Ionians, Dorians, Macedonians, Thracians, Illyrians, Proto-Dacians........if I understand haplogroups corrrectly all of these men must be from one of these tribes?

What does a German, Turk, Albanian, Sardinian, and Bulgarian all have in common? J-YP5438...(1637BCE) so what does that mean? The next step these all break-up: German J-FTC79873 (950BCE) Bulgarian J-FTC79873 (950BCE) Turk J-FTA62661 (1181BCE) Sardinian J-YP5429 (750CE) Albanian J-YP5434...

I have tested the Big Y on FTDNA and now I'm J-FTC79873. There seems to be only two of us that reached this point, me and a Bulgarian fella. Does anyone have know or have an educated guess what ancient group we were? Greek, Phrygian, Thracian, Macedonian, Anatolian, Minoan, Illyrian?

Hello, my FTDNA Y DNA kit # is 369210, and Haplogroup # is J-FTC79873. I have been on FTDNA for years with no Y-DNA matches but one my brother. Bought the Big Y over a year ago with no matches. My biological surname is Engelhorn with solid paper trail in Germany back to the early 1500's. Rumor...