The Finland DNA Project website maps have been updated — Y-DNA personal and haplogroup maps on 3/29 and the mtDNA maps yesterday.
If you are a member of the project, have Y-DNA and/or mtDNA results and ancestor information but don’t see your kit included on the maps please contact Mike (Y) and/or Laura (mt) so we can add you; admin email addresses are listed at our website on the left-hand side of the page.
As of yesterday we have 1191 returned Y-DNA results, with haplogroup percentages listed in descending order as follows: N 62%, I1 27.9%, R1a 4.1%, R1b 4.1%, I2 .5%, J .5%, E .4%, Q .3%; additionally, one member is in haplogroup G and another in T.
We have 970 mtDNA results returned and 333 have ordered the mtDNA full sequence testing. Haplogroup percentages in descending order are: H 42.6%, U 26.1%, V 6.4%, T 5.8%, J 5.7%, W 4%, K 3.7%, X 2.1%, HV 1.1%, I 1.1%, Z .9%, D .2%, N .2% and R .1%. We also have a handful of mtDNA haplotype clusters in a few different haplogroups who so far — even at the HVR level — have maternal origins only in Finland; remarkable in a database that currently numbers well over 100,000 mt results.
47 members are participating in the beta launch of FTDNA’s new Family Finder test, a test which has great potential for connecting the descendants of Finnish immigrants around the world back to previously unknown relatives in Finland, as well as confirming known paper trails and suspected connections which for one reason or another have yet to be proven.
Some background on the Finland DNA Project: administrator Lauri Koskinen began it in December of 2006; Mike Swanson and I volunteered as co-admins shortly afterwards and Mary Lukkarila in December 2007. Our project seeks to help Finns and others who have Finnish ancestors (a) find DNA matches that may lead to confirmations and discoveries of shared ancestors and (b) learn more about their deep ancestral origins. Both men and women may submit test data. The Finland DNA Project compiles both mtDNA and Y-DNA test results and those results are published, analyzed, and mapped on our website. How we will incorporate Family Finder results has yet to be determined; we are just now seeing the first few results trickle in, with most tentatively due within the next six weeks.
Currently at 1854 members, we are the third largest dual geographic project hosted by FamilyTreeDNA (considering that FTDNA is based in the US, it isn’t surprising that the British Isles Project is first with 4512 members and Scottish Clans second with 2110). Although the majority of our project members live in Finland and North America, we also have members living in Australia, France, Israel, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Please join us in discussing the project! We have a facebook group going here, a new forum here hosted by dna-forums and another forum in Finnish moderated by project member mikej2. Friend and project member Ilmari Kivinen is also very active at dna-forums as one of the main moderators.
Questions? Feedback? Please leave a comment or email me directly (contact information is at the top of the page).
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