MyTrueAncestry:Walkthrough and Review: Part 6d: Results: Haplogroup Analytics

Haplogroup Analytics

 

This section has eight tabs across the top, with regard to my D.N.A. matches:

1. Royal Ties Globe
   
2. Haplogroup Globe
3. Y-DNA Breakdown
   
4. Royalty Breakdown Y-DNA
   
5. Royalty Breakdown mtDNA
6. mtDNA Breakdown
7. Haplogroup Explorer
8. Y-DNA Matches
   

        1.  Royal Ties Globe

The Royal Ties Globe functions like the Ancestral Globe under Maps/Globes. There are two controls near the upper left corner. Clicking on the top one cycles through "Show ALL Matches," "Filter Sample Matches," and "Filter Deep Dive." Clicking on the control below that cycles through, in my case, a long list of royal families and Scottish clans, including English and Danish Royalty, and Clans Abernathy and MacDonald. Manipulating these options causes archaeological sites and "Ancestral Seats" to be plotted. Mousing over these points causes windows to pop up, displaying information about the site. 

For example, if I filter Deep Dive, Clan Abernathy, a pink dot with a crown over it appears in northern Britain, and a yellow dot with a thumbnail of a group of people appears in southern Britain. If I mouse over the yellow dot, a window pops up which indicates that the match is from Bronze Age Bedfordshire England, Clan Abernathy, as well as English and Scottish Royalty. The Y-DNA associated with this match is R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a (identical to mine); the mtDNA, unknown. The "Age" is 1104 B.C. The "Longest Shared DNA" is "115 SNPs." The "Archaeological ID" is "I7576."

Mousing over the pink dot causes another window to pop up, which indicates that the Abernethy Round Tower is the "Ancestral Seat" of the Clan Abernathy. It indicates the associated DNA, R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a, and displays a thumbnail picture of the Abernathy Coat-of-Arms.

         2.  Haplogroup Globe

 
The Haplogroup Globe functions like the Ancestral Globe under Maps/Globes. 

 

It has three controls in the upper left corner:

1. Matches
2. Y-DNA
3. mtDNA
   

Clicking on the top button cycles through "Show All Matches," "Filter Sample Matches," and "Filter Deep Dive."

 

Clicking on the Y-DNA button, in association with my D.N.A., cycles through "All," "G," "I," "J," and "R."

Clicking on the mtDNA button, in association with my D.N.A., cycles through "All," "H," "I," "J," "K," "N," "R," "T," "U," "V," "W," and "X."

 

The first and most obvious difference, to me, between this globe and the others on MyTrueAncestry, is the appearance of lines connecting the points plotted on the map. According to text above this globe, "Lines connect samples that share the same Y-DNA haplogroup (direct male ancestor)."

        3.  Y-DNA Breakdown

This section has a rectangular section, divided into rectangular sections, above a circle divided into sections. The size of the rectangles seems to correspond to the percentage of Y-DNA matches
between my D.N.A. and the D.N.A. extracted from ancient, human remains. I find this method of illustration cumbersome and hard to read. The R1b rectangle looks good, because it's large, since it represents about 75% of my ancient, Y-DNA matches, but the smaller rectangles tend to be illegible.

The circle below the rectangles is much easier to use. Mousing over a section of it causes a list to appear, of the corresponding matches, with information about the matches, and their corresponding coats-of-arms.

Mousing over the coat-of-arms, for example, of the Clan MacGregor, causes a window to pop up indicating that the Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1f1 corresponds to Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734) and Baronet MacGregor of MacGregor (1795-present). I assume that means that the Baronets of MacGregor have ruled the Clan MacGregor since 1795, and that the most recent Baronet of MacGregor is still alive. It also means that Rob Roy and I have father-to-son lineages "upstream" to a common, male forebear, but the MacGregor Y-DNA mutated three times since that man passed his Y-DNA on to us.

        4.  Royalty Breakdown Y-DNA

 
This section has a rectangular section, divided into rectangular sections. The size of the rectangles seems to correspond to the percentage of Y-DNA matches between my D.N.A. and the D.N.A. extracted from ancient, human remains. I find this method of illustration cumbersome and hard to read. Most of the smaller rectangles tend to be illegible. Text above this rectangle states that "Your Deep Dive matches (where you share DNA segments) share the following Royal Y-DNA haplogroups."

 

        5.  Royalty Breakdown mtDNA

 

This section has a rectangular section, divided into rectangular sections. The size of the rectangles seems to correspond to the percentage of Y-DNA matches between my D.N.A. and the D.N.A. extracted from ancient, human remains. I find this method of illustration cumbersome and hard to read. Most of the smaller rectangles tend to be illegible. Text above this rectangle states that "Your Deep Dive matches (where you share DNA segments) also share the following Royal mtDNA haplogroups."

        6.  mtDNA Breakdown
 

This section has a rectangular section, divided into rectangular sections, above a circle divided into sections. The size of the rectangles seems to correspond to the percentage of mtDNA matches
between my D.N.A. and the D.N.A. extracted from ancient, human remains. I find this method of illustration cumbersome and hard to read. The H1+H3 rectangle looks good, because it's large, since it represents about 20% of my ancient, mtDNA matches, but the smaller rectangles tend to be illegible.

The circle below the rectangles is much easier to use. Mousing over a section of it causes a list to appear, of the corresponding matches, with information about the matches, and their corresponding coats-of-arms.

Mousing over the coat-of-arms, for example, of the Danish Royalty, causes a window to pop up indicating that the mtDNA haplogroup H corresponds to Harald II (980-1018) and other royal, Danish personages

 

        7.  Haplogroup Explorer

Clicking on the "Haplogroup Explorer" button causes four more buttons to appear:

 

1. Y-DNA Samples
2. Y-DNA Deep Dive
3. mtDNA Samples
4. mtDNA Deep Dive
   

 

Clicking on any of these buttons causes colored dots to appear on a plain, white background, connected by lines, which show their relationships to each other, and to the DNA sample previously uploaded and selected.

 

For example, if I click on the "Y-DNA Samples" button, after selecting my own DNA kit, I can trace "[My] Family" to "[Me] along the R lines. "Your Family" is represented by a light blue dot, with lines of different colors connecting it to dots that represent the major, applicable haplogroups; in my case they are G, I, J, and R. Most of the other dots are connected by purple lines to the purple dot representing the R haplogroup. Dots with white borders can be clicked on to toggle other, subordinate lines, on or off. The next major, purple dot represents haplogroup R1b1a1b. This includes a an ancient match identified as "Bischwihr

Bronze Age Alsace France." The next purple hub represents haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1, which includes a match identified as "Iron Age Celt Prague Central Bohemia." The next purple hub represents haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a, which includes a match identified as "Late Medieval Icelandic Murderer KOV-A1." The next purple hub represents haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2, which includes a match identified as "Celtic Briton Pocklington Yorkshire England I13754." The next purple hub represents haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c, which includes a match identified as "Celtic Saxon Hinxton Iron Age HI1." The next purple hub represents haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c1, which includes a match identified as "Celtic Briton Pocklington Yorkshire England I5508." The next purple hub represents haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a, which includes a match identified as "You," a.k.a. "me."

 

        8.  Y-DNA Matches

Clicking on this button causes an extensive list of Y-DNA matches to appear. The first twenty items are a Genetic Distance of 2 or less from my own Y-DNA, confirmed by FamilyTreeDNA's Big Y-700 test. They include thumbnails of the corresponding coats-of-arms, the name of their "Ancestral Seats," and names and years of birth and/or death of men whose Y-DNA haplogroup matches mine. Orm de Abernethy (1170) of the Clan Abernathy is the only exact match. MyTrueAncestry indicates that I'm a Genetic Distance of 2 from Belgian, English, and Scottish Royal personages, including Charles I and II, and James I through V.

 

Next, I'll discuss DNA Spotlights.

 

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*To get to Results, login to MyTrueAncestry. See a page with their logo (see above) near the upper, left corner, and a row of six tabs across the top:

1. Results
2. Civilizations
3. Populations
4. Royalty
5. DNA Testing
6. FAQ

To get to "Analysis Summary"...

1. Analysis Summary
2. Maps
3. Regional Archaeogenetics
4. Haplogroup Analytics
5. DNA Spotlight
6. Timelines
7. PCA Plots
8. Genetic Social Groups
9. Additional Features 

Blog post by William Mortensen Vaughan