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Group Administrator: George Van Der Merwede gvdmerwede@gmail.com
Group Co-Administrator: Peter Op den Velde Boots podvelde@xs4all.nl

Project Surnames:

Belgium	Benelux	Holland	Luxembourg
Netherlands

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Project Background:

The Benelux yDNA Geographical Project is for any male's FTDNA test result who share a male family origin in the Benelux region of Europe. Benelux consists of the area presently composed of the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, in other words, the lowlands. You can join this Geographic project if you have been tested by FamilyTreeDNA and have solid roots in this region. Existing FTDNA customers can conveniently join this project using the blue JOIN button at the top of their personal FTDNA test results home page.

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Project Goals:

To establish a growing database of data for tested participants with origins in the Benelux Region (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg).

To chart and group common test results.

To chart and possibly determine geographical grouping's common to the lowlands area.

Project News:

28 Jun 2008 In the last couple of months the Haplogroup categories have been restructured.

Haplogroup I has been split into I1 (former I1a) and non-I1. The members of the non-I1 group are expected to be I2 (former I1b and I1c), however some have not yet been tested or predicted to be in this haplogroup.

Haplogroup R1b has been split in the new major subclades, and one Pending Test category that contains all members who have not done sufficient Haplogroup testing to be placed in any of the categories. FTdna is currently not predicting these new subclades, so tests are necessary to be certain.

21 Nov 2006 van der Merwede tested S21+ which puts both van der Merwede's in the project at R1b1c9.

15 Nov 2006 Wim Callewaert has accepted the position of co-administrator for the project.

3 Sep 2006: Quirindongo was an interesting find in the migration of yDNA from the lowlands to the West-Indies. Here is a link: Quirindongo

14 Aug 2006: I will be creating a new website for the project as I have had requests from people that tested at other companys that want to be involved. I will announce the URL when it is ready.

1 Aug 2006: Setup a forum for project discussions. FORUM .

31 July 2006: Project launched by George van der Merwede.

Project Results:

Here is the link to ongoing discussion regarding current results of the BeNeLux y-DNA Project: Result Discussion

G – 11%

confirmed DSNP
G (2)
G2 (2)

* The remaining member is predicted G2.

I - 49%

confirmed DSNP
I (5)
I1a (4)

* There are 10 predicted I's and 2 unpredicted that appear to be I based on their haplotype.

R1b – 40%

confirmed DSNP
R1b1 (1)
R1b1c (5)

* There are 4 predicted R1b's, 6 predicted R1b1 and 1 predicted R1b1c

** all 67-marker tests for R1b's show DYS492 = 13 which points to R1b1c9 as most likely subclade

R1b data tables divided by haplogroup and color coded.

One interesting marker for the Benelux R1b's is DYS CDY b. The R1b modal for this marker is 38. It seems almost all people from the Benelux region have either a value of 37 or 40, fairly even between the two. This is uncommon in R1b so it will be interesting to see if this trend continues.

Note:Individuals that are not listed in a catagory do not have a know geographic point in the Benelux region. When this point becomes known through research they will be moved into the appropriate catagory.