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R-Y61244 Caithness Scotland

Caithness Roots: Aulds, Beggs, Hendersons, Oals, Olds, Rosies & Rosses
  • 12 members
Administrators
  • Honyman Oal (Iain Old, Admin)
  • William Henderson
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R-Y61244 News

24 April 2016.
AMR (Rosie) orders the new BigY500 SNP test from FamilyTree DNA. Amongst the private variants is the Y61244 SNP.

12 May 2020.
The R-Y61244 haplogroup is created when WDH (Henderson) BigY700 results are analysed and he is found to share the Y61244 variant with AMR.

26 January 2023.
IGO (Old) becomes the third member of the R-Y61244 haplogroup and the second to be confirmed by BigY700.
The MRCA of the R-Y61244 haplogroup is estimated by FTDNA to have been born circa 1243 CE.

20 March 2023.
AMR (Rosie) - who previously had a BigY500 test - is the third member of the R-Y61244 haplogroup to be confirmed by BigY700.
Old and Rosie have a private variant in common - FTD64696, which is expected to define a new haplogroup.
The MRCA of the R-Y61244 haplogroup is revised by FTDNA and estimated to have been born circa 1276 CE.

23 March 2023.
The present R-Y61244 group website is launched.

12 May 2023.
AJR (Ross) becomes the fourth member of the group with a haplogroup of R-Y61244 to be confirmed by BigY700.
Rosie and Ross have three private variants in common - FTD90327, FTD90752 and MF603025 and these are expected to define a new haplogroup.
The MRCA of the R-Y61244 haplogroup is revised by FTDNA and estimated to have been born circa 1300 CE.

20 May 2023
Rosie and Ross become members of a new haplogroup named R-FTD90752.
The MRCA of the R-Y61244 haplogroup is revised by FTDNA and estimated to have been born circa 1227 CE.
The MRCA of the R-FTD90752 haplogroup is estimated by FTDNA to have been born circa 1367 CE.

Other News

9 May 2023.
Iain Old attended the launch of the Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies including a talk by Professor Turi King (Richard III: The King in the Car Park). The institute  was established with the aim of delivering academic excellence through the creation of new courses and research opportunities to run alongside the University’s long-standing world-leading postgraduate programme. For their excellent free online genealogy courses see the Links section.