February 13, 2024

The Scottish Mapping DNA Project now has over 2,500 participants.

Public display of results with the FTDNA Time Tree report has been enabled.

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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May 26, 2023

The Scottish Mapping DNA Project now has over 2,400 participants.

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

Added new subgroup for Z39589* as Group R1b-L21-Z39589-DF49.

Added new subgroup for  L23* as Group R1b-L23-Z2103.

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August 18, 2022

The Scottish Mapping DNA Project now has over 2,300 participants.

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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July 24, 2022

The Scottish Mapping DNA Project now has over 2,200 participants with over 1,000 Big Y DNA tests performed.

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

Updated static member haplogroup map.

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May 12, 2021

The Scottish Mapping DNA Project now has over 2,000 participants.

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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April 11, 2021

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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March 22, 2021

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.
Updated static member haplogroup map.
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November 24, 2020

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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November 19, 2020

Wrote new project profile description. 
Added additional material to frequently asked questions (FAQ) page.

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November 6, 2020

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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October 6, 2020

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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July 28, 2020

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

Also added [Group R1b-L21*] for members who have markers below L21 on the tree identified which do not fall in the most common groups. e.g. Those who test positive for any of these markers: F4006, A5846, BY11894, BY24476, or BY2994.  It is not intended for those who simply have not tested markers below L21 and have a generic terminal SNP.

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February 20, 2020

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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February 08, 2020
Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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December 19, 2019
Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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November 2, 2019

Updated member Y-DNA subgrouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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October 31, 2019

Added FAQ to public web site.

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/scottishmapping/faq

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September 8, 2019

We have updated project member grouping based on confirmed SNPs.

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February 8, 2019

In the wake of news of accelerating law enforcement exploitation of the FTDNA consumer database, we have removed our Project results display from public display and removed the display of surnames.

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February 4, 2019 

FTDNA responded to news articles relating to FTDNA's facilitation of law enforcement-provided samples and use of the FTDNA matching tools on consumer DNA results (like our Project members) when the Opt-In to Matching option is enabled under Privacy & Sharing in your kit profile. Here is a link to the letter to customers: https://mailchi.mp/familytreedna/letter-to-customers

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January 31 2019

FTDNA has replaced the Big Y-500 test with a new Big Y-700 product.  The new product should have wider and more consistent coverage of the useful area of the Y-chromosome.  For distinguishing lineages within a family group or clan, this new test should prove valuable.  

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November 2, 2018

The Scottish Mapping DNA Project now has over 1,400 participants. With the emergence of higher resolution SNP classification thanks to the Big Y-500 test and other SNP tests, we have now grouped project members into SNP groups. This effort took dozens of hours of labor. The grouped results using the FTDNA mapping tools now enables one to start seeing geographic patterns within Scotland and within the major R1b-L21 subclades.

See https://www.familytreedna.com/public/scottishmapping?iframe=ymap for dynamic maps based on this SNP-grouping. Unfortunately, those with STR-estimated or very generic terminal SNP markers such as M269 are excluded from the higher resolution plots. If your results are listed in the Ambiguous SNP Phylogeny group, we recommend that you upgrade to the comprehensive Big Y-500 test which combines millions of SNPs along with Y-111 plus other STRs.

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January 10, 2018

The Scottish Mapping DNA Project now has over 1,300 participants.  We have performed a review and geocoding of the earliest paternal ancestors listed for all participants with many new plots pointed  This gives us currently 768 ancestral positions plotted on the map page. A static image of this map was published.