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Strickland

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  • Rebecca Christensen

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions, Helps and Tips

Y-DNA Participants

Setting up your account to participate in the Strickland DNA Project

Opt In to the Strickland Y-DNA Project (IMPORTANT!)
To give permission for your results to be used in the Strickland DNA project and for your Y-DNA STR marker results to be seen on the Strickland Y-DNA Project results page (public), you need to complete these steps to Opt In to the project:
1. Sign into your Family Tree DNA account.
2. On your account dashboard, hover over your name in the top right hand corner. Click on Account Settings.
3. Click on the Project Preferences tab
4. On the Project Preferences screen, scroll down to Project Sharing
5. Under the Group Project Profile, you need to Opt in to Sharing. The default setting is Off. You need to allow your results to be used in the Project for your marker results to show up on the results screen and to allow us to use your results in the project.

Your results won't show up in any project results pages until you Opt In.

Setting your Earliest Known Ancestor (Paternal Ancestor Name)
1. Sign into your Family Tree DNA account.
2. On your account dashboard, hover over your name in the top right hand corner. Click on Account Settings.
3. Click on the Genealogy tab
4. Click on Earliest Known Ancestors tab
5. Enter the name of your earliest known, documented male Strickland ancestor, his birth-death years and location
  If your earliest known male Strickland ancestor is Matthew Strickland of Isle of Wight Co, VA, please modify the Earliest Known Ancestor to include the next few generations of your Strickland line. For example, Matthew Strickland>Matthew>Jacob. This will provide helpful information while viewing the Y-DNA results. Descendants of other lines can also include additional generations.

Joining Haplogroup Projects on Family Tree DNA
Strickland BigY participants are encouraged to join the associated haplogroup and subclade projects on Family Tree DNA for their Y-DNA SNP results.

Participants who belong to the Matthew Strickland or Thwaite Strickland families (based on Y-DNA results) are encouraged to consider joining the following haplogroup projects:


Joining The Big Tree
Strickland BigY participants who belong to the Matthew Strickland or Thwaite Strickland families (based on Y-DNA results) are encouraged to join The Big Tree (https://www.ytree.net/) by Alex Williamson. The Big Tree is for individuals who belong to the Haplogroup R subclade of R-P312 and its subclades. Anyone who has taken a NGS test such as the BigY and belongs to R-P312 and its subclades can join the tree. The site is not affiliated with Family Tree DNA. The Big Tree accepts NGS results from multiple testing companies. The Strickland family currently can best be seen on The Big Tree on the R-Y3140 block (https://www.ytree.net/DisplayTree.php?blockID=780).
Instructions for uploading your information can be found on the site.

Learning More About Your BigY Results

FamilyTreeDNA blog, "Big Y Lifetime Analysis: The Myth of the Manual Review," posted 22 November 2023. Discusses Private Variants, Lifetime BigY Analysis, and when and why haplogroups change over time.

RootsTech 2022 and 2023 included several video presentations about the BigY test including information on interpreting results, determining the time to the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) and other information.

Y-DNA BigY: A Lifetime Analysis (Janine Cloud, Family Tree DNA, 2023) (8 min)
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/y-dna-big-y-a-lifetime-analysis

Discover: Exploring the new beta feature on Family Tree DNA (Janine Cloud, Family Tree DNA, 2023) (9 min)

"Why oh Why Do Your Y DNA?" (Tanner Tolman, RootsTech DNA Day, April 2023) (64 min)

Older videos:

Part 1: How to Interpret Y-DNA Results, A Walk Through the BigY (2022) (23 min)
Part 2: How to Interpret Y-DNA Results, A Walk Through the BigY (2022) (13 min)

Y-DNA: How SNPs are Added to the Y Haplotree (2022) (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQaYcroRwY

Y-DNA: Haplotree and SNPs Page overview (2022) (5 min)  [no need to order SNPs if you have completed the BigY-700!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOuVhoMD-hw

Y-DNA BigY: A Lifetime Analysis (2022) (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6NEU92rpiM

Autosomal DNA Participants

Transferring Your Results from Ancestry to Family Tree DNA and Joining the Strickland DNA Project
1.  Download your raw AncestryDNA results to your computer. Keep track of where you store the raw DNA data file on your computer. It will be a huge zipped file. Do not unzip the file. If it becomes unzipped, you will need to re-zip it. Instructions for downloading can be found here:
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Downloading-AncestryDNA-Raw-Data
2. Upload your raw DNA results to Family Tree DNA (free)
https://www.familytreedna.com/autosomal-transfer
3   Create an account on Family Tree DNA as part of the upload process. If you already have a Family Tree DNA account, log in first. Each person/DNA tester has their own account on Family Tree DNA.
4.  While logged into your account, you can join the Strickland DNA project at the link below. You can also log into your account as part of the join process. (free)
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/strickland/about
5. There will be a short question to answer about your Strickland lineage before you are accepted into the project. Please allow time for the response to be reviewed.
6  Family Tree DNA provides additional tools to analyze your DNA results. There is a small fee if you want to gain access to the tools. (recommended)

Advanced Matches Search - Family Finder matches in the Strickland DNA Project

You can find out who your autosomal DNA matches are in the Strickland DNA project (vs. the entire Family Tree DNA database) by running the Advanced Matches comparison. The results will show Strickland DNA project participants who share autosomal DNA with you. CAUTION: Just because you are both in the Strickland project doesn't necessarily mean that you received your common DNA from your Strickland ancestors - you may have more than one set of shared ancestors who are not Stricklands. But it gives you a good place to start.

To check for Family Finder matches (see Activity Feed or Photos for image of instructions)
1 - Under Family Finder, select Advanced Matches
2 - Select Strickland instead of Entire Database
3 - Select Family Finder box
4 - Run report

General Fund Donations

The Strickland DNA Project welcomes donations to the General Fund to assist in purchasing or upgrading DNA tests for other project members. Any amount is appreciated. Donations for the Strickland General Fund can be made through the button on this page. For more information, see:
How do I contribute to a group project’s general fund?  (https://learn.familytreedna.com/group-projects/contribute-general-fund/)