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The Britton International DNA Project at Family Tree has a number of coupons available for discounts on all DNA test orders over $40. These coupons are good for a single use until April 15th.  New coupons are issued every day.  You will find the complete list at this link:

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/britton/activity-feed

If you live outside of the US and can trace your Britton ancestry to a Britton male born in England c 1837 or before (must be able to identify parish or village of birth), you or a male Britton relative may be eligible for a free Y-DNA test sponsored by the Britton Project and the Britton One-Name Study.

For more information, please send me a private message or contact me through the Britton One-Name Study at the Guild of One-Name Studies.

Lindsey Britton
 

The Britton International DNA Project has raised (and continues to raise) money for DNA testing in the UK.  We are looking for Britton, Brittain, Bretton, Breton, etc. men who can provide well-supported pedigrees of at least five generations, starting with the candidate's father.  We plan to offer either a free Y-12 test or $50 toward the purchase of a higher resolution test to any candidate  approved by the Administrators and members of the Britton project.   All variants of the name are included and all regions of the British Isles.  Families from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada who know the English or British origin of their Britton line are also encouraged to apply.

Pedigrees and applications should be sent to Dr. Lindsey Britton  through the Britton International DNA Project at Family Tree DNA or the Britton One-Name Study at the Guild of One-Name Studies or you may send me a personal message at Rootschat.

Dear Rootschat Members,

I am posting this message for Dr. Kenneth Nordtvedt who is not a member of this forum.  He is one of the best-known researchers for Haplogroup I and would greatly appreciate seeing raw data files for anyone in Haplogroup I who has taken Chroma 2.0 from BritainsDNA.  This test is proving to be of the greatest value in identifying SNPs in both I1 and I2, and the more files he has for analysis and comparison, the greater the value of the information provided by the test.  So sharing will help you just as much as it will help Haplogroup I research.

If you have a file to share, please send me a private message and I will give you Dr. Nordtvedt's e-mail address.

Thank you.

Lindsey Britton
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Message from Kenneth Nordtvedt:

"Chromo2 test contains over 14,000 Y snps. Comparing seven raw data files of
 results from this chip, we have been able to see how fertile the chip has
 been for haplogroup I; the locations we have been able examine have been
 quite dense with new y snps. The maker of the Chromo2 chip had a goal to
 produce a test particularly fruitful for folks from northern Europe and
 British Isles, so they first searched for new snps accordingly and then
 salted their discoveries into the Chromo2 chip.

 You can see the new snps from Chromo2 appropriate to several sectors of
 haplogroup I in my files:

 "Tree for Isles L161"
 "Chromo2I1work"
 "Chromo2M223work"

 found at website http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net/

 The L161 sector, the Z73 sector of I1, the Z138 sector of I1, the L126
 Isles Scot of the M223 sector, and the Roots of the M223 sector are all
 found to have many new snps. These results were obtained by comparing
 seven Chromo2 raw data files I was able to receive from people. I am
 grateful to those who shared their data.

 To see how these many new Chromo2 snps further split our presently known
 clades, we however need more Chromo2 raw data files to put into the
 comparison spreadsheet. 

If you have Chromo2 results please send me your raw
 data file. Your contribution will be valuable
 regardless of where in haplogroup I you reside, but especially so if you
 fall in one of these sectors of the haplogroup previously mentioned.

 I will publically present all findings in the formats I have already started
 to set up in the named files above.

 I was told that approximately 200 haplogroup I results were sent out
 recently by BritainsDNA and their cohorts, ScotDNA, IrishDNA. Only seven
 have been compared so far in the public arena. Imagine how much more we can
 learn with more results brought into the comparisons. We can bring some
 sectors of the haplogroup I tree right down into the historic era and close
 to the genealogical era.

Kenneth Nordtvedt"

What I cannot understand about the family tracing bit of DNA research is, if we all originated at/from a single source, we all should be carrying a level/marker of DNA from that source. Looking at history and the origins of our species, over thousands if not millions of years, in caves, jungles, plains, in wars etc, even today, there was/is still a level of raping of women. From the past there would be little or no records of who raped who, and therefore, the real traceable origins will be unknown. But, it seems conclusions are being made by what is found by DNA research as the these origins. If the accuracy is based on supposition, how can this research be seen as accurate?

Regards

Malky

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Genetic genealogy is not based on supposition.  Two men who share a common male-line ancestor will have matching or very similar Y-DNA signatures.  The closer the match, the closer the relationship.  Here is a link to the guidelines used to evaluate these matches; however, Family Tree also presents customers with a list of matches deemed to have shared a common male-line ancestor within the past 500 years and contact information for each of them. 

http://www.familytreedna.com/faq/answers.aspx?id=48

Once a family's Y-DNA signature has been established, it can be used to identify other descendants who have not been able to trace their line by traditional means and to distinguish them from unrelated families with the same surname.  In the Britton DNA Project, we have identified 10 Britton families, each with its own unique Y-DNA signature. 

Lindsey Britton

19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century

All variants of the name are included--Brittain, Bretton, Brittin, Britten, Brittan, Breton, etc.?

Lindsey Britton