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IMPORTANT NOTE:
After you've joined this project, if you want your results to appear on the "DNA Results" page, you must set your account to display it:
Login to your FTDNA account / Go "Manage Personal Information" / Go to "Project Preferences" / For "Group Project Profile", set it to "Opt in to Sharing"
Login to your FTDNA account / Go "Manage Personal Information" / Go to "Project Preferences" / For "Group Project Profile", set it to "Opt in to Sharing"
Ongoing
Comments about the results can be found on this page.2006
A unique cluster of Y-DNA is identified in southern Ireland.
2007
A member of the Fitzgerald Y-DNA project, who claims direct descent from Maurice Fitzgerald, posts his results.
2013
The large R1b-L21 haplogroup has several new SNPs, which break the group into smaller sub-groups:
In many cases it's possible to identify a person's SNP by their STR results. Therefore I've created sub-groups in the Desmond project organized by SNP.