6/29/2024  How to view the Group Time Tree, seen on the web site main page.

What is "Group Time Tree" as seen on the project's y-DNA Results page?  It is a super display clickable link  to see where one fits in time and with whom- using one's haplogroup!  BUT when many of you click to view it, no matter your shown haplogroup elsewhere, you don't see yourself.  The reason is that unless you have tested at FTDNA for the Big Y, you are not shown on the Group Time Tree,even if in the past you chose to test for a specific haplogroup - or have it transferred in from elsewhere. 

As the Group Time Tree page says:  "The Group Time Tree shows a genetic family tree of direct paternal lineages on a time scale. It shows how Big Y tested members of Group Projects are related to each other and when their shared ancestors are estimated to have lived."     Of course many of us fail to read that. My point here is that FTDNA provides a wonderful display of how your haplogroup fits in.   Years ago I attempted to show such results myself with a web page - and I may continue but I strongly suggest everyone do a Big Y test.  (Of course, one never knows for sure what the results will be - but it should be informative.)    Regardless, I strongly suggest you experiment with the Group Time Tree link- even at other projects you have joined.  Be sure to experiment with the options choosing the various options shown.  Multiple selections are VERY interesting.   Even if you are not big y tested, you may learn something, albeit harder to understand if you are not shown.

AND........Something you may not have noticed when you click an option after going to the Group Time Tree at the project home page:   You will see a display of haplogroups shown with a very general time tree.  When you hover over a hap, a more defined time is presented, something like the below is presented:

                     E-A6109     The man who is the most recent common ancestor of the E-A6108 line is estimated to have been born around 1512 CE

AND.....A sizeable number of membersIN THE PAST had their Big Y "bam" files analyzed both by ISOGG and at Yfull.com resulting in confirmed downstream haplogroup snps.  Yfull's tree is at this link   FTDNA's tree - viewable at a member's login showing haplotree - now incorporates most of the tree, BUT LIKELY WILL REQUIRE A BIG Y TEST..