June 9, 2026: The Men Who Contribute to Our DNA

In honor of Father’s Day, we talked about the men who contribute to our DNA, and how using Y-DNA can help with some of our genealogical puzzles. 

FamilyTreeDNA Recently updated its blog post about their Y-DNA haplotree:
https://blog.familytreedna.com/largest-y-dna-haplotree/
Also: FamilyTreeDNA has begun its Father’s Day sale on Y-DNA and autosomal DNA testing, through June 22: https://www.familytreedna.com/#shop

Some links we didn’t discuss but may be helpful:
https://blog.familytreedna.com/how-y-dna-testing-works/
https://blog.familytreedna.com/family-finder-y-dna-haplogroup-guide/
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/foundations-in-dna-2-of-5-understanding-and-using-y-dna-and-mtdna/

And then some links we did discuss:
SNP Tracker – http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html
FTDNA’s Discover Tool – https://discover.familytreedna.com/
FTDNA estimates haplogroups from autosomal DNA: https://blog.familytreedna.com/y-dna-haplogroups-family-finder/
FTDNA Projects – https://www.familytreedna.com/group-project-search
https://blog.familytreedna.com/group-project-categories/
https://blog.familytreedna.com/group-project-types/
23andMe haplogroups – https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23andme-updates-paternal-haplogroup-assignments
Morley Tool to estimate haplogroups from Ancestry autosomal data – https://ytree.morleydna.com/extractFromAutosomal
Clade Finder tool to estimate haplogroups from autosomal data – https://cladefinder.yseq.net/

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