Also, I have “completed” testing with FTDNA, by having tested their Big-Y 500. Though they have a Big-Y 700, I have no plans to test it anytime soon. I say that, because, while waitting for FTDNA to add the new SNP’s that it already found, I tested wit YSEQ the SNP’s that FTDNA did offer for testing, even after they were found by Big-Y previously. With YSEQ, 238 SNP’s were found by them. After encouraging other of my Y-Matches to test Big-Y, four have done so, with one still waiting for his result. We four share the terminal I1-A14271. It is thought that, we shared a common ancestor within the last 450 years, or so.
Currently, my Big-Y matches are Dickey, Eleniss, & Weaver. Eleniss recently learned that his father’s name was “Montgomery”. He did not his father, nor, his name while growing up. Dickey, on the other hand, does not know who his gg-grandpa’s name was. H believed that the man was a Montgomery, because of the close proximity to our Montgomery kin in Caswell Co., N.C. But, after doing some research on the Dickey line, it’s possible that his gg-grandpa could have been a Dickey, as well. As, all three families lived in counties near each other.
On the Montgomery DNA Project, there are several Montgomery, a Beck, whose real surname was Cox, Elenniss, Wallace & Weaver. Researchers are now starting to think that Elenniss & Wallace shared the same father, as, neither men knew who there father was. But, their DNA results are a match. A little more research is needed to be done, to confirm it, though. And, Wallace needs to test Big-Y as well.
As for the Montgomery, who is waiytting for his Big-Y results, he has traced his line back to Comber, Co., Down, N. Ire. His ancestor was born in 1770. That places his line still in N. Ire., while, ours was in the Colonies, when his ancestor was born. So, I am anxiously waiting for his results to back soon. His results, when compared with mine & my other Big-Y matches, may give us a better timeline. And, his lineage may help us in our search for Alexander !’s parents & lineage.