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Welcome to the Research Site for B260 Soundex Ancestors with surnames Bucher, Beecher, Becker, Booher, and all variations.
About Your DNA Test Results
You've ordered your DNA test. What happens next?
Once your returned kit arrives by mail at Family Tree DNA, they will email you a kit number and password so you can login to access your account online at http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com
They will post dates for each step of the testing process as it's reached, with a date when they expect to report your results. About 4 weeks after they receive your kit back, they will report the results.
Before your results come back, be sure to email the name, dates, birth and death place and spouse of your earliest known ancestor to Jonathan Beacher at bucher@SiteServers.net so we can list your ancestor on our Research Site at http://www.SearchTrees.com/dna . Please make this an ancestor you have certain proof is yours, not someone you speculate is your ancestor.
As soon as you can, send your tree and we'll put it online before your results are back, so all our researchers can help find new evidence and improve it for you. Also, once your tree is on our site Google searchers will find it, contact us to add to your line, and join the Y-DNA test to prove other branches of your family. You can send your tree as either: 1) a GED file exported from genealogy software 2) link to a website where your tree is online 3) email to bucher@siteservers.net 3) paper sent to Jonathan Beacher, 4453 Northside Dr NW #344, Atlanta, GA 30327-5253.
After Your DNA Results Arrive
As soon as your Family Tree DNA results are in, you'll get an email to log in to your account at www.FamilyTreeDNA.com.
Here are my tips for what to explore, some not so obvious online:
- Click Y-DNA Results tab to see who you matched.
- Be sure to click the
 icon next to a matching male to see WHEN in time you match them.
- There is a link on the Y-DNA Results page to upload your DNA marker patter to Y-Search.org, so you can see if you match any males who didn't use the Family Tree DNA firm for their testing. I recommend you do this.
- Back to your main page at Family Tree DNA, click Haplogroup to see the major type of Y-Chromosome you have. It will list the countries where people live who share your same marker pattern. Hiding at the bottom of this page are the definitions of the different Haplogroups, so be sure to scroll down.
- You will get an email in the future every time someone matches your Y-DNA marker pattern. You can set a match to be defined as only matching surnames, or any surname, in your Setup Preferences tab. When you match someone with a variant or Americanized spelling of your homeland name, you are the same family (Booher, Beecher, Bicher is the same family as Bucher). When you match someone with a completely different surname, you shared a common male ancestor but probably in the Middle Ages before surnames were adopted. They are not significant.
There are two other pages where your other results appear:
- Click View Y-DNA Results on our Research Site home page to go to http://www.FamilyTree.com/public/bucher see the table of your DNA Marker Patterns compared to all males in our surname test. Since this is a public page, you are not identified by your name, but only by your kit number and name of your earliest ancestor (providing you emailed me his name so I could list it instead of "unknown".) This page also has an interactive Ancestor Google Map showing where our DNA Ancestors lived.
- On our Research Site at http://www.SearchTrees.com/dna we will be posting news and analysis about your findings as described below.
More About Your DNA Results
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If you have matched anyone exactly, you'll see their names.
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Next to their name is an icon, the purpose isn't that obvious, but it's important and you should click it. It looks like this: and when clicked it will reveal a table showing the probability of when you and the other male were related by a common ancestor. An example:
| In comparing 12 markers, the probability that Mr. Jonathan S. Beacher and Richard W. Beecher shared a common ancestor within the last... |
2 generations is
18.5% |
4 generations is
33.57% |
6 generations is
45.86% |
8 generations is
55.88% |
10 generations is
64.04% |
12 generations is
70.69% |
14 generations is
76.11% |
16 generations is
80.53% |
18 generations is
84.13% |
20 generations is
87.07% |
22 generations is
89.46% |
24 generations is
91.41% |
I usually use the generation around 70% probability as the one to expect your tree to join the other male's tree. For a generation, Family Tree DNA recommends using 25 years, so 10 generations is about 250 years ago, circa 1750.
Now the fun begins...
Get the email address for the male(s) matching you off your Family Tree DNA page and contact them, so you can compare notes on your trees to find the common ancestor. (If the other male has uploaded his tree to Family Tree DNA already, you can see it online by clicking on the  icon.) View The DNA Marker Table
Also, our Research Site will be updated soon after Jonathan Beacher hears your results are in:
- If your ancestor matched an existing DNA Family, he'll move from At Lab into that family. We'll post a News message on the home page announcing that.
- If your ancestor matched no one, we'll create a new DNA Family for him, along with a Research Page, Discussion Group, etc. so researchers can exchange info about his family line.
Jonathan and others will research your ancestor to see if we can connect him to anyone else in our database of trees. We'll post a research strategy and some theories on your family's Discussion Group.
If we have a theory about another family we think your ancestor might be related to, we may actively recruit a living male in that other family. That process involves building out branches of that family's trees down to the 1930 census, then finding living sons of those males using obituaries etc., and mailing letters or phoning them to get their participation in our research. If we find someone we really wish to test, the other researchers may pay to test that pedigreed male in a family line, since he may not be interested enough in genealogy to pay for the test himself, but he is willing to help if we cover the costs.
Upgrading Your DNA Test
Hopefully we'll find your tree connections without the need for further testing. However, you may find it very beneficial to get a more accurate prediction of WHEN two ancestors shared their common ancestor by upgrading your test to 37 markers or the new 59 marker test, if you didn't start at that level. As an example, for the table above, here's what was shown when we compared 37 markers instead of only 12:
| Knowing that Mr. Jonathan S. Beacher and Wayne G. Beecher could not have had a common ancestor in the last 8 generations, their 37 marker comparison shows that the probability that they shared a common ancestor within the last... |
8 - 10 generations is
28.62% |
12 generations is
52.17% |
14 generations is
69.5% |
16 generations is
81.32% |
18 generations is
88.92% |
20 generations is
93.6% |
22 generations is
96.39% |
24 generations is
98% |
26 generations is
98.91% |
28 generations is
99.41% |
30 generations is
99.69% |
32 generations is
99.84% |
Now we saw the relationship was even earlier in time, perhaps 14 generations (circa 1650 A.D.) This changed our research stategy: instead of seeking a common ancestor in America from one immigrant, we were looking for two immigrants related earlier in the homeland.
Why the difference?
The more markers we compare, the more certain we become that two males were recently related because there were no mutations (changes) in their Y-DNA marker pattern.
Because we were all derived from one man in the beginning of time, all men had identical DNA patterns. But every so many generations, one marker (at random) will mutate to a new value when passed from father to son. Today, there are many different families with very different DNA patterns.
If two males have identical or similar patterns when we compare 12 markers, we know they were recently related. But when we only compare a few markers, not all, we can't be certain there isn't a mutation in the other markers we didn't compare, so our prediction of time must be less exact. When we know two males match on all 37 markers, we know they were VERY recently related.
The DNA marker patterns are just a series of numbers, so your test result will look like this (differences highlighted in yellow):
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DYS# |
| Kit |
Name |
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H
a
p
l
o |
3
9
3 |
3
9
0 |
1
9 |
3
9
1 |
3
8
5
a |
3
8
5
b |
4
2
6 |
3
8
8 |
4
3
9 |
3
8
9
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1 |
3
9
2 |
3
8
9
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2 |
4
5
8 |
4
5
9
a |
4
5
9
b |
4
5
5 |
4
5
4 |
4
4
7 |
4
3
7 |
4
4
8 |
4
4
9 |
4
6
4
a |
4
6
4
b |
4
6
4
c |
4
6
4
d |
4
6
0 |
G
A
T
A
H
4 |
Y
C
A
I
I
a |
Y
C
A
I
I
b |
4
5
6 |
6
0
7 |
5
7
6 |
5
7
0 |
C
D
Y
a |
C
D
Y
b |
4
4
2 |
4
3
8 |
| I-001 |
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| 18482 |
Jonathan Beacher |
I |
13 |
23 |
14 |
10 |
14 |
14 |
11 |
14 |
11 |
13 |
11 |
29 |
16 |
8 |
9 |
8 |
11 |
23 |
16 |
20 |
29 |
12 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
11 |
10 |
19 |
21 |
15 |
15 |
16 |
19 |
35 |
37 |
13 |
10 |
| 44505 |
Wayne Beecher |
I |
13 |
23 |
14 |
10 |
14 |
14 |
11 |
14 |
11 |
13 |
11 |
29 |
16 |
8 |
9 |
8 |
11 |
23 |
16 |
20 |
29 |
12 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
11 |
10 |
19 |
21 |
15 |
14 |
16 |
19 |
34 |
37 |
12 |
10 |
If you decide to upgrade your test, just log in to your Family Tree DNA page and in the upper right click on Order Tests . You do not need to submit another kit; they can use the sample you originally sent. It will take 3-4 weeks to get results from when you order online. Following is the table showing the the three test levels, when males match at each level, and the cost of upgrading your test from 12 to 37 or 59 markers.
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Test |
Upgrade Cost |
Males are Related When They Match |
Results |
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12
Marker |
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11 or 12 of 12 |
Good for telling IF two males are related by a common ancestor |
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25
Marker |
$49 |
23, 24, or 25 of 25 |
Better at telling WHEN two males trees join at a common ancestor |
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37
Marker |
now $99
(was $159) |
34, 35, 36, or 37 of 37 |
Much better at telling WHEN two males trees join at a common ancestor |
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59 Marker |
$189 |
55, 56, 57, 58 or 59 of 59 |
Best at telling WHEN two males trees join at a common ancestor |
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