Adding new categories to reflect Y-DNA Haplogroup

Question

I am a member of a Surname study hosted on the Family Tree DNA site. We already have a Category set up here on WikiTree for the Belew Name Study,

 [[Space:Belew_Name_Study|Belew/Ballow/Belue/Bellew Bellow Name Study]] 

As a group, we would like to add another category with two sub-categories below it to represent the cascading Haplogroups our members are grouped into according to the FTDNA Big-Y 700 test as reported on their website. (See below.)

The top category we would like to have would reference the Haplogroup R-A10673, with R-BY144400 as a sub-category below it and R-FTD1569 as a sub-category below it.

Our intention is to have profiles built on WikiTree by our Surname Study Group members, categorized under the Haplogroup R-A10673 or it's subcategories so that we can easily see all the profiles that are categorized under any or all of the three categories. We fill like this will be helpful as we contribute profiles on WikiTree in our effort to verify our MRCA.

If there is a better way to do this, we are certainly open to suggestions.

If this seems to be a valid idea, I would appreciate help or guidance in creating these new categories.

Thanks,

Keith

Answer 1

If the Y-DNA test takers have their Y-DNA in mitoYDNA.org then the following is automatically available via two clicks (no manual category creation necessary).

Comments

Thanks for the reply, Peter!

I will look into this and see if it might accomplish what we were hoping to do.

In the end we wanted something that would show all the profiles, in one place, that were categorized under any of the three Haplogroup categories so that we could easily jump around between the various family linages.

Keith

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How do these diagrams relate to BLOCK TREE and how to you create the first one in FTDNA ?.

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Alan, the first image came from FTDNA, and is found in the Surname Project Group. It is just a different way to view the Block Tree graphic. It is generated by FTDNA, not something you can generate personally. Hope that answers your question!

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Thanks Keith. I did see the logo on your image. Just this morning I got an FTDNA email advising GLOBETREKKER is available and a first quick glance shows the new layout being used. It will take some time to work out what it all means.

You have several surnames in the group. Spelling variations are no suprise but different names under BY144400, which is around 9 generations or 3-4 downstream haplogroups, seems higher than expected ?. At this stage I prefer BLOCK TREE as it shows these as names or PV's.

Answer 2

you are looking for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:DNA_Categorization_for_Projects

You can then create them under your name study.

Comments

Thanks Jonathan!

That might be a better fit for what I am wanting to do!

Keith