Need help please re this yDNA error

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Could some kind person help with this please.

in WikiTree Help by Tim Gatty G2G6 (9.9k points)

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Best answer
If you've double checked and the haplogroup is correct then simply mark it as false. The system does not recognise all the new haplogroups that are coming out of Big-Y tests.
by Andrew Millard G2G6 Pilot (117k points)
selected ago by Edison Williams

I'll let Tim select Andrew's answer as best, but he hit the proverbial nail right in the nucleus.

FTDNA has added just under 2,000 new branches to the yDNA haplotree in only the past 60 days. There's no real-time application interface that allows WikiTree to check those data, but I do believe that Aleš periodically downloads the JSON file (a text-only form of database information) that FTDNA makes available and uses that to compare against entered yDNA haplogroups.

I confirmed that E-BY5244 is absolutely a branch in the haplotree, so I'm sure that it was added recently, sometime since the last manual download of the FTDNA JSON file. So you can either just leave the suggestion as it is and wait until the next update of the haplotree data, or mark it as false and continue on.

smiley

Well, it's been 11 days (I always prefer to allow time for the questioner to do it), so I'll give Dr. Millard the best-answer star for this one.

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