This website is dedicated to YDNA research that most directly benefits genealogists. This project is a very preliminary project and just getting launched in May, 2016. This project is primarily genealogically oriented and is primarily covers testing of private YSNPs that have that associated with the NGS testers under L226. This web site will also recommend economcial testing of individual YSNPs to confirm you branch based on the generation of ledgin edge haplotree charts. This web site will not go into great detail the analysis of NGS tests since this is already being skillfully done by Dennis Wright, the lead L226 administrator.

Another challenging goal is to eventually create a reasonably complete and reasonably accurate haplotree of all submissions under L226. In the past, these charts were based solely on YSTR mutations and were highly unreliable. However, three major recent changes are making these charts possible: 1) discovery of many new branches under L226; 2) the significant testing of these new branches; 3) and a new haplotree generation tool (SAPP) which greatly assists in the creation of these haplotrees. The first pass is a bottoms up approach of creating haplotrees of the major branches of L226. In the next few weeks, a first pass will be completed that will create haplotree charts for at least 25 % of the 67 marker L226 submissions. With the explosion of new L226 branches and significant testing of YSNPs under L226, it is anticipated that 80 to 90 % of L226 will be connected in the coming three or four months.

This web site will also analyze all broader scope L226 branches - but will primarily provide more frequent updates on the analysis for the "private" and "near private" YSNPs associated with NGS testing. The tracking and documentation of extensive YSNP testing will be a challenging task and it will not always be possible keep this web site up to date. However, I will make a consistent effort to make updates and corrections as required. As this project progresses, it is hoped that others will volunteer to help track and document the status of less broad YSNPs and I look forward to volunteers assisting me with this project.

This web site will also assist those researchers who are relatively new to YSNP research by providing high level summaries and links to related web sites. This web site will also document YSTR DNA signatures associated with newly discovered L226 branches. This web site will provide recommendations for YSNP testing based on YSTR signatures and math based descendant charts which now work reasonably very well due to the explosion of new L226 branches and the significant testing of L226 branches. This project will also provide very high level summaries of the nature and status of L226 branches when possible. This project will also continually propose coordinated and cost effective testing strategies that will provide maximum payback to expand our knowledge of the L226 haplotree.

Welcome to the R-L226 "Private" Project by Robert Casey. Feel free to contact me directly or post queries on the R-L226 FTDNA forum. It is highly recommended that any YSNP researchers join R-L226 FTDNA project and regularly view the L226 project forum, an excellent source of information and communication for R-L226 queries. It is hoped that this web site can provide some organized information that can be used to get up to speed quickly on common issues for R-L226 YSNP research. This site will hopefully complement the existing Irish Type III web site that Dennis Wright maintains about L226.