Awaiting results

 

Source: FTDNA.

While I'm waiting on my Big Y-DNA and mT Full results with FTDNA, I thought I'd share some of the things I'm hoping to see and learn more about from this latest set of DNA tests. First, I don't know what I don't know, and I might be surprised to see if the Y-DNA result helps uncover where my Jones ancestors were originally from before arriving in the area that became Jefferson County, Tennessee sometime in the late 1790s.

It is also tough to ask someone else to take the same test if I don't know myself what the results look like and what finds are possible using Y-DNA data. Ultimately I'm hoping some male descendants on brick wall lines that I am currently researching will be able to assist with Y-DNA tests. I should know what my information looks like first before asking someone else to take a similar test.

On the mtDNA side, I'm curious to see what the new Million Mito Tree is going to show once it is launched in 2025. Again, I don't know what I don't know, and advances in mtDNA analysis may provide some breakthroughs on my maternal side of the tree. I am also hopeful that related branches also taking the mtDNA test may help create a path to new discoveries in these indigenous branches of the Mexican side of the tree.