[RASEY-DNA] New Member #110919, with results, desc/o Joseph RAZEE I

[Diana Gale Matthiesen]

Hello List,

First, I would like to apologize for my recent absence in managing the list.
Illness and a death in the family put genealogy on the back burner for several
months, but now I'm back home in Florida and, finally, getting caught up.  So, I
hope our newest member will forgive me for not annoucing him at the time he
joined or when his results first came in -- of course, he has known the results
of his testing, even if the rest of you haven't.

Our new member is #110919, a descendant of Joseph RAZEE I.  He is a 35/37 match
(genetic distance of 3) with #70816, the previously tested descendant of Joseph
RAZEE I.  Their three differences are all on fast-mutating markers, so this
level of matching is consistent with the two of them having a near common
ancestor:

http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Rasey/RaseyDNA-results.shtml#I2b1

Now that we have two descendants of Joseph RAZEE I tested, ones who descend from
Joseph through different sons, we can rest assured that neither individual has
an NPE (a "non-paternal event," e.g., a hidden adoption or illicit paternity) in
his patrilineal line.  (We still don't have a second descendant of Joseph RASEY
I tested, so there is still an outside chance that the one we do have tested
could have an NPE.)

You will undoubtedly notice the change in haplogroup designation, from I1b2a
(old I1c) to I2b1.  On 5 May 2008, the International Society of Genetic
Genealogy (ISOGG) and FamilyTreeDNA released a long-awaited revision of the
Y-DNA haplotree.  This revision was necessitated by the many new SNP mutations
discovered since FTDNA last published their Y-Hap tree in 2005.  I'm afraid we
will all just have to get used to the new designations, and I'm also afraid
we'll have to do it again when the haplotree is revised again -- such is the
nature of a new science that keeps evolving (pun intended).

I recommend that our new member upload his results to Ysearch.  This can be done
from the "Y-DNA Matches" tab on your member page.

Thank you for joining, and thank you for your patience.

Diana