Project Trees

The two phylogenetic trees (links below) cover most of the participants in the Moody surname project with two exceptions. The two trees are the same except for the information describing each person included. They are intended to provide an overall picture of the relationship between the various Moody lines in the project. These diagrams were generated using Mathematica code developed by Bill Howard and Fred Schwab based on extensive research and work with several other yDNA surname projects.

The Mathematica code requires the same number of markers for each person so only those participants who tested at least 37 markers are included. As with any tree generation software, the process relies on statistical probabilities and, as a result, produces sophisticated estimates of time frames and relationships. But they are only estimates.

The trees show an estimate of the Time to the Most Recent Common Ancestor (TMRCA) as the baseline of the diagram. Each unit is 43.3 years, a figure which results from the statistical analysis performed during the evaluation of the genetic distance between each participant.

Not included are:

· Group 13 - these participants have not met the criteria to be placed in a group of related individuals (see https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/moody/about/background). Including these individuals creates significant display problems and doesn’t provide useful information as there is no indication of a relationship with another participant within a genealogical time frame.

· Group 10 – these two participants are Haplogroup E and the time to TMRCA between those participants and the others in the project is more than 6,000 years. This large number creates problems with displaying the tree on one page and is not useful visually.

Important Note: where there is no genetic distance between two or more participants you’ll see a straight line along the right edge aligned with those individuals. By appearance this suggests there is no time going back to the common ancestor of those individuals. However, that is not correct. There is still a time to the most recent common ancestor for any two individuals which can be found using FTDNA’s TiP estimator on your FTDNA yDNA Matches pages.

Link to Phylogenetic Tree showing project Group Number and Haplogroup

Link to Phylogenetic Tree showing FTDNA Kit Number and project Group Number