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About this group

Group 35 consists of descendants of Richard Taylor (d. 1679), who settled in the Northern Neck of Virginia (in the area which became Richmond County) before 1662. The current group's most recent common ancestor (MRCA) is Richard's son Simon Taylor (d. 1729), since the group includes descendants of two of Simon's sons.

A detailed article on Richard's origins and immediate family is currently in press: Nathaniel L. Taylor, "The False and Possibly True English Origins of Richard Taylor of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia," _The American Genealogist_ (forthcoming).

Descendants of this family are found, by the late 19th century, in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and points further west.

The following pedigree chart shows the descent of group members, as of December 2009, from Richard Taylor (ca1640 -1679):

The progress and results of the group's DNA testing have been blogged at http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/category/us-genealogy/taylor-dna. {Opens in a new window.}

Additional resources, including an e-book by Nathaniel L. Taylor, "An American Taylor Family: Descendants of Richard Taylor (d. 1679) of North Farnham Parish in the Northern Neck of Virginia for Seven Generations" (193 pp.), are online at http://www.nltaylor.net/taylor. {Opens in a new window.}

The members of this line are in haplogroup R1b1b2, the most common in the Taylor surname project and indicating a probable origin in the British Isles.

Y-DNA Values

See http://www.familytreedna.com/public/taylorfamilygenes/default.aspx?section=yresults.

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TiP Scores

TiP Scores Explained

TiP (for "Time Predictor") is a utility provided by Family Tree DNA. It is accessible to all FTDNA customers with Y-DNA results who have matches listed within the FTDNA reporting windows. It is also available to project administrators for calculating the probabilities that any two project members share a direct paternal ancestor within up to 24 generations.

TiP is superior to most TMRCA calculators. Rather than assume an average mutation rate for all markers compared, TiP uses individual marker mutation frequencies. Because marker mutation rates vary significantly between markers, the TiP scores 

As we use it here, TiP is a truer and simpler measure of genetic distances between individuals than other metrics such as the number of markers in disagreement or a sum of the differences (sometimes called "genetic distance"). TiP boils the complexities down to one number.

The composite TiP score is an index of how closely a member matches the entire group. Generally, the member with the highest score is the central member.

Note:

Unless stated otherwise, TiP probabilities are from TiP version 1 (v1) in effect from August 1, 2012 to December 11, 2012. Another version was in effect from December 12, 2012 to January 17, 2013 and was replaced with version 3 (v3) on January 18, 2013. We are in the process of updating to v3. In the meantime, we've made some observations about how v1 and v3 compare:

• For close matches, v3 = v1;
• For more distant matches v3 <= v1.

Genetic distance from other groups

The most closely-related other groups in Taylor Family Genes are

• R1b-05, with a 22% chance of sharing a common paternal ancestor within 24 generations; and
• R1b-45, with a 20% chance; and
• R1b-34, with a 5% chance;

It is the 44h most closely related to R1b-04 with a 0.1% chance of sharing a common paternal ancestor within 24 generations.

Revised:  28 Nov 2012