Time period of FTDNA Family Finder

The time period of the FamilyTreeDNA myOrigins results can go back as far
10,000 years per a post at
http://dna-explained.com/2014/05/11/family-tree-dna-releases-myorigins/

National Geographic states that it can go back further. They use similar
equipment and the markers are compared with living people so it isn't a
case over one piece of equipment or technology over another. It has to do
with interpretation of the data

Iberians have 37% Northern European and 48% Mediterranean and 13% Southwest
Asian per National Geographic and they have the following to say about
Iberians: "This reference population is based on samples collected from
people native to Spain and Portugal. The 48% Mediterranean and 13%
Southwest Asian percentages reflect the strong influence of
agriculturalists from the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, who arrived
here more than 8,000 years ago. The 37% Northern European component likely
comes from the pre-agricultural population of Europe—the earliest settlers,
who arrived more than 35,000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic period.
Today, this component predominates in northern European populations, while
the Mediterranean component is more common in southern Europe."
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations/

Here is an assessment of DNA obtained from ancient remains of people that
had lived in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. The Mesolithic are more
Northern European like and the Neolithic are more Mediterranean like. This
agrees with a portion of what FTDNA and National Geographic says about the
change between the Mesolithic and the Neolithic.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/10/assessment-of-ancient-european-dna-with.html

This PCA plot that includes the ancient remains along with modern people is
really interesting also.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fc2W-6tR-HA/Urigqts3hwI/AAAAAAAAJbg/hqZiV1TOGgc/s1600/europe.png

It's from
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/12/europeans-neolithic-farmers-mesolithic.html

The time period for autosomal matches is about 5 generations but there have
been cases where people have found matches that were related from previous
generations.

Armando

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:00 PM, EarthLink wrote:

> Hi Armando,
> I did my autosomal DNA and mtdna with Family tree. What time period does
> it reflect? Is it recent or over 1000 years old? Thanks. Maven200
>