FTDNA Y-tree branch

Haplogroup R-Z29685

R-Z29685 is a branch of the FamilyTreeDNA Y tree with 50 kits that gave a country, counting all sub-branches. It is most common in these samples: Spain (0.6% of kits), Mexico (0.3% of kits), France (0.2% of kits). The branch's common ancestor lived about 2,100 years ago: the FTDNA Discover estimate runs from 1,700 to 2,500 years ago. YFull has 22 samples in this branch and dates its common ancestor to 2,000 years ago.

Belongs to the R-DF27 branch, which has a note.

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Branch SNPs: 1 · 22 more at YFull

Z29685

YFull nodes on this branch and their SNPs that FTDNA does not have:

R-CTS7359 · R-CTS10504 · 1 sample
Y486676, Y516140(H)
R-Y283607 · R-FT14175 · 1 sample
Y284672, FT12512, Y284900, Y283855, Y284914, Y284793, Y283607, Y284996, Y285189, Y284682, Y285202, Y285196
R-A13063 · R-A13063 · 3 samples
R-FT335787 · R-FT335787 · 3 samples
R-Y32051 · R-CTS5103 · 3 samples
R-FGC35768 · R-FGC35768 · 2 samples
R-FGC35770 · R-FGC35770 · 2 samples
R-Y144349 · R-Y144349 · 2 samples
R-Y31312 · R-CTS6315 · 2 samples
R-Y126728 · R-PH4766 · 1 sample
R-Y144350 · R-Y144350 · 1 sample
R-Y9072 · R-FT35223 · 1 sample
and 7 more

kits with a country

sub-branches included; 146 kits in the branch in all, 96 without a country

on the branch itself

with a country, the test did not resolve a sub-branch; 0 on the branch itself in all, those without a country included

34%

Big Y

50 of 146: every kit of the branch with sub-branches, those without a country included

sub-branches

0 with their own page, 3 without

158

samples at FTDNA Discover

62 with a country; the public tree has 146 kits

2,100 years

age by Discover

the common ancestor lived 1,700 to 2,500 years ago

2,000 years

age by YFull

common ancestor (TMRCA); the branch split from its parent 2,000 years ago

Where it is found #

Countries and regions given by the branch's carriers. “Share of branch” is the part of the branch's kits that belongs to the country. “Share of country” is the part of that country's kits that falls into the branch; it is computed only for countries with at least 50 kits.

Colour is the branch's share of the country's kits. Hover over a country or tap it.

Where it is found
Country / region	kits	Share of branch	Share of country
Spain	23	46.0%	0.6%
France	10	20.0%	0.2%
Mexico	6	12.0%	0.3%
United States	3	6.0%	3 of 30,866
Brazil	1	2.0%	1 of 734
Canada	1	2.0%	1 of 1,659
Colombia	1	2.0%	1 of 304
Netherlands	1	2.0%	1 of 2,309
Paraguay	1	2.0%	·
Spain (Castile and León)Spain	1	2.0%	·
Spain (Murcia)Spain	1	2.0%	·
Venezuela	1	2.0%	1 of 68

Sub-branches #

Sub-branches that have their own page (50 kits or more), as a tree: every direct one, nested ones from 1% of the branch's kits. The bar is the kits in the sub-branch with its own sub-branches; the age is when its common ancestor lived.

No sub-branch has its own page: only small branches lie below.

Also 1 small sub-branch of under 5 kits: 4 kits in all.

Sub-branches without a page #

Each of these sub-branches has fewer than 50 kits with a country, so none has its own page. Below are all with 5 or more kits, with their age and top countries.

R-CTS10504 31 kits 1,900 years Spain 17, Mexico 5, France 3
R-FT110634 8 kits 1,900 years Spain 3, France 2, Mexico 2
R-BY42733 5 kits 1,400 years Spain 3, Mexico 1, United States 1
R-CTS5103 5 kits 1,200 years Spain 3, Mexico 1, Paraguay 1
R-FT35223 15 kits 1,500 years France 7, Spain 2, Canada 1
R-BY3189 12 kits 1,400 years France 4, Spain 2, Canada 1
R-CTS9053 11 kits 1,400 years France 4, Spain 2, Mexico 1
R-Y144350 5 kits 1,300 years France 2, Mexico 1, Spain 1

How old the branch is, by source #

Each source's estimate on one scale, in years ago. A dot is the estimate, a bar its spread (a 95% interval for YFull); no bar means the source publishes no spread. The “common ancestor” rows show when the last common ancestor of all carriers lived, the “split” rows when the branch broke off from its parent. Discover does not estimate the split, so its row shows the age of the parent branch itself.

FTDNA Discover common ancestor2,100 years (1,700–2,500)

YFull common ancestor2,000 years (1,600–2,500) · 22 samples

FTDNA Discover split from the parent2,300 years (1,900–2,700)

YFull split from the parent2,000 years (1,600–2,500) · 22 samples

How the branch grew #

How many sub-branches already existed at each moment: a sub-branch counts from the time its common ancestor lived (FamilyTreeDNA Discover estimates). Sub-branches with a known age: 38.

explosive growth: the number of sub-branches doubles in under 400 yearsgrowth: the number doubles in 400–1,500 yearsstagnation: no doubling within 1,500 yearsgrey: fewer than 5 sub-branches at the start of a stretch — too little to tell the rate

Across: years ago; up: number of sub-branches, log scale. The shaded band marks the period when the count multiplied most; the last thousand years are left out.

The branch grew fastest 1,300–1,000 years ago: its sub-branches went from 13 to 20.

Sub-branches of the last centuries show up only where many relatives have tested, so the right end of the curve says more about who took a test than about population growth.

New this month #

FTDNA: how much the kit count grew between the tree copies of 2026-10-02 and 2026-11-02. A kit that moved to a new sub-branch after refinement is not counted as new. YFull: samples YFull itself marks as new, in the copy of 2026-11-02; YFull drops the mark after a few weeks.

Y-DNA, FTDNA

new kits, 2026-10-02 → 2026-11-02

Where it grew

without a country: 1

United States: +1

Surnames #

Surnames that testers entered at FTDNA, over the whole branch with its sub-branches: 1 distinct among 4 kits. FTDNA gives surnames per branch only, with no country attached, so they cannot be split by country.

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