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This project is a meeting place for users who share the J-L859 Y-DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their paternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives.
Paternal Y-Chromosome Haplogroup J-L859's paternal line was formed when it branched off from the ancestor J-FGC8712 and the rest of mankind around 1200 BCE.
The man who is the most recent common ancestor of this line is estimated to have been born around 500 CE.
J-L859 is the genetic signature of the Hashemites, a clan to which the Prophet Mohammed belonged. The current King of Jordan Abdullah II is a Hashemite descendant and one of the better-known living descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.