The haplogroup  of  male descendants of John J Yates is haplogroup Q (m242).  Taken from the Y-chromosome. Only males have this chromosome.

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 Family Tree DNA  FTDNA can link people whose Y-Chromosomes match.

The results below were obtained from Genome Project at the National Geographic  

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