New BigY Discovery in the Huffman male line from PA, Feb 2026:
R-FTC28300: https://discover.familytreedna.com/groups/hoffman/tree?subgroups=262839 YP335>YP338>FT192676>R-FTC28300

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https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-FTC28300/story
R-M207>M173>M420>M459>M198>M417>PF6162>Z283>Z282>Z280>CTS1211>Y35>CTS3402>YP237>YP235>YP234>YP295>YP335>YP338>FT192676>R-FTC28300

282561 Huffman Lewis Huffman b 1755 Northampton Co PA d abt 1835 Germany R-FTC28300
49640 Huffman Ludwig Hoffman b 1755 PA d 1833 Allegheny Co PA Germany R-FTC28300

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https://pbase.com/image/161113860
Related families: Caster/Custard, Large, Hindman, Conklin, Robinson
In 1776 Yohogania Co VA, then 1780 Westmoreland Co and Washington Co PA, then in 1788 Mifflin Township, Allegheny County, which was formed out of Peters Township in the area of Peters Creek.
BigY Hap R1a YP335>YP338>FT192676>R-FTC28300 (Feb 2026 BigY Update)
Ludwick Hoffman AKA Lewis Huffman, Bucks Co PA (Rev War Pension)
Lewis Huffman b 1755 Northampton Co PA d abt 1835 Allegheny Co Mifflin Twp PA m Catherine
William Huffman b c 1802 d c 1855 Allegheny Co Jefferson Twp PA m Sarah Robinson
James C. Huffman b c 1834 d c 1880 Allegheny Co PA m Hanna Wallace
George A. Huffman b c 1862 Allegheny Co PA d 5 Jul 1935 m Ida Large
John Allen Huffman b 31 Dec 1884 Allegheny Co PA d 13 Apr 1978 Crawford Co PA m Lottie A. Conklin 1917 Washington Co PA
Wesley Earl Huffman b. 04 Aug 1922 Ashtabula Co OH d 13 Aug 2002 Meadville Crawford Co PA m Carol Rowena Knierman 1946
. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~flbaghs/Tracersv-2010-09-v14_n3.pdf
. https://roger-cramer-genealogy.org/hoffman1.html
. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~boyett/genealogy/Huffman/ludwig_hoffman_rev2.pdf