I wonder if the new matches with older dates might be results tested earlier, but transferred recently, from 23andme and/or ancestry.com. Mary On Nov 1, 2013, at 10:04, Fred Westcott <fredwes1@mindspring.com> wrote: > New run at FTDNA ? > For those that regularly update their autosomal spreadsheets you might want to run the current version of Family Finder again either your spreadsheet or an older version of Family Finder. I did so with a 10/20/2013 version and found 22 new matches with dates in months before October 2013, but also some dated 2010, 2011, 2012. Few of these were above 10cM. > > What was odd was that many dates were changed by 1 to 5 days. Why would they do that ? Very strange. > > I noted many "longest segment" values are changed but few go beyond 2cM. One went from 12cM to 17.5cM but was the exception. > Even more "total segment" values were changed but not by much except for close or immediate relatives. > > I found I lost two matches, both were slightly above 10cM. > > FTDNA needs to include a " Newly included in your database" feature, at least for new matches with older dates. I would be nice if they alert us of changes in cM values above a threshold, or a change in a relationship range, or even alert us of a new run that may change any of the above. > > I've sent a query to Helpdesk. > > Fred > > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message