Hi All I reported a few weeks ago an error with one of my cousin matches not matching Dad when it should have and asked if the update to family finder page might have caused a problem. I also mention that one of my matches was there, then gone and there again. FT DNA responded last week and said "After looking into it further, it appears that our entire Family Finder database is being rerun. This has affected some people's matching, raw data, etc." They updated earlier this week as my matches changed. Some more distant cousins moved closer and I gained some new closer cousins and lost a few from last week or they were made more distant cousins. I noticed that segment lengths change or total cMs changed for those moving closer or more distant. I am not sure the problem is fixed yet. Dad is still missing a cousin match and I have not heard back from Family Tree DNA yet who wished to know this. They maybe still working on the database and I expect, they will put a message on our home page once they have completed what they are doing. Karen On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:04 AM, 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 >