Linda, Thanks for the url. I read through all the posts. It looks like it's a just-sit-and-wait situation. I am not doing anything with my spreadsheet until it all settles down and maybe in a week we will know whether the new matches and values are reliable. I just now reran my account through dnagedcom.com and compared it to the last version. Other than all of the new matches with old dates or the loss of several matches, the differences are primarily 1. in a change in either a segment start point or an endpoint resulting in a small gain or loss in cM, or 2. the addition or subtraction of a small segment. So the biggest concern for me is whether the new matches with old dates, and the loss of old matches, are real, and when this happens how do we discover it. Fred -----Original Message----- >From: Linda Boorom <lboorom@fuse.net> >Sent: Nov 1, 2013 2:02 PM >To: Fred Westcott <fredwes1@mindspring.com>, autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] Family Finder: new matches with older dates > >Fred & all, > >I noticed a discussion this am at FTDNA's forum's in the Family Finder section with a topic >"Meaningless October 2013 Match Dates". Made me look at my own data & I responded to the forum this >am