Right now I am(and likely will be for days if not weeks) trying to understand about 3000 Rows of Raw Data from five sources that fit your category. At this time, I tend to agree with Jim Bartlett, "That's why I keep asking about some atDNA that tends to stay in segments - because I'm coming to believe (in my impatient way) that some DNA may get chopped up more, finer, smaller (pick your term), until, for some lines it doesn't pass the FTDNA atDNA filter. As some have pointed out, the DNA of some ancestors just doesn't make it all the way to me (although I think it should at just 8 generations). In the case of the cousins from my surname, they report matching each other, and wonder where I am:>(" Note, I'm really shooting my mouth off before I really want to.
Thanks, Sam - I think we are getting close to finding enough data to really learn what really happens. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Sam Eaton <[email protected]> wrote: > Right now I am(and likely will be for days if not weeks) trying to understand about 3000 Rows of Raw Data from five sources that fit your category. At this time, I tend to agree with Jim Bartlett, > > > "That's why I keep asking about some atDNA that tends to stay in segments - because I'm coming to believe (in my impatient way) that some DNA may get chopped up more, finer, smaller (pick your term), until, for some lines it doesn't pass the FTDNA atDNA filter. As some have pointed out, the DNA of some ancestors just doesn't make it all the way to me (although I think it should at just 8 generations). In the case of the cousins from my surname, they report matching each other, and wonder where I am:>(" > > Note, I'm really shooting my mouth off before I really want to. > > > > ______________________________ > 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message