Thanks to a number of persons on other "lists", (namely Diana, Leon, Greg), I now direct my query to this list. Although I sent this same request for aid to the Yahoo 'Newbies' list (no response) and the genealogy DNA list (no response), I am trying again, but on this list... I have administration of 3 paternal cousins and 2 siblings and have tested them with 23andMe and FTDNA for atDNA. I am needing help with understanding the diverse results reported by FTDNA "Population Finder" (within 'Family Finder') and 23andMe "Ancestry Painting". If help not available from this list, could I please be advised as to whom to ask, (or from which list to seek an answer) please? I provide a matrix of the results of all 6 of us at http://bit.ly/Gail_atdna and request help in understanding the reported differences, please. By the way, I understand that the transferred results are highly likely to read slightly differently to the pure FTDNA results and I also understand that the % may well be a little different (including margin of error) due to differing autosomal recombinations. But I do not understand me (Gail) having a concise African heritage as opposed to my 2 siblings "D" and "N" having a more general and extended middle East heritage. Nor do I understand tester #6 "J" having such a strong difference to the remainder of his 5 * 1st cousins - they/we/I are/am all his maternal 1st cousins. And by the way, yes, we are definitely all genetically 1st cousins or siblings - I checked :-) Kind regards Gail Riddell