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On 11/29/2013 3:57 PM, Linda McKee wrote: Freeman Kit Number: 12305 Test: Big Y ****** My results will not be in for several months, assuming that there are no significant issues with the Illuminia 2G sequencing.** While I am interested in what this test may or may not reveal as to my tribal origins and deep ancestry, I am also interested to see how my results might compare with those of Steve Lominac. I expect to closely match Steve and be ancestral for some of the more recently discovered SNPs as is he at the moment. He and I are our only FTDNA Y-STR 111 matches with a GD of 104/111. Though there are others in our small cohort of closely related, but differently surnamed men including Freemans, Sudduths, Gills, Nutters, and Lominacs, so far we are the only two of the cohort, who have tested to 111 STR alleles. Most of the rest of the above group are 65-67/67. Our common nexus seems to be in Colonial Virginia in the small region between present day Culpepper VA and Warrenton VA in the late 1700s. For what it is worth, my family tradition is that our Freeman line is Irish. In order to get apples to apples comparison data with Steve, if there is no ready Rosetta Stone algorithm for comparisons by the time I have results in hand, I may have to go the Chromo2 route in the future. But for now I decided to take advantage of the Big Y sale in the meantime. I calculated that I would be about $100 better off by taking advantage of the sale in the event that I ended up taking both tests at full price. Walter Freeman **I suspect that there will be issues in getting the Big Y results back. It is a new test. Experience levels in running the machine and running the accompanying software necessary to decode the raw machine output are going to be on the low side. The test developer is no longer with the company. There are going to be a lot of orders owing to the sale. And I think there will be other issues as well as I have read reports of the false calls as the error rate is fairly high for this machine. And come to think of it my personal DNA sample at FTDNA was donated in 2003, which may be another snag I may have to face when my sample is finally scheduled to run. Ya pays yo' money 'n' takes yo' chances. So it goes.