John, I was fooled recently when I found a "new relative" at a GD of 7. I searched him out and found that he shared 3/8/67 of my off-modals, which cancelled out, but the main reason for the low GD was that he was so close to modal that he added only 2 other differences from modal. That, plus my 5 other off modals = 7. Incidentally, he is DF97+ and I am S7814+,F1265+. David On 2014-05-07, 3:01 PM, "john.loughney@gmail.com" <john.loughney@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >I wonder if anyone has dug into their yDNA matches on FTDNA lately. If I >look at my 12 step matches, there are a lot of people with updated >haplogroups. Are they updating everyone's haplogroups proactively, and any >sense if these updated haplogroups are accurate? > >I am seeing things like R-M269, R-DF23, R-P312, and a few blank >haplogroups. I am still at M222 and all of my 67 step matches are either >M222+ or blank. > >Oh, and one dumb question, what is the difference between Haplogroup and >Terminal SNP on FTDNA? (R M222 vs M222 for example?) > >John > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi David, OK, so FTDNA is just calculating on rough distance and not factoring in SNPs. That's interesting. John On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:17 PM, David Maclennan < david.maclennan@utoronto.ca> wrote: > John, > I was fooled recently when I found a "new relative" at a GD of 7. I > searched him out and found that he shared 3/8/67 of my off-modals, which > cancelled out, but the main reason for the low GD was that he was so close > to modal that he added only 2 other differences from modal. That, plus my > 5 other off modals = 7. Incidentally, he is DF97+ and I am S7814+,F1265+. > > David > > > > On 2014-05-07, 3:01 PM, "john.loughney@gmail.com" > <john.loughney@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I wonder if anyone has dug into their yDNA matches on FTDNA lately. If I > >look at my 12 step matches, there are a lot of people with updated > >haplogroups. Are they updating everyone's haplogroups proactively, and any > >sense if these updated haplogroups are accurate? > > > >I am seeing things like R-M269, R-DF23, R-P312, and a few blank > >haplogroups. I am still at M222 and all of my 67 step matches are either > >M222+ or blank. > > > >Oh, and one dumb question, what is the difference between Haplogroup and > >Terminal SNP on FTDNA? (R M222 vs M222 for example?) > > > >John > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >