The short answer to your subject is No. Jim - www.segmentology.org > On Dec 13, 2015, at 12:40 AM, Andreas West via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > was just stumbling across a post on WikiTree forum on DNAGedcom being able to > triangulate data from GEDmatch and FTDNA. Leaving GEDmatch out for this thread > (I think the OP refers to the paid tier 1 option which gives access to the top > 200 triangulated matches and downloading that screen result - please correct > me if there is another way) I want to question that remark about FTDNA. > > My assumption is that ICW (which isn't triangulation, can't repeat that often > enough as there are still people out there who don't understand the difference > or that there is one to start with) means that it includes all those 1cM > matches (and larger) that FTDNA reports as a minimum criteria. > > Can someone confirm this? > > That makes the ICW tool even more worrisome if it's true as it's not even > clear if a triangulated segment of only 1cM (or 2cM for that matter) is indeed > an ancestral segment, triangulation or not (I refer to various discussions we > had here and on other email lists about this - no need to start that > discussion again until we have more proof). > > Andreas (WEST) born BASSO >