Exact reason I am asking what he says in the e-mail to his matches. I want to say what he says. :) On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Sam Sloan <[email protected]> wrote: > You are doing a lot better than I am. > I would say that less than 5% of the people I ask to join gedmatch actually > do it. > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:08 AM, LeeAnn Stebbins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Jim, since you have had such good luck with your matches uploading to > > Gedmatch, would you mind sharing the verbiage of your standard message to > > them? And when you say 700 hints- do you mean shared ancestor hints? > > > > LeeAnn > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Jim Bartlett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > AncestryDNA will post Hints up to 8th cousins. I now have over 700 > Hints, > > > and I send a standard message to all urging an upload to GEDmatch, with > > my > > > promise to report back to them my analysis of what I can decipher from > > the > > > segment info. Hundreds have uploaded! And I am finding that 3C to 8C > > Hints > > > are lining up on some segments - not all, but some - and it's growing > > every > > > day. I add info in the Notes field in each case, starting with the > > > Ahnentafel number of the Common Ancestor (a great sort of the > download). > > > Including non-Hint Matches, there are over 1,000 - many with segment > > data. > > > All show up as little page icons in Shared Matches, which often gives a > > > very quick indication of where to look in the Trees of non-Hint > Matches. > > > > > > Acknowledged that a high percentage of AncestryDNA Matches have no, or > > > very small, or Private Trees. Even so, I can encourage some of those > > > Matches when our SMs clearly point to a CA. > > > > > > And there are, of course, many more Matches, with segment data, from > > FTDNA > > > and 23andMe (and hopefully soon from MyHeritage) that are all in play > > > through Triangulated Groups. > > > > > > I think we can "walk the Ancestors back" with some confidence to most > of > > > the 1700s. > > > > > > Jim Bartlett - atDNA blog: www.segmentology.org > > > > > > > On Sep 1, 2017, at 2:02 AM, Tim Janzen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I agree with Jim on this. I think that we are going to have a tough > > time > > > > linking phased autosomal segments to ancestors born prior to 1500. > If > > we > > > > were test every living person, get all their genealogies, and as well > > as > > > > successfully test ancestors who have been buried in marked graves > then > > we > > > > would have a shot at linking some phased autosomal segments to > > ancestors > > > > born prior to 1500. However, I don't think that this is very > > realistic. > > > > The relatively easy ground to cover is shared ancestors in the 1800s. > > > > Confirming shared ancestors in the 1700s and 1600s is going to be > > really > > > > tough due to a lack of genealogical records in many areas. > Confirming > > > > relationships in the 1750 to 1800 time period is the next frontier > for > > > > autosomal genetic genealogy from my standpoint. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Tim Janzen > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: GENEALOGY-DNA [mailto:[email protected]] On > > > Behalf Of > > > > Jim Bartlett > > > > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:13 AM > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: [DNA] Every person project > > > > > > > > I'd say no, IMO! Because of all the endogamy involved. Without some > > > > genealogical records, we could never sort it out. > > > > > > > > Jim Bartlett - atDNA blog: www.segmentology.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >