Because FTDNA is **CLUELESS**!!!! I have reported this three times now, last week in the most obnoxious terms. If nothing comes back by next Friday I will send an email to Bennett Greenspan's PERSONAL email (which I should have stored up). You CANNOT understand a BigY using just their data page. ITS IMPOSSIBLE. **Files done at different times use different criteria!** You need at least the BED and VCF files. Easiest is to send to YFull, but this costs money. I analyze by computer programs of my own divising. I can share these, but people trying use them seem not to .. they are indeed a bit arcane. BUT ... they work. The results are typified by the charts at Clan Donald, https://clandonaldusa.org/index.php/dna-layout/13-dna-project/85-dna-bigy The charts themselves are generated by Alex Williamson's code, but the data file is generated (mostly) by mine. The R1a one has a few critical markers (CLFY1, CLD50, CLD56, CLD57, L175) inserted by hand. It would be interesting to hear here how other projects do it. Doug McDonald -----Original Message----- From: GENEALOGY-DNA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wesley Johnston Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:01 PM To: DNA Genealogy Mailing List Subject: [DNA] BigY Analysis Apparent Contradiction (thus probably my misunderstanding?) I am trying to figure out some way to evaluate matches of our family's BigY testers. The matching kits tab in FTDNA ranks the matches by Known SNP Difference (low to high). There is also a column for Shared Novel Variants (sorted high to low within each Known SNP Difference). So I have one kit where I go to the Novel Variants tab, and I see that there are 11 novel variants. Then I go back to the Matching tab, and I see that there are kits listed under the Shared Novel Variants column that have 146, 139, 142 shared novel variants. If my family member has only 11 novel variants under the Novel Variants tab, how can he share 146 novel variants with someone on the Matching tab? ------------------------------- 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
Bennett has replied, they are working on it. This is NOT an easy problem. It likely will require a complete recalculate for the entire database. That's just my opinion. Doug McDonald -----Original Message----- From: GENEALOGY-DNA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McDonald, J Douglas Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 9:56 AM To: Wesley Johnston; [email protected] Subject: Re: [DNA] BigY Analysis Apparent Contradiction (thus probably my misunderstanding?) Because FTDNA is **CLUELESS**!!!! I have reported this three times now, last week in the most obnoxious terms. If nothing comes back by next Friday I will send an email to Bennett Greenspan's PERSONAL email (which I should have stored up). You CANNOT understand a BigY using just their data page. ITS IMPOSSIBLE. **Files done at different times use different criteria!** You need at least the BED and VCF files. Easiest is to send to YFull, but this costs money. I analyze by computer programs of my own divising. I can share these, but people trying use them seem not to .. they are indeed a bit arcane. BUT ... they work. The results are typified by the charts at Clan Donald, https://clandonaldusa.org/index.php/dna-layout/13-dna-project/85-dna-bigy The charts themselves are generated by Alex Williamson's code, but the data file is generated (mostly) by mine. The R1a one has a few critical markers (CLFY1, CLD50, CLD56, CLD57, L175) inserted by hand. It would be interesting to hear here how other projects do it. Doug McDonald -----Original Message----- From: GENEALOGY-DNA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wesley Johnston Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:01 PM To: DNA Genealogy Mailing List Subject: [DNA] BigY Analysis Apparent Contradiction (thus probably my misunderstanding?) I am trying to figure out some way to evaluate matches of our family's BigY testers. The matching kits tab in FTDNA ranks the matches by Known SNP Difference (low to high). There is also a column for Shared Novel Variants (sorted high to low within each Known SNP Difference). So I have one kit where I go to the Novel Variants tab, and I see that there are 11 novel variants. Then I go back to the Matching tab, and I see that there are kits listed under the Shared Novel Variants column that have 146, 139, 142 shared novel variants. If my family member has only 11 novel variants under the Novel Variants tab, how can he share 146 novel variants with someone on the Matching tab? ------------------------------- 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