As a retired systems analyst who specialized in designing, building and analyzing the results of test systems for computer software, I think I have found a defect in the FTDNA Triangulator. Since I have 2895 Family Finder matches, I chose not to use the chromosome browser for triangulation, instead, I chose to use the IN COMMON WITH tool and run the Triangulation tool on the entire ICW group. This works without any problems, if your ICW group has 30 members or less. This is the number of matches displayed on the FTDNA page. If, however, your ICW group has more than 30 sets of test results, the Triangulation tool stops working, it hangs up, you cannot close the tool, the only way to gain control of your screen is to back out of the page completely. You can then go back into Family Finder, but you have no results for the triangulation run. The Triangulation tool knows how many records have been selected, but under "Matches to triangulate" the most it lists is 31. It stops with the 30th record, even though you have 80 records in the ICW group. There is no way to triangulate part of an ICW group, so that you can copy the parts to Excel and sort them. This is not a lack of understanding on how to use the tool, the tool just stops running when you get to the31st record. I do not use Facebook, so I do not know where to report the problem. Marleen Van Horne

Please excuse my ignorance, Marleen. How are you manipulating more than five at once? To use this new tool, I first run ICW, then select five at a time to run the Triangulator. What am I missing? Thank you. Doris On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Marleen Van Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > As a retired systems analyst who specialized in designing, building and > analyzing the results of test systems for computer software, I think I have > found a defect in the FTDNA Triangulator. > > Since I have 2895 Family Finder matches, I chose not to use the chromosome > browser for triangulation, instead, I chose to use the IN COMMON WITH tool > and run the Triangulation tool on the entire ICW group. This works without > any problems, if your ICW group has 30 members or less. This is the number > of matches displayed on the FTDNA page. > > If, however, your ICW group has more than 30 sets of test results, the > Triangulation tool stops working, it hangs up, you cannot close the tool, > the only way to gain control of your screen is to back out of the page > completely. You can then go back into Family Finder, but you have no > results for the triangulation run. > > The Triangulation tool knows how many records have been selected, but > under "Matches to triangulate" the most it lists is 31. It stops with the > 30th record, even though you have 80 records in the ICW group. There is no > way to triangulate part of an ICW group, so that you can copy the parts to > Excel and sort them. > > This is not a lack of understanding on how to use the tool, the tool just > stops running when you get to the31st record. I do not use Facebook, so I > do not know where to report the problem. > > Marleen Van Horne > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Doris, I selected a person, selected ICW, then clicked the Triangulator button and ran the Triangulator. I did not make any selections for the chromosome browser. Marleen Van Horne