Hi Tanya, I visited your Ridgeon DNA Project at the FTDNA web site and found that you are currently a Surname DNA Project of one. Thus your Y-chromosome STR marker results are being compared to the entire FTDNA database of all surnames. It is not uncommon to find multiple matches among many surnames at the 12 marker level ... which becomes rather meaningless in genealogical research. If you ordered 37 STR markers and received results for 37 markers then the quality of your DNA results has no apparent reason to be questioned. The haplogroup (SNP) assignment is estimated by FTDNA based on the values recorded for the STR marker values you received. It would appear that you have only taken step number 1 in the sometimes long genetic-genealogy journey. You need to make an appeal to those males of the Ridgeon surname to be tested for at least the Y-67 marker test. When you find a match at 67 markers with another male of the Ridgeon surname, then you have a potential genetic cousin to hopefully exchange genealogical data in search of the most recent common ancestor (MRCA). Good luck in your research. Ron Lindsay GOONS #5345 ========================================================== -----Original Message----- From: GOONS [mailto:goons-bounces+ronlindsay=comcast.net@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tanya Kimber Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 10:54 AM To: GOONS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [G] Y-DNA Results question Hi all I've just got the Y-DNA results back from FTDNA for my first Ridgeon participant. I know that I now need to do a lot of reading and research myself but wanted to put a question 'out there' for comment as I am a bit concerned! My participant has been allocated a Haplogroup and has a lot of matches at the 12 marker level, but only 1 at the 25 marker level and none at all at the 37 marker level, which I understand is quite rare. My concern is what this means! I am worried that perhaps this means that the sample wasn't very good and it has been possible to extract only limited information from it. I would be really grateful for any views/knowledge/ideas/comments on this outcome as I guess this may affect where I go next with my study. Many thanks. Tanya (6296) ridgeon@one-name.org _____________________________________________ Information and admin page: http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message