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

Tanya Perhaps some sort of filter is being applied? If you look at the y-DNA match page, there is a section showing filters above the match section. Is it a rare Haplogroup? John Carey (GOONS 6565) -----Original Message----- From: GOONS [mailto:goons-bounces+johnca=quickclic.net@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tanya Kimber Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 01:54 PM 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

I would think it means no relatives have been tested for 25 or 37 markers. It basically means you are related to a lot of cheapskates! :) As more relatives get better testing, you'll get more matches. I tell people all the time, just getting a 12-marker test may be cheap, but basically useless as a 12-marker match is not very related at all. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 19, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Tanya Kimber <ridgeon_ons@outlook.com> wrote: > > 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