I'm pleased to see this progress. As I told you on Jan. 7 (email conversation with Don), I have a GedMatch ID number, M195517. [That exchange had this subject line: My "join" request.] I mentioned the fact that Debra Griggs and I did not find a "match" by the standard method at FTDNA or 23andMe, both of which look for segments of DNA longer than 7 cM (centimorgens), in order to avoid false positives based on some very short matching segment that is coincidental, or "identical by state." This was disappointing, since we both have a paper trail to David Kincaid and Winifred Hobson; but not surprising, since our last common ancestor (if I correctly recall her line) was born in 1736. However -- only yesterday I heard again from Debra, who took the extra step of a GedMatch "one on one comparison," as described in your email this morning. Using that tool, one is able to select a finer level of matching; and she set it at 2 cM for comparison with me. That way, she found that we have matches on four different chromosomes, although no matching segment is longer than 3 cM. In the absence of other points of contact in our respective paper trails, one is inclined to believe that these autosomal results confirm the line of her brother who is in the Kincaid project, FTDNA #1255. Although he has a 65/67 match in Y-DNA with another project member, his paper trail to David/Winifred is not "vetted" at one of the steps in the wilds of Kentucky a couple of hundred years ago. My own line is irrelevant to the Kincaid Y-DNA discussion; it goes through several women -- but it was my side of the larger family (Samuel McMurry and Sallie Kincaid's descendants in the Nashville area) who preserved an 18th century family Bible with entries after David and Winifred's son John (who m. Elizabeth Logan). I've made several recent attempts to straighten out a couple of misreadings of those Bible entries, that have been in circulation (and in print) for about a hundred years. It's not my place to publicize Debra's GedMatch number, but I just mention that she has one. Dick Hulan FTDNA #195834 On May 13, 2014, at 3:00 AM, kincaid-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. GEDmatch for autosomal dna testers (Don W Kincaid) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 18:22:07 -0700 > From: "Don W Kincaid" <donwkincaid@cox.net> > Subject: [KINCAID] GEDmatch for autosomal dna testers > To: <kincaid@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <927887C1BCA849AF87A31E9CAA73AA76@DonHP> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > We recently learned about GEDmatch for autosomal dna tests like Family Finder, Ancestry and 23andMe. Gedmatch works like Y Search for y dna as it lets a participant check their matches with participants who did tests with other labs and have uploaded their results to GEDmatch. I have uploaded my results to GEDmatch but it will take a while before the volunteers who operate GEDmatch to get my results entered into their database so I can check to see results of matches with all those already uploaded. In the meantime I am able to do one on one comparisons with others who have uploaded their results to GEDmatch if I know their GEDmatch ID. I have checked the only one I had an ID for and it confirmed what we knew from the Y dna results plus research. If any of you who did the Family Finder, Ancestry or 23andMe autosomal dna test want to check your results with mine, you can upload your results and then can compare with my Family Finder ID F1427 or Ancestry ID A792000. You can ! al! > so email others you know have tested with other companies and request their ID. We would like to hear from you if you have already been using GEDmatch. > > Don > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the KINCAID list administrator, send an email to > KINCAID-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the KINCAID mailing list, send an email to KINCAID@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KINCAID-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of KINCAID Digest, Vol 9, Issue 92 > **************************************