Thanks so much Jim!  When the NN Project is available, I will be sure to add both myself and my sister to the list.  My sister actually has some matches who show Dameron family ancestry in their family trees whereas my matches do not (at least they don't show obvious Dameron ancestry).  This is yet another intriguing aspect of DNA autosomal testing.  Of my 260 or so matches through the FTDNA Family Finder (autosomal) testing, I only share about 50% of that number with my sister!  I have heard elsewhere that 50% is a good baseline with most siblings!  You would think this percentage of shared matches between siblings would be significantly higher.   Amazing!  As such, my sister's testing has opened up other avenues for me to possibly break down the proverbial brick walls!   Thanks again!   David Brown From: Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> To: "va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com" <va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Autosomal DNA Project for Northern Neck Families The official application form has been submitted to Family Tree DNA to establish a geographic DNA Project for the Northern Neck (I used our expanded definition of NN). They will give me a yes/no in 5 days. Anyone who wants to be a part of this project will be able to join from their FTDNA account (keeping their membership in whatever group they are now in). We will have our own FTDNA webpage for results (like surname groups have). I will have to work up a spreadsheet so we can see/compare matches and Common Ancestors - it should be fun. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime!

David Both you and your sister each get half of the atDNA each of your parents had - the half times two parents means you each got a full set of Chromosomes. Whew - good thing. But you each got a different mix from each parent, and in fact, between the two of you there is, on average, one forth of the DNA your parents had, that neither of you got. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 11, 2012, at 3:45 PM, DAVID BROWN <dbrown544@prodigy.net> wrote: > Thanks so much Jim! When the NN Project is available, I will be sure to add both myself and my sister to the list. My sister actually has some matches who show Dameron family ancestry in their family trees whereas my matches do not (at least they don't show obvious Dameron ancestry). This is yet another intriguing aspect of DNA autosomal testing. Of my 260 or so matches through the FTDNA Family Finder (autosomal) testing, I only share about 50% of that number with my sister! I have heard elsewhere that 50% is a good baseline with most siblings! You would think this percentage of shared matches between siblings would be significantly higher. Amazing! As such, my sister's testing has opened up other avenues for me to possibly break down the proverbial brick walls! > > Thanks again! > > David Brown > > From: Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> > To: "va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com" <va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:45 AM > Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Autosomal DNA Project for Northern Neck Families > > The official application form has been submitted to Family Tree DNA to establish a geographic DNA Project for the Northern Neck (I used our expanded definition of NN). They will give me a yes/no in 5 days. Anyone who wants to be a part of this project will be able to join from their FTDNA account (keeping their membership in whatever group they are now in). We will have our own FTDNA webpage for results (like surname groups have). I will have to work up a spreadsheet so we can see/compare matches and Common Ancestors - it should be fun. > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

David We're waiting for you and your sister.... Just kidding;>j As of this morning we have 9 participants with almost 2,000 matches (not all with NN of course). I'm sure we have more in the wings... Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 11, 2012, at 3:45 PM, DAVID BROWN <dbrown544@prodigy.net> wrote: > Thanks so much Jim! When the NN Project is available, I will be sure to add both myself and my sister to the list. My sister actually has some matches who show Dameron family ancestry in their family trees whereas my matches do not (at least they don't show obvious Dameron ancestry). This is yet another intriguing aspect of DNA autosomal testing. Of my 260 or so matches through the FTDNA Family Finder (autosomal) testing, I only share about 50% of that number with my sister! I have heard elsewhere that 50% is a good baseline with most siblings! You would think this percentage of shared matches between siblings would be significantly higher. Amazing! As such, my sister's testing has opened up other avenues for me to possibly break down the proverbial brick walls! > > Thanks again! > > David Brown

Hi Jim, I'm in!  Sorry it took so long as I was away from the computer for a few days.  My sister will be joining too (she's not a member of this List, but I can answer questions for her). I will also send a listing of my surnames/locations. I've missed quite a few e-mails in the last couple of days, so my apologies if this has already been covered.  But, since the Project lists the participants by YDNA and mtDNA results, do you think FTDNA would allow us to access the posted GEDCOM/family trees/pedigrees.  For example, I've posted both my surnames and a GEDCOM to the FTDNA site, which may be accessed by any of my autosomal matches.  However, it could be beneficial if each of us within the Northern Neck project could also access those GEDCOM/Family Tree/Pedigree files.  Hopefully, what I'm asking makes sense.  It may very well be that FTDNA won't allow this anyway. Thanks again for doing this! David ________________________________ From: Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> To: "va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com" <va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Autosomal DNA Project for Northern Neck Families David We're waiting for you and your sister.... Just kidding;>j As of this morning we have 9 participants with almost 2,000 matches (not all with NN of course). I'm sure we have more in the wings... Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 11, 2012, at 3:45 PM, DAVID BROWN <dbrown544@prodigy.net> wrote: > Thanks so much Jim!  When the NN Project is available, I will be sure to add both myself and my sister to the list.  My sister actually has some matches who show Dameron family ancestry in their family trees whereas my matches do not (at least they don't show obvious Dameron ancestry).  This is yet another intriguing aspect of DNA autosomal testing.  Of my 260 or so matches through the FTDNA Family Finder (autosomal) testing, I only share about 50% of that number with my sister!  I have heard elsewhere that 50% is a good baseline with most siblings!  You would think this percentage of shared matches between siblings would be significantly higher.  Amazing!  As such, my sister's testing has opened up other avenues for me to possibly break down the proverbial brick walls! >  > Thanks again! >  > David Brown ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

David I'll ask FTDNA if this is possible. However you can see the posted Trees of anyone who matches you through Family Finder from your FTDNA webpage. I don't understand why you'd want to see the Trees of people you don't match? And we should all be adding our NN ancestries to the NN Tree. This would make the NN Tree a very valuable companion tool to those with Family Finder tests in the NN DNA Group. And we'd all be working off the same sheet of music - that's a goal for this group. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 21, 2012, at 4:44 PM, DAVID BROWN <dbrown544@prodigy.net> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > I'm in! Sorry it took so long as I was away from the computer for a few days. My sister will be joining too (she's not a member of this List, but I can answer questions for her). > > I will also send a listing of my surnames/locations. > > I've missed quite a few e-mails in the last couple of days, so my apologies if this has already been covered. But, since the Project lists the participants by YDNA and mtDNA results, do you think FTDNA would allow us to access the posted GEDCOM/family trees/pedigrees. For example, I've posted both my surnames and a GEDCOM to the FTDNA site, which may be accessed by any of my autosomal matches. However, it could be beneficial if each of us within the Northern Neck project could also access those GEDCOM/Family Tree/Pedigree files. Hopefully, what I'm asking makes sense. It may very well be that FTDNA won't allow this anyway. > > Thanks again for doing this! > > David > > > ________________________________ > From: Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> > To: "va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com" <va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 4:50 PM > Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Autosomal DNA Project for Northern Neck Families > > David > > We're waiting for you and your sister.... Just kidding;>j > > As of this morning we have 9 participants with almost 2,000 matches (not all with NN of course). I'm sure we have more in the wings... > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Oct 11, 2012, at 3:45 PM, DAVID BROWN <dbrown544@prodigy.net> wrote: > >> Thanks so much Jim! When the NN Project is available, I will be sure to add both myself and my sister to the list. My sister actually has some matches who show Dameron family ancestry in their family trees whereas my matches do not (at least they don't show obvious Dameron ancestry). This is yet another intriguing aspect of DNA autosomal testing. Of my 260 or so matches through the FTDNA Family Finder (autosomal) testing, I only share about 50% of that number with my sister! I have heard elsewhere that 50% is a good baseline with most siblings! You would think this percentage of shared matches between siblings would be significantly higher. Amazing! As such, my sister's testing has opened up other avenues for me to possibly break down the proverbial brick walls! >> >> Thanks again! >> >> David Brown > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com 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 VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jim, Yes, I am able to access trees/pedigrees of my FTDNA matches (if they actually post them).  If you don't think having access to the family trees/pedigrees of other NN Project members will be helpful, then there's no need to contact FTDNA about it.   Thanks. David  ________________________________ From: Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> To: "va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com" <va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Autosomal DNA Project for Northern Neck Families I don't understand why you'd want to see the Trees of people you don't match?