Jim, If the point was to be doing autosomal tests, what is the point if nobody can see it? I really do NOT understand. When you say 5 out of 10, does that mean five said NO or just that you haven't heard back from them. As you know, I asked the administrator of the Kilby Y-DNA project to link it. I haven't' heard back from him yet, but no doubt will (except I just remembered he put something on his fb page about a week ago looking forward to some camping trip out West.....) Please forgive me for my ignorance on how all this is supposed to work. Craig On Oct 19, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > Craig > > FTDNA sets the tabs. They don't have a way to show Family Finder, yet. We don't really know what to show. > > I'll try to come up with something. At the least we should list who's in the project, but I need to get an OK from each one first. I've got 5 out of 10 so far. > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Craig Kilby <persisto1@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> Will there be a tab of autosomal tests, or is that somehow included in the ones that have numbers stretching into infinity on the site? >> >> Craig >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Craig The Family Finder DNA test is based on a segment (hunk, block, string) of DNA that is exactly the same in two people - we call it a shared segment. This shared segment started with a Common Ancestor (a man or woman) who passed a larger segment to each of two children; each child passed some of that DNA down to one of their children, etc until two living descendants, cousins, got tested and found they had the exact same smaller segment. So the test result is always between two people. Each person who tests gets a list of people with whom they share such a matching DNA segment. It's up to the two people to each have a robust Tree (we have a collective one that may be better than most individuals have); communicate with each other (our participants know each other from this list); share info and find the Common Ancestor or extend the Tree of one or both back to a Common Ancestor (both our Tree and our list will help with this). The FTDNA system was set up based on 2 people working together to find a Common Ancestor - we are breaking new ground here. Each of the 2 people in a match will have many advantages with NN Ancestors, as outlined above, which others don't have. There is great benefit to knowing which DNA segments are involved in each match - this is where I come in. There is also great benefit in knowing who of your matches have NN ancestors - we can help here too. Given our list of participants, they will be able to easily look for them among their other matches. So the task of finding the Common Ancestors is up to the two people, and they can ask this list for help. Reporting the findings will be something I will have to work out. At the least I can post the Common Ancestors through a word page on the webpage. This will show ancestral lines that are proved by matching DNA. I'm also open ideas. Note: only 5 of 10 have responded so far on listing their names - we're doing good. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 19, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Craig Kilby <persisto1@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim, > > If the point was to be doing autosomal tests, what is the point if nobody can see it? I really do NOT understand. > > When you say 5 out of 10, does that mean five said NO or just that you haven't heard back from them. As you know, I asked the administrator of the Kilby Y-DNA project to link it. I haven't' heard back from him yet, but no doubt will (except I just remembered he put something on his fb page about a week ago looking forward to some camping trip out West.....) > > Please forgive me for my ignorance on how all this is supposed to work. > > Craig > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > >> Craig >> >> FTDNA sets the tabs. They don't have a way to show Family Finder, yet. We don't really know what to show. >> >> I'll try to come up with something. At the least we should list who's in the project, but I need to get an OK from each one first. I've got 5 out of 10 so far. >> >> Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! >> >> On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Craig Kilby <persisto1@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Jim, >>> >>> Will there be a tab of autosomal tests, or is that somehow included in the ones that have numbers stretching into infinity on the site? >>> >>> Craig >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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