Many of the native Danes who join my Danish Demes project do so having first been tested at the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project. They only test 12-markers for the Genographic project, so these people are all entering the project with just 12 markers tested. I do try to get them to upgrade, but not all do. There are a lot of people missing out on connecting with living Europeans because they turn off 12-marker matches. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com On Behalf Of Martha H. Bowes > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:08 PM > To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Confusing R1b Matches or Coincidences? > > The problem with not showing matches at 12 markers is that > you will not be notified if you have a new match with your > surname who only tested 12 markers. I was doing something > else and looking through one of my participant's 12 marker > matches and there was a match with the same surname that > could only be seen after clicking to expand up to 1000 > matches.(I suspect many casual participants don't even know > you can click to see more.) He did not have his preference > set to show 12 matches. Consequently he knew nothing of this > one and I just happened to stumble on it. Now he can e-mail > that match and ask that he upgrade his markers. > > Martha >

Diana, So, can you give us a breakdown as to numbers and haplogroups in your Danish group? Thanks, Cliff. "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <DianaGM@dgmweb.net> To: <y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Confusing R1b Matches or Coincidences? > Many of the native Danes who join my Danish Demes project do so having > first > been tested at the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project. > They only > test 12-markers for the Genographic project, so these people are all > entering > the project with just 12 markers tested. I do try to get them to upgrade, > but > not all do. There are a lot of people missing out on connecting with > living > Europeans because they turn off 12-marker matches. > > Diana > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com On Behalf Of Martha H. Bowes >> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:08 PM >> To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Confusing R1b Matches or Coincidences? >> >> The problem with not showing matches at 12 markers is that >> you will not be notified if you have a new match with your >> surname who only tested 12 markers. I was doing something >> else and looking through one of my participant's 12 marker >> matches and there was a match with the same surname that >> could only be seen after clicking to expand up to 1000 >> matches.(I suspect many casual participants don't even know >> you can click to see more.) He did not have his preference >> set to show 12 matches. Consequently he knew nothing of this >> one and I just happened to stumble on it. Now he can e-mail >> that match and ask that he upgrade his markers. >> >> Martha >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > Y-DNA-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message