Hi Fred and Sharon, Sharon is right, and I can tell you about a related quirk. You noted that 11/12 matches did now show up on unless a project including them was selected. I had the same question you had at one time. With the 11/12 matches, I'm not even sure whether they will show up even if both parties have selected entire database matching. It may be that a project including both has to be selected by the person viewing matches for the match to show up. I wish that I could find a complete explanation of the criteria that are used to select matches for display. I think most people don't even notice that there is some complexity to the display of matches. Some must be missing some important matches as a result. Kirsten Saxe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Fontenot" <smfgen@gmail.com> To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:12:30 AM Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] finding matches at FT Hi Fred - There are two sets of selections at play here, your choice and that of the men you are matching. The differences you see *depending on which project is selected* is because not all of your matches are comparing against the entire database as you are. My uncle has a 66/67 out of surname match who it appears only compares with the R-M222 Haplogroup Project, his name & email only appears in my uncle's matches list if the R-M222 Haplogroup Project is the one I have selected. Sharon On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:53 AM, fred westcott <westcott.fred@gmail.com>wrote: > I am having difficulties learning how to find matches at FT. In > Preferences I selected "entire database" yet my matches vary with > either one of four projects that I have joined depending on which one > is selected. And they do not vary consistently. If the surname > project, Adams, is selected I will get 724 exact matches of 12 markers > (of 727 possible if another project is selected) only one of which is > an Adams, but in the next category , 12 markers GD 1, there are six > Adams and no other names. There can be up to 126 names in this > category depending on which project is selected. > Is there a way of deselecting all short of opting out of all projects ? > > What am I missing or doing wrong ? > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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

Hi again - One of the other factors may be that an individual also checks the levels - number of markers - at which his haplotype is compared. If he chooses not to compare at 12 markers or 25, I don't think you'll see him on your match list except in the 37 and 67 marker matches. Sharon On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, <dnalister@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Fred and Sharon, > > Sharon is right, and I can tell you about a related quirk. You noted that > 11/12 matches did now show up on unless a project including them was > selected. I had the same question you had at one time. With the 11/12 > matches, I'm not even sure whether they will show up even if both parties > have selected entire database matching. It may be that a project including > both has to be selected by the person viewing matches for the match to show > up. I wish that I could find a complete explanation of the criteria that are > used to select matches for display. I think most people don't even notice > that there is some complexity to the display of matches. Some must be > missing some important matches as a result. > > Kirsten Saxe > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharon Fontenot" <smfgen@gmail.com> > To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:12:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] finding matches at FT > > Hi Fred - > > There are two sets of selections at play here, your choice and that of the > men you are matching. The differences you see *depending on which project > is selected* is because not all of your matches are comparing against the > entire database as you are. My uncle has a 66/67 out of surname match who > it appears only compares with the R-M222 Haplogroup Project, his name & > email only appears in my uncle's matches list if the R-M222 Haplogroup > Project is the one I have selected. > > Sharon > > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:53 AM, fred westcott <westcott.fred@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I am having difficulties learning how to find matches at FT. In > > Preferences I selected "entire database" yet my matches vary with > > either one of four projects that I have joined depending on which one > > is selected. And they do not vary consistently. If the surname > > project, Adams, is selected I will get 724 exact matches of 12 markers > > (of 727 possible if another project is selected) only one of which is > > an Adams, but in the next category , 12 markers GD 1, there are six > > Adams and no other names. There can be up to 126 names in this > > category depending on which project is selected. > > Is there a way of deselecting all short of opting out of all projects ? > > > > What am I missing or doing wrong ? > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 >