I have no matches, even at my 2x Great Grandparent clade of E-CTS5856, which I believe is the biggest sub-branch of V13 (could be wrong there, but it's big).
I suppose it's possible that no one on ftdna took the Big-Y from my branch, but I know from the M35 group that at the very least people have taken SNP packs that put them in lower clades then E-CTS5856, and it looks as if some people took The Big-Y itself, also.
I reported this as a bug to ftdna, and have not heard back.
I'm trying to be charitable about this, but it's difficult.
On top of this, .BAM files can't be released to members at this time, and there is no estimation as to when that will change. This has been the case at least a few weeks, probably much longer.
It really seems like FTDNA is selling a broken product, and one that isn't cheap to boot. Judging by their response to my message (radio silence), they look more interested in taking the money than providing a working product.
Assuming this is the case for everyone, I don't think anyone should be buying the test until this is sorted out, nor should they be selling it.
Meanwhile, I'm getting messages that I have a Y12 'match', that does not meet their threshold for a match at 25 markers. Of course they know this person is not related to me, unless you count the common ancestor of everyone M35, ~4700 ya.
Rather than doing that, they should cross reference the SNPs data in their own database, and give me results who are actually potentially related to me, even if it's at GD 20.
I suspect part of the reason they don't do it is because they sell SNP tests, and that would often get a user a more specific snp, without them having to pay for it. They advertise access to other user's data, users want to share this data, and they prevent that by hiding it. Probably legal, definitely not ethical.
Alternatively, they could show nothing, and not misrepresent the data users paid to get, on purpose.
I suppose it's possible that no one on ftdna took the Big-Y from my branch, but I know from the M35 group that at the very least people have taken SNP packs that put them in lower clades then E-CTS5856, and it looks as if some people took The Big-Y itself, also.
I reported this as a bug to ftdna, and have not heard back.
I'm trying to be charitable about this, but it's difficult.
On top of this, .BAM files can't be released to members at this time, and there is no estimation as to when that will change. This has been the case at least a few weeks, probably much longer.
It really seems like FTDNA is selling a broken product, and one that isn't cheap to boot. Judging by their response to my message (radio silence), they look more interested in taking the money than providing a working product.
Assuming this is the case for everyone, I don't think anyone should be buying the test until this is sorted out, nor should they be selling it.
Meanwhile, I'm getting messages that I have a Y12 'match', that does not meet their threshold for a match at 25 markers. Of course they know this person is not related to me, unless you count the common ancestor of everyone M35, ~4700 ya.
Rather than doing that, they should cross reference the SNPs data in their own database, and give me results who are actually potentially related to me, even if it's at GD 20.
I suspect part of the reason they don't do it is because they sell SNP tests, and that would often get a user a more specific snp, without them having to pay for it. They advertise access to other user's data, users want to share this data, and they prevent that by hiding it. Probably legal, definitely not ethical.
Alternatively, they could show nothing, and not misrepresent the data users paid to get, on purpose.
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