FTDNA down?

[prairielad]

I haven't lost my 'one' FF match, but I am curious how I can get 81 screens of matches from Ancestry.com and only 'one' FF match on FTDNA which claims to have the LARGEST DNA Database.

FTDNA database may be large, but only a portion of it consists of Family Finder tests. Other tests in database are yDNA and mtDNA.

I am not sure what their number of Family Finder tests are in comparison to Ancestry and 23andMe.

[ConZ]

FTDNA database may be large, but only a portion of it consists of Family Finder tests. Other tests in database are yDNA and mtDNA.

I am not sure what their number of Family Finder tests are in comparison to Ancestry and 23andMe.

Good answer, many thanks!

[jtoml3]

A MyOrigins update would be nice.

[nicolam]

I haven't lost my 'one' FF match, but I am curious how I can get 81 screens of matches from Ancestry.com and only 'one' FF match on FTDNA which claims to have the LARGEST DNA Database.

I think (hope?) the new matches are still downloading. My sister only has one 5th-remote match so far, though she obviously will have more (me for one), when all her matches are listed.

[T E Peterman]

Another thing to consider is that Ancestry has far lower standards for autosomal matching than does Family Tree DNA. I know this because I persuaded some matches at Ancestry to transfer to Family Tree DNA. Once in the Family Tree DNA database, some no longer matched me. Luckily, since I have a field of tested relatives here at Family Tree DNA, they did match some of them.

Timothy Peterman