Batch 635 FamilyFinder

[foxfamily]

Nope, I'm still waiting for Batch 635, though my 636 is almost done (I have matches, but no myOrigins, and I can't download raw data yet.).

[rachelleleclaire]

635 FF matches just came in. Can't download raw data yet or see MyOrigins though..

[cindy2418]

im batch 633 and still no sign of anything

[nicolam]

No sign of batch 632 either.

[nicolam]

And absolutely no explanation from the customer service staff about why earlier batch numbers are being made to wait until after later batches have been processed!
I sent a query through including the kit number on the form, then got a reply asking for my kit number so they can look into it. I sent this, and then got the standard message about supplier problems which didn't provide anymore info than the messages already on the forum.

[Valmac11]

Something weird going on with this batch- first I had ethnicity which showed 98% European 1% North Africa 1% Middle East but no matches, after I emailed I then got matches but lost My origins.

Now have both but the last 2 % now moved to Finland !!

[nicolam]

Something weird going on with this batch- first I had ethnicity which showed 98% European 1% North Africa 1% Middle East but no matches, after I emailed I then got matches but lost My origins.

Now have both but the last 2 % now moved to Finland !!

I have matches but no My Origins

[Toddelino]

Something weird going on with this batch- first I had ethnicity which showed 98% European 1% North Africa 1% Middle East but no matches, after I emailed I then got matches but lost My origins.

Now have both but the last 2 % now moved to Finland !!

Interesting experience.
Thats sounds very good.

[boutrosdu93]

Something weird going on with this batch- first I had ethnicity which showed 98% European 1% North Africa 1% Middle East but no matches, after I emailed I then got matches but lost My origins.

Now have both but the last 2 % now moved to Finland !!

don't waste your time with lower figures like that i see many people do the same mistake than you do...
it's far below the margin of error

[MikeP]

My Origins Reliability

I just had my sister's FF done. Curiously, even though we share a boatload of dna as might be expected, her My Origins shows 83% Western and Central Europe and 17% Finland, while mine shows 47% Western and Central Europe, 33% British Isles, and 19% Scandanavia. I have no idea why there should be such a difference. The paper trails only show the British Isles (where known), although much of that might have come from the Anglo Saxon migrations.

[M.B.]

I just had my sister's FF done. Curiously, even though we share a boatload of dna as might be expected, her My Origins shows 83% Western and Central Europe and 17% Finland, while mine shows 47% Western and Central Europe, 33% British Isles, and 19% Scandanavia. I have no idea why there should be such a difference.

Does your sister show matches that you don't? If so, ever considered an NPE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-paternity_event) ?

[WCoaster]

I wouldn't worry about the difference in admixture results. If FTDNA has classified you as "Parent/child or Full Siblings," that's what you should rely on.

My sister and I are well over the threshold for full siblings, but her admixture results here are different from mine. It's normal. Different companies give different results to the same individual, too. See Judy Russell's blog, "Not Soup Yet."

http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2014/05/18/admixture-not-soup-yet/

You only share about 50% of your DNA with a full sibling. You'll have some different matches, and different admixture results. It's normal.

[kevinduffy]

I just had my sister's FF done. Curiously, even though we share a boatload of dna as might be expected, her My Origins shows 83% Western and Central Europe and 17% Finland, while mine shows 47% Western and Central Europe, 33% British Isles, and 19% Scandanavia. I have no idea why there should be such a difference. The paper trails only show the British Isles (where known), although much of that might have come from the Anglo Saxon migrations.

You have to remember that the British Isles and Western/Central Europe clusters are closely related. It just means that you ended up with more of your parents' Celtic DNA while she ended up with more of their Germanic DNA.

[M.B.]

You only share about 50% of your DNA with a full sibling.

A beginners question: Does this mean that the DNA concurrence is 50% at minimum (up to 100% in monocygotic twins) or is 50% the median concurrence in DNA?

[WCoaster]

I think that would be the average. ISOGG web site has a table showing the expected amounts of sharing for different relationships:

http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_statistics#Method_II

Also (if you haven't already seen this),Blaine Bettinger ("The Genetic Genealogist") recently collected quite a bit of data from his readers and published the results.

http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2015/05/25/the-shared-cm-project-an-update/

It's interesting to see the ranges, with maximum and minimum outliers.