New Tribes' Populations

[katiecarol]

All they attempt to do is see where your markers are most frequent in the world,nothing more,nothing less.Nowhere do they indicate or assume that you belong to any particular group.I know when I see 'scots' score that I do not come from Scotland,but that I have markers more common to Scots [celtic-norse hybrids] than to [straight up celts] who would get Iberia/spain/portugal etc - that's why anyone who gets scotland gets norway too.Alot of Tribes results correlate with Mtdna and Y studies,they are not entirely useless yet. Until we've all done some study in molecular anthropology we can't really write them off.

Ok, I'm not fully familiar with this, but can someone explain the value of these "tribes" tests when most people taking these tests aren't remotely close to any one specific group and when most modern countries, especially in Europe are a mix of migrated tribes all over the continent, blended over the course of centuries upon centuries?

To me, these "tribes" scores seem like some sort of artificial computation relevant, to, well, nothing. The "tribes" aren't based on historical, actual "tribes", and even if they were, no one is remotely close to any one, anyway.

But, maybe I'm wrong so feel free to educate me on this further...

[derinos]

Ok, I'm not fully familiar with this, but can someone explain the value of these "tribes" tests when most people taking these tests aren't remotely close to any one specific group and when most modern countries, especially in Europe are a mix of migrated tribes all over the continent, blended over the course of centuries upon centuries?

To me, these "tribes" scores seem like some sort of artificial computation relevant, to, well, nothing. The "tribes" aren't based on historical, actual "tribes", and even if they were, no one is remotely close to any one, anyway.

But, maybe I'm wrong so feel free to educate me on this further...

Maybe its all part of Gracious Living. And it is very educational, making people look up ethnogeography and ancient history.

[rainbow]

New Tribes digest just released; Genetic Relationships in Africa.

Thanks. It was in my email and i just looked at it. There are Australian genes in Africa. And a lot of Levantine in Coptics. Portuguese in Noth Africa. Etc.

[tomcat]

New Tribes Digest

New Tribes digest just released; Genetic Relationships in Africa.

[Maria_W]

Heres got to be the record...

I stand corrected. I found a top world region score of 0.72 from a East Indian person living in Canada. There is 17 scores at and under 0.72. I can't even comprehend that score... How and why does this happen? Theres no where to go from there but down!

[Maria_W]

Lowest test score?

I wonder how DNA Tribes comes up with its scores...
I was on their website looking at sample test scores. I was really stunned when it showed the top score of 1.91for Asia Minor on world region (no its not a mistake)for a Asian person who lived in Canada.. I will never feel bad about my scores again...

[Deirwha]

thanks Rainbow



I like the additon of color!

[rainbow]

Oh wow Deirwha !

You have the best signature

[Deirwha]

[QUOTE=derinos;138903]Elaborate formats? Color signatures? I never see them due to the receiving options I chose ...
From the instructions on Options for FTDNA Forums:
"You have the option to show or hide various elements of messages, which may be of use to users on slow internet connections, or who want to remove extraneous clutter from posts."

OOoooh. Really? I will have to look at it. I think I am moving to technocolor also.

Thank you, Diernos and Rainbow. I like

[rainbow]

I think all your posts are very instructive and intuitive!

Thank you.
I think yours are very interesting too.

[rainbow]

Color signatures?

I never see them due to the receiving options I chose.

You can't see my signature?
After all the trouble I went thru to make it look nice.

[derinos]

Avoiding sluggish internet transmission?

By the way, DKF also uses a nice blue on "his" signature line...The world is full of color including the world wide web! Love it too.

Maria

Elaborate formats? Color signatures? I never see them due to the receiving options I chose.
On the receiving end, one can control what shows, in order to speed up reception, but on the sending end don't be surprised if your messages are slow getting there, and in your recipients'downloading.

From the instructions on Options for FTDNA Forums:
"You have the option to show or hide various elements of messages, which may be of use to users on slow internet connections, or who want to remove extraneous clutter from posts."

Take your choice!

[derinos]

OK derinos. Maria & I were just talking about colors in the signature line. I put some color in my post so she could click on "quote" so she could see how it is typed, and then she could put color in her signature, if she still wants to do that now, or in the future. Having only black all the time isn't all that great. Most women love color now & then. It perks us up.
After this post I'll try to stick to just my signature.

Response: No personal criticism, I like color too, in fact it is necessary for some purposes; also I couldn't live without it! When it doesn't slow things down. (See the gold ancient Celtic coin attachment on this thread.) But I try only to use message color for a specific communicative image, hopefully contributing to keeping delay on the web to the minimum.
That's why I don't use emoticons, avatars etc. on the fora. I think all your posts are very instructive and intuitive!

[Maria_W]

The world is full of color..

By the way, DKF also uses a nice blue on "his" signature line...The world is full of color including the world wide web! Love it too.

Maria

[Maria_W]

I love the color...

Rainbow,

I love the color. I personally wouldn't change my signature line! Matter of fact if I can figure out how to do it I will change mine...

Maria