the press of my correspondence and working on a book has kept me from the stream of information about Y700 changes.
Big Y did not used to integrate with Y STR projects, meaning that the results would only be compared to other Big Y testers. No resultant STR values would show up in projects, so did not show on the the grid of STRs in projects and did not allow matches against others who tested 12, 25, 32, 67 or 111 STRs. At one point, FTDNA said I could pay to get all of ~400 STR predictions from my Big Y500 "translated." Then I was told that Y700 carried a "free" STR (111) panel along with the SNPs.
Since then,I have been asked by a first-time sponsor if she should get her dad to do Y700. All of my project members who have done Y SNP of the "Big" variety did them after testing STRs, and so all we saw was a new downstream haplo on their grid results and a new panel on the homepage for Big Y.
If the sampler gets at least 111 STRs with the Y700, then the cost of Y700 can be weighed against a 111 STR and Family Finder purchase, which seems to yield results that most samplers somewhat understand. I simply do not know what happens after Y700 as a first test, because it is outside of my experience.
So, I do not know if a first-time Y700 tester gets panels of STRs to run matches against other STR testers, or if they can bring these to a surname or haplo project. This is important because the cost is quite high for someone not to get a result that runs against the more affordable STR matches.
I would appreciate it anyone takes the time to clarify.
Big Y did not used to integrate with Y STR projects, meaning that the results would only be compared to other Big Y testers. No resultant STR values would show up in projects, so did not show on the the grid of STRs in projects and did not allow matches against others who tested 12, 25, 32, 67 or 111 STRs. At one point, FTDNA said I could pay to get all of ~400 STR predictions from my Big Y500 "translated." Then I was told that Y700 carried a "free" STR (111) panel along with the SNPs.
Since then,I have been asked by a first-time sponsor if she should get her dad to do Y700. All of my project members who have done Y SNP of the "Big" variety did them after testing STRs, and so all we saw was a new downstream haplo on their grid results and a new panel on the homepage for Big Y.
If the sampler gets at least 111 STRs with the Y700, then the cost of Y700 can be weighed against a 111 STR and Family Finder purchase, which seems to yield results that most samplers somewhat understand. I simply do not know what happens after Y700 as a first test, because it is outside of my experience.
So, I do not know if a first-time Y700 tester gets panels of STRs to run matches against other STR testers, or if they can bring these to a surname or haplo project. This is important because the cost is quite high for someone not to get a result that runs against the more affordable STR matches.
I would appreciate it anyone takes the time to clarify.
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