New Matches Coming In

[nolnacsj]

In the Batch Calendar forum, someone posted "Just noticed one of my Family Finder kits in batch 455 has moved from pending lab results to batch completed 3/29. We should have new matches soon" so perhaps we are on track for Thursday or Friday.

Varlene,

I sure hope you are right! Just checked mine and nothing new yet at around midnight EST. However, it often takes a day or so from when new folks get the email saying their results are in, and when they actually show up. Friday may be the magic night!

Judy

[nolnacsj]

I just transferred my results over from 23 and Me on Tuesday evening, and the processing was completed sometime today! Two days' service -- that's something, huh?

The top result is a name that is familiar to me but I do not know from where since we aren't MT-DNA matches here at FTDNA. We are predicted 4th cousins with shared cM 35.25 and longest block 29.30.

The second closest result is someone I've already been in contact with through 23 and Me. We're probably related through Lancaster County PA Mennonites somewhere along the line, but haven't figured out the exact relationship yet.

FF shows me with 8 matches; Relative Finder gives me 740. But of course it goes down to the really really distant ones.

litlnemo,

I do not believe it is very common to have a cousin match also be a mtDNA match. I have three mtDNA FGS matches and none of them match me on Family Finder. Don't expect a correlation between mtDNA and FF results unless your mother or maternal grandmother, maternal aunt, etc., also did both FF and mtDNA.

A longest shared block of DNA of 29.30 cM seems pretty respectable to me for a predicted 4th cousin match. Most of mine (4th) are between around 14-18 cM. Even my one predicted 3rd cousin match and I only share a block that is 24.66 cM (total is 50.38 cM).

If you have 740 RF matches, I suspect that you will continue to receive additional matches here. I have 465 RF and 68 FF. I bet some of yours are not finished loading.

Judy

[litlnemo]

litlnemo,

I do not believe it is very common to have a cousin match also be a mtDNA match. I have three mtDNA FGS matches and none of them match me on Family Finder. Don't expect a correlation between mtDNA and FF results unless your mother or maternal grandmother, maternal aunt, etc., also did both FF and mtDNA.

Oh, I don't expect a correlation. I wouldn't expect to find matches in both places. It's just that the person's name was really familiar and I'm pretty sure I've seen it here on FTDNA. So I checked the mtDNA match list to see if that was where. Maybe he posts on the forums or something! Anyway, I sent him an email.

One thing I noticed that is weird is that the match page says "Ancestral Surnames (Bolded names match your surnames)", but many of the bolded surnames *aren't* in my surname list or anywhere in my database. Why is that? Why is FF bolding those names?

[ursus]

One thing I noticed that is weird is that the match page says "Ancestral Surnames (Bolded names match your surnames)", but many of the bolded surnames *aren't* in my surname list or anywhere in my database. Why is that? Why is FF bolding those names?

They are similar to names on your list in some vague sense. It isn't necessarily Soundex.

[Jomid59]

litlnemo,

I have three mtDNA FGS matches and none of them match me on Family Finder.
Judy

3 FGS (FMS) matches. Were any of these known to you beforehand?

I have 1 FMS match and that is my mother whom I had tested. To get any others is the one thing I would very much like.

[nolnacsj]

3 FGS (FMS) matches. Were any of these known to you beforehand?

I have 1 FMS match and that is my mother whom I had tested. To get any others is the one thing I would very much like.

Jomid59,

No, none of the FGS (AKA FMS) matches I had were known to me before hand and because they did not also come up as Family Finder matches, I am guessing that our most recent common ancestor must be too far back to be detected by FF. I actually have very few mtDNA matches. I tested way back before the FF test was released because it was the only DNA test I could take. Originally I had 9 HVR1, 3 HVR2 and 1 FGS match, and it stayed that way for 2 years, no new matches at any level. Then last year I received 2 additional FGS matches, and last week I received 1 new HVR1/HVR2 match. mtDNA is good for identifying your ancestral haplogroup and learning more about your direct maternal origins.

If you are looking to discover new previously unknown relative connections, mtDNA is not the best choice for a DNA test as it normally gives you matches who share a more distant common ancestor with you, and with someone who is only a HVR1 match, that can be 100's or even more than 1000 years back. A mtDNA FGS match can have a closer MRCA with you, but that still has the highest probability of being up to 16 generations back (if I recall the info correctly). If you want to discover closer relatives (from both sides of your family tree), than you want to do the autosomal DNA test (Family Finder).

Judy

[Elena Govor]

It is 31 hours since I received message from FT DNA that Family Finder results have been posted for our kit but there is still none displayed at Family Finder 'Matches' and 'Chromosome browser'. There should be a number of matches as the tested person is Jewish.

Has anyone experienced such delay?

[similligan]

Did you check Population Finder? Sometimes those come out first and I think you get the same kind of FF notification.

[Elena Govor]

Did you check Population Finder? Sometimes those come out first and I think you get the same kind of FF notification.

Yes, Population Finder has results and I managed to download autosomal zip file, only matches are missing.

[dwight]

Yes, Population Finder has results and I managed to download autosomal zip file, only matches are missing.

Elena - that *sounds* exactly like what we went through last week, it took around 48, maybe 54 hours until matches appeared, even though the PF results and downloadable file were available. That was attributed to a "glitch", which makes the re-occurrence this week - if that's what this is - surprising.

[varlene]

Thanks, Dwight. Considering the glitch is happening over the weekend, I'm guessing it might take longer than 48-54 hours this time around, unfortunately for all of us who are anxious to see more matches.
Arlene

[swimmingly]

got one

I got one today

[litlnemo]

I tested way back before the FF test was released because it was the only DNA test I could take. Originally I had 9 HVR1, 3 HVR2 and 1 FGS match, and it stayed that way for 2 years, no new matches at any level. Then last year I received 2 additional FGS matches, and last week I received 1 new HVR1/HVR2 match.

You are lucky! I tested mtDNA in 2005, then upgraded periodically, eventually to FGS. And I have never had a single match beyond HVR1. No HVR2, no FGS. So the mtDNA hasn't been particularly useful, other than the fun of knowing I have distant ancestry in Mesopotamia.

Now, Family Finder -- my matches just went up today from 8 to 66. And at least one of them I am pretty certain I have an idea where the connection is, though looking at my records, it is going to be hard to prove. (Both of us descended from what is probably the same uncommonly-named family in the same location, but I've never been able to prove my gggg-grandmother's parents, so I can't prove the connection. But it seems pretty likely.) So, yay!

[MoberlyDrake]

When you look at your Family Finder Matches page the default setting is "Close and Immediate". If none of your close or immediate relatives have tested, it may look like you have no matches. Be sure to click the drop down menu and choose "Show All Matches".

I wish we could change the default setting to "Show All Matches". Not only does the current default setting confuse a few newcomers, who don't see their matches, but I don't very often want to see my "Close and Immediate" matches myself. I almost always want to see all my matches to run a filter or check something else.

Carol Anne

[nolnacsj]

Thanks, Dwight. Considering the glitch is happening over the weekend, I'm guessing it might take longer than 48-54 hours this time around, unfortunately for all of us who are anxious to see more matches.
Arlene

Varlene,

Nothing new came in for me this past week.