New Matches Coming In

[teyoung]

It's possible that some numbers for chr9 were corrected in this update.

Thanks, Ann. I just saw your message on the ISOGG board. I now remember that Larry previously posted the chromosome 9 problem. I suppose I should calm down.

[Kathleen Carrow]

I too have strange new dates including 8/4 for my son and myself..we uploaded from 23andme.. Guess I need to notate how many I have..I know I got 7 new last week.

[WCoaster]

I had a net gain of 17 matches, with 30 new ones and 13 (I think) lost. Like everyone else, I've noticed that some of the new matches are backdated.

Of the 13 lost, 12 had largest shared segment on Chromosome 9.

I'll have to go back and check more carefully to see whether I really lost that other, 13th person, or missed a new match. I hope it's the latter!

[banshee]

So what was the chromosome 9 problem that caused these changes?

I have 2 previous matches from chrom 9 where the longest block changed significantly yesterday, one from 14.04 to 22.46, and the other one from 13.69 to 21.73.

I also gained 13 new matches and lost one old one.

[katerennie4]

I too have strange new dates including 8/4 for my son and myself..we uploaded from 23andme.. Guess I need to notate how many I have..I know I got 7 new last week.

I uploaded from 23andme too.....maybe that's why we're dated in August now? Previously, the date for my five kits was 2/20/2012.

[Red Rover]

WTH 57 new matches.

[nolnacsj]

It's possible that some numbers for chr9 were corrected in this update. I'll see if I can find the thread where people had reported problems previously.

Ann,

I am having trouble with the In Common With tool. When I choose ICW from the dropdown, it won't stay on that long enough for me to select the name I want, it jumos back to "show all matches". Is this related to all the other little quirks going on right now? I was able to look at ICW with for three out of my 5 new matches last night before it went wacky on me. Still that way now.

Anyone else having this problem?

Judy

[1_mke]

I had that same problem briefly yesterday, then it went away. You might want to try an alternate browser. I keep IE, Chrome and Firefox all installed so I can switch back and forth when one is causing me problems on a particular site.

[auntsha]

New Matches?

I was so excited yesterday with 6 new matches and posted it here only to find out 3 were not new. A different later date was assigned to them but they were with me from the beginning!???

[lanajane]

Wow, this seems like a big mess. I found new matches throughout my 30 pages of matches...not just under the most recent date. I'm having to go through my other kits and do the same. Additionally, I'm looking at the new matches on the Chromosome Browser and the majority of them are clustered on Chromosome 9. Hmmm....

[MoberlyDrake]

Well, our new 2nd cousin's email address is not valid! I tried contact from 2 different email accounts. Why is it always my closest cousin's who won't share!

And my mother's total matches went from 99 to 107, but she only has 6 real new matches. Hmm... It might be hard to spot the other 2.

Carol Anne

[Táltos]

Yes something is up with matches. It appears that I have 6 new matches, but then I noticed that one of the names I definitely had in my matches before, and two others with this earlier match dates of 8/6 and 8/8 look like they had been matches already too. I had also lost a match right before the big power outage, but sometime within the past 2 weeks I regained whoever that match was. They really should do a better job explaining about what they are doing with the database, and matching.

On the bright side I am very excited about my 3 new matches! Hopefully one will enter more information soon, I can tell she is probably related through my Eastern European side. The other match is Jewish, and has the Cohen match next to his Y-line. . He is on my father's side based on his ancestral countries listed, all surnames listed are Jewish for him.

And my last one I feel like I could have hit the jackpot with! He shares my great-grandfather's surname with one of the branches on my mother's side. Has a gedcom, and the most distant ancestor listed was born in the same county in PA, as my gg-grandfather from this line! So maybe they could have been brother's! I sure hope they answer my e-mail!

[Taz85]

One of my newest matches date back to 5/2011!! What in the world!! I lost some matches too. FTDNA has to get this figured out.

[mkdexter]

It's possible that some numbers for chr9 were corrected in this update. I'll see if I can find the thread where people had reported problems previously.

Yes Chromosome 9 was corrected in the last database rebuild.

http://forums.familytreedna.com/showthread.php?t=29997&page=3

[PDHOTLEN]

O.K. Well, it looks like it doesn't matter about the surname Bennett and a supposed match on chromosome #9. Since he was deleted, maybe he didn't have it after all. However, I still have chr #9 match for a Hunt, who was the other person I tried to match with Bennett. What it's starting to look like is that I was barking up the wrong tree. But I'm still within the larger Phillips tree. The possible mother of Charity (or whatever her real name was) may have been Keziah Hunt. The only positive date having anything to do with her is a transcribed marriage record for 1737 in New Jersey (Stephen Biles). Her maternal line, then, would mean another U5 line separate from the other line I was following. It may go back to an Elizabeth Potter, born in New Haven, CT. There is at least one Potter with my HVR1 on SMGF, but I'll have to check to make sure.