Triangulation

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I checked my email and I have one dated from May 6. Here is the quote:
Dear Group Project Administrators,

Mother's Day Sale starts today! Pricing details are listed below.

We have also selected the Y-DNA catchphrase contest winners. We appreciate everyone who submitted

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You could try typing a few surnames in a csv file just separated by comma as an experiment. I very vaguely remember years ago of a discussion that the standard was to put the location in parentheses, but I could be mistaken.

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I know of no spreadsheet template provided by FTDNA. When you get your match results, you can go to the match tab and, once inside, there is a download button. That sends a CSV to your computer. You can then create an empty spreadsheet and import that file (rather than doing a copy and paste)....

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It it unlikely that 2nd cousins would not share DNA. See the following website that shows a 2nd cousin on average shares 233 cM, with a low of 46 and a high of 515. That suggests nobody is at zero.

https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4

Try your one-to-one again at Gedmatch....

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I recently found this site that might help show the Y Tree

https://www.yfull.com/tree/

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A lot depends on how much you want to spend to solve the problem. Generally a Y-37 is the modern entry level test. This is a good time of year to do it due to the sales available. I would try that and see if you match existing tested people that show a Miller or Mitchell line. If you do not match someone...

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Not signing the release form means you will not be in the matching database and you will have no matches to examine.

The only reason I can think of for not signing is a few people might want to look at only ethnic origins.

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You can go to the website and look at the pricing. My understanding is they use the same lab as FTDNA.

What you may not realize is that once you test at FTDNA, you can transfer your results to MyHeritage for free. So the cost to access these tools is currently zero.

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For those who have DNA results at MyHeritage, they have a new function under their DNA tab called DNA Chromosome Browser. It allows a one-to-many compare of up to 7 people. The big innovation is that if ALL the compared people (and you do not have to enter all 7) triangulate, then the browser will...

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You will probably end up contacting all of them eventually. What I would do is forward the in-common relationships list in detail when you contact each one. What you want to find out is when the match runs their own in-common list, the names would be the same, but the relationships may be different....

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The matrix is based on people being on each other's match lists. Matching criteria I think usually requires a minimum 7.7 cM segment.

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The tabs are controlled by the tree section.
The daughter with "both" has linked in her tree at least one person paternal and the other maternal.
In the case of the other daughter, you did not do all the links.

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The chip version of the original test does impact the number of matches. For instance Ancestry has moved to version 2 testing (I believe in early 2017). This means that a V2 compare uses far less SNPs in common with the FTDNA test. At first FTDNA stopped accepting these transfers. As a compromise,...

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I think you can order the test through your existing transfer account. If you paid the 19 dollar unlock fee, I believe the policy is to discount that from the purchase price of familyfinder. Start the order (not obligated to buy until you give your credit card) and if you see the discounted price...

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Start again with Bill's raw file.

Use this website to create a file that will be accepted by FTDNA.

http://www.mapmy23.com/tools/ancestry_ftdna_fix.php