Link Matches - so frustrating!

[lanajane]

Since I'm unable to find a way to delete my post, I'm adding to say that I was able to find my error and all is working now.

[lanajane]

I've read just about everything I can find to read about this subject, and just cannot make the "Link Matches" magic happen in my family tree at FTDNA. I've got the DNA match's mother in my tree, and when I drag my DNA match onto the mother's name, the window opens, showing the mother, the...

[lanajane]

For the past 18 hours, the site freezes when I try to select a match (to run in the Chromosome Browser or any other reason). Having been utilizing FTDNA for around 10 years, it's always been glitchy, but lately it is unbearable. Why is it so difficult to make this site work like it is supposed to...

[lanajane]

So frustrating to have the spinning circle of death when trying to view family trees of my matches! What's going on?!?!?

[lanajane]

Spinning

Every single tree link I click on just gives me the spinning circle ad nauseum. Why is this so problematic so often?!?!?

[lanajane]

I don't know how reliable an admixture analysis of my mother's phased data would be. She is deceased, so I don't have a sample for her. I do have one for my father, however. I have phased his file and my file to create a "file" for her. Can someone please tell me how reliable I might expect...

[lanajane]

A quick follow-up question: would you say that, if the length of an X chromosome match is 11 cM (with 1000 SNP's) but the shared Autosomal is only around 5 cM, the match is worth pursuing--or too distant?

[lanajane]

Thanks, you two!

[lanajane]

I believe I remember correctly that the X chromosome does not go through recombination. Does this mean, then, that if my brothers and I share almost the same segments sizes on our X chromosomes, I received my X from my mother?

[lanajane]

After phasing (using the phasing utility at GEDMATCH) my father's and my kits to "separate" out what I inherited from my mother, can I then use the "kit" number assigned to mother's portion to "compare to all" at GEDMATCH? How accurate might this be in terms of who she...

[lanajane]

OK, so my understanding is that the GEDMATCH chromosome browser is just another way of looking at the same matches in the same way as I can see through the FTDNA chromosome browser (because I uploaded my matches to GEDMATCH through the FTDNA chromosome browser).

What I'm trying to accomplish...

[lanajane]

Thanks, sjadelson. Actually, the 36/37 match does not even show as a match at 67--possibly because he did not test to 67?? Neither match has a surname that is the same as my father's, so I'd say neither has an advantage in that regard.

[lanajane]

I'm interested to know whether it is more advisable to pursue matches at 37 markers with a GD of 1 versus matches at 67 with a GD of 4.

[lanajane]

JOlson, so when I go to the GEDMATCH utility called "Compare your Autosomal FTDNA or 23andMe result with one other result in our database ", am I correct that is using the raw data? Thus, it will be quite different from the start/stop locations from the FTDNA Chromosome Browser, right? In...

[lanajane]

I had him tested to 67 markers. I'm asking about his 67-marker matches. There are only 4 matches at that level, and every one of them is a Nelson. They are not close--GD's of 4 and 5. I have come across a marriage between a Stone male and a Nelson female in the tree of one of my cousin matches....