150 year old paternity test

[Osiris]

When your line becomes rare it is tough. I'm a rare version of L2 and remember testing and testing and thinking I have to be one of the known subgroups. Turns out I wasn't. Eventually I got a few matches after my Big Y came in.

Have you joined the Big Tree? There are 2 L20* kits there....

[Osiris]

Under each letter haplogroup they (probably should be larger than just FTDNA) could assign a 2nd letter to major subgroups, up to 26. So L21 could be A, U106 could be B, P312 could be C, U152 = D, L2 = E, DF27 = F, V88 = G, etc. Have to find a way to make it fair and useful.

Then I'd...

[Osiris]

You can request to be an admin. They'll try and contact the current admins and if they don't respond you get to be it.

[Osiris]

My understanding is that novel variants are simply SNPs without a name in the FTDNA system. There is a reference male who is somewhere in R and another imputed reference male who represents the last common male ancestor for all living men.

When you have the same values for anc and ref...

[Osiris]

I'm at YFull now. Still waiting for my matches BAM file but plan on going there as soon as its available. YFULL has
1. an amazing browser for the raw data, especially when you go through the groups.
2. I'm hoping that the STRs that they pull out might be helpful as well.
3. YFULL...

[Osiris]

I'm a male and I started genealogy back in 1995 when I got Family Tree Maker. I interviewed my great uncle (father's father's brother) about the family and he gave me a little bit of information on his father's father so my paternal line. His name was Elvin Mathis Johnson from Tennessee, his wife...

[Osiris]

My mother and I both have tested at 23andme. There are a couple segments where my mother has no calls at certain locations but were able to determine the values in my test. The end result is that people will match me in a 7 cM segment but match my mom with 2 small 3 cM segments and so she doesn't...

[Osiris]

The column for Matching SNPs only counts SNP tests done outside of the Big Y. Annoyingly enough I had some bad results from Nat Geo (they marked me positive to SNPs that came up negative when I retested them at FTDNA) pushing my matches further away from me.

Matching is a little weird...

[Osiris]

1. It seems hypocritical in that FTDNA allows you to load data from other companies to their database but does not allow you to load their data to other databases. Would they also try and sue Ancestry.com if they allowed imports?

2. The raw data is just a file. As is 23andme and Ancestry.com....

[Osiris]

since I'm in yfull and in the yfull u152 project I took all my novels variants and variants I shared with my closest matches and used the browser in the group and fed them in 10 at a time and was able to narrow things down immensely. I found 3 types of snps.

1. Snps shared with all or...

[Osiris]

I think some people are set up so that only people that are part of the project can see them. I am in th u152 project. If I log in and then go to the site I see people. If I log off and then go to the site they're gone. I think it's fairly recent change. Im not part of the project and I see 7 people...

[Osiris]

Yes, L194 is correct. I got that list at the bottom of the snp screen. I had u106, p312 and L21 tested earlier. Sorry for the error, I'm on my phone. I do wish there was some report for the test.

[Osiris]

I meant DF27 and L294 as not tested

P312+, P297+, P310+, P311+, L23+, L278+, L389+, L51+, M269+, M343+, M73-, MC14-, M335-, L513-, L584-, L617-, L881-, M1994-, M222-, L408-, L47-, L48-, L371-, L238-, U106-, PF3252-, PF331-, PF6610-, PF6714-, PF7562-, PF7589-, PF7600-, S1026-, S1051-,...

[Osiris]

Well, this is for my father-in-laws's kit. He is P312. He still has DF27 and L294 as in tested. But he negative for Z225 and Z195....

[Osiris]

Yup. I got mine in. Unfortunately negative for every snp downstream of my last known positive