What are FTDNA's plans for mtDNA Community?

[Applegatej1]

There was a colonial effort by Sweden about 1637 along the Delaware.

[Applegatej1]

Thank You. One name studies are quite useful.

[Applegatej1]

Paradam, thank you for sharing your experience with the mtDNA Community web site. It has been about two years since I posted my data there. That was before the discouraging FAQ posts https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/mtdna-community/ by R.A. Canada, who had contributed to that web site. Their programming...

[Applegatej1]

Why is no one promoting mtDNA Community? Because of it there are only slightly more than 15 thousand test results at the site. At mitosearch less than half of the available data can be compaired. http://www.mtdnacommunity.org is the only site I have encountered where all the data from the mitochondrial...

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@ keigh
I can understand your preference to keep your MO private, but why limit your ancestry to only two of the multiple lines you have?

MO has given me a clue on what to look for and roughly how many generations back. Whether that information proves helpful in extending the paper...

[Applegatej1]

Have you identified the MRCA? I don’t believe you can determine where the 5.5 cM originated from with just one match to the same couple. It could be from the husband, the wife or both.

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Seems to me, when I had to send in a fresh sample, the deep clade results finished posting before the new sample could have been processed.

[Applegatej1]

The sale ends April first. Is there a message in that?

[Applegatej1]

Are you sure? I regularly access projects without any login or providing identity. It sounds more like the projects are pubic access.

James...

[Applegatej1]

Among the kits that have been assigned to the T2b15 group only one is not an exact match. At a genetic distance of two and using 1,500 years per step that would make our MRCA 2,500 years older than the estimated age of the group, less than 500 years. The difference in our mtDNA, 315ACAC and 315AC,...

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No, the Geno 2.0 test does.

The point I may have failed to make is that genealogical research will most likly not uncover the source of the Middle Eastern DNA signature....

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Hi Davidj
It is my understanding that the percentage of Middle Eastern given to most Europeans is analogous to Geno 2.0’s percentage of Neanderthal given to most testers. That is to say it is not genealogically relevant

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mtDNA Community

@ Bartot
What did you expect mtDNA Community to do for you?
I am still hopeful that the site will catch on, but I have not seen improvement in the low participation. At one time I had expected to see most of the kits I see at FTDNA plus new ones. I have...

[Applegatej1]

At the Family Tree R1b project {1} kits 145421, 31971, 206005 are Z142+ and kit 240232 is Z142-.

Those calls must be from tests other than Geno because on the Itai Perez spreadsheet {2} the Geno raw data has all the calls Z142(A).

ISOGG's {3} mutation definition for this...

[Applegatej1]

could be

I have simular results from these two Tests.

DNA Tribes 2010
The top three from the World Region match result:
NW European (.85) 105,031.76 MLI
Mediteranean (.84) 66,079.47 MLI
Levantine (.92) 62,534.10 MLI

Geno...