Is this Eupedia review credible (FTDNA lambasted)

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Hi MJW ... there's an online tool "What are the Odds?" (WATO) that can help you. It's part of the dnapainter site, and so you may have to register with dnapainter to use it.

It requires matches of 40cm or more (that's the total cM shared with a match, not individual segments)....

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Lobster - June 2019 would be the new (GSA) chip.

Ann Turner posted in one of the FB groups about the change in early April: "It appears that FTDNA has made the switch to the new GSA (Global Screening Array) chip ... for some people at least". It looks like the new chip started...

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Following on from Loobster's comment ... I came across a curious post in one of the FB groups, a few days ago. The poster had tested at FTDNA (FF) in December 2018, his father a few weeks later. Both kits were uploaded to GEDmatch, and their overlap was good. A cousin tested in July, and also uploaded...

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You can upload to MH - you don't have to do another test. It requires a separate sub to view MH's records. If you're on facebook, you can join various groups that could answer your questions. This is meant to be a forum about FTDNA topics

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Mudgeeclarke - I second what abuelita says .... although if great-grandfather Clarke was conceived in Australia, censuses can't help; try PO directories and electoral rolls instead (if they existed then). And I noticed you've already done Y testing.

Definitely upload your autosomal to Gedmatch,...

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Thanks very much, Emona

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Thank you, Biblioteque and Emona I thought I'd seen it somewhere before; that must've been where.

Emona, would you able to clarify, without getting too mathematical, why a 24cM segment has only a 1/4 chance of being recombined ... or direct me to an explanation elsewhere? Many tha...

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Biblioteque, I too would be interested in a link to that blog

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PaMarn - I would test both sisters (yours and your 2C's) if they're willing....

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Congratulations - a great success story

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Someone in the fb FTDNA Users group told me it's "also mentioned in the new Advanced Genetic Genealogy", which she'd just bought. (We'd been discussing the possibility of her example being a synthetic kit.) I'm assuming the book is Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies edited...

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Thanks, Contemplator Sorry I didn't respond to your post earlier (I haven't logged in for a while). Yes, I'd told my cousin there was surname project that covered his surname, so he knew about that advantage. And I wasn't going to re-visit matching ... we'd already thrashed that.
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Thanks, Doug and John ... and thanks especially to John for reminding me about ISOGG

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One of my cousins was considering a Y-dna test at FTDNA, but has been thoroughly put off by this review: https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/which_ancestry_dna_test_to_choose.shtml

Some of the points raised about Y testing (eg the moans about STR testing, and FTDNA's "motives"...

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Thanks, prairielad. You've beaten me to it ...