Trouble Joining Projects

[Judy]

It is working ok. I think the problem was, as usual, no matter how many times I tell prospective project members who have already tested with FTDNA to use their FTDNA personal webpage to join the project, they don't; they use the link from the project website that is for new customers to order a kit....

[Judy]

Since the change to the new personal webpages, four people who have already tested with FTDNA have tried to join my projects from their personal FTDNA pages. For each one I got an e-mail from FTDNA telling me to click on one of two links: one if I accept the person to the project, and the other if...

[Judy]

But then there could be an error in the lab mixing up one person's results with someone else's- which turns out to be a much larger source of error in criminal DNA tests than the error rate of the actual test. Maybe I was a little too strong ("no generalization is worth a damn, including this...

[Judy]

What makes you think clinical tests and diagnoses are not statistical? Every screening test and diagnostic test is based either on a hypothesis or an assumption using already observed data, and comes with a chance of making a random error. There is no such thing as certainty- not in medicine, not...

[Judy]

Looking at a map of Europe, I see that the 0 degree longitude line goes through London (or very close). Since Glasgow is west of London, the longitude with the negative sign would be the correct one.

Hope this helps
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[Judy]

Go to the bottom of the USER PREFERENCE page on your personal Family Tree DNA website. There is space to enter the latitude and longitude.
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[Judy]

Bennett said at the conference that the TMRCA for a FGS match is approximately equivalent to that of a Y-DNA 37 marker match.
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[Judy]

Thanks Vince, good idea.
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[Judy]

Elise, sending a reminder note and an offer of assistance turned out to be a good idea after all, for a reason that I hadn't even thought of. I got an immediate response from someone who said he paid for the kit for his uncle, and thanked me for telling him that the sample was not sent back yet. He...

[Judy]

Thanks Elise. You provided me with the incentive to go ahead and contact those who haven't sent back their kits. I think they were all paid for, but I'll check to make sure.
Judy

[Judy]

Do any of you contact people who have ordered kits through your project, paid for them and then not sent them back to FTDNA? There are five people in Jewish Ukraine West who ordered kits nearly two months ago and have not yet sent their DNA samples back.

I was thinking about e-mailing...

[Judy]

Victor, I got the 37 marker results back for the project member who had previously tested with GeneBase. FTDNA reported two of the markers differently.

DYS #455: FTDNA = 11 and GeneBase = 10

GATA H4: FTDNA = 9 and GeneBase = 10

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[Judy]

Oh, of course, I should have realized that. Thanks for clearing up my confusion Larry.
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[Judy]

For whom would it be appropriate to test for S22? Only those with I* and J* or all I's and J's?
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[Judy]

This discussion of Bennett and your generalizations are making me very uncomfortable. Physical traits are based on recombinant DNA, not the Y-DNA SNP markers that determine haplogroup.
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