Phylotree Build 17

[mamoahina]

Which recommendation was wrong? Removing the small segments less than 7cM?...

[mamoahina]

I don't see anything that would indicate he has Hawaiian (Polynesian) ancestry. It should be a combination of East Asian (Southeast Asian) and Oceanian....

[mamoahina]

I second that. It's common knowledge within the genetic genealogy community about the emphasis on a rather large total shared compared to a small longest block (largest segment) is an indicator of an endogamous population.

I have pages of 100cM and larger where the longest block is...

[mamoahina]

Wow, thank you so much! I've been reading ways to fix it and no luck. This was fast and simple! Thank you!!!!!!...

[mamoahina]

Before & after. British Isles is more appropriate. My brother got only Scandinavian whereas before I had that entirely. And my brother went from 7% to 9% European/Scandinavian....

[mamoahina]

Now that I've been notified by other project members that their haplogroup change, finally updated to the current build, I noticed that many of my project members who were in the same haplogroup split off to various haplogroups. From what I can tell, those who were in the same haplogroup were not necessarily...

[mamoahina]

I guess you mean Melanesian but you must be talking about GEDmatch? If so, I could see why, as probably anyone with some South Asian ancestry may get small signals of Melanesian/Papuan New Guinea.

I'm Polynesian which means about 30% of our genome consists of Melanesian ancestry, a result...

[mamoahina]

I remember reading about for AJs, anything over 20cM for the longest block is good. For me being Polynesian I tell other Polynesians to look for longest block size more than 30cM if possible. Anything more than 20cM there is a chance but for us we get really large amounts.

For my mother's...

[mamoahina]

I can no longer add various people from the match list of Family Finder UNLESS they are all on the same page.

So if I add the last person on page 1 and their relative is on the next page, clicking on the check mark box to the left won't add both of them. It's only to add to the current...

[mamoahina]

Since there aren't a lot of Asians getting DNA tested in general, these may not be accurate.

My Filipino aunt gets very distant matches to Vietnamese and I thought I saw some Chinese names in there. None has ties to the Philippines whatsoever.

So while that works in that...

[mamoahina]

I only checked this forum just now to see if there was any talk about this update. Makes me wonder if there ever will be one this year....

[mamoahina]

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[mamoahina]

Didn't realize you responded. Anyway, just tested that particular SNP here at FTDNA.

A project member just tested F706. I'm going to assume like what I did, you have to search for it....

[mamoahina]

Not a parent, but definitely a relative, turns out to be a 1/2 3rd cousin to my mother. My mom is now 72 and I found the connection last July, didn't get in touch with relatives until late October. Of course the chances of my mother's parents being alive were slim but I knew that.

There...

[mamoahina]

I managed to get the one Pitcairn person take an autosomal test and compare that person to two people whose 1 grandparent was from Norfolk island, of which was resettled by Pitcairn people in 1850.