Malformed Chromosome Browser download files

[Russ Lipton]

Same need, same issue and I couldn't even get support to give me a reason, an answer or a schedule for fixing.

[Russ Lipton]

Downloading all segments for all matches is not working for me, either.

[Russ Lipton]

When downloading a complete chromosome browser file, it chokes (halts) at the record for Mayard David Seidman because his data is malformed/misformatted. This happens, of course, for all test-takers that show him as a match, which makes it rather difficult for me to work on behalf of those test-takers....

[Russ Lipton]

Yes, but the matches for both test-takers extend out to the usual 5th-remote, so your reply, no offense, does not make sense to me - from a technical perspective. Or am i missing something?

Also, only one of the tests I describe was Ancestry. The other was 23andMe.

[Russ Lipton]

I am helping a few people and am perplexed - though they have paid the transfer fees, they show far fewer matches in FTDNA than they should.

Two instances ... Ashkenazi heritage, one 50%, one 100%. Typical FTDNA test-takers show > 10K matches for 50%; up to 18K or so matches for 100%....

[Russ Lipton]

Is it possible to download myOrigins data for a test taker's Family Tree matches? It not, why not and can it be reasonably requested as a feature update?

[Russ Lipton]

LOL. It is working again for me, which I appreciate. Just retested. If this is an intermittent, hard-to-trace bug, that is not exactly encouraging ...

[Russ Lipton]

FYI, I have been experiencing this for the past three weeks, so it isn't new.

[Russ Lipton]

Elise,

I'll respond to your FTDNA points soon, but meanwhile, let it be known ;-) that you repeatedly gave me extraordinarily kind (free, sheesh) help in the first week-or-so after most unexpected Y-DNA test results in 2006. (This took place before Elise became associated formally with...

[Russ Lipton]

I submitted a Big-Y test on 5-19. Results were promised for mid-July. Four months have elapsed. No reply to latest query to FTDNA over a week ago, only my second contact about this.

FTDNA should have called a halt to new orders weeks ago. Something is profoundly wrong on either the business...

[Russ Lipton]

Answering myself, I have made at least one rookie mistake off-the-bat: all evidence points to the father's (mother's) side for the male in my scenario. Still true and persuasive, I believe, but HIS x-match with my female research subject must come (first) from his mother, not his father.

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[Russ Lipton]

Genealogical AND genetic research has pointed rather definitively to a specific g-grandparent pair for a research subject of mine.

The (prime) female subject shows a 10 cM X match with a male KNOWN to be descended from these g-grandparents. He also matches my subject (and other known...

[Russ Lipton]

Agreed, though Sally is unlikely to have many OTHER x-chromosome matches that match Susie. She has 7 X-matches in common with Susie and 231 (apparently) not -in-common with Susie. This forms a similar ratio, roughly, to their match pattern overall.



I didn't, thanks.
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[Russ Lipton]

Still hoping for help on this ...

[Russ Lipton]

"Sally" was adopted. She and her half-(birth) sibling were Family Finder tested. I postulate that the vast majority of Sally's X-matches must come from her Ashkenazi-line paternal grandmother. Does this seem correct?

See attached graphic for my reasoning.

(Ashkenazi...