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Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Kaspias Wrote: (09-09-2024, 08:59 PM)
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Cascio Wrote: (09-05-2024, 07:15 AM)
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Kaspias Wrote: (08-26-2024, 08:14 PM)
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Ancestry gets even more political in each update they don't even want to hi... |
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geebee-1015 |
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09-30-2024, 07:46 PM |
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Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
boiler20100203 Wrote: (09-26-2024, 02:06 PM)
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There is a banner up now teasing a pending update “Our biggest update ever is coming soon!”
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For me "Our biggest update" usually translates to "our... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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09-27-2024, 03:04 PM |
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Thread: Ancestry's treatment of "both sides" matches.
Post: RE: Ancestry's treatment of "both sides" matches.
Pro Tools Shared matching has really driven home to me how wrong-headed Ancestry's approach to determining side is. As I've said, there is no such thing as a "Both" side. There are only Maternal mat... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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09-13-2024, 10:31 PM |
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Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
muttgenes Wrote: (09-06-2024, 02:25 PM)
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Cascio Wrote: (09-06-2024, 10:11 AM)
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geebee-1015 Wrote: (09-06-2024, 07:50 AM)
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Do you really think that if they thought they weren't winning they'd ... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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09-06-2024, 05:08 PM |
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Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Cascio Wrote: (09-05-2024, 07:18 AM)
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These companies can't win.
If they give a customer 100pc single-ethnicity they are being too generalised or vague; if they give a lot of trace ethnicities ... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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09-06-2024, 07:50 AM |
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Thread: Ancestry needs to rethink "Indigenous Americas" categories
Post: Ancestry needs to rethink "Indigenous Americas" ca...
One group of ancestries that I find particularly annoying in terms of Ancestry's treatment of them is "Indigenous Americas".
The reason is, Ancestry considers them entirely separate and distinct --... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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09-04-2024, 03:33 AM |
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Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
I have mixed feelings about the prospect of yet another update. My experience has been that they don't show all that much improvement for me -- in fact, generally the opposite.
This has been true ... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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08-26-2024, 07:58 PM |
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Thread: Multiple AncestryDNA Tests
Post: RE: Multiple AncestryDNA Tests
Here's a sample of what makes me really doubtful concerning the reliability of Ancestry's matching process:
As I've said in other posts here, I've now taken the same Ancestry test two different tim... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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08-26-2024, 04:21 PM |
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Thread: Deeper discoveries with new DNA Match tools | Ancestry®
Post: RE: Deeper discoveries with new DNA Match tools | ...
randalgibbs Wrote: (06-20-2024, 02:04 AM)
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I have the ProTools enhanced shared matches in my account. One thing I didn’t expect is the inclusion of shared matches below 20cM. The match must still s... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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08-16-2024, 11:02 PM |
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Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups
Chromosome-by-chromosome comparison:
chromosome 1: My maternal copy - entirely Scotland; my paternal copy - entirely Germanic Europe.
My daughter's paternal copy - entirely Germanic Europe. My... |
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geebee-1015 |
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08-15-2024, 05:03 AM |
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Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups
muttgenes Wrote: (08-12-2024, 04:16 PM)
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geebee-1015 Wrote: (08-07-2024, 08:44 AM)
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The results of my upgrade just came in:
Northwestern European 90.1%
-- French & German 48.9%
Western Swi... |
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geebee-1015 |
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08-15-2024, 03:10 AM |
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Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups
Stefanie Wrote: (08-14-2024, 06:32 PM)
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geebee-1015 Wrote: (08-07-2024, 09:08 AM)
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Not sure what it means (if anything), but in 23andMe's Chromosome Painting, the main region labeled by Ancestry... |
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geebee-1015 |
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08-15-2024, 02:53 AM |
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Thread: Timber is deeply, deeply flawed
Post: RE: Timber is deeply, deeply flawed
We also should not underestimate the importance of Ancestry getting the phasing right. I don't believe they always do, and if the phasing is wrong than everything else may be wrong -- even before the... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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08-10-2024, 06:44 AM |
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Thread: Knuckle dragger? Your Neanderthal DNA at 23andMe
Post: RE: Knuckle dragger? Your Neanderthal DNA at 23and...
I seem to be very middle-of-the-road in terms of Neanderthal DNA. 23andMe tells me, "You have more Neanderthal DNA than 50% of other customers." |
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geebee-1015 |
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08-07-2024, 10:22 AM |
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Thread: What do you got in Y-DNA and mtDNA in 23andME ?
Post: RE: What do you got in Y-DNA and mtDNA in 23andME ...
23andMe really isn't of much use to me in terms of either mtDNA or YDNA. For the former, they only tell me "H1"; and for the latter, it's "L-1029". By contrast, at FTDNA I have "H1bg" and "R-Y137476... |
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geebee-1015 |
23andMe
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08-07-2024, 10:14 AM |
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Thread: 23andMe’s Historical Matches
Post: RE: 23andMe’s Historical Matches
I have ten matches. All but two are designated as "Viking Age Individual VK[three-digit number]", and are all from Denmark and Sweden. The other two matches are designated as "Migration Period Indi... |
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geebee-1015 |
23andMe
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08-07-2024, 10:04 AM |
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Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups
geebee-1015 Wrote: (08-07-2024, 08:44 AM)
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The results of my upgrade just came in:
Northwestern European 90.1%
-- French & German 48.9%
Western Swiss Plateau (Very Close)
Rhineland (Very Cl... |
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geebee-1015 |
23andMe
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08-07-2024, 09:08 AM |
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Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups
The results of my upgrade just came in:
Northwestern European 90.1%
-- French & German 48.9%
Western Swiss Plateau (Very Close)
Rhineland (Very Close)
Eastern German Plains (Close)
-- B... |
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geebee-1015 |
23andMe
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2,324 |
08-07-2024, 08:44 AM |
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Thread: Timber is deeply, deeply flawed
Post: RE: Timber is deeply, deeply flawed
Here's another group more closely related to each other than to me. Four of them are my 3rd cousins, but siblings to one another; the fifth is my 3rd cousin once removed, and son to one of the 3rd co... |
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geebee-1015 |
AncestryDNA
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08-01-2024, 11:14 PM |
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Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
I don't have an update as such, but I do have the results of an entirely new test. It's unchanged in terms of what nine ancestries have been identified, but there are a few changes in the percentages... |
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geebee-1015 |
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08-01-2024, 03:36 PM |