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    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

Kaspias Wrote: (09-09-2024, 08:59 PM) -- Cascio Wrote: (09-05-2024, 07:15 AM) -- Kaspias Wrote: (08-26-2024, 08:14 PM) -- Ancestry gets even more political in each update they don't even want to hi...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 49 8,812 09-30-2024, 07:46 PM
    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

boiler20100203 Wrote: (09-26-2024, 02:06 PM) -- There is a banner up now teasing a pending update “Our biggest update ever is coming soon!” -- For me "Our biggest update" usually translates to "our...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 49 8,812 09-27-2024, 03:04 PM
    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...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 2 712 09-13-2024, 10:31 PM
    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

muttgenes Wrote: (09-06-2024, 02:25 PM) -- Cascio Wrote: (09-06-2024, 10:11 AM) -- geebee-1015 Wrote: (09-06-2024, 07:50 AM) -- Do you really think that if they thought they weren't winning they'd ...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 49 8,812 09-06-2024, 05:08 PM
    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

Cascio Wrote: (09-05-2024, 07:18 AM) -- 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 ...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 49 8,812 09-06-2024, 07:50 AM
    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 --...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 0 117 09-04-2024, 03:33 AM
    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 ...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 49 8,812 08-26-2024, 07:58 PM
    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 13 617 08-26-2024, 04:21 PM
    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) -- 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...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 45 2,921 08-16-2024, 11:02 PM
    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
23andMe 40 2,324 08-15-2024, 05:03 AM
    Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups

muttgenes Wrote: (08-12-2024, 04:16 PM) -- geebee-1015 Wrote: (08-07-2024, 08:44 AM) -- The results of my upgrade just came in: Northwestern European 90.1% -- French & German 48.9% Western Swi...
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geebee-1015
23andMe 40 2,324 08-15-2024, 03:10 AM
    Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups

Stefanie Wrote: (08-14-2024, 06:32 PM) -- geebee-1015 Wrote: (08-07-2024, 09:08 AM) -- 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
23andMe 40 2,324 08-15-2024, 02:53 AM
    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...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 20 1,435 08-10-2024, 06:44 AM
    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."
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
23andMe 47 2,323 08-07-2024, 10:22 AM
    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 45 2,366 08-07-2024, 10:14 AM
    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...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
23andMe 39 3,403 08-07-2024, 10:04 AM
    Thread: New French & German Genetic Groups
Post: RE: New French & German Genetic Groups

geebee-1015 Wrote: (08-07-2024, 08:44 AM) -- The results of my upgrade just came in: Northwestern European 90.1% -- French & German 48.9% Western Swiss Plateau (Very Close) Rhineland (Very Cl...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
23andMe 40 2,324 08-07-2024, 09:08 AM
    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...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
23andMe 40 2,324 08-07-2024, 08:44 AM
    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...
geebee-1015
geebee-1015
AncestryDNA 20 1,435 08-01-2024, 11:14 PM
    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
AncestryDNA 49 8,812 08-01-2024, 03:36 PM