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From: "William Scott" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry Newly Identified DYS385 Numbers
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:06:44 -0500
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I had my y dna done by both FTDNA and Ancestry.com. My 385a/b results were
the same from both.
Ancestry originally assigned B,D to the 385a/b which were later changed to
11,13 the same as FTDNA gave right away.
William Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glennon/McNeil" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 5:00 PM
Subject: [DNA] Ancestry Newly Identified DYS385 Numbers


>
> My Glennon Y-DNA project is with FTDNA. However, I also had my personal
> Y-DNA done by Ancestry.com in order to get some insight on additional
> markers.
>
> Responding to a message from Emmett Mason, I recently went to my
> Ancestry page and found that the values for DYS385 a & b had been
> changed from alpha to numeric. I had not received any notice from
> Ancestry that these changes had been made.
>
> Ancestry reported these numbers as 11 and 14. Of course, I immediately
> compared these results to the same markers from FTDNA. FTDNA reported
> these as 11 and 16 for me.
>
> In addition, FTDNA has processed more than thirty separate samples from
> the Glennon group and 15 of them are 16 on DYS385 b; so, this 16 is not
> a single observation. I am concerned by this difference.
>
> Has anyone else been tested by both FTDNA and Ancestry.com who can tell
> us whether the results are the same or different from these two
> companies now that the alpha values have been translated to numeric?
>
> Is there some reason that I am not aware of why Ancestry's numbers are
> different from FTDNA's? Is there some adjustment to one of these
> numbers that must be made to make them comparable?
>
> I would appreciate any input that readers can give me. This is a
> troublesome development.
>
> This follows on the heels of a silent correction to one of my numbers
> that Ancestry made in the past.
>
> Clarke Glennon
>
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