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From: William McCeney <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry Newly Identified DYS385 Numbers
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:42:13 -0400
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Dennis,

Will you be posting your FTDNA results?

thanks

Bill McCeney

Dennis Hunt wrote:

> My results are the same from both FTDNA and Ancestry.com. I checked and the
> letters were changed to numbers on 385a and b at Ancestry.
>
> Dennis
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glennon/McNeil" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:00 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
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records,
> go to:
> > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
> >
> >
>
> ==============================
> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to:
> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

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