Re: Possible New Place to Fish for Matches
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 9:28 PM James Kane < jkane@...> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Just thought I'd share something I noticed with the latest generation of chips over at 23andMe after deciding to upgrade the ancient V2 test there. ? The last round seems to have added a good number of branches from the ISOGG tree.? Granted it's not full as the current FTDNA tree but it's also ?a huge reservoir of untapped matching for some.? The database is estimated to be the 2nd largest for genetic genealogy and unlike AncestryDNA,? the results of your haplogroups are included.
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> Those of us near the ends of the tree have some really incredible opportunities here, since you don't need to convince these folks to STR test? prior to convincing them to take a Big Y or WGS test.? Here's what the chip managed to find in my sample:
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> That's roughly 200-300 years before present.? It's also 1 in 68,000 23andMe customers. ? Meaning there are 150 men in here on the branch shared by McCarty and myself, and almost certainly not in FTDNA's database! ? Unfortunately, the ability to filter on this information has been moved to a $29 per year premium tier though.
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> So if you are on the older chip and wondering if there's any benefit outside the new health reports, ?this is just one new feature you'll get for the $70-90. > > James Kane >
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