Retry.
From: John R Carpenter
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 8:39 AM
To: Rootsweb Carpenter ; CarpenterCousins(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: Changes to FTDNA myOrigins - Family Finder - atDNA - Ethnic Makeup
Hello Lists,
For those who have tested their atDNA or autosomal DNA with FTDNA via the
Family Finder test, there has been some changes in myOrigins. See the
FTDNA message below.
Attached are screenshots of what FTDNA had for my atDNA via myOrigins, both
before and new versions with Ethnic Makeup. Those on Rootsweb will not be
able to see the attachments.
To me, the new trace aspects of less than 2% are erroneous and superfluous
to my genealogy.
The older Ethnic Makeup matched my known genealogy (Carpenter and other
ancestors) much more accurately.
All that said, we need to remember that such Ethnic Makeup modeling is based
on reported origins, current testing and mathematical modeling reflecting a
period of less than 500 years. And I believe, a desire to make people more
homogenous which tends to be a current trend.
And it does not reflect populations that existed there many thousands of
years prior. Human migrations due to social conditions (politics), famine,
war/invasions, and often pushed along with continuing climate change
(warming) since the end of the last glacial period, influences constant
changes.
So, right or wrong, it is all just a calculated guess. And such modeled data
will change again in the future. Why? Because of new data, new ideas or
theories or some new item or twist added to the mathematical modeling!
The same goes for Haplogroups and Haplotypes even with confirmed SNPs.
Change one factor in the mathematical modeling and different results occur.
Simply we need to take this all with a healthy dose of skepticism and not as
gospel truth.
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA USA
Carpenter Cousins Project
http://carpentercousins.com
Images stripped from the following message
From: Family Tree DNA
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 1:36 PM
To: johnrcarpenter(a)cox.net
Subject: New Populations Clusters in myOrigins!
Dear Project Administrators,
Drum roll, please! The moment many of you have been waiting for has arrived.
We’re launching the update to myOrigins!
New Population Clusters
Our Population Genetics team worked for months to define and validate new
population clusters and to refine existing ones. Under seven subcontinental
groups, we've added six new clusters for a total of 24 reference
populations.
Here's how they break down:
African
East Central Africa
West Africa
South Central Africa
Central/South Asian
South Central Asia
Oceania
Central Asia
East Asian
Northeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Siberia
Europe
West and Central Europe
East Europe
Iberia
Southeast Europe
British Isles
Finland
Scandinavia
Jewish Diaspora
Sephardic Diaspora
Ashkenazi Diaspora
Middle Eastern
East Middle East
West Middle East
Asia Minor
North Africa
New World
North and Central America
South and Central America
New Interactive Landing Page
The Product Design team created a new interactive landing page that provides
detailed explanations of each group's anthropological and historical
significance as well as a link to our Learning Center for more information.
But that's not all! You asked, we delivered.
In addition to the new clusters and the interactive design, we will now show
trace percentages. Previously we only showed results of one percent or
above. With the update, those populations under two percent will be reported
as <2%.
The Engineering team reran the entire autosomal database to report these
updated results, so as soon as the switch is flipped, the update will be
available to everyone. We're excited about this update and hope you will be,
too.
As always, thank you for the work you do with your projects. We appreciate
it, and we appreciate you.
Sincerely,
The Family Tree DNA Team