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From: "Dale E. Reddick" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] New R1b and its subclades Haplogroup Project Launched
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:42:48 -0500
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Hi Folks,

I concur with Mike's comments. And like him, I'm basically a newbie.

And for a newbie, I think Mike has stated things quite well. Based on
my own experiences, what Mike has had to say seems to be quite accurate.

I've even gone further when parsing out how to have tests performed.
Recently, a distant cousin of mine contacted individuals with an
identical surname to that of our colonial Georgia German ancestors. I
advised a member of that family to test with DNA-Fingerprint, as that
company is co-located with them in Germany. I wanted their DNA testing
experience to be as easy as possible for them - as they are new to it.
I advised them to be sure and be tested on the set of panels offered by
DNA-FP that most closely matched those offered by FTDNA. I even
e-mailed Thomas Krahn about what sort of test I thought they should have
and Thomas kindly replied to me that he would advise them
appropriately. I think my approach in regards to this testing is just
pure common sense - go where things will be easiest for those who are
being tested.

Now, at the same time I had another individual wanting to be tested for
a possible match to my Reddicks in Georgia. It's not at all certain
that this lady's nephew will match me and my cousins, but it's
possible. Her g-grandfather had been recorded in several censii in
middle Georgia - near where some of my relatives lived. I suggested
that she have her Reddick nephew tested with FTDNA. Why? Because it
made sense to do so. That's where the rest of us have been tested at
12, 25, and 37 markers. Here's the interesting part to this - she and
her nephew are African-American. Her g-grandfather was born a slave or
else was born to former slaves. And he had the Reddick surname and was
in a county where my Reddick relatives had lived. I don't know what
outcome to expect, but I eagerly await the results of this young
Reddick's testing. I expect to learn things from him being tested.

Basically, I think that you choose whichever firm offers the best option
to complete the task you have set before you.

Sincerely,

Dale E. Reddick
Co-Administrator, Reddick / r320 DNA Surname Project

*Reddick / r320 DNA Surname Project*

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Reddick%2Dr320/



Michael Maddi wrote:

>List,
>
>I'm just a newbie myself, only having joined this list
>in July and having been tested for 37 markers yDNA and
>HVR1 and HVR2 mtDNA at FTDNA in October. At that time
>I also joined and became co-administrator of the
>Sicily project at FTDNA. So I don't have all the
>experience that others have - but on the other hand I
>don't have the baggage that might bring along.
>
>First of all, from everything I know and have read on
>this list, to me FTDNA is the best place to have a
>project. I am using their website template and
>fine-tuning it a bit, but I may move the website to
>geocities or something like that in the future. Right
>now what FTDNA provides for the website is quite
>adequate. I do appreciate their quality customer
>service. A couple of weeks ago, a potential member had
>a problem in joining the project. With one e-mail to
>FTDNA, it was resolved and he was a member the next
>day. Another example of their responsiveness to admins
>is the question of joining more than 2 projects. My
>co-admin and I had an e-mail exchange with Bennett
>Greenspan in October about the need to allow customers
>to join more than 2 projects, e.g., a surname, a
>geographical for the paternal line and a geographical
>for the maternal line. Now we all see that FTDNA has
>greatly expanded the number of projects a customer can
>join, even more than we requested in October. Another
>great advantage is having the ability to attract new
>members who initially tested through National
>Geographic's project - 7 of our 21 members were
>initially from that project.
>
>Now, as to SNP testing, it's no secret that FTDNA has
>had serious problems with turnaround time. The
>turnaround time for their YSTR testing has
>significantly improved recently. I'm not so sure that
>that's the case with their SNP testing. Time will
>tell. This is the reason I had the multiplex test at
>EA. I was predicted R1b by FTDNA but had no close
>matches in their database, so I was skeptical of that
>prediction and wanted an SNP test. The multiplex at EA
>gave me just what I was looking for. It also confirmed
>that I'm R1b1c. I am awaiting S21 and M160 test
>results from EA. It's clear that if you're sure that
>your haplogroup is R1b, EA is the place for a SNP test
>because of all the groundbreaking work they're doing
>there. If you're not R1b and already have your YSTR
>testing at FTDNA, their new SNP testing options are
>attractive. The only question I have is whether they
>have devoted enough resources to improve their
>turnaround time significantly. One of our members just
>ordered the SNP test for the J haplogroup. I will be
>watching closely to see how soon he gets his results.
>
>So the bottom line is this. Maybe FTDNA is not Bob
>Stafford's cup of tea, but for most people who want to
>start a project, it's the best place to go. If you
>want to talk about SNP tests, it's not so clear that
>FTDNA can effectively offer the range of services of
>EA and other companies, although that may be changing.
>I hope that is changing because the more companies
>that do a great job, the more options we have.
>
>Mike Maddi
>
>--- wrote:
>
>
>

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