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From: Raymond Wing <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA Heritage conversion to FTDNA now available -- kitswill have an H prefix.
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:52:56 -0700 (PDT)
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Some time ago it was announced that DNA Heritage was folding up its operations.
As part of this process, they had made an agreement with FT DNA to take over
their DNA database. We are now beginning to see the data from the former DNA
Heritage being integrated with the FT DNA data.




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From: Diana Gale Matthiesen <>
To:
Sent: Fri, July 1, 2011 7:39:24 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA Heritage conversion to FTDNA now available -- kits will
have an H prefix.

How is this conversion done? I've gotten no notice as project admin
that this could be done. Do you mean they gain entry into the FTDNA
database, so they show up on our GAP?

Diana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:genealogy-dna-
> ] On Behalf Of Ann Turner
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 6:27 AM
> To: ; ISOGG;
> Subject: [DNA] DNA Heritage conversion to FTDNA now available --
> kits will have an H prefix.
>
> I'm impressed by how smoothly the process went -- it wasn't a
> trivial task.
> One kit was compared to FTDNA's 12-marker panel and the other (with
> more
> markers) to the 25-marker panel. I was able to find and join
> projects for
> them.
>
> The complete set of DNAH results is displayed separately. It looks
> like
> GATA-H4 has been converted from the NIST standard to FTDNA's
> internal
> nomenclature (subtract one from DNA Heritage).
>
> One glitch: a DYS459a/b result of 9/9 was converted to 99. I have
> sent
> feedback about this, so people might want to delay a bit before
> converting
> to see if the issue can be fixed quickly. Another person has
> reported 910 in
> the field for DYS459, where a common result is 9/10, so it's not
> just a
> place holder for an unknown value.
>
> Ann Turner




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