I think it's great that yDNA and mtDNA are being propagated all over GENI. There is one suggestion that I think would make things even better. Here is the situation: supposing I am looking at a pretty distant profile from the 1600s. Let me give an example: supposing I am studying https://www.geni.com/people/Eliezer-Charlap/6000000014618634004 and would like to find out more about his yDNA haplogroup. I use the DNA tab to ask for possible descendants and I see a list of 4 6-8 grandchildren possibilities. However, if I go down the tree six generations to https://www.geni.com/people/Shimon-Charlap/6000000014484151852 I see that Simon has the yDNA logo and the haplogroup E-M34. So the problem here is that the system is not telling me that it already has a yDNA hg result for this patriline when I ask, and instead is sending me off to find these 6-8x grandchildren. Can we do something about this? Hopefully, Adam Cherson
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Yao Liu I looked into it, and found out that it was because Eliezer Charlap is more than 10 generations from living descendants. Geni had decided to stop DNA propagation at 10 steps (as far as I recall), though it is possible that they will extend it in the future (say if two or more separate branches agree, we can be pretty sure that all the intermediate ones should have the same haplogroup).
But I agree that right now they should be able to tell us more, without us investigating. Say, so-and-so has tested as E-M34, but is 13 generations away.(By the way, I have marked those four profiles deceased.)
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