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Viewing and Navigation Help
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First of All ...
Please Note
: The results pages were designed to be displayed using an Internet Explorer browser. Other browsers can be used, but may not display some of the pages as intended. If you experience any severe viewing problems, please contact the Web Master at (Riddle at WmERiddle dot com).
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Basics
Page Width: The results pages are defined to be viewed at a specific width and won't automatically adjust to the size of your viewing window. If the pages are clipped on the right, just adjust the size of your window until you can see the whole page.
Font Size: If you would prefer to see the results pages in larger type, the font size can be adjusted by changing the setting in Text Size under the View menu of your browser. Alternatively, in some versions of Windows, you can change the font size by holding down the Ctrl key and rolling the wheel on a two-button mouse.
Non-responsive Links: If you click on a link and there appears to be no response, the link may not be broken. If you are viewing windows "maximized," the new window may have appeared behind the window you are viewing. The best way to view the results pages is to tile your windows and make sure that none completely overlap others.
Errors: Any work of this kind is bound to contain errors. If you find broken links or other difficulties with technical aspects of the results pages, please contact the Web Master (Riddle at WmERiddle dot com). Participant lineage information is as provided by project participants and it has not been scrutinized for evidence or accuracy. If you are a participant and find errors in your lineage, please contact David Ewing (DavidEwing93 at gmail dot com) and he will correct the lineage. If you are an interested genealogist and find an error or otherwise want to discuss a given lineage, please contact David Ewing and he will put you in touch with the appropriate participant.
Feedback: These results pages will expand and improve only through additional participation and feedback from viewers. David Ewing (DavidEwing93 at gmail dot com) welcomes new participants as well as any and all comments and suggestions of whatever kind.
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Types of Results Pages
Results of the Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project are displayed in several inter-related forms, any of which can be reached from the links on each results page. When you click on one of these links, your browser will open a new window with the page you requested.
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Network Diagrams
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Network Diagrams are an easy way to get a quick overview of project results. They display genetic distances between participants graphically, so that clusters of more closely related individuals are easy to see.
Distances between individuals in a Network Diagram are proportional to the genetic distance between them.
Our Network Diagrams were prepared using Network, a shareware program from Fluxus Engineering, which is available for free download from their
website.
For more information about Network Diagrams, use the About link on the Network Diagrams menu.
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Results Tables
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For every group, there is a Results Table that shows the haplotypes of the group's members. The table is preceded by a discussion of the group and is followed by notes about specific participants.
In each Table, the first row after the marker names is a modal haplotype with which individual haplotypes (and sometimes other modals of interest) in the subsequent rows are compared. Differences are highlighted. Not all of the Groups are compared to the same modal haplotype. Go to Modal Haplotypes for a brief discussion and comparison of these and other modal haplotypes of interest.
Because of space limitations, these tables display only 37-marker haplotypes. Many participants have had additional STR marker and/or SNP testing. The IDs of those who have had additional tests are marked with checkmarks at the end of the row; which are linked to the additional results on another page.
Results Tables were prepared using Dean McGee's Y-DNA Comparison Utility, which is available for free use at his
website.
For more information about Results Tables, use the About link on the ResultsTables menu.
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Group Relationship Diagrams
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Group Relationship Diagrams outline the paternal lineages of project participants, based on their conventional genealogic research. Detailed information on participant lineages is available on Lineage Charts elsewhere in the results pages. On some of the diagrams there are links to chapters in Fife's book in which branches on the diagram appear.
These diagrams also show the mutations that distinguish the men in each diagram from one another, and where it is possible to do so, we have indicated in which of the ancestors a mutation has occurred. There is no Group Relationship Diagram for Group 2 as yet, because we have lineage information on only one man in that group.
For more information about Group Relationship Diagrams, use the About link on the Group Diagrams menu.
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Lineage Charts
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Most project participants have provided a lineage including their known direct-line Ewing ancestors and their wives and children, with dates and places of birth, marriage and death. Some lineages include the names of siblings. Many people find the way siblings are displayed to be confusing-please read about this in the About link under the Lineage Charts menu.
We have not scrutinized or independently verified the evidence for these lineages. Some participants provided incomplete information, and we may have made some mistakes in transcribing them.
We encourage interested persons to be directly in touch with project participants to discuss their lineages more fully. Please send all inquiries to the project administrator, David Ewing (DavidEwing93 at gmail dot com), and he will forward them to the appropriate person.
For more information about Lineage Charts use the About link on the Lineage Charts menu.
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Resources
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Resources are of many different kinds. Some, like the Y-DNA Articles and a growing number of short articles explaining specific concepts, are on the Y-DNA web site and can be read or printed as PDF files just like the other Results Pages. Others, like Margaret Ewing Fife's book, are on the main Clan Ewing web site, but they look and work in very much the same way as the Y-DNA Project Results Pages.
Other Resources consist of links to websites and articles elsewhere on the web. Some links will take you to Utilities that are available to help in the analysis of DNA results and in searching for genetic relatives who are not Ewing project participants.
For more information about Resources use the About link on the Resources menu.
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Navigating Among Results Pages
Most of the Results Pages have a set of menus down the left-hand side of the page: Network Diagrams, Results Tables, Relationship Diagrams, Lineages, Resources, etc. As you roll over each menu, a submenu of self-explanatory links appears, which will take you to other pages. For example, when you roll over the Results Tables menu, links to each of the Group Results Tables will appear. By default, the links under different menus open in different windows. So for example if you are looking at the Group 1 Results Table and you click on the link to the Group 1 Relationship Diagram, it will open in a new window and you can look at the Results Table and the Relationship Diagram side by side. On the other hand, if you are looking at a Results Table and you click on the link to another Results Table, it will open in the window you had been looking at. Of course, you can toggle back and forth between the Results Tables you have opened by using the back and forward buttons of your browser.
It is possible to get enough windows open at once on your desktop to confuse yourself. For example, if you have a Relationship Diagram open somewhere at the bottom of the stack on your desktop while you are looking at a Network Diagram and you click on a link to another Relationship Diagram, it will open in the buried window where you had the other Relationship Diagram open and you might think nothing has happened. Experience indicates that the best way to really study this stuff is to print the diagrams and tables that you are working on. Of course, you may very well lose a printed page by allowing it to shuffle to the bottom of the stack on your desk, too, but at least you are not dealing with apparently unresponsive links.
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Downloading
If you are a DNA researcher and would prefer to have the Ewing haplotype information in an Excel file, click on the Raw DNA Data link under the Results Tables menu.
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Printing
The best way to print material from the website is to use the PDF versions of the pages. Most pages have a link to the PDF version of the page at the top of the white window. You can print the PDF version from the website even if you do not have a PDF reader installed on your computer, by clicking on the printer icon in the gray bar at the top of the PDF frame (second icon from left, below the tan shaded area where the Results Pages links are located). You can also save the PDF on your computer by clicking on the icon to the left of the printer icon, but to read it or print it later, you will need a PDF reader, which is available as a
free download.
Please note that in a downloaded PDF version, only the links starting with www are active.
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