I know it didn't cost my uncle a penny, past travel, but my missus did hers to learn more about her ethnicity and descent and that is the main statement when you get your report back.On that theme...
Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family review – let's get regalled out of our brains!
Anyway, FamilySearch has its place. Ancestry and FindmyPast do have many different types of records however, so are of more use. You don't even have to pay necessarily, either... just head to your nearest archive / record office, and they invariably will have a subscription to ancestry that you can use, free of charge.
Plus extra records, if you're in the area.
That's because Ancestry DNA's test is skewed towards UK results, they have very few samples from people born outside the UK.Mine was 92% English, 5% Scottish/Irish and 3% Norwegian.
Missus was a lot more convoluted. Hers was spread widely across Germany, Scandanavia, the Baltic's and North America.
That's because Ancestry DNA's test is skewed towards UK results, they have very few samples from people born outside the UK.
'My heritage' has a much larger database. You can submit your Ancestory profiles to them. There's a fee, though sometimes it's on free offer.
I’ve always been interested in my family history, went back up to Scotland to see the family castle and it has a lot about the heritage etc it’s great
no coastal castle so pretty covered already!Does it have a moat?
Far play to em , equality for lefties I say .Interesting thing I saw on a documentary recently about the Grant clan, which is my Scottish bit of ancestry.
They built their castles 'back to front', with all the staircases winding the other way to normal etc because they had an unusually high number of left handed people. I'm left-handed.
Far play to em , equality for lefties I say .
Much undervalued and expected to conform .(Sinestre)
Campbell's myself, devious buggers back then.
Many years ago, me and 'er indoors toured Scotland and booked into a cracking hotel near Glencoe. A sign above the reception desk area quoted, "Campbells not welcome!" That was it! Blunt and to the point. I told the missus to hide the tins of soup we'd just bought in a local shop!Far play to em , equality for lefties I say .
Much undervalued and expected to conform .(Sinestre)
Campbell's myself, devious buggers back then.
I registered with Ancestry and two other so-called DNA testing sites using a false name. Despite several thousand results so far they've yet to find a single close relative. The closest Ancestry got a was "3rd cousin" who might be related to the false name I gave them who could have been found using a so-called "rough match" search algorythm on any database. All but two of the profile pictures they forwarded failed to look anything like anyone I'm related to. Of those two they failed to mention that one of them was of Dutch-German descent the same as me (she also had a spectrum disorder which is quite common in my family).
So basically I'm calling bullshit on the whole industry. It looks to me as if they're simply scouring databases for known names and relationships then extrapolating supposed "DNA" results, ie: "Our database says you're a fifth cousin therefore we estimate you share 0.5% of your DNA."
Did you send a saliva sample to them
Yes. I sent it to Ancestry DNA's lab in Ireland and then submitted their test results to Heritage DNA and FamilyTree DNA for further analysis.
Always been interested to give it a go but am sceptical.
Might just give it a go - as far as I know everyone is from Ireland - be interested to see.Well it worked for me as stated a few pages back, in touch with cousins in Jamaica and Canada none of my family knew about as a direct result of it. And my Grandfathers (who I never met) brother. Is that great Uncle? He fished out a photo of my mum and aunties none of us had ever seen before.
I’m sceptical re the accuracy but have completed it. It came out as 51% English, 22% Scottish, 18% Irish. Rest a mix of Norway, Sweden and Northern Europe.
The links to other people who are closely matched to you has been mixed. My great grandfather was illegitimate…lots of clues but no real help. Another great grandfather possibly/probably changed his name…have been in touch with one of his children’s grandchildren (my third cousin) …and we do share a lot of dna.
Some of great grandmother’s siblings emigrated to USA…have been in touch with a few of their descendants who have close dna matches and have also traced family back to Chipping Norton area where this branch came from. A couple have visited uk doing their family tree’.
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I’m sceptical re the accuracy but have completed it. It came out as 51% English, 22% Scottish, 18% Irish. Rest a mix of Norway, Sweden and Northern Europe.
The links to other people who are closely matched to you has been mixed. My great grandfather was illegitimate…lots of clues but no real help. Another great grandfather possibly/probably changed his name…have been in touch with one of his children’s grandchildren (my third cousin) …and we do share a lot of dna.
Some of great grandmother’s siblings emigrated to USA…have been in touch with a few of their descendants who have close dna matches and have also traced family back to Chipping Norton area where this branch came from. A couple have visited uk doing their family tree’.
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