However 2 years on I now have twice the Scots content on my mothers side than fathers side.
My father’s side results are as far as I’m concerned are near enough spot on. The original results for my mothers side were as far as I was concerned a good FIT.
My mothers side to me is now total rubbish far far to much Scots.
The only possible answer could be the area limits that Ancestry seem to use.
I think they class people as far down as the Humber as Scots being probably the old Northumbria.
You also get info on 2nd or 3rd cousins maybe 1 or 2 times removed. I look into those with the information given and think what a load of cobblers!
A distant cousin could be a descendant of your GGG G/Pts Brother. What use is that?
However given that I know most of these distant cousins are likely to be rubbish I still look. Clutching at straws!
To a certain extent having your DNA could be a waste of time unless you have carried out proper research on your family tree which may enable you to eliminate the rubbish.
Regretfully at the moment I have not got a line that I can get my teeth into, possibly because I must be near the point that there is very little else to find.
However if I switch over to Ann’s family side there is loads to find out. Her mother’s side absolutely fascinating, you could not ask for anything more, twists and turns at every level.
As yet I have only done a little bit on her father’s side as another Hebburnite has done nearly the lot. With that family I’m riding on the back of that research. However I have gone as far back in the family straight line to as far back as is probably possible, but you never know if further info has come on line.
You have to keep checking.
Family research in NOT for everyone, it’s very time consuming, expensive, frustrating.
The research that’s took me 45 years to collect could be now done maybe in 5 years if enough time devoted to it by a retired person.
I do enjoy the HUNT though.
Allan C.
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