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Had my DNA test a few years ago and now a big BUT
Posted by Allan Campbell on 19/1/2025, 4:41 pm
When I received the original results through Ancestry I was quite pleased as it coincided with my years of research on both my fathers and mothers side.
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.
Re: Had my DNA test a few years ago and now a big BUT
I left my husband’s mother’s side for years as his cousin had worked on it. When I eventually got the paperwork out she gave me it was just wrong. I very easily figured it out, confirming with all sorts of evidence. I never told her, she had said an experienced family tree researcher had helped her and I couldn’t burst her bubble. She still thinks their related to a very well to do family called Formby from Formby Hall. I don’t think she’s that interested anyway.
Jackie about 5-8 years ago I thought that I had cracked my G G G/ Mother and family in N. Ireland.
I had a wad of print offs about 1/2 “ thick then one day up popped a document that binned the lot.
I cannot remember what happened exactly but until that point everything tied up then POW all cobblers. If I remember it was all like names in the correct county. More than likely a document popped up on the Scotlandspeople website that gave both the parents, mother and father.
Other websites give only the fathers name.
Since then I have not been caught out other than briefly, usually resolved by cross check type thing.
But that’s the way Family History research goes.
Allan C.
Re: Is easy to go wrong
Posted by Jackie W on 20/1/2025, 10:28 am, in reply to "Is easy to go wrong"
You’ve got to love the detail on Scottish certificates! I’m not such a fan of their new search criteria though.I preferred typing in a name and then narrowing down
I agree completely Allan.I can’t understand how they can think it’s better. I sent them a message through their website form and they replied that they had generally received positive feedback and they see no changes to the website functionality in the near future but my feedback has been noted. ‘Go figure’ as our American cousins would say
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