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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: large scottish families .how many DNA matches would you expect ?
« on: Sunday 12 June 22 23:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi Brigid

My tree is mainly Scottish and I get wildly varying numbers of matches on the different lines. I presume it's down to the number of children they had going down the generations and also how many of them emigrated, I think relatively more people in the States have been tested, a lot of my matches are there.

A lot of my Common Ancestors matches also show the match as being to one ancestor when it should be both of a married couple. I presume that's just a bug in the software which is still relatively new.

Overall ThruLines/Common Ancestors has been a real game-changer in my research, gave me one huge breakthrough and a few smaller ones. I call my Ancestry tree FDPossible to reflect that I'm adding potential ancestors in the hope of getting Common Ancestor matches.

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Scotland / Re: Place name Culter, Lanarkshire 1761
« on: Saturday 16 April 22 00:33 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Forfarian.

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Scotland / Place name Culter, Lanarkshire 1761
« on: Friday 15 April 22 18:14 BST (UK)  »
Looking for the place of Alexander Ramage's birth. Can't tell if there's a word under the smudge on the right or if the word at the start of the second line is the whole name. Have also attached an enlargement of the smudged area.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Different cM between mather & daughter matches
« on: Wednesday 05 August 20 18:01 BST (UK)  »
I've had this happen on one of my matches. I think it means you're also related to the daughter on her father's side as well as her mother's. Can't think of any other explanation.

Frank

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry.com oddity
« on: Saturday 20 June 20 01:46 BST (UK)  »
This is something that can happen.

My sister and I have both been tested so naturally match at 2597cM. We share most of our stronger matches but there's someone who matches to her at 140cM but doesn't match to me.

It's just the roll of the genetic dice.

Frank


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England / Firefighter records Somerset 1920's
« on: Saturday 27 July 19 13:13 BST (UK)  »
Someone I match to quite strongly on AncestryDNA, 217cM, has an unknown grandfather whose father was said to have been a fireman in Bridgewater, Somerset, during the early 1920's. Does anyone know if there are any public records of who was employed by the fire brigade around that time?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: ancestryDNA​ new (at least, to me) features
« on: Wednesday 03 October 18 14:59 BST (UK)  »
I'd stay well clear of anyone who's got 36,000 names in their tree.

To paraphrase Star Trek, "It's genealogy Jim, but not as we know it"  :) :)

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: y-DNA matches with different Haplogroups
« on: Saturday 17 March 18 22:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Kate,

thanks for your reply and welcome to Rootschat  ;D

Unfortunately I think the partial overlap in our ancestral names is purely coincidental.
Most of the 9 men who match my cousin's yDNA are in the States, the ones who can trace back far enough all go back to the Borders area of south east Scotland, which is where the man I suspect is my g-grandfather came from, although his surname doesn't march any of them. Also as far as I know Forester/Forrest and Dick tend to be Scottish while Forster and Dicks are English.

If you haven't already looked you might find something about your Forsters in the Suffolk forum.

Good luck with your research.

Frank

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Armed Forces / Re: William Henry Carroll WW1 Gassed?
« on: Monday 27 November 17 23:16 GMT (UK)  »
Max - thanks for the info, seems unlikely that I'll get much further but at least I know a bit more.

BSB - glad to see Sinann was able to help you.

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