1st AncestryDNA Success!

[Matt62]

I just had my first ancestry DNA success today and was surprised (pleasantly) how close the shared ancestral couple are.

My great-great grandfather and grandmother from Fife (I'm Scottish) are the great-great-great grandparents of a man from New Jersey in America. This makes him my third cousin once removed.

I never expected to find anything even remotely close. The prediction wasn't far off: it put us as "4th-6th" cousind with a 'Very High' confidence level. I'm impressed.

Yipee!! 

[DevonCruwys]

Thanks for letting us know. That's great news. I think we'll see this happening more and more as the databases grow in size.

[weste]

I'm waiting for mine , posted it sunday last and it has n't got it arriving in dublin yet. Fingers crossed it has n't got lost!

[Craclyn]

Congratulations. Always good to hear about the successes. Maybe you will be lucky enough to be able to use that particular matching segment to tie in other matches you have in common.

[weste]

I emailed 2 people. Awaiting contact from one which seemed to point to a connection I suspected in Bilston as my westwoods were from there , at least as far back as I can get. I emailed another person who has a private tree and emailed back and it seems to link more to another Westwood line and my sister in laws westwoods, her maiden and married name being Westwood. We only know of more recent connections but did wonder whether there were other connections. There were big families and so anything is possible and I notice there is one name my sister reckoned dad told her was a relative, a very obvious stand out name. So who knows? Or is the connection elsewhere but as lots of names and places  in common made the Westwood name more likely to be related than is! Got some work to do I think.

[jjtjr]

Congratulations on finding a DNA relative.

Last year I through 23&Me I found two third cousins from my Mother's family.

In the last week I just found a third cousin from my Father's family.

I have had my y-DN tested, but so far no good results.

[kerryb]

Congratulations and that's really great to hear.  I don't know why but I am still in the 'What's in for me' camp!  so I enjoy hearing about positive experiences.

I guess one day I might shell out.

Kerryb

[shellyesq]

I'm sure my fellow Americans will be happy that more people from other countries are getting adding to these databases.  Maybe someday, I'll be able to get a few more of my branches who came over when passenger lists were limited traced back across the pond. 

I'm an adoptee, and I recently did Ancestry DNA.  I knew who my birth mother was, but my biological father was a mystery.  I have it narrowed down to a family now, and there is a likely candidate who is deceased, but his twin brother is going to be tested. 

Even for people who know where they came from, you may be the answer to someone else's mystery.  Maybe your 2x-great-grandfather had a kid on the side.   

[davidft]

Yes this DNA testing business is giving some people information and connections to their birth families. The only one of my matches that has been followed up all the way was someone in America who turns out to be a third cousin once removed from me. It is all the remarkable as she was born illegitimately and then adopted out. Since she contacted me we have done the paper trail thing and know who our common ancestor is (well actually there are two as one of her ancestors married a cousin).

I have several others at the 2nd to fourth cousin level that I may follow up in due course not least because some of them have possible connections to each other further back