« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 03 January 18 13:30 GMT (UK) »
Yes
No
Maybe
Depends on what you think it can do. Or what you want it for. I wanted it to see if it helped with some brickwalls and after 14 months I have broken/confirmed one brickwall and taken a line a little further back
So yes it gave me 2 names to check the paper record. I think this is the biggest point. Dont use DNA alone to try and find ancestors. Continue to use the paper records to verify, the same way you would verify newspaper records against what you have already found
No it hasnt been the magic bullet I had initially hoped. I have struggled at times understanding the wider implications and manifestations of it all xx here and y123 and DOC345 etc but that is on me.
Maybe in the future it will become clearer. There have been a few '' ok I matched with someone and both our paper records indicate we are related to this person'' moments and thats great. It confirms the paper record. But we are not suddenly email buddies or inviting people over for a family reunion.
All in all for me its about the future, whether that is mine or my sons to utilise is in the hands of fate. But its there on record so that one day , as Guy noted, it can be disproved or proved.
Genealogy-Its a family thing
Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann, Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole
Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead
Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley
Brickwalls- Schumann, Simpson,Westmacott/Wennicot
Scott, Cronin
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