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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: juleznz on Saturday 20 May 17 07:14 BST (UK)
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Hi can we plz have a forum post for people to post their Gedmatch result kit numbers (as in the top permanent links for this forum)..Great thing about gedmatch doesnt matter who you tested with its free to upload and get matches unlike paid subscription sites
Thanks
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Do what I have done and add it to your signature :)
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Good Idea :)
Do what I have done and add it to your signature :)
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Do what I have done and add it to your signature :)
David,
I had to lower the limit to get a match with you. My sister and I both match you on Chr13 start-109 end-111. The matches I have in that segment could possibly be of Scottish ancestry. If not they have to be Cornish. I have two other matches with you that have to be either background as well. Does this fit in with what you know?
I also have a kit not related to me that has an 8.1cM match on Chr17 that is probably 100% Irish.
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Yes, I have both strong Scottish and Cornish backgrounds
Muirhead , Mutrie line in Midlothian. Some Gentles/Poe/Orr as well
Cornwall is Jenkin/s the S added in SA. Tressider, Gill, Wills, Pascoe, Bishop
Most of both of these lines are back to late 1790s to early 1800s. ie Jenkin/s into Adelaide by 1851. Muirheads the same as well as the Gentle side into Victoria/Yambuk
There is also a Thomas/Collings that ironically married into the Gentles Scottish side
Funny thing is the Hocking in your list could be related to my son on my wifes side
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Thanks David,
Given that our connection is small and so far back it could be any of the Cornish names you mention. I have most of them but none as main lines. Speaking of irony, Robert McIntosh was my Scot. Somehow he was in Cornwall in the 1861 census, married a local and headed out to Australia. He and his forebears and Cornwall make up my mother's entire ancestry.
My Hockings are a quite specific line. William H and Sarah Johns came out here in 1858 with seven of their nine sons. There is a Hocking Descendants Society if your son is interested.
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Thanks Spike
My son connects to Hocking through Richard Thomas Kneebone and Elizabeth Jane Hocking. Elizabeth from Cambourne and Richard from Gwennap.
Then as far as I am able to find Richard then married a niece or sister of Elizabeth. Or may have just been a random Hocking.
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Hello Julenz,
I am obviously missing something here. If you and I have a "match" then it will appear on my list of matches at Gedmatch.
I may be lazy - well, okay, I am lazy - but why should I go through a list of names and kit numbers here on RootsChat, when it has already been done for me on Gedmatch.
I am not getting at you - there are many forums where the same question is asked, or where the list exists and can be added to. I just don't see why.
Thank you
Jean ( a fellow NZer)
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Jean,
I probably agree with you about the usefulness of such a list of kit numbers on a general forum like this. Maybe if pinned to a more targeted Board such as Cornwall or even NZ, there could be some value.
I assume one of the forums you are referring to with such a list is the DNA Aust/NZ Facebook Group (I think I've seen your name in the members list). I can't see much point in people with new kits on GEDmatch calling out their numbers or anyone else responding. Surely they would find each other anyways.
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Perhaps Julenz's point is that she will know whether someone has tested. If the paper trail suggests that two people are related within the 2-4 cousin range for instance but there's nothing showing on Gedmatch, then it might be time to revisit the paper trail.
Jane :-)
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Hi Jean :) yep its just another tool and since rootschat has a forum for DNA i was just chucking my 5c worth in :)plus too a tree i manage for a friend on gedmatch has over 900 matches so realistically its going to take me a while to work thru those matches..was just a thought that if people listed here you would know they were keen for contact..out of the 200 odd emails ive sent matches ive had 5 responses and not everyone who DNA tests is a genealogist there may be many private reasons why people are testing and dont want contact ..at least here on Rootschat i know everyone is here for a purpose :) i like the suggestion of putting in signature here so then people have the option to look if they want
Hello Julenz,
I am obviously missing something here. If you and I have a "match" then it will appear on my list of matches at Gedmatch.
I may be lazy - well, okay, I am lazy - but why should I go through a list of names and kit numbers here on RootsChat, when it has already been done for me on Gedmatch.
I am not getting at you - there are many forums where the same question is asked, or where the list exists and can be added to. I just don't see why.
Thank you
Jean ( a fellow NZer)
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Hi Julez
Yes not having responses is a bug but its all part of it. Like you I don't understand why , if you are tested, you aren't open to receiving a response. Maybe I am looking at it wrong.
On the primary site I can understand a reluctance but if a person then uploads it to Gedmatch why wouldn't they be responsive?
Even if its a ' nope cant find a name' its a reply.
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Hello...
I am new to this website. I'm hoping it can help me search my Irish roots going backward from Scotland. My great grandfather came from Sligo, we are told. His name in Ireland was John O'Neill but he changed it to John Lees in Scotland. All the men in the family were coal miners. They moved around a few times after 1855 and ended up in Slamannan, Scotland.
I'm using Gedmatch.com and trying to connect with people in the UK. So far, I've only met up with one family line that is proving to be positive and very interesting. Is there another website that the UK uses other than Gedmatch?
McMolly
A986812
California
My cousin JJ Ward is more promising and he can be found on my top 5 listings with my brother.
Any suggestions?
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I am on GEDmatch and I have connected with relatives.
Have one family group denying they have UK or Irish roots (all mainland European) but they also link with 2 others that I do and the 3 of us link to part of my paternal line lol.
On 23andMe have found a French 2nd cousin who is confused to have a British 2nd cousin as all his relatives were (he thought) French. He's from northern France near WW1 sites. I told him I had several great uncles in France during WW1 ;D.
The best link on GEDmatch is a man in USA who told me his grandfather was British and he had found ancestors but didn't know much about the area and named my birth town. I gave him some information and links and he was delighted. He named his grandfather and as luck would have it he was already on my tree. The American's 3rd great grandmother was my 3rd great grandmother's sister so we met at our 4th great grandparents. This proved my paper trail from me through my maternal grandmother to my 4th great grandparents (born late 1700s) and out to the grandfather of the American. :) :) :)
I can see both sides of this - why bother checking on here for GEDmatch links ::) but then again if they are on here they are interested to find ancestors and you would get results if you do connect with them and wanted to find the connecting ancestors.
Have put my number on so I'll see if it works ;D
8)
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Hello...
I am new to this website. I'm hoping it can help me search my Irish roots going backward from Scotland. My great grandfather came from Sligo, we are told. His name in Ireland was John O'Neill but he changed it to John Lees in Scotland. All the men in the family were coal miners. They moved around a few times after 1855 and ended up in Slamannan, Scotland.
I'm using Gedmatch.com and trying to connect with people in the UK. So far, I've only met up with one family line that is proving to be positive and very interesting. Is there another website that the UK uses other than Gedmatch?
McMolly
A986812
California
My cousin JJ Ward is more promising and he can be found on my top 5 listings with my brother.
Any suggestions?
Hi McMolly
I checked and we have no connection at the recommended 7 level.
I would post your query on the Beginners board as there are many clever people here who can help
Good luck and welcome
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Hi McMolly and welcome to Rootschat.
I can see your DNA test number begins with a "A" making it an Ancestry kit. You can upload your data (free) to FTDNA and may get a few more matches there with people who've not put their results on GEDMatch. I'd also recommend you upload a pedigree tree to FTDNA, and to GEDMatch if you've not already done so. The tree should include locations (even approximate) and dates where you know them. You can tweak the settings to anonymise living people if that's what you wish.
Have fun
Jane :-)
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David, out of idle curiosity I ran your GEDmatch kit against mine.... using the default settings, we share 15.5cM (7.5 on chromosome 7 and 8 on chromosome 12) estimated MRCA 6.9 which is quite some time ago. There is an additional 3cM on chromosome 14 which shows up when I lower the threshold. No shared X DNA.
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David, out of idle curiosity I ran your GEDmatch kit against mine.... using the default settings, we share 15.5cM (7.5 on chromosome 7 and 8 on chromosome 12) estimated MRCA 6.9 which is quite some time ago. There is an additional 3cM on chromosome 14 which shows up when I lower the threshold. No shared X DNA.
Hi and welcome
I have a list of some of my names also in my signature, as you say 7 generations is a while ago, do any of those names ring a bell?
If you make 2 more posts you are then able to send a private message if you don't wish to share that information on here.
The one thing about being in Australia is a robust civil obedience and record keeping , so most Australians can and should be able to follow a path back to most families to about 1800 ( bragging)
My ancestors are based all over the UK from Scotland to Cornwall and places in between but no Welsh ( so far) and a few Germans
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David, out of idle curiosity I ran your GEDmatch kit against mine.... using the default settings, we share 15.5cM (7.5 on chromosome 7 and 8 on chromosome 12) estimated MRCA 6.9 which is quite some time ago. There is an additional 3cM on chromosome 14 which shows up when I lower the threshold. No shared X DNA.
Hi and welcome
I have a list of some of my names also in my signature, as you say 7 generations is a while ago, do any of those names ring a bell?
If you make 2 more posts you are then able to send a private message if you don't wish to share that information on here.
The one thing about being in Australia is a robust civil obedience and record keeping , so most Australians can and should be able to follow a path back to most families to about 1800 ( bragging)
My ancestors are based all over the UK from Scotland to Cornwall and places in between but no Welsh ( so far) and a few Germans
Thanks David.... I was born in Greenock, Scotland, and my family Hx is Gaelic/Norman (Scotland) mostly, and Irish (who married into some of my Scottish lines 'sojourning' in Ireland during times of.. ahem... trouble). I don't recognise any of your tagline surnames, but most of my Irish lines don't go back that far! I'm hoping to find very distant matches, like you for example, who might have links back there as well.
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Hi can we plz have a forum post for people to post their Gedmatch result kit numbers (as in the top permanent links for this forum)..Great thing about gedmatch doesnt matter who you tested with its free to upload and get matches unlike paid subscription sites
Thanks
Some of your surnames are in my tree as well. I'm A001823 on GEDmatch if you want to compare. Post how it goes.
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Yes, like most sorting out the Irish records will take some time and the kind help of others doing the transcribing. I have found a possible extra name to a Canny in Clare.
Mainly Tulla Clare for the McNamara line and Limerick for a Tierney line.