Apparently I have 96% British Isles ancestry. Only 2% Western Europe and 1% Scandinavian. This seems surprisingly high?
Best wishes
Paul
Who does Living DNA tests? Is it a UK company?
Romilly.
It was through Ancestry. The 1% Scandinavian was a shock because my surname is Grisdale which is from Mungrisdale, Matterdale and this is Viking for pig valley!
It was through Ancestry. The 1% Scandinavian was a shock because my surname is Grisdale which is from Mungrisdale, Matterdale and this is Viking for pig valley!
Can I ask the title and artist of the picture of lady with cat in your profile?
Thanks, Mike.
I've actually heard of Gwen John. Lovely painting - I might see if its available anywhere as a print.
Jill
Hi Jill,
Mike beat me to it! I love Gwen John's paintings, - (one of my favourites is in Tate Britain). During her lifetime her work was largely ignored, while her brother Augustus was lionised.
Now the opposite is the case, and Augustus is thought to have been very overrated.I love their gentle muted colours. Another lovely one is titled, 'The Convalescent'. (I might change my avatar to that one next:-)
Romilly :)
Black cat re-instated :-)
Can anyone who understands DNA Testing, - please explain my cousin's result? (We can't make any sense of it...).
Romilly.
I also have my DNA results back, and rather surprising results they are. They read as follows. 97.9% Irish, Scottish and Welsh. 1.2% North African and 0.9% Nigerian. I myself was born in Greenore co Louth Ireland. Both my mother and father were born in Ireland as were my Grandparents, so where has the Nigerian connection and the North African connection come from? How accurate are these DNA results? Alphonsus123 Matthews.
I'm bearn an sister and my result was
Scandinavian 47.9
Irish , Scottish and Welsh 30,2
English 2.4
Iberian 18.2
Ashkenazi Jewish 1.4
We share 38% DNA
Kath
As a result of the random inheritance of DNA, close relatives can often be assigned markedly different ethnicity percentages. This may be correct. For example if you have three grandparents from Africa and one from Asia, you and your brother/sister may receive very different proportions of Asian DNA even though you share the same parents. However such differences may also reflect inadequacies in the databases used, or the methods of inference applied.
Jill
still nothing here either...
Xin
lets hope that means we get a response tomorrow..
maybe it has been held up by the snow :)
I very much agree that the 'standard' route of genealogy should always be via documentation first and foremost. I wouldn't have it any other way - and anyone trying to research their ancestry solely through DNA is whistling in the wind.
However, I already think DNA tests have their place. Without going into detail which might bore you to death, I have a very longstanding brickwall in William Horwood (see my note at the foot of this post). I have a theory about his parentage and ancestry but, without a baptism, I couldn't prove it. Now, I've checked one of my 4th-6th cousin matches and it seems to bear out my theory.
I still won't rest until I find the baptism/birth though!
I'm only a couple of days into this DNA thing but already have one major gripe - why are the vast majority of my matches either minus a tree; with a tree of 2 or 3 people all tagged as private, or with a totally private tree! What was the point in you doing this, folks? >:(
Thanks for that :)
I decided to actually go through all 6,000 odd and type england united kingdom in capital letters, with commas and full stops and NO abbreviations.. then the error will not be down to my laziness.. but what a boring job... still who has better things to do... !!!!! I wish. :) :) :)
xin
Just picking up on those replies which put forward the theory that if they open their tree to DNA matches, no one will bother contacting them. I have given up contacting people with locked trees as the few I have tried contacting either don't reply or show no inclination to help work out where the connection is.
I am steadily working my way through contacting matches which give enough of a tree to help me work out sideways and where possible backwards to see if there is a possible connection. I am also contacting closer matches without trees in case they have done enough research to help work out how we match. Some reply and some don't but they are generally more forthcoming than those with locked trees.
You don't have to put a full tree on with your precious photos etc. You can also just have a tree visible to DNA matches. I only have a rudimentary tree on Ancestry but it should be enough for people to see names. We are all entitled to our different approaches and I respect that but I don't think curling up like a poked hedgehog gives you the best value for money from your DNA test.
Oh, and you may wish to check your settings to make sure they allow you to receive messages from contacts. Mine were set to not receive messages and it took me a few days to realise this.
Very interesting thread though and great to read different perspectives.
xinia,
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My advice to you is to sloooow down. Diving into the gene pool ...
I would suggest the following:
1. Load your test results to both gedmatch.com and ftdna.com. ...
2. With your Ancestry matches, I would recommend following a few of your closest matches and sweating them as hard as you can to see where that gets you. Use the gold star icon and the blue "new" buttons to help you filter matches ....
2.Use the "Add note" function. I record all my shared matches' names and the latest date I looked. This way you can click on the note icon to read what it says ....
3. I use Excel to record shared matches. This becomes very time-consuming but it reveals all sorts of matches that the Ancestry software doesn't.
I match to A and we share a match with X
I match to B and we share a match with Y
I match to C and we share a match to X and Y.
Therefore I deduce that X and Y are related and A is also related to Y and B to X and C is connected to A and B as well! ....
... when you've finished processing your 4th to 6th cousins, you will suddenly find 5th to 8th cousins connecting two of your connections hitherto unconnected ....
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Ancestry inserts new results into your pages .... These may result in new shared matches appearing in those individuals you have already examined ..... I can see no alternative to trawling back through all your results
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Alternatively, you could open a bottle, of wine, light the fire and .....
It was through Ancestry. The 1% Scandinavian was a shock because my surname is Grisdale which is from Mungrisdale, Matterdale and this is Viking for pig valley!