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How long ago did Bernadette join Ancestry, and how long ago did she last log-in? Are her results linked to a tree (private or otherwise)? All this could be quite overwhelming for her, even if she is interested in her family tree. Or she might have no mystery herself, and know exactly how she fits into the tree (in or outside of wedlock), and might not be interested in/have time for connecting with you. So much else is going on at present in people's lives, even in the best of times! She might also have had her DNA uploaded by a third party (even if she has a separate account) for some reason. I have a friend who got people to test DNA, not all of them blood relatives to her, just out of her own curiosity.

One thing about the results is that maybe she is much closer to the siblings then anyone else. She could be a surviving child of one of the siblings (i.e. your father's cousin). Her genetic distance to the rest of you is therefore less, which might explain the high results in some of the matches.

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It just means you haven't inherited those bits of DNA that the company you tested with have labelled as Scandinavian or Germanic.

This could be because different companies have different categories that they label, and will change the labels themselves. I used to be labelled as over 20% Irish, now I am under 10%. But clearly my DNA/ancestry hasn't changed.

You also don't inherit all the DNA of your ancestors. There will come a point when some ancestors just won't have contributed any DNA to the markers you are tested for at all.

I'm a bit late to the party, but how are they going to explain the gap in time? Will they just resume as if no time has passed, or will some events just fail to happen? Jolene's performance on the cricket pitch, Ambridge's V.E.Day celebrations, Robert & Linda's B&B guests, etc..

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10604330

Folio 25: John Disney, aged 50, carpenter's yeoman; disease or hurt, asthma. Put on sick list, 27 March 1798 at Portsmouth. Discharged 29 March 1798 to Haslar hospital.

Thank you very much! This is from the Medical and Surgical Journal of the HMS Vanguard for 23rd Dec 1797 to 17th June 1798, kept by Michael Jefferson, Surgeon.

John Disney entered the hospital 29 March 1798, and wrote his will 25th April, so he must have been pretty ill.