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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA test results query
« on: Friday 31 May 24 11:02 BST (UK) »Both my Daughters MyHeritage results just came back! there is something very wrong with MyHeritage and their Scandinavian Algorithms! One daughter according to them is 40% Scandinavian and the other has come back with 80% Scandinavian!!! yes checked double checked - same parents lol.Is that based on family knowledge i.e. a fairly recent Danish/Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish ancestor? Ancestry gives 5-15% Scandinavian DNA for many Brits, which is within the normal range. Being on the higher side may indicate ancestry from areas of higher Scandinavian settlement i.e. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, particularly the coastal areas, and even more so Orkney and Shetland.
So now I'm asking myself and the forum - Which DNA testing is the most accurate for Scandinavian Heritage?
We def have a fair amount of Scandinavian DNA - yet Ancestry gives us Zero DNA matches - is there a company that can give us both an accurate Ethnicity result and provide some accurate DNA matches ?
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA test results query
« on: Tuesday 28 May 24 11:04 BST (UK) »I’ve got Norwegian and Swedish heritage on both sides of my parents found by Ancestry and My heritage DNA results - MyHeritage shows me many DNA matches from Sweden and Norway no closer than 3rd cousins - however in spite of all these matches I cannot see any connection to my extended Scandinavian family - MyHeritage suggests that the common ancestor of these matches would be 3rd Great Grandparent - but all branches have been explored and no link found - is there any other way to finally discover the links?Do you see the same closer Norwegian and Swedish matches on Ancestry? If not I'd say this is the known 'Scandinavia bug' on MyHeritage. For some reason for many Brits (or people of Brit descent), it shows fairly close Scandivanian relatives for most people, but these are likely false matches. Unfortunately a fairly high percentage of matches on MyHeritage are false say, under 60cM. Someone did a survey which I have mentioned here before, where they tested to see how many smaller matches did not match either of their parents - the number was quite shockingly high, I think about 40%, this is probably to do with the fact MyHeritage allows uploads from many companies which have all used different chips at various times, so they use basically a kind of algorithmical guesswork, which is unfortunately very often inaccurate
. GEDMATCH has also very unreliable smaller matches, especially with GSA based kits (23andme 2017-, MyHeritage/FTDNA 2019-, LivingDNA -2019).
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« on: Monday 27 May 24 10:59 BST (UK) »
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The Common Room / Re: Why do my offers of help seem to be rejected?
« on: Thursday 16 May 24 17:41 BST (UK) »
This has happened so many times to me. Unfortunately I think some people take people contacting them with corrections, however politely put (i.e. you made the same mistake yourself etc.) as something that makes them embarassed, frustrated, etc. etc. and they simply clam up and either never look into the info you have given them, or do look into it, but then either get frustrated or perhaps simply can't be bothered to put in the correct info. As you say, people (including me!) can go off on tangents tracing lines back several hundred years and it can be very frustrating if you find out that was all wrong .
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The Common Room / Re: The Weald website
« on: Thursday 09 May 24 15:12 BST (UK) »I think it would be good to direct others to the Weald website, but I don't know how, especially as it involves 2 Boards, Kent and Sussex - that's why I put it on the Common Room Board in the first place. (I looked in Help but could find a way).You can just put a new post in each board Melbell, a mod might sticky it if you're lucky!
Melbell
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The Common Room / Re: The Weald website
« on: Wednesday 08 May 24 18:04 BST (UK) »Thanks melba_schmelba!Unfortunately the Internet Archive Wayback Machine cannot preserve the website's own search/database facilities. Hopefully everything can be browsed for one way or another.
I've now been back to the site, via the Wayback Machine.
I hadn't realised that you can access the records only by clicking on the individual towns, not by using Site Search. (manukarik - please note).
Thank goodness
Melbell
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The Common Room / Re: The Weald website
« on: Wednesday 08 May 24 10:57 BST (UK) »Please can anyone say what's happened to The Weald website for Kent & Sussex?Sad news. This Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) backup from late last year is working
I know that the owner is now longer able to maintain it, but it was up and running only two or three days ago. (You can see it on the Wayback Machine, but it's not accessible).
Melbell
https://web.archive.org/web/20231206205317/https://theweald.org/
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The Common Room / Re: Microfiche records on genealogy sites you can't get to see
« on: Sunday 05 May 24 11:36 BST (UK) »If you do go to a LDS centre couldn't you just look at it on findmypast?Most of the Kent parish registers and original images are on Findmypast, some for Medway are linked to pdf scans at Medway Archives, but most can be directly accessed on Findmypast. Ancestry only has a very limited snapshot of Kent parish registers which come from the LDS/Mormon indexes.
"You can use Findmypast for free at any FamilySearch center."
https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-sign-up-for-partner-access-to-findmypast
There's an image of something on there in Kent Marriages and Banns, the transcript may not be perfect!
James Bartholomew + Mary Ann Ritchingham
Minster in Sheppey, Ss Mary & Sexburga, 1823