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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date for this wedding please
« on: Tuesday 02 January 24 18:30 GMT (UK)  »
MyHeritage can date old photographs and so far I have been astonished at its accuracy.  Just upload your photo and it gives a date immediately.  No paid membership required.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Some folks DNA related to me but not my cousin who also took a test
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 18:16 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Friday 24 November 23 01:09 GMT (UK)

Your Ancestry test did not analyse your whole DNA, just about 7% so you should see how variances can happen.


Note that Ancestry does not test your whole DNA, but it is comparing the same area of DNA that is in fact less than one percent of your DNA (not 7) between you and another person.  All humans are over 99% identical - this part is ignored completely!
Eg. you and your child will share "50% DNA" (of that 1%).

By the way the son of your father's sister's child is your first cousin once removed (1C1R), not second cousin. 
See the possible variations here
https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Using DNA matches to find my Paternal grandfathers family
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 17:55 GMT (UK)  »
Someone did mention this briefly above - the next very important step would be to take a Y-DNA test with FTDNA.  I'm assuming you are male, Dave :-)
A small piece of DNA (completely separate from the DNA examined in your Ancestry test) is passed down from father to son, therefore normally following the paternal surname line.  The idea is that you will match several men with the same surname, possibly indicating the surname of your great-grandfather.  This is the theory, but it doesn't always work like that - as you can well understand, as you yourself did not take his name.
The cheapest Y-37 test would be perfectly adequate for this, to start with (if you upgrade later you just pay the difference).

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA hope
« on: Tuesday 05 December 23 19:34 GMT (UK)  »
Regarding whether to believe one's ethnicity breakdown : myself and my two siblings are on various DNA sites and in every case our ethnicity breakdown varies wildly from each other.  We have exactly the same parents so this is a very simple proof that these ethnicity estimates absolutely must not be trusted. 

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