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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Update
« on: Wednesday 27 September 23 21:49 BST (UK)  »
Very disappointed, no change in my ethnicity estimate, or my cousin on my mum's side's estimate either.  Dad's 97% Irish/3% Scottish has become 94%/6%!

Of course I'm not really disappointed, I am assuming that they have got the distinguishing of differences between Irish and Scottish as accurate as it is going to be for a while, which is why my 79% Irish/21% Scottish has not changed. My cousin's maternal side sort of matches mine, with her estimate reflecting 46% Irish and 4% Scottish, obviously a lot less Scottish than I am (proportionally), that's sibling differences for you!  Her Father is completely different being from the very southeasterly corner of Poland, just over the border from Lviv/Lvov in Ukraine, from him she is 45% Eastern Europe & Russia, with 5% Baltic.   That hasn't changed either!

Out of interest, and this is not new with this current update, my cousins communities are amazingly accurate for where her Dad grew up, picking out the 2 county towns, between which he was born in a tiny village.  I have been impressed by this, especially as you might not imagine that many in Poland would be being tested or becoming part of the necessary reference groups there, either!

On one hand you would imagine that such a part of 'back of beyond' rural eastern Poland might have had a comparatively stable population, with few moving about and away to complicate matters, if it wasn't for the fact that my uncle and all of the young men living there were ordered to run for their lives when the Nazi's approached their world in late 1939.  And of course, there are the  'unpleasant' things that happened during and after the war, when the Soviet block took control.  So much for a potentially stable population!


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Update
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 17:23 BST (UK)  »
On the upside, the DNA Story page still calls it a September update,so within the next 4 days then. I live in hope!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Update
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 17:15 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Gadget, & William, thanks - will have a look at the DNA story page! Life has it's moments, and this is one for me! ;) But, hey, it is not too bad.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Ancestry Update
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 16:30 BST (UK)  »
It seems like 3 weeks ago , at least, that there was talk, and Ancestry notifications of Ancestry DNA upgrade coming soon, which most seem to have assumed was regarding an upgrade to ethnicity estimates ( I think, I am currently very busy caring for my 97 year old Dad, and my only genealogy work done in the last 6 months has been checking my matches, and skimming this site/ facebook groups in case I have missed something important!). I didnt see any messages on my ancestry account on the odd times I went on.  Have I missed something? I do now have a paid ancestry account, though not using it much at the moment!  My Ancestry/ethnicity estimates are still July 2022. The only change I have seen recently, is that new matches are coming through with maternal/paternal, and I assume occasionally both or possibly some still undetermined, but I got the impression that this happened before the notification.  Can anyone update me?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Worldwide Subscription
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 17:42 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Sandra, that seems to have worked!  I really appreciate your help there.

Janexx

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Ancestry Worldwide Subscription
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 12:43 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know if Ancestry UK offers this subscription at reduced price at any specific times of the year? I have been waiting since late last year, hoping for such an offer, and missed the only one I have seen, due to holidays, in May this year!

I am considering taking it out for a year, as i am now retired, so i can investigate more fully my Irish origin ancestors whe went to all parts of the new world in the 1800's! And of course, non irish ancestors too!

Thanks
Jane

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Hi, Guy & Rosie99, thanks for that advice!

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As an aside, slightly off topic, but related to this, can anyone advise me how to mark my ancestry account  for not automatic renewal? Currently they debit my credit card automatically, and as a result, I am paying>£90.00 for the essential package. 

I am thinking that if not set up for automatic renewal, I am more likely to be offered a better deal, and ideally I would love, for at least 1 year, a worldwide package so I can access records for, and search better for, my various USA/Canada/Australia/New Zealand based ancestors and matches!

The only way I can see to do it, currently, would be to delete my credit card details from my account, but I am not convinced this would work, as it might leave me,  extended, for another year, but in deficit to Ancestry.  Any suggestions welcome. I would love to link my many USA matches up with my known and unknown relative who could have emigrated there, either from Ireland, or from here in Scotland, where they came to from various parts of Ireland

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry DNA Delay - No New Matches
« on: Thursday 27 January 22 22:32 GMT (UK)  »
Phew - 56 new matches today (just for me, I have not checked the other 2 accounts I manage!), will have to work on therm tomorrow night, as I have been busy today, and just noticed them, and have a fairly busy day tomorrow too!!

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