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I know that in 1881 they were still in Anglesey, and by 1889 they had moved to Staffordshire, where they stayed until some time in the 1920s.
Even if I look at Google maps, it calls the village 'Cauldon Low' but also marks 'Cauldon Lowe Village Hall'.

My instinct is that it is far more likely that Ancestry's software is deficient than that you have done anything wrong. Their main interest is very much in selling subscriptions, upgrades and DNA tests. The Traits upgrade which they seem to be pushing hard is about as scientific as Family Fortunes.
I spent years submitting frequent problem reports telling them that the indexes to many 1861 Anglesey census records were clearly wrong, but never got more than standard responses saying that they would submit the report to the appropriate team. Often, many remained wrong years later.
Unlike most testing companies, they refuse to allow customers to upload tests from other testing companies to their site, and they do not allow testers to see details of the segments on which they match with other testers, whether or not both testers consent to this.
I have found that Thrulines is sometimes useful, but that its suggestions are sometimes nonsense, showing many logical inconsistencies.

I am contemplating taking the mtDNA test (and possibly the mid-range Y-DNA test as well), and would welcome feedback from those who have already bought them on a couple of aspects.

Firstly, regarding the cost, they are currently priced at USD 159 and USD 249 respectively. Does FTDNA ever offer discounted prices, as Ancestry and MyHeritage routinely do? Presumably there are added shipping costs. Does anyone know what they are? (I am in the UK).

Regarding the mtDNA test and its potential usefulness, my maternal direct ancestry as far as I know is all based in Anglesey. Having been researching fairly enthusiastically for about 18 years now, I am still unable to get back with certainty any further than G3 grandparents.

Those of you with Anglesey ancestry will understand the difficulties involved - the very frequent occurrence of the same few surnames and the relatively closed community of the island, meaning that DNA matches seem to be very commonly connected on more than one line.

My hope is that an mtDNA test might identify some known autosomal matches as being on the direct maternal line. I suppose a problem might be that the database of mtDNA matches on FTDNA is presumably much smaller than the number of people on the autosomal test databases.

I would be interested to hear any feedback on how useful people have found the test in identifying how matches are connected.

Dave

Thanks for all the help and advice with this.
I have taken the one month PAYG and have been running various reports, which has kept me quite busy.
I managed to persuade a DNA match to put his kit on GEDMatch as he is one of very few maternal relatives / matches for whom I can confidently know our MRCAs - I have others with whom I share maternal grandparents, but that doesn't really tell me anything about shared matches.
Anyway, when I ran the AutoSegment tool it produced plenty of matches (pile-up segments provide a question for another day!), but I was surprised to find that my known match (a 3rd cousin matching at about 90cM) did not appear in the list of matches in the output. Our matches show clearly using other tools, so I really don't understand this.
His kit has only been on for 2 days, but surely it must have been fully processed to show up in other tools.
Has anyone else found a similar problem?

Dave