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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Sunday 31 January 21 11:44 GMT (UK)  »
I have looked at both B & E's trees. B's tree is a mess with a number of people included in it more than once & marriages of people with an age gap of 80 years plus. Most of the people in both trees are in the US.  My wife and I were born and have always lived in Ireland. We know that my wife's mother was from Ballyconnell in Co. Cavan and although she moved to London she never visited the US. The Ancestry DNA for my wife shows her as not only being 100% Irish but also 100% from the border county area which of course includes Co. Cavan. With this in mind I only looked at people born in Ireland and I did come up with one group of people that both trees have in common and whats more they come from the general Co. Cavan area. Unfortunately of course those who are recorded as still alive have their identy hidden from me. Is there any further I can go before I try and make contact with persons B & E?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Thursday 28 January 21 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your points Seesure. I suspect Person A might not be as promising as you suggest giving my last comment. I will have a look at MyHeritage thanks.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Thursday 28 January 21 19:06 GMT (UK)  »
Flemming
I have looked at the shared matches. Person A shows no shared matches with Persons B & C Persons B & C show 2 shared matches as well as showing a match to each other. I'll call them Persons D & E
Person D has 26cm across 1 segment & Person E 24cm across 1 segment. Person D has no tree & Person E has a tree containing 400 people.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Thursday 28 January 21 16:05 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Flemming. To answer your questions
How would I be able to tell if these three people match each other?
Person A just states +21 and Person B +60 I have no indication of age for person C.
Person A has a small tree of 37 people, Person B a large tree of 570, and person C no tree. All three kits are managed by themselves.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Thursday 28 January 21 13:19 GMT (UK)  »
When I put up another post "Finding Her Father" I explained that my wife and her half-sister on her mother's side had done Ancestry DNA tests and that my wife was trying to find who her father is (was). I explained that I didn't understand DNA and was seeking help. One person advised me to put up the cm score of the closest relatives of my wife that she does not share with her half-sister and probably someone on this board could help. So here goes. Ancestry has these all down as possible 3rd cousins.
Person A: 106cm across 2 segments
Person B: 96cm across 4 segments
Person C: 94cm across 4 segments.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Sunday 17 January 21 12:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both. To answer your comments first Ruskie. The mother and baby homes and the adoption boards no longer exist and all their records have been handed over to a state-run organization. We have met with this organization. They confirm they have details of both her parents. They claim that they have tried to contact her father on her behalf but have been unable to locate him. They claim that both his Christian and Surnames are very common which makes location difficult. They say they never had an address for him and are only aware of his name because that is the name my wife's mother gave them at the time of birth. They also suggested that her mother might have made up the name just to stop the Nun's from continuously asking. Although they claim they couldn't find this man or indeed confirm that he actually existed with this name they still refuse to give my wife his name claiming they can't under data protection legislation. We have spoken to lawyers who confirm that thgis indeed is the law in Ireland.
Thanks Flemming for your suggestions. I don't really understand DNA but I will have a look at what you have suggested.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Sunday 17 January 21 08:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your replies both David and Ruskie. The mother came from Ballyconnell in Co. Cavan but lived most of her adult life in London where her brother and sister had already settled. I get the impression that she may have moved to London once she became pregnant at the age of 16. She did however return to Ireland to have the birth. Not to Cavan but to a mother and baby home further down the country. She then returned to London without her child. My wife's DNA shows her as not only being 100% Irish but also 100% from around the Irish border counties so I think that probably rules out the ship in the night theory and points to a local lad. We haven't made any contact with the 4th cousins as I thought that was too far a gap to be of any help but we are open to any and all suggestions as to how we can progress.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Help in Using DNA To Find Father
« on: Saturday 16 January 21 16:06 GMT (UK)  »
My wife was adopted. A number of years ago she discovered who her mother was due to the adoption society making contact with the mother's family. But too late as her mother had died six months earlier. My wife subsequently got to know her half-siblings and her aunts and uncles but all claimed that they had no knowledge of who her father was. The aunts and uncles (ie her mother's siblings) have now all died and if they did know who the father was have taken this to their grave.
My wife has since taken an Ancestry DNA test and persuaded one of her half-sisters to do likewise and she has now eliminated all those people who they have in common so she is now left with a list that presumably are on her father's side. The problem is that the nearest match is fourth cousins. She has put the results on Gedmatch but to be honest neither of us really understand DNa. Has anyone any suggestions where to go from here?

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Technical Help / Ancestry Tree to Family Search Tree
« on: Sunday 06 October 19 11:05 BST (UK)  »
When I first began genealogy I started my family tree in Family Search. As I progressed I took a subscription in Ancestry & this is where most of my tree can now be found. I would like to update my Family Search tree. Is it possible that I can upload my Ancestry tree to Family Search? If so can this be done without removing the tree from Ancestry? Also if it can be done will the information on each person held in Ancestry also transfer over?

Thanks

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