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I've mentioned here once before; a while ago I had a full genome DNA test done for a medical research project. As an inducement or a thank you, they provided a free and complete traits test. Everything is couched in terms such as "you may be more susceptible to" having blue eyes/a risk of skin cancer/arthritis, etc. or "you may be less likely to have a susceptibility to" other traits and conditions.

In other words, largely worthless unless you are a health or life insurer who wishes to base premiums on risks.

We already know for instance that smokers are more likely than non smokers to develop lung cancer. Yet not everyone who smokes will get lung cancer. Some lifelong smokers can live to ripe old ages without any health effects, although admittedly the risks increase with age.

But it's the same with traits. If they tell you that you might have blue eyes, you already know that you either do or don't. If they tell you that you are more susceptible to several or numerous life changing or life threatening diseases, do you really want to know that, and spend the rest of your life worrying about things that might never happen?

Admittedly, it might cause you to review and alter your lifestyle to mitigate the risks, but many of those lifestyle modifications are already known to be beneficial in general, so anyone who is that concerned or wants to give themselves the best chance of a long and healthy life is probably practising them already.

In other words, I wouldn't waste you money, and as for dogs and other animals   

So now you know how useful it is, yet you still want to see their results? 

I don't know if you meant it that way, but I read your post as suggesting that the chromosome browser can be used with DNA matches from Ancestry.co.uk /.com

It can't of course, it can only be used against DNA matches on the Living DNA site. The browser is only available if you have tested directly with Living DNA or have transferred in a test from another site such as Ancestry, and have paid Living DNA an upgrade fee to access additional features.

I'm not sure who could make a statutory declaration in respect of a birth or death registration, but it probably had to be someone connected to the individual.

One of my GG Aunts gave birth to a daughter towards the end of WW1. Her husband was still overseas and a lodger who had been living at the same address was named as the father.

Almost 3 months later both parties returned to the registration office with a statutory declaration to the effect that the lodger was not in fact the father, and the entry was amended to remove him from the register.
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No "new" father was named, and the birth was indexed under both the lodger and the mother's surnames, although only the latter can be found in the GRO online index.

The child appeared in the 1921 census living with her maternal grandparents, and recorded in the census with the surname of the lodger whose name had been originally entered as the father.

Make of that what you will!

FindMyPast DNA testing used LivingDNA, so anyone who bought a test through FindMyPast will be on their database. Yes, they are predominantly UK oriented, but their database is pretty small compared to Ancestry.

I have had a couple of good results from LivingDNA that hadn't tested elsewhere, and being on as many databases as possible is best for working with matches, but for perspective I have 435 matches in total on LivingDNA as opposed to around 10,000 on Ancestry.