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Yes Coombs that is right.
Just because a Certificate list the parents it does not necessarily mean that that they are.
Probably they are correct, but there for me will always be a but, in that I have to have DNA matches linking via the person names on the certificate.
BTW
I am seeing Ancestry DNA tests listed on our account at £59 + postage.
Further to what I said earlier, and what Coombs has just said, DNA testing has shown that two of my 16 great great grandparents had illicit children. I don't think that's untypical.
Zaph
Yes, human behaviour has always been rollercoaster.
I know some stuff about DNA testing but I get confused with all this centimorgan data, and also know that it may not answer all your prayers as it is not as cut and dried as seems. I have been doing my family tree for almost 30 years but with DNA testing I am a novice, and have not even tested yet.
Coombs
There are plenty here to help, if and when you are ready to take a DNA test, pm me and I can send some files that I sent to help my Cousins understand what I have been doing.
Yes there can be pitfalls, but there are benefits, I am in contact with DNA Cousins (2C’s) who I never knew existed and they in turn have supplied plenty of family information.
The book by Blaine Bettinger is a good place to start. He is the guy behind the DNA Painter website that you will have seen commented on and suggested here many times.
Thanks I will take you up on the offer. I take it you have to pay to submit your DNA to Ancestry? Such as pay for a DNA testing kit?
Yes, but if and when you want to buy do keep a look out for lower cost offers i.e. £60 ish.
No need for having traits things like that can be added retrospectively for a smallish fee.
Ancestry is the one to take as you can download the DNA Data and upload it to My Heritage, ftDNA, Gedmatch etc and hence maximise the hunt for DNA matches. A My Heritage DNA test is cheaper BUT, the database of testees is substantially less than Ancestry and you cannot upload to Ancestry which makes Ancestry far better vfm.
You do have limited information available to view without an Ancestry subscription but a subscription is really necessary, at least for a short time, to maximise making use of the probable 20,000+ DNA matches that one is likely to be presented with.
As an example my Nephew took a DNA test and I have his log in details, such that I could only see his Ethnicity results. I had to transfer Management of his DNA kit to myself to be able to log in under my user info and I could then view his results so now I have access to all the DNA matches he has of which those via his Mum, my Sister-in-Law is the research area of interest in expanding this side of our family tree.
Further to what I said earlier, and what Coombs has just said, DNA testing has shown that two of my 16 great great grandparents had illicit children. I don't think that's untypical.
Zaph
Yes, human behaviour has always been rollercoaster.
I know some stuff about DNA testing but I get confused with all this centimorgan data, and also know that it may not answer all your prayers as it is not as cut and dried as seems. I have been doing my family tree for almost 30 years but with DNA testing I am a novice, and have not even tested yet.
Coombs
There are plenty here to help, if and when you are ready to take a DNA test, pm me and I can send some files that I sent to help my Cousins understand what I have been doing.
Yes there can be pitfalls, but there are benefits, I am in contact with DNA Cousins (2C’s) who I never knew existed and they in turn have supplied plenty of family information.
The book by Blaine Bettinger is a good place to start. He is the guy behind the DNA Painter website that you will have seen commented on and suggested here many times.
Further to what I said earlier, and what Coombs has just said, DNA testing has shown that two of my 16 great great grandparents had illicit children. I don't think that's untypical.
Zaph
Today we have hundred of print format styles to choose from.
Certainly in the time that we learned “joined up writing” as a youngster the Teach at that time told us of the Writing Style that it was called. There was not one Style being taught in Schools but many different ones that were in use by the Education Authorities at that time.
My Father’s writing Style was taught in a Lancastrian school, my Maternal Grandparents were from Yorkshire and Cheshire and all three were very different.
What I am leading up to is that the Style of your signatures are all very scimitar and to me would indicate that the hands that created the signatures were taught their writing style within a geographical region.
