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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry DNA Delay - No New Matches
« on: Wednesday 19 January 22 16:59 GMT (UK) »I've found that I have had a few around 8 or 9cm but nothing more substamtial.
Gordon
That's totally normal.
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That's totally normal.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry DNA Delay - No New Matches
« on: Monday 17 January 22 14:51 GMT (UK) »Absolutely zero.
Gordon
I'd say it's basically impossible to have zero new matches. There must be something wrong with your account or the way it syncs - you should contact Ancestry about this.
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The Common Room / Re: 1921 Census Missing People
« on: Friday 07 January 22 21:15 GMT (UK) »I also had difficulties finding mine due to transcription errors. They were fairly common names and I couldn't really see why the transcriptions were wrong e.g. Norman (first name) was Porman etc. Are they done by AI? It looked to me as if they hadn't been read by someone/thing with familiarity with the locations and the names of the time.I seem to remember some earlier censuses were transcribed in the subcontinent (India) ? If that has happened again I am not surprised if there are plenty of errors. I think it is unfamiliarity with English script rather than the actual names ?
Was the same again this time, transcribed in India: https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/board-minutes-2021-04.pdf
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The Common Room / Re: 1921 census
« on: Thursday 06 January 22 12:48 GMT (UK) »
Definitely encountering a lot of mis transcriptions. Struggling to search tbh!
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The Common Room / Re: 1921 census
« on: Thursday 06 January 22 00:33 GMT (UK) »
Just had a quick look but going to resist staying up and will peruse properly tomorrow!
Already a bit of mystery awaiting me perhaps - can see my great-grandmother (who apparently never left her home town) living on the other side of the country for some inexplicable reason.
Already a bit of mystery awaiting me perhaps - can see my great-grandmother (who apparently never left her home town) living on the other side of the country for some inexplicable reason.
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The Common Room / Re: New Ancestry offer
« on: Monday 03 January 22 17:45 GMT (UK) »You can still get a years UK sub for £59.99 on this link
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/offers/subscribe?dna=crossAct
I really hope this doesn't get advertised too much. If it ends up on hotukdeals it's game over
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry DNA Delay - No New Matches
« on: Friday 31 December 21 16:56 GMT (UK) »
With COVID/self isolation periods I imagine Ancestry are having difficulties at the lab? I imagine things will slowly get back to normal and you'll get your results in the new year. 
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA tests-is anyone else fed up?
« on: Tuesday 23 November 21 22:07 GMT (UK) »What makes me fed up is that so many people do DNA tests and make no attempt to construct any sort of family tree.
I have a number of reasonably large matches (2nd or 3rd cousin sort of range) who I don't recognise at all. They have no trees and don't respond to any messages. I wonder why they bothered to test. Surely they can't all be doing it because they want to find out their ethnicity.
The other type that makes me fed up are those that clearly have an incorrect tree but continue to keep it on Ancestry to mislead others. I have an 80 cM across 6 segments match to a person who states his maternal grandfather was the man married to his maternal grandmother, but who died in 1917, 3 years before his mother was born. He knows that his grandfather was KIA in WW1, but will not change his tree. I have shared matches with him and numerous identified cousins from one branch of my tree and it is almost certain that his biological grandfather was related to this branch. But he doesn't seem interested in pursuing it further.
I have just seen that this is quite an old thread, maybe OP and the early posters have different opinions now.
I think this is arguably true for most people on Ancestry these days. If I scroll through my DNA matches from date new to old, the vast majority have little/no tree at all and probably tested just to get the ethnicity estimate.
I also think it's often the case that people have little interest in actually researching - if they're already just on the site to get their ethnicity calculation then they probably won't respond to a mystery 3rd cousin who's talking about ancestors born perhaps 150 years ago.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry's Ethnicity Update Is Finally Here - Share Yours!
« on: Monday 20 September 21 00:18 BST (UK) »The latest ethnicity update convinces me more than ever that it's a waste of time - or that it produces an eye-catching headline, but when you dig deeper you find that it's a load of rubbish.
My wife's figures are:
England and NW Europe - 72%
Sweden and Denmark - 13%
Wales - 7%
Germanic Europe - 5%
Scotland - 3%
Another family member has:
England and NW Europe - 78%
Wales - 14%
Norway - 6%
Ireland - 2%
Ancestry's own DNA tools confirm what my wife has always known, that the other family member is her sister, who shares the same two parents and all other ancestors.
Consequently I don't see how the ethnicity figures convey anything useful.
I've definitely found Ancestry's ethnicity formulations useful and impressive, particularly the region breakdown. Back when I first took a test and knew very little of my deeper family history it correctly pinpointed a specific Cornish region where I later found out a gg-grandmother of mine had been born - the ethnicity report was actually ahead of me on my own research and far from being the gimmick I expected.
My experience is that Ancestry's ethnicity reports are by far the most accurate if your makeup is predominantly British Isles based.