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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Managing DNA matches on Ancestry
« on: Monday 04 March 24 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Pheno on Monday 04 March 24 15:12 GMT (UK)
My unerstanding is that Ancestry only update the dna matches weekly on a Thursday.

Do you find new matches on a daily basis Lizzie?

Pheno

Multiple updates each day but that is only apparent if you check multiple times a day and obviously is reliant on results being an actual match.  At normal times I tend to see 3-5 matches a day but with the Black Friday and Xmas kits now largely processed I've had around 400 new matches since Xmas, sadly only a couple are above 20cM so I'm still in the quantity over quality trap that plagues my progress.

I have at least had a couple of replies from test managers letting me know which parent the link relates to from the perspective of a match, armed with that I can at least try and build the relevant side of their tree without wasting time and effort on the wrong parent.


I use other sites including My Heritage and Gedmatch, MH tend to send an email on a Sunday if there's a new match  to my kit or those I manage, Gedmatch email today told me of a new match.....a kit I manage and uploaded back in mid January!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: 1920s - can father be determined?
« on: Monday 04 March 24 20:16 GMT (UK)  »
Yes it's possible but to narrow it down beyond a group of male siblings is dependant on the right people taking a test and being able to find those results on whichever site they may be on.  A result from the father would be the ultimate result but taking into account timeframes it's not possible in every case. The next best case would be a result from one of his children followed by results via his grandchildren. 

That's not to say it's the only avenue as results linking to the siblings of the father can help, by a process of elimination you may then go from one of 'several brothers' to perhaps just a couple or maybe even eliminate all the possibilities leaving just the one to answer the mystery. As much as we hope dna will lead us straight to an answer it's often a case where telling us what isn't possible is just as important.

The reality is it's unlikely descendants of every sibling have tested. By using the current matches it should be possible to work out which descendant lines are covered and which aren't, that information can then be used to suggest who to approach as a target test. 

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Test Surprise - any ideas where to look next
« on: Monday 26 February 24 22:23 GMT (UK)  »
I have a half sister on my paternal side and manage her result. My paternal Irish figure is 38% whilst my sister has just 23%.  as we share the same father we have to share the same ancestors back from him so common sense would suggest it should be somewhat closer figures.
 

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help finding common ancestor
« on: Monday 26 February 24 22:10 GMT (UK)  »
It's when people find the right census via a hint but mum will forever remain in her married name. That in turn throws up wrong hints.

I've spent most of the day fumbling through families that keep intermarrying, one of my main surnames and several of my big matches are all intertwined but the interlinked bits are all siblings from the pedigree lines, I'm pretty sure I'm related to everyone in 3 ways though.

Still frustrated with messages not being read. Why is it you can message a mystery DNA match and never hear from them but do a bit of stalking, erm, I mean research on FB and you can see what they had for breakfast, dinner and tea for the last three months!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help finding common ancestor
« on: Saturday 24 February 24 23:28 GMT (UK)  »
The issue that's now totally out of hand and can never be corrected is the sheer number of wrong trees, granted we will all make the odd mistake here and there but some trees have such blatantly obvious mistakes I almost wish I could be blocked from seeing them, of course these trees are the ones that are then shared far and wide and almost forced upon us by AI.
Two wrongs don't make a right and I'm afraid 10 wrong trees don't make that hint, thrulines and Theory of Relativity any more valid despite what the AI may think.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help finding common ancestor
« on: Friday 23 February 24 18:02 GMT (UK)  »
I can guarantee that if I gave you my birth ref and asked you to build my tree I would have the wrong father displayed.   My mother was married but fell pregnant to someone else, in terms of my birth registration everything was done correctly but it does mean I appear to be a legitimate child born through her marriage.  My father isn't recorded on my birth cert and 'adopted' appears in column 10 so even with that in hand I would be an unsolvable mystery unless my adoptive name was discovered.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help finding common ancestor
« on: Friday 23 February 24 03:51 GMT (UK)  »
I target tested two relatives and manage the results alongside my own. I often forget that I see the full names but everyone else will just see a match named 'S.T.; or 'E.J.' As one test is my half sibling some of the matches to that test will see I am the manager but I am not a match.

Off Topic Rant Alert;
I often feel dna is marketed as an easy 'one click instant tree' solution. Many find that isn't the case and don't have the knowledge or experience to make sense of their result. They quickly vanish and if they don't have trees or respond to messages it leaves  the rest of us to choose to either forget them or undertake something resembling clandestine research.   

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Help finding common ancestor
« on: Thursday 22 February 24 13:49 GMT (UK)  »
I have results for five maternal 1c1r's and have access (or manage) all but one set of results. We seem to share one ancestor but that's it, there are no shared matches apart from that one line. We can't work out if we have one or more NPE's, what generation they may be at  or if we just lucked out with test takers at crucial points in our trees.   

I'm unique in that I have a group of matches that has just topped 50 people all descended from a couple but nothing on paper links me to them and they don't match ay of my other matches.  The highest is 199cM and her sister is 168cm to it can't be a freak set of false matches. I have one 1c from another maternal line that hasn't  tested but I was adopted and this cousin is in her 70's  and has no idea I exist as far as I know. It's not an ideal basis to try and find her and ask her to take a test (but knowing my luck she probably knows the whole story already).

Somewhere there has to be a dodgy birth certificate and traditional records/techniques are not going to solve the mystery but just lead me up another wrong path.   

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Name Of Cemetery
« on: Tuesday 20 February 24 12:47 GMT (UK)  »
A number of downloads for Doncaster area cemeteries and burial registers available on Genfair which will certainly be quicker (and possibly cheaper), than asking the council to search.  If it is a cremation however then there may not be an answer to be found.

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