DNA Testing - Why Not

[grandma]

18century Irish vital records tend to only exist for ancestors from the larger towns and/or families who posessed considerable wealth. This elimates the vast majority of the Irish population 200 years ago.

Mary

[aghadowey]

Actually there are no Irish vital records (births, deaths, marriages) before 1845/1864.

It depends on the religion and the particular church where your ancestors attended. Church records such as baptisms would record all children baptised not just the wealthier of the congregation. Not many churches (of any religion) in Ireland have records pre-1800 (many before mid-1850s do not exist) so the real problem is lack of surviving church records rather than economic status of individual families.

Now back on topic.... DNA Testing - Why Not

[grandma]

As I said, I was most satisfied with the DNA test.

Have a nice evening.

Mary.

[walkerpete]

Spurred on by these discussions I exercised my plastic friend this afternoon.

Looking forward to the results whenever they turn up!

Pete

[Ruskie]

Debbie, I found your explanation very helpful and easy to understand. I will have a look at your links.
Thank you. 

[nickgc]

DevonCruwys,

Yes, thanks very much for your helpful post.  I will look at your blog posts later today.  I am happy that this poll is getting some attention and that possibly a wider audience will understand how helpful it can be for all populations to be tested.  If anyone has looked at the National Geographic Genographic project site

//genographic.nationalgeographic.com/

you will understand that much of what we know about the geographic spread and population "splits" of our ancestors would still be unknown without wide testing.

Nick

[Mesrne]

I got a test done by Ancestry approximately a year and a half ago. Had quite a few matches but didn't receive any replies 

I'm still interested in the subject and I'll probably end up purchasing another test from a different organization with more users.

[davidft]

I got a test done by Ancestry approximately a year and a half ago. Had quite a few matches but didn't receive any replies 

I'm still interested in the subject and I'll probably end up purchasing another test from a different organization with more users.

If you had your test done by Ancestry can't you manually enter your test results on the other sites like ftDNA to see if you have matches on that site, and if you do initiate contact there ?  (I know Ancestry has the facility to enter your results manually if your test was done by another provider so assume the other firms would have this facility too)

[Redroger]

In the case of FTDNA who did my test I believe to gain access you have to be a client.