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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: wozza267 on Tuesday 21 January 20 22:33 GMT (UK)
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83% ethnicity estimate with a significant (scarily so) concentration for Hampshire & the Isle of Wight...I guess all those DOEs and GODWINs weren't desperately keen to travel?
Should it be sad and disappointing to be so 'local' or a source of pride and affirmation? :)
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If you don't like the ethnicity breakdown Ancestry has given you just upload your results to another tester (eg MyHeritage, FTDNA or LivingDNA amongst others) and in all likelihood you will get a different ethnicity breakdown.
Or put another way ethnicity breakdowns are guesses with a little bit of science applied nothing more.
Good luck
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davidft,
Thanks for the suggestion. I guess it should have been posted in the common room. I was fishing for contacts but also out of genuine interest. Most people are here to find out where they're from. Do we all want to find kings & queens and dramatic characters in our histories or is it enough to know definitively where you 'belong'?
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Hi
As it is about DNA it would probably be a good idea to post it here
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/ancestral-family-tree-dna-testing/
If you contact a moderator they should be able to move it there for you.
David
(oh and to partly answer your question about having a family deeply rooted in a particular area for many generations there are pluses to this particularly for medical researchers studying diseases and inheritance patterns)
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If you are fishing for contacts take a look at your match list.