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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: margnip2 on Saturday 21 August 21 17:09 BST (UK)
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My husband got his DNA results a few days ago. He has tried joining Thrulines but just gets this when he tries "We are sorry, this page is temporarily unavailable. You can try reloading the page or come back later". Is anyone else having the same problem?
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Has he linked a tree and is it searchable?
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https://support.ancestry.co.uk/s/article/AncestryDNA-ThruLines
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He has, which is why we don't understand why it is not working.
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The only other thing that I can think of is that they are still processing the tree/common ancestor links. I seem to remember it took a few days for mine to come through after I'd linked my tree.
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Ok thanks I shall tell him to try again in a few days.
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The only other thing is that his name in the tree to which his dna is linked must be exactly the same as the name under which his dna was processed.
Pheno
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Thanks Pheno, will wait a few days and try again. Mine worked, but I think I waited longer than we have with his. Not enough patience.
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The only other thing is that his name in the tree to which his dna is linked must be exactly the same as the name under which his dna was processed.
Pheno
Mine wasn't but I have Thrulines.
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How to get ThruLines™
Take an AncestryDNA® test
Opt to see and be seen by your DNA matches
Link your family tree to your DNA test
Make sure your linked family tree is either public or private but searchable
Build your linked family tree back at least four generations
Check back in two days; if ThruLines™ are available, they'll appear within 48 hours
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...and when they do appear, a timely reminder for caution, which I wish many would read and heed:
.Accuracy. Since ThruLines™ are based on the family trees of you and other members of Ancestry, they're as accurate as the trees they're based on. Mistakes in family trees can cause inaccurate ThruLines™. Because they're based on trees, ThruLines™ don't prove your specific connection to a DNA match.
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-ThruLines
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Quite - I've got many false links on mine. They seem to pluck some very odd links from whatever tree turns up similar names, regardless of place or dates :-X
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Yes I have some false ones on mine. But a couple I thought were false, after some research turned out to be true. Most on mine are good though.
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Nearly all of mine seem to be good but it fails to pick up some where I can see a paper trail
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Pleased to say my husbands Thrulines are in and working :). Thanks for your help, and I shall have to learn to be more patient :D
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Thrulines are based on yours and other peoples trees, but they only link you to people you share DNA with. I have one which turned up an incorrect father for my 3 x great grandmother. But with a bit of research I discovered the man was her older brother not her father. I was still related to the person Thrulines linked me to but in a slightly different way.
Another thing Thrulines picked up was two different relationships to the same person. I already had him on my tree as a half 3C twice removed - common ancestor was my 2 x great grandfather, but Thrulines found he was also my half 6th cousin from my 2 x great grandmother's side.
Though I don't think that's very surprising when there must have been a lot of distant cousins (who didn't realise they were) marrying in small rural villages. Impressed Thrulines found the 2nd relationship, I'm sure I wouldn't have made the link.
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They seem to have mixed up my Welsh lines and not allowed for illegitimacy :-X
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...and when they do appear, a timely reminder for caution, which I wish many would read and heed:
.Accuracy. Since ThruLines™ are based on the family trees of you and other members of Ancestry, they're as accurate as the trees they're based on. Mistakes in family trees can cause inaccurate ThruLines™. Because they're based on trees, ThruLines™ don't prove your specific connection to a DNA match.
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-ThruLines
Thank you so much for this reminder. I keep seeing no thrulinies to an ancestor where others have them - in my case one where I am heartily convinced they have the parentage wrong and my research has been far more realistic. Ancestry giveth and Ancestry taketh away!
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I trust the dna results but not the trees thru lines have been quiite accurate and of course researchers made big trees following paper trails before dna revealed that great grandfather wasnt actually birth father or a child had been registered to a grandmother . sometimes my links from cambuslang and shettleston in scotland come back with two possible relationships
my grandma told me she and grandada met at a family wedding but ive yet to find the exact relation from both sides Thru lines is suggesting possible routes but with names like ROBERTSON STEVENSO + Mckay it takes some sorting
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I've been looking at Thruline matches with interest, it does appear to be supporting (with DNA matches) a lot of what I have researched. As I don't currently have a paid Ancestry subscription I'm limited with exploring possible matches on Ancestry.
Has there a change in the past couple days with Thruline matches?
It's showing me individuals marked "Potential Ancestors" and it was a couple of days ago, showing individuals marked DNA Matches or something similar. Now I have to scroll over each individual to see how many DNA matches if any.
Mick
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Has there a change in the past couple days with Thruline matches?
It's showing me individuals marked "Potential Ancestors" and it was a couple of days ago, showing individuals marked DNA Matches or something similar. Now I have to scroll over each individual to see how many DNA matches if any.
Mick
Yes the Potential thing is new to me and somewhat annoying. However, I'm not sure whether it's a mixup as I have two trees with many of the same people and these potential ancestors seem to jump back and forth from one tree to another. I'm not sure what to do about it. I keep activating them and they remain potential.
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The potential ancestors ,mainly on a green background, have been there for as long as I can recall. I have them for some 5th greats where I've not got them in that particular line in my tree. Most of them are doubtful.
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A lot of the times when theu lines dont show up its
because your relatives have named ancestors differently using nicknames alternative or any extra punctuation
Thru lines cant cope with James "jimmy BROWN
or womens surnames written as Smith was Jones
Or gggf Alan Brown
There is a function for "also known as"
+ A suffix box to add ladies married names but i find if you use that search won't find premarriage census
Im helping someone whose ggfather is Alfred Gharles + surname
Matches are showing to wife . mother and gparents but not him i think it may be that other people have him as
plain Charles so shows as a sibling
If dates are two years out they..ll show as siblings not the same person
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The more I look at Thrulines, the more nonsense it becomes. I may in fact have DNA in common with some of the people they throw in, but some of the ancestors are out of whack - totally.
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Is this because of incorrect trees on Ancestry?
Mick
The more I look at Thrulines, the more nonsense it becomes. I may in fact have DNA in common with some of the people they throw in, but some of the ancestors are out of whack - totally.
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i wonder how much out of whack your thru lines are Dave
I m lucky that my mother and paternal aunt born around 1930 took dna tests too
my mother comes from a recomposed families
all thru lines thru my maternal 3x ggparents are correct ..incudin half 1st cousins twice removed and 2nd cousins 3x removed
but this is because i have followed each line down and so even if others trees are not correct the suggested routes are thru my tree definitions
occassional y 3rd cousins show up as half third cousins because the dna match as put step parent instead of biological one or has a different birth year so their John X b1820 shows up as a brother to my John X b 1823 when its same person
that skews time lines s if they put abt 1820 rather than 1820 i think the match shows up
also have correct thru lines to all paternal 2ndggparents except one couple
there is ine connection further up but mostly not to this line so tho my paper tail goes back to 1700's im beginning to think great great grandfather was a placed baby probably from a relatives family . one ancestor was to a single mother and there is a dna link to the man she named as father and to his half sister who also descends from a named birth father
mum's closest match apart from me and full cousin and several full and half second cousins
is a half cousin who had no idea his grandmother had a baby before marriage his tree isnt linked to dna so thru line doesnt show
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It's not that I doubt the science at all - it's Ancestry's reliance on other peoples trees. As you mentioned names can be oddly or misspelled and then things pop up as Potential. But I have some appear that are way off. One especially troubles me - My grandfather who died in Australia after emigrating from Ireland. His great grandfather (who were basic laborers in Antrim for centuries), whose name I doubt I'll ever find is listed as a man living and dying in Tennessee USA in the mid 18th c. with a long genealogy back to Scotland - I think a fantasy tree. I am more than dubious as I know the temptation to say - Oh look - there's a lovely line that goes back and back...
From what I can understand the trees and the DNA can be off kilter and while there is a match of some sort it could well be through another ancestor's line altogether. That's at least my (poor) comprehension of the system. So yes it can be spot on and even point out mysterious links. I'm just finding odd ones.