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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How many DNA matches should I expect 5 years after test with Ancestry please?
« on: Sunday 09 January 22 18:34 GMT (UK)  »
11,631

You'd think I should be able to find my great grandmother somewhere amongst that lot. 

Thanks pughcd.  Belinda

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How many DNA matches should I expect 5 years after test with Ancestry please?
« on: Sunday 09 January 22 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for your replies.  I think I am well within the normal range then.  I have 302 4th cousins or closer.  I was obviously feeling unnecessarily disappointed.  I shall just have to try harder.

Braytons

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / How many DNA matches should I expect 5 years after test with Ancestry please?
« on: Sunday 09 January 22 17:23 GMT (UK)  »
It looks like it's about 3 years since I was last on here.  I am back still trying to find my grandmother's forebears. 

How many DNA matches should I expect 5 years after test with Ancestry please?   :-\

Did the maternal side of my ancestors have low fertility?  I feel I should have more matches.  Am I correct in believing that?

Braytons

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Matches and tracing a particular branch in my tree
« on: Saturday 02 February 19 15:17 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Margaret for those links, I have read them and see how very strange the ways of DNA are. 

The links to so many of my matches continue to elusive but I am taking your advice and plugging away.

Braytons

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / DNA Matches and tracing a particular branch in my tree
« on: Wednesday 30 January 19 14:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again.

I have 4 dna matches plus another 5 shared matches with the original 4.  All with between 25 to 60 CMs.

From one of the matches, I have a clear line to a common ancestor to my PATERNAL great grandmother's sister.

What I would like to know is, is it possible that among the above matches there could be matches to my MATERNAL Grandmother's line?

Thank you Braytons

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Two families of the same name challenge. I can't find a connection.
« on: Friday 25 January 19 18:49 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: melba_schmelba on Friday 25 January 19 18:25 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Ruskie on Friday 25 January 19 12:13 GMT (UK)
This is handy to check distribution of surnames:
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/
(it is giving me an error message at the moment though).

You could look for the surname on a census or two to see how many results you get. You could try various searches such as exact spelling, surname in one or both locations etc.

It is possible that there were variations in the spelling of the surname.

Could be a co-incidence of surnames or maybe the connection goes further back than you are able to trace.  :-\
GBNames has been offline for at least a month :(, I emailed but got an error from the email server too - it appears to be run by some people from UCL.

Thank you.  What a shame its not working.  I used it quite a lot.   :'(

Braytons

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Two families of the same name challenge. I can't find a connection.
« on: Friday 25 January 19 15:14 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Marmalady on Friday 25 January 19 14:26 GMT (UK)
In Lincolnshire there are two groups of families with the rare surname of Northing (with earlier variants in at least one of the branches of Northern / Northen). Genealogists from both groups have been trying to find a link between the two for many years -- without success

Ah that's enlightening.  I did wonder.  I did a same thing with the two families with the surname Christmas living in Surrey and couldn't find a relationship.  Thank you.

Braytons

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Two families of the same name challenge. I can't find a connection.
« on: Friday 25 January 19 14:26 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Ruskie on Friday 25 January 19 13:22 GMT (UK)
Presumably this is an autosomal DNA test? If so what is the estimated relationship between your family and your 'match'?

Hi

Yes autosomal, this is the closest relationship copied from the match.

"Possible range: 4th - 6th cousins

Confidence: Extremely High 

Shared DNA: 65 cM across 6 segments"

Braytons

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Two families of the same name challenge. I can't find a connection.
« on: Friday 25 January 19 12:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Ruskie. 

I am glad you are getting the same error message for gbsurnames, wondered if it was me.  I will try the other link.

Your idea of checking the numbers is good.  I compared Mayes and Smith.  On Ancestry 1911 Smith males was 358,136.  On the other hand I did the same with my husband's surname the total was 127! 

So Mayes isn't all that rare.  Thank you for your thoughts.  I think you might be right about the records connecting might be too far back.

Braytons


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