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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: "PAPERS PAST" Update Part IV
« on: Monday 09 July 18 04:23 BST (UK)  »
 Hi Emerson.
Thank you for your talk at NZSG Conference, Christchurch. As I was running around as one of the photographers, I only got to see a few minutes of your presentation. I still hope to do a write-up of the new search techniques implemented with PapersPast (Boolean, etc) for our Canterbury Branch newsletter. Will PM you in due course. Many thanks. Jim Copland

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Updating Ethnicity Estimate
« on: Tuesday 12 June 18 02:23 BST (UK)  »
Kimbrey are you saying that AncestryDNA Company has altered its processing and filtering of your 700,000 marker measurements has been recently changed (which would give different data for uploading to other sites)? 
The general belief is that the Company has now larger population samples to obtain improved definition of the world's so-called "ethnic groupings". This company is now advertising they have twice as many world ethnic groups (over 300) than any other consumer DNA testing company.

Of course, the company may have made changes to both - can anyone comment please?

 

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Hart's Private Hotel - South Island, New Zealand
« on: Tuesday 04 April 17 10:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi Printer.  Just read complete thread. I mentioned Harts Hotel to my wife. She said Christchurch (probably) and proceeded to describe it fairly accurately - square, 2-storey, no verandah. Agreed again when she saw photo. She cannot remember HOW she knows this - sorry.
To me Harts Hotel looks relatively similar to the Red Lion, Rangiora (a public hotel and with a history of its own).

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA testing is it worth it
« on: Saturday 19 November 16 10:56 GMT (UK)  »
I'm working through some of the same issues. With autosomal testing.
1. I chose FTDNA company. It looks more exacting, maybe better analysis tools. Easier to contact (for free) related testers. But, Ancestry has a bigger database of testers - maybe 1m+ compared to 1/2m  and requires a paid subscription from time to time.
Both company results transferrable to Gedmatch for more analysis tools to work with.
2. DNA variation between siblings (and therefore some difference in related testers). Out of about 800 related testers, I had no surname hits with my surname, but my brother had 2 with one being 8th strongest. Am now keen to have a sister test.
 
Informed comment on this thread would be greatly appreciated. (I have yet to work on Gedmatch).
Thanks.

P.S. MyHeritage have just commenced autosomal testing (with same company as FTDNA) and are also accepting results from other companies to further analyse. Uploading results is free at the moment. I guess they want to quickly build their database.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: AncestryDNA postage from NZ?
« on: Wednesday 02 November 16 05:40 GMT (UK)  »
 :)Hi
re DJOCAM. Those testing with FTDNA in NZ can post sample back by LETTERPOST at $2.70.  Make sure the pack is as flat as possible as some postal employees will say its too thick. They will then charge you $14 as for a parcel. FTDNA or Ancestry return packages can be declared "Family History Pack.  NCV".  NCV - no commercial value. Alternately maybe $1.  If declared as DNA pack, it could be construed as sending human materials (which of course, it is) through the post. A "letter" is less likely to need a customs declaration - but I do make a note on the back of my return letters.
Jim
 

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: SChool Records Taranaki
« on: Thursday 04 February 16 02:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
There was various reasons that children could remain in primary school until they finished their education. This could be 16 year-olds in Standard 6. Pupils tended to be held back if they failed an end-of-year exam or were absent for a good part of that year. I was in Std 5 with a fellow pupil who was 16. I myself was 12 having lost a year by attending a city school for 12 months for speech therapy.
After the 1950's the Education Department's policy on year-by-year advancement was made virtually mandatory. So, just about all pupils had at least some secondary schooling from this time.

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