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Quote from: chris_49 on Thursday 16 October 25 19:34 BST (UK)

I too am struggling to understand how my Norwegian  and Danish DNA has vanished but now some Dutch has arrived! I think the former equates with my apparent Hebrides/North West Highland ancestry (has to be from my maternal grandmother's unknown father) but the latter I thought came from the Danelaw. But the Anglo-Saxon invaders apparently included some Frisians so that could be it.

I'm puzzled as how I went from 40% Celtic (mostly Welsh) at first dwn to 30% and now up to 50%!

I'll swap my apparent Danish ancestry (closest I actually have is my aunt's husband who was Danish) for your Dutch ethnicity since my Dutch ancestry (my grandmother's grandmother was Dutch) seems to have gotten lost somewhere 

Well the Danish could come from the Danelaw ( a huge swathe of eastern England) or from the Jutes who settled Kent. Even the Angles were from whaqt is now Schlewsig-Holstein. But all these Germanic tribes were related - even the Normans to some extent, so maybe your Dutch ancestor's DNA mas been assigned as something else.

I too have a great-great grandmother  unaccounted for in my DNA - she was Cornish. I wonder if she has been interpreted as South Welsh since I don't have a known ancestor from there. But asll these strands are supposed to have intermingled over the centuries. I expect Ancestry's next attempt will give us different interpretastions again.

Thanks very much. We have a work-round now and he has been able to edit his tree. I expect Ancestry are letting people think they must re-subscribe.

Just helping a gentleman who has an Ancestry tree but whose membership has lapsed. When we click on "Trees" we just get a basic 3-person tree, although some details are available for other people he has entered. Are one's own trees no longer available to non-members? Chris

There's also the option to add a middle name at Confirmation, at least Anglican ones. I was offered (but declined) this in the 60s. I don't know if this was common in earlier times.

Quote from: chris_49 on Wednesday 27 November 24 18:30 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Wexflyer on Wednesday 27 November 24 18:16 GMT (UK)

The famous patriots, Skin the Goat and Fr. Murphy.

I thought Father Murphy of Old Kilcormack was a celibate priest? James Fitzharris did have children thiough.

OK . But that's the Fr John Murphy I meant.


It says in your family tree... which to me means more than direct ancestor.
And I mean the other Fr. Murphy, who led the final charge at the battle of Arklow.