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The Common Room / Re: Do you have suggestions for improving ancestry.com?
« on: Saturday 05 July 25 12:49 BST (UK)  »
I'd really like a proper chromosome browser

I'd also like my list of DNA matches to show how many shared matches I have with each one so that I can quickly see that if someone has no shared matches and no tree there's little chance of any useful information and I can skip to the next.

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Family Tree Maker 2024 finally released
« on: Monday 12 May 25 11:26 BST (UK)  »
Thanks David,

I have been using the workaround for a while. When I originally contacted them about this they indicated they were working on a solution. I have raised a query with them as to whether it's included so we'll see what they say.

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: Family Tree Maker 2024 finally released
« on: Sunday 11 May 25 17:22 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know whether this new version solves the problem where syncing with Ancestry is prevented if Ancestry's two-factor authentication is enabled?

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The Common Room / Re: New Series of Genealogy Podcasts
« on: Monday 01 April 24 15:04 BST (UK)  »
The next episode in this series of genealogy podcasts is now available. It's a really interesting interview with historian and genealogy researcher Nick Barrett about his work on the BBC series 'Who Do You Think You Are?

It can be listened to either directly via https://armchairgenealogy.com or downloaded in podcast form through all the main podcast platforms.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Upcoming changes to tools at AncestryDNA
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 15:29 GMT (UK)  »
I'm also looking forward to seeing the relationship between my shared matches like MH does, would be really useful to me as well.

The one minor change I keep suggesting to them is on the main list page of all matches, just to show the number of shared matches I have with each. That way I can tell straight away that if they have no matches and no tree I can give them a coloured dot for 'no tree no matches' and just move on.   

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The Common Room / New Series of Genealogy Podcasts
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 14:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Folks,

There’s an interesting new series of UK based podcasts from Armchair Genealogy containing interviews with prominent people from the world of genealogy. They can be listened to either directly via https://armchairgenealogy.com or downloaded in podcast form through all the main podcast platforms. 

Interviewees so far have been:
 
Mark Bayley (of The Genealogist website) talking about their new historic maps facility

Donna Rutherford talking about the basics of DNA

Paul McNeil – about working on the ITV series DNA Journey

Ted Udall from Somerset and Dorset Family History Society chatting about Parish Records

I understand that an interview with Nick Barrett, genealogist, historian, author and broadcaster, is coming shortly.


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Staffordshire / Re: Juliana Hinks - Little Girl Lost In Time
« on: Saturday 30 December 23 11:55 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies.

amondg - I do recall seeing the discrepancy in Sarah Ann's stated birth date for the marriage, I suspect it was to make her appear older than the 16 she actually was, probably due to being pregnant at the time of the marriage.
As for the delayed baptism, I did wonder if they were waiting for her father to return from the US, which i don't think he ever did.

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Staffordshire / Re: Juliana Hinks - Little Girl Lost In Time
« on: Friday 29 December 23 13:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

It's been more than 5 years since I posted this query and I'm no further forward so i thought I'd bump it just in case anyone has access to newly available records that I haven't seen or have missed.

Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Chromosome Browser -can it identify parental sides
« on: Wednesday 18 October 23 13:07 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I had what seems to be a similar issue and contacted MH for some guidance

This is my original query:

Triangulation Query
I have 3 DNA matches that share the same segment on my chromosome
5, let’s call them A, B & C. Segments sizes are 18.7cM, 14.7cM and 13.8cM
respectively.
A is a proven maternal match.
B and C are mother and child and triangulation between them is indicated
in the chromosome browser.
A and B also triangulate therefore B is also maternal and will share a
common ancestor with A.
However, A and C together on their own in the chromosome browser do
not triangulate and C does not appear in the shared matches of A.
How can this be?


Their response was:

'C is the child of a match, it probably hasn't reached the threshold, to be recognized.
this Is further corroborated by the fact that A triangulates B and B and C triangulate,
but A and C do not.
C would only share one half with A, that is the part of B (your mother) since dies first
is a match at a certain distance, it just doesn't have the threshold of Multiple shared
DNA achieved to have triangulated segments.
This is also because we don't test the entire genomes, we only test 700,000 SNPs,
the more distant relationships are not always reliably displayed. This is one of the
reasons why we include medium and low confidence tags in some Matches. (usually
more distant ones).'


Whilst I didn't fully understand their response, my interpretation was basically, small matches can be unreliable.

Regards

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