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The Common Room / Re: Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers?
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 22:31 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Blairvadach on Wednesday 15 May 24 21:57 BST (UK)
Hi folks
Do you let your subscription expire and then use the code?
Thanks

Yes, but make sure you have cancelled auto renewal BEFORE your subscription expires. As Sandra says above your current subscription runs till its expiry date. I just gave  it one day after it ran out then used the link but I cancelled the auto renew option several weeks ago. You’ll find it in your account settings .

Jo

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The Common Room / Re: Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers?
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 09:35 BST (UK)  »
Thank you , Sandra, for another successful renewal  :)

Jo

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Mothers maiden name
« on: Thursday 02 May 24 22:39 BST (UK)  »
Is there any way it could start with M? Looking at m.s. and McCormick?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How far back would 3% Norwegian be?
« on: Monday 29 April 24 20:18 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Cell on Monday 29 April 24 07:43 BST (UK)
Quote from: Craclyn on Tuesday 19 May 20 21:29 BST (UK)
MyHeritage have a major update to their ethnicity estimates scheduled for this year.

I think they're currently  working their  way through  them now, as I  am currently getting  this  below message with my child's  DNA  :

"The ethnicity results for this kit are currently being generated. Please check back here tomorrow to see the updated results."

 My own isn't  showing  the message, and my ethnicity hasn't changed .Perhaps they're  working their way through them in batches . Anyway, it  looks as if my child's  is currently in the process of   being updated.
 
I wonder what they'll  have me as when they update it .  My ethnicity on Myheritage is absolutely comical .  According to them  I am almost 50% Scandinavian, 47% to be exact  and  15% Iberian, and  my child has 0  of these ethnicities  , go figure lol. How could I possibly not pass any  at all ( not even 1%) of that  whopping amount in me onto my child lol.

Ancestry's ethnicity  is pretty  much near to correct with both mine and my child's,  they give  a break down  for me, of half Irish and Scottish  , my mum and all her ancestors  are from  Ireland, with many of them who came to Ireland from  Scotland a few hundred years back.
And the other half  me  from my Welsh  father is  majority  Welsh with a little English 7% and 2% Denmark - don't  know where the Denmark is coming in, and probably wont ever know as too far back to trace,  that's if  it is even correct)

I can't  wait  to see what MyHeritage has in store for me with their updated version, I wonder if I'll  lose  all my  lovely Scandinavian and Iberian, or perhaps they'll   go the whole hog  and make me 100%   Scandinavian and Iberian lol ( as I am currently sitting on 62 % Scandinavian and Iberian combined with them . I do not have any ancestors from those regions at all , well not in the past few hundreds of years for 100% sure  ,and  100% DNA proven ) .

None of my full  1st cousins ( I have maternal and a paternal 1st cousin on my heritage ) ,or any other  of my cousin's  have this lovely Scandinavian and Iberian in their  ethnicities , goodness what they  have done  to mine lol . I think Myheritage's computer was  drunk as a skunk when it came to interpreting my ethnicity ;D 
 I can't wait for their update, hopefully it will  amuse me some more .
Kind regards
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just checked mine and it seems to be pretty much the same as they had before ( it was showing the “ being updated “ message) including a ridiculously large 24.9% Scandinavian. This was an upload of Ancestry dna done when it was free. Ancestry gives me 5% Swedish/ Danish and Norwegian which I can accept from my East Anglian ancestry .

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Trying to Decipher this Relationship
« on: Wednesday 10 April 24 20:39 BST (UK)  »
boarder?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1841 Census occupation - doesn't make sense to me - help
« on: Tuesday 09 April 24 22:00 BST (UK)  »
Stone barer, maybe? http://doot.spub.co.uk/code.php?value=072 ( note the “r” in what I assume is weaver above)

Don’t know why only the wife has an occupation though

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The Lighter Side / Re: New genealogy novel
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 20:13 BST (UK)  »
Thank you! I’ve really enjoyed his books  :)

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA I manage has hundreds of matches showing as maternal
« on: Sunday 31 March 24 10:18 BST (UK)  »
Is this on Ancestry? Have you checked that he has allocated his dna to the correct parent on the ethnicity inheritance page?  There is an option to edit and change the allocation if it’s simply mislabelled mother’s side as  fathers which should correct all the matches also.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 'Put away?'
« on: Sunday 31 March 24 10:05 BST (UK)  »
It is awfully sad when you find a poor soul like this when researching.
I recall from nurse training back in the early 1980s visiting a local hospital for children and adults with learning difficulties, now long closed. I was quite shocked although it seemed a happy place.

My great uncle , Percy, was sent to a Darenth school for mentally defective children in 1904, aged 8.  Later he was sent to the Fountain asylum- in 1911 he is recorded as a congenital imbecile of unknown cause.  I can find little more. His mother was the informant of his death at 21 in 1917 ( his father, having joined up,) so I hope there was contact. My mother was the source of much of the information about my dad’s side as he died a long time before I started family history research and she said my dad had a cousin who had been put away (possibly with epilepsy) who came to stay sometimes for a holiday. I like to think this is a little confused and it was actually Percy visiting with his family including my grandfather, his brother

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