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For the last two years I’ve cancelled my annual worldwide Ancestry membership and then immediately used the helpful link on Rootschat to resubscribe at half price.

I’m on the point of cancelling again and the website offers me the opportunity to pause membership, cancel membership or a ‘new’ option – ‘preserve my tree’ for £5.49 a month. (it says this will keep the tree active, retain progress made and allow the viewing of attached records).

I don’t want to preserve my tree, I want to keep working on it… but for the ‘cancel’ option the wording states “your tree stays active, but you ‘LOSE’ the records attached to it… you can view your family tree, but no record attached to it...”

Obviously I wouldn’t expect to view the records until I’ve resubscribed, but I wouldn’t actually ‘lose’ them, would I? If I resubscribed they would all just reappear?

That has always been the case, but the phrasing ‘lose’ the records is a bit alarming... I can't remember what wording was used when I last cancelled 

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  
 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 .