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Hi,

   Well, that does rather depend on the size of the match.
   They seem quite recent dates.
   Thomas Blake Glover was an Aberdonian in Japan in 1859.
   It only takes one relative to tramp the world, that is the kind of thing that takes me down a rabbit hole.
   I have a lot of DNA “relatives” who seem to be in America for over 200 years, but the matches seem very consistent so they must be real in some way.
   Have you actually looked at their Origins, one may be 25% Welsh!

I have matches in the US (I am UK) who have pedigree collapse trees and the same individuals turn up four or five times in their trees, I consider these legit matches and just mark them with the name of the common surname in case one day I can work out the common ancestor who had one child stay and one emigrate.

Quote from: goldfinch99 on Monday 01 December 25 16:20 GMT (UK)

The price does seem too low for it to give Y-dna and mitochondrial results, which is a shame as I'd love to know my mt haplogroup. But then I'd want to know the mt and y- haplogroups for all my ancestors.

I have been able to pick out a few (not many) of the Y-DNA haplogroups of my lines by looking through the groups on FTDNA and finding people who are obviously on the same line.

I joined a surname group on FTDNA with the hope that would work for me on the paternal line, but no luck on finding a previous test-taker who was definitely from the right line. It is a technique worth trying though.

Is Wikitree any good for doing this?  I've never joined it but if people add haplogroups there it could be a useful site for this purpose.

Further to my post on the previous page, I had finally found the 1700s origin location of my Middleton lineage but I could never figure out the correct wife for Robert Middleton born 1786 in Crowle, Lincolnshire who moved to London and had a son, Robert, in 1817.

I've finally got it. I checked marriage records in London and the villages around Crowle. I couldn't fine the right baptism record.  There are some marriage records but further review showed none of them were the right family as Robert 1786 died (according to my tree) in 1821 so any Robert having children after that year could be ruled out.

Then I found a marriage record that I'd seen before and forgotten. The wife's name was Elizabeth Bulgin and then in my DNA I have a family who have a Bulgin line about 5 generations ago. It's weak but ProTools shows them in the right place with common matches and nothing else on their tree seems to fit with mine.

So they descend from Eliz Bulgin's sister and once I'd added their line to my tree, Ancestry popped up with a Common Ancestor going through the line of another sister of Eliz Bulgin, Which I think is strong enough to say I've found my 4th great grandmother on this line! Finally!

Records suggest that Robert and Elizabeth may have had at least one more child, but there's no confirmation in my DNA. As the child's name is Elizabeth and she was born just over a year from the marriage I think she probably is their daughter and there are living descendants for her, which is cool.

Does anyone have any idea when the first results will be in?  Anyone who's done the new test got an estimate?

Anyone know if it definitely gives mitochondrial and Y-dna?

I've done an Ancestry test and put my Ancestry data onto MH.  A lot of my paternal grandmother's family are on there but not many from other sides.  I've found Ancestry to be about 99% accurate in matches and maybe 90% in which side of the tree they belong to and I've found out so much.  There's still ancestors from pre 1850s that I'm not getting matches for so I wonder if the new MH test would help with things like that.

At this price I just want to find out for myself what the results look like and how to work with them and then I can wait and see if new matches come in eventually.  So I think I'm gonna go for it.