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Perthshire / Re: Mungo Haldane of Gleneagles
« on: Tuesday 03 March 26 21:30 GMT (UK) »
Good find, now you just need to work out the relationship between William and the said Mungo!
Happy Hunting.
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Scotland / Re: Scottish naming traditions in the 19th century
« on: Tuesday 03 March 26 21:24 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
Definitely a conundrum, but 1850’s is well within reach of DNA matching and clustering, if you are interested and have a following wind.
Happy Hunting
Definitely a conundrum, but 1850’s is well within reach of DNA matching and clustering, if you are interested and have a following wind.
Happy Hunting
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: My Heritage & whole genome testing.
« on: Tuesday 03 March 26 21:16 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I would tend to agree with Zaphod99. I think the more revealing and interesting stats come from the Ancient Origins data, and Genetic Distance data. The can explain some of the apparently anomalous “Ethnicities” or at lest they do in my case, the also possibly explain the maybe came from before 1700 for a couple of my families.
I just wish Ancestry would provide similar rather than PetDNA and Traits.
I would tend to agree with Zaphod99. I think the more revealing and interesting stats come from the Ancient Origins data, and Genetic Distance data. The can explain some of the apparently anomalous “Ethnicities” or at lest they do in my case, the also possibly explain the maybe came from before 1700 for a couple of my families.
I just wish Ancestry would provide similar rather than PetDNA and Traits.
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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Death of Alexander Mitchell 1833 Brick wall
« on: Wednesday 11 February 26 19:52 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
Don’t our ancestors entertain!
In answer to your question about DNA, yes indeed it can be very useful that far back, I have numerous links with the most recent common ancestor in the 1750’s.
That being said from my own experience in Angus, it can be a challenge working out where a cluster of matches intersects with your tree. I have several cases where there is a double link.
Happy Hunting
Don’t our ancestors entertain!
In answer to your question about DNA, yes indeed it can be very useful that far back, I have numerous links with the most recent common ancestor in the 1750’s.
That being said from my own experience in Angus, it can be a challenge working out where a cluster of matches intersects with your tree. I have several cases where there is a double link.
Happy Hunting
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The Common Room / Re: help please: Ancestry has made my tree useless how do i delete it?
« on: Monday 09 February 26 19:25 GMT (UK) »
Essnell,
Hi, sounds very strange. Have you got access to any other people’s trees? Is there any chance that you are not editing the tree you think you are?
Happy Hunting
Hi, sounds very strange. Have you got access to any other people’s trees? Is there any chance that you are not editing the tree you think you are?
Happy Hunting
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The Common Room / Re: help please: Ancestry has made my tree useless how do i delete it?
« on: Saturday 07 February 26 13:23 GMT (UK) »
Essnell,
Hi, good to hear you have things back under control.
As others have said, if it is a private trees, then no one but you should be able to change things.
Ancestry have changed how information is added when you accept something.
They used to add everyone on a census entry to your tree, now they usually give you the option to accept one at a time. But sometimes not, and it just adds the one person you are looking at, which I find very frustrating!
As you say hints now seem to be searching from everywhere, not just primary sources, which can be frustrating.
I would not give up on hints though, as I have said elsewhere, I have found real gems, proving family links all over the world.
Happy Hunting
Hi, good to hear you have things back under control.
As others have said, if it is a private trees, then no one but you should be able to change things.
Ancestry have changed how information is added when you accept something.
They used to add everyone on a census entry to your tree, now they usually give you the option to accept one at a time. But sometimes not, and it just adds the one person you are looking at, which I find very frustrating!
As you say hints now seem to be searching from everywhere, not just primary sources, which can be frustrating.
I would not give up on hints though, as I have said elsewhere, I have found real gems, proving family links all over the world.
Happy Hunting
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The Common Room / Re: A major new AI capability
« on: Friday 06 February 26 18:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
An interesting question. Thechnically you have been able to do this kind of thing for a long while.
But it is against the T’s and C’s of your contract, so I think you would loose access pretty quickly.
It frustrates me greatly that all the sites don’t use the possibilities more. However that is probably down to privacy issues. I suspect that a well trained AI could these days more or less instantly come up with pretty convincing trees for 90% of our DNA matches.
You can do a lot by sheer slog, with say Pro-Tools, but it is against the slog, but then also where would be the fun in that!
MyHeritage and Ancestry both have there cut down versions with Theries and Thrulines but I am sure there are very impressive things behind the scenes, but then you get to privacy.
We all see this every day with private trees and people who don’t respond to contacts for whatever reason.
It is all very much a Pandora’s Box. Be careful of what you wish for!
Happy Hunting
An interesting question. Thechnically you have been able to do this kind of thing for a long while.
But it is against the T’s and C’s of your contract, so I think you would loose access pretty quickly.
It frustrates me greatly that all the sites don’t use the possibilities more. However that is probably down to privacy issues. I suspect that a well trained AI could these days more or less instantly come up with pretty convincing trees for 90% of our DNA matches.
You can do a lot by sheer slog, with say Pro-Tools, but it is against the slog, but then also where would be the fun in that!
MyHeritage and Ancestry both have there cut down versions with Theries and Thrulines but I am sure there are very impressive things behind the scenes, but then you get to privacy.
We all see this every day with private trees and people who don’t respond to contacts for whatever reason.
It is all very much a Pandora’s Box. Be careful of what you wish for!
Happy Hunting
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Old place names in Somerset with grining stone mills/
« on: Monday 02 February 26 21:49 GMT (UK) »
The places seem to be getting further away, viz Tiverton, any chance it could be St Columb, in Cornwall, easy shipping by sea, and it sounds like they may be an investment? Not at mill, just quality stones?
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Aberdeenshire / Re: Birth 1761
« on: Saturday 31 January 26 23:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
So autocorrect issue, you had bailee in one of your posts!
I would also take Baillie in Inverury to be the local officer type rather than Farm Baillie, especially with the capital B.
Happy Hunting
So autocorrect issue, you had bailee in one of your posts!
I would also take Baillie in Inverury to be the local officer type rather than Farm Baillie, especially with the capital B.
Happy Hunting