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It is 10 years since my Wife & I took our Ancestry DNA tests and it has been quite an emotional journey using DNA to validate our trees and to find missing relatives.

DNA has helped me solve some pretty big issues and so just when I thought we are reaching a point where I need to start consolidating what we have a curve ball gets thrown.

352cM, a new match arrived on Ancestry yesterday, she joined in January this year so reasonable to presume it was a Christmas present and the results are in.

Alas no tree and a user name of two female forenames i.e. “Susan Elizabeth” so not much to go on.

I can see our Shared Matches and having Pro Tools I can see what cM she has with each of our Shared Matches and I am her closest match.

My Grandma was one of 11, of the 11, 1 died in infancy, 3 were killed in WW1, 3 others had family and from each of these 3 there is a direct DNA match.

Of the 3 remaining siblings, 1 never married, 1 had no children and the remaining 1 had 3 children.

So the hypothesis is that the match is from one of these 3 children.

Unfortunately I have not yet been able to build a tree from this part of the family, the reason being in part a Harrison surname.

Fingers crossed that she responds to the Message.

So it has been a few weeks and quite a few additions have been made to my tree.

Been in contact with a new 3C and a very informative outcome that has been.

The DNA Tools are so far not proving much different.

Not getting any Triangulation but a couple of potentials.

I am not with your thinking.

Looking through the closest matches there does not seem to be any change in cM values compared to my recollection of the first MH test.

I have linked four new DNA Cousins into my Ancestry tree from the MH matches but that is only due to them having trees on MH that have recognisable family members.

So not really much benefit as far as I can ascertain so far from the new MH testing process.

Now by my logic, whole genome should enable far more accurate use and results of using the Chromosome Browser and Auto Clusters.

The Chromosome Browser with the limited testing applied by myself does not seem any different to the prior system, still zero triangulation and any useful indication using DNA matches who are close relations to each other.

The Auto Cluster has taken a while to generate but it used the highest 100 matches to cluster.  The result is a largest cluster of 15 with the top one having more shared matches than the others but with just their name and no tree, they are not presently worth any time researching.  Nor is no tree, “Auntie M” for obvious reasons.

Again spurious results with DNA matches who are closely related not in the same cluster yet in another cluster they are there.

Ethnicity as stated, way off the mark.

I am 50% Cheshire/Yorkshire going back 250 years, 25% Irish and 25% Italian both going back to 1800 and beyond. 

MH shows me as 31% Scottish/Welsh, 25% English, 15% Italian, 11% Irish & 7% French then a smattering of other origins.

1st March

DNA Raw Data produced.

Births were recorded with the Local Registrar with the districts based upon the Poor Law Unions.

Hence delays were always possible.