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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Ancestry DNA kits £54+shipping until 13/8/25
« on: Today at 12:00 »
Offer time with Ancestry.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/c/dna/offer?o_iid=67547&o_lid=67547&o_sch=Web+Property

£44 each for two or more kits.


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Using modern techniques and filters in restoration
« on: Thursday 31 July 25 16:22 BST (UK)  »
Question could be worded in a different way.

Personally, I use multiple versions.

1) Mildly restored, tears, spots, exposure etc in other words minimal restoration.

2) Restored as they would have been originally printed with maybe a little sharpening.

3) Fully restored as if printed today with some colourised.

Not an AI image in sight.

All versions will be in the electronic and paper files that the next generation will inherit (hopefully not for many years yet) and it will be for them to decide what they like the most.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Y DNA
« on: Sunday 27 July 25 08:29 BST (UK)  »
A branch of a haplogroup happens when a genetic mutation takes place.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Sunday 27 July 25 08:27 BST (UK)  »
Where there is a person who is/was the child of a casual or undocumented liaison the only proof may well be DNA.

In crime thriller parlance, means, motive and opportunity.

In searching for an unknown Great Great Grandfather, DNA points to a trio of Brothers, one of whom lived in the next village, that is as good as it gets, at least for now.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Saturday 26 July 25 10:30 BST (UK)  »
With an unknown Father it can be that his Uncle and his offsprings can lead to the identity of the Father.

Hence build the trees and if all else fails wait until more DNA Matches apear.

There is also the WATO tool on DNA Painter that you could try.

If the line is direct male to male then a 111 yDNA test may provide help.  It is a longshot but it worked for me as I have hundreds of matches with every surname that you can think of but only four who bear the family name that I was expecting.  It goes to show that you cannot rely on documentation or birth records to display the truth.

Good luck.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Friday 25 July 25 07:43 BST (UK)  »
Please read post #28 in thread https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=863488.27

This is the method that I use and often suggest to rootschatters.

You can also use The Leeds Method to group your qualifying matches, there is a website explaining it.

https://www.danaleeds.com/the-leeds-method/

Once you get a tree built with the DNA matches incorporated into it then if you upload it to the WATO tool in DNA painter that should give you some help.

Endogamy may well screw results so may affect your results. 

To give an example I have a 364cM match whose shared cM level is significantly higher than should be given the relationship we have with each other.  Her First Cousins share cM levels with me that she should share.  As many other matches exist and all have the expected cM level the only hypothesis that works is that her Father was the product of an endogamous relationship despite all the BMD records showing otherwise.  I have reached out to the family many times but despite contacting different family members they have all closed ranks and will not respond.



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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry hint.
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 11:33 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: David Nicoll on Wednesday 23 July 25 22:51 BST (UK)
Just to be contrary. I think the whole system is pretty amazing.
It has found me links I would never have found on my own.
They are hints, Ancestry can’t be blamed if humans blindly accept them as correct.
The one change I would make would be to be able to park hints.
I started rejecting wrong ones, but gave that up because I was always going, it is wrong for that person, but right for some other person in the tree and could never force the system to find the entry for the correct spot in the tree, to hand transcribe.
So on balance I will take the system as it is.
Roll on the AI document reading, I have seen a couple where it has managed an astonishing job, I can do better but largely because I know the obscure Aberdeenshire farm names being referenced.
Sorry turned into a bit of a rant 🙂

Tis good to rant.

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The Common Room / Re: Findmypast subscription levels
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 11:31 BST (UK)  »
The only benefit of FindMyPast is that it includes Newspapers.

I find that the searching on FindMyPast is not as good as Ancestry.

As it is Ancestry is cheaper and if you have or intend to take a DNA test then it is by far the best subscription site.

Lesson learned avoid and move on.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How reliable are matches
« on: Wednesday 23 July 25 20:56 BST (UK)  »
If you have a paper/citation etc trail to the person then you are part way there.

If you can validate with DNA the branch to the person and from them to the DNA match then that is as good as you are likely to get.

There are other DNA tools and techniques that can be used but given the likely low cM with a DNA Match then errors can exist.

Multiple DNA validated branches to the person will substantiate the Tree.

If you create a Gedcom of the DNA Match to the person concerned and include as many Shared Matches as you can in the Gedcom you can then upload the file into DNA Painters WATO tool.

Once uploaded and completed run the analysis and it will give you the Probability in numerical terms.

Good Luck.

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