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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: MyHeritage DNA Results - Subscription ??
« on: Sunday 08 February 26 16:58 GMT (UK)  »
I half hoped when I started this thread that someone would actually have an answer to accessing my dna results, a hidden way to pay a one off fee or some such. From the lack of suggestions I must assume there isn't one and the only way is via a subscription.

Seems to me that the whole cheap dna test thing is just a bait and switch scheme to get people to sign up to a subscription. Without access to the shared matches and trees then what you get is just a list of names. Without being able to download this list of names I can't compare this test to the earlier imported Ancestry one unless I want to do it by hand, one at a time. So the whole thing has been, mostly, a waste of time.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: MyHeritage DNA Results - Subscription ??
« on: Saturday 07 February 26 17:14 GMT (UK)  »
Romilly - I sent my test on the 8th Jan., got an email to say they'd received it on the 20th and another to say the results were ready on 5th Feb. Also during the process on my MyHeritage Home page I could track the process through several stages of extraction, testing etc.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: MyHeritage DNA Results - Subscription ??
« on: Thursday 05 February 26 22:48 GMT (UK)  »
Ruskie - Yes I still have access to the shared matches and trees of dna matches.
I remember having the access originally, then they took it away and I had to pay £19 to get it back. But that option doesn't seem available now for this new dna kit.
This is all from memory but it's what I recall.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / MyHeritage DNA Results - Subscription ??
« on: Thursday 05 February 26 19:53 GMT (UK)  »
Can anybody confirm my suspicion that I have to take out a yearly subscription to view my full dna results, in particular matches in common and matches' trees.
I recently did a MyHeritage test out of curiosity over the whole genome sequencing and how it would differ from the Ancestry test I uploaded years ago. I remember, vaguely, that at some point MH moved part of my results behind a paywall and that I paid a one off fee to unlock them.
I had assumed that paying for their own test would give me access to my results, but I received them today and apparently not. I can find no mention anywhere on their site of a one off fee, just yearly subscriptions. I had one of those years ago and it was fairly useless, almost nothing that wasn't already on FamilySearch for free and I don't really want one now.
Are there any other ways to view the full results without taking out a subscription ?
PS
What happened to download dna match list ?

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Sunday 25 January 26 20:39 GMT (UK)  »
Err, 15736, he said sheepishly. But, in my defense, it was a neat and tidy 1800 before I got the DNA test, after that it was just one rabbit hole after another.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Sunday 25 January 26 13:33 GMT (UK)  »
David - That makes me feel somehow inadequate !

I am sure there will be some excellent hints in my paltry 44,000, but how do you sort the wheat from the chaff ?

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry family trees full of lazy errors
« on: Saturday 24 January 26 17:53 GMT (UK)  »
I am currently ignoring 44208 hints. Is this a record ?  ;D

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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Re: Did C17 stonemasons have access to a book of heraldic templates?
« on: Thursday 22 January 26 11:22 GMT (UK)  »
You may be right, I imagine there would be some literate stonemasons although those with Latin would be few. But to buy an illustrated book would be beyond the means of nearly everybody but the rich, not just stonemasons. Consider also that carving a letter is no different than carving a tree, the fact that one image is a symbol for something else is irrelevant. Perhaps a stonemason who regularly carved gravestones would have a working knowledge of what was required but to reproduce the arms from a description in a book seems to me several steps too far. It is more likely that the stonemason was given a paper copy of the required image and inscription for him to copy in stone.

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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Re: Did C17 stonemasons have access to a book of heraldic templates?
« on: Wednesday 21 January 26 23:02 GMT (UK)  »
I think the question you should ask is how many C17 Stonemasons could read, and of those how many could afford to buy a book.

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