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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry DNA
« on: Tuesday 16 December 25 11:19 GMT (UK)  »
agreed, the traits on Ancestry aren't that useful. Some of mine were accurate (yeah I have blue eyes) others questionable.

Genetic testing for medical conditions is pretty expensive - there are various providers out there. Once your get Ancestry results, you are free to request your raw Ancestry DNA date, and could upload this to other sites which can offer information on your predisposition to certain conditions. These vary in price - and reliability.

Keep in mind that your Ancestry DNA isn't a whole genome sequence, but instead a snapshot of about 0.1% of your whole genome. So a lot of stuff isn't actually tested. Proper genetic testing is more extensive, and looks specifically at many of these SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that confer risk in certains genes, eg BRCA gene, AP0E4 gene. But again it can be quite expensive.

Good luck!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for Seolas!
« on: Tuesday 21 January 25 07:08 GMT (UK)  »
 :) thank you!

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Family History Beginners Board / Looking for Seolas!
« on: Monday 20 January 25 13:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, I am brand new to Roots Chat. I want to send a HUGE thanks to Seolas who posted pictures of my great great grandfather, Robert McEwen back in 2014... Robert McEwen's life story was lost to our family history.. I did some digging around and discovered he'd emigrated to the USA and remarried.. and then I discovered that Seolas on rootschat got there 10yrs before me! I trued to attach the picture of Robert McEwen and his second wife, Elizabeth Cochrane that Seolas found / shared - but being a newbie couldnt get it to work  ???. Seolas hasn't posted here for 7yrs or so. Im just sending a wee shout out to see if Seolas is still an active member? Thank you very much!

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The Lighter Side / Re: On this day in JANUARY ...
« on: Monday 20 January 25 13:12 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Seoras on Saturday 12 January 13 11:37 GMT (UK)
On this day in 1887, Samuel Greer McEwan the eldest son and first child of my GG grandparents, Robert McEwan and Hannah Greer was born at Longriggend. As Lance Corporal Samuel. G. McEwan of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders he would die in 1914 during the retreat from Mons in WWI only weeks after having been sent to the front. He is remembered at Le Cateau Communal Cemetery and on various war memorials in Scotland as well as in the book of remembrance in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders museum in Stirling Castle. He left behind his wife Agnes Shearer who he had married the year previously. She was pregnant with their first child. The child was named Samuel Mons McEwan but lived for only 3 weeks.

On January 12 1856, James the son of my GG grandparents, James Stein and Elizabeth Pate was born in Linlithgow. He was the first of three sons they would have named James. He died aged only 20 days and is buried alongside several of my Steen, Pate and Auld ancestors in St. Michaels Kirkyard which is just outside the gatehouse of Linlithgow Palace, the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots.

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