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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: A cluster of matches in South CArolina
« on: Thursday 14 August 25 13:36 BST (UK)  »
I have several matches who claim I'm not related as they are US based & have no UK connections but they don't consider siblings of their pedigree line unless they are still alive.  They fly straight back through a generation of 10 children but only include their ancestor and are largely clueless to their family as a result.

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The Common Room / Re: Knowingly lying on a birth certificate
« on: Wednesday 13 August 25 16:08 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Galium on Wednesday 13 August 25 15:11 BST (UK)


Or do you mean that the index is showing a mother's maiden name as well as the surname the birth is indexed by?  In which case  the birth has been registered as if the child was born to a married couple
and there will be father's details, albeit (probably) with the wrong surname.

Just because a birth registration looks as if the child was born to a married couple that does not mean a father will be named on the certificate. My birth index entry and cert are examples of that.  As Anthony has said on many threads there is no way to know what is on a cert based on the index.

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The Common Room / Re: Knowingly lying on a birth certificate
« on: Wednesday 13 August 25 14:24 BST (UK)  »
In the 1960's my married mother had an affair and fell pregnant with me. It's impossible to tell from the index entry alone as it looks  like I'm a child of a married couple though the cert shows she registered my birth knowing her husband was not the father so didn't name him. As my father didn't give his permission to be named that section is blank on my certificate.

The certs and dna show my parents and a grandparent are NPE births, it's pretty much impossible to prove the details of the fathers were knowingly falsified at the time of registration given the timeframe (1890-1924). 



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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Vanishing Ancestry matches
« on: Tuesday 12 August 25 21:22 BST (UK)  »
I never bother accessing the breakdown page but I suspect the numbers change as some pull their results or make them private for whatever reason. I noticed a few of my bigger matches went the blank username route after protools landed and many had half sib matches so that might have been a factor and I find a new one every so often but have no idea when they went underground or how many there are overall.

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Armed Forces / Re: Burma
« on: Monday 11 August 25 17:19 BST (UK)  »
 Just for info NSRW stands for National Service Reserve Wing.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How reliable are matches
« on: Friday 08 August 25 00:47 BST (UK)  »
Sometimes all you can do build the tree using traditional methods, note the contradicting information on documents/bmd and scrutinise the dna. I have one branch with some very creative birth certs and bmd entries that I revisit from time to time and although still not resolved I have chipped away at, several indications that one family group went to the USA look promising but it's accessing Fold 3 and newspapers that are holding me up though I'm not sure if descendants have taken dna tests. For now I'll settle for having the dodgy cert, baptism register and birth index entry on the profile of the problematic person in my tree. At best I'm looking at their grandchildren as potential matches but they would be someway beyond 3c to me.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA match on MyHeritage but not on Ancestry
« on: Friday 01 August 25 22:34 BST (UK)  »
There is no way to predict or calculate the difference as the two sites use different SNP's and also different sections of the chromosomes.  MH use more SNP's but include segments within and adjacent to known pile up regions that Ancestry avoid.

I can have matches within 2cM of each other and others that are 2 or even 3 times higher on MH but on Ancestry are higher than the range Timber is applied to.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA match on MyHeritage but not on Ancestry
« on: Friday 01 August 25 16:11 BST (UK)  »
MH is well known for false matches up to 50cM and to a lesser extent at higher amounts.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry hint.
« on: Tuesday 29 July 25 16:13 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jc26red on Tuesday 29 July 25 14:08 BST (UK)
Quote from: Glen in Tinsel Kni on Monday 28 July 25 22:05 BST (UK)
I initially rejected the hint that a child born in 1879 died in 1878 but went back to it after finding 17 trees show it happened. There's no way they can all be wrong and just little old me be right  ;)

Oh it can! years ago, I rather naively sent my tree to someone, very distantly related who then shared it over and over on Ancestry. I then found an error in my tree and corrected my mistake but all the shares still have the error, an additional child (baptised but no birth record, went back to my original records I transcribed at the RO to double check and it wasn’t there so I must have been seeing things at the time!  😵‍💫) Not one of the copied trees checked my records

I've built the trees of several mystery matches and shown my grandmother is an NPE but my known matches don't research, they just copy the crowd and think they are descendants of William the Conqueror, Robert the Bruce and King Arthur. Strangely none of those are in my tree though my grandmother is the MRCA we all share.

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