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I have 1% Wales and zero evidence of any Welsh blood in my family for over 225 years.

Do take low %ages with a bottle of Saxa.

It was always a large bag you used to mention, are you unwell or just economising?

Thankyou AlanBoyd,
that was the sort of answer I was hoping for, to put the comparison Ancestry/Heritage into perspective.
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Comparing the testing process is just a small part of the big picture. Both companies started offering DNA testing around the same time yet Ancestry have added more results in the last two years alone than MH have achieved since they started despite MH offering cheaper kits and accepting 3rd party uploads. It's difficult to see how MH will build a viable new 'full genome' database from scratch in my lifetime based on past performance.
 

The internet definition of 'free' is somewhat different to the generally accepted real world definition. 

Don't get me started on the likes of youtube & Yahoo mail who force me to have adverts or pay to be ad free, in the case of Yahoo the new ad banner leaves just a tiny window & covers all but the two most recent emails.

I can link two surnames (one on each side), as Irish, the main problem is the UK matches tend to be pretty small, at best 40ish cM but often lower.  I've built some VERY wide and deep branches though it often just leads me round to locations with large Irish populations that married into other Irish families. On the plus side bringing them forwards to the present day and in some cases having 150-200  individuals with the surname can make placing new matches on those branches far easier, I've already had the person in my tree when they appear in my matches more than once before now.

I give each match a special profile image (I also add the cM figure in the suffix box), and their ancestors get a special profile pic too so I can see the 'dna route' easily in tree view. 
One thing it really highlights is how many generations can include a match, I think my deepest floating branch is 10 generations to the mrca and there are matches spanning four generations, I'm often surprised that the most recent generation can share two or there times the cM than someone two generation further up but with small matches it's hard to know if that's significant or perhaps indicates a case where we link in multiple ways.   

Knowing my luck I have an Irish ancestor 5 generations back but they are the result of four generations of cousins marrying cousins so the O'Blimey gene is just stronger than anything else in me.