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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Ancestry question
« on: Thursday 13 May 21 17:33 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the suggestion.
I think in several cases you are correct. I have an inclination to give most of the information I have including certificate copies etc in my first message. Some people, not all, take this information and never reply.
Thanks again.
Mike

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Ancestry question
« on: Thursday 13 May 21 11:22 BST (UK)  »
A quick update.
Easy enough to upload DNA  results to My Heritage and FamilyTreeDNA.
I had strong confirmations to someone I had already made contact with on ancestry.
I also had a strong connection to the brother of an ancestor born about 1790s and it would have been interesting to communicate with this person. However they have not replied!
I find a large number of the DNA connections never reply to my e-mails. What am I doing wrong?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Ancestry question
« on: Thursday 29 April 21 16:51 BST (UK)  »
Sorry to go on a bit but I have used the information on the top of this site to transfer to MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA so will report in a week or so how I get on.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Ancestry question
« on: Wednesday 28 April 21 13:39 BST (UK)  »
Another quick question.
Will uploading to MyHeritage DNA help?
I realise that is a silly question as use as many resources as possible is always good advice, but can someone comment on the process. Is the MyHeritage database helpful on top of ancestry?
Thanks,  Mike

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Ancestry question
« on: Tuesday 27 April 21 09:58 BST (UK)  »
Again thanks for all the suggestions.
A brief question
A result is: 12cM over 2 segments
Unweighted DNA 23cM
Longest segment 17cM

The Unweighted DNA and Longest segment. What do they indicate? or where is an explanation of these terms?


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Ancestry question
« on: Friday 23 April 21 13:16 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again. I am begining to realise I need the team that worked on the remains of Richard III. Well not really as that was using his bones, but you know what I mean.
I think one of the main bits of extra information needed is the number of generations involved. The first lady I established a connection was 53cM and some time later she got her mother to do a test and this produced 91cM. So as pointed out roughly half moving down a generation.
My problems with the distant connection is not able to check how many generations involved. One with 6 generations back (my way of counting - me being number 1) gave 47cM and the generation down (7) gave only 12cM. This make me wonder abut the accuracy?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Ancestry question
« on: Friday 16 April 21 13:36 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so far but I need to clarify.
The DNA connection is with ggg grandparents Mr Y and Mrs Z - their son was MR X.
MR X lived with two ladies Lady A and Lady B. These ladies had several children - father's name blank.
From paper research I am descended from MR X and Lady B.
The DNA connection to me (also from paper research) is descended from MR X and Lady A.

I am trying to work out how to decide which of the several other shared DNA matches are descended from which lady (these shared matches do not have useable family trees) As there is a DNA connection it will be from MR X but is there a way of deciding if Lady A or Lady B is also involved?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / DNA Ancestry question
« on: Thursday 15 April 21 20:28 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone. I have been doing family history for Nealy 40 years and a couple of years ago had an ancestry DNA test done.
I had a connection 53cM across 4 segments and on contacting this person it proved the system worked!
It was to a cousin sharing gg grandparents on my mother's side (family lost contact about 120 years ago) but on contacting this person we both had the same "carte de visite" of our gg grandparents and similar old paperwork. So the DNA worked OK.
On my father's side I have a connection 47cM across 3 segments to the same generation gg grandfather (MR X) but a different "wife", so we have the true connection to his parents ggg grandparents.
My question is this - MR X had two "partners". Is there a way of finding who is descended from MR X + Lady A and MR X + Lady B. Obviously I have the shared matches from above and others in this line but still working out how to approach the problem.
Hope this is clear!!

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