Just received by Ancestry DNA results...

[Craclyn]

If you mean transfer from Ancestry to FTDNA then you can try it for free, but have to pay a transfer fee to get contact information for the matches that are showing. You can find out more about it here:
https://www.familytreedna.com/AutosomalTransfer?

[DevonCruwys]

A number of projects have coupon codes which give you money off an order. They're mostly for $20 or $10 but that represents a big saving on the transfer. I've got some for some of my projects and I'll share them when I get a chance but it might be a few more days before I have time.

[hmserge]

Thank you for that information, much appreciated.

[Minnieccat]

I have sent off for mine. It was received by the Lab 28th February. it will be interesting to see the results when they come.

[Matt62]

I got something like 79% Irish on the AncestryDNA test, only 12% Great Britain and for some bizarre reason 6% Scandinavian, 3% East Europe and 1% Finland/North West Russia.

I'm Scottish and based upon my known ancestry should have been (using percentages of DNA one would expect to derive from different relation distances) roughly 48% Irish, 25% Scottish, 19% Ulster Scots/English, 3% German (from Vorpommern on the Baltic Sea) and around 1.5% English.

The Irish is too big (unless of course one sees Ulster people with Scots and English heritage/surnames as simply 'Irish' rather than a distinct ethnic group in Ireland) and the British is far too small considering how many Scottish ancestors I have (my maternal grandfather was wholly Scottish apart from one distant English ancestor and one Ulster grandmother, while my paternal great grandmother was again almost wholly Scottish, for example).

I presume that the DNA test results show up a lot of ancient DNA...? I also wonder how many Scots were used as a reference population for Great Britain.

The Scandanavian, East European and Finnish/Russian does not correspond with my known ancestry. My only link to the continent, as mentioned earlier, is my great-great-great grandfather from West Pomerania in Germany.

[100%Gog]

Got by Ancestry DNA results back today. Ordered the kit 31 Jan, sent off sample 2 Feb, received results 11 March - not a bad speed in my opinion!

Besides from the ethnicity results (38% Irish who would have guessed it!), I notice that out of THIRTY SEVEN pages of potential DNA matches, about 98% of them are American and I only found three people with an obvious link to my family tree - even then it was vague (same surname in a particular area etc.)

I am pleased I ordered it and am enjoying the experience, but I feel that, as a Brit, I may be a bit early to the party! Perhaps I should have waited a year or so until its popularity picked up here - but someone's got to go first!

I call on all my fellow British genealogists to join me on Ancestry DNA - it's very lonely here right now!

Regards,
Jack

Just left a post on another Ancestry DNA message string (see "My Results"). I got my results yesterday (so your not alone), I too have been linked with a number of potential matches all in the USA. You think cool, but when you look at their family trees it has more to do with them selecting an incorrect hint which is linked to your tree than any major bloodline connection. The distant cousin list I'm not sure of I think its a bit of a space filler, because when you are talking 5th - 8th cousin then you are pretty far removed. Is there not a saying about everybody being related "seven degrees of separation"?

I too have a high Irish percentage 53%, like many others which suggests a "Celtic" ancestry and also 8% Scandinavian. Its all fascinating stuff.

100%Gog

[Minnieccat]

My results from Ancestry were as follows: 56% Great Britain, 34% Europe West, 4% Europe East plus 5 other regions. I was so dissappointed that it wasn't more specfic that I decided to transfer results to Prosapia Genetics. The results from them were 56% Highlands, Scottish, 31.5% Iberian and 11.9% Abkhazian. The GPS tool found my biogeographic point of origin within 218 Kilometeres of Latitude 45.72 and Longitude 7.25. This is a place near Aosta. Apparently These results are often seen among individuals of Swiss origin who came from a genetic pool similar to mine.

Well, I assume my Douglass family must have come from Scotland orginally although I can only trace them back to 1805 in Bethnal Green, London. I was disappointed in the results couldn't tell me more. I have yet to connect to anyone linking to my family tree. Please note I live in England.

[100%Gog]

There is an option on the Ancestry DNA to download your raw data results....is this of any use? I've downloaded it in a .txt format can it be used for any other programs, software etc?

100%Gog

[jaybelnz]

As an ex-teacher, I always told my students that there is no such thing as a stupid question! But I think this one of mine qualifies as stupid.  I neither understand nor know anything about genetics and DNA groups etc and I do have a question.

I am female and have 2 brothers!  A friend tells me that if we have the same parents, we would have the same DNA results. would that be correct?

Thanks
Jeanne 😄