How satisfied are you with your DNA test experience?

[Phil Goater]

I got my results in May but haven’t been able to give them my undivided attention - I look forward to further contacts! I haven’t yet tackled the challenge of uploading my results elsewhere - thanks for the prompt!
I trust xin that your next generation will appreciate your groundwork.

Phil

[Finley 1]

Bless em.. if they can untangle my files.. they will be fine

xin

[DavidG02]

                      I took the ancestry DNA test with a view to unlocking some brick walls in my Goater and Langdale ancestry.

I have definite matches with the family of my great grandmother Goater (nee Smith) and other lines on my mother's side have been clearly confirmed and strengthened through DNA cousins sharing common ancestors.
Phil Goater

Hi Phil.

I have snipped your quote for relevance. Relevant to my experience.

I have a similar strong line. ie my mothers paternal line has matches coming out of the wazoo and my dads line is very limited.

I put it down to a few things
1. Number of people from 1 side testing more than others
2. The apple banana cherry date idea from above
3. NPE is possible but neither confirmed or denied ie the matches on my fathers are good.

Overall I see it as a waiting game. The more of my dads side to test the more those results build up. Or my mothers paternal line are very strong holders of DNA

Good luck

[Nanna52]

I liken it to fishing, bait the hook and cast the line and wait patiently.  Sometimes the bait is right and you get an immediate response, others take time.  About two years after I had posted about my cousin and his wife who were actors someone found the post and posted copies of an old autograph album they had found with their autographs.  DNA is the same.  Wait and hopefully it will work out.

[Mart 'n' Al]

DavidG02, what is the meaning of "The apple banana cherry date idea from above"? The internet just gives me a cake recipe.

Martin

[Gadget]

Autosomal DNA can be lost very quickly.

Let’s call the 50% of DNA a person inherits from their father an Apple and the 50% of DNA they inherit from their mother a Banana.  They marry someone with 50% of DNA, which we will call a Cherry and 50% of DNA, which we will call a Date.  The first child inherits the Apple and the Cherry.  The second child inherits the Banana and the Date.

No match.

[Mart 'n' Al]

Thanks Gadget, I didn't realise I should have read so far back. Meanwhile I'm enjoying the cake.

Martin

[Phil Goater]

Grief that means my brothers were right all along - that I'm a bit of a banana..... Thanks for the education!

Phil

[diplodicus]

I love cake... Um the cake analogy that is, but isn’t it statistically highly improbable that siblings wouldn’t share lots and lots and lots and lots of cherry, prune, date and walnut??