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Offline David Gough

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test help needed
« on: Friday 05 July 19 19:37 BST (UK) »
hi all.

I need some guidance and advice regarding the next move in tracing my biological father. I've been at this for 3 years now and have to say I've achieved a lot with the help from others and this forum. I'm at the point where I have isolated what I believe is the family line and name. what I'm looking for is the test that will give me that vital result if I am indeed the son of one of the males in this family. advice please on how I proceed next and who to use for the test.

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Re: test help needed
« Reply #1 on: Friday 05 July 19 19:47 BST (UK) »
you will only get answers from the test if someone is related to your dad has also had one
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Re: test help needed
« Reply #2 on: Friday 05 July 19 21:20 BST (UK) »
Start with autosomal testing with AncestryDNA. You should be able to cross reference the various family lines to find your place in their tree.

Another approach would be to take a Y-DNA test with FTDNA to confirm that you belong to the expected direct male line. This would only confirm that you share common male direct line ancestors but would not help you to zone in on the specific family.
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Re: test help needed
« Reply #3 on: Friday 05 July 19 21:37 BST (UK) »
A timely question.


I have just finished reading Blaine Bettinger's Guide to DNA testing and genetic genealogy. He advises men looking for a biological father link to take a YDNA test preferably a Y67DNA test at least. He makes the claim that Y DNA testing at familytree DNA can provide a potential biological surname in about 30 per cent of cases ( I do not know how reliable this statistic is).

The problem you may have is if you do the YDNA test with familytree DNA ant then later decide to do an autosomal test who do you test with. Do you stick with familytree DNA or move to Ancestry who have a much larger database but only do the autosomal test but not the YDNA test. Another company to consider for the autosomal test would be Living DNA who are much more British based but also have a much smaller membership.


A few websites Blaine cited ( I have not checked them) which may be of interest are

www.dnaadoption.com
www.adopteddna.com

www.facebook.com/groups/dnadetectives
www.dna-testing-advisor.com


Good luck
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Re: test help needed
« Reply #4 on: Friday 05 July 19 21:45 BST (UK) »
Just scroll down and look at the comparison chart; https://www.smarterhobby.com/genealogy/best-dna-test/

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Re: test help needed
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 07 July 19 01:27 BST (UK) »
Quote from: David Gough on Friday 05 July 19 19:37 BST (UK)
hi all.

I need some guidance and advice regarding the next move in tracing my biological father. I've been at this for 3 years now and have to say I've achieved a lot with the help from others and this forum. I'm at the point where I have isolated what I believe is the family line and name. what I'm looking for is the test that will give me that vital result if I am indeed the son of one of the males in this family. advice please on how I proceed next and who to use for the test.
You can do this in isolation ie on your own and a longer path

Or you can approach 1 male member of the family and ask if they would be willing to have a test , along with yourself, (2 kits) . That would be the quicker method but has its own pitfalls
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Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead

Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley

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Re: test help needed
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 07 July 19 04:30 BST (UK) »
I was going to suggest the same as David. IF you can contact one of the descendants of the family you suspect you are related to, you could both take the YDna test. Ancestry do not do Y-DNA tests so you would need to look at another company for that.

As the YDNA tests are substantially more expensive, and any matches may or may not be of use to you, it may be an idea to start with an autosomal test.

Everyone seems to be testing with Ancestry these days. The ads have worked.  ;)

As any autosomal matches will be from both your mother’s line and your biological father’s line, it is almost essential that you have your mother tested if she is still living, or one of her siblings or someone from her family. Any matches you don’t have in common with your mother should be on your father’s line.

You will be able to purchase two autosomal test kits for less than the price of one YDnA test kit.

Once you have your results you can upload your raw data to other sites which may give you even more matches.

Any matches are only as good as whoever else and how many others have tested. Both my father and husband have taken Y DnA tests and neither have any useful matches despite my husband having one of the most common surnames in the UK. He has only about 6 matches overall, so pretty useless.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do, and please pop back to let us know how you get on.
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