Why Do People Pay For An Ancestry DNA Test But Fail To Respond To Messages ?

[guest189040]

Since my Wife and I did our Ancestry DNA tests the ethnicity breakdown of each of us has changed out of all proportion.

The results now are so totally different that they are not the same people.

So save your cash or if you are determined to part with said cash donate it to a worthy cause.

[Craclyn]

The ethnicity estimates are being regularly refined and improved, so a change is not necessarily a negative. However, the real value of testing for a genealogist is in the matching, not the ethnicity estimates. Well worth testing to gain evidence to support or disprove your paper trail tree.

[jillruss]

Since my Wife and I did our Ancestry DNA tests the ethnicity breakdown of each of us has changed out of all proportion.

The results now are so totally different that they are not the same people.

So save your cash or if you are determined to part with said cash donate it to a worthy cause.

I think Colin's reply sums up the answer to your initial question, don't you kob3203?

[Craclyn]

Since my Wife and I did our Ancestry DNA tests the ethnicity breakdown of each of us has changed out of all proportion.

The results now are so totally different that they are not the same people.

So save your cash or if you are determined to part with said cash donate it to a worthy cause.

I think Colin's reply sums up the answer to your initial question, don't you kob3203?

I think Colin's reply gives a highly biased answer to the original question as it shows no understanding of the genealogical value of matching.

[jillruss]

Exactly! 

[Redroger]

Still waiting for the first responder with my surname after over 8 years

[DavidG02]

So why do you think that people fail to respond to enquiries from potential relatives ?

Here's a shortlist of the reasons I can think of:

• The person is interested in family history but...
  
  • ...they've died
  • ...they didn't realize that they needed an ongoing subscription to make full use of the service
  • ...they received so many "We're related, can you tell me everything you know?" emails that they got fed up and no longer respond
  • ...they only look at their family tree once a month/year
  
  
  

I think this would be me

I am looking at the Black Friday November sale for DNA but I am  not sure if I will buy a subscription until later  (stretching finances) I may purchase a monthly one to get me going but any further may be a decision for the future[/list]

[Ruskie]

So why do you think that people fail to respond to enquiries from potential relatives ?

Here's a shortlist of the reasons I can think of:

• The person is interested in family history but...
  
  • ...they've died
  • ...they didn't realize that they needed an ongoing subscription to make full use of the service
  • ...they received so many "We're related, can you tell me everything you know?" emails that they got fed up and no longer respond
  • ...they only look at their family tree once a month/year
  
  
  

I think this would be me

I am looking at the Black Friday November sale for DNA but I am  not sure if I will buy a subscription until later  (stretching finances) I may purchase a monthly one to get me going but any further may be a decision for the future[/list]

I know Ancestry are the most popular and therefore the most likely to find the most/best matches, but their popularity surprises me due to the above, due to the fact that they do not have a chromosome browser, nor do they allow uploads of raw data from other companies whereas others allow uploads from Ancestry, which doesn't seem quite fair. 

They may offer a "better" test. I don't know .... 

[Mart 'n' Al]

It's been about 18 months since I had my analysis results. In that time I've had about a 75% success rate in getting replies from people. What really puzzles me is why nobody has tried to contact me.

It makes me feel very alone in this great big scary universe...

Martin