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Dna testing kits
« on: Sunday 01 December 19 21:44 GMT (UK) »
I'm in two minds whether to get a DNA testing kit, have anyone done one and are they any good

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Re: Dna testing kits
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 01 December 19 21:57 GMT (UK) »
They are a useful tool but don't believe all the hype.

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Re: Dna testing kits
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 01 December 19 22:13 GMT (UK) »
As this is a genealogy site there are many who've done the DNA test but for yourself it depends on what you actually want to find out?

Have a read through the posts here on RC...

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/ancestral-family-tree-dna-testing/

This may help you to decide?

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Re: Dna testing kits
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 01 December 19 22:19 GMT (UK) »
Very useful as a tool to provide evidence to support or disprove your paper trail based tree.
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Re: Dna testing kits
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 01 December 19 23:24 GMT (UK) »
I have a kit yet to be returned but my sole reason is to try & find a connection with an adopted relative on my maternal line.
I have just ordered a kit for a male sibling too.

The adopted child is male & as I'm unsure how DNA would work with me being female, the relative being male I thought it best to have another male relative take part.

I do have an extensive tree with little online but I will have to rethink that & put up a tree for this family member I'm looking for with no clue as to his paternity hence my reason for DNA.

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Dna testing kits
« Reply #5 on: Monday 02 December 19 00:24 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Rosinish on Sunday 01 December 19 23:24 GMT (UK)

The adopted child is male & as I'm unsure how DNA would work with me being female, the relative being male I thought it best to have another male relative take part.


An autosomal test will show a relationship for either gender.
Crackett, Cracket, Webb, Turner, Henderson, Murray, Carr, Stavers, Thornton, Oliver, Davis, Hall, Anderson, Atknin, Austin, Bainbridge, Beach, Bullman, Charlton, Chator, Corbett, Corsall, Coxon, Davis, Dinnin, Dow, Farside, Fitton, Garden, Geddes, Gowans, Harmsworth, Hedderweek, Heron, Hedley, Hunter, Ironside, Jameson, Johnson, Laidler, Leck, Mason, Miller, Milne, Nesbitt, Newton, Parkinson, Piery, Prudow, Reay, Reed, Read, Reid, Robinson, Ruddiman, Smith, Tait, Thompson, Watson, Wilson, Youn

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Re: Dna testing kits
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 14 December 19 17:32 GMT (UK) »
I had a breakthrough this week actually that enabled me to breakthrough a brick wall and go back a further generation thanks to DNA. Three of us were working together and by a process of elimination and a combination of paper trail we made the breakthrough. One of the other people working on the brick wall also had a NPE on their side.

The important thing to remember is that I couldn't have made the breakthrough without the DNA match, but equally as important I couldn't prove I was right without the paper trail!

So a DNA test is very useful and very helpful, but it doesn't replace good old fashioned research either, the two go hand in hand together.
https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

Searching the names Chiddicks, Keyes, Wootton, Daniels, Lake, Lukes, Day, Barnes
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