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Ancestry DNA results...
« on: Tuesday 21 January 20 22:33 GMT (UK) »
83% ethnicity estimate with a significant (scarily so) concentration for Hampshire & the Isle of Wight...I guess all those DOEs and GODWINs weren't desperately keen to travel?

Should it be sad and disappointing to be so 'local' or a source of pride and affirmation?  :)

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Re: Ancestry DNA results...
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 21 January 20 22:59 GMT (UK) »
If you don't like the ethnicity breakdown Ancestry has given you just upload your results to another tester (eg MyHeritage, FTDNA or LivingDNA amongst others) and in all likelihood you will get a different ethnicity breakdown.

Or put another way ethnicity breakdowns are guesses with a little bit of science applied nothing more.

Good luck
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.

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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 21 January 20 23:34 GMT (UK) »
davidft,

Thanks for the suggestion. I guess it should have been posted in the common room. I was fishing for contacts but also out of genuine interest. Most people are here to find out where they're from. Do we all want to find kings & queens and dramatic characters in our histories or is it enough to know definitively where you 'belong'?

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Re: Ancestry DNA results...
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 21 January 20 23:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi

As it is about DNA it would probably be a good idea to post it here

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

If you contact a moderator they should be able to move it there for you.

David

(oh and to partly answer your question about having a family deeply rooted in a particular area for many generations there are pluses to this particularly for medical researchers studying diseases and inheritance patterns)
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.

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Re: Ancestry DNA results...
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 January 20 00:56 GMT (UK) »
If you are fishing for contacts take a look at your match list.
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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