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Re: How safe is this match?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 24 May 22 13:47 BST (UK) »
Oh Melba - thank you, thank you, thank you!   I feel as if a weight has been lifted off my mind as I have been wondering about this for such an age - it feels like forever.   Obviously I won't take this as 100% but my work on the history I have compiled based on his information wasn't perhaps all in vain.

I shall upload (I still get confused between down... and up...) my Ancestry onto GEDmatch and it has struck me that I used my Ancestry dna for My Heritage so perhaps it may be worth testing with them direct.

Lesley
If you want my honest opinion lullaby, I would say testing on MyHeritage itself wouldn't be worth it, if you already have your Ancestry uploaded there. Maybe you could upload your FTDNA and 23andme next time there is a free upload or simply pay the fixed fee for the extra tools. Also the issue with MyHeritage is, with their own tests is your require a subscription to access all the tools unlike a fixed fee (or free if you are lucky) with uploads.

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Re: How safe is this match?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 24 May 22 15:06 BST (UK) »
On reflection, it was FT uploaded to MH (not Ancestry as I don't think this was part of the free deal).   After some months fiddling with the basics on MH, they offered me a year's subscription less 50% which I considered worthwhile as they had started the labelling system.  I also colour-code families on my Ancestry database.

If I take an MH test which they are currently offering at £39, would I perhaps get a slightly different range of matching cousins down the scale or are they more likely to remain unchanged?

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Re: How safe is this match?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 24 May 22 17:11 BST (UK) »
On reflection, it was FT uploaded to MH (not Ancestry as I don't think this was part of the free deal).   After some months fiddling with the basics on MH, they offered me a year's subscription less 50% which I considered worthwhile as they had started the labelling system.  I also colour-code families on my Ancestry database.

If I take an MH test which they are currently offering at £39, would I perhaps get a slightly different range of matching cousins down the scale or are they more likely to remain unchanged?
Your old FTDNA v1 test would have been a very close match to the old MyHeritage v1 test (I think FTDNA actually did the testing for them), so that kit would very closely match older MyHeritage or FTDNA kits uploaded to MH. However MH changed to GSA as did FTDNA to GSA in 2019, so you might gain some different matches. HOWEVER. I am pretty sure MH uses imputation, and some of the matching is dubious as a result - I think someone, comparing their matches to their parents', estimated that matches below about 23cM, a 1/3 were false matches, and matches with small segments, say below 15cM were also very unreliable.

https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_SNP_comparison_chart

If you could tell what kind of kit you were matching on MH, it would be useful, but unlike GEDMATCH, there is no way to tell that.

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Re: How safe is this match?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 24 May 22 18:10 BST (UK) »
Thanks for all your assistance, Melba.   I have decided to give it a miss as it's taking me most of my time sorting through the FT version which is already on their website and it probably won't be worth the additional time and effort.   However I have uploaded the Ancestry dna onto GEDmatch and am awaiting the outcome.

Regards
Lesley