Do you have suggestions for improving ancestry.com?

[KGarrad]

I don't do DNA, so most of that last list are useless for me!

[BumbleB]

I don't do DNA, so most of that last list are useless for me!

Me, three!!!!   

[Ray T]

Me also - always thought DNA stood for something else!

[Steve3180]

I don't do DNA, so most of that last list are useless for me!

Well we'll all have our own lists I suppose, but can I ask why not ?

As soon as I read about it, a lot of years ago now, I thought it would be just the thing. My tree had got moribund and hadn't changed for years, I got dna tested as soon as it became affordable for me and it's been marvelous. I've pushed back my tree in many branches, confirmed and dismissed many other branches and given me the chance to break down my two big brick walls.

[Zaphod99]

It's getting off topic from my thread, but I will add that I can't believe that anybody with an advanced interest in family history does not do a DNA test. It is a challenge, interpreting and understanding the large wealth of data that you are given, but I can't think that anybody would fail to get a lot out of seeing their results, and I mean just the matches not the ethnicity stuff. The prices have plummeted and anyone not having their DNA tested is just missing out on a major part of a wonderful hobby.  It's like having both eyes open after years of squinting.

Zaph

[KGarrad]

I don't do DNA, so most of that last list are useless for me!

Well we'll all have our own lists I suppose, but can I ask why not ?

As soon as I read about it, a lot of years ago now, I thought it would be just the thing. My tree had got moribund and hadn't changed for years, I got dna tested as soon as it became affordable for me and it's been marvelous. I've pushed back my tree in many branches, confirmed and dismissed many other branches and given me the chance to break down my two big brick walls.

I have a well-documented paper trail, back to 1550!
I have no need to spend my pension on DNA.

The only DNA my family has done are some zygosity tests to prove that:
1) my daughters are genetically identical twins,
2) my granddaughters are genetically identical twins.

No need to test my brother and I as we are fraternal twins!

[AllanUK]

DNA testing can take the fun out of research -- not everyone wants to 'press a button' and build a tree. Often traditional research comes up with information nuggets of gold that have been added to a parish register after the original entry. A good example of this was a great aunt, born out of wedlock, the baptism transcription gave the mother's name, occupation and abode but no father. Eventually found the baptism record and a note in the margin (written in a different hand) gave the father's name, occupation and abode.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

DNA testing can take the fun out of research -- not everyone wants to 'press a button' and build a tree. Often traditional research comes up with information nuggets of gold that have been added to a parish register after the original entry. A good example of this was a great aunt, born out of wedlock, the baptism transcription gave the mother's name, occupation and abode but no father. Eventually found the baptism record and a note in the margin (written in a different hand) gave the father's name, occupation and abode.

The existence of that document is not reliant on dna technology but without dna there is no way to know if the father's name is correct.

[AllanUK]

I never said that the additional entry was DNA related. The named father was actually a young man that lived next door to the mother. As other posts have stated, DNA testing is not for every FT researcher.