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DNA Testing recommendations?
Hi,
Which are the best companies for genealogical DNA testing in the UK please? Also, are there books or guides to navigate newbs through all the technical terms which DNA test results may come with? Many thanks |
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Ancestry is the best one if you want to see who your DNA matches with, and they currently have a special offer on DNA tests - 25% off until 12th June. £59 + £9.99 shipping.
Hopefully if you click on the link below it will take you to their home page and there will be a box with the 25% discount offer: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ When you get your DNA results, you will be able to download your raw DNA data from Ancestry and there are various other sites that you can upload it to such as My Heritage, Family Tree DNA, etc, where you may find more matches who didn't come up on Ancestry. But if you take your test with one of those companies instead, Ancestry doesn't allow uploads from them, which is why it's best to do it that way round. If you use Findmypast you have probably seen that they have a partnership with a company called Living DNA, which is supposed to give the most accurate regional breakdown of "ethnicity estimates" within the UK, but unfortunately they are not coming up with many actual DNA matches (or any at all, in many cases) at the moment so I would not recommend them. But again, you can upload the DNA data from Ancestry to Living DNA anyway. |
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As for books or guides, the family history magazines tend to have regular articles for those new to DNA testing. Maybe someone else on here can recommend a book?
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Kits
Many thanks Kiterunner,
What level of membership do you require at Ancestry to access results from their DNA kit please? What's a GEDmatch - do all companies give those |
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You don't need an ancestry subscription to access the results from their DNA test, but it helps if you want to be able to do family tree research as well.
GEDMatch - now called Genesis - is another website which you can upload your raw DNA data to and compare it with other people who have done the same, but unlike the rest, it wasn't started as a commercial company, but just to help people compare and analyse their DNA and other people's. It doesn't have the same kind of privacy rules as most other sites, so make sure to read through their privacy rules before uploading DNA to them. |
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Many thanks, I have been using FMP as a library resource but have gone as far as I can, the line I am following stretches back into Victorian London which was then one of the most densely populated cities in the world. It was suggested that I try DNA testing.
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Click 'New Thread' here: http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/F...isplay.php?f=4
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Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
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This is where the trail ended: a documented army pensioner in Southwark, London. There were over a dozen hits for his name but no-one succeeded in identifying his unit, it just ended in a 'bump', after a great deal of effort on behalf of the forum - great thanks to them. That man was probably my gt gt paternal grandfather who fathered my gt grandmother out-of-marriage, so you can see the difficulty, her birth certificate is blank for the father's name, it's worse than looking for a needle in a haystack, it might be a completely unrelated needle at that. His name is recorded by a registrar on gt gt grandmother's marriage certificate, and that's that, no actual proof that he was present in person or even that he was in fact the father - the name used is quite a common one, it isn't unusual at all. |
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Is this George Hunt, soldier? (I just looked at Rootsweb)
I think the crossed through G on the baptism entry is very significant as it suggested the father's first name began with G and so matches with Louisa Mary's marriage certificate. I would hope she therefore does indeed know the name of her father (if you were making up a name as so many did, it would be usual to use your own surname for obvious reasons!), though whether his occupation of soldier is correct is perhaps a little more troublesome. If you wanted your daughter to think there was a good reason her father was not around, then this occupation would work as a reason even if it wasn't the truth. Here's a link to the Rootsweb thread in case anyone else wants to read it (I hope it's the right one lol) https://www.rootschat.com/forum/inde...topic=813271.0
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The best help I have found for tracing 19th century Londoners is Ancestry where they have the London Metropolitan Archives baptism, marriage and burial records plus quite a lot of London workhouse records. You can view the actual images of the parish registers and they were a treasure trove for me when I was looking for my Londoners because they often give you additional information about the family like dates of birth, addresses, occupations and, for marriage records, the names of witnesses which can sometimes help in breaking down brickwalls.
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