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Can anyone explain this please?
After sitting on my DNA test since last July, I finally 'bit the bullet' and sent it off last month, receiving the results last week. I have been following the various threads on here & am finding the same as everyone else, no trees, too small trees, no response etc.
I must admit the whole thing left me rather underwhelmed although I have been able to confirm several lines of research including a couple around 1800 hundred where I only had circumstantial evidence but had made an educated assumption which has now proved to be correct. I have hundreds of questions but now to the point. One of my predicted 4th cousins with whom I share 40cm across 3 (still don't really understand what that means), has no tree but an unusual married name so I have traced her back & with some confidence can say that she is the g-gd of my g-gm's brother which in fact makes us 3rd cousins. So far so good. When I check our ethnicity: Me Her 73% England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 2%Great Britain 11% Germanic Europe 82%Europe West 8% Ireland and Scotland 9%Ireland/Scotland/Wales 6% Norway 1%Scandinavia 2% Sweden How can that be?
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It is because her ancestors are different from you from ggm's brother forwards and would have had other DNA coming in.
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Ancestry asks us to update our ethnicity on a regular basis.
They derive their results from ours. I am very, very British, with just 3% French. But when I click on the French ethnicity information, they have none. This must mean that Ancestry is collecting data from very, very few contributors who are French, which probably means that I have no French blood at all. If you look at both sets of results in ten years time, they may be hugely refined.
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Phoenix
I have it in my mind that France does not allow dna testing. I am quite prepared to be proved wrong though! OC |
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I get the feeling the Norfolk doesn't allow DNA testing, either, OC
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I think it means that she hasn't updated her results since they changed it, Glen.
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Sorry my mistake I assumed Oakum Picker was talking about the % difference rather than the labels.
Last edited by maggie_4_7; 17-03-19 at 10:44. |
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They don't allow home DNA kits but the citizens get around it by ordering from abroad mostly UK and the USA. 78% of their citizens want the ban lifted on home DNA kits.
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Thanks everyone. That makes sense Kate as she hasn't logged in since May 2017 and having only just done mine I've never seen another estimate.
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Thanks Mggie, nice to know I haven't gone completely gaga yet!
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