With three of us tested at Ancestry I thought I would publish the Ethnicity Estimates which we received. Reading posts from others I had read that a lot of people who were testing in England were finding that individuals in North America were being given higher estimates of Great Britain Ethnicity than people who actually lived in Great Britain. Mind you our toehold here is small with just my mother, her father and his mother being born in Canada. Just going back to 2x great grandparents we have documentation for all eight couples with one set being from Devon and Somerset, a second set with both from Hampshire, a third set with both from Dorset, a fourth set from Cumberland and Yorkshire, a fifth set with one from Wiltshire and one from Hampshire, a sixth set with both from Warwickshire, a seventh set with Hampshire and Wiltshire and the eighth set both from Birmingham, Warwickshire (with one having London/Surrey roots and the other having Staffordshire/Leicestershire roots). We are coming from six distinctly different areas of England.
In my case I had received a high percentage of Great Britain ethnicity when I tested 3 years ago; these two results have just been received:
Myself one Brother second Brother
Great Britain 64 1 27
Ireland 14 17 19
Europe West 11 76 21
Scandinavia 6 5 26
Iberian Peninsula 1 1 5
Europe East 1
Finland/Northwest Russia 2
Italy/Greece 1 1
I am actually the most different in my family so this difference may not be surprising.
I do like the analysis at Ancestry and their results fitted nicely into mine although I have far more 4th to 6th cousin matches then they do but they both fitted nicely into our one and only DNA Circle of the Pincombe family. We are the linch pin that brings the others into the group because we match both of them. Our mother was a Pincombe.
But having tested at five of the major companies FT DNA, 23 and Me, AncestryDNA, BritainsDNA and National Genographic, I can see a lot of value in all of them. It just depends on what you are looking for and how valuable you consider DNA testing to be.
Monday, August 1, 2016
Blake Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 3
Just noticed that I forgot to write up my blog for the Blake Newsletter although it was published on the FT DNA website for the members of the Blake study there.
Blake Newsletter
Table
of Contents
1.
Gedmatch
2.
Continuing to write up the family story
3.
Family Finder Summary
4.
Blake Emails
1.
Gedmatch
Gedmatch is an online tool that can be used to match
up your autosomal results (FT DNA’s Family Finder, AncestryDNA results, 23 and
Me DNA results, and others) with other testors from these companies. Geoff
Rasmussen of Legacy.com will be having a webinar on transferring your autosomal
results from AncestryDNA to Gedmatch but this is equally applicable to the
other testing companies (http://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=467)
. Gedmatch is found on the web at: https://www.gedmatch.com/
. This is the login webpage for Gedmatch and if not registered then you can do
so for free. Login includes your email address and a password which you would
select at registration. You can upload as many accounts as you wish thus
permitting comparisons between family members who have tested at different
companies. There are advanced tools but for the most part the tools provided
are quite adequate for comparison. I do use the advanced tools and have found
them very handy.
2.
Continuing to write up the family story
The editor continues to write up her family story.
Progressing backwards in time has revealed a number of details that had been
acquired but set aside and forgotten over the last nearly thirteen years of
collecting information. I have carefully footnoted the stories of my families
but decided I needed to do the same for my own story which has taken me most of
the month of June. I still have several siblings of my maternal grandmother to
complete and then will move back to my 2x great grandparents and all of the
siblings of my great grandparents. It has been a walk down memory lane as my
grandparents talked a great deal about their families when I was a child (my
paternal grandfather lived with us and my maternal grandmother lived about 2
kilometres away). I will then be writing about ancestors for whom less is known
in terms of family lore but for whom there are a lot of records. I trade off
personal knowledge with written information.
3.
Family Finder Summary / yDNA results
I had the opportunity to speak with an individual
from FT DNA about how to display Family Finder results and he agreed that such
a display would necessarily expose personal information. That would go against
the policy of FT DNA with regard to usage of data on their site. There are now
results for 123 individuals in our Blake Group Project. YDNA12 results for 76
individuals: 59 have completed YDNA25, 57 have completed YDNA37, 29 have
completed YDNA67 and 7 have completed YDNA111. The researcher who first
separated the Blake lines chose to follow the suggested ancestor route and this
has proven to be appropriate for some of the lines but for others they are
included in groups where they do not match other members within thousands of
years. I am considering how best to separate some of these groups without
making the project difficult to read.
4.
Blake Emails received
I am behind answering requests for information on Blake.
By late September I hope to have answered all emails. Thank you for your
patience.
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