Reply to: Ancestry DNA service

[JohntheBike]

So. Signed up for the 14 day trial on Ancestry for a quick look before making a decision about the DNA thing and I have to say I'm blown away with it. The ease at which you can go back generation's is just ridiculous.

Within about two hours I'd got back 4 or 5 generations and two members linked in to trees that other people had done. One tree with 1800 members, the other with nearly 900. A few clicks and I was back to the 1700s on my mums side. All the documents are OCRd so spellings are a bit odd at times but you can view every document. Proper impressive.

It wasn't something I'd ever thought I'd be interested in and probably drop it as fast as I picked it up at some point but it's certainly going to entertain me and the family for quite awhile now. It's so easy it's great fun.

So far found out we've two majors and a Colonel in the family. The colonel went to gaol for a year for a typically 1800s worded offence like Furious unshackling of something belonging to a coal company. The register is hard to read but I look in to it further.
We've got various past relatives with 8, 10 and even 12 kids in one case.
Best of all my mums mum was married had a son at 19 and divorced a year later. My mum knew nothing about this and now has a half brother she knew nothing about so she's interested now.

If you've got a bit of time I'd seriously recommend you have a look at it, particularly if you have older parents or grandparents still around. It's like a Friends Reunited for old people. I've spent hours with my parents while they recount the tales and memories of their past. Things like the old census is filled in house order so my dad could see his neighbours from 1930s at 6 years old and he could see all the kids were on it he used to play with. He's in his late 80s and not very well but it was delightful to see perk up and chatter for hours over what he'd found. My mums also gonna look in to the brother.

We will be spending many more hours all pondering over this and listening to more memories out. Terrific stuff.

Just put a date in your diary to cancel the trial though as they will charge you 69 quid for half year membership otherwise.

Tracing your ancestry helps if you have an unusual surname or you find one earlier in your family tree. I mainly have common Welsh surnames in my family and when I entered a search for my grandfather's brother, over 1000 hits appeared in my local area. My mother's maiden name helped me trace my relatives to 1805, but no further. However, my wife's family name is Simm and if there are any on here related to this gentleman, we'd be pleased to hear from you -

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[northernladuk]

Ancestry.com is good if you want to research your family history. But don't take other people's as gospel - they make all sorts of false assumptions.

DNA testing is a bit of fun - no more really.

Oh aye. No worries there. The links in other people's trees are for reference. I'll be confirming anything with the official docs as I add them to my tree.

No worries about me calling it whatever you said. I can't even spell it.

But it appears it's not just me

[mudskipper]

I definitely fall short of calling it geneolgogy.

Doh

[shaunbhoy]

And if you do get into it, please don't call it geneolgogy, or I'll have to defriend you.

I definitely fall short of calling it geneolgogy.

[mudskipper]

Ancestry.com is good if you want to research your family history. But don't take other people's as gospel - they make all sorts of false assumptions.

DNA testing is a bit of fun - no more really.

And if you do get into it, please don't call it geneology, or I'll have to defriend you.

[mudskipper]

Ancestry.com is good if you want to research your family history. But don't take other people's as gospel - they make all sorts of false assumptions.

DNA testing is a bit of fun - no more really.

[DimPrawn]

I found some relatives in the UK, long way down the family tree.

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[northernladuk]

So. Signed up for the 14 day trial on Ancestry for a quick look before making a decision about the DNA thing and I have to say I'm blown away with it. The ease at which you can go back generation's is just ridiculous.

Within about two hours I'd got back 4 or 5 generations and two members linked in to trees that other people had done. One tree with 1800 members, the other with nearly 900. A few clicks and I was back to the 1700s on my mums side. All the documents are OCRd so spellings are a bit odd at times but you can view every document. Proper impressive.

It wasn't something I'd ever thought I'd be interested in and probably drop it as fast as I picked it up at some point but it's certainly going to entertain me and the family for quite awhile now. It's so easy it's great fun.

So far found out we've two majors and a Colonel in the family. The colonel went to gaol for a year for a typically 1800s worded offence like Furious unshackling of something belonging to a coal company. The register is hard to read but I look in to it further.
We've got various past relatives with 8, 10 and even 12 kids in one case.
Best of all my mums mum was married had a son at 19 and divorced a year later. My mum knew nothing about this and now has a half brother she knew nothing about so she's interested now.

If you've got a bit of time I'd seriously recommend you have a look at it, particularly if you have older parents or grandparents still around. It's like a Friends Reunited for old people. I've spent hours with my parents while they recount the tales and memories of their past. Things like the old census is filled in house order so my dad could see his neighbours from 1930s at 6 years old and he could see all the kids were on it he used to play with. He's in his late 80s and not very well but it was delightful to see perk up and chatter for hours over what he'd found. My mums also gonna look in to the brother.

We will be spending many more hours all pondering over this and listening to more memories out. Terrific stuff.

Just put a date in your diary to cancel the trial though as they will charge you 69 quid for half year membership otherwise.

[Mordac]

No...

If you would like some West Yorkshire in you then bend over...

No need to panic*, he simply has a spare stick of rhubarb...

*Panic if you wish though, I probably would...

[Paddy]

You got any West Yorkshire in you?

.

No...

If you would like some West Yorkshire in you then bend over...

[northernladuk]

Did this really happen? I've obviously missed summit

Happened in full glorious Technicolor for all to point at and take the piss

https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...ml#post2643279

[northernladyuk]

Did this really happen? I've obviously missed summit

You'll get the child support demand through the post.

[Platypus]

After the distress and upset of finding out, via a rather blunt and straight to the point post, that they are not my parents and they are not my kids.

Did this really happen? I've obviously missed summit

[northernladuk]

NO, but the ex was Leeds born and bred so the offspring now have a little of the west yorkshire gene pool in them

Woooosh

[northernladuk]

Determining heritage via genetic analysis is merely a statistical approximation - there's no magic gene that say's "you're Anglo-Saxon", just a collection of genes that give confidence. The more people that take it the more accurate it gets.

Yep which is why they've changed their algorithms a few times much to the annoyance of some people.

Why Does My Ancestry DNA Ethnicity Estimate Change? - Who are You Made Of?