General Chat

Thank you all. We’ll have a look at what ancestry are offering.

I bought tests a few years ago on offer, reduced from£79. It gets reduced to £59 or even less from time to time.

Normal shipping fee is £10.
In December I paid £69.00 all in.
That was £49 fee (reduced from allegedly £59 "normal") + £10 shipping.
They are now quoting 25% off a "normal" fee of £79 which coincidentally brings it back to £59 which was the "normal" price in December.
If the shipping fee is more than £10 then complain.

Personally, I do not trust them one inch.

Ancestry have an offer on until tomorrow night (31st). £59 plus shipping.
I'm sure the offers have always said there was extra shipping costs.
The current offer doesn't tell you how much on the advert. The standard fee is £79 + shipping.

Tawny, when you get the results and see matches, try to meet some of them (not at present, of course, for obvious reasons).

I have met several of my DNA matches now and they all had stories to tell about our ancestors so meeting them added to the rich tapestry of life and added to our family history.

I have not met any matches I did not like. In fact, I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting them as they were all very friendly.

It's worth a punt, I think. I hope you are as lucky as I have been but if you aren't, you never need to meet them again anyway.

Ancestry had a "Special offer" at Christmas with £10 off but the catch was that the postage charge was £10 more.

I complained to the Advertising Standards Agency and they stopped Ancestry from using that particular scam.

But it's probably been replaced by somethibg similar so read the small print!!!

I know nothing about the various tests, but have just noticed a message that Ancestry have a special price offer on until 31st March.

Good luck with whatever you choose.

Thank you all. All I want to know is where my dna matches best as my ancestors moved from one end of the country to the other and back before yes moving again.

My OH showed 17% Scottish on Ancestry but having traced her maternal ancestors back for c. 300 years on all lines there are no Scots to be seen.

Her paternal grandfather is unknown so maybe it's in there somewhere.

You can upload most DNA results to the MyTrueAncestry site which matches it against DNA from ancient sites. The basic match is free but you have to pay for more detailed analysis.

My best match there us Visigoth+Celt. followed by Viking (Danish)+Frank

JL, that is me in the purple Freemans robe. Not mine, it belongs to my brother, for the use of the 4 Freemen in the family.

Among other information, my Ancestry DNA results' breakdown show that North Cheshire/South Lancashire/Merseyside is my strongest area which was not unexpected at all.

I knew many of my DNA matches on Ancestry already.

As I was a little dubious about DNA matches, I opened an Ancestry tree specially to receive my DNA results and I put no information on the tree initially - simply putting 'Father', 'Mother' and 'Grandparents' so any matches would be purely on DNA results.

Once I saw matches that I already knew, I began to add a little more information to that tree, knowing that matches were purely on DNA - I am a bit of a doubting Thomas even though I would expect there to be no fraud connected with the process at all ..... but, better safe than sorry!

Because I pay nothing, my own Ancestry site is only used for DNA information, matches and for contacting the people who match with my DNA.

I use my OH's site to search for everything else and that is where I enter updates on my tree.

I agree with names, wait for an offer from a specialist site - my OH and I took advantage of the Ancestry special offer.

I bet Tawny is beginning to wish she never asked. Whatever you do do, Tawny, wait for an offer before making the jump.

I like Living dna because it does break thing down to smaller areas. Except they make East Anglia my strongest ‘county’. Ancestry give mr central southern England as my strongest Area and I mostly agree with that.

MH I just don,t understand unless they have put the Channel Islands into Iberia.
I have lots of close matches on Ancestry and only one on MH. There is one close match on Livingdna who is also on Ancestry. Otherwise MH and Living dna jumps to matches around 4th 5th cousins who I can’t work out.

My breakdown follows for both Tests

Ancestry:

28% Ireland
28% England & Northwestern Europe
24% Scotland
13% France
5% Norway
2% Germanic Europe

LivinDNA:

52% England
41.5% Ireland
5.5% Wales
1% Northern Ireland & Southwest Scotland

LivingDNA breaks down the English part into Counties although there are Counties listed that I am not aware of having any association with :-0

I have had Ancestry and LivingDNA Tests done and out of the two I prefer Ancestry :-)

Ancestry included areas for my Acadian ancestry whereas there is nothing on LivingDNA! Whereas I appreciate that originally the Acadians came mainly from France, Ireland and Scotland they had been settled in areas of Canada for at least three centuries! I suppose at the end of the day Ancestry must have the bigger database to match and link DNA :-)

I have found two first cousins, one we knew existed but had no idea where or when she was born only a name and the other was a completely new first cousin that nobody knew existed! :-0

Is that a pic of you in the purple robe, GF, or one of your rellies? :-)

I'm asking because it looks familiar, by the way.

Sorry, it's a bit early for me. Atlantic, of course! Have made a correction.

Some travellers just have no sense of direction. :-D

They'd have gone a helluva long way around if they'd travelled via the Pacific, GF!

:-0 :-D

I've dug out my files. I am using 'British' in the pre 1920's sense.

Ancestry: England & N W Europe 59% Ireland 13% Scotland 12% (????)
Wales 9% (????) Then too low to be of any account are Norway 3, France 2, European Jewish 2

Using the same test uploaded to My Heritage :English 38%, Iberian 22.5% (?????)
North & West Europe 18.3% Scandinavian 14.4% (???) then too low - Ashkenazi Jewish 3.2 & Irish, Scots, Welsh 3.2

Interestingly I am in contact with someone where we have a 20 cm match on Ancestry - both of us uploaded to MH where we have a 40 cm match.

On Living DNA I am completely 100% British but with NO Scots & NO Northern Irish

Sometimes I think I am more than one person !!