tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post8224549627622953035..comments2024-02-15T12:03:55.051-05:00Comments on Family Pilgrimage: Tech Tuesday - AncestryDNA ReviewChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15203218972308325282noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-23893232197538314612014-03-20T15:19:15.230-04:002014-03-20T15:19:15.230-04:00Thanks! I had high hopes for AncestryDNA, but so ...Thanks! I had high hopes for AncestryDNA, but so far after 18 months they still haven't panned out. Mostly a bunch of people I can't find a way to connect to me. Only one 3rd cousin who has never responded to my attempts to connect.<br /><br />For me the worst part is that I haven't seen ANY new DNA matches in months. I wonder if less people have been signing up for AncestryDNA or they are all just not related to me. <br /><br />Still hopeful, but my hope is fading.....Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15203218972308325282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-5459499761290327432014-03-20T15:04:57.816-04:002014-03-20T15:04:57.816-04:00Just wanted to thank you for the awesome, very det...Just wanted to thank you for the awesome, very detailed review. Was thinking of trying this but had a lot of questions. You answered pretty much all of them for me in your review and I unfortunately don't think that ancestry.com can help me. Thanks again for the blog!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-28010532272423628242013-09-19T09:43:45.574-04:002013-09-19T09:43:45.574-04:00Hi Nadi,
The way the new AncestryDNA test is supp...Hi Nadi,<br /><br />The way the new AncestryDNA test is supposed to work is that it doesn't matter how you are related either on your mother or father's side of the family it should still show distant relatives. <br /><br />I know it does work (at least to some extent) since it did identify a second cousin of mine that I could see the connection. Unfortunately, it didn't open up a new "unknown" part of the family, but it did help show the validity of the AncestryDNA test.<br /><br />ChrisChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15203218972308325282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-87482321664278511382013-09-19T06:27:09.852-04:002013-09-19T06:27:09.852-04:00Great review guys thanks! It'll be interestin...Great review guys thanks! It'll be interesting to see what results my Father's DNA test reveals, espeCially being Puerto Rican. If it comes back he's 90% British isles, 10% Scandinavian...I think it's time to call 'Help Me Howard' lol...as this could be a scam. So excited to give this b'day gift to him!<br /><br />Just researched some reasons why your results may not seem accurate, check this out...<br /><br />Since Y-chromosome DNA is found only within the all-male patrilineal line and mtDNA only provides matches to the all-female matrilineal line, DNA testing is only applicable to lines going back through two of our eight great-grandparents - our father's paternal grandfather and our mother's maternal grandmother. If you want to use DNA to determine ancestry through any of your other six great-grandparents you will need to convince an aunt, uncle, or cousin who descends directly from that ancestor through an all-male or all-female line to provide a DNA sample. Additionally, since women don't carry the Y-chromosome, their paternal male line can only be traced through the DNA of a father or brother.<br />DNA tests can be used by genealogists to:<br /><br />Link specific individuals - e.g. test to see whether you and a person you think may be a cousin descend from a common ancestor<br />Prove or disprove the ancestry of people sharing the same last name - e.g. test to see if males carrying the CRISP surname are related to each other<br />Map the genetic orgins of large population groups - e.g. test to see whether you have European or African American ancestry.<br /><br />Thanks again for your take on this hope this helps:)<br /><br />-Nadira P.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760208719030602758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-13829035547421390262013-01-03T19:29:40.302-05:002013-01-03T19:29:40.302-05:00Chris,
Great blog posting. I have exactly your fe...Chris,<br /><br />Great blog posting. I have exactly your feelings, including the frustrations. I too was hoping many would be eager to communicate about common heritage, but only about 10 percent of my messages are answered and very few private trees opened.<br /><br />My ethnicity results are very curious. My father's father was 100 percent German, my father's mother was 50 percent German, and my mother is maybe one-eighth German. And yet my ethnicity shows as 98 percent British Isles and 2 percent unknown.<br /><br />I am making some connections, thanks to my mother's line being so fully developed. Since it's hard to see when a connection might be linked to my father's side, I paid to have my father's one surviving brother take a test. I'll know those results in a couple weeks. It'll be interesting to see where that takes me!<br /><br />DonDon Botthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05709667186750396956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-74999424579007950232012-11-22T14:01:51.023-05:002012-11-22T14:01:51.023-05:00Very strange! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!Very strange! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15203218972308325282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-77033432245074291182012-11-22T08:12:03.960-05:002012-11-22T08:12:03.960-05:00I did the AncestryDNA test. David Fuller is my 3r...I did the AncestryDNA test. David Fuller is my 3rd great-grandfather, and I can't make any sense of our not finding each other in our matches when I have hundreds of matches that don't seem to have a remote connection to me that I can discover.<br /><br />Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving! MarDihttp://www.la-famille.mardistudio.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-51415835144541690452012-11-21T09:19:21.108-05:002012-11-21T09:19:21.108-05:00That is disturbing to me. We should be 4th cousin...That is disturbing to me. We should be 4th cousins...I think. We share a great-great-great-great grandfather, David Fuller. I was hoping that these DNA tests would confirm our connection.<br /><br />Did you do the AncestryDNA test or one of the earlier tests?Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15203218972308325282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-66591597515268434172012-11-21T00:47:46.017-05:002012-11-21T00:47:46.017-05:00Hi Chris. I also took the test, and share a lot o...Hi Chris. I also took the test, and share a lot of the same frustrations as you. I had half expected that at the least you would show up in my list of matches as we surely share ancestors in common in our Fuller line! :) No connection there and no interesting matches with anyone sharing a common ancestor as of yet. But like you, I have hope that this will change as more and more people take the test.<br /><br />I was surprised that my results came back with a 95% British Isles, 5% uncertain, although this shouldn't really have surprised me. My family tree thus far has about a 93% British Isles, 3% German, so the results were extremely close. But in thinking of how many more thousands of discoveries I haven't yet made (but hopefully one day will!) I had thought that there must be some other country of origin or two that I hadn't yet stumbled upon!<br /><br />Please keep us posted on any new matches that may come your way, I wish you great luck in making some good discoveries through your results!<br /><br />MarDihttp://www.la-famille.mardistudio.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-88276814967846824952012-11-20T13:31:01.463-05:002012-11-20T13:31:01.463-05:00The beauty of the new AncestryDNA kit is that it w...The beauty of the new AncestryDNA kit is that it works to track ancestry for both men and women. You can give your DNA, so you don't have to convince any family members to give any.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15203218972308325282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914770434977896982.post-12200112871657839232012-11-20T12:41:33.193-05:002012-11-20T12:41:33.193-05:00Most of my genealogy has been of my mother. I have...Most of my genealogy has been of my mother. I have done minimum research on my fathers side, Ive thought about requesting the Ancestry DNA Kit, what is the approach that you use to convince a family member to provide their DNA.minkyadoohttp://wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com