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Post by spikeharwood on Nov 18, 2018 16:11:21 GMT -5
Hi cousin Zib. The Cornwall project, through its activity feed, has a Leader Board of Cornishness or DNA matches. The leader has 25 DNA matches. My sister is 9th on 16 and I get an honourable mention with 10.
Good advice re spreading your results about. I've also uploaded to MyHeritage which has some handy tools (and keeps adding to them).
But please note, that while MH is presently free, for any kits uploaded after 1st December there will be a cost to access their tools.
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Post by zibetha on Nov 18, 2018 16:19:19 GMT -5
So true about My Heritage--- and my results are finally getting better there. The tools are improving, and they have a record viewer that is amazing. Ancestry has dropped the ball in that area. I did notice your position on the Cornish project, Champ. Zib
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Post by spikeharwood on Nov 18, 2018 16:29:00 GMT -5
...and I've had two new matches since I meant to also say that FTDNA are having a sale with some serious price reductions. $49 for the Family Finder (autosomal test) is the lowest I have seen. I think the sale ends on 22nd Nov. There is some confusion whether the usual sales from "Black Friday" will return this year and even more uncertainty about the return of the additional discount coupons.
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Post by zibetha on Nov 18, 2018 23:09:27 GMT -5
Those "sneaks" add postage and handling charges though. I think it is important to look for the database that will be the most beneficial for your results. For me it has been Ancestry in terms of my Cornish research,
Zib
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Post by zibetha on Nov 19, 2018 7:04:00 GMT -5
Sometimes my brain kicks in a bit slowly-- I know I match Spike and Roger on Gedmatch. It is interesting to see how results pop up or don't on other sites. I view my DNA test as another research tool.
Zib
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Post by spikeharwood on Nov 19, 2018 15:41:53 GMT -5
It is generally accepted that GEDmatch is the most correct of the various sites in terms of the size of the match. Ancestry is considered to understate the size and overstate the number of segments. FTDNA includes all segments over 1cM, thus overstating the total compared to the others. And MyHeritage has a few unique problems such as including the start of Chr15, which is actually an unreadable area. They also impute SNPS which leads to the total being overstated.
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Post by zibetha on Nov 19, 2018 23:21:02 GMT -5
Thanks, Spike. I am grateful for the shared knowledge here which is why I pipe up with my own (limited!) experience. I am an information gatherer rather than a scientifically-oriented person, but that has been working well for me. I have found and heard from a new Mitchell cousin (3rd) -- our grandmothers were cousins. Zib
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Post by spikeharwood on Nov 20, 2018 16:27:46 GMT -5
It's a bit weird when DNA throws up a second or third cousin that we probably should have known about. I had two second cousins turn up on AncestryDNA within a few weeks of each other this year. My paternal grandfather had three siblings, one of whom we thought had married but there were no children. But they had a daughter and she had two children and one of them tested.They are still in the UK. The other related to the same grandfather's wife and we found a granddaughter of one of her siblings here in South Aust. My cousin has photos relevant to them and we plan to visit her mother in the new year. That is my Cornish Wickett/Woof line which is all a bit exciting. I now have 20 proven DNA/paper trail matches on that line, including identical twins which did my head in for a bit - but all that's another story.
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Post by zibetha on Dec 21, 2018 7:03:30 GMT -5
I did the mtDNA test as that is my strong Cornish line. Results are back with 10 matches, mostly undefinable. But I get 2 matches with Iberian links -- one to a man in Spain and another from Argentina who was born in Brazil.
Zib
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Post by jakls on Jun 20, 2019 22:31:13 GMT -5
Does anyone have the latest AncestryDNA ethnicity updates? I now have all 3 of Cornish genetic communities; West Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, East Cornwall & Kerrier, Cornwall. My Cornish lines are from the Penwith area and I suspect there is some ancestry from the Wendron & Helston area on a different family line.
There is also new genetic communities for Australian & New Zealand settlers as well.
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Post by tenpoundpom on Jun 21, 2019 22:15:45 GMT -5
Does anyone have the latest AncestryDNA ethnicity updates? I now have all 3 of Cornish genetic communities; West Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, East Cornwall & Kerrier, Cornwall. My Cornish lines are from the Penwith area and I suspect there is some ancestry from the Wendron & Helston area on a different family line. There is also new genetic communities for Australian & New Zealand settlers as well. Mine (well my mother's to be more precise) has West Cornwall & IOS, Kerrier which pretty much coincides with the paper trail.
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Post by zibetha on Jun 22, 2019 6:51:19 GMT -5
I, too, received West Cornwall/IOS and Kerrier to replace the old Southwest England. It is a fit for me.
Still don't know why Ancestry thinks I am Norwegian or why I don't share some migratory immigrant groups in the USA that a sibling and near cousin do.
My understanding is that new user features are coming out by July 1.
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Post by jakls on Jun 22, 2019 7:19:17 GMT -5
I haven't found any ancestry yet in the East Cornwall area but maybe I will in the future.
Norwegian could be Viking era DNA. I have Norwegian & Swedish in my ethnic estimate with no known Scandinavian ancestors but based on a few high 4th Cousin matches there likely was a NPE and the actual father is probably Danish or Danish descent.
I can already access some new features in the Extras tab along the top of the website page. You can actually sort DNA matches into named colour coded groups which is pretty useful.
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Post by zibetha on Nov 7, 2019 21:15:21 GMT -5
Thanks, jakls. I see that this topic has not been under discussion lately. They are shuffling things again at Ancestry.com and supposedly improving the site. I have been using the color-coding system to sort my family branches, and that has been enlightening. I really like that feature. I just got notice of a new cousin on the Calf/Williams side which was my first unexpected discovery here thanks to CT's knowledge.
It all depends on who tests.
Zib
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Post by Isambard on Jan 6, 2020 20:45:11 GMT -5
Dunstans, Danes and Me? In response to my DNA test in February 2018, Ancestry reported ethnicity estimates as: Great Britain 14%, Ireland Scotland and Wales 46%, Europe West 11%, Scandinavia 26% and Low Confidence Regions 2%. Those results appeared consistent with my accumulated family tree information - mainly central and north east Scotland on my mother's side and south west Cornwall on my father's side. Subsequent ethnicity estimate updates to date by Ancestry now show me as: England, Wales and north western Europe 50%, Ireland and Scotland 48% and Norway 2%. Disappointed to lose so many Scandinavian genes, presumably due to algorithmic churning of masses of new data by Ancestry, I began to look at my family tree more closely for overlooked Vikings. This led to looking for Dunstan name origins, given so many Cornish Dunstan names in my pedigree and the name seeming to be potentially Scandinavian. I found that the many Dunstans with Cornish and Devon ancestors owe homage to Reginald de Dunstanville 1110-1175, Anglo Norman, a son of Henry I (Beauclerc), and at one time Earl of Cornwall and High Sheriff of Devon. Reginald presumably exercised his noblesse oblige with a number of Cornish and Devon ladies of the court and the countryside, perpetuating the Dunstan name in family tree history. Further information showed that Reginald was born in a village named variously Danestanvilla 1051, Donestanville 1088 and Dunestanvilla 1142, the name from Dunstan, an Anglo-Saxon farmer who came from the Danelaw with the Danes, probably in the 10th century, to settle in Normandy. Seat of the family de Dunstanville. Ha! Danes from the Danelaw! (Northern and Eastern England!!). Vikings from Norway or from Denmark via England, I bid them - Skol! Isambard, PS: How to obtain genetic communities specific for Cornwall?
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