Has anyone used the Ancestry DNA test and was it worth taking ?
My husband has offered to pay for the test if I want to take it.
nessa
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linell
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Re: DNA test
Never felt the need Nessa, why do you want to take it?
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nessa
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Re: DNA test
Hi linell,
Just curious to see what it may show.
nessa
Just curious to see what it may show.
nessa
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I just sent mine away.
Great value for money compared to others on the market.
And they are the only ones who can tell you if there are any cousins in the hundreds of millions of trees on Ancestry.
Why would you want to do it? For the same reasons you started doing your family tree in the first place!
Great value for money compared to others on the market.
And they are the only ones who can tell you if there are any cousins in the hundreds of millions of trees on Ancestry.
Why would you want to do it? For the same reasons you started doing your family tree in the first place!
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Re: DNA test
I did one about six years ago. I wanted the male line though and because my dad is no longer with us and he has no brothers and no sons, I asked his cousin in South Wales to do the swab test. I have had loads of people contact me from all over the world, but they have all been too distant to make any real connections. I did my maternal line myself and this shows I belong to the Ancient Ancestry haplogroup K - the Ice Immigrants. I don't really understand the significance of most of it, but have promised myself that one day (when I have properly retired) I will study it more carefully.
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Re: DNA test
MarkCDodd wrote:I just sent mine away.
Great value for money compared to others on the market.
And they are the only ones who can tell you if there are any cousins in the hundreds of millions of trees on Ancestry.
Why would you want to do it? For the same reasons you started doing your family tree in the first place!
Well I found all my family from Parish Records and the Census, I don't need a DNA test to tell me who my ancestors were.
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So you know if you are an ancient Briton? Roman? Norman? Which of the six Eves you are decended from?
There are so many things the DNA test tells you that you simply can't figure out no matter how much you research.
There are so many things the DNA test tells you that you simply can't figure out no matter how much you research.
Black Holes happen when God divides by zero.